Holmes takes Broadway
I don’t have the time to make it to New York to see the North American Cultural Laboratory’s current production, “The Uncanny Appearance of Sherlock Holmes.” After reading up on it, I’m undecided as to whether that makes me happy or sad.
“THE UNCANNY APPEARANCE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES” is a carnival-style crime investigation filled with live original rock music, high-energy acrobatics, slapstick comedy antics, cross-dressing, and twentieth century philosophy. The play follows the world-famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, as he investigates the bizarre murders of Dr. Jeremy Nietzsche and Dr. Kevin Freud. To complicate matters, Holmes becomes embroiled in a competition of wits against a formidable female detective, Jacqueline Derrida. As the investigation progresses, the case begins to unravel, and so does the very fabric of Holmes’s hyper-rational reality.
Hmm. Holmes plus rock music plus slapstick plus cross-dressing. The traditionalist in me says no, the open-minded adventurist in me says maybe. It runs through the 21st at the HERE Arts Center on Sixth Avenue.
Have you seen it? Leave a review in the comments, please … would love to hear about it.
Filed under: Odds and ends on December 11th, 2008
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