Show 792: Schindler’s Lisp – 30th January – Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London

Speech Therapist’s Office, Chicago, modern day
Dr Schindler has a very niche speciality – he helps spelling bee stars overcome any speech problems so that they can reach the heights of superstardom. When young Rebecca Fortitude comes to be treated, and it turns out her mother had been a spelling star but who had given it up to have children; and it turns out that her husband had left her after sleeping with another woman; and then it turns out that other woman was herself a rival spelling star Rebecca Degeneres; and Degeneres had been trained by Dr Schindler when he was a younger man. Layer upon layer fold in on themselves until the darkest secret is revealed – the truth about Rebecca’s birth…