Tartuffe Remixed at Marylebone Theatre: £20 front row seats

Mark Rylance is playing a preacher on the make five minutes’ walk from Baker Street until 24 October, and the cheapest seats in the house are being given away by weekly draw.

Tartuffe (Remixed) opened on 4 September and runs at the Marylebone Theatre in Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, until Saturday 24 October. It is a new version of Molière’s comedy, written and directed by Darren Raymond, relocated to a contemporary Nigerian-Jamaican household in modern England. Rylance plays Pastor Blake, the charismatic man of God who moves into the family home. The theatre gives the running time as 2 hours 30 minutes including a 20 minute interval, with age guidance of 12+.

The reviews have been written elsewhere. The part of this that matters locally is the price list.

Four £20 front row seats, every performance

The theatre’s own terms set out how the cheap seats are released:

• there are four £20 front row seats for every performance, from 8 September onwards
• winners are drawn at random each Wednesday, for the following week’s performances
• every week is a separate draw, so entrants have to re-enter each time
• entries are handled by InYouGo, and winners need its app to accept the tickets

The entry page is currently offering the week beginning Monday 21 September. Eight performances are listed in that draw:

Entrants give a name and email address, pick the performances they can make, and say how many tickets they want.

And 2,250 seats at £30 or less

The lottery is the sharp end of a wider pricing decision. The theatre says that more than 2,250 tickets across the run are priced at £30 and below, which it describes as “filling the equivalent of eight full houses”. It has also allocated heavily subsidised tickets to schools, youth groups and community organisations across selected performances.

For scale at the other end of the house: an earlier offer on the same terms page, which closed on 7 September, applied to seats priced at £96 and £120.

The access performances are dated

Two performances are set aside for access, and both have fixed dates:

• captioned: Wednesday 7 October, 7.30pm
• audio described: Saturday 17 October, 2.30pm

The theatre’s visitor information sets out what else is available. Access bookers who book direct can claim a free carer ticket, and the theatre accepts Access Cards and Nimbus Cards. There is one wheelchair space, measuring 81cm wide and 87cm deep, with a companion seat beside it. An induction loop runs on the T setting. Assistance dogs are welcome, but need a free seat booked for them.

Access bookings cannot be made online. They go through the box office on 020 7723 7984, open Monday to Friday between 11am and 4pm, or by email to access@marylebonetheatre.com.

The gala night, and the charity behind the cast

Thursday 8 October at 7.30pm is a gala evening in aid of Intermission Youth, with drinks, canapés and a post-show conversation with Rylance, Raymond and the cast.

The connection runs deeper than one fundraising night. The production is a co-production between the Marylebone Theatre, David Luff and Patrick Myles, in partnership with Intermission, the graduate ensemble of Intermission Youth. Raymond is the charity’s artistic director. The theatre describes Rylance as a long-term patron and advocate of it, and he says he has followed Raymond’s Shakespeare productions since 2009.

Ten recent graduates of the charity’s training programmes are in the company as the Ensemble, and two of them appear in each performance on rotation.

The charity’s finances give the gala some point. The Charity Commission register records Intermission Youth, charity number 1190391, as operating throughout London, with eight trustees and fifteen volunteers. For the financial year ending 31 December 2024 it reported total income of £389,105 and total expenditure of £489,285. It spent £100,180 more than it took in that year.

The building is the other reason to go

The theatre sits on the ground floor of one of the strangest listed buildings in Westminster.

Rudolf Steiner House was listed at Grade II on 27 July 1990, under list entry number 1248379. The hall went up in 1924 to 1926 and the rest in 1931 to 1932, all designed by Montague Wheeler in cast in-situ concrete faced with granolithic blocks. The hall was built to stage performances of eurythmy, the expression of the spirit through physical movement, and the list entry describes an interior of “sinuous expressionistic curves implying movement”, with two staircases modelled first in clay.

Historic England calls it the strongest English example of Steiner’s architectural idiom, and “an almost unique British example of the symbolic expressionism prevalent in German art before and after World War I”.

The theatre itself is the newcomer. It opened in September 2022 and has since won an Olivier Award for Best Family Show and an Off West End award for Best Production. Its landlord and licence holder is the Anthroposophical Association Limited, registered charity number 220364. Sir Mark Rylance is listed among the theatre’s patrons.

What it means for you

If you want to go, the practical points are these.

• Entering the lottery: enter on the InYouGo page before Wednesday’s draw, and re-enter every week you are free. Four seats per performance is a real chance on a quiet Monday and a long shot on a Saturday night.
• Getting there: Baker Street and Marylebone stations are both a five minute walk. Buses 13, 113, 139, 189, 274 and N113 stop directly outside. The nearest cycle hire docking station is Park Road (Baker Street), two minutes away.
• Driving: the theatre is outside the congestion charge zone. Parking on the Regent’s Park Outer Circle is free after 6.30pm, and the nearest car park is NCP Marylebone Road. Check what applies on the street you park on with our guide to Westminster parking zones and hours and pay to park prices.
• Timings: doors open 30 minutes before the performance. Latecomers are admitted only at the management’s discretion, at a suitable point in the show.
• Before you book: the booking fee is included in the ticket price and is not refundable. The theatre does not guarantee exchanges or refunds once a ticket is bought, and will not exchange within 48 hours of a performance.

Full dates and prices are on the box office listing. For what else is on in the borough this autumn, see our things to do in Westminster guide, and check roadworks and travel before you set off.

Sources

• Marylebone Theatre, Tartuffe (Remixed) production page and terms, read 13 September 2026
• Marylebone Theatre, Mark Rylance returns to the Marylebone Theatre, published 1 July 2026
• InYouGo, Tartuffe weekly lottery entry page, read 13 September 2026
• Marylebone Theatre, Your Visit and FAQs
• Historic England, Rudolf Steiner House and Hall, list entry 1248379
• Charity Commission, Intermission Youth, charity number 1190391

We have not reviewed the production and this article carries no opinion of it. Every figure above comes from the theatre’s, the charity’s or the register’s own published material.