The Animals Come to the Table Tickets

What happens when nature grabs the mic and humanity is summoned to the negotiating table? Find out in this charming, mischievous, and delightfully unique exploration of the climate crisis, told with wit, empathy, and creativity.

Why you should watch The Animals Come to the Table

• Climate change is one of the most urgent crises facing our planet. This bold new play offers an unflinching response to it, told from the perspective of the natural world.
• The beautiful, candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is the perfect setting for such an intimate, whimsical and yet emotionally stirring piece of theatre.
• Playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker is one of the most impactful voices in theatre, and we can't wait to see how she tells this urgent, timely story.

What is The Animals Come to the Table about?

A negotiator and an interpreter are called to a secret emergency meeting. Waiting for them are a chicken, a rat, a snow leopard, and a whole army of voices from the natural world. The earth is finally answering back, and the animals have come together to demand an end to exploitation and ecological destruction.

Bringing together politics, wit, philosophy and mischief in an audacious experiment about stepping into someone else's shoes, The Animals Come to the Table is a bold, clever new play from one of the UK's leading playwrights, Timberlake Wertenbaker, whose previous work includes Our Country's Good, Jefferson's Garden, The Love of the Nightingale and Little Brother. It's the latest in a lineage of new writing at Shakespeare's Globe, performed by candlelight in the beautiful Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Urgent and timely, it's an unflinching response to the ecological crisis facing our planet, told in a delightfully creative way.

Book now for a unique, intelligent, and moving piece of theatre with a powerful message relevant to our time.