Death By Chocolate: an interactive murder mystery with chocolate tasting

part of the 2010 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival

If you’re a crime fiction fan who loves chocolate, here’s an evening to warm your cocoa-loving heart – an interactive murder mystery with chocolate tasting. Interview the suspects, study the clues, sample the chocolates, solve the crime. Can you uncover WhoDunnit? A new version of the sell-out, award-winning experience from Edinburgh, Adelaide and Melbourne Fringe Festivals — never before seen in Australia.

To buy your tickets now, use the ‘Buy Tickets’ button, above, or click here.

MORE INFORMATION:

~ Introductory page with videos

~ Essential details (address, time, dates, etc)

~ Additional plot information

~ Reviews

~ Credits

“Death By Chocolate” is also available for private bookings, including:

Christmas parties

Social Events

Corporate Skill Building

Please contact us for further information.

Videos from previous seasons below:

Channel 4 coverage of a “Death By Chocolate” preview in Edinburgh, UK [1min33sec]

Essential Details

WHEN

Thursday-Sunday, March 12-21, 2010

that is, 12-14 (Fri-Sat) & 18-21 (Thurs-Sun)

Start time is 7pm, doors open at 6:30pm

Duration of the live event is approximately 2 hours

WHERE

Koko Black Chocolate

52 Collins St

Melbourne

HOW MUCH

$50 Admit One = Live Event + Chocolate Tasting + Online Experience

$15 = Online Only Experience (available internationally)

All tickets are available via DramaTix.com.au

CHOCOLATE

The exquisite Koko Black Chocolates… sampling menu TBA

MORE INFORMATION:

~ Introductory page with videos

~ Essential details (address, time, dates, etc)

~ Additional plot information

~ Reviews

~ Credits

Additional Plot Information

Death By Chocolate

an interactive murder mystery with chocolate tasting

Chocolate + Murder + Interactive
Buy your ticket and immediately begin your interactive experience. Become a student detective and start testing your skills online right away.

Then attend the live event where you enjoy two hours of interrogating the suspects, sampling chocolate, swapping notes, and riffling through evidence. Complete the night with an accusation, but it’s not over yet!

Continue the case online where you can ask more questions, decode more clues, and revel in online discussion, until the murderer is uncovered and arrested.

A chocolate-lovers party has gone horribly wrong… Can you uncover WhoDunnit?

If you are unfamiliar with what our events entail, we suggest you look at this visual run down and/or read up on our FAQ.

MORE INFORMATION:

~ Introductory page with videos

~ Essential details (address, time, dates, etc)

~ Additional plot information

~ Reviews

~ Credits

Reviews

MELBOURNE 2010 SEASON – PRESS

Season begins March 12, 2010…

MELBOURNE 2010 SEASON – AUDIENCE

Season begins March 12, 2010…

PREVIOUS SEASONS – PRESS

Winner: Best Special Event Award (Melbourne Fringe 2007)

Officially sold out: Edinburgh 2008, Adelaide (with extended season) 2008, Melbourne 2007

“Audience pleaser. I can attest that the crowd thoroughly enjoyed themselves”

~The Scotsman (UK)

“The acting was fantastic, the concept was brilliant and the chocolate was divine”

~Texture (NZ)

“Involving… far too easy to get caught up in the whole drama”

~ The Age (Australia)

“Interactive theatre is an understatement”

~The Hutt News (NZ)

“The most amazing theatrical experience ever. I will definitely be back”

~ Channel 4’s Laura Marks (UK)

MORE INFORMATION:

~ Introductory page with videos

~ Essential details (address, time, dates, etc)

~ Additional plot information

~ Reviews

~ Credits

Credits

DEATH BY CHOCOLATE (MELBOURNE 2010)

Creator/Director/Producer – Vanessa B Baylen

LIVE EVENT

Chocolate – Koko Black

Alison “Allie” Gull – TBA

Beverley Hylskop – TBA

Cassandra “Kaz” Enova – TBA

Ivanna “Coco” Noe – TBA

Jack Azz – TBA

Justin Case – TBA

Melissa Barron – TBA

Pearl Harber – TBA

Susan “Sue” Tuble – TBA

Tamara “Tam” Artow – TBA

ONLINE EXPERIENCE

Flash Games –

Neroli Wesley (maze, autopsy, helicopter game, music box)

David Pritchard (follow the lawyer game)

Newspaper Contributors –

Vanessa B Baylen as Trudy Guthrow, Joel Cohen, Steven Williams, Ivanna Noe, Carly Cummings, Ash Roblin, Elaine Guthrow

Kate Scarlett as Leonie Johnson, Alana Martin, Cara Summers

Philip Patston as himself

Adam Bradshaw as himself

Roy Bradshaw as himself

Susan Jackson as herself

Evidence Content –

Vanessa B Baylen, Adam Bradshaw, and others TBA

Videos – Vanessa B Baylen

Website – Caspian Ievers & Brandon Stewart

CREW

Publicist — Geraldine Hill @ flying monkey PR

Casting Assistant – May Jasper

Sponsorship Liaison – Kate Scarlett

Corporate Liaison – Jessica Wong

General Assistants – Adam Bradshaw

Photos – Annabel Carberry, Vanessa B Baylen, Matt Evans

Photoshop – Adam Bradshaw, Vanessa B Baylen

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

Coming soon…

MORE INFORMATION:
~ Introductory page with videos

~ Essential details (address, time, dates, etc)

~ Additional plot information

~ Reviews

~ Credits