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="Nightmare at Nightschool - a Murder Mystery party pack, ideal for staging at a large dinner party. Eighteen 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>Nightmare at Nightschool - 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="NightmareAtNightschool.jpg" WIDTH="401" HEIGHT="276" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" title="Nightmare at Nightschool - a murder mystery party pack by Jane Morris"></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 large dinner party or other gathering where the guests act-out the mystery and try to guess "whodunnit"</FONT> &nbsp;<li>A cast of eighteen (1 male, 17 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 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 eighteen 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">Evidence</FONT><UL> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">A newspaper cutting and a couple of incriminating letters!</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 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 party for members of two nightschool French classes<li>The party guests play a couple of teachers and their adult students</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">A pre Christmas party for a French evening class becomes hazardous when the lights go out on the step.<br /> The ladies seem safe, the caretaker is repairing the fault.&nbsp; Everyone makes an entrance  except Max. <br /> What has befallen Max, and why?&nbsp; The others need to determine the answer to this mystery by careful questioning.</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>