Pyramus and Thisbe Productions

Pyramus and Thisbe Productions is Scottish based theatre company, created by actor and director Dominic Goodwin, and based in Dumfries. The company has been set up to promote the work of Dominic as well as Leeds playwright Stuart Fortey.

Dominic Goodwin

Tours include “Up Frankie” (as Frankie Howerd), “The Mystery of Irma Vep”, “Not About Heroes”, “Wind in the Willows”, “Holmes and Watson-The Farewell Tour”, “The Lost World”, “Frankenstein Live” etc.

Dominic was for three glorious years the resident Dame at the Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond. Credits: “Mother Goose”, “Sinbad” and “Babes in the Wood”.

Directing credits include "Whose Shoes", by Mike Kenny (for Ratatat Theatre Company) "Dane Leno The King's Jester" by Tony Lidington for Prom Prom Productions and Georgian Theatre Royal and many performances for Angus and Ross Theatre Company. 

Stuart Fortey (Playwright)

An established playwright, Stuart has published two detective novels, A "Scandal in Scarborough: The First Paget Brothers Mystery" and "The Diva in the Duck Pond", both of which are available via Amazon or Lulu.com.

His biggest success on the stage has been "Holmes & Watson: The Farewell Tour", which has so far clocked up over 275 performances, touring to venues in England and Scotland. A sequel, "Holmes & Mrs Hudson: For One Night Only", is in preparation.

Stuart’s play "A House by the Sea" was performed at BAC in London in 1994 and broadcast on Radio 4 in 1997, starring Ciaran Hinds, Kate Buffery, Helena Bonham Carter and Julian Rhind-Tutt.

A new collection of Stuart's World War One plays has recently been published:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/KAISER-Scarborough-Front-Three-First/dp/B08LJQDP4D/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=stuart+fortey+kaiser&qid=1611511690&sr=8-1

2024:

The Return of Stuart Fortey's comedy:

Holmes and Watson: The Farewell Tour!

(The 15th Anniversary tour)

Tuesday 11 June, 7.30pm

Leyburn Methodist Church

Wednesday 12 June, 7.30pm

Seven Arts, Leeds

Thursday 13 June, 7.30pm

York Explore

Friday 14 June, 7.30pm

North Ferriby Village Hall

Thursday 5 September, 7.30pm

Crichton Central, Dumfries

https://www.crichton.co.uk/event/holmes-and-watson-the-farewell-tour/

Saturday 7 September, 7.30pm

Glencairn Memorial Institute, Moniaive, Dumfries and Galloway

Ticket info: TBA

17-22 September:

Dates for The Gaiety on Tour (Ayr) 

17 Sep: Ochiltree Community Hub

18 Sep: Barr Community Hall

19 Sep: Sorn Village Hall

20 Sep: Dailly Community Hall

21 Sep: Maybole Town Hall

22 Sep: Mossblown Community Centre

https://thegaiety.co.uk/comedy/

 And for 2025 and 2026

Holmes and Mrs Hudson: 

For One Night Only

by Stuart Fortey
Thrill with excitement as Sherlock Holmes and his landlady Mrs Hudson reconstruct for your entertainment The Case of the Frivolous Vicars! Try and deduce who killed Constance McMerryweather in the vicarage garden with a quoits spike! Deprived of his usual sidekick Dr Watson, Sherlock teams up with Mrs Hudson, who proves more than equal to the task in hand.

Father Brown and the Femme Fatale

by Stuart Fortey

Father Brown and his trusty landlady team up to solve a crime on a film set deep in the Yorkshire Dales...

Tour schedules to be announced in the coming months.

The Kaiser and I

by Stuart Fortey 

It's Berlin, 1914, and the music has to stop. Kaiser Wilhelm has summoned a dance instructress from England to put his officers through their paces, but now war is only days away…

From ballroom to battlefield and beyond, this two-hander charts the friendship of a man and a woman caught in their nations' crossfire.

Winner of the 2002 Buxton Festival Fringe Best Drama Award

“An unusual story . . . a wonderfully written play skilfully combining humour and stark moments of wrenching sadness”

Buxton Fringe Review

Joining Dominic for the tour was Pickering based actress Cal Stockbridge:

Cal has been acting for more years than she cares to remember! Credits include tours of “Wreckers” by Tom Needham, “My Fat Friend” and “Duet for One” (both alongside Dominic Goodwin). Cal also produced the first tour of Clap Trap productions WW1 play “Not About Heroes” in 2008.The Kaiser and I tours the UK June and July 2018, with a further limited run in October 2018.

The play toured to:

Pickering, Filey, Lincoln, Helmsley, Moffat, Whithorn, Richmond (North Yorks), Barton-Upon-Humber and Malton.

 Holmes and Watson: The Farewell Tour! by Stuart Fortey
Holmes and Watson are brought to life by Julian Finnigan and Dominic Goodwin as they re-enact one of the detective's most baffling unrecorded cases - The Case of the Prime Minister, the Floozie and the Lummock Rock Lighthouse!It's an affair upon whose outcome the security of Europe once hung by a thread, and shrouded in secrecy until now. The case has finally been approved by the government for public disclosure. It is understood that Mr Holmes has been entrusted by Her Majesty with the conveyance to the Tower of London of the fabled Satsuma Stone, stolen from the crown of William of Orange in the seventeenth century, and only recently discovered in Europe. One can only be thankful that Professor James Moriarty, the Napoleon of crime, fell to his death at the Reichenbach Falls. Or is he still alive, planning another deadly strike as he lurks, unseen, in the wings...?Written by Stuart Fortey, Directed by David Robertson it's fast paced entertainment and will provide many a titter! This is your final chance to catch Holmes and Watson as they embark on their farewell tour. Don't miss them. It's elementary!!
“Julian Finnigan and Dominic Goodwin respectively as Holmes and Watson give an outstanding performance. Finnigan excels as the straight man Holmes whilst Goodwin’s Watson is sheer comic excellence. A truly magnificent production guided through the hands of two masters of comedy on stage.”   Broadway Baby 

275 performances from 2009 to 2022!

And still more to come!