Name: The House Party
Start: 2025-03-25T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-29T19:30:00+00:00
Location: 2, Tony Wilson Place, M15 4FN Manchester, United Kingdom

A wild party. A friendship. And one night that changes everything.
Written by Laura Lomas
Directed by Holly Race Roughan
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 entitlement, desire and destruction.
Described as “bracingly relevant and searingly shocking” by WhatsOnStage and “Fresh, ferociously intense, and visually striking” by The Stage, The House Party explores themes of class, power, and privilege with raw intensity.
Directed by Headlong’s Artistic Director Holly Race Roughan with movement from the formidable Frantic Assembly, Laura Lomas’ The House Party spins Strindberg’s Miss Julie into intense, fizzing life for today’s generation.
Age guidance: 14+
Trigger warnings: Contains strong language, themes of class divisions, privilege, sexual relationships, social media, self-harm, suicide, miscarriage, psychological trauma, and depictions of drinking, sexual activity, and violence towards animals.
Tickets from £20.00
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