Tuesday 10 May 2022

#OxfordMidSummer First Body

 This is fiction, a drama draft. Do not confuse with reality.


For new readers the play has turned out to be a murder mystery, offered to ITV. Started with BBC papers review but ITV has a better grasp of Partygate news. The "chorus" has been a pub garden discussion with off duty police officers, now including some journalists. The story includes how it is reported.


I am doing this as a blog sort of in real time. It will be edited later or used as basis for improv.

Today the first body arrives. Students have been playing games on a bridge and dropped one student into shallow water. Concussion and drowning. this may have been an accident. The students were pretending to be "whips" having read some stories about the commons. The police discussion in a couple of days time will conclude this was a genuine accident. But the audience may think more will follow.


( Background the whips activity in Commons was the first time Met Police were called on. Later it was said that new MPs just did not understand how whips operate and there was nothing unusual )

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