The Red and Black

Issue date: 4/24/09 Section: Variety

Media Credit: Courtesy Leara Rhodes In the Town & Gown Players' show, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Holmes (Rick Bedell) battles the main villain, Professor Moriarty (Patrick Najjar), over Irene Adler (Kris Schultz). The play combines two popular Sherlock Holmes stories. [Click to enlarge]

Those looking for mystery, romance, murder, evil, intrigue and heroes need not do any detective work of their own.

Instead, the Town & Gown Players will present "Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure," which combines two classic Sherlock Holmes stories.

"The play does its best to encapsulate everything iconographic about Sherlock Holmes," said Steven Carroll, the play's director and the business manager of the University theater department.

"It's got mystery, romance, murder, political intrigue, evil - evil villains and intelligent detectives … It's pretty much the old pulp hero iconography," he said.

Leara Rhodes, the show's publicist, offered a few more of the play's selling points.

"There's intrigue, there's thievery, there's running around, there's hiding," she said. "There's all the things you could want from a mystery."

The play takes place in late 19th century London - "your typical Victorian, Jack the Ripper period," Carroll said.

It pits Sherlock Holmes against the villainous Professor Moriarty.

"It starts out with Holmes trying to enjoy retirement, but plagued with the idea that there's one criminal out there, Moriarty," Carroll said.

Patrick Najjar, a freshman from Stone Mountain, plays Professor Moriarty.

"Sherlock is sort of the older generation, and Moriarty is the new generation coming in and trying to take over," Najjar said. "He's very smart; he's younger than Sherlock. He's very ambitious and basically wants to control everything."

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