# Miss Holmes - a gender-bending Sherlock Holmes play

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-holmes-a-gender-bending-sherlock-holmes-play/769694>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 25, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-holmes-a-gender-bending-sherlock-holmes-play/769694 "2016-10-25T17:00:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-holmes-a-gender-bending-sherlock-holmes-play/769694/1 "2016-10-25T17:00:22Z")

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Now showing at Lifeline Theatre in Chicago: [http://www.lifelinetheatre.com/performances/16-17/missholmes/](http://www.lifelinetheatre.com/performances/16-17/missholmes/)

Haven’t been, but a non-Doper friend just wrote me, “We saw it the other night, it was absolutely charming. There are some re-imaginings of Holmes that I find silly (or offensive), like the Robt Downey films, but this is great fun and absolutely true to the spirit of the original.”