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1536

Following a sold-out run at the Almeida Theatre, 1536 – the “effortlessly funny, bold and ballsy” (The Guardian) must-see new play storms into the West End’s Ambassadors Theatre.

Written by Ava Pickett, winner of the 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and directed by Lyndsey Turner (Chimerica), this “razor-sharp, darkly comic and blisteringly relevant” (The Independent) hit explores the dynamics of female friendship in a world stacked against women.

Kings don’t kill their wives, right?

Tudor England. A field in Essex. Three women meet in secret, hungry for gossip from London.

Word spreads of a clash between King Henry VIII and his Queen, Anne Boleyn. And closer to home, another rumour begins to catch fire.

As these women begin to see echoes of the royal drama in their own rural lives and a rise in violence spreads throughout the land, the actions of a queen imprisoned in a tower threaten to cost them everything.

Cast and Creatives

TBC

Performance Times:

Monday to Saturday - 7.30pm

Wednesday and Saturday - 2.30pm

Duration of Performance:

TBC

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Ambassadors Theatre

Travel Details

You can find the Ambassadors Theatre on West Street which is just off Charing Cross Road. Leicester Square, Covent Garden and Holborn are all tube stations within short walking distance of the theatre.

The theatre is on main bus routes 14, 19, 24, 29, 38, 176

It is within the Congestion Charge Zone (7am until 6pm). The nearest car park is the Q Park Chinatown Car Park (20 Newport Place, WC2H 7PR).

Charing Cross Tube and Mainline Station
Leicester Square Tube Station
Covent Garden Tube

Ambassadors Theatre
West St, London WC2H 9ND