Our biggest show yet arrives… November 2024!
August 1792. Twenty-thousand people storm the palace of King Louis XVI of France. Six months later the king is guillotined: France is a Republic.
July 1794. Fifteen thousand more people have had their heads chopped off. Republican leader Robespierre gets guillotined as well. The Revolution is over.
January 2024. Members of the international elite assemble in Davos for the final meetings of the World Economic Forum where they enjoy lovely saunas, hot spas and delicious, high-class food. Child poverty levels are the highest they’ve ever been. The richest 1% own half of the world’s wealth. A politician has been hit by a flying egg.
We’re making their biggest show yet - the story of the French Revolution. Written & directed by Sam Ward, it’s a show about an angry, hungry peasant girl looking for some bread. It’s a show about rage and violence and taking to the streets. It’s a show with music and dance and other things as well. It’s not Les Mis. It’s about cutting powerful people’s heads off with a guillotine. It’s about what really happens when you try and change the world. It's about an insurrection in the past and what they've done to make sure nothing like that ever happens again. And it’s not f*cking Les Mis.
14th November to 14th December 2024 at New Diorama Theatre.