Sherlock Holmes and the Invisible Thing - Tabard Theatre
Jul 3, 2016 18:47:24 GMT
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Post by joem on Jul 3, 2016 18:47:24 GMT
A jaunty, engaging new play by Greg Freeman featuring a pair of characters some of you may already be familiar with. The story uses Holmesian motifs and mannerisms to reassure traditional fans of the genre, but is brave enough to engage with more contemporary issues such as feminism and racism.
Holmes and Watson are called to investigate a murder at the home of a lady known to Holmes with whom he evidently shares something beyond a professional relationship. The apparently supernatural happenings position this comfortably into "Hound of the Baskervilles" type territory and by the end of the play we feel we know a little more about our hero we may not have known before.
Alex Mann is a young but convincing Holmes, all arrogance and intellect, and Richard Fish a prissy but satisfying sidekick. Saria Steel is the lady at the centre of the events, feisty and visually appealing. Faith Edwards, the gothically-surnamed Mrs Rochester, moves from being an anonymous servant to an essential part of the plot and Dan Maclane is the archetype of the dim, lazy and unprincipled policeman (Inspector Peacock) adversary often encountered in the Holmes oeuvre.
If there was one bone to pick it would be this: there are some very funny lines which push it towards black comedy, maybe the whole production should have had this as its aim? Just a thought.
The well-appointed set is the harbinger of a professional production which even manages, on what I imagine to be a minuscule budget, to have some decent special effects! Still a couple of weeks left, you could do much worse....
Read more: theatreboard.co.uk/thread/1173/sherlock-holmes-invisible-tabard-theatre#ixzz4DNB8tMt1
Holmes and Watson are called to investigate a murder at the home of a lady known to Holmes with whom he evidently shares something beyond a professional relationship. The apparently supernatural happenings position this comfortably into "Hound of the Baskervilles" type territory and by the end of the play we feel we know a little more about our hero we may not have known before.
Alex Mann is a young but convincing Holmes, all arrogance and intellect, and Richard Fish a prissy but satisfying sidekick. Saria Steel is the lady at the centre of the events, feisty and visually appealing. Faith Edwards, the gothically-surnamed Mrs Rochester, moves from being an anonymous servant to an essential part of the plot and Dan Maclane is the archetype of the dim, lazy and unprincipled policeman (Inspector Peacock) adversary often encountered in the Holmes oeuvre.
If there was one bone to pick it would be this: there are some very funny lines which push it towards black comedy, maybe the whole production should have had this as its aim? Just a thought.
The well-appointed set is the harbinger of a professional production which even manages, on what I imagine to be a minuscule budget, to have some decent special effects! Still a couple of weeks left, you could do much worse....
Read more: theatreboard.co.uk/thread/1173/sherlock-holmes-invisible-tabard-theatre#ixzz4DNB8tMt1