Staging an Interactive Mystery Play: A Six-Week Program for Developing Theatre Skills, Paperback/Justine Jones

How fun would it be to have your students develop, write, and produce their own interactive murder mystery? This hands-on guide takes you step-by-step through a six-week process, starting with the benefits of students writing their own scripts. Playwriting can be a collective process of creation, and this text shows you exactly how to get the creative juices going, through brainstorming, character creation, plot development, planting clues, and writing dialogue. Lists of characters, locations, plots, weapons, and even ways to die help the process along. The book also addresses the actual production itself, providing useful checklists for the director and stressing how to achieve maximum audience participation. Emphasis is also put on developing the improvisational skills needed to be a successful suspect Synopses of five actual plays help you learn from others who have already gone through this. A chart in the back also helps align this Mystery Class with National Drama Standards.