Chris Cantrill: Rewilding

Stand-up comedy from Chris Cantrill, staged at Fairfield Social Club in Manchester. The solo show Rewilding follows a newcomer to a rural border community after a tree is felled overnight.

Rewilding is a solo stand-up show by Chris Cantrill, an Edinburgh Comedy Award winner who has also appeared on SNL UK and on Icklewick FM. The material follows an outsider who has settled into life in a rural community on the borderlands and is content with its slower routines, until a much-loved tree is cut down in the night. That act of vandalism pulls him into a mystery that exposes something far less pleasant beneath the village's calm surface.

The show's themes are community, revenge and custard. It is directed by Tom Parry, who was nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award. Reviews quoted by the production praise the craftsmanship of the writing, the self-deprecating anecdotes and the number of gags packed into the material.

It is pitched at anyone interested in community life and in keeping a close eye on their neighbours. The show is staged at Fairfield Social Club, a theatre on Irk Street in Manchester.