Southwark Playhouse

Southwark Playhouse An exciting programme of theatre productions across two venues: Southwark Playhouse Borough and Southwark Playhouse Elephant🐘+🏰. No booking fees!
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Southwark Playhouse is all about telling stories and inspiring the next generation of storytellers and theatre makers. It aims to facilitate the work of new and emerging theatre practitioners from early in their creative lives to the start of their professional careers. Through our schools work we aim to introduce local people at a young age to the possibilities of great drama and the benefits of

using theatre skills to facilitate learning. Each year we engage with over 5,000 school pupils through free schools performances and long-term in school curriculum support. Through our Young Company (YoCo), a youth-led theatre company for local people between the ages of 11-25, we aim to introduce young people to the many and varied disciplines of running a semi-professional theatre company. YoCo provides a training ground to build confidence and inspire young people towards a career in the arts. Our theatre programme aims to facilitate and showcase the work of some of the UK’s best up and coming talent with a focus on reinterpreting classic plays and contemporary plays of note. Our two atmospheric theatre spaces enable us to offer theatre artists and companies the opportunity to present their first fully realised productions. Over the past 20 years we have produced and presented early productions by many aspiring theatre practitioners many of whom are now enjoying flourishing careers.

It's official! Private Jones will be marching into Southwark Playhouse Elephant this winter.Written and directed by Mars...
19/06/2026

It's official! Private Jones will be marching into Southwark Playhouse Elephant this winter.

Written and directed by Marshall Pailet ('Marcel and the Train'), with choreography by Misha Shields ('Who's Your Baghdaddy') and artistic sign language direction by Alexandria Wailes ('CODA'), this original new musical is inspired by Gomer Jones, a deaf Welshman who hid his hearing loss to serve as a sniper in World War 1.

Blending BSL, live creative captioning, a Foley soundscape, and a sweeping original score, this story will be brought to life by a cast of hearing, hard-of-hearing, and deaf performers.

Private Jones | Southwark Playhouse Elephant | 14 December - 30 January | Tickets available now 🎟️

Congratulations to our Elders Company, who shared their production of Sarah Kane's '4.48 Psychosis' this week at Southwa...
18/06/2026

Congratulations to our Elders Company, who shared their production of Sarah Kane's '4.48 Psychosis' this week at Southwark Playhouse Elephant.

You were simply sensational!

Our Elders Company is a weekly drama group for people aged 65 and over, offering opportunities for participants to develop skills and confidence as they work with professional directors and facilitators to develop performances.

Photography by Yuhan Jia 📸

Looking for plans next weekend?People's Company are taking over Southwark Playhouse Borough on Sunday 28 June with a cre...
17/06/2026

Looking for plans next weekend?

People's Company are taking over Southwark Playhouse Borough on Sunday 28 June with a creative pride celebration.

Funded by Southwark Council, this evening brings together writers and performers from across all of Southwark Playhouse’s participatory and community groups to celebrate Pride month, including extracts from classic plays by LGBTQIA+ writers, new writing, poetry, and song.

All tickets are pay what you can, from £0, with People's Company donating all proceeds to Switchboard, the national LGBTQIA+ support line.

Pride: A Creative Celebration | Southwark Playhouse Borough | 28 June

15/06/2026

Have you joined us yet for So It Goes Theatre's “exquisite adaptation” (Broadway World) of Kurt Vonnegut's anti-war sci-fi novel, Slaughterhouse-Five?

Considered one of the most banned and challenged books of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five follows Billy Pilgrim, a soldier who becomes “unstuck in time” after he is abducted by aliens.

Take a look at the brand-new trailer for this exciting stage adaptation offering “experimental fringe theatre at its absolute best” (The Young Londoner).

Slaughterhouse-Five | Southwark Playhouse Borough | Must end 4 July

Videography by Nathan Walker 📽️

We were so thrilled to see our Volunteer Coordinator, Lill Worden, and regular Volunteer, Tom Leung, recognised at this ...
12/06/2026

We were so thrilled to see our Volunteer Coordinator, Lill Worden, and regular Volunteer, Tom Leung, recognised at this year's Southwark Stars Awards - nominated and chosen by their peers as part of Volunteer's Week!

We are so lucky to have such kind and generous people as part of our team and are so glad to see their contribution to the local community acknowledged.

133 years after the infamous trial of Lizzie Borden, Bury the Hatchet re-examines the unsolved mystery, asking why we ar...
11/06/2026

133 years after the infamous trial of Lizzie Borden, Bury the Hatchet re-examines the unsolved mystery, asking why we are so fascinated by watching women rise, fall, and be torn apart in public?

Part true crime, part courtroom drama, part bluegrass folk gig, this show “plays with our morality with devilish fun” (★★★★★ Binge Fringe).

Bury the Hatchet | Southwark Playhouse Borough | 12 August - 5 September | Tickets available now 🎟️

11/06/2026
10/06/2026

Rehearsals are underway for Firebird!

Take your first look at Marlie Haco's revival of Phil Davies' “blisteringly intense” (The Stage) drama, which returns to the London stage a decade on from its highly acclaimed West End transfer.

Firebird | Southwark Playhouse Borough | 9 July - 1 August

Videography by Toby Mather 📽️

Barking mad offbeat comedy, Dog Mom, is now on sale!The New Comedies Festival 2024 winner is written by Tate Elizabeth H...
09/06/2026

Barking mad offbeat comedy, Dog Mom, is now on sale!

The New Comedies Festival 2024 winner is written by Tate Elizabeth Hanyok ('S*x Appeal' (Hulu)), with direction by award-winning crime writer and theatre director, Ajay Chowdhury ('The Kamil Rahman Series', 'The Merchant of Vembley' (Cockpit Theatre)).

Meet Sarita - newly divorced, crammed into a tiny Brooklyn flat, and definitely NOT a dog person.

But when a scruffy stray appears at her door and refuses to leave, Sarita's new start descends into comic chaos.

Dog Mom | Southwark Playhouse Borough | 14 October - 7 November | Tickets available now 🎟️

Are we on Tralfamadore? Because these new Slaughterhouse-Five production photos are out of this world! 🛸Wishing the cast...
05/06/2026

Are we on Tralfamadore? Because these new Slaughterhouse-Five production photos are out of this world! 🛸

Wishing the cast, crew and creatives of Slaughterhouse-Five all the best for their press performance this evening as they bring Kurt Vonnegut's classic anti-war science-fiction novel to the stage.

Slaughterhouse-Five | Southwark Playhouse Borough | Must end 4 July

Photography by Henry Hu 📸

Address

77-85 Newington Causeway
London
SE16BD

Opening Hours

Monday 6:30pm - 11:30pm
Tuesday 1pm - 11pm
Wednesday 6:30pm - 11:30pm
Thursday 6:30pm - 11:30pm
Friday 6:30pm - 11:30pm
Saturday 2pm - 11:30pm

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+442074070234

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