Secret terror cells, political conspiracy, police bungling, state-sponsored bomb plots… This is London, 1896.

Inspired by Joseph Conrad’s classic novel, The Secret Agent is theatre O’s heartbreaking chronicle of passion, betrayal and terrorism.

Set at a time of social upheaval and growing disparity between rich and poor, at the heart of this tale is a woman fighting to protect her young brother from exploitation and violence. The question we have to ask ourselves is; what has really changed?

“A darkly imagined catalogue of madness and despair” - The Herald

A theatre O / Young Vic co-production. Co-commissioned by Warwick Arts Centre. Supported by the Arts Council England, Shoreditch Town Hall and National Theatre Studio.