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 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.
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

Presented by
Zoo Co Theatre and Improbable
Price
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Access
Audio Described: Sun 12 Apr 2.45pm (Described by Ess Grange)
A Free Touch Tour is available to book at 1pm before the Audio Described performance.
All performances are Relaxed. Please note, full stage lighting and normal sound levels – but no loud or sudden noises – will be used. Sometimes, there is audience interaction (but you’ll never be asked to interact if you don’t actively want to).
All performances include a mixture of creative captioning, live captioning and integrated BSL, making it 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 mics, so their voices are amplified.
Running Time
1 hour 15 minutes without an interval
Age Guidance
14+
Content Advice
May contain flashing lights and strong language.
Production Photography
Production photography by Ikin Yum
Production photography by Ikin Yum
Production photography by Ikin Yum
Production photography by Ikin Yum
Production photography by Ikin Yum