The Fifth Step

The Fifth Step

at Soho Place, London

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Step 1: honesty.
Step 2: faith.
Step 3: surrender.
Step 4: self-examination.

After many years in the 12-step programme of Alcoholics Anonymous, James agrees to become the sponsor of newcomer Luka.

On the journey to sobriety, the pair bond over black coffee, trade stories, and build a fragile friendship out of their shared experiences.

On the cusp of Step 5, their conversations must turn to confessionals, with progress hinging on Luka revealing secrets that could lead back to alcohol. But it’s clear that James also has dangerous truths in his past, truths that threaten the trust on which both their recoveries depend.

Following an acclaimed sold-out Edinburgh season, Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) reprises his role as Luka joined in the West End by Emmy, BAFTA and SAG Award winner Martin Freeman (The Responder, Sherlock) as James.

Directed intimately in-the-round by Finn den Hertog, The Fifth Step is a provocative, entertaining and subversively funny new play from David Ireland.

Jack Lowden

Jack Andrew Lowden is a Scottish actor who following a four-year stage career, found international onscreen success in the 2016 BBC miniseries War & Peace.

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Martin Freeman

BAFTA Award-winning actor who has appeared on stage, screen and TV (Clybourne Park, The Hobbit, Sherlock, Love Actually).

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