A Sherlock Carol

By Mark Shanahan
Directed by Hannah Sayer
12th – 20th December 2025 at 8pm
Matinee on 20th at 2.30pm

Murder (maybe), mayhem (certainly) and Merry Cheer – what’s not to love.

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with the Dramatists Play Service (DPS).

After the Reichenbach Falls incident, the renowned Sherlock Holmes returns to London. But he’s not the same. Moriarty is dead – what does Sherlock do now? He’s lost the Napoleon to his Wellington, the Salieri to his Mozart, the (insert other great rival pair here). What’s to happen on the great chessboard of life when one doesn’t have a worthy opponent with whom to spar?

No-one can raise Holmes from his funk – until Tiny Tim turns up at the door, no longer tiny but all grown-up and convinced that his old mentor Ebenezer Scrooge (who’d turned his miserly ways around following that Christmas) has been murdered. Murder! Or is it? One thing’s for sure, there are foul, and fowl, things afoot. We follow the case, with a variety of colourful suspects, witnesses and spirited others. Throw in a goose or two and we have a party!

CAST & CREATIVE TEAM

Directed by
Hannah Sayer

CAST

Sherlock Holmes
Actor 4
Constable Bradstreet
Old Joe Brackenridge
Elderly Woman

CREATIVE TEAM

Production Manager
Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Set Design

MEDIA & REVIEWS​

A clever crowd-pleasing holiday comedy that also happens to be a murder mystery.
The New York Times
Delightful.
5/5
The Guardian
A fun mash-up of Dickens and Doyle.
Time Out New York

DON'T FORGET, COMING UP AT THE BARN SOON

CONTENT WARNING

Opening28th October
By Various Local Writers

 

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