The Almeida Theatre in North London has announced five new productions for its 2025 season.
Rebecca Frecknall (Cabaret) is following her multi-award winning production of A Streetcar Named Desire at the Almeida with another Tennessee Williams play, this time Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (10 December 2024 to 1 February 2025) starring Kingsley Ben-Adir, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Lennie James.
The Almeida will also showcase the world premiere of Otherland (11 February to 15 March 2025), a new play by Chris Bush (Standing at the Sky’s Edge), directed by Ann Yee (Next to Normal, The Human Body).
Also, Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist satire Rhinoceros (25 March to 26 April 2025), is getting a new production translated and directed by Omar Elerian (The Chairs).
The Almeida will also showcase the world premiere of Ava Pickett’s Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning play 1536 (6 May to 7 June 2025), directed by Lyndsey Turner (Chimerica).
Finally, a new production of Eugene O’Neill drama A Moon for the Misbegotten (17 June to 16 August 2025) will come to the Almeida starring Michael Shannon (George & Tammy; Boardwalk Empire) and Golden Globe winner Ruth Wilson (The Affair; Luther), also directed by Rebecca Frecknall.
Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold said in a statement that the new season of work “is bookended by two timeless American classics directed by our Associate Director Rebecca Frecknall” – see the full statement, below.
A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof will be directed by Rebecca Frecknall, with a creative team that also includes Set Designer Chloe Lamford, Costume Designer Moi Tran, Lighting Designer Lee Curran, Sound Designer Carolyn Downing, Composer Angus MacRae, Casting Director Julia Horan CDG, Children’s Casting Director Amy Beadel, and Associate Director Justina Kehinde.
The full cast of A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof includes Kingsley Ben-Adir, Guy Burgess, Clare Burt, Seb Carrington, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Derek Hagen, Lennie James, Ukweli Roach and Ria Zmitrowicz. Read more about Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Almeida.
The play is presented in association with Chris Harper Productions (Company, The Roommate), so expect a West End – and maybe Broadway run for the production.
More about tickets to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Almeida Theatre London
More about tickets to A Moon for the Misbegotten at the Almeida Theatre London
Rupert Goold statement
“Today we announce a new season of work, featuring two revivals of beloved canonical texts, an innovative Ionesco adaptation and the world premiere of two new plays.
“The season is bookended by two timeless American classics directed by our Associate Director Rebecca Frecknall. Rebecca made her name with Summer and Smoke, cemented her reputation with A Streetcar Named Desire, and now directs a third great Tennessee Williams play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, with an exceptional cast led by the magnetic pair of Kingsley Ben-Adir and Daisy Edgar-Jones, who returns to the Almeida after making her professional stage debut in Albion. Then next summer, Rebecca turns her focus to Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten, with two heavyweight stars of stage and screen Michael Shannon and Ruth Wilson.
“Before then, I am so excited to welcome back Omar Elerian with his take on Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist satire, Rhinoceros. Following the success of Omar’s celebrated 2022 production of The Chairs, we eagerly anticipate his next visionary interpretation of Ionesco’s work.
“Alongside these revivals, we are also producing two new plays: first up we are delighted to welcome back Chris Bush, whose previous work for us, Nine Lessons and Carols, was impacted by Covid lockdown, with Otherland, an ambitious and necessary new play, directed by Ann Yee.
“And then it’s the premiere of Ava Pickett’s 1536, a play that has made waves winning the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, directed by Lyndsey Turner who returns to the Almeida following acclaimed productions of Chimerica and The Treatment. Ava wrote it for us as part of the Genesis Almeida New Playwrights, Big Plays Programme and we continue to be very grateful to the Genesis Foundation for their ongoing support of the next generation of new artists.”
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