Jumpers
- Hampstead Theatre
- Booking details
- Booking from: Wednesday, 25 November 2026 Booking until: Saturday, 23 January 2027
- Age restrictions
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Jumpers description
About the Show
George Moore, Professor of Moral Philosophy, is upstairs working on a paper that will prove the existence of God. Downstairs, his wife Dotty, a reclusive former musical star, is hosting an election night party with a live band and a troupe of acrobats. During the party a professor is shot dead. Nobody saw who fired the gun, and Dotty is the prime suspect.
Jumpers is Tom Stoppard's comedy of murder, marriage and metaphysics, first staged by the National Theatre at the Old Vic in 1972 and winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Play. It has not been seen on a London stage for more than twenty years. Reviewing the premiere in The Times, Irving Wardle wrote that it had "more good lines a minute than any other modern comedy".
Cast and Creatives
The play is written by Tom Stoppard, the Oscar-winning author of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt. It is directed by Blanche McIntyre, who staged Stoppard's The Invention of Love at Hampstead Theatre and has directed for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.
Casting is to be announced. The production plays on the Hampstead Theatre Main Stage, with an age guidance of 14+; it contains nudity, sexual references, loud noises and depictions of death.
Why You Should Watch It
A rare revival of one of the wittiest and most audacious British plays of the last century, in which philosophy, farce and a murder mystery share the same stage. Book tickets for Jumpers at Hampstead Theatre.
