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Edinburgh festival review: Impossible " a duel between Houdini and Conan Doyle by Mark Lawson

Pleasance Dome, EdinburghBizarre miscasting and stodgy dialogue scupper this account of a meeting between the master illusionist and the Sherlock Holmes creatorIn the teeming marketplace of Edinburgh theatre, biographical dramas are a smart way of tapping into existing interest in a figure. Last year, in Kingmaker, writers Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky put David Cameron and Boris Johnson on stage and now offer another…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:45AM on August 9, 2015

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