THE WEDDING an Interactive Drama Live Action Freeform Role Playing Scenario for 10 players (7 male and 3 female) written by Claire Chang, Karen Chang, and Vincent Lu Written as an assignment in English Conversation One, an English as a Foreign Language course taught for freshmen by Dr. Brian David Phillips in the Department of English at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Fall Semester, 1998. Copyright 1998 by Claire Chang, Karen Chang, and Vincent Lu. BACKGROUND There's a wedding party. All of you are invited to the wedding party to celebrate Howard and Arlene's wedding. Suddenly, Arlene was found dead by her best friend, Brenda. Brenda found her lie down on the floor. And then the police investigate into this case and said she was poisoned. Maybe that's the cause of her death. Arlene: She was adopted by Jared and Zoe. Recently, her parents' lawyer came to find you and told her that she has wealthy parents who possess a bank. He gave Arlene a lot of money after her parents' death. She was 25 years old, beautiful, tender women. She was kind to everyone. Everyone likes her very much. CHARACTERS Howard: He is the bridegroom. He's 27 years old and a handsome , wealthy man. He is also a quite successful merchant. Jared: He is 55 years old and he is Arlene's foster father and work for the government. Zoe: She is 50 year's old. She is Jared's wife and Arlene's foster mom. Brenda: She is 25 years old. She is Arlene's best friend. She is a modern charming and successful woman. Perry: He is 28 years old. He is Arlene's brother. He doesn't have a formal job and always have sexual relationship with many different women. Cal: He is 30 years old. He is Arlene's ex-boyfriend. He is also the manager of BMW company. Dean: He is 20 year's old. He is the waiter at the party. Camile: She is 32 years old. She is the daughter of Jared and Zoe and also Arlene's sister. She is not an attractive woman and just broke up with her boyfriend. Eli: He is 29 years old. He is Howard's best friend. He is also a successful salesman. Lambert: He is 47 years old. He is the lawyer of Arlene's parents. Character Descriptions Howard Please do remember that these are your secrets. And try to keep them. BAKGROUND You are the killer. You poisoned the drinks and killed Arlene. Because Arlene's father is the bussiness companion with your father and Arlene's father cheated your father. This made your father go bankrupt. So your father committed suicide and your mother went crazy. Eventually, you were sent to orphanage. You hate them very much, because they brought you an unhappy, miserable childhood. You couldn't have sweet home just because of their dishonesty. So you want to take revenge on their beloved daughter- Arlene. Perry The waiter, Dean bumped into you accidentally. You felt that he's so familiar and you think you may know him. Finally you know he had came to your father's bank and originally he would get a good job But finally he didn't. You know he really hates your father. So you try to find out why he came to the wedding party to be the waiter. BAKGROUND You are Arlene's brother, and you don't have a formal job and always have sexual relationship with many different women. Because of that, your parents don't give any money after they died but your sister gets it. You don't like Arlene very much. Besides, you hate Howard, either. Cal Lambert came to find you, and you drank wine with him. You know he is the lawyer of your ex-girlfriend, Arlene's parents. By having a talk with him, you found he is a greed guy and money's everything to him. You doubt he may be the killer because he wants the money that Arlene's parents left. Besides, you heard it seems that Howard's father and Arlene's father cooperated before. You would like to show this information to everyone. BAKGROUND You are Arlene's ex-boyfriend. You broke up with Arlene because Arlene fell in love with Howard at first sight. So you can't stand that and can't forgive Arlene. You are the manager of BMW company. You hate Howard very much. Brenda Before the wedding begins, you want to have a chat with Arlene. You want to tell her that you are Howard's ex-girlfriend and you love him very much. So you want to ask her not marry to Haward. But suddenly you found that she lied down on the floor in the waiting room. You are sacred to death and then you run out of the room in a hurry. You know that Cal was Arlene's ex-boyfriend so you think that Cal is spreading something wrong about Howard. BAKGROUND You are Arlene's best friend and still are Howard's ex-girlfriend but Arlene doesn't know that. You are a modern, successful and beautiful woman. Although you join the wedding party, you still love Howard and hope that he can change his mind to marry you. But, although he is going to marry your best friend, you still keep good relationship with Arlene. Lambert You drank wine with Arlene's ex-boyfriend, Cal, you know he is the manger of BMW company. Originally you want to ask him to give to you a good job and want to make a lot of money by cooperating with him. You told him that you can be the lawyer of BMW company. But eventually, he is drunk, he told you that he really hates Arlene now because she turned her back on him and fell in love with another man, Howard. You want to tell others to share this secret. BAKGROUND You are the lawyer of Arlene's parents. You found Arlene and told her who are her real parents and gave her parents' estate (a great deal of money ) according to her parents. And money is everything to you. Dean You bumped into Perry accidentally. When you want to apologize for it, you found he was Perry, the brother of Arlene and the son of your enemy. You found it seems he is not very happy because he heard that he didn't get any money from his dead parents according to his parents' will. You want to know if it is true. You also heard that Brenda was Howard's ex-girlfriend before and she loved him very much. Now, she still loves him. And you want to ask others if they know it. Besides, you doubt maybe Brenda is the killer. BAKGROUND You are the waiter at the wedding party. You don't like Arlene because originally you can get a good job in Arlene's father's bank but her father gave that to his cousin. So you couldn't get the job to pay for you parents' debt. Camile Before the wedding begins, you passed through the rest room. Suddenly, you saw Arelen's best friend, Brenda ran out of the waiting room in a hurry, she seems to be very nervous. And then the police announced the death of Arlene. So you want to tell others that you saw Brenda run out of the room. BAKGROUND You are Arlene's sister. You are not as attractive as Arlene, so you still didn't get married. And you just broke up with your only and first boyfriend. You really envy Arlene very much because she is much better than you in many aspects. Moreover, she is going to get married with such a handsome man - Howard. Eli You are Howard's best friend but actually you are a homosexual and you really love him very much. So you envy and hate Arlene very much for she is going to marry your lover - Howard. And you know there is something wrong with Dean and Arlene's family. And you wonder the relationship between them.