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Home > Screenings > Avalon Distribution > Catastrophe

Genres: Comedy

People: Ben Taylor, Jon Thoday, Kara Baker, Richard Allen-Turner, Rob Delaney, Sharon Horgan

Shows: Catastrophe

Companies: Avalon Distribution, Avalon Television, Birdbath Productions, Merman


6 x 30’

Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan write and star in Catastrophe, a comedy following an Irish woman and an American man who make a bloody mess as they struggle to fall in love in London. Clumsy lust, instant pregnancy, and genuine disaster provide the foundation for this flaming hovel of a relationship.

In a mess of events always in danger of slipping out of their grasp, Rob and Sharon must also learn to deal with her largely awful friend (Ashley Jensen); his eccentric Bostonian mother (Carrie Fisher); and attempt to navigate the choppy waters of their ever-more-complicating lives. Can Sharon, “an extraordinarily good-smelling woman” and Rob, “a sturdy love-maker” steer through the increasingly thorny situations they find themselves in and still find time for an emergency shag in a stairwell? Prepare to find out.