Ever wondered how a play gets written? How a brand-new play gets to the stage? Then see STOP! …The Play and wonder no more.

In the first act, watch as five actors, the ever-helpful young stage manager and a useless wannabe director struggle to bring the dreadful playwright Hildred McCann’s latest opus to the stage. It starts in a well-appointed loft apartment, with a spiral staircase, indoor fountain and a pet monkey scampering about. What could go wrong?

As a director Evelyn lacks vision, empathy or any skills to bring the written word to life. No people skills: if it’s in the script, that’s it. Needless to say, the actors hate him and barely tolerate each other. Watch as they struggle to bring the worst written play, from the entirely elusive writer, to the stage.

Just as things start to come together, a complete re-write arrives, changing everything. Chaos then takes over. The set changes, lines learnt are cut and replaced with new. New characters are introduced, existing ones changed. The lengthy stage directions get longer and ever more incomprehensible. Hildred McCann takes his dreadful play in a new direction. Making it even worse.

And then it happens again and again, with each draft worse than the one before. Until the day before opening night a final draft arrives: again, all change. How will they be able to pull everything together in a single day?

The second act presents the world debut performance of Hildred McCann’s new play Banksy Ain’t Gay, probably the worst play ever written, with an unrehearsed cast and crew struggling to make sense of it all for what must be a long-suffering paying audience.

It’s a play full of laughs with the petty jealousies over who’s the star, and what the play may or may not be about. Scenes familiar to any who’ve trodden the boards. Two hours of joy and a never-to-be-forgotten evening.