Kiln Theatre announces its new 2025/26 season, Amit Sharma’s second as Artistic Director.
The season will launch with Iman Qureshi’s The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs, a feel-good musical comedy about community, belonging, and the power of finding your voice. The new production runs 13 June – 12 July 2025 following a sold-out run at Soho Theatre.
This is followed by the world premiere of new musical, Coven, that reinterrogates the true story of the seventeenth century Pendle Witch Trials. This female led musical, which centres the power of women and runs 31 October – 13 December 2025.
Seagulls – a new, Black British retelling of Chekhov’s iconic play. This contemporary reimagining explores art, ambition, and the fractures within family and fame – bringing this classic right up to date for a new generation. Seagulls runs 12 February – 21 March 2026.
Completing the season is the world premiere of Please Please Me by Tom Wright (Associate Artistic Director at Kiln Theatre). An electrifying and deeply personal story of the troubled life of the ‘Fifth Beatle’, Brian Epstein, his relationship with John Lennon and his contribution to making The Beatles the greatest band on earth. The production runs from 16 April – 23 May 2026.
Coven – a scorching new musical, based on England’s most notorious witch trials comes to Kiln Theatre 31 October – 13 December 2025.
1612. Pendle, Lancashire. A witch hunt is raging and a 9-year-old Jennet accuses her own family of witchcraft. 21 years later, she finds herself imprisoned, surrounded by the most feared women in town. As the accuser becomes the accused, Jennet must confront a 250-year legacy of witchcraft and the dark secrets of her own past. As she listens to the shocking stories of the women around her, Jennet’s faith begins to crumble.
Olivier Award-winning director Miranda Cromwell joins forces with Grammy award-winning Daisy Chute alongside Rebecca Brewer. A thrilling new musical combining uplifting anthems and powerful melodies in a fresh reinterrogation of the true story of the Pendle Witch Trials. With power in their veins and the earth beneath their feet, 13 women rise above the forces that seek to silence them.
Join the coven. The trial begins.
Rebeca Brewer is an actor, writer and theatre maker. Her credits as a writer include Tales from the Thames with co-writers Vickie Donoghue and folk musician MG Boulter, Foot (finalist for New Perspectives’ Open Pitch in 2018), and The Escape (finalist for In Good Company’s ‘Take Off’ new writing award in 2019).
Daisy Chute is a Scottish/American singer-songwriter who has found a loyal following through her award-winning songwriting and ‘gorgeous’ vocals (Guy Garvey, Elbow). 2024 brought with it a Grammy Award for her involvement in The Birdsong Project and collaborations with Hollie Rogers, The Dunwells, Ed Blunt, Lady Nade and James Walker.
Miranda Cromwell is an Olivier Award-winning theatre director (Death of a Salesman at Young Vic Theatre/West End transfer, Company at Gielgud Theatre, Angels in America at National Theatre/Neil Simon Theatre, Broadway).
Access performances:
Audio Described 11 December, 7.30pm, preceded by a Touch Tour
Captioned 1 December, 7.30pm
Relaxed 3 December, 2.30pm
Special performances:
Alcohol Free 17 November, 7.30pm
Post show Q&A 18 November, 7.30pm
