Once Upon a Murder
by Sharon Harrison
What's It All About?
- A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience
- A mix of scripted elements and improvisation based on plot and character briefs
- The audience members question the cast
- The audience try to work out whodunnit
What Does Lazy Bee Scripts Provide?
Lazy Bee Scripts supplies a pack of material, including:-- An Overview for the Organiser, including
- Guidelines for running the mystery
- Suggested timings
- The script for 3 scenes
- Character Briefs for each character
- Character description
- Character history
- Motivation
- The Solution
- Additional Materials
- A sheet of miscellaneous clues and a copy of Cinderella's prenuptial agreement with Prince Charming.
- There's a winning certificate to award to the audience team that provides the best solution.
- Detective Sheets for the audience to submit their accusations
| What's an Interactive Murder Mystery? |
- A combination of drama from an acting company and detective work from the audience
- In this case
- The characters mingle with the audience as they arrive (improvising conversation), then take their places at the top table.
- They play out scripted scenes during which there's a murder.
- The audience interrogate the suspects, then submit their accusations.
- A final scripted scene reveals whodunnit.
- This Mystery Needs
- An 'acting company' of 8 people, including at least 2 men and 3 women
- One set comprising furniture
- Estimated run times (which may vary enormously!)
- Scripted elements: 45 minutes
- Improvised elements: 10 minutes
- Audience interrogation: 15 minutes
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| Want to know more? Download the (pdf) Taster Pack |
What's the Mystery Here?
Prince Charming and his new bride Cinderella are throwing a party to celebrate their wedding. Their guests are familiar pantomime characters -
There's a newly qualified Narrator, who may not be all he seems.
Charming's jilted fiancee, Snow White, is both celebrating and seething.
Transferred from Cinderella's household, there's Buttons, the bumbling butler.
There's a good fairy, Fairy Nuff, because there always is.
Representing the out-and-out villains, King Rat has been invited.
And back from China Widow Twankey is back.
Not everyone is fully invested in the concept of happy ever after - indeed, Fairy Nuff, of the FBI (the Fairy Bureau of Investigation), needs, with the help of the audience, to investigate a murder.