Book now: Beautiful Burnout

Back on tour, this critically acclaimed play is a tour de force that’ll knock you for six.  If we say it’s about boxing, don’t let that put you off, we aren’t particularly fans of punch ups either, but in the same way that Lucy Prebble’s play Enron made a compelling theatrical event from corporate fraud, Frantic Assembly’s exceptional production of Bryony Lavery’s play makes the boxing ring the venue for an epic performance where dance meets psychological wrangling meets theatre. Set to the feisty club beats of high BPM junkies Underworld, it tells the story of the meteoric rise of a boxing star – fast paced and furious, emotionally intense and energised, the choreography is so beautifully nuanced it tells the story every bit as passionately as the spoken words. We saw it last year in Bethnal Green’s atmospheric York Halls, where a boxing ring was the stage with the audience seated round the sides; now it’s back on tour and in London for a limited few days. Knockout? Hell yes. Booking opens June 7, so do it now, it’ll sell out fast.