On Tuesday, July 16, after the trAce Incubation 2 Dinner, the conferees at Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham, UK, gathered to see the denouement of the on-line collaborative mystery story, M is for Nottingham.  Several of the contributing writers donned costumes to enact the drama of discovery.  

Players in costume:

Helen Whitehead as The White Lady

Rosie Garner as Ned Ludd

Margaret Penfold as Joan Flower

Jeremy Duffield as King Richard the Lionheart

Jane Dorner as Marion, the Gunmaker's Daughter

Leonie Winson as Thoth

Talan Memmott as Sherlock Homes

Rita Raley as Priti Patel (the body underneath the shroud)

 Marjorie Luesebrink (M.D. Coverley)  as Robin Hood

The stage enactment was accompanied by a large-screen projection of the "sets" for the play.  You can read the scripts and see the characters (represented as icons and graphics) as it developed. Just follow the Magifying Glass through the scenes.

Programme:

Welcome

Introduction of Characters

The Web Writing - Audience Participation in Nottingham Web Clues

The Denouement

Questions

Closing Performance