I Saw Satan at the 7-Eleven

This audiobook is performed by its author, Christopher Brett Bailey, a cult figure in experimental theatre, known for his ‘vivid and vicious‘ (Guardian) storytelling. His original performance of this play onstage at Soho Theatre was acclaimed as ‘a joyously lurid gonzo monologue . . . a sort of crazed neo-beatnik equivalent of Charles Dickens‘s celebrated recitals‘ by Time Out. ‘No one tells a story like Christopher Brett Bailey.‘ Guardian He was dressing low-profile, but it was definitely him: red skin, horns, barbed tail, cloven hoofs, black goatee. He was unmistakable. Satan was buying soy milk and forty bucks‘ worth of unleaded fuel. In a small town two miles north of Hell, our deadbeat narrator spots Satan filling up his red Corvette at the 7-Eleven. Satan‘s a washed-up has-been who‘s totally lost his edge . . . but when their eyes meet across the parking lot, the two embark on a torrid romance, by turns screwball, surreal, terrifying and tender. ‘As transgressive as it is playful . . . It‘s lurid and gruesome but also, in its way, an act of veneration: to language . . . We‘re in a world of dive bars, gas stations and seedy motels, a collectively recognisable America of the imagination, through which the devil dances.‘ Natasha Tripney ‘Christopher Brett Bailey could read the Argos catalogue and have an audience hang on his every word.‘ The Play‘s the Thing Portions of this audiobook contain mature language and graphic descriptions. Listener discretion is advised. Christopher Brett Bailey‘s electrifying monologue premiered at Soho Theatre, London, in April 2026.