The earlier story has repercussions for the latter, so it is essential to keep both, but any staged version runs the risk of being fragmentary. It’s perhaps the least well known of the four full length tales and perhaps with good reason as it features a duo of distinct narratives (one of which doesn’t even feature Holmes himself), in a pair of separate time frames occuring on two continents. Sherlock Holmes: Valley Of Fear is a reasonably faithful adaptation of the last of the novels featuring the iconic Victorian detective – most of his appearances are in the author’s extensive collection of short stories. One such is Blackeyed Theatre who have been and will continue touring their latest adaptation of Conan Doyle’s works they have also filmed a performance to access at home. However, there are still some enterprising companies who look to do the double – a live show with the option to watch a filmed stream at some point. Audience members who cannot get to theatre venues for reasons of mobility, geography or economics are missing out and playmakers are in danger of denying themselves a funding stream particularly at a time when seats are so expensive and there still seems to be a general unwillingness to sit in a physical venue. While in some ways this is a good thing it is also, perforce, a shame. The hurried decline in online material, while not altogether a surprise suggests that we have largely returned to a pre pandemic status as far as theatre is concerned. During the last ten days or so, and for the first time in well over two years, the front page of my blog has featured only onstage reviews.
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