by Archie Wilson
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 preparing the mystery
- Guidelines for running the mystery
- Suggested timings
- A "narrative arc" for the mystery
- Key plot points
- Essential events
- Character Briefs for each character
- Character description
- Character history
- Motivation
- The Solution
- Additional Materials
- 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
- St Adolphus Campanology Society (SACS) have unexpectedly won a prestigious 8 bell peal competition in Oxford. The vicar has thrown a celebratory party for the whole congregation.
- The acting company perform a brief opening scene, at the end of which a murder takes place.
- A detective does an opening interrogation of the suspects, then the suspects are interrogated by the audience.
- The audience try to spot the murderer, then there is a brief final script in which the murderer is revealed.
- This Mystery Needs
- An 'acting company' of 6 men and 4 women
- No specific set or furniture
- Estimated run times (which may vary enormously!)
- Improvised elements: 90 minutes
- Audience interrogation: 10 minutes
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What's the Mystery Here?
SACS, a bell-ringing society have won a prestigious competition in Oxford. They throw a party to celebrate their triumph, inviting the whole church congregation.
The following are the guests of honour:
Patrick Peal: Conductor and caller of SACS, married to Pauline Peal. An ex-army major.
Pauline Peal: Patrick's wife and fellow bell ringer at SACS. Plays bell two.
Campbell Clanger: A bell ringer at SACS. Has a reputation for being a bit of a womaniser. Good with computers.
Clarrissa Chime: A bell ringer. Her other hobbies include karate, at which she is an expert.
Belinda Bell: A bell ringer. Belinda has seen more than her fair share of men, and is married to Brian Bell (for now!).
Brian Bell: Belinda's husband and fellow bell ringer. At least one sandwich short of a picnic.
Bob Minor: A prodigous composer and all-round music nerd.
The Reverend Samuel Seaton: Vicar of St Adolphus's church, whom SACS represent in their bell-ringing competitions.
During the celebrations the door bursts open and Melanie Marchant , a ringer from a rival group, barges in accusing SACS of stealing her society’s composer...then someone has an 'accident'...
Enter super sleuth Sherbert Holmes to help the guests solve a dastardly murder!