by Geoff Fulford
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 3 scenes
- The Solution
- Explained by the detective
- 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
- The acting company plays The Vestals, a former 'girl band' together with their old manager and associates.
- Meeting after a long time apart leads to recriminations, anger and finally murder.
- The script provides all the clues needed for the audience to name the guilty party.
- This Mystery Needs
- An 'acting company' of 12 to 13 people, including at least 3 men and 7 women
- One set comprising furniture
- Estimated run times (which may vary enormously!)
- Scripted elements: 70 minutes
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What's the Mystery Here?
The Vestals were once an all-girl pop group. They had a number of hit records but broke up 25 years ago. Now, Orson, their one time manager, has invited then to his house along with other guests:
Laura Orson's secretary
Constance one of the former Vestals
Sue Constance's daughter
Evanne another former member of the Vestals
Justin their songwriter
Rhoda former publicist
Phyllis the third member of the group
Jean a record producer
Joe a recording engineer
During the evening a lot of secrets from the past come out, building up to a murder.
This brings in Detective Inspector Tom Bowler assisted by Scene-of-Crime Officer Anna List.
There's also a Narrator to manage the business of the evening.