The supporting cast of “Baskerville” was astonishingly versatile. Each played multiple characters with hilarious specificity employing estimable comic timing. And what made it all so delightful was spoofing known cultural references. There were shades of the lunatic best from popular culture touchstones—as if Conan Doyle’s prose somehow had a ménage à trois with the Carol Burnett Show and the insane, inane world of Mel Brooks. But Ms. Pekar, as the lone female, was a singular presence. She got to run the gamut from spit and snarl through a series of perfect, delicious accents to a scarlet-gowned love interest who indeed stopped one character at first sight as he dissolved mid-sentence with “my lord, you have beautiful eyes.” It was a master class in comedic character acting. kellypekar.com
This article appears in Best of The Bay 2023.
