London’s Park Theatre has announced the first shows of its 2025 programming, running from January to May and featuring a new Neil LaBute play, a stand-up turned theatremaker and a new adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone.
Making the announcement Jez Bond, artistic director of Park Theatre, described there being “something for everyone in this next season of work across our two spaces.”
The first show of 2025 is a return from stand-up comedian Ivo Graham with Carousel: A Theatre Show by Ivo Graham, which previewed at the theatre last year before its Edinburgh Fringe run.
The first opening of the year in the theatre’s larger space, Park200, is The Gift, a new comedy by Dave Florez that sees Colin receive an anonymous package sending him on a quest to unmask the sender.
Playing in Park90, Antigone [on strike] is inspired by the real stories of the young women who became the so-called ‘ISIS Brides’ and will see audience members voting on the direction of the play’s story as its central character finds herself at the centre of a media frenzy.
Also opening is the Covid-inspired Jab which played at Finborough Theatre in 2024 and the London premiere of Farewell Mr Haffmann, set in 1942 in Nazi-occupied Paris. It follows the Jewish jeweller Joseph Haffmann who finds himself in an unlikely arrangement with his trusted employee Pierre Vigneau and Pierre’s wife Isabelle.
Meanwhile, the UK premiere of Tony Award-nominated writer Neil LaBute’s new play How to Fight Loneliness rounds out the announcement, playing in the theatre’s larger space.
