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SHERLOCK HOLMES – A Study in Fear (from Arthur Conan Doyle) – 3m
This play is a reworking of Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic short story “The Final Problem”, in which Doyle apparently kills off his famous creation Sherlock Holmes, brilliant, flawed and inclined to justice, in a fight to the death with his arch nemesis Professor James Moriarty, brilliant, flawed and wholly inclined to evil. When Holmes arrives unexpectedly at the door of his old friend and colleague Dr Watson one Spring evening, he begs the good Doctor’s assistance for one final case ... and an exhilarating evening of mystery, chase, disguise and detection are the inevitable result. The renowned duo dash in horse-drawn cabs across Victorian London, take frantic train rides across the Continent, and find themselves in a breath-taking showdown in Switzerland at the tumultuous Reichenbach Falls. The denouement to this hugely entertaining new version of the classic Conan Doyle tale is entirely unexpected ... a thoroughly satisfying conclusion to an evening of boys’- (or girls’-!) -own adventure, filled with laughs and thrills.
“a brilliantly executed and thoroughly enjoyable production for fans and nonfans of Holmes alike” (Panic Online Magazine)
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