Vermin

Their first kiss took place at the scene of a stranger’s suicide attempt - Billy and Rachel’s romance was never destined to be ordinary.

A fast-burning love sees them marry, nest, and prepare for the future. But something is scratching beneath the floorboards.

As their dream home is invaded by rats, the world they've built begins to disintegrate - exposing the rotten foundations beneath.

As their relationship falters and their behaviours grow ever stranger, the fragile line between love and madness is crossed, and the couple embark on a blood-drenched descent through grief, obsession, and compulsion.

Vermin is a pitch-black psychodramedy about what we bury, what claws its way back, and what remains when we’re picked clean to the bone.

As the British Theatre Guide writes, “It taps into a deeply rooted fear, not only of that which creeps, crawls and scuttles beneath the floor and within the walls, but of that which festers and broods in those closest to us.”

Recent awards include:
2024 Offie Award Winner - Sally Paffett for Lead Performance
2024 Offie Award Nomination - Benny Ainsworth for Best New Play
2024 Offie Award Nomination - Benny Ainsworth for Lead Performance

Reviews

★★★★★ “Truly a brilliant one of a kind” British Theatre Guide
★★★★★ “Exceptional” Broadway Baby
★★★★★ “Breathtaking” The New Current
★★★★★ “What a ride” fringebiscuit
★★★★ “Compelling” The Stage
★★★★ “This play will stick with you” Lost in Theatreland
★★★★ Theatre Weekly
★★★★ Bouquets and Brickbats
★★★★ London Pub Theatres
★★★★ North West End
★★★★ Lost in Theatreland