A Legal Murder
by Ian McCutcheon
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 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
- The Solution
- Additional Materials
- Six pieces of written evidence
- 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 a scripted opening scene, 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 (in this case by means of a narrator) performs a final scripted scene in which the murderer is revealed.
- This Mystery Needs
- An 'acting company' of 4 men and 3 women
- One set comprising furniture and flats or backdrops
- Estimated run times (which may vary enormously!)
- Scripted elements: 55 minutes
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What's the Mystery Here?
Hugh Balls is the senior partner in a firm of solicitors. But he has made many enemies among the staff. Several are angry enough to want to kill him. Is Balls about to come to a shocking end?
His potential enemies include:
Annette Curtain - Balls' faithful secretary and ex-lover, now sacked.
Olive Stone - A long-serving solicitor, about to lose her job for 'reasons of efficiency'.
Mike Rowchip - The Firm's IT expert, shortly to be fired due to no fault of his own.
Jenny Tayliah - Balls' latest 'conquest', but now 'let go' by Balls in an effort to save his marriage.
Dick Withers - The practice manager, now dismissed for defrauding the firm.
The script also calls for a Narrator who acts as a master of ceremonies, distributing further evidence before the accusations, and revealing the solution at the end.