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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black"><FONT size=3>If
imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, than a spoof – such as the one
currently on stage at Actors’ Summit in Akron -- must be a backhanded
compliment. <SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black"><FONT size=3>“The Hound
of the Baskervilles” is a recent send-up of the notoriously somber piece of
turn-of-the-20<SUP>th</SUP> century fiction of the same name by Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In it, Sherlock Holmes
investigates a murder at Baskerville Hall to determine if, as locals claim, the
family is cursed by a supernatural hound that has been killing for
centuries.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black">British playwrights
<SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Steven Canny and
John Nicholson </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #222222">condense and poke fun
at the novel’s gothic plot points and play each </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black">anal-retentive deduction
by its hero for a laugh.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And with
all this delivered through vaudevillian slapstick and assorted slap-shtick, it
is a cheap laugh at that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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is a bona fide artistic choice and it is certainly one way to go to entertain an
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