The Fifth Step Tickets
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A story of faith, honesty, and fragile hope.
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The Fifth Step Tickets

About The Fifth Step

Step 1: honesty.

Step 2: faith.

Step 3: surrender.

Step 4: self-examination.

After many years in the 12-step programme of Alcoholics Anonymous, James agrees to become the sponsor of newcomer Luka.

On the journey to sobriety, the pair bond over black coffee, trade stories, and build a fragile friendship out of their shared experiences.

On the cusp of Step 5, their conversations must turn to confessionals, with progress hinging on Luka revealing secrets that could lead back to alcohol. But it’s clear that James also has dangerous truths in his past, truths that threaten the trust on which both their recoveries depend.

Following an acclaimed sold-out Edinburgh season, Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) reprises his role as Luka joined in the West End by Emmy, BAFTA and SAG Award winner Martin Freeman (The Responder, Sherlock) as James.

Directed intimately in-the-round by Finn den Hertog, The Fifth Step is a provocative, entertaining and subversively funny new play from David Ireland.

Assisted Performances:
BSL, 12 June, 7:30pm
Captioned, 24 June, 7:30pm
Audio Described, 8 July, 7.30pm

Run time

1hr 30min. No interval.

Age

Ages 16+.

Start date

10th May, 2025

End date

26th July, 2025

Our Review

'The Fifth Step' review — Martin Freeman and Jack Lowden are compelling opposites in this scorching, blackly comic two-hander

4 of 5
20 May 2025, 08:28
Read our review of The Fifth Step, written by David Ireland, now in performances at @sohoplace to 26 July.

The Fifth Step cast and creative team

By: David Ireland
Director: Finn den Hertog
Cast list: Jack Lowden, Martin Freeman

Venue

2 Soho Place, London, England, W1D 3BG

Directions

Railway station: Euston
Bus numbers: (Tottenham Ct Rd Station) 7, 10, 14, 24, 29, 73, 134, 242; (New Oxford St) 1, 8, 25, 55, 98, 176, 390
Night bus numbers: (Tottenham Ct Rd Station) 7, 10, 14, 24, 134, 242, N7, N29, N35, N68, N73, N253, N279; (New Oxford St) 25, 176, 390, N1, N8, N41, N55, N98, N171, N207
Car park: YMCA Great Russell Street (2mins), Holborn Selkirk House Museum Street (5mins)
Directions from tube: The theatre can be seen from the station, on the corner of the crossroads between Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street.

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