MEET THE CAST:
Harry Meacher
as Sherlock Holmes
This is Harry's second outing as Sherlock Holmes, having previously starred as the world's most famous Consulting Detective in The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Harry is impressive as Holmes, bringing mercurial wit to lighten Holmes' darker moods.
Kenneth McConnell
as Dr John Watson
Ken, as Dr John Watson, is the perfect foil to Sherlock's occasionally challenging manner. Straight talking with flashes of humour, Ken pays him not as the blustering dimwit of the early Sherlock Holmes movies, but as an intelligent companion and calming influence upon Holmes.
Guy Hepworth
as Arthur Conan Doyle +
Guy Hepworth exhibits chameleon-like abilities as he morphs from an assured, and to Holmes, potentially dangerous Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into various other roles.
Guy effortlessly becomes a Bradford bookseller, a concierge, and Edward Gardner, the man who first promoted the Cottingley photographs and later became Doyle’s representative at Cottingley, pursuing the two girls involved relentlessly for further fairy photographs.
Kate Coldron
as Miss Hudson +
Kate Coldron also shape-shifts as she takes on four very different roles. She is Miss Hudson, niece to the original Mrs Hudson, and the new owner of 221B Baker Street. A new landlady to Holmes and Watson, and considerably more forgiving of Holmes' foibles than her late Aunt Martha.
Kate also plays Mrs Pickett, a London news-vendor, sister to Wiggins and a 'Baker Street Irregular,' one of Holmes' urchin street gang as a child. She is also a Bradford waitress, and Mrs Polly
Wright, mother to Elsie, the older of the two girls behind the fairy photographs.
Sherlock Holmes and The Man Who Believed in Fairies
Who We Are
Coed Celyn (Holly Wood in Welsh), is a theatre company specially created to bring this enigmatic tale of Sherlock Holmes to life on stage at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe.
The story behind this play is just as strange as it's narrative...
Out-Sherlocking Sherlock
It was a dark and stormy night in a castle on the cliffs above Dracula’s English domain, Whitby…
Actually, it was an overcast afternoon at Sneaton Castle … but still on the cliffs above Whitby. The play's author F.R Maher had been booked to give a talk about The Cottingley Fairies to a room full of ‘bizarre’ magicians - a crowd of Derren Brown's if you like ... and Reece Shearsmith was there too.
Daunting, but they all loved it, even Reece. Her research paid off. The talk became a six-page article in the Fortean Times, then a book and now it’s a play: Sherlock Holmes and The Man Who Believed in Fairies, with Holmes following the clues and arriving at the startling conclusion she came to almost ten years ago. This is a story that needs to be told.
Writer/Producer/Director
F.R. Maher
Fiona Maher, (pronounced 'Marr'), began working on the script for Sherlock Holmes and The Man Who Believed in Fairies immediately after completing a commission for the Welsh multi-platform presentation, GALWAD. For that project, she created the character Huw and wrote a monologue for him. You can view it here:
Huw - received 2.30pm, Wed 28 Sept / Derbyniwyd y neges 2.30yp, Mercher 28 Medi - YouTube
Set in 2052, Huw has found he can contact his younger self and attempts to speak some sense into him... but will he listen? Sensitively performed by Owen Teale, the piece was picked out for praise by the director, Jamie Jones.
In her monologue “Huw” Fiona crafts a world that is deeply introspective yet boldly futuristic. With every line, she pushes the boundaries of imagination and tugs at the heartstrings, revealing the universal yearnings that transcend time and technology. Her contribution to 'Galwad' is testament to her unparalleled storytelling prowess. Jamie Jones, Director 'Huw' for GALWAD
Sherlock Holmes and The Man Who Believed in Fairies is Fiona's first show at the Edinburgh Fringe.
'... Most people don't go to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time with such an ambitious piece of writing, at such a prestigious venue, with a cast of four playing ten roles with zero arts funding, but then again I have no experience to prove it can't be done...' F.R.Maher
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