The Accidental Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Tobacco Tea Theatre Company) [C Venue 34]
Classic fringe - a female cutely petite Holmes (Jasmine Atkins-Smart with drawn-on facial hair) and the female roles played by a man. Watson (Thomas Parker) is a Bertie Woosteresque character whose plans to keep Holmes amused are hijacked in suitably comic fashion.
Holmes for Rent (Music Theatre Warwick) [C Venue 34]
A Sherlock Holmes Musical which is one part 'Without a Clue', and one part Broadway, as the actor playing Holmes - Richard Brook [a 'Sherlock' joke] (Rob Madge) must rise to the level of his employer, Watson (Ollie Yeats-Brown) to save his friend and the country.
Spontaneous Sherlock (Spontaneous Sherlock) [La Belle Angelle]
Improvised Sherlock # 1. Title chosen at random from audience suggestions was 'The case of the Frog's Waistcoat'. Sam Irving, Will Naameh & Eric Geisenfeld took this and ran with it, with Naameh's Watson's effect on Irving's Holmes being a highlight. 60 minutes of manic laughter from me.
Colin Cloud: Exposé (Colin Cloud) [Cow Barn in Underbelly Med Quad]
An amazing display from the self-termed 'real Sherlock Holmes'. 60 minutes of amazing deductions about the thoughts and secrets of audience members, ending with a game of 'hide and seek' through the streets of Edinburgh (with at least half the audience following) to find the antidote to a poison that he had injected himself with, topped off with a coup de theatre that we all promised not to reveal.
Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother in the Case of a Study in Blood (Picture + Sound) [Create Theatre in Spotlites]
Holmes is missing and it's up to his American half-brother (make that half-brutha) to find him. An excellent modern day 'Holmes' (Writer Matt Boatright-Simon) with excellent support from Watson (Lawrence Werner), Mycroft (an exquisite Tim Charles) and Lestrade (Michael Fenton Stevens moonlighting from 'Radio Active' also at the Fringe).
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