Mrs. Warren's Profession Revival

Closing: August 16, 2025

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Garrick Theatre

2 Charing Cross Road London WC2H 0HH London

Vivie Warren is a woman ahead of her time. Estranged from her wealthy mother, she delights in a glass of whisky, a good detective story, and is determined to carve herself a sparkling legal career in an age ruled by men.

Her mother, however, is a product of that old patriarchal order. Exploiting it has earned Mrs. Warren a fortune and paid for her daughter’s expensive education – but at what cost?

Four-time Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton (The Crown) joins forces with her real-life daughter Bridgerton’s Bessie Carter for the very first time, reuniting with the extraordinary director Dominic Cooke (Hello, Dolly!, Good) to bring George Bernard Shaw’s incendiary moral classic crashing into the 21st Century.

Mrs. Warren's Profession - 2025 - West End Cast

Imelda Staunton

Sid Sagar

Robert Glenister

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There couldn’t be a more capable cast to navigate the gravity shifts

10 / 10

Cooke’s swift touch direction gently dials up the heat with the gentleness of a paintbrush, but with the momentum of punch to the stomach. It starts garlanded with bucolic pageantry, a Chelsea Flower Show vision of a green and pleasant land, only for a ghostly coterie of Mrs Warren’s prostitutes to maraud between scenes, stripping it back layer by layer, flower by flower, until the stage is empty. The grim truth can fester in its place, and the fist clenched morality is ready to take a flamethrower to everything.

Dominic Cooke’s revival sees the real-life mother and daughter duo share the Garrick Theatre stage

8 / 10

But the great virtue of the production is it allows the women to shine. Staunton’s Kitty is a close relation of her Mama Rose, monstrous in her own way, but more understandable and with more pathos. The little moue of her mouth as she speaks with bitter distaste of the poverty of her upbringing is hugely suggestive and invites compassion. Yet for all Staunton’s command, it is Carter who drives the piece, charting with rigorous clarity Vivie’s journey from big-hearted, stuck-up innocent to a knowing woman who might just have a chance of making her own way in a world that will always be against her. She brings to the stage an honesty, a clarity of expression and thought.

Mrs. Warren's Profession History

Other Productions of Mrs. Warren's Profession

1905	Broadway	Broadway
1907	Broadway	Broadway
1918	Broadway	Broadway
1922	Broadway	Broadway
1958	Off-Broadway	Off-Broadway
1976	Broadway	Broadway
1985	Off-Broadway	Off-Broadway
2005	Off-Broadway	Off-Broadway
2010	West End	London Production West End
2010	Broadway	Roundabout Revival Broadway
2025	West End	West End

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