Ancient Grease

Leake Street’s cult underground theatre venue The Vaults returns to in-house productions with the brand-new immersive parody musical, Ancient Grease. 

Ancient Grease is a dirty love letter to the hit movie musical Grease, reimagining the iconic characters from the famous film and setting them amongst the Gods of Mount Olympus Academy. The wine will flow, fate will be rewritten, and Grease gets the ending it always deserved!

The Vaults, the creative wizards behind hit sell-out shows such as Mulan Rouge, Stranger Sings and The Witches of Oz, explain that it was time to give Grease’s outdated story of becoming someone else in the desire for acceptance, a refresh.

“As Grease grows older, the love for it grows stronger, so we decided to reimagine the narrative and bring a new message: put your leather catsuit away. Don’t change for anyone.”

Ancient Grease is the Musical-directorial debut for one of London’s most prominent queer creatives, Dan Wye (creator of award-winning cabaret legend Séayoncé, who some might also remember as playing David Bowie in the hit show Peter Pan’s Labyrinth), and the first professional production from emerging writer Lady Aria Grey (star of Mulan Rouge).

Grab your togas and get ready for a spectacularly bawdy camp-riot of a show packed with cracking songs, and hosted in South Bank’s most atmospheric underground venue.