“Leonard had always avoided chilli. In a Venn diagram of foodstuffs, he couldn’t see why the circles of flavour and self-harm would ever need to intersect”

Leonard Feels The Heat is a comedy storytelling show about a man who decides to spice up his life in the most literal way possible - by entering a chilli-eating competition. It's a warm, funny tale about one man's insatiable quest for glory and is written and told by award-winning comedian Mark Allen.

Fittingly, this show is being performed a mere pebble’s throw from the site of the very Brighton chilli-eating competition that inspired this tale.

The show was due to be performed at the Brighton Fringe in 2020 before COVID threw a spanner in the works. Mark performed a separate storytelling show called “Leonard The Conkerer” at The Electric Arcade in May 2022 and is really excited to bring his latest daft tale back to the Fringe (global pandemics permitting).