You were invited to Miss Victoria Lin’s party on her outstanding achievement on academic.

A spectacular banquet is held.

Everything was moving smoothly, until Victoria was murdered in front of all of you.

All the guests are suspicious, and you cannot leave until the murderer is found.

You bump into old friends, foes, and ex-lovers; after acknowledging events that happened as far as ten years ago, can you stay objective?

With secret clues, maps, accusation sheets, and suspect dossiers, can you help the detective to find the truth?

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Teaser for the show

— PROJECT NAME

Café Murder

— ROLE

Director

Producer

— DATE

03.25.2017

I was the President of the Chinese Theater and Movie Society group at Penn State University. We produce one to two Chinese plays each semester. In the year of 2017, instead of making traditional plays, I wanted to experiment with something new. Therefore, Café Murder was created.

Café Murder is an interactive murder mystery dinner play. In the show, audience members act as detectives and help solve the crime while having a fancy dinner. The actors and I devised the show together. We designed multiple endings and side quests to cover the different choices the audience might make. We also trained hard on improvisation acting, so the actors could be prepared for all the possible interactions the audience could have.

It was a new experience for many audience members as they had never attended an interactive show before, and we received a lot of positive feedback. We held the show in a fine hotel with a buffet offering, and we sold out all the tickets for the four performances with fifty audiences each.

Abby Bi

Café Murder

Interactive Dinner Theater

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