Robert Boulton’s black comedy Snowflakes comes to Park Theatre

Black comedy Snowflakes will come to London’s Park Theatre this spring.

The piece from Robert Boulton (False Choices, King’s Head Theatre; Redistributors, Protest Productions) will run at the venue from 12 April – 6 May 2023.

Boulton will also star in Snowflakes as Marcus, alongside Louise Hoare (Green and Pleasant Land, Arcola Theatre; Skin Tight, The Hope Theatre; Women of Paradise, Trafalgar Studios) as Sarah, and Henry Davis (Chariots of Fire, Hampstead Theatre/Gielgud Theatre; Jersey Boys, UK Tour 2014-2016; Hannah, Amazon Prime) as Tony.

Tony is standing for trial by social media, and Marcus and Sarah work for a very special start-up – they do the job people are crying out for in the comments section. In this start-up, you can outsource your rage to the professionals; justice is not blind, it’s streamed to millions. What if you could decide at the click of a button who deserves to be forgiven for their moral wrongdoings, and who deserves to die for their sins?

Snowflakes is a sci-fi black comedy that questions the potency of social media and examines how far you could go to right a wrong. This enthralling new work is presented by Dissident Theatre, a company with the goal of making theatre which confronts the base, the repressed and the ambiguous corners of the world we live in, and Chronic Insanity, an Offie Award winning theatre company, specialising in all things digital, interactive, and immersive.

Writer Robert Boulton said: “My favourite stories have always been dark, twisted and morally dubious – what that says about me as a person, God only knows. I want to make people laugh through the darkness; I don’t respond well to moral preaching or superiority and don’t expect an audience to. I hope Snowflakes is a relevant, if irreverent, riff on contemporary society, not just examining the problems we’re encountering now and where we might be going; but also asking where we want to be when and if we solve these problems. Then again, maybe not.”

The production has set design by Alys Whitehead, lighting design by Jonathan Chan and videography and live streaming by Dan Light. The stage manager is Maria Maracci and fight director Bethan Clark.

For more information and tickets, visit parktheatre.co.uk/whats-on/snowflakes