In Charles Marowitz's comedy-thriller, Dr. Watson (Bert Emmett), fed up with Sherlock Holmes' condescension and superiority, launches a diabolical plot to take revenge. He invents Damian, fictitious son of Holmes' former nemesis, the late Dr. Moriarty, and uses this imaginary figure as a decoy to lure Holmes (Chris Winfield, who also designed the handsome Victorian set) to the cellar of an abandoned building and do him in. Marowitz embraces all the conventions of the Conan Doyle stories — the all-wise, all-knowing Holmes who uses his powers of observation and deduction to solve crimes that stymie Inspector Lestrade (Patrick Burke), the loyal housekeeper Mrs. Hudson (Hersha Parady), the myopic, bumbling of Dr. Watson and, inevitably, a mysterious woman, Lisa (Allison King), who sets the plot a-boiling. The play's essentially an orchestration of clever gimmicks,... More >>>