Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh: Director Mark Sterling first helped to produce this comic thriller as a student at Manchester University in the 1970s, with the late Rik Mayall as Holmes. This emotional link with the play and its history may partly explain why there is such electricity on stage, especially during a seamless Act 1. The pith and mockery in Charles Marowitz's script is delivered with tremendous punch not j…
SOURCE: The Stage at 07:16AM on August 13, 2014