A Recipe For Murder
A Murder Mystery Event

 
What's it all about?
  • A murder mystery event in which the actors mingle and interact with the audience / guests
  • Lazy Bee Scripts provides the scenario
  • The actors improvise the dialogue based on the scenario
 
What's does Lazy Bee Scripts provide?
Lazy Bee Scripts supplies a pack of material for the performing company including:-
  • A "narrative arc" for the murder, covering
    • Essential events
    • Essential plot points
    • The resolution!
  • A background brief for each character
    • Character description
    • Character history
    • Motivation
  • General staging guidelines
    • Recommendations for preparation
    • Guidelines for improvisation (and how to deal with awkward members of the audience!)
    • Preparing the venue for the event (making sure that the staff don't throw the actors out for bad behaviour!)
  • Audience "Detective Sheets"
    • So the audience can guess who-dunnit (and, possibly, win a prize)
  • Collateral material to make the "event" more realistic
    • Allows you to print table cards and a food menu for distribution at the event
 
Note that Lazy Bee Scripts does not provide a script for the dialogue. Because the actors are interacting with the audience, it is not possible to stick to a fixed script, instead the actors improvise dialogue based on the "narrative arc."
 

What's a Murder Mystery Event?

  • The scenario is run as if the audience has been brought together for a special occasion
  • In this case
    • The event is a dinner to announce plans for a new extension to the venue in which you are performing. Details are left open enough for you to set this in a hotel, restaurant, golf club or similar without major modifications to the plot and narrative.
    • The extension is expected to include a top class restaurant and 50 five star room.
    • The "audience" has the role of the people invited to the launch – valued customers and patrons of the venue
    • As the actors progress with the unveiling of the plans, the plot mystery develops until one of the characters is found murdered...
 
What's in this Scenario?

The time is the present. Clint Plumb, manager of the venue has invited an audience of valued customers and a few special guests to announce the long anticipated extension plans.

In addition to Clint, other notable guests at the dinner include:
Brad Temple: CEO Europe for the chain that owns the venue.
Antoinette Wirral-Timpson: the venue’s Sous-Chef.
Dorothy Barking: the dotty previous owner of the venue and now a ‘regular’.
Albert ‘Grizzly’ Bear: Food franchise magnate!
Tanya Tucker: Former waitress and now reality TV ‘celebrity’.
Shelly Beach: Clint’s partner and Feng Shui Master.

What should be a cause for celebration quickly descends into chaos as what Clint reveals is not quite what everyone expected! Sordid secrets, recriminations and blackmail finally end in a double murder!
 
What do I need to Buy?
Lazy Bee Scripts charges two fees:-
  • A flat fee of £20 for the murder mystery scenario pack
    • Downloadable from the Internet as a Zip file
    • Containing master files (in .doc and .pdf formats) of all the essential materials
    • Can be used multiple times by your acting company (but you must pay the performance fee for each performance)
  • A fee of £20 for each performance of the scenario (regardless of the "audience" size)
 
In the pack, in addition to the scenario...