This year, many of our English classes went to the theatre to watch various plays. Especially two productions by the English Theatre Frankfurt, the musical “Cabaret” and the mystery-comedy “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, fascinated and entertained students and teachers alike. Here is our student Larissa, expressing her views on “The Hound of the Baskervilles”:
Girls in pretty dresses and high heels, boys in elegant shirts/tuxedos – everyone was dressed up and thrilled to visit the theatre in the evening. A little makeover never hurt anybody, as we could experience at the “Deutsches Theater” in Munich where we watched one of Sherlock Holmes’ most spine-chilling adventures, “The Hound of Baskervilles”, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1901, which was inspired by a supernatural urban legend and which is placed in a modern setting and humorously revised.
The story is set in the remote moors near Baskerville Hall. Sir Charles Baskerville had suddenly died under mysterious circumstances, allegedly killed by a demonic hound believed to haunt his family for generations because of an age-old curse. Sherlock Holmes sends his assistant Watson to look into the matter. Soon, various unsettling events occur, including the appearance of a mysterious figure in the moor who Watson later identifies as Sherlock Holmes, who has been conducting his own investigation. In the end, Holmes of course deduces that the killer is Jack Stapleton, who used a vicious giant black hound whose fur had been coated in phosphorus to kill his relatives.
If you like suspenseful, entertaining and amusing theatre plays you should totally go and watch “The Hound of the Baskervilles”. The play was amazingly executed by the actors and accompanied by gripping background music. The plot was rather unpredictable with lots of twists which build up tension till the very end. Personally, I liked the singing parts the most. It was surprising that the English was easy to understand and that the content was astonishingly comprehensible. All in all, five out of five stars.
Larissa Moser und Andreas Oertel