Jab

OffWestEnd Award Nomination for Best New Play
OffWestEnd Award Nomination for Director (Plays)
OffWestEnd Award Nomination for Duo Performance
London Pub Theatres Standing Ovation Award Nomination
Fringe Review Highly Recommended Show
★★★★★ Five Stars, Londontheatre1
★★★★★ Five Stars, Jack the Lad
★★★★1/2 Four and a Half Stars, London Pub Theatres
★★★★ Four Stars, Theatre Weekly
★★★★ Four Stars, The Spy in the Stalls
★★★★ Four Stars, Reviews Gate
★★★★ Four Stars, All That Dazzles
★★★★ Four Stars, Theatre and Tonic
★★★★ Four Stars, Ajhlovestheatre
★★★★ Four Stars, Theatre and Art Reviews
★★★★ Four Stars, North West End UK
★★★★ Four Stars, Everything Theatre
★★★★ Four Stars, These Theatre Thoughts
★★★★ Four Stars, Morning Star
★★★★ Four Stars, Breaking the Fourth Wall
★★★★ Four Stars, Pink Prince Theatre

Anne is tired. Tired of menopause. Tired of working in a dying NHS. And tired of her lazy sexist Daily Mail reading husband Don. But they’ve been together twenty nine years. They know each other inside out. They’ve survived so much.

Then COVID plunges the country into lockdown, forcing them to isolate together. After all, the home is a place of safety… isn’t it?

As the world falls apart outside, Anne and Don’s marriage slowly falls apart inside. But soon there will be a solution. Won’t there?

Inspired by true events, Jab is a coruscating new black comedy, exploring power, gender, domestic violence, conspiracy theories, ignorance, and the limits of love.

Kacey Ainsworth and Liam Tobin star in this stunning new British play, directed by Scott Le Crass, recently nominated for Best Creative West End Debut at The Stage Awards for his production of Rose, starring Maureen Lipman.

In Conversation and Q & A with Playwright James McDermott
On Thursday, 7 March 2024, there will be a post-show discussion, free to ticketholders of that evening’s performance.

Following the performance, Jab writer James McDermott will be in conversation about the origins of the play, the writing, rewriting and production process, and the politics of representing the pandemic onstage. The conversation will be followed by an audience Q & A.

James McDermott’s plays have been published by Samuel French including Jab (Finborough Theatre), Time & Tide (Park Theatre, tour) and Rubber Ring (Pleasance Islington, Tour). James has written multiple episodes of EastEnders and plays for BBC Radio 4. He is a playwriting tutor for the National Theatre and lecturer in creative writing at the University of East Anglia.