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| "Blame the Americans" (Bennion) |
It has been 3 years, since we first saw R. Hamilton Wright's (and David Pichette) hugely adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles and is poised to create a series of plays based on the Holmes and Watson but not a particular Sir Arthur Conan Doyle book. Wright's (without Pichette) latest is a new and original play with Sherlock Holmes and the American Problem.
This play we actually get to see more of Darragh Kennen's Hysterical Holmes, in Baskerville, he was mostly MIA in Act 1 and shows up in Act 2 in disguise. Not so in this version and Kennen is quite entertaining as he gets involved in a case with an American Celebrity, Annie Oakley (Christine Marie Brown), herself!
The First Act was slow, but made it up with stunning use of projection of special visual effects by L.B. Morse and shadowing.
Holmes even got more involved than his sidekick Dr. John Watson (the amusing, Andrew McGinn) about how Americans are infesting London during the jubilee year.
But he’s intrigued by American (Oakley) who begs him to search for her missing brother, and by another accomplished she-devil (played by Cheyenne Casebier) — an engineer who’s lost track of her “mole,” a burrowing, earth-moving machine. (Bertha, perhaps?)
As Holmes and Watson dash about London on these cases, many distractions arise: The flirtatious con woman (Casebier) accosts them. A retired military man (Rob Burgess) Holmes finds exceedingly suspicious appears.
Between the games, all the famed Holmes eccentricities are entertainingly captured: the uncanny powers of deduction, impatience with Watson and doting housekeeper Mrs. Hudson (the always funny, Marianne Owen).
Once the mystery solved, we get a foreshadowing of a new adventure involving, Holmes' bitter enemy, Prof. Moriarty; now that should be fun!
Seattle Rep's "Sherlock Holmes and the American Problem" continues through May 22nd, click HERE for TIX and Info!
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