Hope All's Well

Michael Spicer brings his new show, Hope All's Well, to the New Theatre Royal on Thursday 5 November. It's a satirical stage show built around sketches, short films, and stories about the current political and global situation, and it brings together a few different threads of his work: characters from his radio sketch show No Room appear alongside interactive video sketches.

If the name doesn't ring a bell, you've likely come across The Room Next Door, the viral online series that put him on the map. It's gathered over 90 million views and led to a sell-out Edinburgh Fringe show, a nationwide tour, a book deal, and a Writers' Guild award. He's also appeared several times on The Late Late Show in the US. Hope All's Well takes that same satirical energy and puts it on stage.

Spicer has a fair bit of writing and acting behind him beyond the viral stuff. He created the award-winning Radio 4 sitcom Before Next Door and the radio sketch show Michael Spicer: No Room, and he's popped up in series like After Life, Bridgerton, Avoidance, Buffering, The Sister Boniface Mysteries, and Disclaimer, directed by Alfonso Cuarón. He also appeared across all three series of Mandy on BBC2. In 2020, he published The Secret Political Adviser: The Unredacted Files of the Man in the Room Next Door.

So, on the night, you'll get sketches, short films, and stories about the state of the world, with characters from No Room and interactive video sketches mixed in. It's all at the New Theatre Royal in Portsmouth on Thursday 5 November.