Hostess: (laughs) Are you enjoying being caught up in this? I mean, as I said, five years on television and now starring in West End?
Jeremy Brett: I have to confess; I’m basking in it now. I must – I didn’t enjoy it, I was very poorly for a while and I found it was an enormous strain to play. He’s a very dark, private man, and you have to really drain yourself out, because I’m much too ebullient for the part. You have to be very bloodless, and I found that a great strain. But now we’re in the theatre with this wonderful pink success, as I call it, umm, amazing response. And we’re taking it around the world, we’re playing till next September in - at Wyndham’s, and then we’re taking it very slowly around the world. I think we’re bringing it to Birmingham, I’m hoping. And, emm, and then I think Manchester and then the States. So it’s a lovely – yes, good time now.
Hostess: But anybody going to see it is not to expect a real whodunit.
Jeremy Brett: It’s all the deduction, it’s all the clues, but the case happens as the play ends. What you get is their relationship and you learn, during the course of the play, much more about them. There’s a lot of deduction, a lot of sleuthing, and then in the second half Jeremy Paul, our brilliant writer, has given us a coup d'état which is the secret. And it’s a part of Holmes’ life which has not been revealed. And it’s a very exciting, dramatic moment and I’m very happy that Ted’s on stage with me to get me off every night.
Hostess: Edward, your Dr. Watson in this is far more of a rounded, whole creature. Jeremy mentioned before that he’s very often played as a bit of a buffoon, a bit of a bumbler.