{"id":398063,"date":"2025-09-04T19:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398063\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T19:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:45:12","slug":"festive-show-extends-run-at-birmingham-rep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398063\/","title":{"rendered":"Festive show extends run at Birmingham Rep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/68b9d1bd14484.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Birmingham Rep\u2019s highly anticipated\u00a0world premiere of\u00a0\u2018Sherlock Holmes and\u00a0the\u00a0Twelve Days of Christmas\u2019\u00a0has been extended to mid-January due to popular demand.\n        <\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0brand\u00a0new\u00a0play, penned by writing duo\u00a0Humphrey Ker\u00a0and\u00a0David Reed,\u00a0and featuring\u00a0original songs by the legendary musical theatre duo\u00a0Tim Rice\u00a0and\u00a0Andrew Lloyd\u00a0Webber,\u00a0opens\u00a0at The Rep on Friday 14 November and will now\u00a0run until Sunday 18 January 2026 \u2013 an additional week of performances added.<\/p>\n<p>As well as writing this brand-new comedy whodunnit,\u00a0Humphrey Ker\u00a0and David Reed\u00a0also star as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson\u00a0respectively and\u00a0are joined by\u00a0award-winning comedian and actor\u00a0John Kearns\u00a0as Inspector Lestrade and comedy actress and podcaster\u00a0Margaret Cabourn-Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Sherlock Holmes and the Twelve Days of Christmas will be directed by\u00a0Phillip Breen\u00a0with\u00a0Becky Hope-Palmer. The\u00a0creative team\u00a0also\u00a0includes\u00a0Mark\u00a0Bailey (designer),\u00a0Anna Watson\u00a0(lighting designer) and Georgina Lamb\u00a0(movement).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The story centres on Christmas in Victorian London, where in the West End &#8211; where dreams come true and nothing bad ever happens &#8211; a flurry of performers are suddenly dying mid-scene. Scotland Yard rules out foul play until the world\u2019s greatest consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, discovers an intriguing link to\u00a0The Twelve Days of Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Racing against the clock to save French Hens, find Gold Rings and rescue Mother Goose, Sherlock plunges himself into mortal danger.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, or to book tickets, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham-rep.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">birmingham-rep.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0or call the Box Office on 0121 236 4455.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham Rep\u2019s highly anticipated\u00a0world premiere of\u00a0\u2018Sherlock Holmes and\u00a0the\u00a0Twelve Days of Christmas\u2019\u00a0has been extended to mid-January due to popular&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[22440,22441,855,9163,22439,748,9444,1354,393,9453,4884,14987,269,12,3669,9440,93,16823,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-398063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-102-5","9":"tag-102-5-fm","10":"tag-birmingham","11":"tag-black-country","12":"tag-brierley-hill","13":"tag-britain","14":"tag-dab","15":"tag-dudley","16":"tag-england","17":"tag-fm","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-halesowen","20":"tag-music","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-online","23":"tag-radio","24":"tag-sport","25":"tag-stourbridge","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115147749772528740","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}