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The Almeida Theatre in London has announced casting for its forthcoming world premiere of Christmas Day.

Written by Olivier Award-winner Sam Grabiner (Boys on the Verge of Tears), Christmas Day is playing at the Almeida from 9 December 2025 to 8 January 2026.

The play will star Jamie Ankrah (Small Island), Samuel Blenkin (Hamlet Hail to the Thief), Callie Cooke (The Strange Death of John Doe), Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (The Importance of Being Earnest), Nigel Lindsay (The Lehman Trilogy) and Bel Powley (The Real Thing, Harry Potter).

James Macdonald (Waiting for Godot, Juniper Blood) directs.

Christmas Day - Almeida Theatre - Casting announced

The play is billed as a viciously funny new play about identity, belonging and the rituals we perform with the people we love.

There’s something perverted about a Christmas tree. They’ve got an aura. It looks perverted and it gives me the creeps. In an abandoned building somewhere above the Northern Line, with foxes prowling the deserted streets outside, a Jewish family gathers on Christmas Day.

The wider creative team for Christmas Day includes Set Designer Miriam Buether; Costume Designer Evie Gurney; Lighting Designer Jon Clark; Sound Designer Max Pappenheim; Intimacy Director Lucy Hind; Casting Director Amy Ball CDG; and Voice Coach Hazel Holder.

Coming up at the Almeida is Jack Holden’s new stage adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty directed by Michael Grandage (21 October to 29 November).

Christmas Day is playing at the Almeida from 9 December 2025 to 8 January 2026.

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Main photo: Christmas Day - Almeida Theatre - Samuel Blenkin, Bel Powley (Photo Brian Daly), Nigel Lindsay (Photos via PR)

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