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It's Headed Straight Towards Us Tickets

This wacky and hazardous story is a race against time with sky-high stakes!

This production is recommended for ages 12+

Performance dates

14 September – 20 October 2023

Run time 2 hours (including an interval)

Includes interval

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This comedy is so big, it’s about to erupt! This wacky and hazardous story is a race against time with sky-high stakes! These characters are trapped and one misstep away from a volcano-induced death, but that won’t stop them from trying to get one up on each other! 

Join in on the chaos of ancient rivalries, book your tickets for It’s Headed Straight Towards Us at London’s Park Theatre today! 

About It’s Headed Straight Towards Us 

Two actors, stuck in a trailer on the side of a volcano, in Iceland. The glacier is melting, the volcano is active. Bitter rivalries emerge between fussy ‘bit part’ actor Hugh Delavois (Samuel West) and fading Hollywood bad boy Gary Savage (Rufus Hound), going back to their time at college together, as the film they are meant to be working on collapses around them and the trailer they are in begins to slip. An avalanche wipes out the only escape road, and the only bridge to safety subsides into the ravine.

Stuck with them is 21-year-old Leela (Nenda Neururer), the runner on the film, and supposed seismology expert. As their arguments and point-scoring become increasingly fractious, it is down to Leela to contain their petty squabbles and prepare them for the possibility that they may not get out of this alive.

The cast and creatives of It’s Headed Straight Towards Us 

Acclaimed theatre director Rachel Kavanaugh directs multi-award-winning actors, Rufus Hound and Samuel West in this quirky, surprisingly tender, laugh out loud comedy.

*It’s Headed Straight Towards Us *is written by British actor-comedians Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer, who rose to fame in TV comedies The Comic Strip Presents, and the BAFTA award-winning cult classic The Young Ones.

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Comedy, chaos and life-or-death - It’s Headed Straight Towards Us will have you on the edge of your seat whilst also leaving you breathless with laughter. Book your tickets now!

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Captioned: Wed 4 Oct, 19:30 Audio Described: Fri 13 Oct, 19:30 with Touch Tour, 18:30.

Recent Reviews

4.4
5 reviews
Wendy

Really enjoyed this play. All 3 actors were fantastic and story was funny and emotional. Only reason it didn’t get 5 stars was because I wanted a bit more detail about the characters from the story, but that is being picky!

Miles

very funny. Glad I saw it!

Laurence Kehoe

It was good but slightly stilted in the first half. The female actor has a lot of potential but she needs to trust her memory of the lines and ACT them more. Simon West played his character a bit like Siegfried Farnon!! But good all the same. The staging set up was creative and excellent in such a small venue.

Mrs E W Finlason

Brilliant engaging, clever, entertaining enjoyable performance by all with very effective simple set

LJN

It was a fabulous performance of a terrific play

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