Perfect Show For Rachel
– Playhouse
About
Funny, heart warming, triumphant. The perfect show.
Meet the O’Mahony sisters. Flo is an award winning theatre director. Rachel is an enigmatic, learning-disabled 35 year-old who loves Kylie and seeing people fall over. So they decided to create Rachel's perfect show: fast paced, funny, and different every night.
Expect physical comedy, live music, home movies, dancing and a lot of Rachel soaking her sister with a watergun in this critically acclaimed, award winning show. As Rachel creates the show on her own terms every night, the cast have to be ready for anything - including fart jokes, becoming singing biscuits, bar room brawls and being fired on the spot. This is ‘An absolute joy to watch’ (A Youngish Perspective)
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.
