SNAKES AND LADDERS

SNAKES AND LADDERS

By Louis Emmitt-Stern

Directed by Matthew Iliffe

Pressure is mounting in the offices of a high-flying start-up. The printer is broken, a birthday cake has no candles, and a big investor is on his way. Online, however, a series of anonymously published recorded conversations are causing waves that threaten to sink the company and change the lives of all involved.

As private and professional lives crash together, employees are forced to play by their own rules in a dangerous game of split loyalties and questionable morals. Over the course of one turbulent morning, Snakes and Ladders takes a fiercely funny and fast-paced look at culpability, betrayal, and the true cost of privacy to a cut-throat corporation.

Snakes and Ladders was commissioned by The Oxford School of Drama, and performed by a company of 18 actors from the one-year postgraduate course. Graduates of this course include the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild winner Claire Foy (The Crown, All of Us Strangers), Richard Gadd (Olivier Award-winning creator and star of Netflix’s Baby Reindeer), and 2024 Olivier Nominee Tanya Reynolds.