The Real Deal

Off West End Awards’ Most Promising New Playwright of 2018, Katie Bonna, performs a story of infatuation, hope and pretending to be a swamp monster when you’re 37 years old. Anna works for a children’s entertainment company. She spends most of her time discussing unicorns and superheroes with demanding parents. She trains the new staff how to sing The UFO Song and play the ringmaster in the Circus Beserkus party. Anna is not living her best life.

Her days are mostly spent with brainwashed colleagues (there are similarities between fascist dictatorships and this office) and her evenings with two white musical theatre students, who rap Hamilton whilst making vegan hamburgers.

After her recent, life-exploding break-up she has hit an all-time low. Until new party leader Justine arrives. Justine is the real deal. It’s hard to woo the woman of your dreams whilst dressed as a penguin. But Anna has always been persistent. And, stuck in a world of make believe, she will do anything to make this real.

The Real Deal is a darkly comic piece of story-telling, exploring what is real when it comes to love.