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Sherlock Holmes

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Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Lipstick, Ketchup and Blood

An Adaptation by Lesley Hart

From the Novel ‘A Study in Scarlet’

By Arthur Conan Doyle

Directed by Marc Small

Set and Costume Designer Elizabeth Newman

Movement Director Lesley Hutchison

Lighting Designer Jeanine Byrne

Associate Lighting Designer Peter Fennell

Sound Designer Matthew Tomlinson

Première

In a blasted world, two survivors – a doctor and an actor – pass the time by staging their favourite story salvaged from the flames: A Study in Scarlet, the origin story of Sherlock Holmes. But when tensions arise around casting, more than dead bodies start to surface…

Pitlochry Festival Theatre will produce a brand-new adaptation by playwright and actor Lesley Hart of A Study in Scarlet, the 1887 Sherlock Holmes origin story, marking the first appearance of Holmes and Dr Watson, the most famous detective duo in literature.

Audiences will be enthralled by this riveting play as a famous mystery is brought to life in the amphitheatre, nestled in the Explorers garden within the shadow of Ben-Y-Vrackie.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Venue: Amphitheatre

Ticket prices: from £29. Concessions available – call Box Office for more information.

Advisories: we recommend this play for those aged 10 and over due to strong language.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘…a touch of poetry…’

(The Scotsman)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘…leaves a lasting impression.’

(The Stage)

Deirdre Davis

Deirdre Davis

Deirdre graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1991. She has worked for many theatre companies including the Tron Theatre, Perth Rep and 7:84 Theatre.

Deirdre first worked at Pitlochry Festival Theatre in 1999, when she appeared in The Summertime Is Come with Jimmy Logan and Edith McArthur. Since then, she’s returned to Pitlochry several times appearing in The Magistrate, Heartbreak House, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and The Monarch Of The Glen, Blithe Spirit, Heritage, North and South and was also a part of Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Winter Ensemble 2021.

Deirdre has appeared in consecutive Pitlochry seasons, most recently in Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Lipstick, Ketchup and Blood, Private Lives, Noises Off and Little Women during the Summer 2022 season and 2022 Christmas production Peter Pan & Wendy.

Outwith Pitlochry Festival Theatre, in recent years she has played Nora in Rona Munro’s Bold Girls at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow and spent 14 years playing Eileen Donachie in BBC Scotland’s River City.

Deirdre is delighted to return for Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Summer Season 2023.
Tom Richardson

Tom Richardson

Tom trained at The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

Tom lives in London, and has just returned this spring from touring the USA playing Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing with Actors From The London Stage (AFTLS).

Over the last couple of years Tom has been making work online, including playing Tweedledum & Tweedledee in Alice: A Virtual Theme Park(ONCOMM Best Digital Platform based production) for Creation Theatre/Big Telly.

Other theatre includes: Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Storyhouse, Chester); Twelfth Night, The Merry Wives of Windsor, As You Like It, She Stoops To Conquer (Guildford Shakespeare Company); The Prince & The Pauper (New Vic Theatre); Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Churchill Theatre Bromley & UK tour); Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense, Sense & Sensibility, Single Spies, Dial ‘M’ For Murder, (The RivalsTheatre by the Lake, Keswick); Elton John’s Glasses (Watford Palace Theatre); A Christmas Carol,Snow White and Other Tales From The Brothers Grimm, Treasure Island, The Wind in The Willows (Creation Theatre); The Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo & Juliet, The Wind in The Willows, Macbeth and The Comedy of Errors (Chester Performs); Twelfth Night: A Gender Experiment (The Rose Playhouse); The White Carnation (The Finborough/Jermyn Street Theatre); Roots (Nottingham Playhouse/Hull Truck/New Vic); The Winter’s Tale, The Rivals, The Grapes of Wrath, Arsenic and Old Lace (The Mercury Theatre Colchester); The Mousetrap (SE Asia Tour and West End); Dad’s Army: The Lost Episodes and Dad’s Army Marches On (UK No. 1 Tours).

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