Original Theatre and Octagon Theatre Bolton’s production of The Hound of the Baskervilles is now around half-way through its tour of 15 regional theatres, with Ipswich, Salisbury, Nottingham, Bath, Salford, Coventry, Perth and Aberdeen still to play through to late February 2022.
The production, originally directed by Lotte Wakeham, is an energetic three-hander in the style of other highly successful productions of recent years such as The 39 Steps and Jeeves and Wooster in ‘Perfect Nonsense’. It makes excellent use of mime and sound effects, impressively speedy costume changes and exaggerated comic performances to re-cast the well-known Sherlock Holmes story as a farcical romp which would, I’d say, be particularly well received by Key Stages 2 and 3.
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