Author's Note on The Hound of the Baskervilles
Hello to you, Dunedin based theatre goer,
Thanks very much for coming to see our show. We wrote it 8 years ago and have been rewriting it ever since. That might seem like your idea of hell but, to us, it’s been a constant pleasure. We wrote it with the express intention of making people laugh and it’s a huge surprise and delight that 11,852 miles away from us (thanks Google maps) people will be gathering together today to do just that. At least we hope you’ll be laughing. Comedy is a tricky business. We owe huge thanks to Arthur Conan Doyle - he was an ardent believer in Spiritualism so we’re thanking him just in case he was on to something - and we’re even more indebted to the performers - Patrick, Nick and Simon. You’ll see that this play demands a lot of them. Hopefully they’ve been keeping themselves fit. You’ll spot it if they haven’t.
Most of all, thanks to you. Comedy is a very sad affair if no one turns up to laugh.
Steven Canny
