by Emma Northcott
What's It All About?
- A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience
- The cast perform a script
- The audience try to work out whodunnit
What Does Lazy Bee Scripts Provide?
Lazy Bee Scripts supplies a pack of material, including:-- An Overview for the Organiser, including
- Guidelines for preparing the mystery
- Guidelines for running the mystery
- Suggested timings
- The script for 2 scenes
- The Solution
- Additional Materials
- There's a detective-themed quiz, which might be used as a tie-breaker.
- Detective Sheets for the audience to submit their accusations
| What's an Interactive Murder Mystery? |
- A combination of drama from an acting company and detective work from the audience
- In this case
- After an introduction from a compere, the cast play out the first act of the mystery (on a single set divided into five locations).
- In the interval, the audience work in teams to complete the Accusation Sheets with their suspicions.
- The final act reveals the identity of the murderer.
- This Mystery Needs
- An 'acting company' of 8 to 12 people, including at least 3 men and 5 women
- One set comprising furniture and practical doors/windows
- Estimated run times (which may vary enormously!)
- Scripted elements: 90 minutes
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| Want to know more? Download the (pdf) Taster Pack |
What's the Mystery Here?
Brad, the agent in question, is a seller of property - an Estate Agent (a Realtor in US English) - and he's not prone to scruples about his business or his clients. Kat is his more caring colleague, and between them, they're dealing with:-
Tanya an Essex beautician, with a tendency to overdo her own make-up.
Tanya's fiance, Kevin a mechanic.
Tall, sensible Ed a Police officer.
Daisy Ed's girlfriend.
The heavily pregnant Amanda.
Amanda's wife, Ali.
Yasmina a full-time home maker.
Tired bank clark, Matt, Yasmina's husband.
Richard, a wealthy retired businessman.
Patricia Richard's well-spoken wife.
The script also calls for a police radio announcer (probably a recording) because, as you might expect, there's a murder to be solved.