Order your Holmes Fest tickets from the Groundlings Theatre here:
Holmes Fest Dates and Times:
WEDS 20th & THURS 21st NOVEMBER 2024
DOORS OPEN: 7:00pm
SHOW COMMENCES: 7.30pm
TICKETS: £15
IT’S BACK! BY POPULAR DEMAND!
Join local author Matt Wingett and friends on a joyful Victorian Music-Hall-like celebration of the life and times of Portsmouth’s world-renowned author Arthur Conan Doyle – who created Sherlock Holmes while he lived in Southsea!
Actors, musicians, writers and Doyle fans present sketches, stories, poems and songs in a night of fun and surprises.
For you in this star-studded programme:
- a hilarious reading by actor Mark Wingett (The Bill, Quadrophenia, Eastenders)
- fabulous music from comedy duo Hudson and LeStrade – including The Holmes Fest Anthem
- a side-splitting sketch from The BBC Holmes Service
- Mrs Hudson will reveal the real story of what it’s really like to live with Sherlock
- an eccentric and very silly account of the Browndown duel by The Gosport Steampunk Society
- in a feat previously unknown to humankind, MC AC Doyle will rap the life of the great writer
- enjoy a kinematographic extravaganza celebrating Portsmouth’s connections to Sherlock
- an appearance by none other than Sherlock Holmes himself
SO, HOW ABOUT JOINING IN THE FUN!?
– You are encouraged to wear Victorian / period clothing – though it’s not required there will be a PRIZE for the Best Dressed Victorian!
There will be a 20 minute interval.
Refreshments available from the bar, and books, art and other items will be available to buy.
PLEASE NOTE: THE LAST TIME WE RAN THIS SHOW IT SOLD OUT. BOOK NOW TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT!
Box Office: 02392 737370 | www.groundlings.co.uk
Groundlings Theatre, 42 Kent Street, Portsmouth, PO1 3BS