A new musical comedy and an award-winning newly devised play based on Shakespeare's Hamlet will be playing in London this September.
Under the Influence:
After becoming a viral sensation, identical twins Carine and Frances land in couples therapy as the world’s most co-dependent non-couple. The session erupts into a hilarious musical intervention and a reckoning that threatens to collapse their lifelong duet.
Best known as @thegilberttwins to their 3M+ followers online, Carine and Frances return to their musical theatre roots with their original score co-written by Shona Maule. This new musical comedy is based on their own real experience of doing couples therapy together. Loud, ridiculous, and unexpectedly heartfelt, this musical explores the chaos of sisterhood, online pressure, and the search for your own voice. Tickets: here.
Ham:
Winner of The Scotsman Fringe First Awards 2026.
A grief-stricken vegan seeks revenge for the death of a pig. First, he thinks for a long time. Second, he blames his mother. Finally, he wreaks the ultimate vengeance... by putting on a play. HAM is a kinky eco-hijacking of Shakespeare’s Hamlet about meat, madness and the power of shame. The 'vividly, viscerally alive' (The Guardian) Hotter Project twists this high-brow tragedy into a sordid wrestle between a vegan and a sausage-lover. As we hurtle towards the end of humankind, every one of us must decide: to eat, or not to eat? Is that the question?
Hotter Project first debuted at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with HOTTER in 2017 which had three sell-out runs and toured across the UK. Their previous productions also include FITTER and The Last Show Before We Die. HAM saw them return to the Fringe with a newly devised piece. Tickets: here.