Aimée Sweet

“Swept along on a wave of excitement.”

– LondonTheatre1

“A richly atmospheric and immersive new production”

– Theatre-News

Platform Theatre, Kings Cross

Set from dusk until dawn, The Hideout follows a group of smugglers at their local haunt waiting for the arrival of ill-gotten bounty. The musical explores what happens when greed surpasses loyalty, and the moments in which community either flourishes, or breaks.

The Hideout was written over the course of several months in 2024 by Aimée, alongside composer Jeorgie Brett. The show had an initial R&D process in October-December 2024, with an extract performed at the Platform Theatre in December 2024. A second R&D followed in February-April 2025. This second development process saw a casting of professional actors and an expansion of crew, resulting in a company of over thirty. The musical premiered in April 2025, to over 350 industry members and the public, to wide acclaim. The musical is currently undergoing writing reworks, and will be performed again in 2026.

Creative Team

Writer and Director – Aimée Sweet

Composer and Musical Director – Jeorgie Brett

Orchestrator – Tom Mitchell

Casting Director – Alex Guersman

Co-choreographers – Sadie Martin and Christopher Matthews

Set Designer – Céleste Langrée

Lighting Designer – Sheron Luo

Sound Designer – Leung Jai

Stage Managers – Lydia Zhang and Lydia Liu

Costume Designer – Yuke Chen

Costume Maker – Leah Nimt

Hair and Makeup Designer – Teck Kroll

Cast

John Diamond – George Still

Rose Blythe – Jessica Nicholls

Isobel Nichol – Tess Adèle Glinert

Benjamin Tapner – Kevin Ip

William Jackson – Billy Gurney

Arthur Gray – Brian Elrick

Mary Diamond – Esme North

Shepherd – Damian Schedler Cruz

Jeremiah Curtis – Bruno Magnanti

Stork – Charlie Newman

Uncle – Simon Shaw

Cast and creative team listed is for performances in April 2025.

RE.PLAY

Studio Theatre, Central Saint Martins

‘Do you know something about Gregor Samsa that I don’t?’

RE.PLAY is a theatre production inspired by Kafka’s Metamorphoses. Devised with a collective of makers from the Performance Department at Central Saint Martins, the show uses live cameras and projection, paired with an electronic score composed by DJ Yichu Li.

Creative Team

Director – Aimée Sweet

Associate Director – Teck Kroll

Production Managers – Jean He and Chang Xu

Costume Designers – Yuke Chen and Gehena Ye

Camera Operators – Zizu and Rain

Lighting Designer – Ziyu Wang

Sound Designer – Yichu Li

Set Designers – E and Ziyu Wang

Cast

The Director – Teck Kroll

The Actors – Sadie Martin, Nurin Yusof, Iman Gu

Same Boat

Studio Theatre, Central Saint Martins

‘Here in my hand I hold a seed

A soft-spoken word

It’s been waiting, dormant for a while 

Here in my hand I hold the sediment of a river long gone

Watch as it sings 

Watch as it sings.‘

Same Boat is a devised theatre piece, coming from a collective of theatre makers on the Performance Department at Central Saint Martins. The piece uses movement and poetic shards of text to unpack each others cultural differences. Same Boat explores what it means to be a group of people creating after having very different pathways of getting there.

Creative Team

Devised by –

Aimée Sweet, Yuke Chen, Jean Ye, Teck Kroll, Celeste Langrée, Louie Thornton, Jamin Wang

KNOTS

Exeter Phoenix, in association with Exeter Library and the Exeter Fringe Festival.

‘Friendships need rules. Rules to nurture, rules made together, rules made apart, rules to hold two people steady. These are our rules.’

KNOTS sees a friendship twist and reform over time, as two girls turn to women, as two cubs become wolves. The play is split into seven vignettes, to mark their seven rules of friendship. They traverse sea and land, rage and unbridled joy, as they learn how the change they see around them is reflected in their relationship and their bodies.

KNOTS was selected for the Exeter Fringe Festival in October 2022. It was awarded a one-week residency at Exeter Library, and was performed by Charlie Hollingworth and Lana Myburgh at Exeter Phoenix to industry specialists, with Sophia Trewick as the dramaturg for the piece and Rex Elliott as assistant director.