by Ian McCutcheon
What's It All About?
- A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience
- The cast perform a script
- 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 2 scenes
- The Solution
- Explained by the detective
- Additional Materials
- A newspaper article, pathology, scene-of-crime and forensic reports, and a witness statement.
- 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
- A murder mystery where the victim and method are clear from the start. The cast includes all the suspects.
- The cast play two scripted scenes, after which the audience are invited to interrogate the suspects.
- The audience are then invited to make their accusations, after which the Master of Ceremonies reveals whodunnit and the best of the audience responses.
- This Mystery Needs
- An 'acting company' of 8 people, including at least 3 men and 4 women
- One set comprising furniture and flats with practical doors/windows
- Estimated run times (which may vary enormously!)
- Scripted elements: 25 minutes
- Audience interrogation: 20 minutes
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| Want to know more? Download the (pdf) Taster Pack |
What's the Mystery Here?
Albert Hall was rich and eccentric. A clause in his will stipulated that, if he was murdered, he would reveal the identity of his killer at a séance, with a detective on hand to arrest the culprit. Geuss what? Present at the séance are:-
Jean Poole, Albert's sister, a beneficiary.
Jean's partner, Mal de Mere.
Clairvoyant and psychic medium, Rosemary Spriggs, Albert's oldest friend, and a benficiary.
Restauranteur, Roland Butter, another old friend and beneficiary.
Albert's distant cousin, Allie Kantie, also a benificiary.
Benny Dorm. Alice's business and life partner.
Detective Inspector Dawn Rayde, as required by the will.
Life After Murder also requires a Master of Ceremonies to guide the audience through the proceedings.