a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone

Royal Opera House

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy by William Shakespeare that intertwines the lives of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors with the magical antics of fairies in a forest. As the lovers escape to the forest to resolve their romantic entanglements, they fall victim to the mischievous fairy Puck, who uses a love potion to create chaos.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Sainsbury Theatre

Romeo and Juliet is a passionate and tragic play by William Shakespeare set in Verona. It tells the story of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, two young lovers from feuding families. Despite their families' bitter enmity, they fall deeply in love after meeting at a Capulet party and secretly marry the next day.

Romeo & Juliet

LAMDA presents the next generation of musical theatre talent in a bold new production of the Tony Award-winning classic. Stephen Sondheim’s wickedly funny musical weaves together beloved characters – including Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella – for a surprising, subversive and thoroughly contemporary twist on the Tales of the Brothers Grimm. With lyrical ingenuity and dazzling music, Into The Woods will take you on an epic journey to discover what happens when fairy tale figures are faced with truth, consequences and the pain of growing up. Be careful what you wish for!

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Into the Woods

Greenside @ George Street

An epic tale condensed into 30 poetic minutes, we weave through moments with fable inspired characters with the help of an on looking lunar narrator.

Pale Blue Dot

The Carne studio LAMDA

Cholic

In the heart of an ambitious vision lies the United States of Africa, a dream shared by a diverse group of visionaries dedicated to uniting the continent. These activists, scholars, and leaders strive to overcome political, cultural, and economic divides, advocating for a unified Africa that stands strong on the global stage. As they delve deeper into their mission, they confront the stark realities of entrenched conflicts, colonial legacies, and diverse identities. Despite their unwavering passion and tireless efforts, they grapple with the profound realization that forging a united Africa may be an elusive ideal, yet their journey fuels a powerful dialogue about cooperation, solidarity, and the future of the continent.

Alkebulan

When beloved business mogul Gurmail Patel dies, five women from different walks of life gather to mourn his mysterious death and pay their respects. But one of them holds a dark secret. As the rose-tinted glass begins to shatter, it casts a different hue on the deceased. A unique and compelling twist on the classic murder mystery.

Five Women and a Funeral

In the near future, consciousness is a digital medium - all thoughts are data, and all data can be manipulated. After the questionable death of a local official, a team of analysts probing the case uncovers the inexplicable erasure of critical memories from key witnesses. As they delve deeper into the mystery they realize the terrifying implications of a technology that can alter the very fabric of reality.

Engram

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In Light of Recent Events

In the space where technology and humanity collide, two unlikely friends from across the globe meet in unusual circumstances. Will lies taint the truth? Or will the fight for connection bring them closer together?

BloodFish

Set in 1882, the piece's plot follows the torn loyalties between members of the 'Bengal Street Tigers', who face a violent rivalry with the 'Prussia Street' gang as well as personal conflicts within their own group.

Scuttlers

Othello, written around 1603, is a tragic play that delves into themes of jealousy, betrayal, and racism. Set in the Venetian Republic, the play follows Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army, and his ensign and antagonist, Iago. Othello’s marriage to Desdemona, a Venetian woman, becomes a focal point for Iago's manipulative schemes. Exploiting Othello’s insecurities about his race and his marriage, Iago sows seeds of doubt in Othello’s mind, leading to tragic consequences.

Othello

Welcome to Bettyland is a piece of new writing rooted in the world of Greek tragedy and a reimagined contemporary response to Sophocles' Antigone.

Welcome to Bettyland

The White Rabbit is late for the Duchess. The Cheshire Cat won't stop grinning. And the Hatter is, well, mad. In the middle of it all is Alice, a young girl with a vivid imagination and a family life that's less than perfect. Follow Alice as she escapes her Sheffield home to find adventure in a topsy-turvy world.

Alice

In this Ukrainian play, four short stories are set along the roads of Donbass during the war. There are no safe spaces and no one can make sense of what is going on. Even as they are trapped in the chaos, some manage to wield authority over others. But in this world, where tomorrow may never come, not everyone is defenseless and miserable. Even the most innocent victims may have their turn at taking charge.

Bad Roads

This play created by award-winning writer Ella Hickson shines candlelight on the ways and means by which women in power negotiate patriarchal pressure in order to get their way.

Swive

The affluent, African-American LeVay family is gathering at their Martha’s Vineyard home for the weekend, and brothers Kent and Flip have each brought their respective ladies home to meet the parents for the first time.

Stick Fly

Brighton, 1862. A day in the life of Sarah, an African girl, adopted by Queen Victoria and raised in the Queen's circles. Today is the eve of her having to return to Africa, but will she go? The Present. A day in the life of Sarah, a black middle-class woman living in a Cheshire village with her husband and small child. They are paid a visit by well-meaning neighbours who have something to confess. The two Sarahs meet Queen Victoria for tea. This won't be your regular tea party...

The Gift

Ex-boxer Taylor Flint wants to put the past behind her. Yet back on the Hull estate where she grew up, she is drawn into running a boxercise class. For Lauren, Jazz, Aneta and Grace, boxercise soon becomes more than a way to lose weight and have a laugh. Life is tough and throwing the punches helps them to face their challenges.

Mighty Atoms

When noble heroine Miss Phoebe Virtue receives worrisome news on Instagram that her twin brother Jack may be endangering his reputation in London Town, she decides she must visit herself, and investigate...

Scandaltown

In one of the poorest cities in America – Reading, Pennsylvania – a group of factory workers struggle to keep their present lives in balance, ignorant of the financial devastation looming in their near future.

Sweat

REP follows nine young offenders from different London boroughs who are thrown together into a Community Theatre project as part of their Youth Rehabilitation Orders. Kimberly, a middle-class Theatre Director, must gain their trust and help but mostly learn from them in order to succeed.

Julius Caesar

The Capulet Hotel is an glamorous establishment, run by the wealthy Capulets. Since The Capulet opened ten years ago, a smaller, family hotel, ‘The Montague’, has struggled to compete and is close to bankruptcy.

Romeo and Juliet

Because we live in Europe. Because nothing really bad happens. The worst is a bit of an inconvenience. Perhaps not such a good mini break. But really in the grand scheme of life, not so bad.

How to Hold Your Breath

A group of people sit around a table theorising, categorising and telling stories. Their real purpose is never quite clear, but they continue on, searching for the monstrous.

The Antipodes

Against a backdrop of Tory cuts, high unemployment and the deregulated economy of 1970s Britain, a young urban guerrilla group mobilises: The Angry Brigade. Their targets: MPs, embassies, police, pageant queens. A world of order is shattered by anarchy and the rules have changed. An uprising has begun. No one is exempt.

The Angry Brigade

Is the pursuit of love worth a pound of flesh? In Shakespeare’s dark comedy the value of a promise is stretched to its limit in a society of endless masks.

The Merchant of Venice

A poor doctor's daughter cures the King of France and, in return, is promised marriage to any nobleman she wishes. But the proud young count she chooses refuses to consummate the marriage and flees to Florence - after setting her a seemingly impossible task.

All's Well That Ends Well

Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck, Viola disguises herself as a boy to serve the Duke of Illyria. Wooing a countess on his behalf, she is stunned to find herself the object of his beloved's affections. With the arrival of Viola's brother, and a trick played upon Malvolio, the countess's steward, confusion reigns in Shakespeare’s masterful comedy of mistaken identity, seduction and unrequited love.

Twelfth Night

Things are getting tough for Sam. No job, benefits stopped and stuck in a tiny flat with his girlfriend Maya and her mum. The pressure is building. It feels like there might be only one way out.

The Suicide

It's 1980s Berlin. The Cold War rages and the world sits at a crossroads between Capitalism and Communism. On the border between East and West, a young soldier and the love of his life are desperately trying to build a better future for their child.

Woyzeck

A woman wakes up with a stranger beside her. A student argues with his lover. A single mother fights to feed her baby. A married man flirts with two younger women. And far away, one devastating event is about to change all their lives forever.

Light Falls

You may be the wealthiest colored woman in New Orleans, but you built this house on sand, lies and dead bodies. New Orleans, 1836. Following an era of French colonial rule and relative racial acceptance, Louisiana's 'free people of color' are prospering. Beatrice, a free woman of colour, has become one of the city's wealthiest women through her relationship with a rich white man. However, when her lover mysteriously dies, Beatrice imposes a six-month period of mourning on herself and her three daughters. But, as the summer heat intensifies, the foundations of freedom she has built for herself and their three unwed daughters begin to crumble. Society is changing, racial divides are growing and, as the members of the household turn on each other in their fight for survival, it could cost them everything.

The House That Will Not Stand

Promiscuous, pitiless and bored, six sexually entangled medical students restlessly wander in and out of a boarding house, cramming, drinking, taunting, spying. Freder sets about savagely experimenting with the young, pretty maid, with half an eye on his former lover Desiree, a wild, disillusioned aristocrat. Petrell abandons Marie for the ruthless underdog Irene. Marie doesn't waste any time weeping - Desiree wants her.

Pains of Youth

Set in the final days of the Second World War at Miss Mary’s Press and Curl beauty parlour and women’s boarding house in Memphis, Tennessee, Saturday Night Sunday Morning unites a group of young women whose lives have been affected by the loss of men to the war and the upheaval of social attitudes that followed.

Saturday Night Sunday Morning

Based loosely on Puccini's La Boheme, Jonathan Larson's Rent follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. The physical and emotional complications of the disease pervade the lives of Roger, Mimi, Tom and Angel. Maureen deals with her chronic infidelity through performance art; her partner, Joanne, wonders if their relationship is worth the trouble. Benny has sold out his Bohemian ideals in exchange for a hefty income and is on the outs with his former friends. Mark, an aspiring filmmaker, feels like an outsider to life in general. How these young bohemians negotiate their dreams, loves and conflicts provides the narrative thread to this groundbreaking musical.

Rent

Set in the late 1950s and early 1960s, in the East End of London, this adaptation of Shakespeare’s much-loved comedy explores misunderstandings, love and deception.

Much Ado About Nothing

Colonial Trinidad 1939. Three sisters endure a mundane but privileged life in the capital, Port of Spain. Living with their simpleton brother and his domineering wife, the women pass the time entertaining and being entertained by the local Volunteer Regiment. They occupy their lives with empty marriages and petty liasons whilst dreaming of returning to their adopted home country Cambridge, England where they spent their cosmopolitan youth. But hopes of emigrating to Britain are soon shattered as the European war escalates into a global conflict, Port of Spain is bombed and the Trinidadian soldiers are called to serve King, country and Empire.

Three Sisters

Based on an epic ancient tale from Cornwall, Tristan & Yseult revels in forbidden desires, broken hearts, grand passions, and tender truths.

Tristan & Yseult

LAMDA presents the next generation of musical theatre talent in a bold new production of the Tony Award-winning classic. Stephen Sondheim’s wickedly funny musical weaves together beloved characters – including Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella – for a surprising, subversive and thoroughly contemporary twist on the Tales of the Brothers Grimm.

London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art

14 - 19 Oct, 2024

a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone

Aug 31 - Sep 4, 2024

A Midsummer Night's Dream

London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art