Name: When We Strike
Start: 2024-08-31T19:30:00
Location: Southwark Playhouse Elephant

Jane McMurtrie

Francesca Goodridge

Southwark Playhouse

It’s 1950 and Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming is at the height of his fame. His discovery of penicillin, the world’s first antibiotic, is being hailed as a miracle cure that will change medicine forever. But his heart is torn as he falls in love with Greek resistance fighter and scientist Amalia Voureka, who must return home without him.

Lifeline

UNCLE Elephant and Castle

Originally developed in 2025 by the National Theatre, FLYBY is a captivating and heartfelt new musical fusing an exhilarating love story with the vastness of space.

FLYBY

Southwark Playhouse Borough

Lynn’s sex life more or less expired in 1987 – no memorial service, not even a sympathy card. Now she rattles around the house she inherited from her mum.

Invisible Me

Heather and Carla haven’t seen each other since school. Their lives have taken very different paths – Carla lives a hand-to-mouth existence while Heather has a high-flying career, husband and a beautiful home. And yet, here they are in a café having tea and making awkward conversation. That is until Heather presents Carla with a bag containing a significant amount of cash and an unexpected proposition…

The Wasp

A mysterious virus spreads across the globe. Cities fall silent. The undead roam.

The Last Man

Following eight sold out workshop performances at The Other Palace in 2024, new musical Redcliffe, written and performed by Jordan Luke Gage (‘Bonnie & Clyde’, ‘Heathers’, ‘&Juliet’) will run for a limited time, fully staged, at Southwark Playhouse Borough from May 2026.

Set against the backdrop of 18th Century England, the new musical is based on the haunting true story of William Critchard and Richard Arnold in Redcliffe, Bristol and is an epic tale of forbidden love during the persecution people faced for hundreds of years.

Redcliffe 

Following eight sold out workshop performances at The Other Palace in 2024, new musical Redcliffe, written and performed by Jordan Luke Gage (‘Bonnie & Clyde’, ‘Heathers’, ‘&Juliet’) will run for a limited time, fully staged, at Southwark Playhouse Borough from May 2026.

Redcliffe

After a record shattering sold out run, it’s back for round two. Ready to ride again?

Ride The Cyclone

This new production commemorates 30 years since Larson’s death on the very eve of his greatest success.

The Jonathan Larson Project

From creatives John Caird (‘Les Misérables’ (RSC,West End and International), ‘Children of Eden’ (West End and International)) and Paul Gordon (‘Daddy Long Legs’, ‘Pride & Prejudice’), this musical telling of Charlotte Brontë’s revolutionary novel makes its UK premiere.

Jane Eyre

London, 1929. In the seedy Midnight Bell pub, barman Bob dreams of becoming a writer, while barmaid Ella dreams of being with Bob. When Bob becomes obsessed with alluring prostitute Jenny Maple, he fritters his life’s savings on trying to rescue her. But there is more to the intriguing Jenny than meets the eye…

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky

In Victorian London, industry moguls assumed they could exploit a group of working-class girls to death, unopposed. They were wrong.