Sniff - Park Theatre

‘Where are your mates, Liam?’

Two strangers meet in a pub toilet in a small town that no one cares about. Liam, struggling with addiction and money troubles, has never left the claustrophobic town that birthed him. He’s lost everything, if he ever had it. Alex, cloaked in a Hugo Boss suit and the pride of a job in Canary Wharf, comes down to visit this quaint place with his girlfriend. It seems like he has everything. However, as the door locks, and time clocks, a dark connection begins to unearth itself.

This play is an ode to the forgotten.

First performed at the Maltings Theatre in Hertfordshire, Sniff was then selected as an ‘outstanding’ script and was performed at Theatre503. It then went on to do a longer run at the Jack Studio in 2023.

In the press

★★★★ ‘Fascinating, exciting, gripping and chilling’

Broadway Baby

★★★★ ‘Sniff moves from Peep Show to Inside No.9 in just over an hour’

London Pub Theatres

★★★★ ‘Writers of some talent. Along with their sense of theatricality, they can hold an audience with laughter while hitting them over the head with harsh reality’

Everything Theatre

★★★★ ‘The brilliance of Sniff is in the intricate way the two characters’ conversation seemingly circles around innocuous topics while it is in fact spiralling to a gripping and shocking finale’

Always Time for Theatre

Make Mine A Double – multibuy offer

This Make Mine a Double sees Sniff and Cold Water join forces for a double bill, welcoming back some of the most promising recent talent from Park90.

Book during our early bird period to save £5 per ticket, or make it a double and see both for just £25!

Multibuy offer applies automatically when booking for both shows together and cannot be applied retrospectively, or in conjunction with any other offer.

Cast

Gabriel Fogarty-Graveson

Gabriel trained at Drama Centre London, the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute in Moscow & more recently at the Philippe Gaulier school in France. Credits include: The CO-OP at Park Theatre & English Theatre of Hamburg, The Hanging Gibbet at the Norwich Theatre, Our Little Life at the Black Box Studio in Slovenia. Last year, he appeared as Laurie in a tour of Little Women, as well as Connor in The Nag’s Head at Park Theatre. He also starred in the British Short Film Award Shortlisted film Bugbear, and played Billy in the 2024 shortfilm Back of the Net. Gabriel is one of the co-writers of Sniff.

Felix Grainger

A Shropshire Lad, born and raised in the countryside, it took a while for Felix to find his theatrical footing. He studied for a degree in Psychology, before realising his true passion and ‘switching sides’ to train at Drama Centre London. Before co-founding the company, Felix was a part of Shake it Up the improvised Shakespeare company, he starred in the world premiere of Peter Whelan’s Sleepers in the Field at Questors and has performed in a multitude of pub theatres around London. Felix has recently played Romeo with Dickens Theatre Company (New Wimbledon Theatre), The Porter in Macbeth and Robert Louis Stevenson/Inspector Newcomen in Jekyll and Hyde (UK Tour) and With Make it Beautiful Theatre Company he has starred in The CO-OP, Our Little Life, The Dream Machine, Severn Stories and The Nag’s Head. Felix is also one of the writers of Sniff.