Award-winning Perfect Show for Rachel comes to Birmingham Rep

The production of Perfect Show for Rachel will be showcased at the Birmingham Rep theatre.

Currently on a UK tour, the award-winning theatrical production runs from 10 to 12 April and tells the story of Rachel O’Mahony, a 35-year-old woman with learning disabilities who loves theatre.

On stage Rachel has a special control desk with different buttons, with each one triggering something different - a song, a dance, a comedy sketch, or a dramatic scene - with the actors having to improvise and perform whatever Rachel chooses.

Zoo Co’s artistic director Flo O’Mahony said: “After a decade of working on this show with my big sister, Rachel, I am so proud, both as an artistic director, and as a sister, that we are taking Perfect Show for Rachel on this tour.

“This show is ‘beautifully inconvenient’ - it is massive, unique and requires theatres to adapt their own practices to welcome our brilliant company through the doors. That’s its beauty- it changes the places and people it visits.

“I hope audiences leave wondering how the world might be more open for their Autistic colleague, their nan with dementia, or their kid with ADHD.

“Touring Perfect Show for Rachel now, at a time when welfare cuts are making disabled people feel isolated and excluded, feels not just artistically important, but politically vital.

“This show so clearly expresses what we have to lose if disabled people aren’t welcomed into leadership in the arts and in our lives. I can’t wait to invite more people to step into Rachel’s world - she has so much to teach us and all we have to do is listen.”