Ancient Grease – The Vaults, London
Few venues could host something as gleefully ridiculous as ‘Ancient Grease’, but The Vaults proves the perfect playground. By taking the familiar DNA of the much-beloved musical Grease and hurling it backwards in time to Mount Olympus, the production, written by Lady Aria Grey, creates a riotous, camp, and unapologetically adult parody that revels in theatrical mischief. The result is a night of theatre that feels mischievous, raunchy, and irresistibly fun.
Set at the fictional Olympus Academy, the story “loosely” echoes the structure of the original Grease narrative, but with gods, goddesses and mythical chaos replacing high school antics. Zeus (Peter Camilleri) and Hera (Philippa Leadbetter) find their relationship under the watchful manipulation of the Fates whilst other Olympian...