Theatre News

Sherlock Holmes play launches new venue, Great Northern, 6 October

A new production of the classic detective story is being staged at a brand new venue in Manchester.

Sherlock Holmes: A Working Hypothesis
Sherlock Holmes: A Working Hypothesis
© Hartshorn – Hook Productions

Sherlock Holmes: A Working Hypothesis is being staged at new venue The Great Northern in October.

The unique setting marks the partnership between Manchester's Hartshorn – Hook Productions and The Flanagan Collective, an associate theatre company at York Theatre Royal.

Three years after the Reichenbach Falls the great detective, Sherlock Holmes, is presumed dead. Dr John Watson has married and moved on, consigning his of days adventure and investigation to memory.

In an intimate room, buried deep within the walls of Manchester's Great Northern shopping centre a lecture is about to take place. A great professor of criminology prepares to educate his audience on the ‘science of deduction’ that Holmes made famous.

Will this event be the catalyst to throw Holmes and Watson together again, as one final mystery lays dormant, waiting to be unraveled? Could it be true that their archenemy Moriarty is still at large?

This new piece is described as 'a contemporary, interactive original drama inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s much-loved detective stories.'

The play is Written by Alexander Wright after Arthur Conan Doyle, directed by Tom Bellerby, produced by Brian Hook
and designed by Jane Stonestreet.

Sherlock Holmes: A Working Hypothesis is at Great Northern from 6 – 11 October.