Following critically acclaimed, sold-out runs at the Barbican in 2022 and 2024, Perfect Show For Rachel will embark on a major UK tour from October 2025 to June 2026.
Created by Zoo Co and produced in collaboration with Improbable, Perfect Show For Rachel opens at Warwick Arts Centre before visiting Manchester, Hornchurch, Sheffield, Birmingham, Oxford and Leeds.
The show is a unique theatrical experience developed with and for Rachel O’Mahony, a theatre-loving, learning-disabled 35-year-old who takes centre stage in a production shaped entirely by her choices.
Rachel’s sister, Zoo Co’s Artistic Director Flo O’Mahony, who is also a Lead Artist and performer in the show, 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.”
At the touch of a button, Rachel commands the action on stage, directing a skilled cast through scenes ranging from bar room brawls to a bourbon biscuit cabaret.
Described by The Stage as a “joyous celebration of theatre without the rules” (★★★★), the show blends physical theatre, live music, family memories, and fart jokes into a chaotic, moving and triumphant tapestry.
The Guardian hailed it as “open, relaxed, fun and full of love” (★★★★★), while The Times called it “a disarming labour of love” (★★★★).
The production was developed to challenge traditional ideas of artistic taste and to amplify voices often excluded from mainstream theatre.
Zoo Co, winners of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award (2022), an Offie (2023), and a Digital Culture Award (2025), are known for championing access in the arts.
They are joined by Improbable, the award-winning company of improvisers and theatre-makers, who were named Producer of the Year at The Stage Awards 2023.
Listings and ticket information can be found here
