The Fifth Step Tickets

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

Filmed Performances:
Please note the performances on Thursday 17th July (2:30pm & 7:30pm) will be filmed. While every effort has been made to make filming as discreet as possible, several cameras are present and visible in the auditorium. There will be 360-degree filming which will result in audience members being filmed and visible in any later broadcast. By attending you are agreeing to being filmed. Latecomers will not be admitted.