Will the Real Sherlock Holmes Please Stand Up? by Mimi Okabe

“It’s elementary, Watson”... or is it. Jeffrey Hatcher’s “Holmes and Watson” kept me on the tip of my toes in guessing the real identity of Sherlock Holmes for two hours. But the real mystery is much deeper and far more intricate than I had predicted (cue in dramatic, Dun! Dun! Dunn!). Hatcher’s play features not one, but three very different versions of Sherlock Holmes played by Ted Powers, Lawrence Stevenson and Jospeh Van Deen. For those who have read Sherlock Holmes’s so-called “come back” story, “The Adventure of the Empty House” (1903), you would know which of the three Sherlock Holmes is the “real” one, but Hatcher’s play tests and plays with your knowledge of what you think you know of the Sherlockian canon and its characters.


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Our Mentor-morphosis! A Workshop for the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning Conference 2021 by Mimi Okabe

From May 3rd to May 5th, I participated in the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning Conference that brought together a diverse crowd, but all who were passionate to share their experience, knowledge and stories of what it means to be a mentor in line with this year’s conference theme, “Mentorship in Higher Education.” Click to learn more!!

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