As we turn 30 we are excited to announce a bold, collaborate new programme of work for the next year, which includes:

• Lost Atoms, a new play by Anna Jordan, directed by Scott Graham which will tour for 17 weeks from September 2025. Co-produced with Curve, MAST Mayflower Southampton and the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre.

• The House Party by Laura Lomas, co-produced by Headlong and Chichester Festival Theatre in association with Frantic Assembly, which premiered in Chichester in May, returns for further touring dates in early 2025, featuring six Frantic Ignition graduates in the cast.

• A new collaboration with Aurora Orchestra on Carnival, a new staging of Saint-Saëns’ The Carnival of the Animals, which premieres at the Southbank Centre, London in May 2025.

• Fundraising efforts to save Frantic Assembly’s vital talent development programme Ignition continue with ‘The Big Give Christmas Challenge’ in December.

• The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre will be updated with new content in a third edition to be published by Routledge in the new year.

"I am not sure how to feel about Frantic Assembly turning 30! That seems like quite a large number to capture what essentially feels like a blur! But when I stop to think about it there is much to be proud of. I like to think there has been a positive impact upon how theatre is made, who gets to make it, and how our young people are invited to engage with it.

Our productions, outreach and accessible training have spawned a methodology that invites and supports creativity from those who might have found theatre distant or elitist. I am proud of that. But I am not going to spend too long celebrating the 30th birthday. I am more interested in ‘whats next?’ It can be fun to look back but it is much more exciting to look forward."

- Scott Graham, Founder and Artistic Director of Frantic Assembly