Conan Doyle, you will remember, got fed up writing about Sherlock Holmes and killed him off and he would have remained at the bottom of the Reichenbach Falls had it not been for American actor-playwright William Gillette deciding he wanted to act the most famous detective in the world on stage . There have been well over 300 adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes stories in the theatre, cinema, television and radio. There has been a musical and even a ballet. Sherlock Holmes on ice is eagerly awaited.
At Jermyn Street Theatre there is a hilarious spoof of The Hound of the Baskerville by Steven Canny and John Nicholson for three versatile comic actors who, directed ny Lotte Wakeham, play 14 characters and do all the costume changes and all the silly business at incredible speed. The comic timing of Shaun Chambers, Max Hutchinson and Simon Kane, verbally, physically and facially, is spot on.