A warmly lit studio theatre introduces five original interactive mysteries by Butch Maxwell, arranged as theatrical evidence displays.
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Interactive Mysteries

The audience is already in the play.

Created through Mystery Theatre Unlimited

For more than thirty years, Mystery Theatre Unlimited has created interactive mysteries that combine carefully constructed stories, fair-play clues, and genuine audience participation. These five plays are a small sampling from three decades of original mysteries built on a simple theatrical belief:

The audience doesn’t interrupt the story.
They complete it.

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The investigations continue.

Explore individual mysteries—or enter the five-case world of Elliot Brick.

Signfeld 2040

A retirement-community mystery with pudding cups, contraband goat cheese, Spa-tinis, and one increasingly suspicious metal detector.

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Café Rescue

A restaurant rescue becomes a comic investigation, complete with musical parody and a menu full of motives.

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Good Grief, It’s Christmas

A pageant reunion, an old rope, and a fifty-year question about who was most responsible.

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Participation changes the performance. Story gives it meaning.

Five-case collection

The Elliot Brick Mysteries

Five full-length interactive musical comedy mysteries. One detective with a talent for contradictions.

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Dead Reckoning

A fair-play island mystery told in reverse, where every new scene changes what the audience already knows.

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Every mystery begins with a script.
Every performance becomes a collaboration.

Dramatic & Comic PlaysStories waiting in the wings The NotebookReflections on craft and theatre About Butch MaxwellThe playwright behind the pages