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Sherlock Holmes and The Mystery at 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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Sherlock Holmes' Last Case by Charlie Cook |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One act comedy play (single set). |
Synopsis | The fabulous Kalimari diamond has been stolen from a locked bag in a locked safe, and when Watson hands over the ransom, the receiver is murdered horribly! A brilliant Holmes pastiche with appropriate gags and a surprise ending. |
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Sherlock's Excellent Adventure by James Barry Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for four original songs provided with the Producer's Copy of the Script. |
Style | Parody of Sherlock Holmes stories, visual jokes, theatrical jokes, wordplay. Not strictly a pantomime, but has some of the elements (including Mrs. Hudson as a pantomime dame) and could fit in a slot in the panto season. |
Synopsis | Lucy Matravers engages Holmes and Watson to resolve a dispute over a family will, bringing conflict with Holmes's arch enemy, Moriarty. |
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The Sleuth Slayer by Paul Mathews |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One act comedy send-up of detective fiction in general and the country house murder mystery in particular. Single country house set. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | The world's greatest detectives are invited to a murder at Carnage Hall, but no one there knows anything about it... Until one of the detectives is found dead! The hunt is on to find the killer before there's no one left to solve the crime! |
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Spelled by Adrian Cale |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A 75-minute comic murder mystery play in a single set. Structurally in two acts, but could be paired with a much shorter play to create a longer entertainment. |
Synopsis | Zelda is the head witch of a modern-day coven, but is despised by its members - she's plagiarised Florence's Big Book of Spells, turned Ethel's owl into vol-au-vents, and made Dora quack like a duck. When Zelda is found dead, the Council of Witches send an investigator to solve the case. |
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Stoppit by Marcus Grollman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. Characters are 12 children and three adults (assumed to be played by children). |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act ghost story for kids, set in a playground/classroom (originally played in--the-round so needs little in the way of set), simple props. |
Synopsis | It's time to hand in homework again and no-one is looking forward to another of Mrs. Devenish's bad moods. It's especially worrying for Luther, who is running out of imaginative excuses for why he hasn't done his work again. No-one was expecting the strange events that were going to transform this normal school day into something that no-one was ever likely to forget! |
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Triple Negative by Herb Hasler |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short play. Single set (a police interview room). Not so much a whodunit? as a who's going to get convicted for it? |
Synopsis | A harassed investigator tries to get to the bottom of a tricky murder, but he isn't helped by any of the three suspects, the evidence or the lawyer. |
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Unearthed by Alan Robinson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Very short play - a ghoulish mystery. No set, but Andrew has to appear to be digging a hole! (Props consist of the pleasing combination of a spade and a mobile phone.) |
Synopsis | As brother and sister Andrew and May dig a hole in the local park at midnight, they unearth more than Andrew had bargained for as the truth behind past horrors is revealed. |
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Who The Devil Did It? by Carol Hill and Anna Heppner |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 34. Chorus. A large cast piece. Most of the characters are written male, but some could easily be switched without changing the nature of the piece. |
Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with sheet music for 7 original songs plus instrumental interludes. Snatches of other songs are suggested. |
Style | Full-length musical comedy for juniors/teenagers. |
Synopsis | Two brothers, who are a little down on their luck, stumble onto a big art theft and end up deeply involved in the search for the stolen painting, the thief and the fabulous missing Mona Lisa to boot! |
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Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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