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Sherlock Holmes and the American Problem

  • R. Hamilton Wright
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Victorian (British and American)
  • 6M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573709739

In this new Sherlock Holmes adventure, the brilliant detective takes on a case as Annie Oakley’s traveling show comes to London and earthquakes and murders are on the rise.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: Victorian (British and American)
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Cautions: Gun Shots, Alcohol

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, College Theatre / Student
London, 1887. Queen Victoria's Jubilee. Buffalo Bill's Wild West is the hottest ticket in town and its star, Miss Annie Oakley, travels to Baker Street to ask Sherlock Holmes to find her missing brother. What ensues is a tale of international intrigue, multiple murders and a war for supremacy over the London underworld.
REVIEWS:

"This show... has it all... Plenty of good jokes in this show both verbal and physical, some bordering on delightful slapstick, but who doesn’t need a good belly laugh these days?"

Bristol Herald Courier

"Slick, classy... it's great fun... This is not the kind of Holmes and Watson thriller where the audience is expected to try to unravel a mystery. There is no way audience members will stumble on the real crime any faster than Sherlock explains it."

Calgary Herald

"Wright’s world-premiere play Sherlock Holmes and the American Problem pairs the inimitable Baker Street sleuth with an intrinsically American celebrity: Annie Oakley, sharpshooter star of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show... a nifty faux-historical wrinkle."

The Seattle Times

Premiere Production:

4/22-5/22/16 - Seattle Rep, Seattle, WA
9/28-11/11/16 - Barter Theater, Abingdon, VA
5/15-6/16/18 - Vertigo Theatre, Calgary, AB

Characters

  • Casting: 6M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Expandable casting
  • Casting Notes: In the premiere at The Seattle Repertory Theatre this play was performed by 9 actors: 6 men and 3 women.

  • (grouped for possible doubling)

  • MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES – a consulting detective

  • DR. JOHN WATSON – his friend and colleague

  • MRS. HUDSON – their Housekeeper

  • MISS PHOEBE ANNE MOSES – a young American woman

  • MISS CHARLOTTE LICHTER – an American mining engineer
    "MAYHEM" MAGGIE MALLOY – an American criminal

  • MR. MYCROFT HOLMES – Sherlock’s older brother
    JEFFERSON HENRY – an American criminal

  • THE PINKERTON – an American Detective

  • MAJOR THADDEUS ISAAC RAMSEY – an Army Tutor
    DUBBY CONROY – an American thug

  • RED HOOK BOYLE – an American Thug
    CAPTAIN FLEMING – an Army Officer
    THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR

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    London, 1887. Queen Victoria's Jubilee. Buffalo Bill's Wild West is the hottest ticket in town and its star, Miss Annie Oakley, travels to Baker Street to ask Sherlock Holmes to find her missing brother. What ensues is a tale of international intrigue, multiple murders and a war for supremacy over the London underworld.

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