The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter
“The Diogenes Club is the queerest club in London, and Mycroft one of the queerest men.”
From The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, “The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter” is a tale of trepidatious translations, dire kidnappings, and Sherlock Holmes’s extended family. GREE is our first introduction to the infamous Mycroft Holmes, and it’s on Doyle’s list of favorite Holmes tales.
We discuss the true hero of this story (spoiler alert, he’s mentioned in it’s title), how Mycroft is really life goals, how Granada Holmes lets us down, and how all good dramas should end in a stabbing in today’s episode!
Listen to our narration:
This story is narrated by Yianni Papadimos. Yianni is a Greek-American actor and writer. His favorite credits include Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Barnstormers Theatre), Matt in Swimming Upstream (Detroit Repertory Theatre, World Premiere), and Ira Stone in Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Barnstormers Theatre). Onscreen, Papadimos has been featured in projects that have premiered across the country. Favorite credits include The Tankhouse Theatre (2018 SeriesFest) and Better To Live (2015 TriBeCa Film Festival).
His first full-length musical, co-written with Ben Chavez (The Cobalteans), was an official selection of the 2015 New York Musical Festival. He received awards for Outstanding Book and Outstanding Lyrics. Elysium: An American Fable, the team’s second full-length musical, has been developed at the Village Theatre (Issaquah, WA), Ohio Northern University (Ada, OH), and the Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival (Auburn, NY). Their work has been featured at NYC venues such as Feinstein’s/54 Below, The Musical Theatre Factory, The Laurie Beechman Theatre, Dixon Place, and Don’t Tell Mama.
He proudly holds a BFA in Drama and English Literature from NYU.
Further reading:
Mycroft Holmes, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse
The Italian Secretary, Caleb Carr
Against the Brotherhood: A Mycroft Holmes Novel and other novels by Quinn Fawcett
Enola Holmes book series, Nancy Springer
Music credit: The songs “Denmark (Live)” by the Portland Cello Project and Etude Op. 10, no. 4 in C sharp minor -(Torrent) by Frédéric Chopin are featured with an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).