In the kitchen of an old Devon rectory, the daughter who stayed and the son who moved away make conversation with their current and former partners, the milkman, the postman, the care workers. They talk about the weather, the roads, the toaster, the bins. About anything except the simmering tensions between them, as their father lies mortally ill in the next room. Until the unspoken emotions and conflicts of years boil over. Eclipse is a painfully funny, acute and delicate play about our struggle to communicate, in the face of life and of death. And our infinite capacity for drinking tea.

With music by Alan Menken (Disney's The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast) and book and lyrics by Howard Ashman (also Disney's The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast), Little Shop of Horrors is a madcap mash-up of sci-fi, Motown and B-movie horror. Meet Seymour Krelborn, a down-on-his-luck flower shop assistant who stumbles upon a strange and exotic plant with a sinister secret: it thrives on human blood. As the plant's appetite grows, so does Seymour's fame and fortune – but at what cost?

She's signed them both up. Her and her husband. For stand-up comedy. So tonight they're locking themselves in their living room until they've got a ‘tight five', delving through their past for material. But some jokes hurt and laughter isn't always the best medicine. With the clock ticking and nothing but a baby monitor for an audience, they wrestle with the spotlight as questions about their future are forced to the surface.