Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Copper Beeches at Lyndhurst

A co-production with Red Monkey Theater Group

Join Sherlock Holmes (Tal Aviezer) and John Watson (Joe Laureiro) on a trip to the sinister Copper Beeches (played by the inimitable

Photo by Holland Renton
Photo by Holland Renton

Lyndhurst Mansion), where a desperate young governess finds herself at the center of a baffling mystery. M&M and Red Monkey brought this fast-paced performance to Lyndhurst November & December 2016.

Together with the famous detectives, we explored the mansion room-by-room as we were drawn deeper into the secrets of the Rucastle family – their threatening hound, menacingly enthusiastic patriarch, strange requests and rules, the locked and forbidden room on the top floor, and the mysterious stranger who keeps appearing at the windows.

Adapted by Tal Aviezer from the story by Arthur Conan Doyle, the cast for Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Copper Beeches was Tal Aviezer as Sherlock Holmes, Joe Laureiro as Dr. John Watson and included: Peter J. Lillo, Emma Miller, Michael Muldoon and Melinda O’Brien.

“Do you know, Watson,” said Holmes, “that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed here.” – Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Copper Beeches.

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