Charlotte Ritchie, Matt Berry, Tom Rosenthal, Simon Bird, Lily Cole

Christopher Hampton's most celebrated play, The Philanthropist, has been delighting audiences and since its premiere at the Royal Court in 1970. A biting 'bourgeois comedy' and a fiendishly clever inversion of Moliere's 'The Misanthrope', Simon Callow's new production boasts some of today's most exciting young stage and screen actors.

Out in the 'real world' the Prime Minister and his cabinet have been assassinated and England's most treasured writers are being murdered one by one! Back in the cosy bubble of university life, a bachelor don anguishes over sex, marriage, anagrams and the meaning of life. Did someone suggest academics were 'out of touch'?

This exciting ensemble cast includes Simon Bird (star of The Inbetweeners and Friday Night Dinner) , model and actress Lily Cole, Charlotte Ritchie (Fresh Meat, Call the Midwife, Siblings) Tom Rosenthal (Friday Night Dinner and BAFTA award winning writer, actor and musician Matt Berry (The IT Crowd, The Mighty Boosh).

'Intellectually stimulating, touchingly sympathetic and gloriously, gloriously funny'
Sunday Times