PLAY! Festival 2024

PLAY! is a week-long, annual festival of arts presented by the School of Performing and Digital Arts, showcasing some of the best and most innovative music, film and theatre at Royal Holloway. 

PLAY! Festival returns bigger and better than ever, showcasing the very best of music, film, and theatre at one of the UK's highly-ranked arts faculties, with events curated and performed by the staff and students of Royal Holloway. With pop-up recitals, film screenings, cross-arts collaborations, jazz and music theatre gigs, talks and recital-lectures, an International Music Feast, new music from across the UK, plus the year's largest orchestral event, PLAY! offers a bundle of exciting events for all. 

This year's festival will take place between 3-7 June 2024, in venues across campus and in the local community.

Our FREE festival events will be released on Friday 26 May 2023.