Star Tribune - Recommended

"...Mann gets solid performances from a good cast. Bruce Bohne is particularly fun as a cadaverous old gent confined to a wheelchair and just dying to die. Allen Hamilton delivers proper British bluster as Holmes' brother, and Charity Jones is the coy and slightly enigmatic secretary of the club - though her accent seems to wobble between south London and Count Dracula's ZIP code."
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Twin Cities Pioneer Press - Recommended

"...For all its old-fashioned-y feel, director Mann and his production team take advantage of contemporary design techniques to tell the tale. Andrea M. Gross' costumes are specific to the period, but Michael Hoover's scenic design is spare. There's just enough furniture to suggest the play's setting in 1914. Most of the locales are suggested by projections that either indicate or suggest the various locations of the play within London and, of course, at Holmes' famous residence. The residence at 221B Baker Street is a reliable source for satisfying tales of mystery, and "Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club" is no exception to that rule."
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How Was The Show - Recommended

"...Ah, yes. Sherlock Holmes And The Adventure Of The Suicide Club (at Park Square Theatre through July 14) is gleefully death-haunted. Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher explores Holmes's conviction that Death is nipping at his Victorian heels. This morbidity is an essential part of the Holmes gestalt; why else does he investigate crimes with such avidity, employing vicious logic and astonishingly accurate conjecture? Why else does he play the violin so compulsively, pace his cluttered flat like a caged jungle-cat, inject himself with cocaine? It's Hatcher's conceit (and his considerable accomplishment) to focus on this creepy Holmesian obsession."
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