Park theatre, London
An anonymously delivered box of something unmentionable sends an advertising worker into a spiral in Dave Florez’s comedy

A cake box arrives in the post, sent special delivery to Colin (Nicholas Burns), a 40-something north Londoner who works in advertising. But inside lies an offence wrapped in cling film that leaves Colin speechless: it is not cake but cack, as his brother-in-law, Brian (Alex Price), points out.

So begins playwright Dave Florez’s comedy, which sends Colin spiralling into crisis. His sister Lisa (Laura Haddock) and Brian buzz worriedly around him while he asks soul-searching questions of himself and of the box. Who could have sent it? Rupert from the advertising company, whom Colin recently laid off? Or someone further back whom he wronged at university and school? Who might want to wrong him? And was his gift from a human or animal source?

At Park theatre, London, until 1 March