Who WHAT wHy
2025
I've Heard This One Before
A surreal and sharp-edged two-hander blending live music, stand-up, clowning, and existential dread. Set in a purgatory-like comedy club, the show follows a deeply insecure comic and a clueless, drum-playing clown as they unravel the fragile mechanics of laughter - one ill-timed cymbal crash at a time.
2025
THE DARNDEST THINGS
The Darndest Things fuses verbatim conversations with visceral movement, exposing the disconnect between childhood innocence and the grim realities of our future. A daring exploration of what today's children will inherit.
The Kyds
WHY
KILL YOUR DARLINGS was born from a need for creative community with shared values of rigour, creativity, and proactivity. We believe that to make the best work, you need to surround yourself with people that will encourage, challenge, and support you. Although we pursue our own creative interests within the company, we commit to bolstering each other's projects with our various skills as performers, movers, directors, dramaturgs, sound designers, and photographers. Anything we cannot do, we outsource to our wide and brilliant creative networks.
Our goal is to have a wide and varied portfolio of creative work, spanning across different forms, experiences, and creative disciplines. We aim to cultivate an audience in London and beyond, who know us for our innovation, quality, and consistent output of work.
Our namesake inspires a philosophy in our creative process: that the most important part of any project is when you must "kill your darlings" - the moments that you may adore, that you've spent days working on, and yet, no longer serve the work. To have the courage, the rigour, and the knowledge to make these cuts, is a painful but necessary indicator that you are on the right path.