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 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
- The script for 2 scenes
- Character Briefs for each character
- Character description
- Character history
- Motivation
- The Solution
- Additional Materials
- Evidence - Five written pieces
- 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 acting company perform two scripted scenes (a total of thirty minutes or so), at the end of which a murder is discovered
- The cast are taken off to be questioned by the police and meanwhile the police's evidence is shared with the audience by means of a series of written briefs
- The audience try to spot the murderer
- The acting company (mainly the narrator/master of ceremonies) performs a final scripted scene in which the murderer is revealed
- This Mystery Needs
- An 'acting company' of 4 men and 4 women
- No specific set or furniture
- Estimated run times (which may vary enormously!)
- Scripted elements: 30 minutes
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| Want to know more? Download the (pdf) Taster Pack |
What's the Mystery Here?
Ricky T. Bridge is the owner and managing director of Health and Proficiency, a successful spa and fitness club. But his less than honest business dealings are about to be exposed at a potentially fatal board meeting...
Erica Nurney: Ricky’s faithful secretary; secretly in love with him, but her love goes unrequited and has recently been given her notice.
Gloria Stitts: A member of the executive board. She believes Ricky has been breaking the law, and is determined to take the company from him.
Al Bertall: The club’s general manager. Previously promised a seat on the executive board, he has since been snubbed by Ricky.
Phil Droll: Another board member. Ricky knows Phil has been stealing money from the club and plans to expose him.
Sue Flay: The club’s doctor, who has been helping Ricky supply members of the club with illegal steroids, and could face being struck off if the truth emerged.
Laura Norder: The Detective Inspector assigned to investigate the inevitable murder.
The script also calls for a Narrator as master of ceremonies, distributing further evidence before the accusations, and revealing the solution at the end.