Ordinary Decent Criminal

Date Thursday 30 Oct 2025

Doors 7:00 pm Show starts: 7:30 pm

Advance price £17.00

Door price £19.00

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A co-production between Paines Plough, Live Theatre, Theatre Royal Plymouth and Ellie Keel Productions, in association with Synergy Theatre Project.

Meet recovering addict Frankie, played by renowned political comedian Mark Thomas. 

Frankie’s just been sentenced to three and a half years in jail for dealing drugs. When he gets there, none of his fellow convicts are what they seem. 

And with his typewriter, his activist soul, and his sore lack of a right hook, he somehow finds his way into their troubled hearts, and they into his. 

In the unlikeliest of places, he discovers that the revolution is not dead. It’s just sleeping. 

A brand new play from the writer of the Fringe First winning England & Son and A Political History of Smack & Crack, Ed Edwards reunites with Mark Thomas to tell a tale of freedom, revolution and messy love.

Directed by Paines Plough’s Joint Artistic Director, Charlotte Bennett.

Contains distressing or potentially triggering themes, scenes of violence, strong language/swearing, flashing lights, references to drug use and sexual references. 

Age 16+

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