Jim Cartwright Company, Theatre Royal Wakefield, Chris Hannon

Written by Jim Cartwright.

Stand Up Stand Up is a dark comedy, hilarious and heartbreaking in turns.

A struggling comedian meets a bailiff, sounds like the start of a gag, but heralds an unlikely alliance that leads them both on a life changing roller coaster of an adventure neither would have ever expected.

It is as if Can't Pay? We'll Take It Away! met with Live at the Apollo and spontaneously combusted.

From the internationally acclaimed writer whose many award-winning plays include Road, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (winner of both an Olivier Award and Evening Standard Best Comedy Award) and Two.