Bigfork Community Players’ Sherlock Holmes parody in final weekend

The Bigfork Community Players present their final weekend of their parody of the Sherlock Holmes classic “The Hound of the Baskervilles.”

A combination of farce, parody and mystery, the play was written by a three-person comedy company often compared to the Marx Brothers and Monty Python.

First, it’s the mystery of the Hound of the Baskervilles, a fearsome tale of a spectral hound pursuing its victims to their graves. But it’s also the story of three enterprising actors trying to make a fast buck by playing all 15 roles in the story by themselves, including false starts and production glitches.

The cast includes David Vale, Ethan Waltman and Scott Roskam. Michele Shapero directs the production.

“It’s supposed to be a scripted play that looks like part of it is improvised,” Vale said. “But when these actors get wound up, there’s rarely a performance where they don’t do something unexpected.”

Performances take place at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 29 and 30; and 2 p.m. Sunday, May 1, at the Bigfork Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are available at the Pocketstone Cafe, Bigfork Drug, at the door, and online at bigforkcommunityplayers.com.