It's Headed Straight Towards Us
It's Headed Straight Towards Us
72% 4 reviews
72%
(4 Ratings)
Positive
25%
Mixed
75%
Negative
0%
Members say
Entertaining, Resonant, Cliched, Funny, Bland

About the Show

Rufus Hound & Samuel West star in Adrian Edmondson & Nigel Planer's new comedy.

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Critic Reviews (7)

BroadwayWorld
September 20th, 2023

“The playwrights toe the line, pushing the boundaries of properness to the point that one wonders if now is the right moment for a play of this kind. While the entertainment business keeps imploding, the piece refuses to properly utilise its thematic plotlines as full-on satire. All in all, it’s a quirky vanity project with a few comic gems and too many unwieldy junctures.”
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All That Dazzles (UK)
September 20th, 2023

"Packed to the brim with punchlines, and with three great performances at its core, 'It’s Headed Straight Towards Us' is another excellent outing for the Off-West End Park Theatre. Pacy, witty and laugh-out-loud funny, it’s a brilliantly entertaining evening."
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The Stage (UK)
September 20th, 2023

"Edmondson and Planer’s script is peppered with actorly jokes that are guaranteed to get a laugh...But when the name-calling and the petty jealousies are set aside, prompted by the gradual onset of physical danger, we catch glimpses of the flipside."
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The Times (UK)
September 20th, 2023

"I enjoyed some of the lines and much of the acting, yet there is no escaping the sense that time is just being killed here."
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WhatsOnStage
September 20th, 2023

" 'It’s Headed Straight Towards Us' is steeped in theatrical lore and references, infused with 'luvviedom', and will be catnip to anyone obsessed with acting and actors. It’s also very funny, rip-roaringly so if you’re in the performing arts or are close to somebody who is."
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The Arts Desk
September 21st, 2023

“Adrian Edmonson’s and Nigel Planer’s ‘It’s Headed Straight Towards Us’ has ended up an incompletely digested mix of digs at the acting world and Young Ones-y excess.”
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Time Out London
August 31st, 2023
For a previous production

“As you’d hope from a comedy written by two-fifths of the Young Ones, Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer’s ‘It’s Headed Straight Towards Us’ is pretty amusing...A pleasant way to spend a couple of hours, but it’s really just a trifle when it could have been much more.”
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