Winter 2025 Tour

What a way to start what promise to be a tumultuous 2025! From contemporary reworkings of a 2000 year old tragedy, to a self-professed “serious play for trivial people” styled in garish, opulent color and fourth-wall breaking glances to the audience, our Winter 2025 Tour shone light into all the ways humanity can break itself, and how it can also heal those wounds, whether personal or generational. Modern dance and music punctuated some of the reimagined classics with The Tempest and Oedipus. A turn of the century tale of familiar greed found itself dislodged in time to punctuate the themes we see play out again and again over the years in The Little Foxes. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof re-lensed some of modern theatre’s most well-known characters. Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 brought both Tolstoy as well as a baker’s dozen of London’s greatest musical talent into rich and glorious focus on the Donmar’s intimate stage. Oscar Wilde danced through our program as both writer and character in the uproarious The Importance of Being Earnest and Tom Stoppard’s soulful reflection of life in The Invention of Love.

GUEST SPEAKER
Mikey J Asante - Composer

The legendary Sigourney Weaver makes her West End debut as Prospero in this enchanting story of revenge and forgiveness. This is Shakespeare’s comedy about a major act of betrayal, ill treatment, the development of magic arts, and a plot of revenge staged anew in the legendary Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Also starring Mara Huf, and Mason Alexander Park. Directed by Jamie Lloyd.

While assuming the role of dutiful guardian in the country, Jack lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy takes on a similar facade.

Unfortunately, living a double life has its drawbacks, especially when it comes to love. Hoping to impress two eligible ladies, the gentlemen fi nd themselves caught in a web of lies they must carefully navigate.

Starring Ncuti Gatwa, Sharon D. Clarke, and Hugh Skinner, from the text written by Oscar Wilde and directed by Max Webster.

GUEST SPEAKER
Max Webster - Director

A E Housman is, as he understands it, finally dead. The noted Latin scholar and celebrated poet of A Shropshire Lad is being ferried across the Styx to Hades – but beyond the stygian gloom on the other side of the river he finds, to his surprise, the Oxford University of his youth. Alive with the academic debates that shaped his work and the friendships that shaped his life, this is the Oxford of Ruskin and Pater; a place still marked by the brilliance of a recently departed student called Wilde. Starring Simon Russel Beale and Dickie Beau and written by Tom Stoppard.

GUEST SPEAKER
Blanche McIntyre - Director

GUEST SPEAKER
Clare Burt - Actress

The Pollitt family gathers to celebrate a birthday, but behind the smiles is a family in crisis.

With Brick and Maggie’s marriage plagued by secrets and deceit, the question of legacy lingers. As the family confront the impending death of their patriarch, a war of truth and lies is waged. Starring Kingsley Ben-Adir, Daisy Edgar-Jones, and Clare Burt. Written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Rebecca Frecknall.

GUEST SPEAKER
Ella Hickson - Writer

Oedipus - It’s a cold case but, according to the Oracle, if the murderer of old King Laius is found and punished then all will be well. The people turn to their new King, Oedipus, the man who solved the riddle of the Sphinx, to hunt down the perpetrator and bring salvation. He vows to succeed whatever the cost and so begins an unstoppable pursuit of the truth through a harrowing labyrinth of fear and love. Stripped down to the bare essence of character, and given robust and organic life by a chorus of dancers, this is a unique take on the classic tale by Sophocles. Starring Rami Malek and Indira Varma. Directed by Matthew Warchus and Hofesh Schehter.

GUEST SPEAKER
Declan Bennett - Actor

Arriving in the glittering opulent world of Moscow High Society, the impulsive and romantic Natasha Rostova awaits the return of her fiancé from the front lines. But when she falls under the spell of an intoxicating aristocrat, it is up to the unlikely hero, Pierre, to pick up the pieces of her shattered reputation. Inspired by a scandalous slice of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, multi-award-winning Dave Malloy’s dazzling, genre-defying musical is a ravishing party from start to finish. Starring Declan Bennett, Chumisa Dornford-May, Jamie Muscato. Music, lyrics and book by Dave Malloy. Directed by Tim Sheader.

GUEST SPEAKER
Jessica Ronane - Casting Director

Regina Hubbard has had enough of standing around. When a businessman offers the family the prospect of untold wealth and power, a sequence of events unfolds that sets brother against brother, father against son and Regina against the whole pack of them. Starring Anne-Marie Duff, Mark Bonnar, and Steffan Rhodri. Written by Lillian Hellman. Directed by Lyndsey Turner.