Park Theatre announces new spring 2025 season including Neil LaBute’s How to Fight Loneliness, Farewell Mister Haffmann & Jab starring Kacey Ainsworth

The Park Theatre in North London has announced its new season for Spring 2025.

Highlights include the UK premiere of Neil LaBute’s new play How to Fight Loneliness, directed by Lisa Spirling, from 16 April to 24 May 2025.

The production reunites Neil LaBute and producer Trish Wadley, who previously collaborated onThe Shape of Things at Park Theatre; and LaBute with director Lisa Spirling who was his Associate Director on In a Forest Dark and Deep in the West End.

Also, a revival of 1940’s drama Farewell Mr Haffmann, set in Nazi-occupied Paris, is playing at the Park from 6 March to 12 April 2025. First staged at the Theatre Royal Bath, this Molière award-winning French play is written by Jean-Phillipe Daguerre, adapted by Jeremy Sams, and originally directed by Lindsay Posner.

Jeremy Sams, who adapted the play from French, said in a statement: “It was a privilege to be the first adaptor of Farewell Mister Haffmann, and I’m delighted that it can now be seen in London. This is an important and (sadly) timely play which shows us how times of conflict challenge acceptance and deepen prejudice.”

The original director of Farewell Mister Haffmann, Lindsay Posner, said: “In turns shocking, funny and deeply moving, this tense thriller combines the personal and the political to great effect. In these times the play feels more urgent than ever.”

New dark comedy drama Jab by James McDermott and directed by Scott Le Crass, is coming to the Park Theatre from 2 to 26 April 2025. Inspired by true events, Jab is a black comedy drama exploring power, gender, domestic violence, conspiracy theories, ignorance, and the limits of love, and will star Kacey Ainsworth and Liam Tobin.

The season will also include Carousel: A Theatre Show by Ivo Graham from 14 to 25 January 2025; new comedy The Gift by Dave Florez and directed by Adam Meggido, from 22 January to 1 March 2025; and interactive show Antigone [on strike] written and directed by Alexander Raptotasios, from 30 January to 22 February 2025.

Artistic Director Jez Bond said in a statement: “There’s something for everyone in this next season of work across our two spaces. With a slate that includes a world premiere, a UK premiere, a London premiere and a revival we continue to bring exciting works to the stage and – with the emphasis, as ever, on accessible stories well told – we expect there’s something for all palates, including the comedy fans. We look forward to welcoming audiences new and old in 2025.”

Writer of How to Fight Loneliness, Neil LaBute, said: “I am so happy to be returning to the beautiful Park Theatre this year with a new play, directed by the brilliant Lisa Spirling, thanks to the producing force-of-nature that is Trish Wadley. How to Fight Loneliness tackles a hugely important issue—one of the gravest choices a person might ever make and many of us are not even given the license to make it on our own—and that seems dangerously close to a crime from my point of view. The world’s population is aging, so none of these issues are going away soon, and it is these big questions which have always interested me as a person and, subsequently, as a writer as well.”

Coming up at the Park Theatre is The Forsyte Saga – Parts 1 and 2 from 11 October to 7 December 2024; Bette & Joan from 3 December 2024 to 4 January 2025; and Cyrano from 11 December 2024 to 11 January 2025.

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Park Theatre London – Spring 2025 season

Carousel: A Theatre Show by Ivo Graham
14 – 25 January 2025
Ivo steps away from the frivolity of his stand-up and invites audiences onto his own carousel: around and around, backwards and forwards, to the places he aches to go again.

The Gift
22 January – 1 March 2025
World Premiere, Directed by Adam Meggido, Written by Dave Florez
The Gift is an irreverent comedy that unashamedly dives into the murky waters of past transgressions and modern-day vengeance, all-the-while fully prepared to get low down and dirty in the process.

Antigone [on strike]
30 January – 22 February 2025
World Premiere, Written and directed by Alexander Raptotasios
Set in an interactive media studio where audiences vote and affect the story’s direction, this is a new play inspired by Sophocles’ classic tragedy Antigone and the real stories of the young women who became the so called ‘ISIS Brides’.

Farewell Mr Haffmann
6 March – 12 April 2025
London Premiere, Written by Jean-Phillipe Daguerre, adapted by Jeremy Sams | Original Director Lindsay Posner
Set in 1942 in Nazi-occupied Paris, one of France’s most successful and long-running plays, and a winner of four Molière Awards, this gripping drama makes its London premiere following a critically acclaimed debut at Theatre Royal Bath.

Jab
2 – 26 April 2025
Written by James McDermott, directed by Scott Le Crass, starring Kacey Ainsworth & Liam Tobin
Anne is tired. Tired of menopause. Tired of working in a dying NHS. And tired of her lazy, sexist husband Don. But they’ve been together twenty-nine years. They know each other inside out. They’ve survived so much. Then COVID plunges the country into lockdown, forcing them to isolate together. After all, the home is a place of safety… isn’t it?

How to Fight Loneliness
16 April – 24 May 2025
UK Premiere, Written by Neil LaBute, directed by Lisa Spirling
In this timely, dark, and dazzling UK premiere, Tony Award nominated Neil LaBute takes an unflinching look at how we navigate our lives when time is running out.

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Main photo: Park Theatre - New season spring 2025: Jab starring Kacey Ainsworth & Liam Tobin, Carousel: A Theatre Show by Ivo Graham, Farewell Mr Haffmann