DATES

SHOW

VENUE

20 Sep 2022
to
24 Sep 2022

Vincent in Brixton
by Nicholas Wright

Studio

Brixton, 1873. A brash young Dutchman rents a room in the house of an English widow. Three years later he returns to Europe on the first step of a journey which will end in breakdown, death and immortality.

10 Oct 2022

to

15 Oct 2022

Medea
by Euripedes, adapted by Ben Power

Auditorium

Medea is centered on Medea's calculated desire for revenge against her unfaithful husband. The play is set in Corinth some time after Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece, where he met Medea.

25 Oct 2022
to
29 Oct 2022

Escaped Alone
by Caryl Churchill

Studio

Three old friends and a neighbour. A summer of afternoons in the back yard. Tea and catastrophe. Caryl Churchill's convention-defying play juxtaposes backyard tea with environmental disaster, exploring themes of politics, crisis, communication and female endurance.

12 Nov 2022
to
19 Nov 2022

Hay Fever

by Noël Coward

Auditorium

Set in an English country house on the River Thames, it blends over-the-top hijinks, slapstick, satire, and a comedy of manners to present a unique portrait of a wacky and endearing English family in the early 1920s. Each of the four members of the Bliss family has invited a guest to stay at the family estate for the weekend. This sets the stage for a series of raucous misunderstandings that only serve to underscore an unspoken but universal fact: There is no such thing as a normal family.

12 Dec 2022
to
15 Dec 2022

The Flint Street Nativity
by Tim Firth

Auditorium

Mizzis Horrocks' class of seven year olds is about to perform their nativity play at Flint Street Junior School for the proud mums and dads - and the occasional social worker. Squabbles arise when Gabriel wants to play Mary, the Star grumbles he's not a proper star like they have at NASA, Herod won't stop waving to his mum and dad and the subversive Innkeeper is determined to liven up the traditional script. And then the stick insect escapes...

The children are played by adults, who later play their parents.

10 Jan 2023
to
14 Jan 2023

Constellations
by Nick Payne

Studio

Suppose that life exists in a multiverse -- a set of parallel existences that contain infinitely different futures. The possibilities in our lives are, quite literally, endless. Every possible event that could happen, does happen, in one universe or another. And if two lovers meet -- are drawn together in every version of existence -- every possible happy ending and heartbreak that could befall them, will.

Nick Payne’s beautiful play, Constellations, explores how even the smallest change in our lives can dramatically alter the course we take. It is a spellbinding exploration of love, science, quantum theory, and infinite possibility for heartbreak or for hope.

30 Jan 2023
to
4 Feb 2023

Handbagged

by Moira Buffini

Auditorium

The monarch - Liz. Her most powerful subject - Maggie. One believed there was no such thing as society. The other had vowed to serve it.

27 Feb 2023
to
4 Mar 2023

The Government Inspector
by Nikolai Gogol, adapted by Philip Goulding

Auditorium

A classic satire of provincial bureaucracy in which a town’s corrupt authorities are thrown into hilarious confusion by the supposed arrival of a Government Inspector. This version, set in the East Midlands in the mid 19th Century, has been specifically written for the Lace Market Theatre.

29 Mar 2023
to
1 Apr 2023

Youth Theatre Show TBC

Auditorium

TBC

24 Apr 2023
to
29 Apr 2023

Measure for Measure
by William Shakespeare

Auditorium

The play's plot features its protagonist, Duke Vincentio of Vienna, stepping out from public life to observe the affairs of the city under the governance of his deputy, Angelo. Angelo's harsh and ascetic public image is compared to his abhorrent personal conduct once in office, in which he exploits his power to procure a sexual favour from Isabella, whom he considers enigmatically beautiful.

9 May 2023
to
13 May 2023

The Son
by Florian Zeller, translated by Christopher Hampton

Studio

Nicolas, just two years ago a smiling boy, is going through a difficult phase after his parents’ divorce. He’s listless, skipping classes, lying.

He believes moving in with his father and his new family may help. And a different school, a fresh start. When he doesn’t feel comfortable there, when he senses he isn’t wanted, he decides that going back to his mother’s may be the answer.

29 May 2023
to
3 Jun 2023

Towards Zero
by Agatha Christie, adapted by Gerald Verner

Auditorium

When a house party gathers at Gull's Point, the seaside home of Lady Tressilian, Neville Strange finds himself caught between his old wife Audrey and his new flame Kay.  A nail-biting thriller, the play probes the psychology of jealousy in the shadow of a savage and brutal murder.  A carefully unpeeled investigation before our eyes brings the story to a pointed ending.

26 Jun 2023
to
1 Jul 2023

Something Unspoken / Suddenly Last Summer
by Tennessee Williams

Auditorium

Miss Cornelia Scott is a grand, Southern woman whose outer extravagance belies inner insecurities. She has a complex, codependent relationship with her secretary, and during the elections for the local chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy, their tensions reach a tipping point.

Catherine Holly has witnessed the murder of her cousin Sebastian, which has sent her to a psychiatric hospital. When Sebastian's mother, Mrs. Venable, invites a psychiatrist to question Catherine about her story, she paints a picture so graphic it's almost unbelievable. Mrs. Venable would rather not believe it and have her son's secrets remain secrets. In one of Tennessee Williams' most haunting pieces of writing, how far will a mother go to preserve her son's reputation?

24 Jul 2023
to
29 Jul 2023

Salad Days
by Julian Slade (music) / Dorothy Reynolds & Julian Slade (lyrics)

Auditorium

Jane and Timothy Dawes meet in a park, soon after their graduation, to plan their lives. They agree to get married, and do so in secret, but Timothy's parents have urged him to ask his various influential uncles to find him suitable employment. He and Jane, however, decide that he must take the first job that he is offered. A passing tramp offers them £7 a week to look after his mobile piano for a month, and, upon accepting, they discover that when the piano plays it gives everyone within earshot an irresistible desire to dance.