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Game's Afoot, The

  • Ken Ludwig
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Christmas/Holiday, 1930s
  • 3M, 5F
  • ISBN: 9780573700460

The Game’s Afoot gives you everything you love about great live theatre. Billed as a comedy thriller you will find yourself swept along for a wild and funny ride.

Cleveland Fine Arts Examiner

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy, Christmas/Holiday
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: 1930s
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Gun Shots

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Reader's Theatre, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! 2012 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allen Poe Awards - Best Play
It is December 1936 and Broadway star William Gillette, admired the world over for his leading role in the play Sherlock Holmes, has invited his fellow cast-members to his Connecticut castle for a weekend of revelry. 

But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in this isolated house of tricks and mirrors quickly turn dangerous. Then it’s up to Gillette himself, as he assumes the persona of his beloved Holmes, to track down the killer before the next victim appears. 

The danger and hilarity are non-stop in this glittering whodunit set during the Christmas holidays.
REVIEWS:

The play evolves like a mystery thriller, as one tantalizing clue leads to another….In 1936, at the height of the Great Depression, people flocked to the theater for a few hours of escapism from hard times. Today, in our current recession, here is an antidote and the ideal holiday present - the gift of laughter.

Cleveland Jewish News

From the intriguing opening mini play within a play to the surprise last scene a split second before final curtain, The Game’s Afoot gives you everything you love about great live theatre. Billed as a comedy thriller you will find yourself swept along for a wild and funny ride.

Cleveland Examiner

The Game’s Afoot is Murderously Funny!

Broadway World Cleveland

An inspired whodunit…a snappy, clever drawing-room mystery. There are twists in playwright Ken Ludwig’s The Game’s Afoot that cause the audience to gasp.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Ludwig demonstrates the theatrical equivalent of perfect pitch, both in this new work and in his past efforts.

Cleveland Scene
Premiere Production: Ken Ludwig's The Game's Afoot; or Holmes for the Holidays was first presented by Cleveland Play House at the Allen Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio, opening on December 2, 2011.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 5F
  • Casting Attributes: Parts for Senior Actors, Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)

  • WILLIAM GILLETTE
    MARTHA GILLETTE
    FELIX GEISEL
    MADGE GEISEL
    SIMON BRIGHT
    AGGIE WHEELER
    INSPECTOR GORING
    DARIA CHASE

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    Game's Afoot, The Script Order Now

    It is December 1936 and Broadway star William Gillette, admired the world over for his leading role in the play Sherlock Holmes, has invited his fellow cast-members to his Connecticut castle for a weekend of revelry. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in this isolated house of tricks and mirrors quickly turn dangerous. Then it’s up to Gillette himself, as he assumes the persona of his beloved Holmes, to track down the killer before the next victim appears. The danger and hilarity are non-stop in this glittering whodunit set during the Christmas holidays.

    		$24.95

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