Kinetic Theatre is Staging ‘A Sherlock Carol’ (Sun., 12/15/24)

A SHERLOCK CAROL (comedy) by Mark Shanahan, from the Dickens story as well as from a mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  Kinetic Theatre. December 13 – 22.

Dickens’ A Christmas Carol has been adapted, satirized, and restaged to fit so many different eras, it should come as no mystery that a new version follows the genre of another great English author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. So when a grown up Tiny Tim comes to seek the assistance of master detective Sherlock Holmes, we have not one, but two great Christmas presents to open this holiday. Dickens literarily meets Doyle when Ebenezer Scrooge is found dead. We know the killer is not the notorious Dr. Moriarty, because he too is dead, a matter which still haunts Holmes. Yet a great mystery is suddenly afoot amidst a festive feast of holiday fun. In this comic romp, performed by seven actors, come deduce which culprit has cooked his goose. Kinetic Theatre promises a Dickens of a mystery. Henry Heymann Theater in the Stephen Foster Memorial located at 4301 Forbes Avenue, Oakland. 5:30 p.m. (C.P.O.) 

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