The Other Palace

The Other Palace’s adults only Christmas show returns, and this year’s it’s a musical parody of that most parody-able of Chrisrtmas flicks, Richard Curtis’s festive anthology Love Actually. Exactly what the set up is is TBC, but let's be honest the whole thing has long been ripe for parody and it sounds like a hardworking cast of four is to be tasked with sending most of it up. We're promised ‘emotional monologues, questionable parenting, and at least one glittery jumpsuit’. The show is – as ever – written by Jodie Prenger and Neil Hurst, and is directed by Alex Jackson.

Devised and peformed by the hugely in demand young playwright Jack Holden, this one-man-show dramatises the death of Ken Rex McElroy, a hated Missouri man who was gunned down in public in 1981. Yet nobody was ever convicted of the crime as nobody would say they’d seen it happen. Holden plays multiple roles in the acclaimed transfer from Sheffield Theatres, which played at Southwark Playhouse earlier this year. It’s co-written with Ed Stambollouian, who directs.