Sherlock Holmes review – the game is afoot, a stone’s throw from Baker Street

Mark Lawson
Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, London The detective and his sidekick return for a new case by Joel Horwood in an alfresco setting that playfully refers to nearby attractions Outdoor drama is a pleasure complicated by the plot twists of the season. A day of almost hourly showers left the evening air so ominously moist for Sherlock Holmes that the detective could reasonably have announced: “The rain’s afoot.” A deluge held off but gave way to such coldness that the smoke and dry ice in the produc