Playwright Ken Ludwig s popular take on Sherlock Holmes, "The Game s Afoot or Holmes for the Holidays," opens a three-week run at Brenham s Unity Theatre on Thursday night.
The thing about FAR EAST is the emotional stakes are never high. Unlike MADAME BUTTERFLY where we are faced with a scorned woman and an illegitimate child, here we never see the soldier’s Japanese lover. And contrasted with FROM HERE TO ETERNITY where an affair is consummated on a wildly active beach, the soldier and his captain’s wife merely brush against each other almost politely rather than passionately.