Tour and additional London performances announced for HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTTS

Producers of critically acclaimed fringe hit Hold On To Your Butts have announced 2025 tour dates and additional London performances at the Arcola Theatre.

Recent Cutbacks’ live shot-for-shot parody of the greatest dinosaur film of all time is performed by just two actors and a live Foley artist.

The tour begins at the Curve Theatre in Leicester on 7 February and is followed by performances in Salford, Maidenhead, Rugby, Worcester, Bolton, Birmingham, Exeter, Norwich, Lancaster, and Hull. Further venues are to be announced.

Following terrific initial booking, the producers have also confirmed that additional performances at the Arcola Theatre are now on sale across the festive period.

A wildly inventive tour-de-force of comedy, physical theatre and live Foley, Hold On To Your Butts was created by Recent Cutbacks, directed by Kristin McCarthy Parker, developed with Nick Abeel, Kyle Schaefer & Blair Busbee, and stars Jack Baldwin (The Play That Goes Wrong; The Comedy About A Bank Robbery, West End) and Laurence Pears (The Mousetrap, UK Tour; The Comedy About A Bank Robbery; Magic Goes Wrong, West End), with live sound and foley by Charlie Ives (A Christmas Carol – A Ghost Story, Nottingham Playhouse/Alexandra Palace; Private Lives, West End). A cappella arrangements are by Kelsey Didion.

Recent Cutbacks is a New York-based creative ensemble founded in 2014. Their critically acclaimed work sits at the intersection of comedy and theatre. They’re best known for live movie parodies that fuse humour, nostalgia, and lo-fi spectacle.

Their projects invite audiences to see the world with a newfound exuberance and remind us why we fell in love with movies, theatre, and storytelling in the first place.

Tickets for London performances of Hold On To Your Butts and tour venues are on sale now here.