Sherlock Holmes and the Speckled Band " review
Treasurer's House, YorkThe great detective operates with a manic intensity in Samuel Wood's bohemian production of this Conan Doyle mysterySherlock Holmes has been ranked as one of the three most recognisable figures of western popular culture, alongside Santa Claus and Mickey Mouse: yet he tends not to fare terribly well on stage. Conan Doyle's own theatrical adaptation of the Speckled Band was scuppered by an under…