Following its premiere at Chichester Festival Theatre in May 2024, Headlong’s hit production of The House Party by Laura Lomas, co-produced with Chichester Festival Theatre in association with Frantic Assembly, returns for further touring dates in 2025.

A wild party. A friendship. A cherished pet.

And a night that changes everything.

It’s Julie’s 18th birthday, and she’s throwing a party in her father’s extravagant townhouse. Her boyfriend has just dumped her and her long-suffering best friend Christine is trying to pick up the pieces. As the revellers pile into the booze, down in the kitchen Christine and her boyfriend Jon – son of Julie’s cleaner – clear up and dare to dream of the future.

But as the volume goes up and the shots go down, Julie concocts a twisted cocktail of privilege, desire and destruction.

Laura Loma's The House Party spins Strindberg's Miss Julie into intense, fizzing life for today's generation. Directed by Headlong’s Artistic Director Holly Race Roughan with movement direction by Scott Graham.

2024 DATES - WORLD PREMIERE

CHICHESTER FESTIVAL THEATRE - 3 MAY TO 1 JUNE 2024

2025 TOUR DATES

LEEDS PLAYHOUSE - 21 FEB TO 1 MAR 2025

ROSE THEATRE, KINGSTON - 4 MAR TO 22 MAR 2025

HOME, MANCHESTER - 25 TO 29 MAR 2025

BRISTOL OLD VIC - 23 APR TO 3 MAY 2025

BELGRADE THEATRE - 1 TO 10 MAY 2025

When The House Party premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre in May 2024 it featured six of our IGNITION alumni as ensemble members, many making their professional debut.

Five of them - Oliver Baines, Cal Connor, Micah Corbin-Powell, Jaheem Pinder and Jamie Randall - return for the 2025 tour and are joined by Ines Aresti, an Ignition graduate from 2023.

Our Ignition graduates are joined by Rachael Leonce as the seventh member of the Ensemble.

We are very proud to be working with these talented performers on this exciting collaboration with Headlong.