Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen

Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen description

A chronically single, professionally neurotic stand-up comedian finally meets his Mr Right - and sets about doing everything wrong.

Our narrator is thirty-six, funny for a living and quietly certain that catastrophe is always just around the corner. When he unexpectedly falls for someone who might genuinely be good for him, he has to weigh the strange comfort of his own anxieties against the far more frightening prospect of being happy. What follows is a fast, filthy and surprisingly tender monologue about desire, intimacy and self-sabotage - and about whether love is really worth losing your best material over.

First seen at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen won a Fringe First Award before going on to sold-out runs, an international tour and a US premiere at Studio Theatre in Washington DC. It now returns to London. The Evening Standard called it "fast, filthy and surprisingly revealing" (four stars), while The Guardian praised "a compelling and troubling character study with some killer punchlines" (four stars).

The play is written by Marcelo Dos Santos, whose work for the stage also includes Backstairs Billy, and directed by Matthew Xia. It is produced by the Olivier Award-winning team behind Fleabag and Baby Reindeer.

This London run stars Steven Webb, whose theatre credits include Shucked, The Book of Mormon and The History Boys.

Book now for a sharp, single-performer comedy about love, fear and getting spectacularly in your own way.

Playing at The Other Palace

12 Palace Street, London, SW1E 5JA GB (venue info)

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