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"Octopus Soup! is a breath of fresh airThere’s never a dull moment and lots of laughs.Fine acting, excellent comic timing and a fast-paced plot.A good old Brit comedy"

UK Theatre Network

"Octopus Soup! will have you crying with laughter.If you long for a good belly laugh, then this brand-new British farce Octopus Soup! is the performance to see"

Newstyle Radio

"Octopus Soup! easily earns its laughsAn entertaining farce with a moral message that delivers on laughs…Plenty of entertaining physical comedy"

The Stage

“The actors are hilarious. The health effects of laughter are considerable, and the Theatre of Kotka gives an honorable contribution for a better health”

The Mummy - Kymen Sanomat, Finland

“…audience rewards the gags with constant laughter and applause. The Mummy, a classic to live for five thousand years”

The Mummy - La Platea, Argentina

“A delightfully silly and gloriously entertaining evening.”

The Mummy - Reviewsgate

“If you long for a good belly laugh, then this brand-new British farce! Octopus Soup!… is the performance to see.”

Newstyle Radio

"From deepest, darkest, dangerous Egypt a legendary curse is stirring back into life and we're all going along for an outrageous, terrifying ride!" Now available from stagescripts.com

"I love the unpredictability of his writing across all his work that I have read. There is always an eccentric angle taken as he explores ideas and characters and that leads to strong and performable comedy."

Joe Harmston, theatre director

"There is a lot to love about Octopus Soup, including Marvin’s witty one-liners and Malapropisms and Gloria’s chaotic character”

Chalmers News PR

"The first thing we ask is whether the director can bring something a bit different, a vision that we never envisaged. Jack did that brilliantly for us with Maggie's End."

Ed Waugh co-author of Maggie's End

Octopus Soup to be produced by Ashcroft theatre

Hurrah! In fact hurrah x 8! Octopus Soup, co-written with Mark Stevenson, will be produced at the Ashcroft Theatre in the Spring of 2015. The show will then tour (dates TBC).

About "Octopus Soup" by Jack Milner and Mark Stevenson

Seymour Norse, underwriter and ‘blue-sky insurance consultant’, is probably the safest man in England, the sort of man who wears a belt and braces (and another pair of braces). Then he is burgled, bound and beaten – all while taking a conference call. As the burglary progresses the criminal and the underwriter begin to see that an uneasy alliance of their professions might just work out rather well for all concerned…

Three days later and it’s all going swimmingly. That’s until his mobster friend invites Mr Big round on the same night that he has arranged to entertain the boss of the world’s largest insurance company…

The show will be directed by Joe Harmston.

Producers Simon Thomsett and Kevin Dunn

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