KIP
WILLIAMS

/ Theatre

    - The Picture of
    Dorian Gray

    - A Midsummer
    Night’s Dream

    - The Maids

    - Dracula

    - The Resisitbe
    Rise of Arturo Ui

    - Jekyll & Hyde

    - Julius Caesar

    - Lord of the
    Flies

    - Macbeth

    - Cat on a Hot
    Tin Roof

    - Chimerica

    - The Harp in
    the South

    - Romeo & Juliet

    - Three Sisters

    - Suddenly Last
    Summer

    - Love and
    Information

    - Playing Beatie  
    Bow

    - Miss Julie

    - A Cheery Soul

    - Cloud 9

    - Under Milk
    Wood

    - All My Sons

    - The Golden
    Age

    - Children of the
    Sun

    - Not I


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The Maids
By Jean Genet
In a new version by Kip Williams

Donmar Warehouse, 2025

★★★★★ THE STAGE
★★★★ THE GUARDIAN
★★★★ THE STANDARD
★★★★ THE DAILY MAIL
★★★★ BROADWAY WORLD
★★★★ THE METRO

* BEST SHOWS OF 2025 *
THE GUARDIAN
THE STAGE

“A dazzling spectacle, all the more impressive in the Donmar's relatively small, intimate auditorium. In "The Maids," Williams lays bare the unhealthy symbiosis of envy and self-loathing that drives online fandom. Claire and Solange may be downtrodden, but they are also wannabes, and their desperation for validation makes them persuasive avatars for our cultural moment. A withering commentary on social media influencer culture.”
NEW YORK TIMES

“Dazzling... It’s brilliant!”
★★★★★  THE STAGE

“Kip Williams dazzles again… Storming performances… exhilarating.”
★★★★ THE GUARDIAN

“The reverence paid to Jean Genet’s overwrought 1947 play, in which two sisters in service role-play the murder of their awful mistress, always baffled me. In Australian auteur Kip Williams’s version, adapted and updated to a world of Instagram followers and filters, and running a high-octane 100 minutes, I finally got it... A marvel.”
★★★★ THE STANDARD

"“Frenzied, giddying, wildly extravagant... Superbly done” "
★★★★ DAILY MAIL