By Michele Markarian
Miss Holmes – Written by Christopher M. Walsh; Based on characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle. Directed by Weylin Symes. Presented by Greater Boston Stage Company, 395 Main Street, Stoneham, through April 22.
Dorothy Watson (Brittany Rolfs) is a doctor who has managed to survive the infamous Surgeon’s Hill Riot in Edinburgh, where women scheduled to take their medical exams were harassed and assaulted by a protesting mob. She now works in a female-run hospital in London. Covered in blood from a surgery, she considers the proposal of her suitor, Dr. Michael Stamford (Patrick Varner), who offers “…a chance to put all of this unpleasantness behind you”. A chance meeting with Wilhelmina “Sherlock” Holmes (Marge Dunn) alters the course of Dr. Watson’s life, even as she resists it. The somewhat Asperger-y Holmes has a penchant for solving crime, much to the agitation of her brother, Mycroft Holmes (Alexander Platt). When a woman, Lizzie Chapman (Monica Giordano) comes to Sherlock with anonymous letters warning her to beware of her husband, law-enforcer Thomas Chapman (Daniel Berger-Jones), Holmes’s curiosity is piqued and the adventure begins.
