Rowling In It: Villain in Progress tickets

Once upon a time, award winning but completely unknown actress Laura Kay Bailey headed to the Edinburgh Fringe to play the theater world’s most hated public figure: J.K. Rowling.

The show she performed in had Edinburgh “running scared” (Telegraph): the backstage chaos was unscripted and the death threats real. The New York Times was in the audience. No one had packed extra Valium.

Direct from London, this is Laura’s story: a wickedly funny solo hour about artistic ambition, public outrage and finding your feet after spectacular failure.

In a “tour de force performance” (Reviews Gate), Bailey takes aim at J.K. Rowling’s tweets, performative activism, and a theater industry that can turn a short supply of oat milk into a moral crisis.

For fans of The Play That Goes Wrong, The Book of Mormon and Fleabag.

★★★★ — “Delightfully wicked humor” — Theatre and Tonic

★★★★ — “A whirlwind of comedy” — All That Dazzles

★★★★ — “Funny and irreverent” — Reviews Gate

★★★★ — “An intriguing story of the personal cost of public outrage” — A Shiny Life For Me

“A funny and engaging one-woman show” — Daily Mail

“A fantastic array of comic impersonations” — The Spectator