There are three rules every housewife knows: never return a dish empty, always have dinner ready on time, and some things are best kept under the table. After all, you never know who’s listening. You’ve heard whispers of absent husbands? Missing children? Spaghetti Recipes? Or was it scones? You just can’t trust everything you hear through the walls these days. Fresh off a sold-out triple-billed run at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Xhloe and Natasha return to Soho Playhouse with What If They Ate The Baby?, a Fringe First, Best Overseas Show, and Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of The Fringe Award-winning show that Everything Theatre labeled “An absurdist masterpiece.”

When housewife Dottie shows up at neighbor Shirley’s door to return a casserole dish, everything is absolutely picture perfect, until those footsteps upstairs and gritted smiles suggest something more sinister may be going on. Whether it's the hue of Shirley’s spaghetti casserole or the whispered conversations under the table, it’s clear these two neighbors have something to hide. Inspired by 1950s McCarthyism and the overturning of Roe V. Wade in 2022, What If They Ate The Baby? is a queer clown two-hander about surveillance, paranoia, and American womanhood.

Xhloe and Natasha are a New York City-based, multi-disciplinary writing/performing duo that have been in collaboration for over a decade, creating absurdist clown physical theatre. They are three-time consecutive winners of the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe First Award for Outstanding New Writing. Their show A Letter To Lyndon B Johnson or God: Whoever Reads this First was the recipient of the SoHo Playhouse Encore Series Prize as well as the Broadway Baby Bobby Award for Excellence. Recently, they were named part of the “Theatrely 31” as young theatre makers poised for a meteoric rise and were awarded an “Offie” Off-West End Award for Best Performance. They have been called “the most promising young theatre-makers to emerge from Edinburgh Fringe in recent years” by Everything Theatre and “The Fringe’s most dynamic theatrical duo” by The Telegraph.