Captain Amazing

Captain Amazing

Captain Amazing

1 - 25 May

Southwark Playhouse
Wed 1 May 2024 - Sat 25 May 2024

Mon – Sat: 8pm Tue & Sat: 3.30pm

‘What do you do as Captain Amazing?’

‘Fight… baddies and things. Save people… make people go to bed when they’re supposed to go to bed…’

Join Mr… no … CAPTAIN Amazing, the world’s most unassuming superhero in Alistair McDowall’s critically-acclaimed masterpiece.

From battling his arch-nemesis Evil Man, to getting his daughter to school on time, discover what compelled this DIY store sales assistant to first don the cape and  follow him into his final mission – the hardest one of all.

A hilarious and heart-breaking adventure which reminds us that even the invincible aren’t immune to tragedy.

Celebrating the play’s 10th anniversary, Mark Weinman delivers his “astonishing solo performance” (Lyn Gardner, The Guardian), in this brand-new production by award-winning director Clive Judd, “a Mike Leigh in the waiting” (WhatsOnStage).

If I could get all your numbers I would ring you all up individually and urge you to see Captain Amazing” Simon Stephens

This play is, quite literally, amazing. From an extraordinarily talented team” Joe Lycett


Praise for the team’s previous production of CAPTAIN AMAZING

★★★★★  “A perfect union of acting, writing and directing” A Younger Theatre

★★★★★  “It’s a phenomenal achievement to nestle so much joyous, whimsy-free wonder in such a truthful, painful story” FestMagazine

★★★★★ “Captain Amazing is a beautiful show. You will marvel, cry and laugh” Broadway Baby

★★★★ “This may well be the best one-man show you’re likely to see at the Fringe” The Telegraph

★★★★★ “An intense performance that is moving and funny in equal measure … what is presented on stage is a work of pure joy” WhatsOnStage

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