The Sugar House

★★★★★ Five Stars, London Theatre Reviews
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★★★★ Four Stars, London Pub Theatres
★★★★ Four Stars, Morning Star
★★★★ Four Stars, LondonTheatre1
★★★★ Four Stars, North West End
★★★★ Four Stars, Time and Leisure
★★★★ Four Stars, The Spy in The Stalls
★★★★ Four Stars, Everything Theatre
★★★★ Four Stars, London Living Large
★★★★ Four Stars, Paul in London

For the safety of audiences, performers, and staff, we have put in place a number of measures as part of our Covid-safe procedures plan, and we thank you in advance for your cooperation. Please find our current measures outlined here.

Narelle is Sydney born and bred, but lately she’s lost her sense of belonging.

The city changes all the time, places are torn down and with them go her certainties.

She finds herself drawn back to Pyrmont, formerly the working class industrial heartland of the city, but now newly gentrified as 19th century factories become shiny apartment blocks with million dollar views of Sydney Harbour. But it remains her family’s bedrock, and the home of her extraordinary grandmother June.

As she keeps going over the forces that formed her – the last man hanged in Australia, the mistakes that changed lives, her mother’s divorce, her grandfather’s decline – she tries to make sense of what she, her city, and her country have become. And what has been lost along the way.

Focusing on three generations of remarkable women, The Sugar House is a deeply moving family drama that distils the conflict of how we are raised against what we choose, and how the hope of social transformation as we move forward to embrace the future sometimes means the irretrievable loss of what built us.

The Sugar House was a hit at Sydney’s renowned Belvoir Street Theatre in 2018, where it was nominated for Best New Australian Work in the Sydney Theatre Awards. It now receives its first production outside Australia at the Finborough Theatre.

As an intimate theatre venue, we are taking extra precautions to ensure the safety of performers, staff, and audience members during the current pandemic. We have reduced our audience capacity to 80% and temporarily increased our ticket prices to reflect this. Due to the size of our auditorium, we will ask audiences to wear a face covering throughout their visit including during the performance. We will also be asking audience members to provide the following evidence on arrival at the venue of either double vaccination, negative test results, or a recent infection. We will be reviewing these protocols every month and will lift them as soon as it is safe to do so. For full information, please see our Covid-19 Policy page.