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Pictured: Colin Cloud, the real life Sherlock Holmes, pays a visit to the Sherlock Holmes statue, Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Colin Cloud: One hundred thousand pounds – and a dare.

“If your Majesty would condescend to state your case,” he remarked, “I should be better able to advise you.”

The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground.

“You are right,” he cried; “I am the King. Why should I attempt to conceal it?”

- A Scandal in Bohemia, Arthur Conan Doyle. The Strand Magazine. July 1891

This is how Sherlock Holmes surprises his masked visitor by identifying him as the disguised Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein – the hereditary King of Bohemia – in Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Scandal in Bohemia.

After two novels, this was the first of 56 short stories featuring the great fictional detective, and features some of the best remembered elements of the legend of Sherlock Holmes: a noble client, disguises, clever tricks, a case that’s not quite as it seems, and The Woman, Irene Adler, who bested Sherlock Holmes with clever tricks and disguises of her own.

The game is afoot!

Leap ahead 126 years to where 2017’s real life Sherlock Holmes, Colin Cloud, brings a touch of Scandal to his new Edinburgh Festival Fringe show: Dare.

Like A Scandal in Bohemia, the recurring theme of Dare is masks and disguises.

Take the dare

In Dare, Colin Cloud asks: how much of our lives on social networks are real? How much of our online lives is a disguise?

Dare’s audiences are given the chance to hide their identity – and then to speak out, to say whatever they feel or recall their most daring tweet.

But in exchange for that truth, they must take the dare – submitting to Cloud's unerring mind-readi

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Colin Cloud | Edinburgh | 1 August 2017
!!!! FREE TO USE !!!! !!!! FREE TO USE !!!! !!!! FREE TO USE !!!! <br /> <br /> Pictured: Colin Cloud, the real life Sherlock Holmes, pays a visit to the Sherlock Holmes statue, Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland.<br /> <br /> Colin Cloud: One hundred thousand pounds – and a dare.<br /> <br /> “If your Majesty would condescend to state your case,” he remarked, “I should be better able to advise you.”<br /> <br /> The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground.<br /> <br /> “You are right,” he cried; “I am the King. Why should I attempt to conceal it?”<br /> <br /> - A Scandal in Bohemia, Arthur Conan Doyle. The Strand Magazine. July 1891<br /> <br /> This is how Sherlock Holmes surprises his masked visitor by identifying him as the disguised Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein – the hereditary King of Bohemia – in Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Scandal in Bohemia. <br /> <br /> After two novels, this was the first of 56 short stories featuring the great fictional detective, and features some of the best remembered elements of the legend of Sherlock Holmes: a noble client, disguises, clever tricks, a case that’s not quite as it seems, and The Woman, Irene Adler, who bested Sherlock Holmes with clever tricks and disguises of her own.<br /> <br /> The game is afoot!<br /> <br /> Leap ahead 126 years to where 2017’s real life Sherlock Holmes, Colin Cloud, brings a touch of Scandal to his new Edinburgh Festival Fringe show: Dare.<br /> <br /> Like A Scandal in Bohemia, the recurring theme of Dare is masks and disguises. <br /> <br /> Take the dare<br /> <br /> In Dare, Colin Cloud asks: how much of our lives on social networks are real? How much of our online lives is a disguise?<br /> <br /> Dare’s audiences are given the chance to hide their identity – and then to speak out, to say whatever they feel or recall their most daring tweet.<br /> <br /> But in exchange for that truth, they must take the dare – submitting to Cloud's unerring mind-readi