Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Fiend
Author(s):
Toby Hulse & Ross Smith
Company:
Barn Theatre
Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Fiend is set in a world in which Conan Doyle's fictional Victorian London, in an act of wild fantasy, collides with the actual London of 1888 and the Whitechapel Murders. The two-act comedy mercilessly mines the familiar clichés of the Sherlock Holmes stories whilst ruthlessly exposing the lurid press-fuelled fictions of the Jack the Ripper industry.
A mixture of Basil Rathbone, The 39 Steps, Extras and Cunk on Britain; a theatrical and playful hansom carriage ride through the darkest parts of our collective imaginations.
