A Dinner Theatre Murder Mystery
by Jane Morris
 
What's it all about?
  • A murder mystery event in which the actors play a scripted scene, then the audience / guests review the evidence and solve the mystery!
  • Lazy Bee Scripts provides the opening script and evidence packs
  • The actors play the script, the audience reviews the evidence and accuses the suspects, then the actors play a final scene to reveal whodunnit.
 
What's does Lazy Bee Scripts provide?
Lazy Bee Scripts supplies a pack of material for the performing company including:-
  • An Opening Script
  • An "Organiser's Overview" including general staging guidelines
  • Final Script - the denouement! 
  • Additional materials
    • Accusation sheets (for the audience to supply their guesses for "who dunnit")
    • A tie breaker question and answer
    • Seven pieces of (written) evidence to be evaluated by the audience
 

What's a Dinner Theatre Murder Mystery?

  • A balance between theatre performance and audience activity (detective work!)
  • The acting company perform a scripted opening scene, during which a murder is suspected
  • The cast take a break, prior to reconvening in the coroner's court, and meanwhile the evidence is shared with the audience by means of a series of written briefs
  • The audience try to spot the murderer
  • The acting company performs a final scripted scene in which the murderer is revealed
 
What's in this Mystery?

The company play family members and associates of the recently deceased Pearl Richmond. These are:- 

Marjorie Taylor: Pearl's elder daughter.
Julian Taylor: Marjorie's ex- husband.
James Taylor: Marjorie and Julian's son
Rosa Richmond: Pearl's younger daughter.
Josh Ramsey: Rosa's son
Howard Richmond: Pearl's son, an archaeologist
Raymond Rendall: Marjorie and Pearl's next-door neighbour
Amy Greenwood : Pearl's carer

In the final scene there is also a Coroner and a Police Constable (named Constable)