After sold-out preview performances last February, Imogen Stubbs returns to the Tabard Theatre as Leni Riefenstahl in A Thing of Beauty, prior to its national tour.

Imogen Stubbs stars as Leni Riefenstahl in A Thing of Beauty, a fictional play about the legendary film icon whose work inspired George Lucas and Steven Spielberg but was forever blighted by her association with the Nazis.

★★★★ “Imogen Stubbs electrifies as grilled Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl…” – The Guardian

In the Summer of 1972, Leni Riefenstahl agrees to an in-depth interview with Harry Adams, a BBC documentary superstar nursing his own demons. Leni, older than Harry by more than a comfortable number of years, and Harry, each of them fuelled by their own ambition, fear, lies and ego, are shocked by the thunderbolt of mutual desire.

A Thing of Beauty asks: can we… should we… ever detach art from the artist? And in this time of false truth, of cancelling, of revisionism, has it ever been more important to examine art as propaganda?

Starring Imogen Stubbs as Leni Riefenstahl and written by Wendy Oberman and Jonathan Lewis, this new play enjoys a limited six-performance preview run at the Tabard. Book your tickets now.

When

Tuesday 2 — 5 February 2027, 7.30pm

Tickets

£37.50 / £34.50 concessions.

Book at tabard.ticketsolve.com.