Theatre Clubs. Writers: Ben Ashenden and Alex Owen. Neither duo are delighted to be playing to a sparse crowd in a sleepy, seaside town, but when it’s revealed that a Hollywood director is in the audience, both acts glimpse a final chance for their big break. As Associate Director: Antony & Cleopatra and Hansard (National Theatre); The Book of Dust, Julius Caesar and A Midsummer Night’s Dream(Bridge). Following his graduation from LAMDA, he has appeared in The Emily Atack Show (ITV), PLS Like (BBC) and Doctors (BBC). Opened, reviewed, December 12, 2020. This debut play from The Pin’s award-winning Ben Ashenden and Alex Owen – ‘destined to become one of the great comedy duos’ (Radio Times) – tells the story of two double acts fighting to wrestle control of the most chaotic, farcical and high-stakes gig of their respective careers. Subject to availability, tickets for The Comeback may be exchanged up to 24 hours prior to a performance. Itâs not the only time credibility is stress tested: the plot turns on repeated mistaken identity between the younger twosome and an act 30 years their senior. close. Barney is also one-half of the critically acclaimed Edinburgh Festival Fringe sell-out comedy sketch duo, Giants. Search. Find a theatre or a show . Ben and Alex have also recently made an eight part series for Audible, The Special Relationship, co-starring Fred Armisen, Cecily Strong, Kate Berlant, Lolly Adefope and Jamie Demetriou. Ben Ashenden and Alex Owen’s delightful production has already been put … UPDATE: This show is currently off-sale whilst new dates for 2021 are being scheduled. The Noel Coward Theatre is a COVID secure venue and guests must adhere to current COVID restrictions. Sign up to our newsletter and we’ll keep you posted on rescheduled dates. He currently has TV projects in development with Big Talk and Ray Pictures, and a feature film under option with Golden Arrow Productions. The Comeback started life as a 55-minute Edinburgh fringe show, which imagined âAlex and Benâ as a support act for a veteran, vaudeville twosome, now named Jimmy and Sid. Ben Ashenden and Alex Owen (known as The Pin), Playing Field, Eilene Davidson Productions, Rupert Gavin/Mallory Factor, David Mirvish, By using this website you agree with our Cookie Policy. One wishes them Right Size levels of success, which the show richly deserves â assuming itâs ever allowed back on stage. He received an Off-West End Award nomination as Most Promising New Playwright for the piece. Theatre credits include: Incantata (Irish Rep Theatre, NYC and Galway Festival), Hedda Gabler (Sherman Theatre); The Phlebotomist (Hampstead, Upstairs); Midsummer Party (The Old Vic); The Audience (Nuffield, Southampton); Don Carlos (Exeter Northcott); An Adventure, Leave Taking (Bush); Yous Two (Hampstead); The Almighty Sometimes (Royal Exchange); King Lear (Globe Theatre); Earthworks and Myth (RSC); Low Level Panic (Orange Tree); After October (Finborough); Henry I (Reading Between the Lines); Girls (Soho Theatre, Hightide & Talawa Theatre); FUP, Noye’s Fludde (Kneehigh); Dark Land Lighthouse, St Joan of the Stockyards, A Thousand Seasons Passed, The Tinder Box, The Last Days of Mankind, Talon (Bristol Old Vic); Diary of a Madman, The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco (Gate); Infinite Lives (Tobacco Factory); Banksy: The Room in the Elephant (Tobacco Factory and Traverse); Coastal Defenses (Tobacco Factory). BUY WITH CONFIDENCE - TICKET EXCHANGE. It is about the comeback tour of one set of comedians – Jimmy and Syd – and the struggling young comedians "Ben" and "Alex" who are the support act. This show is a much needed dose of feel-good, dizzying escapism with real emotional heart, and a celebrity guest each night to boot.Up-and-coming comics Ben and Alex have been booked in the warm-up spot for a beloved but fading double act’s comeback tour. Subject to availability, tickets for The Comeback may be exchanged up to 24 hours prior to a performance. The spirit of the Right Sizeâs Morecambe and Wise tribute, The Play Wot I Wrote, haunts proceedings â even if Ashenden and Owen are never entirely convincing as their northern, end-of-the-pier alter egos. A brand new comedy, The Comeback, will open in the West End in December. Alex’s TV pilot Mersea was recently a finalist for the International Emmy Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award. Buy tickets for The Comeback in London from just £19.00 with fast delivery, at Theatre.com. Their lockdown Zoom sketches have gained over 6 million views online. The Comeback started life as a 55-minute Edinburgh fringe show, which imagined “Alex and Ben” as a support act for a veteran, vaudeville twosome, … Directed by Emily Burns, The Comeback tells the story of two double acts fighting to wrest control of the most chaotic, farcical and high-stakes gig of their respective careers. His first play, School Play, was produced at the Southwark Playhouse and is published by Oberon Books. Furiously funny. The Comeback, a brilliantly original and hilarious new comedy, is set to delight all generations at the Noel Coward Theatre this December. Thatâs a crying shame: this backstage farce by double act The Pin is great fun, and will be even more so when Alex Owen, Ben Ashenden and their helpers bed in to its particular haywire rhythms. The opening scene purports to show Alex and Benâs act malfunctioning live on stage â which strains credibility, given how fantastic their sketches are. As an actor Ben’s credits include Bridget Jones’s Baby, Avenue 5 (HBO) and W1A (BBC1) and Alex’s include Victoria (ITV), Crackanory (Dave) and Wannabe (BBC3). Until The Comeback makes its return to the Noël Coward Theatre, you can sign up for the latest news or buy a credit voucher to ensure you’re amongst our first audiences as soon as new dates are announced. Noel Coward Theatre. "A bulletproof nugget of comic theatre" THE GUARDIAN “Will simply make you laugh your socks off” EVENING STANDARD. THE COMEBACK has been postponed. Alex Owen Ben Ashenden Comedy Farce Noel Coward Theatre Sonia Friedman Productions West End. But theatre is still contagious as far as the government is concerned â and The Comebackâs opening performances are to be its last, for a while. Announcing it earlier this autumn, producer Sonia Friedman hailed this show as âthe cure for theatreâ. Reopening the Noel Coward Theatre, Ben Ashenden and Alex Owen’s comedy play The Comeback is … Sound Design includes: The Almighty Sometimes (Royal Exchange); Hijabi Monologues (Bush Theatre); Disco Pigs (Trafalgar Studios & Irish Rep Theatre NY); The Ugly One, A Dark Night in Dalston (Park Theatre); They Drink it in The Congo (Almeida); The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie (Arcola, HighTide Festival); The Snow Queen (Southampton Nuffield & Northampton Royal & Derngate); Orson’s Shadow (Southwark Playhouse); Defect (Arts Ed); Betrayal (I Fagiolini, UK Tour); A Harlem Dream (Young Vic); Khandan (Birmingham Rep, Royal Court); Superior Donuts (Southwark Playhouse); Three Men In A Boat (Original Theatre Company, UK Tour); King John (Union Theatre); It’s about Time (Nabokov Theatre Company, Hampstead Theatre); Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat (Royal Court, Gate Theatre, Out of Joint, Paines Plough, National Theatre); House of Agnes (Paines Plough). This is the debut play from The Pin’s dazzling award-winners Ben Ashenden and Alex Owen, a pair who have been tipped to become 'one of the great comedy duos’ according to the Radio Times. Buy tickets ... ‘The Comeback’ follows a pair of up-and-coming comics booked to warm up on tour for a fading double-act’s comeback tour. The idea has been developed from Backstage, the duo's 2018 Fringe show, and the conceit is that “Ben” and “Alex” are a double act who are the warm-up act for Jimmy and Sid, two old stagers knocking out a decades-old end-of-the-pier act in a theatre in the fictional town of Diddlington. He is one third of sketch trio Princes of Main and a finalist of the Musical Comedy Awards 2020/21. In its place, thereâs more heart â though worn a bit too prominently on its sleeve towards the end. BUY WITH CONFIDENCE - TICKET EXCHANGE. Among the showâs many pleasures is the good-natured manhandling of a different guest star nightly.