Although this is meant to be a new origin story about the famous team, there’s no real development of the new friendship between Holmes and Watson, beyond the latter’s annoyance of Holmes’ pipe habit and mild bafflement at his eccentric behaviour. Watson has just come back from Afghanistan and needs a place to stay he meets Holmes, who puts Watson up at 221B Baker Street and immediately drafts him into his new case. Lord Neville’s American wife, Lady Irene (Renee Olstead), seeks help from Holmes - “the world’s only consulting detective” - as does Inspector George Lestrade (Patrick Costello), to solve this case.
Both cases turn out to be linked to a complex plot by criminal kingpin Professor James Moriarty (Kyle Gatehouse) to sabotage the House of Lords’ impending vote on the opium ban. John, the latter a lobbyist for the criminalization of opium. Holmes kicks off with two mysteries of its own, the police’s discovery of a drowned man’s body and the disappearance of Lord Neville St. For all its technical perfection, this show feels so soulless and mechanical that you may find yourself yearning for the simple pleasures of Sherlock Hemlock and the Great Twiddlebug Mystery. Double pity that Kramer’s script doesn’t meet them either, as this was his last play (he died when the original Montreal production went into rehearsals). Pity that Arquette’s performance doesn’t come anywhere near these high standards. The spectacular production design by Cirque du Soleil veteran James Lavoie, with help from Itai Erdal’s lighting and video work by George Allister and Patrick Andrew Boivin, is what keeps it going.
Watson, the real star of director Andrew Shaver’s frenetic, fast-paced Holmes is the visuals. Winner of five Montreal English Theatre Awards, the show is now touring North America with David Arquette in the title role it played Los Angeles in October and opens tonight in Toronto.ĭespite such relatively big names as Arquette and Big Time Rush‘s James Maslow as a youthful rendition of sidekick Dr. Cashing in on the beloved British detective’s popular resurgence is the late Greg Kramer’s 2013 play Sherlock Holmes, a comedic blend of elements from numerous Doyle books and stories into one very convoluted plot involving the London opium scene of the 1890s.
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But Holmes is hip these days, thanks largely to the Benedict Cumberbatch TV series and the Robert Downey Jr.
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