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| Sherlock Holmes and The Book of Secret Secrets by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy drama for schools. |
| Synopsis | When mild-mannered civil servant Arthur Mulligan is attacked in the mean streets of London, Sherlock Holmes is called in by Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard to track down the culprit. As Mulligan has been robbed of a series of top secret codes, Holmes needs to apprehend a fiendishly clever adversary - who could make fools not only of Holmes, but the whole of the Metropolitan Police too. |
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| Sherlock Holmes and The Case of the Vanishing Author by Peter John Cooper |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Six characters but only three actors required |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A mystery drama with a single set, doubling as Holmes' apartment and Doyle's consulting room. |
| Synopsis | Conan Doyle is gradually taken over by his creation Sherlock Holmes, but then the attempt to kill off his creation, results in Holmes using all of his skills to escape death. |
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| Sherlock Holmes and The Emerald of Alcazar by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. Characters are a mix of adults and children, assumed to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comic melodrama. Simple sets, varied characters, strong story line. |
| Synopsis | The theft of a famous jewel draws Sherlock Holmes into the foggy streets of London and a battle of wits with a deadly enemy. |
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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 Mystery of the Pantomime by Giles Black |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full-length British pantomime using characters from Arthur Conan Doyle's stories. |
| Synopsis | Princess Irene, in England to demonstrate her wonderful new invention, has been kidnapped by Professor Moriarty. Fortunately, Sherlock Holmes is just the man for the job, being discreet, talented, and with nothing else to do. With the aid of Dr. Watson, Lord Baskerville and his faithful hound Cuddles, the game is afoot! |
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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: A Study in Scarlet by Bart Lovins |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. Designed to be played by a cast of 10 (doubling notes provided in the producer's script). |
| Run Time | Around 131 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length adaptation of Conan Doyle's detective novel, with continuous action through various settings, performed with ten actors and four chairs (props are mimed). |
| Synopsis | The game is afoot and mystery and murder abound! The year is 1881. The city is London. A man lies dead in an empty house, not a mark upon him and no clues - save for the word RACHE scrawled in blood on the wall above. Elsewhere, two young men - a former army doctor and a brilliant eccentric - meet for the first time. |
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| Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles [Version 3] by Bart Lovins |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. There are 18 roles (including a puppet hound), but they are playable by a cast of 6. (The author gives options for casting 6, 7 or 8 actors.) |
| Run Time | Around 114 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length adaptation of Conan Doyle's detective novel. Continuous action with multiple settings indicated by lighting, action and a few chairs. Minimal props. Actors produce the sound effects.
(US English spelling.) |
| Synopsis | As Watson investigates the curse of a supernatural beast out on the moors, Holmes confronts demons of his own back in London. |
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| Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four by Bart Lovins |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. Twenty-eight roles plus offstage voices, but designed to be played by a cast of 10 (one of whom plays several roles incluing a 12-year-old girl.) |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length adaptation of Conan Doyle's detective novel. Continuous action with the multitude of settings indicated by lighting, action and a few chairs. Minimal props. Actors produce the sound effects. |
| Synopsis | Two British officers of the Andaman Islands Penal Colony encounter the group of three Sikh natives and a British prisoner forming 'The Four' who have access to stolen treasure. Years later Holmes and Watson are set the seemingly impossible task of unravelling the final destination of the treasure. |
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| Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear by Bart Lovins |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the song suggests 5 folk songs to be sung by The Brotherhood (plus a list of suggested incidental music). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | The Novel Stage Adventures of Sherlock Holmes continue with the fourth in the series of full-length adaptations. (Adapted from The Valley of Fear but including elements of The Final Problem). Designed to be performed with minimal set and no props. |
| Synopsis | Sherlock's Last Bow! Summoned by a coded message to a Sussex manor, Conan Doyle's great detective finds that he and his faithful friend are too late - John Douglas has been murdered. Scotland Yard is stumped, but Holmes and Watson deduce a link to a secret American Brotherhood, and to a mastermind behind it all - Moriarty. Can Holmes escape the final problem? |
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