“Mysterious Circumstances” at the Geffen is a brain-teasing confection.
The play takes its name and inspiration from a 2004 New Yorker, an investigation of the death of a Conan Doyle expert named Richard Lancelyn Green. It’s a paragon of New Yorker stories: a tantalizing glimpse into a strange world populated by passionate oddballs — in this case the surprisingly cutthroat culture of amateur Holmes scholarship — exactingly researched and unspooled for the reader with linguistic flair and page-turning suspense.
Alan Tudyk also plays Arthur Conan Doyle expert Richard Lancelyn Green, second from right, surrounded here by other Conan Doyle fanatics played by, from left, Hugo Armstrong, Helen Sadler and Leo Marks. Conan Doyle and Green are both depicted as lonely, for different reasons; the play suggests that they used the logical, emotionally unavailable Holmes as a shield against heartbreak. Unfortunately, onstage their thwarted human love affairs come across as so insipid and thin, at least compared to the pyrotechnics of their Holmesian adventures, that their obsessions don’t seem that tragic.
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