Postgraduate Season 2025 Announced
We are delighted to announce Mountview’s Postgraduate Season of productions, showcasing the talents of our MA Acting and MA Musical Theatre students, with the support of our Theatre Production Arts students.
Head Over Heels
13 – 17 Jun | The Mack
Welcome to the lush, rolling hills of Arcadia – where wine flows, sheep graze, and the Royal Family is about to have their world turned upside down.
When a cryptic prophecy threatens the kingdom, the Royals embark on a riotous quest packed with defiance, desire, and a whole lot of heart. Fueled by the hits of 1980s rock icons The Go-Go’s – including “We Got the Beat,” “Our Lips Are Sealed,” and “Heaven is a Place on Earth” – this is not your average fairy tale.
Based on Sir Philip Sidney’s The Arcadia, with a book by Jeff Whitty and adaptation by James Magruder, this unapologetically bold, hilarious and effervescent story is performed by our MA Musical Theatre students with full-throttle energy.
Expect chaos. Expect love. Expect the unexpected. And possibly a sheep or two.
Find out more and book here.
Curtains
2 – 5 Jul | The Mack
Curtains is a mischievous musical murder mystery set in 1959 during the opening night of a new show at Boston’s Colonial Theatre. When the excruciatingly untalented star of Robbin’ Hood of the Old West dies on stage, the entire cast and crew become suspects. It is up to local detective (and theatre enthusiast) Frank Cioffi to solve the mystery, save the production, and perhaps even discover love before the show can reopen…
This sharp, witty comedy features an original book and concept by Peter Stone, with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, all brought to life (and death!) by our MA Musical Theatre cohort.
Find out more and book here.
Women, Beware the Devil
9 – 12 Jul | The Backstage Theatre
You understand then
Why I have to do everything I can
Everything possible
To protect this house
And you understand
Don’t you
What that means for you?
England, 1640. War is brewing. Rumours are flying. A household is in crisis… and the Devil is having some fun. When Elizabeth’s ancestral home comes under threat, she elicits the help of Agnes, a stable girl suspected of witchcraft. But Agnes has dark dreams of her own for this house.
Performed by members of our MA Acting cohort, Women, Beware the Devil is a deadly play of treachery and trickery by The Sunday Times Playwriting Award-winner Lulu Raczka.
Find out more and book here.
The Chrysalids
16 – 19 Jul | The Backstage Theatre
Two hands, ten fingers, two legs, ten toes. That’s the way a pure child grows.
In a post-apocalyptic world, absolute conformity is imposed, and difference is met with violence. A group of young people discover they have an unusual gift, betrayed from within, they escape into the forbidden Fringes.
Written by John Wyndham, the author of sci-fi classic The Day of the Triffids and adapted for the stage by David Harrower. The Chrysalids is performed by members of our MA Acting cohort.
Find out more and book here.
Against
23 – 26 Jul | The Backstage Theatre
It was like an energy filled my body – an energy made of words. And the words were, Go where there’s violence.
Silicon Valley. The future. A rocket launches.
Luke is an aerospace billionaire who can talk to anyone. But God is talking to him. He sets out to change the world. Only violence stands in his way.
Performed by members of our MA Acting cohort, and written by Pulitzer Prize finalist Christopher Shinn, Against is an ambitious, State-of-the-World play, that explores our relationship to the sources and legacies of violence and to tech billionaires who seem to have answers.
Find out more and book here.
Book your tickets now via our website or call our Box Office on 020 8881 2201.
