The House Party
Written by Laura Lomas. Directed by Holly Race Roughan.
A co-production with Chichester Festival Theatre in association with Frantic Assembly.
21 February – 1 March 2025 at Leeds Playhouse
4 – 22 March 2025 at Rose Theatre, Kingston
24 – 29 March at HOME Manchester
23 April – 3 May 2025 at Bristol Old Vic
6 – 10 May at Belgrade Theatre
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"Fresh, ferociously intense, and visually striking." ★★★★ - The Stage
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"Bracingly relevant and searingly shocking." ★★★★ WhatsOnStage
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"Blazing hot ménage à trois." ★★★★★ Broadway World
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"Radically different, insightful, and thought-provoking." ★★★★ TheatreSouthEast
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"Fresh, ferociously intense, and visually striking." ★★★★ - The Stage - "Bracingly relevant and searingly shocking." ★★★★ WhatsOnStage - "Blazing hot ménage à trois." ★★★★★ Broadway World - "Radically different, insightful, and thought-provoking." ★★★★ TheatreSouthEast -
A wild party. A friendship. A cherished pet.
And one night that changes everything.
It’s Julie’s 18th birthday, and she’s throwing a party in her father’s extravagant townhouse. Her boyfriend has just dumped her and her long-suffering best friend Christine is trying to pick up the pieces. As the revellers pile into the booze, down in the kitchen Christine and her boyfriend Jon – son of Julie’s cleaner – clear up and dare to dream of the future.
But as the volume goes up and the shots go down, Julie concocts a twisted cocktail of privilege, desire and destruction.
Laura Lomas’s The House Party spins Strindberg’s Miss Julie into intense, fizzing life for today’s generation.
This co-production with Chichester Festival Theatre in association with Frantic Assembly is directed by Holly Race Roughan, whose previous work at Chichester includes Hedda Tesman (2019) and A View from the Bridge (2023).
Trailer
(cast from 2024 production)Creative Team
Writer – LAURA LOMAS
Director – HOLLY RACE ROUGHAN
Set Designer – LOREN ELSTEIN
Costume Designer – MAYBELLE LAYE
Lighting Designer – JOSHUA PHARO
Music and Sound Designer – GILES THOMAS
Movement Director – SCOTT GRAHAM
Associate Set Designer – TALLULAH CASKEY
UK Tour Casting Director – BECKY PARIS CDG
This production is generously supported by Charles Holloway OBE
Content warning & AGE GUIDANCE:
Ages 14+. This production contains frequent strong language and themes of class divisions, power and privilege, sexual relationships, social media including the sharing of video footage without consent, self-harm, references to suicide, miscarriage, and psychological trauma; and depictions of drinking, sexual activity and violence towards animals.
Design by Bob King Creative , Trailer by The Umbrella Rooms