and for a whole bunch of reasons he's decided to stick around

HEY FRIENDS, I am EXTREMELY EXCITED to have come into possession of a copy of the play script for The Secret of Sherlock Holmes and so NATURALLY the first thing I had to do was transcribe it to share! It’s agonizingly difficult to find, which is a massive shame because it’s REALLY excellent, especially if you’re already a fan of Granada Holmes.

In case you’re unfamiliar, this play was commissioned by Jeremy Brett to Jeremy Paul, who wrote several episodes of the Granada series. The stage play starred Brett and Edward Hardwicke and ran from August 1988 to December 1989. It’s basically a series of vignettes chronicling the friendship of Holmes and Watson, with a bit of a dark twist, the titular Secret.

Audio from one of the productions was kindly uploaded by Alison Carter on Soundcloud which you can listen to here and follow along in the script if you want:

Act 1 | Act 2

On that note, the formatting of this took A WHILE, apart from the challenge of actually getting my hands on it at all, so if you find this helpful or entertaining or otherwise generally Good: 

✨  Please consider buying me a coffee (or a cheeseburger, as it’s equally likely to be) by leaving few bucks in my ko-fi :)  ✨

Two of the cats are playing music and animal concertos with owl conductors are a regular occurrence in european art. Such as this Bird Concert by Frans Snijders, 1629:

and here is another cat concert by Cornelis Saftleven, 17th century:

And lastly, Jan van Kessel's Cat Concert, 17th c, also has mice for musical notes