The award-winning comedy musical JEEZUS! will make its London premiere at New Diorama Theatre this spring, following its sold-out success at the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Running from 21 April to 9 May 2026, the production arrives in London with an expanded staging after winning the prestigious UNTAPPED Award 2025. Press night will take place on 24 April at 7.30pm.
Set in 1990s Peru under the dictatorship of Alberto Fujimori, the musical follows altar boy Jesús as he prepares for his first communion. As the big day approaches, he discovers unexpected and unholy feelings towards the man on the cross.
The show is written and performed by Sergio Antonio Maggiolo, with long-time collaborator and partner Guido Garcia Lueches joining him onstage to portray multiple characters throughout the story. The production is directed by Laura Killeen and features live music by Tom Cagnoni, drawing from Latin pop, Salsa, Cumbia, and Bad Bunny-inspired beats.
Maggiolo says: “This show is not here to mock religion. It’s here to wrestle with it. With all its contradictions, ecstasies, hypocrisies and power. I grew up in a part of South America where religion was more than dogma. It was a pillar of identity. A language for love, for family, for community. But like many queer people, I learned early that love came with conditions. That faith could be a door—or a wall.”
“At its heart, JEEZUS! is about the stories we inherit, the bodies we live in, and the miracles we make for ourselves. Absurd, joyful, and brutal this show is a love letter; to queerness, to myth, to the kids who thought they were going to hell.”
Emma Clark, New Diorama’s Head of Programme, adds: “After a phenomenal journey through last year’s Untapped Award, we can’t wait to bring JEEZUS! home to London audiences with the production it’s always deserved. Sexy, ferocious, and hilarious, uncompromising in its intelligence and politics — Alpaqa are putting Latinx and migrant stories at the forefront, where they belong.”
Supported by Arts Council England, the production continues Alpaqa’s commitment to bold, politically engaged, and joyfully subversive theatre.
Listings and ticket information can be found here.
