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Hand-Me-Downs
by Eliza Brown
presented by Puzzled Monkey TheatreTuesday 30th September – Saturday 11th October at 7.30pm
“I get you out of real life. I get you out of having to behave like an adult. I’m simply not willing to get you out of this.”
Following an unexpected tragedy, the explosive Harriet moves in with her brother, George, a carer for the elderly and dutiful lover of order. Harriet causes chaos. George picks up the pieces. That’s the way it has always been.
Cohabiting for the first time since their teenage years, the two siblings find themselves reliving the patterns and rehashing the conflicts they established as children. Navigating early adulthood, grief and a dwindling list of dinner ideas, they decipher what it means to grow up in a family that has never known how to deal with disaster.
Because, as it turns out, childhood blunders aren’t as harmless when you’re old enough to do some real damage.
Hand-Me-Downs is a brand-new comedy from Puzzled Monkey Theatre – the recipient of the York Performance Award.
Ever suffered at the hands of a terrible landlord? Gone days, or even weeks, without heat or hot water? And to top it off, the same useless landlord has the nerve to raise your rent? Have you dreamt of getting your own back? So has Don.
In this satirical comedy, Donovan Pearce navigates the complications of relationships and unemployment, all whilst chasing the simple dream of doing what he loves for a living and trying to keep a roof over his head.
But getting in his way is his permanently neglectful landlord. So, Don decides to get his own back. Only what he didn’t expect was to cause a cold war in the process!
Burstellar Productions is a new London based theatre company, established in 2024 by Kwami-Teye Canacoo, with a focus on new writing and telling important and compelling stories.
“Canacoo is a talented young writer” Everything Theatre
“the writing and direction is so well done” Theatre & Tonic
written and performed by Niall Ashdown
23 October
When Niall was nine years old he took his first, and as it turned out, last piano exam. And vowed never to play the piano again.
Since that day, there’s always been a piano somewhere that has drawn him back, and this show explores, celebrates and commemorates this enduring love affair, and its place at the heart of all the clarity and confusion that life has thrown at him – and that life throws at all of us.
By turns funny, intimate and honest, it is the story of piano as lover, as liability, as lifesaver. Five Pianos comes to the Jack for a special one-off debut performance.
Niall Ashdown is an actor, comic improviser and writer. He is a regular performer with The Comedy Store Players, an associate artist with Improbable Theatre, and has appeared on telly in Whose Line Is It Anyway? Outnumbered and, most notably (if you’re of a certain age) Jackanory. He teaches improvisation and theatre too, these days. This is his first solo project since The Man Who Would Be Sting, and the highly-acclaimed Hungarian Bird Festival, both of which became radio plays for BBC Radio 4.
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One Man Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
presented by Threedumb Theatre
Tuesday 28th October – Saturday 1st November at 7.30pm
Press night: Thursday 30th October at 7.30pm
One Man Poe is back in London after a sell-out run at both the 2024 and 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 2024, it won the Spookies Award for Best Horror Solo Show, and in 2025, it was awarded The Derek Award for Best Overall Show, surpassing over 3,200 shows which were also judged for this prize.
Renowned as the ‘Godfather of Gothic Horror’, Edgar Allan Poe was a pioneer in establishing the horror genre. Although his works are nearly 200 years old, Poe’s stories have stood the test of time and have inspired a countless number of horror writers.
Using Edgar Allan Poe’s original text from the 1840s, award-winning storyteller Stephen Smith faithfully brings to life three of the most terrifying examples of the gothic genre from the pioneering Godfather of Gothic Horror as never before.
One Man Poe is produced by four-time OFFIE Award-winning theatre company Threedumb Theatre, and is performed and directed by its Artistic Director, Stephen Smith.
Written and directed by Barrie Smith
presented by Capital Theatre
5 - 8 November
Oh, I know what they want. They want me out of sight, shut away, like the rubbish. They want me put in some poky cupboard somewhere, with all those other old biddies, dribbling into their soup and pissing themselves. That’s what they want.
Mummy is frail and elderly but still has her marbles. Surrounded by her quarrelsome children, as the family feud rages around her, Mummy sits tight, silent and inscrutable. As long-harboured resentments surface and unsettling secrets are revealed, one question remains unanswered: will the family persuade Mummy to move to a care home? Or does another, more sinister fate await her?
Unflinchingly honest and savagely funny, Keeping Mum puts the painful realities of family life centre stage.
written and directed by Harry Petty
presented by You Guys Productions
11 - 15 November
The cult will come for me if I don’t get Sebastien his lion’s mane.
In their cramped van, Bromley Boys Harry and Ollie keep a film set fuelled – and their dreams brewing. Between A-list orders, surprise inspections and crew complaints will they stick together or go off script?
Wrap Party lifts the hatch on life behind the catering counter, in a lightning-quick comedy about friendship, ambition and off-camera chaos.
You Guys Productions champions the voices of South London. Bromley born and proud, we’re here to make you laugh, cry and cheer – all in one night.
by Joe Edgar
presented by Sosij Productions
18 - 29 November
“I just think there’s doing things and doing things. And if you’re locked in a sewer and it’s flooding and you’re putting on perfume, you’re doing the wrong things.”
A Boston newsroom, late at night. Journalist Marianne is fine-tuning her latest article — a hit piece on the Massachusetts cranberry industry. But between interruptions from her colleagues and edits from her boss, a murkier, private picture begins to emerge of her time researching in the bogs…
Big Cranberry is a witty and fast-moving story of personal crisis, set in the precarious world of climate journalism.
At what point does reporting stop being enough? Where do you find hope in a career built on dread? And just how big is this cranberry exactly?
Sosij Productions is the award-nominated company behind The Incredibly Scary Object, which premiered at the Jack last year. We are an energetic new theatre company, founded on a shared desire to make the kind of show you’d want to watch twice.
Whilst we believe that it’s theatre’s responsibility to present informed discussion about the world we live in, we reckon it never hurts to imagine a slightly more exciting, slightly kinder, and slightly wittier world too. If you leave thinking you might have seen some actual people actually talking to each other about actual things — that have actually, at least once a page or so, made you chuckle — then we’ve done our job.
