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The House Party

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.
Tue 25 Mar - Sat 29 Mar
Tue 25 Mar
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Sat 29 Mar

A wild party. A friendship. And one night that changes everything.

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.

Tickets from £20

 

College, University or Education groups: £11 per ticket

 

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Running time: 1 hour 35mins (no interval)

 This work contains flashing lights and strobe effects which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy. Features strong language, themes of class divisions, privilege, sexual relationships, social media, self-harm, suicide, miscarriage, psychological trauma, and depictions of drinking, sexual activity, and violence towards animals.

Age recommendation is for ages 14+

Access Performance: Thu 27 Mar, 14:00 will have Audio Described.

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🔥 “Fresh, ferociously intense, and visually striking”

The Stage

Credits

Sesley Hope

Actor

Synnøve Karlsen

Actor

Tom Lewis

Actor

Credits

ENSEMBLE

INES ARESTI, OLIVER BAINES, CAL CONNOR, MICAH CORBIN-POWELL, RACHAEL LEONCE (and Girl), JAHEEM PINDER, JAMIE RANDALL

CREATIVE TEAM

Writer – LAURA LOMAS
Director – HOLLY RACE ROUGHAN
Set Designer – LOREN ELSTEIN
Costume Designer – MAYBELLE LAYE
Co – Lighting Designer – JOSHUA PHARO
Co – Lighting Designer – JOSEPH HORNSBY
Composer & Sound Designer – GILES THOMAS
Movement Director – SCOTT GRAHAM
Voice and Dialect – AUNDREA FUDGE
Fight & Intimacy Director – HARUKA KARODA
Associate Director – GITIKA BUTTOO
Associate Set Designer – TALLULAH CASKEY
Associate Sound Designer – EMMA LAXTON
Associate Movement Director – RICHARD JAMES – NEALE

Casting Director – BECKY PARIS CDG
Original Production Casting Director – MATILDA JAMES CDG

This production is generously supported by Charles Holloway OBE.

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