WORLD PREMIERE OF
PRIVATE VIEW
STARRING PATRICIA ALLISON AND STEFANIE MARTINI
PLAYING AT SOHO THEATRE
FROM 27 NOVEMBER – 20 DECEMBER 2025
Speakerphone Productions today announce the world premiere of Private View by debut playwright Jess Edwards, will star Patricia Allison (Sex Education) and Stefanie Martini (The Gold). Private View, directed by Annie Kershaw, runs at Soho Theatre from 27 November – 20 December, with an opening night on Tuesday 2 December 2025.
“You’ve changed me. You’ve fundamentally altered the fabric of my existence.”
Two women collide and soon become so entangled it’s hard to tell where one starts and the other begins. It’s messy, magnetic, and disturbingly familiar. Private View offers an intimate look into a cataclysmic love that burns hot and fast – and leaves a mark.
From debut playwright Jess Edwards, Private View is a sexy, cerebral, and unsettling exploration of queer love, coercive control, and the physics of connection.
Patricia Allison said “I’m delighted to be playing A in Private View. Soho Theatre has always been such a staple of new, exciting work and I can’t wait to bring this play to life here in the heart of London.”
Stefanie Martini said “I’m looking forward to delving into the play and this love story. Soho Theatre is a really exciting venue, and Private View has a great team behind it.”
Jess Edwards playwright said, “I am humbled by the opportunity to bring my first play to the stage with such an extraordinary team of largely queer women. I am so passionate about bringing these characters into the world – in all their messy, sexy, electric weirdness. I hope audiences of all experiences and sexualities see something of themselves in Private View. I am both delighted and terrified to see it in front of an audience.”
Annie Kershaw director said, “I feel incredibly fortunate to be collaborating with Jess and such a talented, dynamic cast and creative team to bring this brilliant play to life. I read this play and found it to be wild, transfixing and scarily relatable.”
Completing the creative team are, Georgia Wilmot (set and costume design), Catja Hamilton (lighting design), Josh Anio Grigg (sound design), Ingrid Mackinnon (movement and intimacy), Jacob Sparrow (casting director) and Production Solutions Group (production management).
Private View has been shortlisted for the international Yale Drama Series Prize, the ATG Playwright’s Prize, and the Women’s Prize for Playwriting.
Tickets from £13 are on sale now via sohotheatre.com.
Produced by Speakerphone Productions. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Speakerphone Productions present
PRIVATE VIEW
Written by Jess Edwards
Directed by Annie Kershaw
Set and Costume Design by Georgia Wilmot
Lighting Design by Catja Hamilton
Sound Design by Josh Anio Grigg
Movement and Intimacy by Ingrid Mackinnon
Casting by Jacob Sparrow
Production Management by Production Solutions Group
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CAST
Patricia Allison | A
Theatre includes: Ghosts (Lyric Hammersmith); Twelfth Night (Orange Tree); A Dolls House Part 2 (Donmar); Jules & Jim (Jermyn Street); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sheffield Crucible); Unprecedented: House Party, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (Leeds Playhouse); Our Town (Manchester Royal Exchange); Henry V (Regent’s Park).
TV and Film includes: Extraordinary (Disney+), Sex Education (Netflix), Behind the Filter (BBC), His Dark Materials (BBC), Superworm (BBC), Fame Game (Netflix), Comic Relief Alan Partridge (BBC), Les Misérables (BBC), Moving On (BBC), Thanks For The Memories (Netflix), Recursive Dreams (Amazon), By The Throat (Crooked Smile Films), Paradise (Tubi).
Patricia trained at East 15.
Stefanie Martini | B
Theatre includes: Patriots (Noël Coward Theatre),
TV and Film includes: Maigret (PBS), The Gold (BBC and Paramount+), Make Up (Amazon), Lola (Cowtown Pictures), The Last Kingdom (Netflix), Crooked House (Vertical and Stage 6 Films), Hurricane (Kaleidoscope Film Distribution), Prime Suspect: 1973 (ITV and PBS), Doctor Thorne (ITV), Emerald City (NBC).
CREATIVES
Jess Edwards | Writer
Jess Edwards is a writer and director for theatre and TV, with more than a decade’s experience. As a writer, she has co-written four plays and musicals, and has been commissioned by the Lyric Hammersmith and Theatre Delicatessen. She was awarded a DYCP grant from Arts Council England in 2021 to develop her solo writing and spent a year under the mentorship of Mike Bartlett.
Private View is her first solo play as a writer. It has been shortlisted for the international Yale Drama Series Prize, the ATG Playwright’s Prize and the Women’s Prize for Playwriting. Now, she is under commission from Kindred Partners, co-writing a new musical with Anoushka Lucas, and is on attachment with the National Theatre Studio. She has two projects for TV in development, and her first screenplay won the Studio21 Drama Script Award in 2022.
As a director, she specialises in work that involves lived experience. She often develops plays from scratch with writers, working from the very earliest seed of an idea and nurturing a piece through to full production. As such, she has created a process that centres around emotional safety and care – and she is known for making rehearsal rooms with compassion and accessibility at their core. Her work has appeared at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Bush, the Soho, the New Diorama, the Arcola, the Southwark Playhouse, and many times at the Edinburgh Festival. She won the Summerhall Lustrum Award for PASSENGERS in 2019, and the MTR Best Musical Award for SPARKS in 2018.
Annie Kershaw | Director
Annie Kershaw is a London-based theatre director. She was the recipient of the 2024 Genesis Future Directors Award at the Young Vic, and from 2023 to 2024, she held the position of Carne Deputy Director at Jermyn Street Theatre.
As a Director, her work includes: The Maids at Jermyn Street Theatre and Reading Rep, Girl In The Machine at the Young Vic, Light at the Young Vic, and Hedda Gabler and Safe at Reading Rep Theatre.
As Associate director, her work includes: Best of Enemies at the Noël Coward Theatre.
As an Assistant Director, her work includes: Juniper Blood at Donmar Warehouse, Jekyll and Hyde at Reading Rep Theatre, Dorian at Reading Rep Theatre, Best of Enemies at the Young Vic, and Henry II at Rabble Theatre.
LISTINGS
Soho Theatre
21 Dean Street, London, W1D 3NE
Box Office: sohotheatre.com
Tickets from £13
Thursday 27 November – Saturday 20 December 2025
Press Performance: Tuesday 2 December, 6.45pm
Performance schedule:
Monday – Saturday, 6.45pm
Saturday, 3pm
Age Recommendation: 16+
