Perfect Show For Rachel
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About
Rachel is a theatre-loving, enigmatic, learning-disabled 35 year-old who loves Kylie, heckling her sister, and seeing people falling over. At the touch of a button she commands the action, each scene brought to life by a skilled cast ready for whatever she asks of them. From bar room brawls to a bourbon biscuit cabaret - get ready, this is Rachel’s Perfect Show.
Perfect Show For Rachel is a joyous show combining physical theatre, live music, family memories, massive fights and fart jokes in an electric, moving and triumphant tapestry. Step into Rachel’s unique, often hilarious world in this critically acclaimed show.
Perfect Show for Rachel was developed with Rachel, to create a show on her own terms. It explores who defines artistic taste, and questions who that currently excludes. Created by Zoo Co Theatre, a multi award-winning company creating theatre that loudly champions access. Zoo Co won the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award in 2022. Created in collaboration with Improbable, a pioneering company of improvisers and theatre-makers who have been making ground-breaking work for the past 25 years. Proud winners of Producer of the Year at The Stage Awards 2023.
Accessibility details
Relaxed performances
All Performances of Perfect Show for Rachel are Relaxed Performances as standard. Please note that full stage lighting and normal sound levels are used but there are not loud or sudden noises. Occasionally, there is audience interaction, but you'll never be asked to interact if you don't actively want to. For anyone who needs to leave the show, we have a small, quiet chill-out area just outside the auditorium. You can return to the show when you are ready. It is fine if you need to leave and return several times.
Captioning and BSL
All performances include a mixture of creative captioning, live captioning and integrated BSL meaning it will be accessible for Deaf and Hard of Hearing audiences. Due to the improvised nature of some parts of the show, some scenes may just have creative captions or just integrated BSL. Cast members use radio microphones, so their voices are amplified.
Audio description
The performance on Thursday 19 Feb is Audio Described by a specialist improvisation audio describer, Ess Grange.
Reviews
5 Stars
‘Why can’t more theatre be like this? Open, relaxed, fun and full of love’
5 Stars
'A theatrical experience like no other'
4 Stars
'A show that makes us feel part of a family'
4 Stars
'Bright, funny, musical, silly scenes... try not beaming'
5 Stars
'An absolute joy to watch'
4 Stars
'Glows with the kind of truthfulness most productions only gesture toward'
'A triumph'