December 7, 2011

Ideas (Rooms and Plot) for Clued Up
Paige Clifton, Charlie Lambourne, Chloe Smith
Era
1950
1890 - Victorian, Received Pronunciation
Rooms
Dining Room - Tutorial Room
Kitchen -Dance Studio
Ballroom -Theatre (V10)
Lounge - Dance Lab
Drawing Room/Study -Singing Room
Library - Acting Studio (Door near the whiteboard could be a secret entrance covered by a bookcase)Plot/Characters (first thoughts)
Romance Cheating/ Affairs/ Love Triangle
Doctor
Butler
Lord Scullery Maid affair
Lady Step Mother
Scullery Maid
Chef
Maid
Master + Miss (Son + Daughter)
Stable Boy?
Lady killed by Lord because she is having an affairScullery maid
- Affair with Master (son) and gets pregnant
Confides in Chef - He tells the Lord because he is jealous
Lord unhappy - decides she needs to be killed...
Scullery maid is murdered. Butler is only witness
Sub plot involving servants -they thought Butler did it.

Flashbacks?
With gauze. Recorded and played back with projectors.
Step Mother with Son and lord kills step mother
OR
Master of house gets maid pregnant
Audience
Audience get 1 question per group (of ?)

Audience watch for a bit. Decide what question to ask

Then interview actors

They get given a pen and paper to take notes

They get the opportunity to dig for clues in each space, to see what they can find (murder weapon etc.

Room Plots
Kitchen: Bitching in the Kitchen (staff)
Butler, Chef, Sioux Chef Maid, Lady in waiting
Lady enters and borrows the butler
Staff continue bitching about butler.
Butler -Charles/ Alfred/ Edgar
Library: Murder weapon is stashed here (bloody)
Maid loves books so she is always in the library and the audience see her in there with the weapon and assume she is the murderer.