Orange Tree Theatre announces full programming for 2025 season including six new plays.
Orange Tree Artistic Director Tom Littler and Executive Director Hanna Streeter today announce full programming for the 2025 season at Orange Tree Theatre (OT). The season is comprised of six new plays including four world premières, two rediscoveries and a classic comedy. The OT has also announced the launch of OT Under 30 Nights as part of a renewed commitment to engage and support young audiences.
Churchill in Moscow reunites Brenton and Littler for their sixth collaboration with Roger Allam in the titular role to launch the season. The play explores an imagined meeting between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin at the Kremlin in 1942. A revival of April De Angelis’ Playhouse Creatures follows, directed by Michael Oakley and starring Anna Chancellor, which will transfer to the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre and Theatre Royal Bath. The Orange Tree then presents the London première of the RSC production of Mark Ravenhill’s Ben and Imo, directed by Erica Whyman, with Samuel Barnett and Victoria Yeates reprising their roles. The spring season culminates with a revival of Terence Rattigan’s penultimate play In Praise of Love, directed by Amelia Sears.
The 2025 season continues with Poor Clare by Chiara Atik directed by Blanche McIntyre, and the world premières of two adaptations: August Strindberg’s Dance of Death newly adapted and directed by Richard Eyre, and Hedda a new play by Tanika Gupta inspired by Ibsen’s classic Hedda Gabler. The 2025 season culminates with Tom Littler directing the 250th Anniversary production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comic classic The Rivals, alongside the OT Young Company performing in Alice in Wonderland, a new play by Chinonyerem Odimba inspired by Lewis Carroll’s novel.
The OT’s Community team continue their work to connect young people with Shakespeare with the return of Primary Shakespeare and Shakespeare Up Close. The OT will present Julius Caesar for Primary school audiences directed by Community Director Francesca Ellis, with Romeo & Juliet directed by Marcus Bazley and Macbeth, directed by Zoë Waterman, presented for Secondary school audiences, in a co-production with Guildford Shakespeare Company
The OT also today announces the launch of OT Under 30 Nights, with the inaugural event taking place on Friday 8 November for the JMK Award-winning production Guards at the Taj. On 8 November, post-show panellists include cast members Usaamah Ibraheem Hussain and Maanuv Thiara, creatives Roisin Jenner and Priya Virdee. The panel will be chaired by Kalungi Ssebandeke, winner of the 2023 JMK award
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