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‘The Buddha of Suburbia,’ Ukrainian ‘King Lear,’ Ballet ‘Romeo & Juliet’ Lead Royal Shakespeare Company 2024/25 Season


The Royal Shakespeare Company has unveiled 17 shows for the 2024-25 season.

Emma Rice adapts the celebrated 1990 novel “ The Buddha of Suburbia,” an exploration of family, friends, sex, theater and belonging, with author Hanif Kureishi in a co-production with Wise Children. Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-winning play “English” receives its European premiere in association with Kiln Theatre, directed by Diyan Zora, with actors Nadia Albina, Sara Hazemi, Lanna Joffrey and Serena Manteghi. The Shakespeare works include Uzhhorod Theatre Company, Ukraine’s “King Lear,” adapted and directed by Vyacheslav Yehorov, first performed early in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

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