PLAY! Festival 2025

8 Jun 2025 - 13 Jun 2025

PLAY! is a week-long, annual festival of arts presented by the School of Performing & Digital Arts, showcasing some of the best and most innovative music, film, and theatre at Royal Holloway.

PLAY! 2025: Modern day reimagining's: The Tempest

9 Jun 2025 - 11 Jun 2025

Dip into this exhibition of design work featuring costumes, set pieces, props, sound designs and videos from design led character interpretations of Caliban, Ariel, Prospero and Miranda.

PLAY! 2025: Rhythm is Gonna’ Get You

10 Jun 2025

Join us for this special culmination concert of students from across the School of Performing & Digital Arts as they showcase their final pieces explored in our new module, Rhythm is Gonna’ Get You.

PLAY! 2025: New Sounds Lab with Trio Atem

10 Jun 2025

This New Sounds Lab will be an opportunity for five composers from our postgraduate community to collaborate with Trio Atem on new works for a mixture of voice, flute, cello, and electronics.

PLAY! 2025: The Aulos and Symposium Re-Imagined

10 Jun 2025

This is not to be missed! Join us as we re-imagine the ancient Greek symposium. Wine will pour, with reconstructions, dance, songs, spoken dialogues from ancient Greece, and a host of special guests.

PLAY! 2025: The Lost Cantatas of François Bouvard

10 Jun 2025

Join us as we explore this forgotten French sound world, and uncover three of Bouvard’s cantatas in the first performance since the eighteenth century.

PLAY! 2025: Midweek Music

11 Jun 2025

Join us for our popular Midweek Music Series in the beautiful setting of our College Chapel.

PLAY! 2025: Film Scoring Final: Media Composers' Forum

11 Jun 2025

Join the Media Composers' Forum from the Department of Music for their Film Scoring Competition Final.

PLAY! 2025: The Accursed Shares presents... The Inconspicuous Return

11 Jun 2025

After the success of last year's Dental Odyssey, the group returns in proper sequel fashion – bigger, better, and somewhat confused about its identity.

PLAY! 2025: The Flute's Compass

11 Jun 2025

This chamber event showcases pieces from composers across the world, with music influenced by folk tunes and techniques from Ireland, Hungary and France.