New Sherlock Holmes Stage Play In Development For Broadway & London; Tony-Winner Rob Ashford To Direct

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EXCLUSIVE: A new stage play adaption of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is being developed with an eye toward the West End and Broadway.

The Tony- and Olivier Award-winning Rob Ashford is set to direct.The announcement was made today by producer Antonio Marion.

Current plans are for the play to be developed in London prior to West End and Broadway stagings.Written by British writing team Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel, the new Sherlock Holmes play is described as an original tale offering a “deeply theatrical exploration of the mind of the famous detective,” while remaining faithful to the world created by Conan Doyle.

Akram Khan will serve as choreographer/movement director.Staged as “a mystery within a mystery,” the new play is described by producers as involving a case presented to Holmes that forces him to confront his own murky past: “But is the unravelling of his childhood just a dangerous diversion?”Ashford said in a statement, “When we identified that the setting of our production wasn’t necessarily a place, but perhaps an emotion, with characters driven by their souls and desires, I realized we had a project that demanded being brought to life on the stage.