Listen, We're Family

Written by Kerry Shale and Matthew Lloyd, from an idea by Suzanne Shale. Directed by Matthew Lloyd.

Picture this: Four actors - award winning comedian and star of Peep Show Isy Suttie, Kerry Shale, Tom Berish and Maggie Steed - listening through earpieces, recreate Jewish families exactly as they sound.

- A 91 year-old barber recalls a racist punch-up
- A 25 year-old gay men is embraced by his family
- A biographer of Primo Levi on her atheism
- An Orthodox rabbi on wartime family secrets
- A Jewish Rasta on his father’s suburban spanking club

From Brick Lane to the Old Kent Road via Essex, Hendon and Ruislip, here are tales of Jewish Londoners struggling to make it, of family feuds, crossed wires and outrageous characters. Expect the unexpected: pornography and mental illness, high farce and violence.

A hilarious, moving, surprising new play for everyone who’s ever had a family.

12 PERFORMANCES ONLY!

Don’t miss your chance to experience the UK’s first Jewish Verbatim Theatre production and JW3’s first theatre commission.

Kerry Shale has written and performed six solo shows, including The Prince of West End Avenue.
Matthew Lloyd is former Associate Director of Hampstead Theatre.