Following a critically acclaimed short run at Camden People’s Theatre in 2024, English Kings Killing Foreigners is transferring to Soho Theatre in London.
English Kings Killing Foreigners is playing for five weeks from 16 September to 18 October 2025.
Philip Arditti and Nina Bowers write and star in this funny and unflinching look at nationalism, intersecting identities… and Shakespeare’s Henry V.
English Kings Killing Foreigners is inspired by Nina and Phil’s real-life experience of starring in several productions of Henry V including at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2019 where they first met. Both performers bring their extensive backgrounds in British theatre and of performing Shakespeare, to this ‘silly show about serious things’.
Veterans of the Shakespeare’s Globe Ensemble, Nina Bowers and Philip Arditti take us from rehearsal room microaggressions to the battlefields of France, into the bureaucracy of applying for citizenship, weaving in their own histories with England’s as unwilling actors in a national story.
This playful and inventive piece of theatre explores what it means to cast a Global Majority actor in a Shakespeare play, and how a non-white, non-English performer fits into this most English of hero-making stories.
English Kings Killing Foreigners is running at Soho Theatre in London from 16 September to 18 October 2025.
English Kings Killing Foreigners News
Sign-up for news and booking alerts about English Kings Killing Foreigners and other shows:Related News
Hamlet parody HAM extends run at Soho Theatre until 31 October, and releases backstage photos
Maureen Lipman joins Right Before I Go. for Soho Theatre run on World Suicide Prevention Day
Meaty Hamlet parody HAM transfers to Soho Theatre following acclaimed run at Edinburgh Fringe
Love’s Labour’s Lost reviews: critics split over the Globe’s flamenco-fuelled Shakespeare
Latest News
A jaunt through the history of panto: how a flexible theatre form transformed Britain’s Christmas theatre scene
Everything you need to know about West Side Story at the National Theatre
10 reasons we can’t wait for West Side Story
