The House Party

Written by Laura Lomas
Directed by Holly Race Roughan

We’ve all had that one best friend who’s always there and knows us best.

But what happens when loyalty is tested and the balance shifts? When one wild night changes everything?

It’s Julie’s 18th birthday, and she’s throwing a party in her father’s extravagant townhouse. Her boyfriend has just dumped her and her long-suffering best friend Christine is trying to pick up the pieces, literally and emotionally. As the revellers pile into the booze, down in the kitchen Christine and her boyfriend Jon – son of Julie’s cleaner – clear up and dare to dream of the future.

But as the volume goes up and the shots go down, Julie concocts a twisted cocktail of entitlement, desire and destruction.

🔥 “Bracingly relevant and searingly shocking” – WhatsOnStage
🔥 “Fresh, ferociously intense, and visually striking” – The Stage

The House Party explores themes of class, power, and privilege with raw intensity.

Directed by Headlong’s Artistic Director Holly Race Roughan with movement from the formidable Frantic Assembly, Laura Lomas’ The House Party spins Strindberg’s Miss Julie into intense, fizzing life for today’s generation.