After last year’s fun and laughter, the Holmes Fest Show moves to the Theatre Royal for music, silliness, sketches and storytelling with an all-new show!
Join master of ceremonies Matt Wingett for a joyful Victorian Music-Hall variety night, celebrating 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.
This star-studded programme features:
Mark Wingett (The Bill, Quadrophenia, Eastenders), Hudson and LeStrade take you on a tour of Victorian music hall songs, side-splitting japes from The BBC Holmes Service, juggling derring-do, a Kinematographic extravaganza celebrating Portsmouth’s connections to Conan Doyle, and of course……Sherlock Holmes himself! Further acts tbc
PRIZES, PRIZES, PRIZES!
This night is YOUR chance to win a PRIZE! You are encouraged to wear Victorian / Edwardian clothing – The Best Dressed Victorian will receive a special prize!
Booking opens: 13/04/2026 10:00
