BLACKPILL: REDUX at Theatre Works tickets

After a record-breaking sold-out season at Explosives Factory in 2025, the critical smash-hit BLACKPILL. storms back to open the Theatre Works 2026 season this January.

As online misogynistic hate communities continue to grow in reach and vitriol, their members are quietly refining methods to recruit and radicalise young boys with alarming precision. Shielded by anonymity and driven by opaque algorithms, these networks lie in wait, ready to intercept moments of doubt and insecurity.

Paracosm’s BLACKPILL: REDUX exposes the mechanisms through which these communities identify, isolate, and indoctrinate boys at their most vulnerable. Combining devised performance with archival text, the work charts the rapid descent from innocent questions like 'gym tips', 'how to be confident' or 'how do I talk to girls' into a vast and largely unseen digital underworld. BLACKPILL: REDUX reveals how fear is cultivated, how belonging is weaponised, and how a single click can draw a young mind into a culture of bitterness, blame, and radicalisation that operates in plain sight yet remains dangerously misunderstood.

Dubbed "A highly accomplished show in all areas", "A phenomenally well developed and executed piece of theatre" and "a dynamic, thoughtful, throbbing contribution to an urgent conversation" in its first run, BLACKPILL: REDUX has reloaded BLACKPILL bigger, bolder and better than ever before.