The Code Tickets

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Southwark Playhouse Elephant
Dante Place 80 Newington Butts , London, SE11 4FL
Running Time 1hr 30min. No interval.
Running Since Thu, 18 September 2025
Booking Until Sat, 11 October 2025
Monday - 19:00
Tuesday - 19:00
Wednesday - 19:00
Thursday 14:30 19:00
Friday - 19:00
Saturday 14:30 19:00
Sunday - -
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Ages: 14+

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In Hollywood, being yourself is the most challenging role of all.

“This entire town is a cesspool, darling. Beautifully lit. Well appointed. But a cesspool nonetheless”

Hollywood, 1950. A fading star. A rising one. An agent with an agenda. And a legend who’s seen it all.

Tallulah Bankhead – magnetic, mercurial, and unapologetically sharp-tongued – stops in for a cocktail at the home of former screen idol turned interior designer Billy Haines, who may or may not be planning to disappear from the town he once ruled.

Enter power agent Henry Willson and his all-too-perfect protégé Chad Manford, setting the room alight. In a world where image is everything, and identity must be carefully edited to survive, can any of them break ‘the code’ without losing everything?

Starring Olivier Award-winner Tracie Bennett and star of stage and screen John Partridge, and directed by Tony-nominee Christopher Renshaw, The Code lays bare the unspoken rules of Hollywood, then and now: a world where image still shapes opportunity, where authenticity is curated and identity remains politicised.

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  • Tuesday, 30th September, 7:00pm

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Southwark Playhouse Elephant

Dante Place 80 Newington Butts , London, SE11 4FL
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Southwark Playhouse opens its second venue, one of London’s largest fringe theatres

Southwark Playhouse Elephant is just a ten-minute walk away from the ‘original’ Southwark Playhouse, which is, confusingly, also in Elephant but is being renamed the Southwark Playhouse Borough. 

But whatever: after years of anticipation, Fringe powerhouse Southwark Playhouse finally launches a second branch in 2023. Run by the original theatre’s long-time, low-key artistic director Chris Smyrnios, Southwark Playhouse Elephant has a 310-seat main house – that’s half again as big as the original theatre’s main house – plus a second space reserved for the local community.  

 
 

A third Southwark Playhouse, Southwark Playhouse London Bridge, is due to open in 2025.