This Review is from August 2025

Stuart Laws is Stuck, is a theatrical hour of stand up comedy, and really rather good. Everyone’s dealt with it: first, a bad breakup; then, become a puffin island caretaker; suddenly, you’re implicated in a puffin murder.

The comedian is attempting to retell the story of when he was the caretaker of an island of puffins. When one of the puffins goes missing, he discovers a conspiracy that that goes deeper than he could imagine.

As Stuart reflects on the nature of isolation, missing puffins and how much to reveal about his personal life, the play starts to shift from a straightforward whodunnit into a whydunnit and eventually a “isitevenrealdunnit?”.

This genre breaking hour of original theatre is as bonkers, and as funny, as its sounds.