Mrs. Warren's Profession

‘I am my mother’s daughter. I am like you. But my work is not your work, and my way is not your way.’


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?

Mrs. Warren’s Profession has opened in the West End at the Garrick Theatre. Bernard Shaw’s masterpiece is brought to life in a bold new production directed by Dominic Cooke (Hello, Dolly!, Good) that the critics say is ★★★★ ‘Magnificent’ (Independent) and ★★★★ ‘Remarkable’ (Financial Times).

Starring a powerhouse cast including Imelda Staunton (The Crown) and her real-life daughter Bessie Carter (Bridgerton), this gripping drama explores the clash between morality and independence, tradition and progress — ★★★★★ ‘Dominic Cooke’s swift touch direction dials up the heat… underestimate Bernard Shaw at your peril’ (Broadway World).

Performance Dates

Saturday 10 May – Saturday 16 August, 2025

Booking Info

Monday – Saturday, 7.30pm
Wednesday & Saturday, 2.30pm

Tickets From

£25

Age Guidance

14+

Imelda Staunton

Mrs. Kitty Warren

Bessie Carter

Vivie Warren

Kevin Doyle

Rev. Samuel Gardner

Robert Glenister

Sir George Crofts

Reuben Joseph

Frank Gardner

Sid Sagar

Mr. Praed

Dominic Cooke

Director

Dominic Cooke is a highly accomplished theatre, film, and television director. He was Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre from 2007 to 2013. During his tenure at the Royal Court he directed Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris, for which he was nominated as Best Director for the Evening Standard Awards. He has directed Ma Rainey’s Black BottomHere We Go and The Comedy Of Errors for the National Theatre, and The Crucible for the RSC for which he won the Olivier Award for Best Director. His critically acclaimed production of Follies was nominated for 10 Olivier awards, including Best Director – and most recently directed Hello Dolly! at the London Palladium.

Also a writer, he wrote the stage adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s Noughts and Crosses, which he directed and produced at the RSC; and an adaptation of Arabian Nights for Young Vic. Cooke has successfully transitioned to television and film, beginning with his adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry VI Parts 1 and 2 for BBC TV’s The Hollow Crown: The Wars of The Roses. His first feature film, On Chesil Beach, starred Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle – the film is based on the novel of the same name by Booker Prize winning novelist Ian McEwan, and premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was chosen by Variety as one of the ten best films of the festival. His latest feature The Courier with Benedict Cumberbatch and Rachel Brosnahan premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released in 2021.

Chloe Lamford

Set & Costume Designer

Chloe trained at Wimbledon School of Art.

Theatre includes:  PhaedraOthelloThe Antipodes (and Co-Director), JohnAmadeusRules for LivingThe World of Extreme Happiness (National Theatre); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Romeo and Juliet (Almeida); Next to Normal, Europe and Teenage Dick (Donmar); Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical (West End); Hilary and Clinton (Broadway); Romeo and Juliet (Almeida); The American Clock (The Old Vic); Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (National Theatre of Scotland/ West End); Hexenjagd (Theater Basel); Shakespeare’s Last PlayAtmenOphelias Zimmer (Schaubühne, Berlin); Hamilton Complex (Schauspielhaus, Bochum); The Duchess of Malfi1984 (Headlong, West End,  Broadway); Miss Julie, De Maiden (Internationaal Theater Amsterdam); The CanePityGun DogRoadVictory ConditionBUnreachableThe TwitsGod Bless the ChildHow to Hold Your BreathCircle Mirror TransformationTeh Internet is Serious Business2071Open Court (Royal Court); Disco Pigs (Young Vic).

Opera includes: L’Orfeo (Zurich Opera House); Innocence (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Finnish National Opera and Royal Opera House); Rusalka, Theodora (Royal Opera House); La bohème (ENO); The Handmaid’s Tale (Royal Danish Opera);  Ariadne auf Naxos (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Finnish National Opera); Pelléas & Mélisande (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Polish National Opera).

Jon Clark

Lighting Designer

Jon is a Tony and Olivier Award-winning Lighting Designer. He has designed extensively in the West End, on Broadway, for the National Theatre, Royal Opera House, Royal Shakespeare Company and with many other companies in the UK and internationally. Jon won a Tony Award and Outer Critics Award for The Lehman Trilogy on Broadway, an Olivier Award for his work on The Inheritance; a Green Room Award for King Roger in Australia and a Knight of Illumination Award for Three Days of Rain. He is an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Theatre includes:  Much Ado About NothingThe Tempest (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Fear of 13 (Donmar Warehouse); Hello, Dolly!Romeo & JulietStranger Things: The First Shadow (West End & Broadway); Dear EnglandThe Motive & The Cue (National Theatre & West End); The Effect (The Shed & National Theatre); A Doll’s House (Broadway); The Lehman Trilogy (Broadway, West End & National Theatre); The Inheritance (Broadway, West End & Young Vic); The Shark Is BrokenBetrayalKing Charles III (Broadway & West End); The Jungle (St Ann’s Warehouse, West End & Young Vic); Cyrano de Bergerac (West End & BAM); The Importance of Being Earnest,  ManorI’m Not RunningAbsolute HellAmadeusAs You Like ItThe Beaux StratagemHamletOthelloCollaborators, A Woman Killed With KindnessGreenlandPains of YouthOur ClassDamned by DespairWomen of TroyThe Cat in the HatBeauty and the Beast, Hansel and Gretel (National Theatre); The Book of Dust, A German LifeBach & Sons (Bridge Theatre); Evita (Regent’s Park); Eureka Day (Old Vic); The Lorax (Old Vic, US & Toronto), The Commitments and Made in Dagenham (West End).

Opera includes: Pique Dame (Bayerische Staatsoper); Hamlet (Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne); The Exterminating Angel (Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Saltzburg Festival); Macbeth (Copenhagen & Valencia); Orphée et Eurydice (English National Opera); Król Roger (Royal Opera House, Sydney Opera House); Written on Skin (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Royal Opera House, Lincoln Center & internationally); Lucia di LammermoorL’Etoile (Royal Opera House).

Dance includes: LORE for Wayne McGregor (La Scala, Milan); The Cellist for Cathy Marston (Royal Ballet).

Christopher Shutt

Sound Designer

Christopher Shutt’s recent work includes Oedipus (Old Vic); Reykjavik (Hampstead)Also St Nicholas, Far Away, AristocratsKnives in Hens, Faith Healer and Privacy at the Donmar; Mnemonic, Paradise, Antony and CleopatraJulieLight Shining in BuckinghamshireThe EffectEvery Good Boy Deserves Favour and War Horse (also West End) at the National Theatre; Hamlet, Macbeth, Timon of Athens (also New York and Washington, DC), Wendy & Peter Pan and Much Ado About Nothing for the RSC; Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the DeadA Disappearing NumberElephant VanishesNoise of TimeCaucasian Chalk Circle and Street of Crocodiles for Complicité; King Lear in Washington, DC; Closer at the Lyric, Hammersmith; Murder on the Orient Express at Chichester; Mates in ChelseaWhat If If Only, Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp.ear for eye, Escaped AloneLove and InformationSerious Money and Road at the Royal Court; Hamlet at the Barbican;  The Clinic, Twilight Zone and The Treatment at the Almeida; Wild at Hampstead; Macbeth at Manchester International Festival and Park Avenue Armory, New York; All My Sons, Arturo Ui, Timon of Athens and Not About Nightingales in New York; Little Otik and The Bacchae for National Theatre Scotland; and The EntertainerThe Winter’s Tale, Four QuartetsThe Father and Oppenheimer in the West End.

Angus MacRae

Composer

AngusMacRae recently composed the prologue for the West End production of A Streetcar Named Desire and has also released several albums including VivariumMMXIX and Cry Wolf.

Theatre includes: Cat on a Hot Tin RoofThree Sisters (Almeida); Coriolanus (National Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire (Phoenix/ Harvey Theatre BAM); Cabaret (Playhouse/ August Wilson Theatre); Swive (Shakespeare’s Globe); Summer and Smoke (Almeida/ Duke of York’s);·Zero: Restriction, Body and Time (ARKO ArtsTheatre Seoul); Out Late (UK tour); The Mountaintop (New Vic); Kite (Soho); The Curing Room (Edinburgh Fringe); The Father (Trafalgar Studios); I Am a Camera (Southwark Playhouse); Dream of Perfect Sleep (Finborough).

Film includes: When I’m Done Dying, Fighting for a City, Little, The Snail Man, Confection, Lost Boy, The Listener, Interlude.

Television includes: Gypsy’s Revenge, The Trials.

Upcoming Performances:

Access Seating:

For all performances, you can select up to two seats at our discounted access rate of 50% off per person. These include:

  • Wheelchair park and companion seats
  • End-of-aisle seating
  • Central row seating


To make a wheelchair transfer booking, purchase more than two tickets or to discuss your seating requirements further, please contact our Access team on 0330 333 4815 or [email protected].

Groups Rate (10+ Tickets)

Rate: £52.50 per ticket (reduced from £85 – £65)
Seats: Stalls & Dress Circle
Valid For: Monday – Wednesday evening performances
Exclusion Dates: 4 Aug – 16 Aug

 

Full price groups (10+) available on all performances.

Schools & Education Rate (10+ Tickets)

Rate: £25 per ticket (reduced from £50 – £37.50), 1 free teacher ticket for every 10 students
Seats: Grand Circle
Valid For: Monday – Wednesday evening performances
Exclusion Dates: 4 Aug – 16 Aug

Garrick Theatre

2 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0HH

Garrick Theatre

2 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0HH

Performance Dates

Saturday 10 May – Saturday 16 August, 2025

Booking Info

Monday – Saturday, 7.30pm
Wednesday & Saturday, 2.30pm

Tickets From

£25

Age Guidance

14+

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