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CHARLES HUSTON

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A play for three actors:

one female and two males

CONTACT INFORMATION

DOUG WARWICK - TORONTO, CANADA

sherlock@infinity.net

May 6 - 28, 2011

KALAMUNDA, WEST AUSTRALIA

Directed by Tim Edwards

Kalamunda Dramatic Society

Blakyak

Chris Thomas as Sherlock Holmes with Carmen Miles as Lady Adamson

Photo by Gary Barnes

John Bevan as Dr. Watson with Chris Thomas

Photo by Gary Barnes

Chris Thomas

Photo by Gary Barnes

From left to right: John Bevan, Chris Thomas, and Carmen Miles.

Tim Edwards, Director

Congratulations, Tim, Chris, John, Carmen, crew and organizational and creative team! The game is afoot!

TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL 2008

http://www.fringetoronto.com

"Writer/director Doug Warwick's mystery is worthy of Doyle's hero...

Kate Lacey - Eye Weekly, Toronto, June 30, 2008.

THREE STARS

"...Warwick's plot has enough twists and turns to create a mystery fit for

Sherlock Holmes. "

Kate Lacey - Eye Weekly, Toronto, June 30, 2008.

THREE STARS

"...it's solid entertainment." The Panic Manual July 11, 2008.

"Peter Treadwell, who played Dr. Watson and other characters, was terrific.

Not that Nick Cumming and Tina Sterling weren't....there were some terrific moments, some very funny lines and scenes."

Sam Mooney, Mooney on Theatre July 8, 2008.

"...the show had some wonderful fun moments, including a song-and-dance number

led by Dr. Watson (Pete Treadwell). The actors seemed comfortable on stage

and Treadwell did a wonderful job of switching between several characters

without missing a beat. It was also the first time I've seen anything portraying

Sherlock Holmes on stage. I enjoyed the translation from the character in a book

to the character in a play."

Megan Mooney - Blogto.com July 2008.

"The play that puts a fictional crime-fighter, Sherlock Holmes, on the case of the Piltdown Man, the 20th century's first great scientific hoax." Metro News - Toronto July 2008.

"...a plethora of humorous moments." Lauren Hatchard, Mooney on Theatre, Toronto, July 10, 2008

"I found all three performers to be extremely committed to telling the story and making whatever multiple characters they played as distinct as possible. I loved the musical interlude in the show! It was campy and fun and the performers looked like they were enjoying themselves."

Daina Valiulis, Mondo Magazine, July 2008

THE ROBERT GILL THEATRE

214 COLLEGE STREET (3RD FLOOR)

BIOS

PETER TREADWELL (ACTOR - WATSON / ALFIE)

Pete loves the theatre and is thrilled to have the opportunity to perform. Most recently he was seen onstage in the Georgian Theatre Festival’s production of The Drawer Boy. He has also performed at The Royal Alexandra Theatre, The Thousand Islands Playhouse, the 2005 Toronto Fringe Festival and The Shaw Festival. After the Fringe, Pete is getting married.

NICHOLAS CUMMING (ACTOR - SHERLOCK HOLMES)

(/BA Drama and English / U. of Waterloo/) is a founding company member of the Multicultural Theatre Space (2004). He has appeared in /Exit Strategy, Yes or No!/, /Seasons of Immigration/, /Legion of Memory I + II/, /Me Here/Me Happy/, /Motio X Industria/, and /Three Legged Horse/ (MT Space); Tennessee Williams’ /I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow/ (Poor Tom Prod.); /Asphalt Jungle Shorts I, II & III /(Flush Ink Prod.); and /Mimetic Flesh/Mimetic Hotel/, /A Midsummer Night’s Dream/ and /Spring Awakening/ with UW Drama. He directed and wrote /The Children’s Crusade/ for the UPStart Fringe 2007, and /HE/ for UPStart 2004. He is a poet and playwright currently working on several plays with Pat the Dog, KW’s professional playwrights’ development centre.

TINA STERLING (ACTOR - LADY ADAMSON & OTHERS)

A graduate of U of T’s drama program, Tina has most recently performed in Nuit Blanche 2007, TV_Dot_Television, Aluvion Theatre’s Caligula as Caesonia, and in the short films: 3Ways to Do it, Piggy’s in a Blanket, and Lulaliens . Over the past few years, Tina has performed as the ‘Queen’ in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline (U of T), ‘Joan’ from Cause Celebre (Bloor Village Players), ‘Violet’ in Farther West (U of T), ‘Anna’ in Vassa Zhelevnova (U of T), to name a few. Tina is very excited to be back on stage and to be a part of this new addition to the Holmes legacy.

DOUG WARWICK (PLAYWRIGHT/ PRODUCER/ DIRECTOR/ SPECIALTY PROPS/ LYRICS / MUSIC DESIGN) Doug currently works as a Certified General Accountant and as an itinerant medieval armour educator for grade four school kids in the GTA. His jazz arrangements have been played on CBC radio. He played saxophone with Garfield French opposite Rush, at the Montreal Forum in the 80's. His very short play, Murder By Intermission was a runner up in the Atlantis Playmakers SAS Playfest (2002) USA.

CHELSEA MAYNE (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR / STAGE MANAGER)
Chelsea Mayne is a native of Toronto and has spent several years volunteering for the Fringe before making her working debut in this show. A graduate of the Etobicoke School of the Arts, Chelsea is entering her third year in the University College Drama Program at the University of Toronto. She has trained at Stratford and the pre-college Randolph Academy, and has completed numerous performance workshops in and around Toronto. A long-time Sherlock Holmes aficionado, she would like to thank Doug for the opportunity to participate in this Holmesian adventure. Thanks also Nick, Peter, Tina, and all my UCDP friends! And love to my family for always being SO supportive. Cheers, and enjoy the show!

CHARLES HUSTON (ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER / LIGHTING DESIGN)

Charles is currently a 3rd year theatre student in the University College Drama Program, University of Toronto. Before this, he studied in Ottawa as an electrical engineer. He enjoys acting, writing, directing and technical work.

PRODUCTION RIGHTS

Please email the playwright for details. Discounts for schools, and amateur productions.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

2000 St. Vlad's Theatre, Toronto, Canada (Seventeen Steps)

2002 Northwest Nazarene University's Little Theatre, Idaho, USA,

(Nampa Charter School)

2008 Robert Gill Theatre, Toronto Fringe Festival 2008 (Seventeen Steps)

2011 Kalamunda, West Australia (Blakyak and Kalamunda Dramatic Society)

SYNOPSIS

The play is based on the stern facts, as Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard would say. An accidental discovery in 1908 of a supposed prehistoric "missing link" between man and the apes, the Piltdown Man, proved to be a piece of fiction and one of the greatest scientific hoaxes ever devised. The discovery was fully debunked in 1953 using modern analytical science and methods that Sherlock Holmes himself would envy. The perpetrator of the fraud, who is still unknown, has by now, taken the secret to their own grave.

The play begins with the seemingly trivial case of a missing three legged chair. We follow Sherlock Holmes as he gathers clues from the characters we meet in this adventure mystery - a rag and bone merchant (Mrs. Mansfield) who is murdered in a run down Whitechapel shop, an obscure geologist (Professor Skullion) who is killed in a rock slide, the discoverer of the prehistoric Plateau Man (Sir Charles Adamson), his scheming sister (Lady Adamson), and last but not least, a reformed thief (Alfie Trotwood) who ties together the very different worlds of Whitechapel, the British Museum, 221B Baker Street, and the streets of London. Along the way Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are variously attacked by a venomous snake, a tarantula, a booby trapped spring loaded box, and street ruffians. False alarms and red herrings abound. Will Sherlock Holmes be seduced by the alluring Lady Adamson? Are the powers of Sherlock Holmes on the wane, his addiction to cocaine taking its toil? Who is planning to steal the famous Star of Delhi housed in the British Museum? Why is Sherlock imprisoned? Is it of any significance that Alfie Trotwood and Lady Adamson share the same birth date? What is Lady Adamson's connection to Professor Moriarty, and finally, is Professor Moriarty behind it all? From these clues, I ask you to be the judge whether the game is up, or "the game is afoot!"

REVIEW FROM 2000

Paula Citron - The Globe And Mail, March 15, 2000

"The play has been running for two weeks and word-of-mouth has made it a near sell-out...While the play has tremendous potential...his characterizations, from the detective and Dr. Watson down to the smaller roles, do ring with truth. The company should also be congratulated for turning a bland theatre space into a rather lovely Edwardian theatre via some judicious paint and paneling.....Michael Hanrahan has a field day as Holmes, particularly in the famous detective's love of disguises. Insufferably arrogant, yet with a melancholy air that befits a heroin addict, Hanrahan manages to infuse the famous sleuth with a three-dimensional, charismatic personality."

OTHER NOTICES

Iris Turcott - Canadian Stage

"...clever and quite charming."

AWARDS

Doug Warwick's MURDER BY INTERMISSION was a runner-up in the Atlantis Playmakers SAS Playfest (2002).

BIO

Doug Warwick has worked in many different fields: musician, band leader, composer/arranger, apprentice optician, labourer, driver, public school teacher, and currently as an accountant (CGA). Doug's jazz compositions were recorded by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). He played the venerable Montreal Forum with rocker, Garfield French, and had a stint with Zarabanda in Dublin, Ireland. Doug's nine piece band, Rhythm & Reeds played the Toronto scene for several years. His written work has appeared in The Globe And Mail, Ryerson's NightViews, and the North Oakville News. Doug has a B.Mus., B. Ed. and a CGA having attended McMaster, Western, U. of T., Ryerson, Mohawk, Seneca, and York University in Ontario, Canada.

GENESIS OF THE PLAY

Inspired by Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony, 2nd movement, Doug started work on a set of lyrics. Having established the mood, the next piece of the puzzle was the subject. Doug recalled a visual memory from his childhood - that of a diagram of a prehistoric man in a dictionary, and coming across the picturesque term, "Piltdown Man". Coincidently, it turns out that Conan Doyle lived only about eight miles from Barkhome Manor, where the gravel pit discovery site was located. Doyle was also interested in geology, archaeology and was an avid collector of fossils. Remember also, he wrote The Lost World. Perfect. The Piltdown Man story seemed tailor made for another Sherlock Holmes tale. The next step was to re-read the entire original Sherlock Holmes tales, enjoy the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce, Jeremy Brett and other versions of the character in film and print form, and devise suitable characters that fit the mood and subject. After studying a myriad of pictures on the subject, making original casts of representations of the Piltdown specimens, recreation of the skull, a bust of a Victorian representation of a prehistoric man, and the various stage devices and props necessary, readings and workshops, and redecorating the entire theatre, the scene was set for the first production in 2000, in Toronto, Canada.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Frederic Dorr Steele 1873 - 1944 (Artist for Sherlock Holmes portrait above).

Elaine Ryan (Publicist)

Jason Cordice (Web designer, Poster Designer)

...and special mention to the original lighting designer from the St. Vlad's Toronto show in 2000, Kevin White. Seen in the lower left of this picture, Big Ben in London. Ten minutes past two? Only Sherlock Holmes would know!.