Reading Rep Theatre are proud to present their largest season of work that places the UK’s most exciting theatrical voices at the heart of its programme.

The 2024-25 season marks Reading Rep's biggest and most ambitious to date, taking well known stories and turning them on their head, provoking inspiration, imagination and cultural discussion. 

The season will include four shows written by women, three co-productions with world-class theatres and two family, educational outreach offers.

Reading Rep: ReImagine marks Reading Rep’s 14th year of producing outstanding contemporary theatre that places Reading at the heart of the national cultural landscape. 

A long-awaited collaboration with Newbury’s award-winning Watermill Theatre brings Camille Ucan’s exceptional play Three Hens in a Boat to the stage from May 1-17 2025: a fascinating, hilarious and provoking adaptation of the Jerome K. Jerome’s beloved novel ‘Three Men in a Boat’, which inspired the acclaimed BBC TV series. 

Harriet Madeley, who first worked with Reading Rep as the writer of the sell-out production of Hedda Gabler in 2023, will return this Autumn by bringing the critically acclaimed show Outpatient to Reading Rep from October 15-19, after a sell-out run at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. Outpatient is a witty, powerful comedy, about a woman given an untimely death sentence all too early.

For its Fringe run, the production won The Summerhall Lustrum Award Winner for Unforgettable Theatre.

In the New Year, Reading Rep will bring their first co-production with London’s Jermyn Street Theatre to the main stage, celebrating a decade long working relationship with Genesis Future Directors Award winner Annie Kershaw, who will return to Reading Rep directing Jean Genet’s classic - The Maids. The new production will run in Reading from January 28 – February 8.

Reading Rep is proud to work with incredible collaborators across this season, including the Orange Tree Theatre and Guildford Shakespeare Company in bringing their fantastic project Shakespeare Up Close to Reading audiences on November 9.

Their productions of Macbeth and Romeo & Juliet will inspire a whole new generation of audiences to engage with Shakespeare’s seminal works.

Reading Rep has forged a legacy with its Christmas production, selling out to enthusiastic audiences and families across Berkshire.

Anna Wheatley’s adaptation of the beloved Hans Christian Andersen story The Snow Queen will take up the mantle as this year’s festive spectacular, spreading joy and connecting generations from November 29 – December 31.