The Hound of the Baskervilles - TNT

Sherlock Holmes with a thick-as-sludge Spanish accent? Yes, that's what you get in Peepolykus's spoof on one of the detective's most popular murder mysteries. It's clever, it's exhausting (for the trio of talented performers, at least) and, with some amusing backtracking, it delivers the crucial elements of the already pretty preposterous story. Yet somehow, for all its skill and energy, this wackily enjoyable show can't quite match the impact of the currently showing tongue-in cheek version of The 39 Steps. That said, it's hard not to warm to Jason Thorpe (whether losing his clothes as the hound's next intended victim or playing a straw-sucking yokel), to co-adaptor John Nicholson's Watson (ineptly trying to solve the crime before the super-sleuth arrives), or to Javier Marzan's swift costume changes as he switches from Holmes to a suspect, his sister, the butler and his wife.
Duchess, Catherine St, WC2. 0870-890 1103. Until July 21

LOUISE KINGSLEY