About

London Season is created and performed by final-year BA Acting and BA Actor-Musicianship students. This year, the season heads to Greenwich Theatre. Presenting our graduating students in the heart of the capital is an exciting milestone, offering audiences the chance to experience bold, original work from the next generation of performers in a major London venue.

 

Ruthless by Joel Paley

Directed by Lucy Betts

Ruthless is a camp cult classic, an all-female musical with music by Marvin Laird and book and lyrics by Joel Paley that spoofs Broadway musicals, like Gypsy and Mame, and movies such as The Bad Seed and All About Eve. The musical premiered Off-Broadway in 1992.

The story of a naive 1950s housewife, Judy, and her adorable but sociopath 8-year-old daughter Tina. Encouraged by her manager, Sylvia, Tina will do ANYTHING to get the lead role in her school play “including murdering the leading lady!”. In Act II, while Tina spends time at a reform school for psychopathic ingenues, Judy discovers from her adoptive mother that her birth mother was a famous actress. Judy decides that she should be famous as well and becomes a Broadway diva.

This is an amateur production by arrangement with Concord Theatricals.

 

Programme

7pm, Friday 6 March

7pm, Saturday 7 March

2pm, Monday 9 March

7pm, Monday 9 March

 

Venue: Greenwich Theatre

Content & technical warnings: to be confirmed

Run time: to be confirmed

 

How to book

Tickets will go on sale in January 2026.

 

Cast

To be confirmed

 

 

For more information about the cast, please visit our Student Profiles.