​​A tender, humorous exploration of bodies, fear, and what different beings remember about love.

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Below the Belt (In the Nicest Possible Way) is a warm, playful theatre piece that explores the human condition through three perspectives: male, female, and other-worldly.

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Humans live inside bodies that change, surprise, malfunction, and demand attention. Men and women navigate these shifts differently through ageing, desire, hormones, pride, and loss of control often responding with embarrassment, defensiveness, or humour.

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Observing quietly from the sidelines is a small group of visitors from another realm. They watch with curiosity and something unfamiliar to humans: an absence of fear. Puzzled by human anxiety around health, sexuality, ageing, and the unknown, they notice how kindness expands and contracts with mood, and how love often feels conditional.

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The humour comes not from mockery, but from contrast:

• Humans laughing to disguise fear

• Women adapting with resilience and wit

• Men masking vulnerability with silence or bravado

• Visitors trying to understand why fear shapes so many human choices

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The visitors are not superior;  they have their own quirks, miscommunications, and emotional blind spots, but they do not experience fear as humans do. This difference becomes the heart of the play.

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Through gentle scenes, physical comedy, and wry observation, a shared realisation emerges: fear narrows perception, humour widens it. Laughter becomes the bridge that allows honest looking. At bodies, emotions, and one another without defensiveness.

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Funny, inclusive, and quietly hopeful, Below the Belt (In the Nicest Possible Way) uses humour not to avoid difficult subjects, but to make them approachable. It invites audiences to laugh, reflect, and consider a simple question:

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      What if fear is not inevitable, but learned?