Almeida Theatre announces diverse 2024 season with UK premieres and innovative adaptations

The Almeida Theatre has unveiled an ambitious new season for 2024, featuring a mix of UK premieres, innovative adaptations and the theatre’s first-ever repertory season. The season includes the UK premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s The Comeuppance, directed by Eric Ting, and starring a cast that comprises Yolanda Kettle, Ferdinand Kingsley, Tamara Lawrance, Katie Leung and Anthony Welsh. Kendall Feaver’s new play Alma Mater, directed by Polly Findlay, is also set to make its debut, with a cast including Nathalie Armin, Phoebe Campbell, Liv Hill, Liam Lau-Fernandez, Lia Williams and Susannah Wise.

Adding to the excitement, the season will see Internationaal Theater Amsterdam’s Artistic Director Eline Arbo making her UK directorial debut with an adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s novel The Years. The Almeida will also embark on its first repertory season, Angry and Young, featuring Arnold Wesker’s Roots, directed by Diyan Zora, and John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger, directed by Atri Banerjee.

Commenting on the announcement, Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold expressed his delight at welcoming five new directors to the Almeida and highlighted the significance of the new season in celebrating the theatre’s unique intimacy and atmosphere.

The season is also noteworthy for the number of Almeida productions transferring to West End and New York stages, including the West End opening of A Mirror and Goold’s own directorial ventures The Hunt at St Ann’s Warehouse, New York, as well as Patriots and Tammy Faye on Broadway.

In addition to these major productions, the Almeida Young Company will present Lear is Not Okay and Lessons, both of which respond to Yaël Farber’s production of King Lear. Furthermore, playwright Sarah Gordon has been named the second recipient of The Roger Michell Commissioning Fund, which supports the development of new plays at the Almeida.

The season will begin with The Comeuppance on Saturday 6^th April 2024. The theatre has called on audiences to anticipate a year of captivating stories and performances that will both entertain and provoke thought.

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For further information or to book visit the theatre’s website here.