SHERLOCK HOLMES — STRIPPED DOWN
- Cast: Flexible small ensemble (multi-roling)
- Staging: Bare stage with chairs, live Foley, and pantomime
- Format: Four stand-alone plays or full repertory cycle
- Audience: Schools, community theatres, small professional companies
- Runtime: Approximately two hours each.
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A Study In Scarlet
The year is 1881. 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 in this theatrical adaptation of the first Sherlock Holmes novel.
Part of The Novel Stage Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a four-play theatrical cycle tracing the evolving partnership of Holmes and Watson across mystery, memory, and myth.
The Sign of Four
The year is 1888. The strange disappearance of her father, a mysterious note, and the annual delivery of valuable pearls brings a young woman in search of the world’s only consulting detective in this theatrical adaptation of the second Sherlock Holmes novel.
Part of The Novel Stage Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a four-play theatrical cycle tracing the evolving partnership of Holmes and Watson across mystery, memory, and myth.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The year is 1891. As Watson investigates the curse of a supernatural beast out on the moors, Holmes confronts demons of his own back home in London in this theatrical adaptation of the third Sherlock Holmes novel.
Part of The Novel Stage Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a four-play theatrical cycle tracing the evolving partnership of Holmes and Watson across mystery, memory, and myth.
The Valley of Fear
The year is 1895. Summoned by a coded message, Sherlock Holmes finds that he and his faithful friend are too late, that Scotland Yard is stumped, and that Moriarty is behind it all. Can Holmes escape the final problem?
Part of The Novel Stage Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a four-play theatrical cycle tracing the evolving partnership of Holmes and Watson across mystery, memory, and myth.