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Frequently Asked Questions |
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I’m looking for a murder mystery evening for a friend’s birthday party. Do you have any scripts suitable for 10-12 people? Murdernights are quite specific entertainments, designed to be performed by a cast of 7-9 in front of an audience of 40-150 people. They aren’t really suitable for small groups or dinner parties, where a boxed murder mystery game (similar to those found at www.toystohome.com) may be more appropriate.
Can you come and perform for us? Sadly, no. But we may know a group in your area who could, so you can always e-mail us.
After performing a Murdernight for ourselves, we have been asked to put on a murder mystery evening as a fund-raiser for a local group. How much should we charge? All our Murdernights are tried out by our local drama groups in Ormskirk and Leyland before we place them on the website. We perform them for local church groups, schools and so on. Usually these groups hold the evenings as fund raisers and so we try to pitch our “fee” at a level which will enable the group to make a comfortable profit and help raise the funds for our own drama groups! We usually charge £150 for an evening; most groups can them make at least £300 profit on their evening (taking the hire of a venue and catering into account) with an audience of say 60-70.
How much do Murdernight packs cost? £75: that includes everything, and includes the royalty fee to perform the Murdernight once. You may wish to explore the CD-ROM option, which is cheaper (£50) or the download, which is cheaper still at £40.
How about if we want to do a second night, or perform the same Murdernight at a later date? Subsequent performances attract a royalty fee of £40 each, but you can perform the same Murdernight as many times as you wish.
Do Murdernights come with multiple endings? Some do. For full details of the different Murdernights see the individual listings pages, where you will find full details.
Do you sell Murdernights abroad? Yes, we have sold Murdernights to America, Sweden and Australia. Delivery of Murdernight packs takes approximately 10 working days to the USA or Canada. For those in Australia, you can contact our sister site, Night4Murder, at www.night4murder.com |
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Do you accept credit cards? We can accept credit cards if you pay through PAYPAL. We accept payment by personal cheque in the UK. If you do not have a PAYPAL account, payments from overseas can be made directly to Murdernight through your bank. E-mail us for more details.
During a Murdernight, how do you decide the winning team? By the end of the evening, teams have to decide (usually but not invariably) the identity of the murderer, how the murder was committed and the murderer’s motive. We usually take all the answer sheets and · Discard all those who do not identify the correct murderer: it would be a grave miscarriage of justice if the wrong person were imprisoned… or worse, depending on the time period! · Taking those sheets where the murderer is correctly identified, we look at the answers for the method and motive and choose the team who come closest to the correct answer.
What do you do if two (or more) teams get the right answer? We recommend having a prize for the winner which can easily be divided (four bottles of wine for the winning team can easily be split between two, and so on).
What if no-one gets the answer right? It’s happened to us, but only once! Inspector Foot of the Yard (in his inimitable fashion) told the entire audience they would never make it in the police force and handed the sheets back. Informing the audience that no-one had got it right, they all had to choose someone else!
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? If we haven’t included the answer to your question here please contact us at the address below, or by e-mail at murdernight@hotmail.com. You may also find the answers you seek on our new forum. Simply click on the link on the left of this page. |