Not Quite Sherlock Program
Hello and thank you for coming to Not Quite Sherlock.
Here’s my program.
Scrolling down, you’ll find…
Information on the history of the show.
Information on the history of me.
And of course, feel free to have a look around the rest of the site if you want.
History of the Show
I first performed this show in 2005 under a different title; ‘Antoine Feval’. It premiered in the Winnipeg Fringe, where it won Best of Fest, then came to Edmonton and was held over.
I’ve performed it all over Canada since, and a little beyond. It sold out its entire run at the 2006 Toronto Fringe, won the Just For Laughs Award at the Montreal Fringe in 2009, and went on to play in the Just For Laughs Festival that year. Other highlights include the Revolutions Festival in Albuquerque; Calgary’s High Performance Rodeo; The World Busker’s Festival in Christchurch New Zealand.
(Quick note: I changed the name of the show because Antoine Feval is a terrible title. And in addition, during a run in Ontario the local listings site had it down as ‘Antoine Fecal’ – which made me worry about both the people that it would keep away, and the people it would bring in.)
I now have two other shows in the series;
Not Quite Sherlock: The Tunnel of Terror, (originally called ‘The Further Adventures of Antoine Feval’) This show played here in Edmonton in the 2009 fringe. It sold out its entire run and was held over.
A Mystery At Murder Manor: This was a big hit in its first and so far only run at the 2025 Winnipeg Fringe. It is my plan to bring each of these shows to future Edmonton Fringes.
There will also soon be a book. I’ve been working on it for a long time now, and it’s almost ready. I’m hoping I will be selling it after shows next year.
History of me.
I began performing as a street performer in Covent Garden back in 1991. I did a solo comedy acrobatic show for a while, and then teamed up with another performer, Peter Mielniczek, to form the physical comedy duo, Hoopal.
We toured around Europe for a bit, and came to Canada for the first time for the 1995 Edmonton International Street Performers Festival. We came back the next year to do the outdoor stages in the Edmonton Fringe, and then with some indoor shows; ‘A Quiet Night In’ in 1997, ‘A Very Different Night With Hoopal’ in 2000, and ‘Pure Hoopal’ in 2001.
(Quick note: I think it was 1997 when I was interviewed on some local Edmonton TV thing by someone who said they were a big fan, then said that we were called ‘Hoopla’ – faced with the choice of correcting them or going with the flow like a professional, I chose to correct. The interview went off the rails after that in a friendly manner. The following year I saw the interviewer and they told me that in their informal local press annual celebration (I have no idea how these things work) that interview won them an award for most difficult interview subject.)
In 2002 I moved to Canada permanently, and started touring one-man shows. These include, Gibberish; Like Father Like Son? Sorry; The Power of Ignorance; and the three shows in the Not Quite Sherlock series.
What about TV and such?
Very occasionally, I appear on people’s TVs , and even more occasionally, in movie theatres.
Here’s a bit of a list;
I was the lead in an indie Canadian comedy called Run Robot Run.
I did a hand-stand in an episode of ‘Copper’.
I hurt my ankle (in real life, not in the show) running behind one of the more athletic young leads in an episode of ‘Reign’.
I had a tiny role in a film called ‘The Samaritan’, with Samuel L. Jackson, where they changed everything I would be doing without telling me. So to this day I still have dreams where Samuel L. Jackson is just looking very disappointed in me.
I was on-screen for less than a second in the final episode of the Boys.
I spent two months working on a Steven Spielberg movie, The BFG, playing one of the evil giants, Gizzardgulper. I also appeared in a tiny human role as a man on the street, which is in the trailer, so that’s nice.
I hope you enjoy the show. If you did, please tell everyone you like.