Shows at Greenwich Theatre

Parlour Song

Who knows what lies beneath the seemingly respectable, very ordinary, and rather bland lives of those who occupy suburban London? Jez Butterworth’s Parlour Song, at Greenwich The…

Sniff

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London Fringe
Greenwich Theatre
30th Apr - 2nd May 2025

A Dark Connection: Two Lives Collide in a Pub ToiletIn a small-town pub toilet, two strangers’ worlds collide.

99 sleepless nights of painting basquiat

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London Fringe
Etcetera Theatre / Greenwich Theatre
19th - 23rd Apr 2025

Boris has been passionate about painting since childhood, and as a young adult, he is now obsessed with the idea of surpassing his lifelong idol, Jean Michel Basquiat.

Franz Kafka: The Hunger Artist

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London Fringe
Greenwich Theatre
1st - 5th Apr 2025

What is Art? And what does it mean to be an Artist?Franz Kafka’s Hunger Artist nourishes his soul the only way he knows how, by starving himself, in his small, barred cage, befor…

The Magic Bookmark

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UK Regional & Tours
Multiple Venues
8th Feb - 5th Apr 2025

Audiences are invited to join “everyone’s favourite pantomime dame!” (Metro) and Britain’s Got Talent semi-finalist Mama G on a brand new panto adventure for the whole family!It al…

Kickmouse Mysterium

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London Fringe
Greenwich Theatre
30th Oct 2024

A magical comedy fable, of few words, about perseverance & achievement.

Porridge Boy

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London Fringe
Greenwich Theatre
23rd - 26th May 2024

They say love is the glue that holds family together.

Wifi-Sexual

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West End
Greenwich Theatre
14th - 18th May 2024

A laugh-out-loud and outrageous comedy about Paul, a loner, who buys the new Tundra Mandy Mode AI instalment.

Frozen

Bryony Lavery’s Frozen embraces difficult issues and circumstances.

Magpie

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London Fringe
Greenwich Theatre
13th - 14th Apr 2024

MAGPIEIRELAND, 1923, CIVIL WAR HAS TORN FAMILIES AND LIVES ASUNDER.

The Canterbury Tales

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UK Regional & Tours
Greenwich Theatre / New Wimbledon Theatre Studio
29th Feb - 6th Apr 2024

Half Cut Theatre take their loving but disarmingly sharp hatchet to one of the seminal works of English Literature, Geoffrey Chaucer’s six-hundred-year-old-snapshot-of-mediaeval-…

Jez Butterworth’s The River

Is it a parable? If so, what is it trying to teach? Is it an allegory? If so what does each of the components represent and if it’s a metaphor, then for what? These elements alwa…

Vincent River

Playwright Philip Ridley seems to be enjoying a resurgence at the moment; not that he has ever been out of fashion.

The Dumb Waiter & A Slight Ache

Artistic Director James Haddrell has made a brave and perhaps rather surprising choice for the Greenwich Theatre’s first in-house production of 2023.

Teechers Leavers ‘22

John Godber reinforces his campaign for the arts in education with Teechers Leavers ’22, an updated version of his original play now on its fourth UK tour courtesy of the outstan…

Breathe

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UK Regional & Tours
artsdepot / Greenwich Theatre / The Woodville
1st - 4th Apr 2023

An extraordinary journey from the perspective of an acorn; the hectic forest floor, thrumming underworlds, and dazzling heights of icy branches.

Breathe

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London Fringe
artsdepot / Greenwich Theatre
1st - 4th Apr 2023

A celebration of trees told through groundbreaking live camera work, intricate puppetry and live music.

We Are What We Overcome

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UK Regional & Tours
Greenwich Theatre
31st Mar 2023

‘Take a journey into Mental Health through live music and storytelling.

Unknown

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London Fringe
Greenwich Theatre
18th - 22nd Oct 2022

In just two years from 2017 to 2019, more than 800 people died living and sleeping rough on the streets of the UK ” a significant number of them have never been identified or named…

Are You As Nervous As I Am?

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West End
Greenwich Theatre
1st - 23rd Oct 2022

This story follows the journey of two sisters – Peggy and Janet – in their search for happiness.

Shake the City

If we ever needed more proof as to why second wave or white feminism should no longer be considered relevant, here it is.

The Queen of Hearts

When Mark Twain said the only two certainties in life were death and taxes, he clearly hadn’t accounted for Andrew Pollard and the Greenwich team knocking out a cracking panto.

Bad Nights and Odd Days

The Greenwich Theatre reopened last week with the inspired programming of four short plays by Caryl Churchill.

Sleeping Beauty

The predictably brilliant writer/director/dame Andrew Pollard returns to Greenwich Theatre again for another triumphant Panto season, marking the 50th anniversary of the theatre’…

Brooklyn The Musical

Set in the shadow of Brooklyn Bridge on a shabby corner, Brooklyn The Musical is a play-within-a-play staged by a rag-tag bunch of street performers who call themselves the Ci…

Salomé

The leitmotifs of the Lazarus canon shine brightly in their interpretation of Oscar Wilde’s scandalous 19th century play Salomé.

The Trials Of Oscar Wilde

Court rooms can often make for high drama, but unfortunately in this case the transcript of ‘the trial of the century, proves to be less than gripping.

The Tempest

The are more "sounds" than "sweet airs" in Lazarus Theatre Company’s production of The Tempest at the Greenwich Theatre and while some elements of the perform…

Robinson Crusoe

He’s back in Greenwich and he’s right back on form.

Here

A young couple are viewing a flat and bicker about whether it’s right for them or not.

The Jungle Book

Anyone unfamiliar with Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book could have been conceivably raised by the same wolves that adopt man-cub Mowgli at the heart of this century-old collecti…

Iolanthe

Prime Minister Clement Attlee once observed that ‘the House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days’.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The intention of Shakespeare’s plays is writ large under the titles.

A Spoonful Of Sherman

Review
★★★★★
Pete Shaw
London Fringe
Multiple Venues
27th Mar, 2018

There’s a light bulb moment in A Spoonful Of Sherman when you realise its magic lies not within its high production values, exquisite lighting, fantastic set, immaculate choreogr…

Lord Of The Flies

William Golding’s seminal tale of children going feral when left to their own devices on a Pacific island gets a trademark Lazarus Theatre treatment on this their second producti…

Edward II

Lazarus Theatre kick off their year-long residency at Greenwich Theatre on a visceral note with Christopher Marlowe’s homoerotic epic Edward II.

Cinderella

Seasonal jokesmith Andrew Pollard marks his twelve years of Christmas at Greenwich Theatre with a presentation of family favourite, Cinderella.

Lizzie

Whilst those accused of bloody murder over a century ago isn’t breaking new ground for a musical (think Jason Robert Brown’s Parade), this unusually grisly subject matter get…

Gazing At A Distant Star

Gazing at a Distant Star is a melancholy reminiscence on missing people, told by those left behind.

Peter Pan - A New Adventure

More than a century after Wendy was having an awfully big adventure with Peter Pan and the Lost Boys, her Great-Great-Granddaughter – also called Wendy (Louise Young) – is …

The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice

It’s not just the eponymous seldom heard, often bullied, fragile young girl LV who struggles to be heard in Jim Cartwright’s classic tragicomedy The Rise and Fall – finding he…

Under My Thumb

Much can be understood by words that aren’t spoken.

Down And Out In Paris And London

Bridging a gap of 80 years between author George Orwell’s early life in Paris and a social experiment by Guardian journalist Polly Tonybee in London, Down & Out In Paris And L…

Fable

Another week, another example of storytelling to be seen at Greenwich Theatre, with The Flanagan Collective’s gently soporific tale of the strive for idealism in today’s frenetic…

James and the Giant Peach

Review
★★★★★
Simon Ximenez
UK Regional & Tours
Multiple Venues
23rd Apr, 2016

The fantastical, magical stories created by Roald Dahl have proven themselves to have the potential to inspire family shows that enthral rather than patronise with the award-winn…

Sherlock Holmes: A Working Hypothesis

You don’t need to have read any of the Arthur Conan Doyle novels in order to feel that you know a great deal about Sherlock Holmes.

The Wonderful Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster

For some strange and unknown reason, the idea of witches and witchcraft tends not to carry the darkness or horror that other (possibly) mythical demons do – even though there w…