The Fairfield Footlighters have scheduled “Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery,” and will present the play soon at the Fairfield Community Arts Center.
Penguin Random House notes that “The Hound of the Baskervilles” is probably the best-known of all the Holmes stories. It has been filmed a number of times, and adapted for television and the stage.
The original story is familiar to most people. The male heirs to the Baskerville name are dying mysteriously, apparently the victims of the infamous “hound.” When the latest heir arrives in England, Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson travel to Dartmoor, the location of Baskerville Hall, to find the monster and solve the mystery.
Ludwig has turned the popular story into a comic romp, with five actors playing over 40 characters, making quick changes and resetting the stage as they go. A review says that when Holmes begins the case:
“ . . . he and Watson [visit] . . . locations such as crowded railway stations, foggy London streets, forbidding English moors and one gloomy mansion. . . . But know it is all in good fun – no scare-fest at all.”
The play is scheduled for November 13, 14, 20, and 21 at 8:00 pm, with two matinees at 2.00 pm on November 15 and 22. Brochure printing can be used to provide programs for events like this.