Felicity Kendal, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Tom Stoppard, Richard Greenberg and Jamie Armitage will lead Hampstead Theatre’s Autumn 2025 season, which also includes three world premieres and works from debut writers Nancy Farino and Will Lord.
Oberman stars in the UK premiere of Greenberg’s The Assembled Parties, while Stoppard revives Indian Ink with Kendal heading the cast.
Armitage returns to Hampstead as writer/director of immersive horror A Ghost in Your Ear. Lord makes his debut with The Billionaire Inside Your Head, while Farino brings Fatherland.
Full details for the Autumn 2025 season are below. Tickets are now on sale to Patrons and Friends, with public booking opening on Friday, June 6. More details here.
MAIN STAGE
The Assembled Parties
UK premiere
By Richard Greenberg, directed by Blanche McIntyre, with Tracy-Ann Oberman
Friday, October 17 – Saturday, November 22
Former movie star Julie Bascov insists on taking Christmas seriously – despite her family’s reminders that that they are in fact Jewish. Every year, she and her impossibly well-heeled husband Ben host a feast in their palatial apartment on Central Park West. In December 1980, their son and his best friend Jeff come down from Harvard to join the party, and Jeff is dazzled by the Bascov clan. But when he returns for the same occasion twenty years later he finds that much that was sown in 1980 has been reaped in the intervening years…
Indian Ink
By Tom Stoppard, directed by Jonathan Kent, with Felicity Kendal
Wednesday, December 3 – Saturday, January 31
Press Night: Monday 15 December, 7pm
1930, India. Flora Crewe, a noted Bloomsbury Group poet, undertakes a journey through India for her health. Free-spirited and without social inhibitions she unsettles most people she meets, but secretly captivates Nirad Das, a handsome Indian painter.
1980s England. Flora’s sister, Mrs Swan, is visited by an American biographer trying to uncover exactly what took place on the trip – and then Das’ son appears in her garden with a painting of Flora by his father – a nude…
DOWNSTAIRS
The Billionaire Inside Your Head
World premiere
By Will Lord, directed by Anna Ledwich
Friday, September 19 – Saturday, October 25
Rise. Grind. Hustle. Repeat. And repeat. And repeat…
Lifelong best friends Richie and Darwin are on the lowest rung of the corporate ladder, stuck in the basement together with decades of old case files to work through. Darwin’s morning routine is an episode of Seinfeld and a spliff; Richie’s an ice bath, meditation, and Jack Dorsey’s 7-minute workout.
When an opening becomes available as a Junior Associate, it presents the opportunity to fly up the ranks faster than SpaceX’s latest rocket. The only things that might prevent that awesome LinkedIn update? The voice of Richie’s OCD whose demands are getting harder and harder to keep up with, and the fact that Darwin’s mum just happens to be the CEO calling the shots.
Fatherland
World premiere
By Nancy Farino, directed by Tessa Walker
Friday, October 31 – Saturday, November 29
Only good things happen to Winston Smith. Or so he keeps telling himself. Winston loves his job as a life coach, and is even hoping to write a book to share his wisdom more widely. There’s just the small matter of a negligence lawsuit to deal with first…
His daughter Joy is tired. Of holding things together. Of pretending to be okay. And of every relationship in her life demanding more than she has to give.
The solution? A spontaneous road trip to County Mayo, in search of their long-lost Irish roots. On a converted school bus with mood lighting, questionable plumbing, and no clear plan; Winston takes Joy on a search for their past by way of hiding from the here and now.
A Ghost in Your Ear
World premiere
Written and directed by Jamie Armitage, a collaboration with Ben and Max Ringham
Saturday, December 6 – Saturday, January 24
An immersive experience designed to scare its audience, which wears headphones to put themselves in the auditory world of the show
You watch an actor arrive in a sound-recording studio.
You put on your headphones so you can listen closely as he records the audiobook of a ghost story.
Yet not every sound in your headphones can be explained. You start to fear that the horror is escaping the world of the story and coming closer towards you.