Killer Chili
by Debi Irene Wahl
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
- The script for 2 scenes
- Character Briefs for each character
- Character description
- Character history
- Motivation
- The Solution
- Additional Materials
- There is a brief summary of the evidence gathered by the FBI around the time of the murder.
- 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
- In a dinner theatre setting (indeed, a diner theatre!) the acting company performs two scenes, during which a murder takes place.
- At the end of the second scene, the audience get to interrogate the suspects (led by an FBI agent who has been there in disguise all along).
- The audience make their accusations before the actors return to play out a final scene, revealing whodunnit.
- This Mystery Needs
- An 'acting company' of 4 men and 3 women
- One set comprising furniture
- Estimated run times (which may vary enormously!)
- Scripted elements: 60 minutes
- Audience interrogation: 15 minutes
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What's the Mystery Here?
A small town in the southern United States. A one-diner town, and this is the diner. It's the place where everyone gathers, and today that means:-
The chef and owner of the diner, TJ who is famous for his Killer Chili;
Miss Dolly the town's best-kept lady;
The local preacher, Pastor Terry;
Grumpy waitress, MaryAnn;
And the sweet, innocent Janie the diner's other waitress;
A drifter named Zeb who TJ has employed as a dishwasher;
And finally, there's the despotic Sheriff Lloyd who is hated by everyone.
Even Mean Ole Henry, the diner's resident cat hates Sheriff Lloyd. Indeed, he's so notorious that the FBI has been taking an interest in his activities - something that comes in handy when there's a murder...