A conversation blossoms out of the pouring rain and a park bench. Two commuters meet at a bus-stop, again and again and again. Someone sketches portraits on a faded train platform. Another person obsessively tidies away the world. A sentient elevator terrorises the public with sassy comments. And, underneath it all, a voice in a room full of strangers, speaking to you. Welcome to the world of Hold, Please – a kaleidoscope of the bustling lives that surround us, and a space to remember how to breathe again.

Our lives today seem to be built in the half-breaths between deadlines. Schedules, appointments, things to do, always rushing from one place to another. But life isn’t just tasks on a list, and so we devised this show as a love letter to those bits in between, focusing on an array of characters caught in the cross-roads of ordinary life. It is a dream for a different tomorrow, where we might look at the world around us with fresh eyes, but above all, it is an appreciation of today. Creating this show has taken us from bustling tube stations to rehearsal rooms, from woodland walks to delirious late-night phone calls and endless redrafts seeking to capture what it means to be present.

It has been a joy, and at the end, we have this – a play for the restless, the lonely and the lost.