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Anna Barkan is a Russian Acting Teacher and Director, who studied at the prestigious Vakhtangov Theatre School in Moscow and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She also holds an MA in Actor Training & Coaching from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, where her research included working with International multilingual casts. Anna’s practice is rooted in the Stanislavsky System and the Michael Chekhov technique. 

For over 20 years, Anna worked as an actor on stage, film and TV in Russia and the UK and formed CHAIKA Theatre company where she directed and produced premieres of lesser-known Russian classics in original translations. She is also a co-founder of The Drama Academy which specialised in theatre for young actors aged 8 to 18 in the UK, USA and Russia, and has taught and directed productions at LAMDA across a number of courses.

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (1868–1936), primarily known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method, and a political activist. He was also a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gorky's works include: The Lower Depths (1902), Twenty-six Men and a Girl (1899), The Song of the Stormy Petrel (1901), My Childhood (1913–1914), Mother (1906), Summerfolk (1904) and Children of the Sun (1905).

Mike Bartlett is a multi-award-winning writer for both stage and screen.

Theatre includes: Juniper Blood (Donmar Warehouse, 2025); Unicorn (West End, 2025); Scandaltown (Lyric Hammersmith, 2022); The 47th (Old Vic, London, 2022); Mrs Delgado (Old Fire Station, Oxford, 2021); Snowflake (Old Fire Station, Oxford, 2018); Albion (Almeida Theatre, London, 2017); Wild (Hampstead Theatre, 2016); Game (Almeida, 2015); King Charles III (Almeida Theatre and West End, 2014); An Intervention (Paines Plough/Watford, 2014); Bull (Sheffield Theatres, 2013); Medea (Headlong, 2012); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre, 2012); 13 (National Theatre, London, 2011); Decade (Headlong, 2011); Earthquakes in London (Headlong & National Theatre, 2010); Love, Love, Love (Paines Plough & Plymouth Theatre Royal, 2010); Cock (Royal Court, 2009; West End, 2022); Contractions (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2008); Artefacts (Bush Theatre & Nabokov, 2008); and My Child (Royal Court, 2007).

Television includes: Life, Doctor Foster, King Charles III, Sticks and Stones, Trauma and Press. 

Contains themes of assault, child loss, murder, death, mental illness due to guilt and suicide. Explicit language used throughout. 

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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.