Introducing our 2025/26 Season
- Jul 18
- 3 min read
Our 2024/25 season may have not long finished, but it's time to look ahead to a new season of 7 brand new productions for 2025/26, including some shows never seen on stage before.
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Talking Heads
 | At once darkly comic, tragically poignant and wonderfully uplifting, Talking Heads is widely regarded as a modern classic. We revisit two of them, last performed by RLT in 2013. These passionate and funny snapshots of lonely lives promise an evening of hilarious and touching theatre. A Lady of Letters Performed by Hayley Johnson Bed Among the Lentils Performed by Angela Buttrill |
Wednesday 10 - Saturday 13 September | Booking opens Friday 25 July |
Three Kings
 | Premiered and broadcast as part of The Old Vic, London's In Camera series during the COVID-19 pandemic; Three Kings is a one-person play written for Andrew Scott by Stephen Beresford. Three Kings is a heartbreaking and hilarious play about fathers and sons, the gifts and burdens of inheritance, and the unfathomable puzzle of human relationships. |
Wed 29 October - Sat 1 November | Booking opens Friday 25 July |
Death & the Maiden
 | A white knuckle thriller portraying a riveting intellectual and emotional tug of war. Years have passed since political prisoner, Paulina, suffered at the hands of her captor; a man whose face she never saw, but whom she can still recall with terrifying clarity. Tonight, by chance, a stranger arrives at the house she shares husband. A stranger Paulina is convinced was her tormentor… |
Wednesday 26 - Saturday 29 November | Booking opens Friday 25 July |
Cashing In
 | A new play from regular RLT collaborator, Jayne Marshall. With only months to live, Mike wants to be in control of his ending and leave the world peacefully. He knows a trip abroad is his only option - if he had the money. Whilst keeping his intentions a secret from his stepson Josh, Mike sets about on a quest to raise the cash and find the long lost heirloom every desperate family must have hiding in their attic. |
Wednesday 18 - Saturday 21 February | Booking opens Friday 25 July |
The Good Life
 | Jeremy Sams' stage play, based on the hugely popular sitcom by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, reunites the well-loved characters (not forgetting Geraldine the goat) as they get themselves into and out of scrapes - some old, some new, all hilarious. Tapping into issues that resonate now more than ever, The Good Life is a witty reimagining of a television classic, with a wellyful of laughs that's sure to delight audiences both old and new. |
Wednesday 25 - Saturday 28 March | Booking opens Friday 25 July |
Sing Britannia
 | Join us as we present a musical journey through the many stages of British Musical Theatre. From the Savoy operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan, through Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 80s juggernauts to the latest jukebox and movie based shows. Tracing a history from the late 19th Century right up to date with the most recent Manchester Gets It First premieres there will be a wonderful mix of the familiar and the undiscovered to enjoy. |
Wednesday 13 - Saturday 16 May | Booking opens Friday 25 July |
Accidental Death Of An Anarchist
 | Dario Fo and Franca Rame's riotous satire, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, has been widely performed around the world since its premiere in 1970. Tom Basden's hilarious, bang-up-to-date adaptation was first performed at Sheffield's Playhouse in 2022, with Marple's own Daniel Rigby. It transferred for a sold out run at the Lyric, Hammersmith, before transferring again into the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London's West End in June 2023. |
Wednesday 24 - Saturday 27 June | Booking opens Friday 25 July |
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