Who killed Sir Charles Baskerville? Could the legend of a monstrous supernatural hound be true? Can the case be solved before the family curse dooms its newest heir?
From the award-winning mastermind of mayhem Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor), comes a fast-paced, pulse-pounding comedy like no other. Equal parts adventure and comedy, Baskerville finds Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson attempting to crack their most notorious case.
In this madcap retelling of the ultimate Victorian whodunit, a nimble cast of five takes on nearly forty characters, darting on and off stage in this delightfully complex plot. As Holmes and Watson race against time to solve the baffling mystery, you’ll find yourself on the edge of your seat, guessing at every twist and turn.
Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
“The joy in watching [the] witty new play Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery is not in solving the crime bu in the plethora of wildly imaginative characters you meet along the way. By dispensing with British formality, Ken Ludwig has given us a play that is ingeniously funny and will keep you guessing until the curtain call.”
– Broadway World, Read More
“Written by Tony-winning playwright Ken Ludwig, the new play turns one of Holmes’ most famous mysteries, The Hound of the Baskervilles, on its head. Instead of a heady whodunit, this production is a fast-paced comedy.”
– Washington City Paper
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SPECIAL PERFORMANCES & SHOWTIMES
Thurs. April 11 – 7:30PM (Pay-What-You-Will Preview)
Fri. April 12 – 7:30PM (Opening Night)
Sat. April 13 – 1PM & 7:30PM
Sun. April 14 – 1PM
Wed. April 17 – 1PM
Thurs. April 18 – 7:30PM (2 for 1 Ticket Special! Use promo code BASKBOGO)
Fri. April 19 – 7:30PM
Sat. April 20 – 1PM (Open Experience)
Sat. April 20 – 7:30PM (VocalEye Live Audio Description option available)
TICKET PRICES
Zone 1: $55
Zone 2: $46
Zone 3: $35
Note: If you are planning on using the Chinese surtitles, we highly recommend booking seats at the back of the theatre for a better view of the surtitles.
Student Rush*
Zone 1, 2 & 3: $25
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Group Tickets
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CAST
Genevieve Fleming
Sherlock Holmes
Genevieve Fleming
Sherlock Holmes
Genevieve Fleming (she/her) is an actor, director, and producer raised on the unsurrendered ancestral homelands of the Mi’kmaq people called Mi’kma’ki. Recent stage highlights include Yaga (Touchstone), The Café (ITSAZOO/Aphotic), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bard), Clean/Espejos (Neworld), and The Twelve Dates of Christmas (Arts Club). Recent camera highlights include appearances on The Recruit, Wild Cards, So Help Me Todd, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, and Travelers. Genevieve is the recipient of two Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, several nominations for performance, and the Ray Michal Award for direction. She is delighted to be making her Gateway debut as the incomparable Sherlock Holmes and is also pleased that she doesn’t have as many costume changes as some of her castmates. Enjoy the show!
Gerry Mackay
Dr. Watson
Gerry Mackay
Dr. Watson
Gerry Mackay is an actor and director with over 30 years of experience performing across Canada. Gerry earned his BFA from the University of Victoria and MFA from the University of British Columbia. Gerry has performed in many shows, including Having Hope at Home, Brighton Beach Memoirs, and All Shook Up at Gateway Theatre. Other theatres include Birds and the Bees (tour); Redbone Coon Hound, One man two Guvnors, August Osage County, Hamlet, and Dinner with Friends (Arts Club); Equivocation (Bard); Late Company (Touchstone); Indian Arm (Rumble Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Belfry); Romeo and Juliet (Citadel Theatre); For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again (Globe Theatre); The Illusion (Stratford Festival).
Andrew Cownden
Actor 1
Andrew Cownden
Actor 1
Andrew has been a professional actor for almost 20 years. He is a graduate of the Canadian College of Performing Arts. Recent credits include Jaques in As You Like It (Shakespeare Theatre Co. in Washington, DC); Max Detweiler in The Sound of Music (Arts Club); The Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz (Western Canada Theatre); Julian Marsh in 42nd Street (TUTS); The Emcee in Cabaret (Royal City Musical Theatre). For Gateway Theatre: Ensemble in Annie (2010). Andrew uses art to scream meaning into the void—and you can too!
Mack Gordon
Actor 2
Mack Gordon
Actor 2
Mack is an internationally renowned theatre artist who resides in Vancouver, BC. This is his debut role on the MainStage at Gateway Theatre, though he previously appeared in a workshop reading of Meghan Gardiner’s play Gross Misconduct and has worked on the faculty for Gateway Academy. He studied at the University of Victoria as well as The Second City in Chicago. He is the founding Artistic Producer of A Theater in the Dark in Chicago. He has worked professionally in BC with companies such as Bard on the Beach, Arts Club, Pacific Theatre, Chemainus Theatre Festival, Green Thumb, Theatre Northwest, Project X Theatre, and UpintheAir Theatre.
Melissa Oei
Actor 3
Melissa Oei
Actor 3
Melissa is an accomplished actor and emerging director working in theatre for the past 15 years. Melissa previously appeared on the Gateway MainStage in Les Belles Soeurs and in Studio B for Long Division. Other recent credits include A Doll’s House Part 2 (Western Gold); Unexpecting (Zee Zee); The Cafe (Aphotic/Itsazoo); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bard). Melissa is a graduate of Studio 58. Melissa has always had a passion for theatre, and it is the greatest joy in life to perform on stage for a living!
CREATIVE TEAM
Barbara Tomasic
Director
Barbara Tomasic
Director
Barbara is the Executive Artistic Director at Gateway Theatre, and works as a director at various theatres across Canada. A graduate of JIPA and UBC with an MFA in Directing, Barbara’s past credits at Gateway Theatre include directing Anne of Green Gables-The Musical, Crazy for You, Music Man, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and acting in Sound of Music and King and I. Barbara is grateful for the amazing team that brought this show together!
Kevin Tanner
Lighting Designer
Kevin Tanner
Lighting Designer
Credits: Third Floor (Thousand Islands Playhouse); The Lancashire Lass (Watershed Festival/DAN School of Drama and Music); Harmonia (The Grapevine Theatre Project); One Last Night with Mata Hari (World Premiere: The Eye Of The Dawn Collective); Shipwrecked! (Theatre Kingston); Legally Blonde, Les Misérables, Anything Goes (St. Lawrence College/ Thousand Islands Playhouse); Murder on the Orient Express, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Glass Menagerie (Domino Theatre)
Other: Kevin has worked for the last decade in production and technical leadership roles at Thousand Islands Playhouse, Kingston Grand Theatre, Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, and most recently, as the Managing Director of Production at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
Steve Marsh
Sound Designer
Steve Marsh
Sound Designer
Credits: Poochwater, Jersey Boys (Thousand Islands Playhouse); The Woman in Black (Atlantic Repertory Company); Head of Sound at Segal Centre for the Performing Arts 2008 to 2022
Upcoming: Bittergirl, Once (Thousand Islands Playhouse)
Mike Kovac
Co-Fight Director
Mike Kovac
Co-Fight Director
Mike Kovac has been a certified Fight Instructor and Fight Director for ten years. He has been the Fight Director of Gateway shows, including Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Anne of Green Gables: The Musical, and Crazy For You. If you see him on screen, he’s probably about to get beat up.
Sylvie La Riviere
Co-Fight Director
Sylvie La Riviere
Co-Fight Director
Sylvie is an Advanced Actor Combatant with the Academy of Fight Directors Canada, as well as a teacher and fight choreographer with over ten years of stage combat experience. Recent shows include Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet, Mustard (TRU); Multi-Vs, Heroine, Playthings (Affair of Honor); Coriolanus, and St. Joan of the Stockyards (UBC). Previous Gateway Theatre productions include Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella and Anne of Green Gables: The Musical.
Lisa Goebel
Intimacy Director
Lisa Goebel
Intimacy Director
Lisa is an interdisciplinary artist working as an actor, choreographer, intimacy director, and producer. She is delighted to be back at Gateway Theatre after intimacy directing China Doll in 2019. Recent credits include associate movement director and intimacy director for Choir Boy (Arts Club), intimacy director for Into the Woods (Studio 58), and movement consultant for Red Velvet (Arts Club). She completed her Intimacy Certification through Intimacy Directors and Coordinators and is a graduate of Studio 58.
Elizabeth McLaughlin
Dialect Coach
Elizabeth McLaughlin
Dialect Coach
Liz is a Canadian actor, voice/speech/dialect coach, and acting coach based in Vancouver. She has 38 years of experience with theatre, film, and business clients from across the globe. Elizabeth holds her MFA from George Washington University at the STC in Washington, D.C., and has studied Knight-Thompson Speech in New York. She believes in kind and respectful work for all. She is happy to be back at Gateway.
Oriana Camporese
Costume Supervisor
Oriana Camporese
Costume Supervisor
Oriana is a theatre costume professional with 15 years experience in many aspects of costume and wigs. She has worked with companies such as Arts Club, Bard on the Beach, East Van Cultural Centre, Vancouver Opera, and of course Gateway Theatre. Revisiting Baskerville after having done it in 2016 has been a trip, and I hope you enjoy this wonderful, silly show!
Chengyan Boon
Lighting Supervisor
Chengyan Boon
Lighting Supervisor
Chengyan is a lighting designer with ten years in the Vancouver theatre, dance and music scenes. A graduate of the UBC BFA Theatre Design and Production program and a member of IATSE ADC 659, his work has been seen before on the Gateway stage for Yoga Play (lighting/video), China Doll, and various productions with Gateway Academy. Other recent designs include Instantaneous Blue and Snowflake (Mitch and Murray Productions), The Messiah and Wakey Wakey (Pacific Theatre) and Mad Forest (Douglas College). Supporting shows of all shapes and sizes from diverse cultures is a privilege that he is thankful for every day.
Melissa Oei
Fight Captain
Melissa Oei
Fight Captain
Melissa is an accomplished actor and emerging director working in theatre for the past 15 years. Melissa previously appeared on the Gateway MainStage in Les Belles Soeurs and in Studio B for Long Division. Other recent credits include A Doll’s House Part 2 (Western Gold); Unexpecting (Zee Zee); The Cafe (Aphotic/Itsazoo); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bard). Melissa is a graduate of Studio 58. Melissa has always had a passion for theatre, and it is the greatest joy in life to perform on stage for a living!
Yanting Qiu
Translation for Surtitles
Yanting Qiu
Translation for Surtitles
Yanting Qiu is a first-generation Chinese immigrant theatre creator based in the unceded lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaɬ Nations. She is a producer, playwright, translator, and storyteller. As the co-founder of the Theatre as a Second Language Society, Yanting is working on building a community for culturally and linguistically diverse artists and audiences. Her first play translation for Gateway is The Forbidden Phoenix (2011) by Marty Chan. Yanting is proud to be working on Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery this time. She hopes that her translations capture the humour of this wonderful show and help more people enjoy it.
Philomena Sondergaard
Stage Manager
Philomena Sondergaard
Stage Manager
Philomena has been a professional stage manager in Vancouver for over 20 years; working in Dance, Theatre, and Live Events. Notable credits include Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Gateway Theatre); Someone Like You (Arts Club); Crazy for You (Royal City Musical Theatre); Cabaret (Raincity Theatre); Something Rotten (TUTS); Crystal Pite’s Betroffenheit (Kidd Pivot/Electric Company); Medhi Walerski’s Romeo and Juliet (Ballet BC); 2010 Vancouver Paralympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies (Patrick Roberge Productions). Philomena is grateful to live and work on the traditional and unceded lands of the Kwikwetlem, Katzie, Musqueam, Sto:lo, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
Scarlett Larry
Assistant Stage Manager
Scarlett Larry
Assistant Stage Manager
Scarlett is a stage manager and theatre creator based in Vancouver and Stratford. She has spent six seasons at The Stratford Festival in stage management, lighting design, and production administration. Favourite credits include stage manager of Letters From Max (Necessary Angel); stage manager/associate lighting designer of Kiviuq Returns: An Inuit Epic (Qaggiavuut, National Theatre of Greenland, Tarragon Theatre); writer/director of The Stage Manager’s Guide to Dating Assholes (self-produced at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Toronto Fringe Festival). Scarlett has an MA in Art History and BFA in Theatre Production from York University.
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