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EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Cariad Lloyd, Kirstin Milward, Rob Crouch - A Funny Thing Happened... - Arsalan Sattari Productions

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE GYNECOLOGIC

ONCOLOGY UNIT 

AT MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER OF NEW YORK CITY

ABOUT

Cariad Lloyd - A Funny Thing Happened... - Arsalan Sattari Productions

Karla, a foul-mouthed twenty-something comedian, and Don, a middle-aged man embroiled in a nasty divorce, are brought together unexpectedly when their cancer stricken mothers become roommates in the hospital. 

 

Together, this unlikely duo must negotiate some of life’s biggest challenges… while making some of the world’s most inappropriate jokes. 

 

Can these two very lost people learn to laugh through their pain and lean on each other, when all they really want to do is run away?

 

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit... received its critically acclaimed world 

premiere Off-Broadway in 2016 at the MCC Theater at Lucille Lortel Theatre before its West Coast premiere at the Geffen Playhouse.

CREATIVE TEAM

WRITER

HALLEY FEIFFER​

DIRECTOR

BETHANY PITTS​

SET & COSTUME DESIGNER

ISABELLA VAN BRAECKEL

LIGHTING DESIGNER

DOUG MACKIE

SOUND DESIGNER

JON MCLEOD

SHOW ENDED

FINBOROUGH THEATRE

118 Finborough Road, SW10 9ED

www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk

REVIEWS & AWARDS

★★★★ 'SPIKY! GALLOWS HUMOUR RULES'  EVENING STANDARD

★★★★ 'VERY FUNNY AND VERY ADULT'  BRITISH THEATRE

★★★★ 'CHARMING, FUNNY, THOUGHTFUL'  EVERYTHING THEATRE

★★★★ 'EXCELLENT, FUNNY, POIGNANT PIECE'  THEATRE BOX

★★★★ 'MOVING AND REALLY FUNNY'  SPY IN THE STALLS

★★★★ 'A FANTASTIC SHOW'  POCKET SIZE THEATRE

★★★★ 'TOTALLY ENTHRALS'  LONDONTHEATRE1

★★★★ 'EXTREMELY GOOD'  LONDONIST

FEATURING

CARIAD LLOYD

Offie Nomination - Best New Play
Offie Nomination - Male Performance
Offie Nomination - Female in Supportng Role
Cariad Lloyd

CARIAD

LLOYD

 

Stage includes Austentatious (Savoy Theatre and Piccadilly Theatre West End, Leicester Square Theatre, Underbelly and UK Tour), Cariad & Paul: A Two-Player Adventure (Soho Theatre and Pleasance Theatre),  Lady Cariad's Characters (Soho Theatre and Edinburgh Fringe Festival - nominated for the Comedy Awards Best Newcomer 2011), Cariad & Louise’s Character Hour (Soho Theatre), Daniel Rigby: Berk in Progress, Comedy Store Players (Comedy Store), Danny’s Deal (Old Vic Theatre), Studio 50: The London Improvathon, We Are Amused, Pack up Your Troubles: 50 Hour Improv, MSC Cruises and Save the Car! (The Sticking Place) and The Bristol Jam 30 Hour Improvathon (Bristol Old Vic). Cariad has performed at Upright Citizens Brigade (New York and Los Angeles) and The Pit (New York). 

Television includes This Time With Alan Partridge, Hospital, Murder in Successville, Walliams & Friend, The Catchment,

The Agency, Drunk Histories, Joseph Morpurgo’s Christmas, That’s So Last Century, I Want My Wife Back, Peep Show,  Virtually Famous, Marley’s Ghosts, Ruby Robinson, Inside No.9, The Delivery Man, Toast of London, Crackanory, Crims, Vodka Diaries, Siblings, Gameface, The Cariad Show, Give Out Girls, Badults, Fit, Dawson Bros. Present Funtime and Cardinal Burns. 

Panel shows include Would I Lie To You, The Last Leg Correspondents, Josh, 8 Out or 10 Cats Does Countdown, Have I Got News For You and QI. 

 

Including countless radio and podcast credits including

Griefcast (Creator/Host – Winner of Best Podcast of the year 2018, Best Entertainment and Best Interview),

PRODUCTION PHOTOS

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CAST

★★★★★ 'BRUTALLY HONEST, DEVASTATINGLY FUNNY'  LONDON-OLIOS

★★★★ 'ECSTATICALLY INDELICATE HUMOUR'  LONDON STUDENT

★★★★ 'THOROUGHLY ENJOYABLE'  LONDON PUB THEATRE

★★★★ 'A SUPER PRODUCTION SKILFULLY DIRECTED'  CLOSEUP CULTURE

★★★★ 'HILARIOUS AND HEARTBREAKING'  FROST MAGAZINE

VIDEOS

PRODUCTION CREDITS

STAGE MANAGER

ROSIE MORGAN

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

SAMARA GANNON

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

RIDDLE ERRIDGE

MARKETING ASSISTANT

LAUREN HUMPHRIES

CASTING ASSISTANT

PAULA PIOTROWSKA

PRESS & PUBLIC RELATIONS

CHLOE NELKIN CONSULTING

PRODUCED BY ARSALAN SATTARI

IN ASSOCIATION WITH NEIL MCPHERSON

AT FINBOROUGH THEATRE

SCHEDULES & TICKETS

2 - 27 October 2018

Prices 2, 3 October– £14

Prices until 16 October 2018  £18 (£16 conc)

Tues £16 all seats | Fri & Sat £18 all seats
£10 for Under 30s Tues to Sun of the first week.
£12 for residents of the RBKC on Sat 7 October 2017

Prices from 16 October 2018 – £20 (£18 conc)

Tues £18 all seats | Fri & Sat £18 all seats

AGES 16+  |  STRONG LANGUAGE

BIOS AT DATE OF SHOW

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