A SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD. TITLE
Elementary My Dear
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 3f, 3m
John Boland, Philip King
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Cast Size
3f, 3m -
Subgenre
Farce -
Target Audience
Appropriate for All Audiences
Details
Summary
Elementary, My Dear is a farce for three men and three women.
At Tiller Towers, a decaying old country-house, James Tiller runs his School for the Training of Private Detectives-together with some less reputable activities on the side. His pupils are a strange collection - a lean young man with great enthusiasm and a liking for dressing up as Sherlock Holmes, a fifteen-year old schoolgirl straight out of St Trinian's, and an extremely sexy blonde. An expected visitor, Soaker the thief, makes a brief appearance dressed as a nun, and very soon everyone is involved in real-life crime concerning stolen jewels. A hectic day of plots and counter-plots culminates in a climatic fury of twists and double twists and the master finally, to his horror, finds he has a lot to learn from his pupils.
Keywords
- Time Period Contemporary
- Cautions
- No Special Cautions
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £55 per performance plus VAT when applicable.