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Alex Edelman: Just For Us

critically and commercially acclaimed

January - February 2023

About The Show

Just For Us takes the audience through hilarious anecdotes from Alex Edelman’s life — his Olympian brother AJ, an unconventional holiday season, and a gorilla that can do sign language — but at its centre is an astonishing and frighteningly relevant story. After a string of antisemitic abuse is directed at Edelman online, he decides to covertly attend a gathering of White Nationalists in New York City and comes face to face with the people behind the keyboards. The result is a hair-raising encounter that gives Just For Us its title and final, jaw-dropping twist.

The production reunites Edelman with director Adam Brace – who have collaborated since 2014.

Alex Edelman is a comedian and writer whose Orthodox Jewish upbringing has informed critically and commercially acclaimed work for the stage and screen. He is known both for his solo shows – three, all award-winning, sell-out hits in London’s West End and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival – and for his TV writing. At the start of the pandemic, he served as the head writer and executive producer of Saturday Night Seder, a star studded 70-minute special, posted on YouTube, that has so far raised $3.5 million for the CDC Foundation (COVID-19) Emergency Response Fund.

Adam Brace directs. He is Associate Director at Soho Theatre where he works across comedy, theatre and performance Art and in roles spanning dramaturg, director and writer. In comedy he has developed a varied range of work including 8 Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated shows, 2 Herald Angel Award-winners, 2 nominees for the Melbourne Barry Award and 2 Southbank Sky Arts Awards. Directing credits include all of Alex Edelman’s shows, most recently Just For Us (Drama Desk Nominee 2022) currently extended six times Off-Broadway; Age is a Feeling by Haley McGee (Fringe First 2022, Soho Theatre this autumn); all of Sh!t Theatre’s multi-award-winning international shows. Other credits include Ahir Shah’s HBO Max special Dots and Creative Supervisor on two series of Soho Theatre Live on Amazon Prime. Previously he was a playwright and was produced by Almeida Theatre, the National Theatre and the Donmar Warehouse; his plays are published by Faber and Faber.

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Alex Edelman: Just For Us

By the end I had to check my ribcage for intercostal damage

Daily Express

punchily delivered, well-crafted, very very funny…

The Independent

Brilliantly intricately funny

Evening Standard

Absolutely joyous

Time Out

an outlandish true story, brilliantly told

The Telegraph

comic firecrackers

Daily Mirror

Creative Team

Written By
Alex Edelman
Directed by
Adam Brace

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Show Info

ALEX EDELMAN:
JUST FOR US

MAIN HOUSE

 


11th January 2023 –
26th February 2023

Opening night –

18th January 2023


RUNNING TIME

90 minutes without an interval

PERFORMANCE TIMES

Tuesday – Saturday: 7:30pm
Saturday & Sunday: 3pm

No performances on
Sunday 15th and 22nd January

Additional performance on
Monday 16th January



CAST

Alex Edelman

 

CREATIVES

Written by
Alex Edelman

Director 
Adam Brace

Lighting Designer
Tim Lutkin

Sound Designer
Jonathan Everett