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Effectively filmed for streaming audiences in a sharply told adaptation, this adventure stars Luke Barton as the bumptious master detective
“If this is to be our final adventure …” says Holmes to Watson pointedly in this adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s final novel about the detective duo. Blackeyed Theatre’s production, filmed at the Wilde theatre in Bracknell, is currently on tour but also available to watch online. Adapted and directed by Nick Lane, it works with the usual tropes: a murder, a manor house and a coded letter that sets Holmes and Watson off the blocks. But a parallel story, set among a thuggish “Secret Society” in the Pennsylvanian Vermissa Valley gives it an unusual twist.
The stories run alongside each other and the Pennsylvania strand looks like a cross between Gangs of New York and Gunfight at the OK Corral – but more comic when we learn its murderous tentacles have reached Tunbridge Wells. Typing up the final case summary, even Watson observes: “The two tales lack a cohesive conclusion.” But the production is an elegant one nonetheless.
Available online until 22 January. Touring until 29 October. Continue reading...
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