Award-winning dark comedy Weather Girl is transferring to London, playing Soho Theatre from 5 March to 5 April 2025.
A hot ticket at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Weather Girl scored a Scotsman Fringe First, Popcorn Award, LIST Award and Lustrum Award during its run in Edinburgh.
The show takes audiences on a dizzying rampage into the soul of American strangeness, centred on California weather girl Stacey – an oversexed and underpaid harbinger of our dying planet. But today, her regular routine of wildfires, prosecco and teeth whitening descends into a scorched earth catastrophe before she discovers something that will save us all.
Weather Girl reunites writer Brian Watkins (Outer Range, Amazon; The Flea) and director Tyne Rafaeli (The Coast Starlight, Lincoln Centre; Selling Kabul, Playwrights Horizons), who also collaborated together on the Outer Critics Circle nominated play Epiphany at Lincoln Centre in New York.
The cast features off-Broadway star Julia McDermott (Heroes Of The Fourth Turning, Playwrights Horizons; Epiphany, Druid Theatre) reprising the role of Stacey.
The creative team includes Olivier and Tony Award nominee Isabella Byrd (Cabaret, West End; Romeo and Juliet, Broadway) as set and lighting designer, Rachel Dainer-Best (Outer Range, Amazon; Waves, A24) as costume designer, and Kieran Lucas (My Name is Rachel Corrie, Young Vic; Shooting Hedda Gabler, Rose Theatre) as sound designer.
The show is produced by Francesca Moody Productions (Baby Reindeer, Fleabag, Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!, Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen, School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play).
Writer Brian Watkins said in a statement: “It is a rare and sacred thing to be able to reassemble such an incredible team for a play that is so close to my heart. I am thrilled that we will get to share this very personal piece with London audiences, at a time when our relationship with the environment feels akin to the runaway train that is this play. The brilliant team at Francesca Moody Productions did such a stellar job in Edinburgh where we were overwhelmed by the response; we can’t wait to share that same excitement with wider audiences at such a pressing time.”
Producer Francesca Moody said: “I’m thrilled to be bringing this scorching black comedy to Soho Theatre and have the opportunity to share it with a wider audience after its success in Edinburgh. Weather Girl is not just a brilliant play but a powerful statement about how we are all asleep at the wheel. With a meteorologist breaking down live on air only a month ago as Hurricane Milton swept across America, this production could not feel more timely or relevant. I am so honoured to be working with this incredible team of artists; Brian Watkins, Tyne Rafaeli, Julia McDermott Isabella Byrd and Kieran Lucas who have poured everything into this fierce and important production.”
Weather Girl is playing at Soho Theatre in London from 5 March to 5 April 2025.
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