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The Crucifer of Blood is a play by Paul Giovanni

Paul Giovanni

Paul Giovanni was an American playwright, actor, director, singer and musician. New Yorker Giovanni is best known for writing the music for the 1973 British horror film The Wicker Man...

that is adapted from the Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger...

story The Sign of the Four. It depicts the character Irene St. Claire hiring the detective Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...

to investigate the travails that her father and his three compatriots suffered over a pact made over a cursed treasure chest in colonial India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857

Indian Rebellion of 1857

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to...

Broadway production

The play, directed by the author, opened on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre

Helen Hayes Theatre

Helen Hayes Theatre with 597 seats is the smallest Broadway theatre and is located at 240 West 44th Street in midtown-Manhattan....

on September 28, 1978 and ran for 236 performances.

The production was nominated for four Tony Award

Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...

s including Giovanni

Paul Giovanni

Paul Giovanni was an American playwright, actor, director, singer and musician. New Yorker Giovanni is best known for writing the music for the 1973 British horror film The Wicker Man...

for Best Direction of a Play

Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play

The Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play has been given since 1960. Before 1960 there was only one award for both play direction and musical direction, then in 1960 the award was split into two categories: Dramatic and Musical. In 1976 the Dramatic category was renamed to Play...

and won the award for Roger Morgan's lighting design. It also received Drama Desk Award

Drama Desk Award

The Drama Desk Awards, which are given annually in a number of categories, are the only major New York theater honors for which productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway compete against each other in the same category...

s for Morgan as well as for John Wulp

John Wulp

John Wulp is an American scenic designer, producer, and director. Wulp won a Tony Award for Best Revival for his production of Dracula in 1978. He also received a Tony Award nomination and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design for his designs in the 1979 production of The Crucifer of...

's scenic design.

Cast

Paxton Whitehead

Paxton Whitehead is a British actor who made his professional debut in 1956. Whitehead is best known to American movie audiences as Professor Phillip Barbay in the 1986 comedy film Back to School.-Early years:...

- Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Glenn Close

Glenn Close is an American actress and singer of theatre and film, known for her roles as a femme fatale Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress and singer of theatre and film, known for her roles as a femme fatale Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress and...

- Irene St. Claire

Christopher Curry - Jonathan Small

Andrew Davis - Mohammed Singh & Mordecai Smith

Martin LaPlatney - Hopkins

Timothy Landfield - John Watson, M.D.

John Watson (Sherlock Holmes)

John H. Watson, M.D. , known as Dr. Watson, is a character in the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Watson is Sherlock Holmes's friend, assistant and sometime flatmate, and is the first person narrator of all but four stories in the Sherlock Holmes canon.-Name:Doctor Watson's first...

Melvin Lum - Fung Tching, A Chinaman

Tuck Milligan - Wali Dad & Birdy Johnson

Roumel Reaux - Tonga

Dwight Schultz

Dwight Schultz

William Dwight Schultz is an American stage, television, film actor, and voice artist. He is best known for his roles as Captain "Howling Mad" Murdock on the 1980s action show The A-Team, and as Reginald Barclay in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, and the film Star Trek: First...

- Major Alistair Ross

Nicolas Surovy - Captain Neville St. Claire

Edward Zang - Durga Dass & Inspector Lestrade

London production

The play, directed by the author, opened in London

London

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at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on March 15, 1979 and ran for 397 performances.

Cast

Keith Michell

Keith Michell is an Australian actor, particularly noted for his television and film performances as King Henry VIII of England.- Early life :He was born in Adelaide and brought up in Warnertown, near Port Pirie...

- Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Susan Hampshire

Susan Hampshire, Lady Kulukundis, OBE is an English actress, best-known for her many television and film roles.-Early life:Susan Hampshire was born in Kensington, London, the youngest of four children. She had two sisters and one brother...

- Irene St. Claire

Nicholas Day - Jonathan Small

Geoffrey Snell - Mohammed Singh & Mordecai Smith

James Curran - Hopkins

Denis Lill

Denis Lill

Denis Lill is a New Zealand-born British actor.Some of his many film and television roles include Fall of Eagles , Edward the Seventh , Survivors , The Scarlet Pimpernel , as William Knox d-Arcy, the Australian oil pioneer in Persia, in Reilly: Ace of Spies , Rumpole of the Bailey , Mapp &...

- John Watson, M.D.

John Watson (Sherlock Holmes)

Klim Leh T'Chei - Fung Tching, a Chinaman

Billy McColl - Wali Dad & Birdy Johnson

Reis Etan - Tonga

John Quentin - Major Alistair Ross

Edward Petherbridge

Edward Petherbridge

Edward Petherbridge is a British actor. Among his many roles, he portrayed Lord Peter Wimsey in several screen adaptations of Dorothy L...

- Captain Neville St. Claire

John Cater

John Cater

John Edward Cater was an English actor.His television credits include: Danger Man, Z Cars, The Avengers, The Baron, Doctor Who , Follyfoot, Softly, Softly, Department S, Up Pompeii!, Dad's Army, The Naked Civil Servant, I, Claudius, Alcock and Gander, The Duchess of...

- Durga Dass & Inspector Lestrade

Los Angeles production

The play, directed by the author, premiered in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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at the Ahmanson Theatre

Ahmanson Theatre

The Ahmanson Theatre is one of the four main venues that comprise the Los Angeles Music Center.Through the generosity of philanthropist Robert H. Ahmanson, construction began on March 9, 1962. The theatre opened on April 12, 1967 with a production of More Stately Mansions starring Ingrid Bergman,...

in the Los Angeles Music Center

Los Angeles Music Center

The Music Center is one of the three largest performing arts centers in the nation. Located in downtown Los Angeles, the Music Center is home to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ahmanson Theater, Mark Taper Forum and Walt Disney Concert Hall...

on December 5, 1980 and ran through January 17, 1981. A notable feature of this production was that Jeremy Brett

Jeremy Brett

Jeremy Brett , born Peter Jeremy William Huggins, was an English actor, most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in four Granada TV series.-Early life:...

, who later became one of the most famous impersonators of Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

, played Dr. Watson

John Watson (Sherlock Holmes)

Cast

Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston was an American actor of film, theatre and television. Heston is known for heroic roles in films such as The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, El Cid, and Planet of the Apes...

- Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Suzanne Lederer - Irene St. Claire

Christopher Curry - Jonathan Small

J. Christopher O'Connor - Mohammed Singh

Richard Denison - Hopkins

Jeremy Brett

Jeremy Brett

Jeremy Brett , born Peter Jeremy William Huggins, was an English actor, most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in four Granada TV series.-Early life:...

- John Watson, M.D.

John Watson (Sherlock Holmes)

Liu Han T'Seng - Fung Tching, a Chinaman

Ronald Dennis - Tonga

Dwight Schultz

Dwight Schultz

- Major Alistair Ross

Ian Abercrombie

Ian Abercrombie

Ian Abercrombie is an English actor, best known for playing Alfred Pennyworth in Birds of Prey. He appeared as Elaine Benes' boss Justin Pitt during the sixth season of Seinfeld, and as a fastidious butler on Desperate Housewives.-Biography:He is the cousin of John Abercrombie, a jazz guitarist of...

- Durga Dass & Inspector Lestrade

Alan Coates - Captain Neville St. Claire

Tuck Milligan - Wali Dad & Birdy Johnson

C. Edward Pogue - Mordecai Smith

Film

The play was filmed for Turner Network Television

Turner Network Television

Turner Network Television is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner...

and first broadcast on November 4, 1991. The cast featured Heston

Charlton Heston

as Holmes, Richard Johnson

Richard Johnson (actor)

Richard Johnson is an English actor, writer and producer, who starred in several British films of the 1960s and has also had a distinguished stage career. He most recently appeared in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.-Life and career:...

as Watson, John Castle

John Castle

John Castle is an English actor. Castle has acted in theatre, film and television. He is well known for his role as Postumus in the 1976 BBC television adaptation of I, Claudius and for playing Geoffrey in the 1968 film, The Lion in Winter. He also played Dr...

as St. Clair, Edward Fox

Edward Fox

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as Ross, Simon Callow

Simon Callow

Simon Phillip Hugh Callow, CBE is an English actor, writer and theatre director. He is also currently a judge on Popstar to Operastar.-Early years:...

as Inspector Lestrade, and Susannah Harker

Susannah Harker

Susannah Harker is an English film, television, and theatre actor. She is the daughter of English actress Polly Adams and actor Richard Owens, and the great-niece of Gordon Adams. She was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award in 1990 for her role as Mattie Storin in House of Cards...

as Irene St. Claire, and was directed by Heston's son Fraser Clarke Heston

Fraser Clarke Heston

Fraser Clarke Heston is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor. The son of actors Charlton Heston and Lydia Clarke, Fraser Clarke Heston was born in Los Angeles, California....

External links

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