For this is a play of long years after the famous detective’s retirement from the profession of the sleuth. The action is laid in the Holmeses’ rooms in Baker Street and in their country house. That there is a love interest carried to the happiest fruition is the explanation and excuse for the epilogue.īut before that stage is reached many thrills in the authentic Sherlock Holmes tradition are experienced. The hackneyed phrase that “there is not a dull moment” is demonstrably true of this finely constructed play of two acts, of three scenes each a third of one scene and a touchingly domestic epilogue. The play had an immediate success, and Edinburgh’s verdict should be, with its own undoubted merits, a passport to a similar experience in its further travels which, in due course, will take “The Holmeses of Baker Street” to the “West End.” Lion with a company which included Sir Nigel Playfair, Miss Eva Moore, Mr Felix Aylmer, and Miss Rosemary Ames. “The Holmeses of Baker Street” was presented by Mr B.A. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is no longer with us in the flesh to manipulate his famous creations, but he would surely not have been disappointed with their handling by Mr Basil Mitchell, the author of this remarkably stimulating play. (Information above on performance dates is derived from newspaper archives and is therefore likely to be incomplete.) SHERLOCK HOLMES REDIVIVUSĮdinburgh had the privilege last night of giving at the Lyceum Theatre a first performance of a play in which Sherlock Holmes is brought back to life and to his familiar activities.
January 23 - ?: Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotlandįebruary 15 - ?: Lyric Theatre, London, England The Holmeses of Baker Street (Basil Mitchell)
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