Tru Tickets at the Menier Chocolate Factory

What Tickets Cost

Tickets start from around £55 and go up to around £60, and the price is much the same at every performance, weekday or weekend.

Seating is unreserved, so the earlier you arrive, the more choice you get. The Menier promises there's a seat for everyone. All-in pricing, the price you see is what you pay.

Performance Schedule

There's one extra matinee, on Thursday 12 November at 3pm. The last performance is Saturday 14 November at 7:30pm.

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Tickets from around £55, for a run that ends on 14 November. All-in pricing, the price you see is what you pay.

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Where to Sit

Every seat is in the apartment with him, so there's no bad view in the usual sense. The choice is how close you want to be. Seating is split between chairs and stools: your ticket says which, and the stools have backs. Arrive early to pick your spot near the sofas and tables, where Capote spends most of his time.

What's Tru About?

Truman Capote wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood, and by the 1970s he was as famous for his society friends as for his books. Then in 1975 Esquire printed a chapter of the novel he was writing, Answered Prayers, and those friends recognised themselves in it. They dropped him.

Tru takes place a few weeks later, in December 1975. Capote is alone at home before Christmas, on the phone, talking into a tape recorder and talking to us, about the life he's had and the one he's just lost. Jay Presson Allen built the play from Capote's own words, so a lot of the best lines are his.

It's essentially a one-man play. The only other performer is Charlotte d'Amboise as The Swan, a dancing figure standing in for the society women he betrayed.

You Sit Inside His Apartment

The designer, Paul Farnsworth, has turned the whole theatre into Capote's flat: carpets, wallpaper, bookshelves, antiques. There's no stage to look up at. You sit on chairs, stools, sofas and armchairs around the room, and Ferguson moves through it, talking to people as he goes.

Sit near the sofas and tables and you're in the middle of it: the Menier says Truman may join people at their table or sit beside them.

Who's Tru For?

Anyone who has watched Modern Family and wants to see Ferguson up close, and anyone who has read Capote or knows the story of how he fell out with New York society. It suits a night out for two: 90 minutes straight through, so you're out by about 9pm.

It's for 15 and over. There's smoking on stage, strong language, and drink and drugs are part of the story.

Tru News and Reviews

Tru opened at the Menier on 27 September 2026, after an immersive run in New York earlier in the year, and plays until 14 November. It's the play's first London production.

The critics agree about Ferguson. WhatsOnStage gave it four stars: "Ferguson is quietly commanding as Capote." The set had them talking too, and the Guardian, also at four stars, called it "less set than installation". Where they held back, it was on the play itself rather than the performance, and the Telegraph gave it two stars for that reason.

After Tru, the Menier's next show is Fourteen Again, from 21 November.

Cast and Creative Team

Jesse Tyler Ferguson plays Truman Capote. He was Mitchell in Modern Family for eleven seasons, won a Tony Award in 2022 for Take Me Out, and played Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar at the London Palladium. He played this part in New York first, earlier in 2026.

Charlotte d'Amboise is The Swan. She is a Broadway dancer and actor, twice nominated for a Tony, whose shows include Chicago, Pippin and A Chorus Line.

Written by Jay Presson Allen. Directed by Rob Ashford. Set by Paul Farnsworth, costumes by Jaimal Odedra, lighting by Jamie Platt and sound by Adam Cork.

Getting to the Menier Chocolate Factory

The Menier is at 53 Southwark Street, SE1 1RU, a short walk from Borough Market. London Bridge station (Jubilee and Northern lines, and trains) is 5 to 7 minutes away: take the Borough High Street exit and turn right onto Southwark Street. Borough station on the Northern line is about 5 minutes' walk.

The 344 and 381 buses stop on Southwark Street and Southwark Bridge Road, about two minutes from the door, and the 21, 35, 133 and 343 stop on Borough High Street, about three minutes away.

There are bag checks on the way in, and a small cloakroom for coats and small bags. More in our Menier Chocolate Factory guide.

Accessible Performances

No captioned, signed, audio-described or relaxed performances are listed for this run. The theatre is step-free into the auditorium and has an accessible toilet. Because the seating is unreserved, the Menier asks access customers to speak to its Box Office before booking. Access bookings are handled by the Menier's own team, not by us.

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