Fresh from his sell-out pantomime season as Buttons in ‘Cinderella’ at the Everyman Theatre Cheltenham, contemporary vaudeville clown, Tweedy (real name Alan Digweed), presents his take on the Great Detective in a tour between January and February 2020.
Tweedy
is putting on a large-scale theatre production of Sherlock Holmes’
greatest case – ‘The Monster on the Moor’ (‘Hound of the
Baskervilles’). He’s built the set, got the props and booked the
theatre for the show. There is only one problem – Tweedy has lost
all the actors! He therefore calls on his faithful friend Monsieur
Loyal (Tom Bayliss) for help, and together the two of them must solve
the mystery of the missing actors and also perform the whole show
between the two of them. How hard can that be ?
A
family audience was packed into Greenwich Theatre for the matinee
performance, which proved to be ‘HOUND – The Panto’, with
audience participation (yelling ‘Clue !’ whenever the ‘Clue’
light lit up) and wonderful slapstick and mime performance. I also
found myself being accused of being the villain when Tweedy came into
the audience. All the children present also seemed to enjoying
themselves from start to finish, with only an extended riff on ‘Two
Soups’ losing their attention, with many becoming frustrated at his
repeated shuffling on and off with plates. I laughed throughout and
was disappointed when it ended after just an hour. It was also a
surprisingly canonical adaptation of ‘Hound’. Highly recommended.
The
production tours to Swindon, Stroud, Cheltenham, Doncaster, and
Chipping Norton. Click here
for tour dates.
Rating:
(4/5)
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