A row of school girls in pink uniforms with their backs to us
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Malory Towers

Emma Rice Company
7 performances between Tue 19 - Sat 23 May 2026, various times
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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.

‘It revels in the power and potential of young women, and that makes you want to cheer!’ - The Times

'Stuffed full of inventions and enchantments… Emma Rice takes Blyton to the top of the class!’
The Guardian
'Magic'
The Guardian
Two girls with their backs to the camera sit on top of school desks while a woman at the front smiles towards them
Two girls sitting at a desk holding open paper booklets up over the side of their faces
Three girls are in a dormitory, two of them throw pillows at the other girl
A girl sits at a desk holding a notebook while a woman next to her sings and plays ukulele
Three girls in a line sitting up straight on school desks with their legs crossed and arms behind their backs
Two clothes racks full of costumes stand in front of two women having a conversation
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See the Cast in Rehearsals

Two girls with their backs to the camera sit on top of school desks while a woman at the front smiles towards them
Two girls sitting at a desk holding open paper booklets up over the side of their faces
Three girls are in a dormitory, two of them throw pillows at the other girl
A girl sits at a desk holding a notebook while a woman next to her sings and plays ukulele
Three girls in a line sitting up straight on school desks with their legs crossed and arms behind their backs
Two clothes racks full of costumes stand in front of two women having a conversation

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