Friday, January 03, 2025
“A Sherlock Carol” at Kinetic Theatre Company
The Pittsburgh Tatler: Dear Reader, if you’ve been keeping track, then you might note that this is the fourth Christmas-related production I’ve written about in the last month or so. You’d think that so much holiday entertainment would have me fully in the Christmas spirit, but given that a) I don’t celebrate the holiday and b) even if I did, November gave us a coal in our collective stocking, I’m instead feeling rather bah-humbuggish.
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The plot of this The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and A Christmas Carol mash-up sounds really cool. I am a big fan of the Holmes stories and the character of Sherlock, having read all the stories and novels and watched many a movie and TV show adaptation. What is most interesting to me about the intertwining of these universes, and specifically the use of Sherlock as a Scrooge 2.0, is the comparison between the characters of Sherlock and Scrooge. In A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is consistently “bah-humbuggish” until he sees the future. He makes some progress as he sees the past and present, but always returns to his comfortable “I don’t care” position. The character of Sherlock Holmes, on the other hand, bounces between glee and pique, the former while solving a case and the latter between cases. His consistency comes from the drastic changes in his attitude with a consistent reason. Scrooge changes in the end of A Christmas Carol, but with Sherlock’s characterization I would be reticent about whether the “change” is real or a result of the same back-and-forth behavior. I would be curious to see this show and discover how they address these character differences and the end of the story.
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