Soho Theatre Review 9th September 2026

If, like me, you missed Bigfoot Ripped My Dog In Half I Saw It during its successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, its transfer to London’s Soho Theatre offers another chance to catch this inventive, gloriously strange show.

The stage initially greets us with a projected title and a stop sign. The lights go out, and giant footsteps thud through the darkness. Then two teenagers, played by Xhloe and Natasha, appear and drape the sign with what seem to be parts of an enormous creature. A Bigfoot? A Sasquatch? A monster?

Through a series of quick, interlocking sketches, we discover that the pair have crashed into the stop sign during an evening of unlicensed driving. Their solution is to invent a creature responsible for the damage, then spread the story of its attacks around town.

Wearing white clown faces with red accents, Xhloe and Natasha weave together encounters with locals, playing all the characters between them: a convenience store, a mayor’s garden complete with birdbath, and a garden where a dog has escaped through the fence. Each encounter feeds the myth, drawing the townspeople further into the teenagers’ increasingly elaborate lies.

Their character work is superb. They switch roles within and between scenes so effectively that these peculiar encounters begin to feel weirdly real. Their clowning is exceptional, with some of the biggest laughs coming from moments when barely anything is said.

As the stories multiply, the web of lies develops into something like a government cover-up, even with officials involved: half-truths, conspiracy and messaging designed to keep the whole thing alive. A soundtrack featuring Aqua, Vengaboys and Britney Spears suggests one era, while the manipulation of truth feels uncomfortably close to America now.

Perhaps that explains why the quieter moments of the show make such an impact. The deluge of false information we face today is hardly funny, yet here the gaps between the messages offer room for both truth and humour. Or perhaps that is simply another story we are being encouraged to believe.

An inventive piece of clowning and storytelling, Bigfoot Ripped My Dog In Half I Saw It keeps us on our toes, finding hilarious moments of truth, or are they falsehoods, along the way.

Show	Bigfoot Ripped My Dog In Half I Saw It
Dates & Times	7 to 26 September 2026
Venue	Soho Theatre, London
Production	Xhloe and Natasha, Soho Theatre and SoHo Playhouse
Tickets	Soho Theatre