Jermyn Street Theatre: Lessons in Revolution

Jermyn Street Theatre is a unique theatre in the heart of the West End: a home to remarkable artists and plays, performed in the most intimate and welcoming of surroundings. World-class, household-name playwrights, directors and actors work here alongside people just taking their first steps in professional theatre. It is a crucible for multigenerational talent.

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Lessons in Revolution © Jermyn Street Theatre

Lessons in Revolution

1968, London School of Economics. Three thousand students occupy a lecture hall, demanding the university cut ties with apartheid-era Rhodesia. Tensions escalate as the students fight for radical change while the administration pushes back. The world watches, waiting to see who will blink first.

2024, a cramped Camden flat. Two flatmates dive into the archives from 1968, discovering the student movement that electrified their local streets fifty years earlier. When the rent on their unsafe flat goes up again, they turn to the past to reignite their belief in the future.

Samuel Rees and Gabriele Uboldi’s play brings the most significant protest of a generation to life through the voices of those who lived it. One of the “most talked about shows from this year’s Edinburgh festivals” (The Conversation) comes to Jermyn Street Theatre for a limited run.

Art Forms: History, Politics, Drama.

Cost: Tickets £22 with the teacher going free.

Date and times: 28 April - 3 May 2025. Monday to Saturday, 7.30pm. Tuesday, 3.00pm.

Location

Jermyn Street Theatre, 16b Jermyn Street, SW1Y 6ST

Contact

https://www.jermynstreettheatre.co.uk/show/lessons-on-revolution/ Email boxoffice@jermynstreettheatre.co.uk or call 020 7287 2875.