Can you figure out what went wrong in this strange and baffling cold case crime mystery? It's an interactive, improvised, crime show like no other!
(Okay, maybe a little like Law & Order, SVU, The X-Files, and whatever true crime podcast you're currently obsessed with.)
You are part of the action from start to finish. You're the experts, the reporters and the oversight committee—throwing out clues, inventing suspects, and shouting over each other to crack the case and figure out what went wrong the first time.
In the final moment, everyone has to yell out the same guilty name at the same time
...or the killer walks!
"It’s like The Jury Experience if it were a chaotic party game you play with 80 strangers and zero prep." --said someone.
And it is all completely improvised.
THE CLUES & EVIDENCE
FIRST, YOU, THE AUDIENCE, ARE A PACK OF PROBING REPORTERS:
You demand we explain the clues and evidence you see. But what do you see? YOU TELL US.
We’ll take every random clue and outlandish detail you throw at us and somehow weave the chaos into an impossible crime scene.
SUSPECTS & WITNESSES
NEXT, YOU ARE OUR EXPERT COMMITTEE:
Scene by scene, you’ll decide all manner of suspects—and you’ll serve as our expert witnesses, drawing from your real-life jobs, hobbies, or whatever you feel like pretending to know. This is a fun, fully audience-interactive show from beginning to end.
Plan to be loud.
THE GRAND JURY
FINALLY, YOU ARE THE GRAND JURY IN A JOINT CASE:
Once we’ve narrowed it down to the final suspects—it’s time for you to decide. The final cases are presented, and then…
EVERYONE MUST SHOUT OUT THE SAME GUILTY SUSPECT AT THE SAME TIME.
Can an entire audience (and us!) somehow guess what each other is thinking in the final moment—and finally crack the case? If we fail, the killer walks and the case remains cold.
BUT ONE QUESTION REMAINS:
WHAT WENT WRONG THE FIRST TIME?
Why did this case go cold in the first place?
What happened?
Why was it such a disaster?
...To find out you'll just have to join us for some Unfinished Business with The Cold Case Files.
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Unfinished Business: The Cold Case Files is an innovative interactive play that immerses you in an improvised murder mystery. Two actors portray all roles, engaging audience members as active participants to collaboratively uncover the killer's identity.