Factory International in Manchester has announced its new season for 2025, including brand new play Sherlock Holmes A New Adventure.
Sherlock Holmes A New Adventure will run at Factory International’s home in Manchester, Aviva Studios, in autumn 2025, ahead of West End and Broadway runs.
Written by British writing team Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel (The Girl on the Train, The Da Vinci Code), the play will be directed by Tony and Olivier Award-winner Rob Ashford (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Macbeth, Anna Christie), with choreography by Olivier Award-winner Akram Khan (DESH, Until the Lions).
Sherlock Holmes A New Adventure will be staged as a mystery within a mystery, with the case presented to Holmes forcing him to confront his murky past.
Sherlock Holmes is an original tale promising to offer a new and deeply theatrical exploration of the mind of the famous detective, while remaining faithful to the mysterious world created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Exact dates, casting and ticketing on-sale to be announced, as is further details of the West End run.
Factory International at Aviva Studios in Manchester has also revealed more of its 2025 season including a major new theatrical experience based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, fused with Radiohead’s album Hail to the Thief, with the new show Hamlet Hail to the Thief running at Aviva Studios in April and May 2025, and at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon in June 2025.
Also, Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) and Complicité are presenting the world premiere of the final instalment of Simon McBurney and Crystal Pite’s award-winning dance trilogy, Figures in Extinction (19 – 22 February 2025); and the world premiere of a large-scale performance work from artist Marina Abramović titled Balkan Erotic Epic.
The Girl on the Train is touring the UK in 2025 starring Giovanna Fletcher at selected dates.
Sherlock Holmes A New Adventure is playing at Aviva Studios in Manchester in summer 2025.
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