Bethel The­ater De­part­ment Per­forms “Baskerville: A Sher­lock Holmes Mys­tery”

MISHAWAKA—This past week­end, Nov. 4-6, the The­atre De­part­ment put on their an­nual fall play. This year the play was “Baskerville: A Sher­lock Holmes Mys­tery”. The play was di­rected by Deb Swer­man, and Sher­lock Holmes was played by Adam Fos­ter.

The play is about Sher­lock Holmes’s most fa­mous case, a mur­der by a hound in the town of De­von­shire. The play was in­spired by Sir Arthur Co­nan Doyle’s “The Hound of Baskervilles.” a clas­sic Sher­lock Holmes mys­tery. The play fea­tures a va­ri­ety of cos­tume swaps so smooth if you blink you might miss them. The play is very hu­mor­ous, fea­tur­ing a va­ri­ety of ac­cents. And lastly, the play keeps you guess­ing all the way through.

We first see Sher­lock Holmes and John Wat­son ap­proached by Dr. James Mor­timer and Sir Henry Baskerville about a mur­der. Af­ter ac­cept­ing the case, they find out that Sir Henry is be­ing fol­lowed by a mys­te­ri­ous char­ac­ter who re­mains the key mys­tery for a ma­jor­ity of the play. Holmes sends both Wat­son and Sir Henry to De­von­shire to find out what is go­ing on. They soon find out about an es­caped con­vict that is run­ning free on the moors. Af­ter piec­ing to­gether the mys­tery of the man and the dog on the moors they find out it was Sta­ple­ton’s dog that was at­tack­ing peo­ple.

Over­all, the play was ex­e­cuted to per­fec­tion with three ac­tors play­ing a va­ri­ety of roles which in­cluded con­stant cos­tume changes. The hu­mor was very en­joy­able and kept the au­di­ence en­gaged through­out the whole play.