After their father's funeral, all that remains for Matthew and Lenny is to choose the gravestone. But from their first encounter with Mr Nigley, the funeral director, and his bewildering selection of etching styles, it becomes clear that this will be no easy task. Then the carefully selected gravestone starts tilting. Is there a jinx on their father, that won't let him rest in peace?

As the gravestone develops further problems the tensions and rivalries between the brothers erupt, leading them into dark corners of their family history, where they discover that Dad's passion for horse-racing may have bordered on the dangerous...

Fringe First winner and Stage Award Best Actor nominee Michael Mears' virtuoso new solo play is a poignantly comic exploration of bereavement and the obsessions it can lead to. This richly theatrical experience was directed by Guy Masterson, acknowledged and award-winning master of the form.

Michael Mears - "one exceptional man" (The Observer) - has had a rich and varied career in theatre, tv and film including an appearance in Four Weddings and a Funeral, but is best known as an award winning performer of his own original solo plays for theatre and radio. Witty, sensitive and perfectly performed, A Slight Tilt to the Left is a worthy successor to Mears' previous hits, Soup and Tomorrow We Do The Sky.