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>Pub Mystery - 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="PubMMLogo.jpg" WIDTH="350" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" alt="Pub Mystery - murder mystery party pack" title="Pub Mystery - a murder mystery party pack by Sean Dooley"></P> <P ALIGN="CENTER"><I><FONT SIZE="7" COLOR="maroon">Pub Mystery<br /> A Murder Mystery Party Pack<br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: navy"><strong>by Sean Dooley</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 eight (4 male, 4 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></li> <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> </UL> <UL> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">A Role Pack for each of the eight characters</FONT>&nbsp; <UL><Li>Overview of the mystery</Li> <li><font color="black"></font><FONT COLOR="black">Character Brief - background notes for the character, plus (for each "round" of the scenario) suggested lines of enquiry or points of contention</FONT></li> </UL> </uL> <ul> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">A <i>Post Mortem </i>Report on the victim</FONT></ul> <ul><LI><FONT COLOR="black">The Solution</FONT>&nbsp; <ul> <LI><FONT COLOR="black">An explanation of who dunnit and why! (In this case, it's encrypted!)</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 materials around which the participants need to improvise.</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 meeting at a pub</LI> <li>The participants play the landlord, his staff, a brewery rep and a regular customer</li> <LI> The participants play their roles and improvise dialogue from the information provided in order to solve a murder mystery</LI></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">The landlord has called all his staff together for a meeting to discuss the future of the pub.<br /> On the agenda are things such as an increase in prices, the quality of the food, the cleanliness of the rooms and an idea to re-develop the bar area to make it more sociable.<br /> It seems set to be a night of business, but soon the business turns to murder...</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>