• Runtime: 120 minutes

• Theatre

by Arthur Conan Doyle,

adapted by Steven Canny and John Nicholson

"A big intricate puzzle. And it’s like we’ve got the corner pieces, but a lot of the middle pieces are missing, aren’t they?"

Sir Charles Baskerville lies dead on the moor, apparently the latest victim of a curse which has haunted his family for generations. And so the great detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusty sidekick Dr Watson embark for remote Baskerville Hall, determined to unmask the killer before another victim falls prey to the legendary Hound.

Can Holmes and Watson unravel the mysteries of the prowling evil that lurks on the moor, the candle signalling in the window, the butler’s suspicious beard and Sir Henry’s vanishing trousers?

This hilarious stage adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most popular novel, written for the comedy theatre company Peepolykus with a three-man cast, is full of witty dialogue, comic absurdities, blood-curdling howls and lightning-fast costume changes. It celebrates and subverts the clichés of the genre, while never failing to remind its audience that all is an illusion.

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books.

Contains strong language, flashing lights and smoke effects