BUTTS IN THE WEST END! Prehistoric Parody Roars Into The Arts Theatre * Fairy Powered Productions

PREHISTORIC PARODY ROARS INTO THE WEST END!

SALLY CADE HOLMES AND HEATHER SHIELDS ANNOUNCE

WEST END PREMIERE OF RECENT CUTBACKS’ CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED HIT

HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTTS

AT THE ARTS THEATRE THIS EASTER

Due to popular demand, Sally Cade Holmes and Heather Shields, producers of critically acclaimed off-West End hit Hold On To Your Butts, today announce a limited Easter West End engagement at the Arts Theatre from 7-12 April 2025 under The Choir of Man with performances on sale now. The five-star (WhatsOnStage) show ran at the Arcola Theatre in London over Christmas and is now on tour with sold out performances!

Recent Cutbacks’ live shot-for-shot parody of the greatest dinosaur film of all time is performed by just two actors and a live Foley artist.

The tour began at the Curve Theatre in Leicester on 7 February and continues at Lowry in Salford, Norden Farm in Maidenhead, Macready Theatre in Rugby, Swan Theatre in Worcester, Octagon Theatre Bolton, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Exeter Northcott Theatre, Norwich Playhouse, The Dukes in Lancaster, Hull Truck Theatre, and Slung Low in Leeds.

Tickets for West End performances and tour venues are on sale now at www.holdontoyourbutts.co.uk.

A wildly inventive tour-de-force of comedy, physical theatre and live Foley, Hold On To Your Butts was created by Recent Cutbacks, directed by Kristin McCarthy Parker (Puffs, Or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic, Off-Broadway), developed with Nick Abeel, Kyle Schaefer & Blair Busbee, and stars Jack Baldwin (The Play That Goes Wrong and The Comedy About A Bank Robbery, West End) and Charlie Richards (The Play That Goes Wrong West End, The Unfriend West End) who also serves as associate director, with live sound and foley by Charlie Ives (A Christmas Carol – A Ghost Story, Nottingham Playhouse and Alexandra Palace; Private Lives, West End). The company is completed by James Physick (The Unseen, Riverside Studios). A Cappella arrangements are by Kelsey Didion, and Lighting Design is by Christopher Nairne.

Recent Cutbacks is a New York-based creative ensemble founded in 2014. Their critically acclaimed work sits at the intersection of comedy and theatre. They’re best known for live movie parodies that fuse humour, nostalgia, and lo-fi spectacle.

Their projects invite audiences to see the world with a newfound exuberance and remind us why we fell in love with movies, theatre, and storytelling in the first place.

Sally Cade Holmes and Heather Shields present

Recent Cutbacks’

HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTTS

Created by Recent Cutbacks

Starring Jack Baldwin, Charlie Ives, Charlie Richards & James Physick

A Cappella Arrangements by Kelsey Didion

Directed by Kristin McCarthy Parker

Developed with Nick Abeel, Kyle Schaefer & Blair Busbee

Associate Producer FutureHome Productions

65 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth…
30 years ago, a movie about dinosaurs ruled the box office…

This year, you are advised to HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTTS!

Hold On To Your Butts is a must see “shot-for-shot” parody of the greatest dinosaur film of all time. After selling out in New York and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, this wildly inventive tour-de-force of comedy, Foley sound and physical theatre is now touring the country and transferring to the West End following a hugely successful London run.

Don’t walk, RUN to get your tickets!

www.holdontoyourbutts.co.uk

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WEST END LISTINGS

HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTTS

Age guidance: 8+

Length: 75 mins

Arts Theatre, London

Monday 7 – Saturday 12 April 2025

Mon: 7.30pm

Tues: 3pm