Comparison Between Holmes And Watson's Play '

The play I went to see at Arizona theater company was Holmes & Watson.The Acting in the play was overall professional and well executed by all the Actors.An example of that , is Matron the woman who played both a female psychiatric nurse and former psychiatric patient. Carrie Paff who play Matron, while acting as a psychiatric patient living in the asylum portrayed as a woman with catatonia. While, under hypnosis induced by Dr. Evans her personality would reverse and give testimony on how she ended up catatonic .Philip Goodwin who characterize Dr. Evans, his acting was well too, he projected his character as a undercover physician. The Three patients played by James M. Reilly, Noah Racey, Remi Sandri portrayed their characters as Patient

Hamilton Wright); unlike the other patients - patient 2 & 3- he is portrayed as a sane man. Patient 2 was an unstable patient in a vest jacket which was his undercover character. Patient 3 is deaf/blind and catatonic; When he is hypnotized his character changes from being catatonic,deaf, and blind to being imposter Sherlock Holmes who can hear, see, and is aware.The themes portrayed in this play were deception and storytelling. Deception was a recurring motif in the play because every character was disguised as someone else in order to achieve their goal. The John Watson imposter who was played by the actor R. Hamilton Wright, was deceiving Dr. Evans in order to obtain Sherlock holmes from the mental institution and murder him. Matron who played as a ward nurse was actually an cooperating with Dr. Evans and all the other Character but the John Watson imposter to help catch the assassin who was the John Watson imposter (R. Hamilton