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Final Toast, The

The Edgar Prize-winning author Kaminsky tells the tale of one of literature's most famous detectives: Sherlock Holmes.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 75 minutes

  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult, Senior
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Gun Shots

  • Performance Group:
  • Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! 2008 Angie Award for Playwrighting
The Edgar Prize-winning author Kaminsky tells the tale of one of literature's most famous detectives: Sherlock Holmes. In a witty, imaginative story filled with twists and unexpected surprises, Detective Holmes unravels a murder only to find himself the unwilling target of the killer-at-large. 

Along with the aid of his loyal and inquisitive companion, Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes uses his masterful power of deduction to make a nebulous situation seem "simply elementary." The Final Toast is an exciting new take on the classic characters of fiction we know and love, and its ending will please even the most savvy mystery connoisseurs. 

Premiere Production: The Final Toast had its world premier at the 2008 International Mystery Writer's Festival.

Characters

  • Casting: 7M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Flexible casting, Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle), Roles for Children
  • Casting Notes: The same actor can play THRACE and NICHOLAS. The same actor can play REGINA and ROSE. The same actor can play FIRST ACTOR, JACK DAWES, and POLICEMAN.

  • SHERLOCK HOLMES - the great detective
    JOHN WATSON, M.D. - shares rooms with Holmes, chronicles his cases
    MYCROFT HOLMES - older brother of Sherlock, spends most of his time at the exclusive Diagones Club
    MALCOM MARCH - a young man determined to get the best of Holmes and then to kill him
    CHARLIE CHAPLIN - street-wise, somewhere between 11 and 14. He is a Baker Street Irregular and a favorite of Sherlock Holmes
    JONAH THRACE - wealthy man who lives in fear that someone is trying to kill him
    BROKEN NOSE TOOLE - murderous thug employed by Malcom March
    REGINA - Jonah Thrace's housekeeper
    TIMOTHY ELLY - exiled from Germany, he works for Jonah Thrace
    ROSE - Malcom March's sister who is determined to help her brother kill Sherlock Holmes
    NICHOLAS - husband of Rose
    JACK DAWES - unfortunate employee of Jonah Thrace
    FIRST ACTOR - his one-line performance doesn't fit
    POLICEMAN - has nothing to say

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    Final Toast, The Script Order Now

    The Edgar Prize-winning author Kaminsky tells the tale of one of literature's most famous detectives: Sherlock Holmes. In a witty, imaginative story filled with twists and unexpected surprises, Detective Holmes unravels a murder only to find himself the unwilling target of the killer-at-large. Along with the aid of his loyal and inquisitive companion, Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes uses his masterful power of deduction to make a nebulous situation seem 'simply elementary.' The Final Toast is an exciting new take on the classic characters of fiction we know and love, and its ending will please even the most savvy mystery connoisseurs. 

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