A Dinner Theatre Murder Mystery
by Jane Morris
 
What's it all about?
  • A murder mystery event in which the actors play a brief 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?

  • The event is run as if the audience has been brought together for a special occasion
  • In this case
    • An evening at McMurdo Manor restaurant
  • The acting company perform a scripted opening scene, at the end of which a murder is discovered
  • The cast are taken off to be questioned by the police and meanwhile the police's 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 staff and diners at the restaurant include

Ricardo Poitier - Head Waiter at McMurdo Manor
Alexander Ustinov - Owner of the Restaurant
Anton Warmington - MP for Ashton North (twin brother of Alexander)
Catherine Warmington - His wife
Rachel Stamford - Anton's secretary
Nick Stamford - Rachel's husband
Rebecca Dray - Waitress
Alfie Dray - Rebecca's uncle
Tatiyana Smirnov - Russian beauty
Mrs Grey - A mystery diner

The evening's dining is interrupted when one of the company is found murdered...