Crybabies have introduced the switch of The Scaring to Soho Theatre this September.
The Edinburgh Comedy Award Finest Newcomer nominees might be haunting the Soho Theatre Primary Home between Thursday third – Wednesday twenty third September 2026, following on from their Edinburgh Fringe run this summer time.
The trio, made up of Michael Clarke, James Gault, and Ed Jones, be part of forces with with Olivier Award-winning Fleabag and Child Reindeer producers Francesca Moody Productions and director Jon Brittain (Child Reindeer, Kathy and Stella Resolve a Homicide!), to current a terrifying story of worry, religion, fathers (dads), fathers (clergymen), fantoms (phantoms), and at last transferring on.
The Scaring marks Crybabies’ return to Soho Theatre, the place they’ve beforehand introduced two wildly critically acclaimed exhibits Bagbeard and Hazard Brigade. The manufacturing additionally follows within the footsteps of earlier Francesca Moody Productions’ transfers to Soho Theatre, together with Fleabag and Climate Lady.
The Scaring synopsis
When former priest Arthur Holland checks right into a distant lodge, he quickly finds out it’s not simply the breakfast buffet which poses a risk to life. Pressured into an unlikely double act with Gerry, the ghost of a long-dead visitor, Arthur should sort out demons each private and non-private beneath the watchful eye of Mr Lyle – the lodge’s Norman Bates-esque supervisor.
With absurd characters, traditional horror tropes, and a plot that twists itself into ever stranger territory, The Scaring combines Crybabies’ signature mix of surreal sketch, narrative ambition, and theatrical mischief. Count on Shakespearean zombies, broken-armed serial killers and strolling waxworks, in a daunting story the place not every thing is because it appears. Or fairly, because it screams.
Regardless of the chaos, all of it is smart. The Scaring strikes at a breakneck tempo, with Crybabies shapeshifting by means of dozens of roles and whiplash-fast costume adjustments – usually inside the identical scene. The sheer variety of characters, the pace of the switches, and the truth that the viewers by some means all the time is aware of precisely who’s who border on the miraculous.
The present embraces a sharper visible ambition this yr, with moments of genuinely slick theatricality – however it by no means loses the ramshackle brilliance Crybabies are recognized for. Count on excessive drama constructed from low-budget nonsense: costumes assembled from scraps, results powered by suggestion, and set items which might be each ridiculous and ridiculously efficient. It’s big-budget horror on a shoestring; bold, theatrical, and nonetheless held along with gaffer tape.
Crybabies: A brand new chapter
The Scaring marks a daring new chapter for Crybabies: greater, stranger, and extra bold than ever. Produced by Francesca Moody Productions in affiliation with award-winning comedy and podcast firm Plosive Reside – that is Crybabies with the quantity up. It’s slicker, spookier, and by some means even sillier.
Over the previous few years, all three Crybabies have been quietly levelling up. They’ve been engaged on a brand new BBC radio collection, growing tasks for display, and popping up on TV together with roles in Jack Rooke’s award-winning Channel 4 collection Large Boys, Disney’s Extraordinary and Ricky Gervais’ After Life on Netflix. Their solo careers have taken thrilling steps ahead, whereas their collective chaos has solely grown extra refined.
Following the success of Hazard Brigade and Bagbeard, Crybabies have constructed a loyal, barely obsessed fanbase. With their signature mix of chaos, tenderness and theatrical invention, Crybabies have turn into one of many UK’s most distinctive, and best-loved sketch acts.
Crybabies stated: “We’re thrilled to be acting at Soho Theatre for the primary time since 2023. And since the world hasn’t turn into terrifying sufficient in these convening years, we thought we’d do a horror. Impressed by every thing from Scary Film to scary motion pictures, we’re decided to place much more boos into the Soho night air. The very fact we’ve managed to pull the great people of FMP into it’s nonetheless, fairly frankly, baffling.”
Francesca Moody stated: “I’m delighted that we’re transferring this horrifyingly humorous present to Soho Theatre. It’s massively thrilling to be bringing collectively the comedian genius of Crybabies with the creativeness of a high tier artistic crew led by Jon Brittain. This splendidly gifted group of persons are making one thing bold, stunning and actually terrifying.”
The Scaring is directed by Jon Brittain, with Set and Costume by Cecilia Carey (Child Reindeer, Kathy and Stella Resolve a Homicide!), Lighting by Bethany Gupwell (The Virgins, Twelfth Evening), Sound by Ed Lewis (Stage Fright: Inside Quantity 9, A View from the Bridge) and Video by Nina Dunn (Avenue Q, The Shark is Damaged).
Tickets for The Scaring at Soho Theatre can be found now.
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