In Bed With My Brother: We Are Ian
In Bed With My Brother bring their cult hit We Are Ian to Latitude. It is 1989. Acid house is sweeping Manchester, and Ian is at the centre of it. Guided by the real recorded voice of their mate Ian, a former DJ from Rochdale represented on stage by a single flickering lightbulb, the trio recreate the second summer of love in an hour of strobe, beats, biscuits and pure abandon. Part gig, part history lesson, part rave, it is an invitation to dance like it is 1989, and audiences never refuse.
Assembly Festival presents Krapp’s Last Tape
Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece Krapp’s Last Tape, presented by Assembly Festival, comes to Latitude in a production directed by Stockard Channing in her directorial debut. One of the most celebrated actresses of her generation, Channing has received eight Tony Award nominations, three Emmy Awards, and Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. To generations of film fans she is Rizzo in Grease, and this September she reprises her role in Practical Magic 2 alongside Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock.
Playing Krapp is her great friend David Westhead, a leading actor with the Royal Court, the National Theatre and the RSC. Outrageous, relatable, heartbreaking and a tribute to the vaudeville that exists in Beckett, the play finds Krapp, a 69-year-old man surrounded by the detritus of his life, listening to the ghostly voice of his younger self on his old tape recordings. The production plays Latitude before its run with Assembly at Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August, with all profits going to The Wembley to Soweto Foundation, the charity founded by Westhead providing photographic training and life-skills to disadvantaged young people around the world.
RashDash: There Were Goddesses
RashDash, the multi Fringe First award-winning trio behind Two Man Show and Three Sisters, return with There Were Goddesses, performing songs from their playful, anarchic body of work. The booking is a homecoming: Latitude co-commissioned the company’s early outdoor shows The Frenzy and Set Fire To Everything!!!, and they last played Henham Park in 2018 with a festival-special edition of their gig-theatre Three Sisters, after Chekhov, complete with electric guitars. Hailed by The Guardian as “the punk princesses of late night theatre”, Abbi Greenland and Helen Goalen have spent more than a decade making some of the most thrilling feminist gig-theatre in the country, and There Were Goddesses finds them singing for their lives, absolutely not struggling with mid-career life and motherhood, in a wry celebration of the UK’s thriving cultural landscape.
Lucy McCormick: Lucy & Friends
Lucy McCormick, the reigning queen of alternative cabaret, brings her acclaimed show Lucy & Friends to the Theatre Arena. Conceived as a spectacular ensemble piece, the funding never came through, so Lucy is going it alone, and the audience become the friends: mum, agent, reviewer, torch operator and backing choir. A riot of song, chaos, confetti and confession, Lucy & Friends earned five-star reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe and Soho Theatre, and arrives at Henham Park as one of the most talked-about live shows in the country. Expect mess. Expect participation. Expect nothing to go the way you think it will.
From the Lips to the Moon
From the Lips to the Moon, the experimental music and poetry night created by British-Iranian electronic musician Pouya Ehsaei and performer and writer Tara Fatehi, makes its Latitude debut. A driving force in London’s experimental performance scene, each show is a long-form live improvisation weaving electronics, twisted beats, heavy subs and performative poetry into what its creators call non-stories told in goosebumps and half-familiar languages. No two shows are ever the same, and the Henham Park edition will exist only once.
Today’s shows join a Theatre Arena bill that already includes The Place: Anatomy of Survival, Circus Zambia & Wake the Beast’s much talked about Afronauts, a preview screening of David Byrne’s American Utopia, and Wright & Grainger’s Orpheus and Eurydice, while Charlie Mackesy OBE, the Oscar-winning artist and author of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, returns with his celebrated live show of drawing and conversation.
Final weekend and day tickets to Klarna presents Latitude 2026 are on sale at the link below.
