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="description" CONTENT="Christmas on Croma Isle - a Murder Mystery party pack, ideal for staging at a small dinner party. Four characters playing out a scenario and interrogating one another to find out 'who dunnit'"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Murder,Mystery,Dinner,Script,Party,Whodunnit,Who,Dunnit"> <META http-equiv="PICS-Label" content='(PICS 1.0 "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" l r (SS~~000 1))'> <TITLE>Christmas on Croma Isle - a murder mystery party pack</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="white"> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" BGCOLOR="white"> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"> <P ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="Xmas.jpg" WIDTH="401" HEIGHT="276" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0"></P> <P ALIGN="CENTER"><I><FONT SIZE="7" COLOR="maroon">A Murder Mystery Party Pack<br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: navy"><strong>by Jane Morris</strong></span></FONT></I></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 for a dinner party or other small gathering where the guests act-out the mystery and try to guess "whodunnit"</FONT> &nbsp;<li>A cast of four (2 male, 2 female)</li> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">Lazy Bee Scripts provides the scenario</FONT> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">The guests act out roles and interrogate each other on the basis of information provided</FONT> &nbsp;<li>Designed for a "closed party" (where the party guests play the roles) but comes with an option&nbsp; for a small group of actors to play the roles and for other guests to join in the interrogation and accusation!</li></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%" style="height: 19px"><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 Overview for the party organiser</FONT> <UL> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">An "order of play"</FONT> <li><font color="black">Guidelines for how to deal with the other materials</font></li> <li>Guidelines for the options of a "closed party" or "in front of an audience"<font color="black"></font></li> </UL> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">A Role Pack for each of the four characters</FONT>&nbsp;<UL> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">Scripted opening dialogue (which sets the scene and develops character and background)</FONT> <li><font color="black"></font><FONT COLOR="black">Character Brief - background notes for the character, plus suggested lines of enquiry for interrogating the other characters</FONT></li> </UL> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">Police Investigation Report</FONT>&nbsp;<UL> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">An interim piece of evidence!</FONT></UL> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">The Solution</FONT>&nbsp;<UL> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">An explanation of who dunnit and why!</FONT></UL> </UL> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"><FONT COLOR="black">&nbsp;</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"><B><FONT COLOR="black">Note that this is <em>not</em> a play!&nbsp; Lazy Bee Scripts provides a scripted opening, but the rest is designed to be improvised by the players based on information provided in the Role Packs.</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="#ccff99"> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"> <P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="maroon"><span style="color: navy">What's a Murder Mystery Party?</span></FONT> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%" style="height: 172px"> <UL> <LI>The scenario is intended to be run at a dinner party or other small-scale social occasion<li>Background material is given to the guests in advance, and they are encouraged to dress for their roles</li> <LI>In this case <UL> <LI>The event is a pre-Christmas break on a remote Scottish island<li>The party guests play the owner of a guest house and her visitors</li> <LI> The party guest play a brief scripted dialogue, then interrogate each other to solve a murder mystery</UL> </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 story?</FONT></I></B></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"><FONT COLOR="black">It is Christmas Eve on Croma Isle, Scotland. Helena, Nick and Jock are guests at the Forest Park Guesthouse which is run by Anastasia. It is an ideal location to escape their hectic London lives as it overlooks the stunning hills of Corby, Loch Stanion and Glen Weldon. <br /> They were due to leave the island today and return to London but the taxi hasn t arrived to take them to the harbour to catch the ferry. <br /> What brought these people to Croma in the first place and how are their lives intertwined?</FONT></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 do I need to Buy?</FONT></I></B></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"><FONT COLOR="black">Lazy Bee Scripts charges two fees:-</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"> <UL> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">A flat fee of </FONT><B><FONT COLOR="black">£15 for the murder mystery party pack</FONT></B> <UL> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">Downloadable from the Internet as a Zip file</FONT> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">Containing master files (in .pdf formats) of all the essential materials</FONT> <li><strong><em>That's all you need if you are using the pack in a "closed party"</em></strong></li> </UL><p></p> </UL> <ul> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">A fee of </FONT><B><FONT COLOR="black">&pound;20 for each performance</FONT></B><FONT COLOR="black"> if the mystery is played out by an acting company in front of a wider audience</FONT> &nbsp;</UL> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>