It’s spring of 2021 in London, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous sleuth and sidekick are about to meet.

But this time they’re women.

In playwright Kate Hamill’s “Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson, Apt. 2B,” Dr. Joan Watson, a recent divorcee, absconds to London after her perfectly ordered life has collapsed due to the pandemic. There she meets Sherlock Holmes, a genius, loner detective, the Felix to her Oscar, the yin to her yang, and the two become roommates and buddies.

The comedy kicks off the Fine Arts Center Theatre Company’s new season with previews Thursday and Friday at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College. The show opens Saturday and runs through Oct. 5.

“The play is packed with our collective longing to have fun with other people that we were experiencing in 2021,” s

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