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London Season features new productions from our Final Year BA Acting and BA Actor-Musicianship programme, staged in London at Greenwich Theatre and Bridewell Theatre.
Tickets will go on sale in January 2025.
Pavilion by Emily White
Directed by George Lamb
“They all convene at this place, the local Friday night disco, The Pavilion or Pivvy: once a grand old theatre for the upper echelons, now a drafty old cavernous wasteland for the hoi polloi. I’ve seen more blood, puke and tears than anyone should ever have to and I’m back every Friday night to witness more.”
Dance. Drink. Fight. Snog.
Music pounds, lager flows, lust grinds and fists fly. A small town in a forgotten corner of Wales, full of big personalities and every one of them out for the final Friday night disco at the Pavilion. Like the local school and the public library, it’s about to be shut down.
Pavilion, a dark comedy by Emily White, premiered at Theatr Clwyd in September 2019.
7pm, 15 February
7pm, 17 February
2pm, 18 February
7pm, 18 February
Run time: to be confirmed
Venue: Greenwich Theatre, Crooms Hill SE10 8E
Age recommendation: to be confirmed
Content warnings: to be confirmed
Special effects warning: to be confirmed
Faustus: That Damned Woman by Chris Bush
Directed by Natazja Domaradzka
‘Oh, if you knew the lives we women lead. You’d understand the Devil is a catch.’
An audacious reworking of the classic Faust myth. Johanna Faustus sells her soul to gain control of her own destiny and change the world. As she travels through the centuries, she is at the heart of a transformation of human history. But all the while a dangerous presence remains watching and waiting from the shadows.
Faustus: That Damned Woman was co-produced by Headlong and Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, in association with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, and first performed at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in 2020 before touring the UK
7pm, 25 February
7pm, 26 February
2pm, 27 February
7pm, 27 February
Run time: to be confirmed
Venue: Greenwich Theatre, Crooms Hill SE10 8E
Age recommendation: to be confirmed
Content warnings: to be confirmed
Special effects warning: to be confirmed
As We Face The Sun by Kit Withington
Directed by Hal Chambers
It’s 2013 somewhere in England and a group of teenagers are off on a school trip. The mood is raucous, happy and excited. Then something happens that will change their lives for ever.
It’s 2023 somewhere in England and the same group of classmates are throwing an annual party to remember that event in 2013. The party is prepared with love and care; emotions and memories are profoundly lived and relived. But this time something feels different.
As We Face The Sun is a powerful, funny, and poignant story about holding on to what we value, learning how to let go of the past, and facing up to an uncertain future.
This production is part of Rose Bruford College’s London Season 2025, performances by final year undergraduates in Acting and Actor-Musicianship in collaboration with technical, design and management courses.
7pm, 6 March
7pm, 7 March
2pm, 7 March
7pm, 8 March
Run time: to be confirmed
Venue: Bridewell Theatre, 14 Bride Lane EC4Y 8EQ
Age recommendation: to be confirmed
Content warnings: to be confirmed
Special effects warning: to be confirmed
Alice by Heart
Based on the book by Steven Satar and Jessie Nelson
Directed by Lucy Betts
Music by Duncan Sheik
Lyrics by Steven Sater
From the Tony® and Grammy® award-winning creators of Spring Awakening, Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik, and co-written by Jessie Nelson (Waitress).
Students from Rose Bruford College’s Actor Musicianship programme, in collaboration with technical, design and management courses present this coming-of-age retelling of Alice in Wonderland.
In the rubble of the London Blitz of World War II, Alice Spencer’s budding teen life is turned upside down, and she and her dear friend Alfred are forced to take shelter in an underground tube station. When the ailing Alfred is quarantined, Alice encourages him to escape with her into their cherished book and journey down the rabbit hole to Wonderland.
This production is part of Rose Bruford College’s London Season 2025, performances by final year undergraduates in Acting and Actor-Musicianship in collaboration with technical, design and management courses.
7pm, 7 March
2pm, 8 March
7pm, 8 March
7pm, 10 March
Run time: to be confirmed
Venue: Greenwich Theatre, Crooms Hill SE10 8E
Age recommendation: to be confirmed
Content warnings: to be confirmed
Special effects warning: to be confirmed
Return to the Forbidden Planet by Bob Carlton, inspired by the motion picture FORBIDDEN PLANET, courtesy Turner Entertainment co.
Directed by Alexandra Spencer Jones
Shakespeare’s forgotten rock and roll masterpiece. Inspired by The Tempest, this high-energy musical is packed with rock ’n’ roll classics, including “Great Balls of Fire,” “Good Vibrations,” “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” “Young Girl” and “Gloria.”
Students from Rose Bruford College’s actor musician programme, in collaboration with technical, design and management courses, present the celebrated and Olivier Award winning Actor Musician Musical.
This production is part of Rose Bruford College’s London Season 2025, performances by final year undergraduates in Acting and Actor-Musicianship in collaboration with technical, design and management courses.
7pm, 19 March
7pm, 20 March
2pm, 21 March
7pm, 21 March
Run time: to be confirmed
Venue: Greenwich Theatre, Crooms Hill SE10 8E
Age recommendation: to be confirmed
Content warnings: to be confirmed
Special effects warning: to be confirmed
Please refer to individual venue website for information on access.