On November 14, 2004, dinner guests at the Holly Hotel participated in an interactive dinner theater production which recreated the events that led up to the famous murder of Lizzie Borden’s parents. These short reenactments were performed during the dinner courses.  The banquet room was divided with half of the guests representing the defense team and the other half representing the prosecution. Working from the actual trial transcripts, our actors recreated a shorter condensed version of the events that lead up to the murder.   The guests had fun as they interacted with the members of the cast and examined the murder scenes.

This was a night of mystery and laughter as our attorneys, who are also stand-up comedians, called our cast members up to the witness stand.  The retrial complete with a twelve- member jury  randomly selected from the dinner guests that night, along with  a judge and two actual attorneys, while  using audience participation throughout the evening, determined that  Lizzie is still “not guilty” in 2004.