(all photographs by Gemma Mount)

Three Kingdoms

by Simon Stephens

Do you know something?
I think I’d be so fucking cross if you got killed.
I’d actually, I have to say, be generally pretty pissed off if you died before me for any reason.

An ensemble of actors from 12 different countries meet in a space somewhere (anywhere) to tell a good old-fashioned detective story about place, patriarchy, free movement, theatre, capitalism and love - set across 21st-century Europe. The first ever UK revival of Simon Stephens’ 2012 playtext.

It’s changed, Germany.
This city’s got a lot fucking richer.
We’re getting a new Philharmonic Concert Hall.
It’s where all the fucking money is going.

March 2018 - The Corbett Theatre, East 15

A show made by:
Adrianna Pavlovska
Amy Watts
Caitlin Denegre
Christos Floros
Claire Wilson
Dominik Cicak
Duncan Hodgkinson
Edoardo Almeida
Eliah Arnstjerna
Eva Ditzelmüller
Heidi C Nielsen
Jake Wakstein
Liesel Jensen
Magdaléna Škerenčák
Niamh Graham
Nicky Bathgate
Phil Hamilton
Rhyannon Richardson
Roze Elisa
Simonas Mozura
Tom Hughes
Tongchai O Hansen

“This production is bracing and intelligent, searching, compassionate and richly imaginative.” - Simon Stephens

“Three Kingdoms was totally magic. It was inspired by Italian crime caper 70s B-movies and only two of the actors were native English speakers but they were all improvising in European languages that weren’t their own and there was a stupid dancercising bit and SO much corpsing and a furious monologue written by one of the actors that tackled the play’s gender politics head-on. It was alive, scruffy, trusting and fun.” - Smaller Temples, top shows of 2018.

“I just saw a student production of Three Kingdoms that was just wildly, brilliantly different from the original…And there was another new bit about Benedict Cumberbatch and Andrew Scott at an Old Vic press night…Basically, I’ve had the best time!” - Megan Vaughan

I know what fucking English people think about us.
I’ve seen your football commentaries.
I don’t think they know the difference between the Baltic Sea and the Balkan Sea half the time.
Yes? Am I right?