May 2024

Written by Mike Bartlett

Directed by Mark Maguire

‘Albion’, a once celebrated English country garden created by a WW1 army captain to memorialise his fallen colleagues, has gone to rack and ruin.

Audrey Walters is on a mission. Grieving from the death of her son in combat, she relocates her family to rural Oxfordshire and single-mindedly sets about restoring the garden to its past glory – and in doing so, give life to her nostalgic connection to the past.

But Audrey’s actions and obsession with the garden and its ghosts of the past comes at a cost to the living – as her relationships with family, friends and the local community decay around her.

Winner of the 2017 Telegraph ‘Play of the Year’, Albion is a powerful drama with witty black comedy moments which looks at how we process loss and grieve … and our complicated relationship with England’s past, present and future.

“Most other countries preserve their past. The embarrassed and insecure English discard it. And then complain when the replacement isn’t any good.” – Audrey