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Sherlock Holmes and The Mystery of Mallen Hall by Richard James |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Brilliant full-length mystery in a single Baker Street set. |
Synopsis | The redoubtable Holmes is presented with a murder mystery that took place three weeks previously, hundreds of miles away. With his usual brilliance, he solves the case from the comfort of his rooms in Baker Street. |
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Sherlock Holmes and The Pirates of the Horn by Vithal Rajan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play set in and around Victorian London. |
Synopsis | It's 1888, and Sherlock Holmes is set the task of unravelling the identity of pirates operating off the Horn of Africa (the coast of Somalia!) where they are threatening British Interests in the shipping using the Suez Canal. A satisfying Sherlockian mystery with modern resonances. |
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A Spot of Murder by Geoff Bamber Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Richly comic murder mystery play. Full-length play, single domestic set. Contains mild swearing and mild adult themes. |
Synopsis | When faded theatrical diva, Corrina Marcham, senses that she is in great danger, she calls in Detective Inspector Trench to investigate a murder that has't been committed yet - her own. With the suspects, marooned at the Marchams' isolated country house because of a storm, Corrina ensures that Trench's journey has not been wasted by conveniently dying. Has Corrina simply died of fright after an alarming Tarot card reading? Has she committed suicide in a bout of thespian depression, or has she really been murdered? And by who? Somebody with something to gain? Somebody with something to hide? Or simply somebody she had upset? Can Trench and the eager PC Pendlebury uncover the truth before they have to call in somebody else to do it properly? |
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An Unexpected Duty by Robin Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one act play which could be used as a full length play. |
Synopsis | Charlie's rushing off to Home Guard duty, but takes time to warn his wife about their daughter's scandalous dress sense and his worries about her new man. Little does he know that before the night is out he'll be facing down an armed spy! |
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Where There's A Will... by Alan Tibbles |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length thriller in a single domestic set. |
Synopsis | Set in the 1950s English countryside this thriller starts with the Nesbitts and their spouses being called together unexpectedly by their widowed step mother Violet. They gather in the peaceful country home of wealthy Esmerelda Barton for whom Violet has been acting as companion. Old enmities and rivalries emerge and secrets are exposed. All is definitely not as it seems and death is in the air. All is eventually revealed in this cleverly-constructed thriller. |
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White Rock by Martin Ward |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 98 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A full length thriller with one set comprising three simple settings. |
Synopsis | Autocratic Sir James Bannerman is the long time head of the family publishing firm and brooks no argument from his fellow directors, two of whom are his adult children. Everyone at the office has their own compelling reasons to be rid of him and when he is murdered Inspector Hilliard has his work cut out to find the culprit. |
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Who Did You Say You Were? by Giles Scott "Best Original Play" 2013 HHDS Awards |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The cast play characters who, at times, are playing other characters. |
Run Time | Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Comedy mystery. Complex plot, but great fun! (Mad in a splendid sort of way.) Single interior set. (The production notes include suggestions as to how the ghost drifts through the walls!) Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | It's supposed to be a murder mystery weekend at a guest house, but one of the guests is psychic and has discovered the ghost of a real murder victim. The others have trouble keeping straight who they are, and who everyone else is and what they're supposed to be doing. Then the murderers arrive... |
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Wild Ride by Herb Hasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters span four generations of a family. Ages range from teenage to retired. |
Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Full-length play. Fast-paced comic mystery, featuring a murderously dysfunctional family. Single interior set (modern home). |
Synopsis | The Wild family theatre has been a gold-mine, and it seems that the family members will do anything to get their hands on it, including various forms of deceit, forgery and even murder. Everyone seems to be scheming against everyone else - but who fired the fatal shot, and who is the strange policeman who comes to investigate? |
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