Moira Buffini, Matt Charman, Penelope Skinner & Jack Thorne's

Greenland

Part of LAMDA's Green Season

Writers
Moira Buffini, Matt Charman, Penelope Skinner & Jack Thorne

Director
Rupert Hands

Location
The Sainsbury Theatre

Dates
Tuesday 31 March at 7pm
Thursday 2 April at 7pm
Tuesday 7 April at 2pm*
Wednesday 8 April at 7pm
Thursday 9 April at 2pm

*This will be a relaxed performance. Find out more.

About the show

What on earth is happening to our planet? And who knows what to do? Certainties are few: every living thing is related to every other living thing; our actions have consequences; and, change is continual and inevitable.

Directing credits include: End of the Rainbow (Soho Walthamstow); West Side Story (Birmingham Hippodrome); Love Life: A Charity Concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Greenland (LAMDA); Roam: a musical (Shaftesbury​); Evita (Palladium,  Associate Director); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tokyu Theatre Orb​); Roam: a musical (NYC, Workshop); Crazy For You (ArtsEd); The Society for New Cuisine (Omnibus);  High Society (ArtsEd); Otto Weidt (Leeds Playhouse/JW3, Workshop); Songs for a New World (Mountview); Sunset Blvd (St. James, Broadway​​​, Associate Director);  Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Palladium); Carrie (Royal Welsh College); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Mountview); Sunset Blvd (Savoy​​​, Associate Director); Sweet Charity (Italia Conti​); Oh What a Lovely War (Mountview​); Cyrano de Bergerac (Pinter​, Associate Director); Dirty Hearts (Old Red Lion); Edward II (Royal Welsh College); Candide (Mountview); Wendy and Peter Pan (Bunkamura, Tokyo/Leeds Playhouse​​​​​​); Cyrano de Bergerac (Playhouse, Associate Director); King Lear (Duke of York's, Associate Director); Evita (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre​, Associate Director); Glengarry Glen Ross (Playhouse​, Associate Director); Blackbird (The Other Room​​); The Secret Garden (Ambassadors) and Hobson's Choice (Vaudeville​​​, Associate Director) 

Moira Buffini is one of the UK's leading dramatists. She has written acclaimed films and plays, including The Dig (BAFTA-nominated), Jane Eyre, Byzantium, Tamara Drewe, Dinner and Handbagged (Olivier Award winner). For young adults she has written Silence, A Vampire Story and the musical, wonder.land. She was co-creator and showrunner of the TV series HarlotsSonglight was her debut novel.

Matt Charman's first play, A Night at the Dogs (Soho Theatre, London), won the prestigious Verity Bargate Award for new writers. Other productions include The Observer, directed by Sir Richard Eyre, and The Five Wives of Maurice Pinder  and Greenland (written with Jack Thorne, Moira Buffini and Penelope Skinner), all three of which premiered at the National Theatre, London, where Charman was previously Pearson Writer in Residence. Regrets received its world premiere at the Manhattan Theatre Club in May 2012, while his next, The Machine,  premiered at the Manchester International Festival in May 2013, before being staged at the Armory in New York. He is a recipient of the Peggy Ramsay Award and the 2008 Catherine Johnson Award for Best Play for The Observer.

Penelope Skinner's plays include Friendly Monsters (MTC online lockdown reading), Angry Alan (Underbelly/Soho), Meek (Traverse/Birmingham Rep),  Linda (Royal Court/MTC), The Ruins of Civilisation (MTC), Fred's Diner (Chichester Festival Theatre/Magic Theatre, San Francisco), The Sound of Heavy Rain (Paines Plough/Crucible), The Village Bike (Royal Court/MCC),  Eigengrau (Bush), Fucked (Old Red Lion/ Assembly Rooms) and Lyonesse (Harold Pinter Theatre). For The Village Bike she was the recipient of the 2011 George Devine Award and the 2011 Evening Standard Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright. For Linda she was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was the winner of the Berwin Lee Award. For Angry Alan she was the recipient of the Edinburgh Fringe First Award.

Jack Thorne's plays for the stage include Bunny (Underbelly, Edinburgh, 2010; Soho, 2011); 2nd May 1997 (Bush, 2009); When You Cure Me (Bush, 2005; Radio 3's Drama on Three, 2006); Fanny and Faggot (Pleasance, Edinburgh, 2004 and 2007; Finborough, 2007; English Theatre of Bruges, 2007; Trafalgar Studios, 2007); and Stacy (Tron, 2006; Arcola, 2007; Trafalgar Studios, 2007). His radio plays include Left at the Angel (Radio 4, 2007), an adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (2009), and an original play People Snogging in Public Places (Radio 3's Wire slot, 2009). He was a core writer in all three series of Skins (E4, Channel 4, BBC America), writing five episodes. His other TV writing includes The Fades, Shameless, Cast-Offs and the thirty-minute drama The Spastic King. He wrote the short film A Supermarket Love Song (shown at Sundance, 2006), and the feature film The Scouting Book for Boys, directed by Tom Harper (Film4, Celador and Screeneast, 2009), which won him the Star of London Best Newcomer Award at the London Film Festival 2009.

Contains explicit language and minor use of blood. 

This is an amateur production. 

Booking

General sale opens on Monday 9 March. Once you have booked a ticket, you will receive an email confirmation. Read up on our latest audience guidelines here.

Members of the industry: secure your complimentary seat by emailing the Box Office​​​ on [email protected]

Pricing and concessions 

Tickets cost £14, but we have £7 concessions tickets available to Hammersmith & Fulham residents, schools, students, or people who are over 65, under 18 or are on Job Seeker's Allowance. You'll just need to provide proof of your eligibility when you collect your tickets at the Box Office. We offer a complimentary ticket for carers, to book please call the box office on 020 8834 0500. If you belong to our Pathways Programme or work with any of our Pathways Partners you are entitled to complimentary tickets. Please contact the box office to book.

Accessibility 

If you have any additional requirements, you would like us to be aware of, please contact box office on 020 8834 0500. 

Booking your tickets 

Book your tickets online or by calling our box office on 020 8834 0500. 

Industry booking 

If you're a member of the industry, please email [email protected] to book your tickets. 

Group tickets 

We're pleased to offer discounted tickets to groups of 10+ people. Standard tickets are discounted to £9 per person, while under 18's tickets are discounted to £5 per person. To book, please contact [email protected]

E-Tickets

There is no need to collect tickets. You will be send an E-Ticket via email which you can present on arrival.

Refunds 

Unfortunately, all tickets are non-refundable.

LAMDA is a two-minute walk from Barons Court Station or a ten-minute walk from either West Kensington or Hammersmith Station. 

Please note: Our nearest station, Barons Court, is undergoing refurbishment works throughout 2026. Find out more. 

Creative Team

* LAMDA staff member or visiting artist

Director
Rupert Hands*

Designer 
Jennifer Taillefer*

Producer
Rebecca Lyle*

Assistant Producer 
Bobby Harding*

Assistant Director
Antonia Illies

Movement Director
Adi Gortler*

Voice Director 
Gurkiran Kaur *

Lighting Designer
Abi Brophy

Sound Designer
Velia De Nicola 

Cast

Adeel / Damien / Alamir    
Rashaan Asante

Ray / Adam    
Saqib Bashir

Harry / Oppenheim  
Alexander Bittar

Paula / Susie    
Jordan Copeland

Harold / Jacobs   
Timur Fraser

Phoebe / Sam
Evie Hamilton Kerr

Freya / Peta / Claude    
Patrizia Maio

Robert / Al / Nigel    
Joshua McCoy

Lisa    
Emma Montrochet

Celia / Waitress    
Elsa Rae

Serena / Depledge    
Virginia Richardson

Dav (Davina)    
Ellie Spencer

Sarah / Bernice    
Vee Tames

Pam / Natasha / Seydou / Naval Cadet
Terry-Ann Wisdom

Production Team

* LAMDA staff member or visiting artist

Production Manager
James Knight 

Stage Manager
Finley Cozens

Deputy Stage Manager 
Sofia Altamirano

Assistant Stage Managers
Jack Moodie
Elaine Redshaw

Production LX
Holly Higgs

Deputy Lx / Programmer
Brooke Sangster

Production Sound Engineer
Patrick McAneny 

Production Carpenter 
Tammy Cheng

Costume Supervisor 
Hana Underwood*

Lighting Technicians
Dani Gimmler
Sophie Gomersall
Erin Mitchell
Will Mulhearn
Seoyoung Shin
Will Trow
Marcus Walton
Jaimie Westwell

Sound Assistants 
Manon Bonvoisin
Phoebe Ford
Max Goodwin
Isabel Scholes

Construction Crew
Izzie Davies
Sonny Hooper
Xander Owen
Kaz Piotrowicz
Sophie Robinson
Sam Webb
Gray Wills