Birmingham Rep has announced the complete cast for the World Premiere of the much anticipated play with-songs, Sherlock Holmes and The Twelve Days of Christmas, written by Humphrey Ker and David Reed, with original songs by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Joining the already announced Humphrey Ker and David Reed as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, John Kearns (Never Mind the Buzzocks, Taskmaster, 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown), as Lestrade and Margaret Cabourn-Smith (Cheaters, Motherland, Miranda, Daddy Issues on BBC) as Mrs Hudson are: Christian Andrews (Operation Mincemeat, Fanny & Stella) as Fafner, Susan Harrison (BAFTA award winning Class Dismissed) as Ernie, Cameron Johnson (Here We Are - NT, Guys and Dolls - Bridge Theatre, Nativity - The Rep) as Arthur Stone, Amanda Lindgren (Six, Aladdin) in the Chorus, Mia Overfield (David Walliams’ Demon Dentist - Old Rep, Jack in the Beanstalk - York Theatre Royal) in the Chorus, Andrew Pugsley (Showstopper: The Improvised Musical, Game Theory) as Wotan, Chomba S Taulo (The Book of Mormon – West End, Pretty Woman The Musical - Zurich) in the Chorus, Deborah Tracey (Mrs Phelps - RSC’s Matilda the Musical - West End, Standing at the Sky’s Edge – Sheffield, NT and recipient of an Honorary Fellowship from the Birmingham Conservatoire) as Queen Victoria and Helena Wilson (The Estate - NT and The Hills of California - West End and Broadway), as Athena Faversham.

Sherlock Holmes and the Twelve Days of Christmas will be directed by Phillip Breen with Becky Hope Palmer. Phillip Breen recently adapted and directed Red or Dead (Royal Court Liverpool), Anna Karenina at Chichester Festival Theatre and King Lear (Theatre Cocoon, Tokyo). His previous credits include  Crime and Punishment in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong Arts Festivaland The Comedy of Errors for the RSC. Becky Hope-Palmer’s credits include Letters to Our Future Government for Traverse Theatre, Romeo and Juliet for Petersfield Shakespeare Festival and Bridezilla and the Orchard of Sin for The Traverse Theatre/Play and a Pint.

It’s Christmas in Victorian London but in the West End - where dreams come true and nothing bad ever happens - a flurry of performers are suddenly dying mid-scene. Scotland Yard rules out foul play...  until the world’s greatest consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, discovers an intriguing link to The Twelve Days of Christmas. The game is afoot!

Racing against the clock to save French Hens, find Gold Rings and rescue Mother Goose, Sherlock plunges himself into mortal danger.  Will this really be the last stand for our hero or will his trusty sidekick Dr Watson and rival hotshot detective Athena Faversham ensure he lives to consume another Christmas Pudding...?

Sherlock Holmes and The Twelve Days of Christmas runs at Birmingham Rep from 14 November - 18 January 2026. Tickets go on sale at birmingham-rep.co.uk