IT COMES IN WAVES

About the show

Playwright James McDermott (Jab) and director Jake Smith (Andy Capp – The Musical, and I’m Gonna Pray For You So Hard) return to the Finborough Theatre with the London premiere of It Comes In Waves, following a sell-out tour by acclaimed company Eastern Angles. Lowestoft, Suffolk – a seaside town mourning the loss of its high street on a coastline that’s crumbling like Rich Tea biscuits. Three very different people meet in the town’s ‘Grief Café’… After losing her hubby, ageing Crystal wants to live laugh love, but maybe she just needs to chill out. After losing her Dad, teenage Jordan just wants to like get grieving over and done with, but grief is messy and comes in waves right? Group leader Howard just wants to help everyone else… But can he finally help himself and confront his own repressed grief. Drawing on the playwright’s own experience of bereavement after losing his father during the pandemic, It Comes In Waves is a new comedy drama that laughs in the face of loss as it asks how we can help each other stay afloat when grief hits us.