Mrs. Warren's Profession Revival
Closing: August 16, 2025Mrs. Warren's Profession - 2025 West End History , Info & More
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
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Imelda Staunton in formidable form as brothel-keeper
6 / 10
It feels abidingly faithful but moves stiffly at times, carrying the sense of a dusted down drama despite Chloe Lamford’s shining set, an island of flora and fauna bobbing like an eternally fragrant English garden against a bare black backdrop, before being stripped of its naturalism. The period dress strangely mutes the play’s shocks while, in an awkward touch, lugubrious ghostly figures in undergarments (Victorian sex workers?) crowd around the edges and act as stagehands.
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.
by Aliya Al-Hassan - May 23, 2025
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?
by Alexander Cohen - May 22, 2025
Imelda Staunton leads a blistering revival
by Stephi Wild - May 14, 2025
All new photos have been released for the major revival of Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession. The production is currently in previews at the Garrick Theatre and opens on 22 May.
Mrs. Warren's Profession History
Other Productions of Mrs. Warren's Profession
| 1905 | Broadway |
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| 1907 | Broadway |
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| 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 |
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