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Who, really, was the man behind Sherlock Holmes?
This December, we are gathering for a very special presentation about Arthur Conan Doyle - one of Edinburgh's most famous authors, from the experts.
Well they are meant to be experts, but the highland tour has been a disaster and now strange things are happening at the Traverse.
The Arthur Conan Doyle Appreciation Society is a riotous comedy that hurtles from particle physics to fairies and the supernatural. Expect something truly different at the Traverse this Christmas.
Behind the comedy this has something deeper to say about one of Edinburgh’s most famous sons. And it has a grand time saying it.
Thoroughly entertaining.
This premise is enough to build a story filled with contradictions and comedy, leaving you with more than a little appreciation for Mr Conan- Doyle.
Director Orla O’Loughlin and the Traverse team can congratulate themselves on a light-touch but beautifully-crafted Christmas show, with a memorable leading performance, and the kind of audience-appeal that is hard to resist.
Peepolykus have cooked a feast of brain food that will provoke thought and discussion long after the curtain call.
This show is at its best – a hilarious, quirky, jubilant best – when the fun train is allowed to run full steam ahead without any pesky questions about deeper meaning.
At times, it is very funny, but at other times, only mildly amusing, meaning the show never quite finds the level of comic delirium – or post-Enlightenment debate – to make it compelling.
Beautifully designed by Anthony Lamble and others and staged with occasionally overwhelming energy and imagination, the seemingly knockabout romp by its end pulls together some thoughtful and delicate observations about humanity’s desire to come to terms with mortality and the artist’s need to live on through their work.
Preview feature: The Arthur Conan Doyle Appreciation Society
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Interview: Peepolykus
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh from Tuesday December 4, 2012, until Saturday December 22, 2012. More info: www.traverse.co.uk
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