rom AZStarNet.com comes an article entitled It’s a new hunt, Sherlock, concerning a new stage play being performed in Tucson called Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure:

Steven Dietz is a liar. He freely admits it. Whether the playwright is adapting Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” P.G. Wodehouse’s “Over the Moon” or one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, he lies.

“That’s my job,” said Dietz in a phone interview from his Seattle home.

“My job is to lie to you and make you believe” the words spoken were written by Stoker, or Wodehouse or Doyle. He doesn’t want you to suspect for a moment that they are Dietz’s words.

Dietz has penned “Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure.” Arizona Theatre Company’s world premiere of the play opens in previews Saturday. The script is full of the lush language Doyle used for his smart detective and loyal sidekick, Dr. Watson.

Quite a favourable review can also be found at the Arizona Daily Star — ATC’s Holmes tale a fine adventure indeed — although a not-so-public review from a fellow Sherlockian was… erm… somewhat less enthusiastic. Being on the other side of the continent, I have no opinion that actually matters. Have any readers here seen this performance? If so, what did you think?