A Very Clownless Show

NETA ROTH PRESENTS:

A VERY CLOWNLESS SHOW AT PLAYHOUSE EAST

 Neta Roth debuts her immersive, claustrophobic drama A Very Clownless Show at Playhouse

East on 21st-22nd October, 28th October and 1st-2nd November.

 Two men, one stage, and an audience holding all the power - A Very Clownless Show is a darkly

funny, nerve-racking battle of guilt, truth, and redemption in the strangest courtroom of all.

Two strangers - David, 20, and Mitchell, 50 - wake up tied to chairs on a bare stage. They don’t know

how they got there, why they’ve been brought together, or who the silent audience is, watching their every

move. Hovering above them, a screen flashes cryptic instructions, dictating what the audience must do.

Their fate lies not in their own hands, but in the hands of those watching.

Both men are guilty of something, though neither is willing to confess. As the performance unfolds,

David wrestles with rage and guilt over his crumbling marriage, while Mitchell confronts traumatic

memories and deep-seated insecurities. Under the pressure of the audience’s gaze, their truths begin to

crack open.

A Very Clownless Show is a darkly comic, immersive theatre experience about guilt, manipulation, and

redemption. With nothing on stage but two actors, a screen, and a room full of witnesses, the play asks:

are we only as bad as the worst thing we’ve done? Can anyone truly be redeemed? And what happens

when judgment is no longer in the hands of a jury, but in the hands of society itself?

A Very Clownless Show’s team are coming together with an array of individual expertise, to support this

impactful work.

Cast: Jad Sayegh, Patrick Toomey

Director: Sophia Golan

Technical Production and Video Design: Francis De Lima

Producers: Clare Stenning

Set Design: Polina Adamov

Sound design: Adam Chen

Sophia Golan is a theatre director and writer whose practice merges original writing with bold staging.

She has directed Melting at The Old Red Lion Theatre, Brief Play About Rage by Deane McElree at The

Cockpit Theatre (★★★★★ Theatre&Tonic, Camden Fringe), and performed her solo show The

Elephant and I at Camden People’s Theatre. She assisted Jay Miller on The Glass Menagerie at The Yard

Theatre and trained on the Theatre Directing MA at Royal Holloway University of London with Katie

Mitchell, later working as Mitchell’s intern at Hamburg Schauspielhaus on The House of Bernarda Alba.

Neta Roth is an award-winning Israeli actress, playwright, and author whose work spans international

film, television, and theatre. She won the Israeli Television Academy Award for Best Actress for her

breakout role in On Our Own (KAN11 & Netflix) and has appeared in Netflix’s Image of Victory, with

upcoming lead roles in One Day in October and The Ranch. On stage, Roth will make her West End debut

as Salome in Salome at the Royal Haymarket Theatre (2025) and has performed with leading Israeli

companies including Gesher Theatre and Orna Porat. As a writer, she penned the award-winning play

Those Two (ASITEJ Award, 2022), contributes to the hit TV comedy Checkout, and her debut novel

Tamara Is Lying will be published by Keter-Modan in 2026.

VIEW TRAILER HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRRhnLQuVwg&feature=youtu.be