2006 - 2026 productions

Written by Lea Des Garets; Directed by Rute Costa
MQT Productions

A bold new play reclaiming the forgotten queer history of George Sand, one of Europe’s most radical writers.

Written by D.R.Hill; Directed by David Furlong
DRH Arts / Exchange Theatre / Southwark Playhouse

How do you resist as a transgender in Nazi occupied Jersey? An inclusive cast and video mapping.

Written by Brad Sutherland; Directed by David Furlong
Maiden Production / Exchange Theatre

A thriller about Motor Neurone Disease and euthanasia.

Written by D.R.Hill; Directed by David Furlong
DRH Arts Ltd / OSO Arts Centre / Oxford Playhouse

A play looking at Oswald Mosley and British fascism, on the backdrop of spectacular video design, and 2024’s rise of the far right.

Devised and directed by Gustavo Dias Ballejo
Camden People’s Theatre

Four actual religious leaders met and devised a show about what it means to have a spiritual “calling” in the XXIth century?

Alternately in English and French
Written by Molière; Directed by Anastasia Revi; With Theatre Lab Company
The Vaults Waterloo

Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Molière, Theatre Lab Company and Exchange Theatre present ‘Dom Juan’ with alternating performances in English and French, a feast for the senses.

A Feature Documentary Film
Created By Marie Loury and Léo-Paul Payen

An immersive documentary: 4 months inside the Off-West End life of a our bilingual migrant company.

Devised, written, and directed by David Furlong
Commissioned by Institut Francais

An anti-racist bias family show on how to explain unconscious racism to children, produced after the murder of George Floyd.

Written by Simon Grangeat; Directed by Becka Mc Fadden
A Legal Aliens Production at Vaults Festival

Why is the ‘free world’ obsessed with walls? A unique fusion of poetry, satire, reportage, multimedia and traveller’s diary, Closed Lands, by French playwright Simon Grangeat, traces the history of modern walls – real and metaphorical – from Berlin to the US.

Devised by Border Crossings; Directed by Michael Walling
UK Tour / Cutty Sark / Tara Arts

Created with a company of actors from Mauritius and the UK, The Great Experiment explores the hidden history of the 2 million Indian migrant labourers indentured to work across the globe for most of the 19th and early 20th centuries and unveiled the roots of our Mauritian, Asian-Caribbean, Malaysian & Asian-African communities.

Written by Jean-Paul Sartre; Directed by David Furlong; With the live rock-band A Riot in Heaven
Exchange Theatre / The Bunker

Sartre’s rebellious and highly political « tragedy of liberty against the tragedy of fatality », a tale of existentialist freedom with a live rock band and live video design. Sartre meets Fight Club.  

Devised by Exchange Theatre; Idea by Nadia Nadif
Arts Depot / R.A.F Museum / Voila Festival

The story of how a multi-cultural spy helped shape the world. A new devised family show about an inspiring historical heroine: Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan was Indian, American, French, British and Muslim. In WW2, she was the first female SEO radio operator agent undercover to be sent from London to serve the French Resistance in Paris.

Written by Jean Racine; Translated and edited by Rosie Hilal; Directed by David Furlong
A Forge production with Exchange Theatre and Voila Festival

A musical-electro-physical timeless classic about a woman's self-determination, a poetic tale of Berenice's painful journey to emancipation, underpinned by an original score of world- and electronic music and powerful physical elements. Written by Jean Racine more than 300 years ago, with three central characters, from Palestine, Syria/Turkey (the occupied East) and Rome (the imperial, dominating West), this is the first time a Racine play has been translated by a woman.

London Premiere in English
Written by Paul Claudel; Directed by David Furlong
Finborough Theatre

“Noon at the sun. Noon at the centre of our lives.” An early 20th century symbolist period piece about a woman's eternal love and decolonization.

Alternately in English and French
Written by Molière; Translated and directed by David Furlong
Camden People’s Theatre / Drayton Arms

Double Off West End Award Nomination: Best Production and Best Video Design. A 21st century take to revive the deepest of Molière’s plays against Fake news. The Misanthrope, or the deepest play by Molière, presented alternately in English and French.

UK Premiere in French
Written by Laurent Gaudé; Directed by Yanouchka Wenger Sabbatini
Voila Festival

“Do you want to know what is that fear in my eyes, which contaminates passers by from just one look?” Laurent Gaudé ‘s (Awarded French Playwright) graphic sequel to the most terrifying myth of Medea played by Fanny Dulin and directed by Swiss guest director Yanouchka Wenger Sabbatini.

Alternately in English and French
Written by Molière; Translated and directed by David Furlong
Lycée Francais CDG / Drayton Arms / Exchange Theatre

A contemporary take to revive the rarest Molière’s farce about his own creative journey. David Furlong Offie nominated for Best Director.

UK Premiere in French
Adapted and directed by Nathalie Adam, after Henry Bauchau
Voila Festival / Chemistry Theatre

All of Exchange Theatre’s profits from this production went for the United Nations Commission for Refugees. Influenced by the current refugee migration crisis, after Jean Anouilh’s Antigone last year, Ismène here is the pillar, the light of her fighter sister Antigone.

Written by Jean Anouilh; Directed by Alexandra Bergeron
Lycée Francais CDG

A timeless masterpiece. Her family dead, killed through bitter civil war. Antigone defies the laws of the land to bury her brother as he deserves. Antigone is an intense, visceral experience exploring the light and dark powers of family, duty, and love where characters are neither bad or good but struggling with human feelings.

UK Premiere in French
Devised by the company
Voila Festival

Unheard contemporary French authors presented to a French-speaking London audience. Xavier Durringer, Virginie Despentes, Laurent Gaudé, Noelle Renaude, Philippe Minyana, Magali Mougel feature in a show entirely dedicated to women’s voices.

Alternately in English and French
Written by Agnes Jaoui & Jean-Piere Bacri; Directed by Emilie Perraudeau & Christine Renard
Art Fabric / Drayton Arms Theatre

Un air de famille is a cult French comedy (Best script Cesar award) about family and being a good human.

UK Premiere in French
Written by David Furlong; Directed by Thierry Margot
Café Theatre Chartrons Bordeaux

David Furlong, artistic director of Exchange Theatre wrote La vie éternelle in 2000, The Café theatre des chartrons in Bordeaux, France, offered to create this very special comedy in 2012, both fantastic and romantic and the play attracted more than 2000 people.

A Bilingual Play
Written and directed by Benedict Cooper Lion & Unicorn

Between awkward introductions and mis-understandings, a blind date unravels as the night progresses.

Uk Premiere in French
Written by Magali Muxart; Directed by David Furlong
Lion & Unicorn

A Congolese play on Shakespeare and African Mysticism with Congolese Hip Hop and live percussion.

New Play World Premiere
Written by David Furlong; Translated by Benedict Cooper; Directed by Francesca Seeley
New Wimbledon Studio

A grunge farce, the most chaotic form of theatre, about consumerism with live projections and a real live rabbit, penned by Exchange Theatre’s artistic director.

Written by Jean-Paul Sartre; Co-Directed by David Furlong and Kevin Rowntree; With the live rock-band A Riot in Heaven
Myriad Productions / Indie Ocean / Camden Fringe / Camden People’s Theatre

Sartre’s rebellious and highly political tragedy of liberty against the tragedy of fatality; a tale of existentialist freedom with a live rock band and live video design. Sartre meets Fight Club.

Written by Georges Feydeau; Directed by Samuel Miller and Gael Colin
Rosemary Branch / Tabard / Brockley Jack

The first translations in thirty years of short one-act Feydeau farces. Two classics of French comedy based on the simplest misunderstanding.

Uk Premiere in English
Written by Xavier Durringer; Translated with Fanny Dulin; Directed by David Furlong
Strange Gain / Stoked Festival , Origin Theatre NYU

British Premiere of “The French Ravenhill”. A four hander of urban poetry with a live musician. Workshopped translation with actors in the rehearsal room.

New Play World Premiere
Written and directed by David Furlong; Translated by Emma Green
Medialex Productions / Pleasance Theatre

An Englishman, a Frenchman and an American are in an airport in Siberia. A globalised comedy pushing further the visual and sonic work, devised with ten dazzling moments of theatricalism.

Uk Premiere in English
Written by Paul Claudel; Translated with Louise Witherell; Directed by David Furlong
Jermyn Street Theatre / Hackney Empire

British Premiere of the French symbolic masterpiece by the French T.S Eliot.