Mon, 03 March, 2025 — Sat, 08 March, 2025
Directed by Joe Douglas
A meta musical-comedy from acclaimed duo Jonny & The Baptists based on Dante’s Inferno…or what they have read of it.
Jonny has died and is greeted at the gates of hell by his spiritual guide…who looks, and acts, exactly like his long-suffering comedy partner Paddy.
As Paddy guides him through the nine layers of Hell, Jonny can’t help but wonder if this really is the afterlife. Is he actually dead? Is he in a coma somewhere? And why is this so eerily accurate to Dante’s Inferno when he’s only read the Cliffs notes?
Written and performed by acclaimed duo Jonny & The Baptists, HELL is about a tired man who would rather not deal with any of his problems, but if he must, then at least he gets to do it with his best friend.
Co-presented with Ayr Gaiety and Traverse Theatre.
Writers: Jonny Donahoe and Paddy Gervers
Director: Joe Douglas
Cast to be announced.
Jonny Donahoe & Paddy Gervers have worked together for over a decade as musical-comic outfit Jonny & The Baptists. They have made 10 shows that have toured the UK and all over the world, and have been nominated for 5 major awards. They have performed their shows at the National Theatre, Manchester Royal Exchange, Greenwich Playhouse New York, Soho Theatre, Downstage Theatre Wellington, Liverpool Everyman and Battersea Arts Centre.
Their previous touring shows include The End Is Nigh (a climate change comic play developed with the Machynlleth Centre for Alternative Technology), Eat The Poor (a musical about inequality for Pentabus/Farnham Maltings), Dance Like It Never Happened (about grief and loss in a post-pandemic world) and The Happiness Index (a comedy two-hander charting the decline of the nation’s mental health, currently touring the UK). Radio and TV credits include The Now Show (BBC R4), Infinite Monkey Cage (BBC R4), Sketchorama (BBC R4), Sound Heap (Max Fun/Auddy) and The Gadget Show (Channel 5). Jonny & The Baptists have been nominated for a Chortle Award, British Comedy Award, Hackney Empire New Act of the Year and the Musical Comedy Awards. They won a BBC Audio Drama Award for their work on Sound Heap (Max Fun/Auddy).
Joe Douglas has directed numerous shows for A Play, A Pie and A Pint, including The Last Cabaret on Earth, Party of the Century, The Body Electrician, Hello In There, Call of the Wild, McGonagall’s Chronicles, Fat Alice and Videotape. He also co-wrote and performed in The Peace Piece, a faux podcast about the Israel-Palestine conflict. His theatre directing without pies includes Dear Billy (NTS), The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (Dundee Rep) and Arabian Nights (Lyceum). He is the former Artistic Director of Live Theatre in Newcastle and was Associate Artistic Director at Dundee Rep.