Perfect Show for Rachel tour opens at Warwick Arts Centre

Perfect Show for Rachel. Photo by Ikin Yum.

Zoo Co and Improbable announce the UK Tour of Perfect Show for Rachel October 2025 - May 2026. Created by Zoo Co and produced by Zoo Co and Improbable - both multi-award winning companies. The Perfect Show for Rachel opens at Warwick Arts Centre from 7 – 8 October 2025.

Preview

Following sell out and critical success at the Barbican in 2022 and 2024, Perfect Show for Rachel will embark on a UK tour starting at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry (7 – 8 Oct 2025).

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.

A unique show. Photo by Ikin Yum.

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.’

Rachel is a theatre-loving, enigmatic, learning-disabled 35-year-old who loves Kylie, heckling her sister, and seeing people falling over. At the touch of a button she commands the action, each scene brought to life by a skilled cast ready for whatever she asks of them. From bar room brawls to a bourbon biscuit cabaret - get ready, this is Rachel’s Perfect Show.

Step into Rachel's world. Photo by Ikin Yum.

Perfect Show for Rachel is a ‘joyous celebration of theatre without the rules’ (The Stage 4*) combining physical theatre, live music, family memories, massive fights and fart jokes in a chaotic, moving and triumphant tapestry.

Step into Rachel’s unique, often hilarious world in this critically acclaimed show.

‘Why can’t more theatre be like this? Open, relaxed, fun and full of love’ The Guardian (5*)

‘A disarming labour of love’  The Times (4*)

Perfect Show for Rachel was developed with Rachel, to create a show on her own terms. It explores who defines artistic taste, and questions who that currently excludes and is created by Zoo Co, a multi award-winning company creating theatre that loudly champions access. Zoo Co won the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award in 2022, an Offie in 2023 and a Digital Culture Award in 2025.

At Warwick Arts Centre. Photo by Ikin Yum.

Perfect Show for Rachel is created in collaboration with Improbable, the pioneering company of improvisers and theatre-makers who have been making ground-breaking work for the past 25 years and were proud winners of Producer of the Year at The Stage Awards 2023.

Perfect Show for Rachel at Warwick Arts Centre, 7 October at 7.30pm; 8 October at 2.30pm and 7.30pm. For further details and to book tickets please go to: https://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/qz0-perfect-show-for-rachel/

Further information about the production go to: https://www.wearezooco.co.uk/shows/perfect-show-for-rachel