ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;CHARSET=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="VPSiteProject" CONTENT="file:///D|/Lazy%20Bee/Project.vpp"> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="A Brief Period of Rejoicing - a Dinner Theatre Murder Mystery, for an event where the actors mingle play a scene then mingle with the guests, and the guests have to decide 'who dunnit'"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Murder,Mystery,Dinner,Scenario,Event,Script,Whodunnit,Who,Dunnit,Brief,period,rejoicing,Jane Morris"> <META http-equiv="PICS-Label" content='(PICS 1.0 "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" l r (SS~~000 1))'> <META NAME="GENERATOR" Content="Visual Page 2.0 for Windows"> <TITLE>A Brief Period of Rejoicing - a Dinner Theatre Murder Mystery</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="white"> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" BGCOLOR="white"> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"> <P ALIGN="CENTER"> <span style="font-size: 48pt"><strong>A Brief Period Of Rejoicing</strong></span></P> <P ALIGN="CENTER"> <img src="VE_Party.jpg" /> &nbsp;<br /> <span style="font-size: 9pt">Picture: VE-Day Party, Birch Road, Romford<br /> (<em>Courtesy of Phil Steer, www.Romford.Org, and William Dale</em>)</span> <p align="center"> <i><font color="maroon" size="7"><span style="color: darkred">A Dinner Theatre Murder Mystery<br /> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: navy"><strong>by Jane Morris</strong></span></font></i></p> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"><FONT COLOR="black">&nbsp;</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"><B><I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="maroon">What's it all about?</FONT></I></B></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"> <UL> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">A murder mystery event in which the actors play a brief scripted scene, then mingle so that they can be interrogated by the audience / guests</FONT> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">Lazy Bee Scripts provides the opening script and character briefs</FONT> &nbsp;<LI><FONT COLOR="black">The actors play the script then improvise their interactions with the audience</FONT> </UL> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%">&nbsp;</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"><B><I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="maroon">What's does Lazy Bee Scripts provide?</FONT></I></B></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"><FONT COLOR="black">Lazy Bee Scripts supplies a pack of material for the performing company including:-</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"> <UL> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">An Opening Script</FONT> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">A background brief for each character</FONT> <UL> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">Character description</FONT> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">Character history</FONT> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">Motivation</FONT> </UL> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">An "Organiser's Overview" including general staging guidelines</FONT> <LI> Final Script - the denouement!&nbsp;<LI><FONT COLOR="black">Additional materials</FONT><font color="black"><UL> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">Solution sheets (for the audience to supply their guesses for "who dunnit")</font></li> <li>A tie breaker question and answer</li> <li>An MP3 file of the opening speech - the VE day broadcast of Winston Churchill!</li> </ul> </font> </UL> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"><FONT COLOR="black"></FONT></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"><B><FONT COLOR="black">Note that whilst Lazy Bee Scripts provides the opening and closing scripts - the set-up and the solution - the interaction with the audience must be improvised based on the character briefs!</FONT></B></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%">&nbsp;</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"> <CENTER> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="80%" BGCOLOR="#FFFBE8"> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFBE8"> <P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="maroon">What's a Dinner Theatre Murder Mystery?</FONT> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"> <UL> <LI>The event is run as if the audience has been brought together for a special occasion <LI>In this case <UL> <LI> "Welcome to Eney Street!&nbsp; It is June 1945 and everyone has been invited to join a street party to celebrate VE Day!"<LI>The &quot;audience&quot; has the role of the VE Day revellers (and should be encouraged to dress in period costume)</UL> <LI> The acting company perform a scripted opening scene, at the end of which a murder is discovered<li>The acting company mingles with the "audience", answering their questions</li> <li>The audience try to spot the murderer</li> <li>The acting company performs a final scripted scene in which the murderer is revealed</li> </UL> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </CENTER> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%">&nbsp;</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"><B><I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="maroon">What's in this Mystery?</FONT></I></B></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"><FONT COLOR="black"><p> The Eney Street VE Day Party guests include</p> <p> <strong>Edna Phillips</strong> - aged about 50, a widow from WW1, a very nervous lady <br /> <strong> Bernard Phillips</strong> - aged 28, Edna s son, a conscientious objector <br /> <strong> Major Henry Thomas</strong>  aged between 50 and 55, pompous, upper class, walks with a stick because of a gammy leg <br /> <strong> Grace Thomas</strong>  aged about 40, very stylish and classy lady, dresses well, thinks she s a cut above the residents on Eney Street<br /> <strong> Ivy Martin</strong>  aged about 25, a Land Army Girl, engaged to George <br /> <strong> Joe W Flight</strong>  aged about 25, a very dishy American airman<br /> <strong> Private George Evans</strong>  aged about 25, a down to earth squaddy who has seen action, engaged to Ivy <br /> <strong> Len Cousins</strong>  aged about 55, a docker, saw active service in the trenches in WW1 &nbsp;</p> <p> The party is interrupted when Bert Cousins, Len's son (and the local black-marketeer) is found murdered...</p> </FONT></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"><FONT COLOR="black">&nbsp;</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%" align = Center> <img src="Long_Bunting.jpg" /> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%" style="height: 19px"> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>