This time last year we were preparing to rehearse for the Perfect Show For Rachel tour. Sophie Woolley, Associate Artist with Zoo Co, has been reflecting on why Perfect Show for Rachel has such sticking power. Why is Perfect Show for Rachel a show you can keep seeing again and again and why does it keep getting better, how does it avoid the theatrical law of diminishing returns, and the performers getting lazy and throwing it away? Why do I love going to see it again and again and again? ...

Written by Amy, Executive Director of Zoo Co. Click here to listen. It’s June 2026, and our epic UK Tour of Perfect Show for Rachel has just drawn to a close. Since October, we’ve visited 7 venues across England with our critically-acclaimed show, directed live on-stage every night by Rachel, who’s learning disabled and lives in a care home. Our vision for the tour was always that it wouldn’t just be about the show - that we’d offer a menu of wraparound activities to each place we visited....

Whilst we've been on tour with Perfect Show for Rachel, various artists / facilitators / creatives have joined us to observe, learning about our practice and what we get up to on the ground. Below is a reflection from Maya Seligman, who has joined us across the tour - in rehearsals, for shows and our community engagement workshops. When I saw Perfect Show For Rachel at the Barbican in 2024, I turned to my uncle (who had bought us tickets because he likes improv!) and said ‘I need to find a...