Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Exeter Drama Company

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Event Date: 
05/12/2024 - 7:30pm to 07/12/2024 - 10:00pm
Venue: 
Longdown Village Hall

The Baskerville fortune comes with a family curse: death at the fangs of a horror that prowls the moor. Only Sherlock Holmes can stop the beast. While mysterious lights signal Baskerville Hall and the hound terrifies the countryside, the sleuthing begins and suspicion falls on sinister servants, butterfly collectors, ladies in distress, and escaped convicts. Who wrote the letter that summoned the hound? Is Sir Henry’s romance with the lovely Kathy doomed? Is the supernatural at work?

Find out by booking your tickets for Exeter Drama Company's production of The Hound of the...

Life After Sherlock - A Play in 2 Parts by Mike Grogan

Event Date: 
01/06/2019 - 7:00pm to 10:30pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Barnfield Rd. Exeter, EX1 1SN

‘Devil’s Drum Productions’ will tour a new play in the spring of 2019. The production company will perform 21 shows at 17 theatres in the south of England with a cast of seven. Unusually for a Sherlockian drama, this new story centres on Dr John Watson and not the great detective. In the drama Watson has a personal mystery to solve but without the help of his retired friend Sherlock Holmes. Although Holmes does appear quite a lot in the play, he has now taken to the South Downs and has started a new career as a Beekeeper. Watson discovers that his late wife Mary Morstan may have passed in...