Sherlock Holmes at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre: A garbled take

Since Arthur Conan Doyle was a spiritualist who believed in life after death, it’s possible that this garbled take on his famous detective is designed to drag the author, shrieking, from the grave. Joel Horwood’s script, loosely based on his story The Sign of Four, is an uneasy mix of postmodernism and panto, almost every line delivered with clownish, tongue-in-cheek irony. I’d assume it was aimed at younger theatregoers if it weren’t for the f-words and drug use.