Emma Rice returns to Brighton Festival following the huge successes of Wise Children's North By Northwest (2025) and Wuthering Heights (2022) and Kneehigh's The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk (2018) and Tristan & Yseult (2017).
Get ready for high jinks, high drama and high spirits, all set to sensational live music as Emma Rice Company tours their popular production of Malory Towers once again!
Darrell Rivers is starting school with an eager mind and fierce heart. Unfortunately, she also has a quick temper! Can she learn to tolerate the infuriating Gwendoline Lacey, or value the kind-hearted Sally Hope? Can she save the school play and rescue terrified Mary Lou from the grip of a raging storm? If she can do these things anywhere, she will do them at Malory Towers!
Nostalgic, naughty, and perfect for now, Malory Towers is the original ‘Girl Power’ story. This is a show for girls, boys and all grown-up children who still dream of midnight feasts and Cornish clifftops
'Stuffed full of inventions and enchantments… Emma Rice takes Blyton to the top of the class!’The Guardian
'Magic'The Guardian
It revels in the power and potential of young women, and that makes you want to cheer!The Times
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From the novels by Enid Blyton
Co-produced by Emma Rice Company, Alexandra Palace Theatre, Belgrade Theatre, HOME Manchester and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse
Director and Adapter Emma Rice
Associate Director Laura Keefe
Choreographer: Alisdair David
Composer: Ian Ross
Dream Sequence Animators: Beth Carter & Stuart Mitchell
Assistant Director: Laura Keefe
Fight Director: Jonathan Howell
Set & Costume Design: Lez Brotherston
Lighting Director: Malcolm Rippeth
Sound & Video Designer: Simon Baker
*There is a £3.50 per order charge for all phone and online bookings (not applicable to Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival members)
**Stage timings are subject to change