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4th December 2025
Exclusive Theatre School Thursday Deals Just For You!
Get a mega 25% OFF our spring term productions and Gala Dinner event in London, as well as fantastic 10% OFF on all our Online Masterclasses. This weekend only! Offer ends Sunday, 7th December at Midnight.
✨ For spring term productions and Gala Dinner, use our magic code when booking via the links below to get your discount: FRIENDS25 ✨
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This is our ‘Anti-Black Friday’ campaign. Because we don’t believe tech giants should have all the love at this time of year! Why not give the gift of live theatre, or a sumptuous night out in London this Christmas to you and your loved ones…
Gala Dinner
Join us in celebrating our 80th anniversary with our tasty Theatre School Thursday deals. For a limited time only, get 25% OFF our Gala Dinner!
We would love to see as many Alumni, friends, funders, supporters and industry contacts join us and help to raise as much money as possible to help support the School’s future!
📍 London’s Leonardo Royal Hotel – Tower Bridge
📆 Thursday 12th February
Tickets Include:
✨ Welcome drinks reception
✨ Three-course dinner, with table wine, tea/coffee + petit fours
✨ Live entertainment from BOVTS students past and present
✨ Charity Auction
✨ Special announcement about the School’s future.
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Online Masterclasses
Get 10% OFF now with our magic code FRIENDS10
Whether you’re looking to sharpen specific skills or explore new areas of performance, our online MasterClasses are designed to deliver focused, practical training in a convenient, time-efficient format. We have 12 fantastic courses to choose from, with various dates available, all 3 hours long. Browse our courses now:
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Spring Term Productions
Wow, what a season it’s been so far! We hope you have been able to catch some of our spectacular autumn shows that have been running throughout November. Our students have been working very hard, and we’re not stopping there.
As we step into the spring season, we’re thrilled to present an exceptional programme featuring our two Shakespeare double bills, along with powerful new productions of Days of Significance and Paradise.
Double Bill Shakespeare 1: Macbeth and Twelfth Night
📆 Thursday 12th Feb – Sat 14th Feb
👍 Suitable for ages 12+
🖋 Directed by Rachael Walsh, Designed by Mima Jupp & Michaela Dimitrova
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Macbeth
Encouraged by a prophecy from three Witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, Lady Macbeth, the Scottish general Macbeth murders King Duncan to seize the throne. This initial act of treachery spirals into a bloody tyranny as the paranoid new king kills anyone he sees as a threat, including his friend Banquo. Driven by guilt and fear, the Macbeths descend into madness — Lady Macbeth through sleepwalking and hallucinatory visions, and Macbeth through an unstoppable rampage of slaughter. The play is a psychological thriller and tragedy that follows the disastrous consequences of unchecked ambition and the ultimate downfall of a power-hungry couple.
Key themes: Ambition and Guilt; Fate vs. Free Will; Appearance and Reality; the Corrupting Nature of Power.
Twelfth Night
After a shipwreck separates her from her twin brother, Viola washes ashore in Illyria and disguises herself as a young man named ‘Cesario’. She enters the service of Duke Orsino, whom she promptly falls in love with. Orsino, however, is in love with the Countess Olivia and sends ‘Cesario’ to woo her on his behalf. This arrangement hilariously backfires when Olivia instantly falls for the disguised messenger, creating a complex love triangle. Meanwhile, Olivia’s household is plagued by mischievous servants who plot a cruel prank on the puritanical steward, Malvolio. The play is a joyful, fast-paced comedy filled with music, mistaken identity, gender confusion, and eventual, surprising happy endings.
Key themes: Gender and Disguise; the Madness of Love; Social Order vs. Chaos; Appearance vs. Reality.
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Double Bill Shakespeare 2: Othello and The Tempest
📆 Thursday 19th Feb – Sat 21st Feb
👍 Suitable for ages 14+
🖋 Directed by Nikhil Vyas, Designed by Fiona McKeon & Mima Jupp
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Othello
Othello, a celebrated Moorish general in the Venetian army, secretly marries the beautiful and virtuous Desdemona. This infuriates his disgruntled Ensign, Iago, who has been passed over for promotion. Consumed by destructive jealousy and a desire for revenge, the villainous Iago manipulates Othello with subtle, venomous lies, suggesting that Desdemona is having an affair with the promoted Lieutenant Cassio. Iago’s carefully constructed web of deceit, based on circumstantial evidence like a lost handkerchief, drives Othello into a spiral of agonising suspicion and madness. The tragedy culminates in Othello’s violent murder of his innocent wife and his subsequent realisation of Iago’s terrible treachery.
Key themes: Jealousy and Envy; Racism and The Outsider; Appearance vs. Reality (Deception); Love and Betrayal.
Tempest
Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, was betrayed by his brother Antonio and cast adrift to a remote, magical island with his young daughter, Miranda. Using his powerful books of magic, Prospero has ruled the island for twelve years, commanding the spirit Ariel and the savage native Caliban. When a ship carrying his treacherous brother and other nobles sails near the island, Prospero conjures a fierce storm—a ‘tempest’—to shipwreck them. As the nobles wander the island, Prospero uses his magic to orchestrate their reconciliation, Miranda’s marriage to the King of Naples’ son, and, ultimately, his return to power and the renunciation of his magic. The play is a blend of romance, revenge, and the power of theatre itself.
Key themes: Magic and Illusion; Betrayal and Revenge; Forgiveness and Reconciliation; Colonialism and Power.
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Days of Significance
📆 Sat 28th Feb – Sat 7 March
👍 Suitable for ages 16+
🖋 Directed by Natalie Simone, Written by Roy Williams, Designed by Andrea Kilgour & Alex Hall
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Roy Williams’s hard-hitting play, “Days of Significance,” is a powerful modern drama that uses a classic three-act structure to explore the volatile lives of young British people caught between two different battlegrounds. The narrative follows two young soldiers, Ben and Jamie, and their partners, as they prepare for and endure active service in the Iraq conflict.
Key themes: Including the cost of war on young, often ill-prepared individuals, the erosion of moral authority, and the contrast between domestic and military violence, exploring issues of prejudice, nationalism, and revenge.
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Paradise
📆 Sat 28th Feb – Sat 7 March
👍 Suitable for ages 14+
🖋 Directed by Iqbal Khan, Written by Kae Tempest, Designed by Olivia Jackson & Rosa Nasr-Butler
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Kae Tempest’s “Paradise” is an epic and uncompromising modern reimagining of Sophocles’ ancient Greek tragedy, Philoctetes. The play relocates the classical tale of war, honour, and betrayal to a desolate, contemporary setting—an island ravaged by conflict and potentially climate change, which functions as a modern-day refugee camp or dumping ground. The central story revolves around Philoctetes, a once-celebrated soldier and master archer, who was left stranded on the island ten years earlier by his commander, Odysseus, after suffering a foul-smelling wound. Now, as the war rages on, Odysseus returns with the young soldier Neoptolemus to manipulate and trick Philoctetes into returning to the fight with his legendary, life-winning bow, forcing a moral confrontation about pride, truth, and revenge.
Key themes: The cost of endless war, the nature of heroism and masculinity, moral compromise, and the search for authentic community.