This a creative team you wouldn’t want to bet against. Take two members of the award-winning sketch comedy troupe, The Penny Dreadfuls, and add the songwriting duo behind Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, and you aren’t going to go wrong, are you?
Written by Humphrey Ker and David Reed, with original songs by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, ‘Sherlock Holmes and the Twelve Days of Christmas’ will make its world premiere at the Birmingham Rep this winter (November 14 to January 11). Are you ready to see the world’s greatest detective in action in this new comedy play?
Set in Victorian London, a flurry of performers are suddenly dying mid-scene in the West End. Scotland Yard rules out foul play, but when Sherlock Holmes discovers an intriguing link to The Twelve Days of Christmas, the game is afoot! Suddenly it’s a race against time to save three French Hens, five Gold Rings and a Partridge in a Pear Tree, with his trusty sidekick Dr Watson and rival detective Athena Faversham.
“There are few things that put us more in the mood for Christmas than all piling into the theatre for some much-needed festive cheer,” said David Reed and Humphrey Ker, whose combined writing credits include Mythic Quest, If I Were You, Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher, Daddy Issues, It’s Kevin and The Real History of Sex.
“And what could be cheerier than a series of brutal murders underscored by a few new bangers from the mighty duo of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber? Huge thanks to Birmingham Rep for letting us show everybody what we’ve been cooking up with Sherlock Holmes and The Twelve Days of Christmas – without a doubt our biggest, daftest and most riotous show yet.”
Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber added: “Sherlock Holmes and The Twelve Days of Christmas is pure mischief. It has the exuberance of a Christmas tree, the joy of a panto and a plot worthy of Conan Doyle. It’s wonderful to be working together again on something so unashamedly fun.”
To get your tickets to ‘Sherlock Holmes and the Twelve Days of Christmas’ head here.