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Birmingham Rep in Centenary Square, Birmingham

Perfect Show for Rachel

Funny, heart warming, triumphant. The perfect show.

Why can’t more theatre be like this? Open, relaxed, fun and full of love”
★★★★★ – The Guardian

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.

“a joyous celebration of theatre without the rules”
★★★★ – The Stage

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).

Bright, funny, musical, silly… try not beaming’
★★★★ – The Times

Perfect Show explores who defines artistic taste, and questions who that currently excludes, winning Zoo Co the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award in 2022. Created by Zoo Co Theatre, a multi award-winning company creating theatre that loudly champions access, co-produced with Improbable, a pioneering company of improvisers and theatre-makers who have been making ground-breaking work for the past 25 years.

Further praise for The Perfect Show For Rachel

“A theatrical experience like no other”
★★★★★ – Broadway World

‘An absolute joy to watch’
★★★★★ – A Young-ish Perspective

“Glows with a kind of truthfulness most productions only gesture towards”
★★★★ – Live Art Live

Venue

The Studio

Presented by

Zoo Co Theatre and Improbable

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Access

All performances are relaxed and include a mixture of creative captioning, live captioning and integrated BSL, making it accessible for deaf and hard of hearing audiences.

Audio Described: Sun 12 Apr 2.45pm

A Free Touch Tour is available to book at 1pm before the Audio Described performance.

Running Time

1 hour 15 minutes without an interval

Age Guidance

14+

Content Advice

May contain flashing lights.

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