What’s On
Presented by: Tom Adams and Lillian Henley
Using live music, song and verbatim sleep recordings, a ★★★★ gig-theatre show about the joy and terror of sharing your bed with a sleep-talker
Tickets £15/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Kelly Green
Part lecture, part hen party, with a sprinkling of a conference and the grittiness of a squat rave, CHAV is a timely comment on working class female identity.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Mr and Mrs Clark
A one-man show about constructed fear that asks directly if the world wants us to feel safe. A brave, revealing and at times hilarious tour of one man’s fears.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Barrel Organ
Barrel Organ’s scratch night LIVE is back. Experimental and radical new work from a whole host of companies and artists from under-represented backgrounds.
Tickets £5
Presented by: MECHANIMAL
Zugunruhe (zoo-gun-rue) explores the incredible flight of a marsh warbler, the only bird whose song echoes its migration route. Body-compasses, magnetic fields, African sunsets, star-chasing... a wild look at migration.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Catherine Dyson, Theatr Iolo & The Riverfront.
'So, what's it like round here?' The unheard, unbelievably true story of a girl called Maya; forever thirteen, forever on the move.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Double Trouble
Is there only one version of what happened: of the departure, the journey, the arrival? Decades later, two people pick through the debris, piecing together a new version of the same story.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Lindy Nsingo
Zambian born, London based choreographer Lindy Nsingo presents Belong. Using voice recordings from her family and traditional Zambian song, join Lindy for an evening of dance, informed by ideas of migration & refuge.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: SBC Theatre
When every citizen is ordered to return to their place of birth, Where We Began examines where we could end up. A wild and vivid vision of the future.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Two Destination Language
A story of love, breaking free and Europe, from multi-award-winning Two Destination Language.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Art Lingual UK
Has ‘immigrant’ become a dirty word? Art Lingual presents a devised, verbatim theatre piece that asks the hard...and soft questions about Brexit, immigration, and where we belong in the world.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Various Artists
An explosive nights of work-in-progress exploring the themes of the festival. Full line-up to be announced soon. Part of No Direction Home festival.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: NotNow Collective
Join NotNow Collective in making and breaking pepper biscuits and family traditions. We follow a traditional Croatian recipe dating from the Renaissance, whilst treating you to a spicy-sweet story, and keeping an eye on the oven.
Tickets £8 work-in-progress
Presented by: Jonathon
Mixing documentation, story-telling and an anarchic approach to performance: a solo show about a man travelling from Oxford to Istanbul dressed as a hobbit
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: NOMAD
An interconnected showcase of visual art, poetry, drama and music using our living knowledge as people from refugee and migrant backgrounds to challenge the myth surrounding migration/immigration in the world today.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Music In Detention and Lois Weaver
A special public event which will bring together people from arts, migration and social justice backgrounds to explore the role of the arts in developing strategies around radical hospitality.
Tickets Pay what you can
Presented by: Mo'min Swaitat, The Spacelab Programme
Devised through workshops for young refugees run by theatre-maker Mo’min Swaitat, Fragments explores the shattering and reintegration of cultures, memories, time and space, as experienced through the body in motion.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Kitty Fedorec with The Misters of Circe
Global politics, historical echoes, a dead geopolitical therory, subculture as refuge and the music of The Sisters of Mercy. For one night we will make a heartland where we can all belong.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Zad
How do you talk to your daughter about the trauma of a civil war? A play about intergenerational trauma, and the way it is told through funny, stylised stories of daily life.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: The Cocoa Butter Club
The Cocoa Butter Club celebrates performers of colour and their stories. Wrapped Burlesque, live music, drag, we are turning the heat up and inviting you to join a movement of culture, history and empowerment.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Presented by CPT & Counterpoint Arts
A unique night of standup comedy performed by people from refugee backgrounds
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Cut the Cord
Four toys escape their country at war to find a new place to call home. Written by children in response to the refugee crisis, Cut the Cord presents Beyond the Blue.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Winnie Imara and Tamsin Newlands
One room - Ana and Joud are waiting. Thing is they don't know how long they're waiting for. How will they survive a system rigged against them? And what sacrifices will be made.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Cash Carraway
A semi autobiographical show about the media portrayal of working class women, government cuts to domestic violence services and life in a women’s refuge. Written and performed by Cash Carraway.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Milk Presents, Ray Filar & Lucy Hutson
Come As You Are Festival heads to Metal and Vivacity Key Peterborough for a weekend of adventurous performance addressing attitudes towards and understanding of gender.
Tickets Various
Presented by: Phosphoros Theatre
Four refugee and asylum-seeking young men take us from a pizza shop, across centuries and continents to explore past, present and futures. Revealing, witty, lyrical.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: CURTIS
The sound of droning guitar and staggering synths will act as a symphony for the forgotten in this piece about us and them. Status, patriotism, you, me, us & them.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Beth Higham-Edwards & Tom Hughes
As disease and riots rage outside, the two remaining members of Theatre Union of Artists(TM) make a show. Daughters of the Sun is an anarchic song cycle, sort of inspired by Maxim Gorky.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Jamal Gerald
Exploring free speech, Facebook debates, police brutality, privilege and self-reflection, Dogmatic focuses on what happened when Jamal became more aware of racial inequality and how he allowed this to consume him.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Rose Eye
Solo gig-theatre exploring life in prison for young women in the UK. Winner of the Oberon Books New Play Award and the NSDF Camden People’s Theatre Award 2018.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Milk Presents, Ray Filar, Liz Clarke & Tom Marshman
Come As You Are Festival heads to Exeter Phoenix for a weekend of adventurous performance addressing attitudes towards and understanding of gender.
Tickets Various
Presented by: Vijay Patel
A cabaret/live art exploration of Indian corner shop culture. Vijay Patel questions notions of work, migration, and refuge through song, dance and ice cream.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Pat Ashe & Thomas Martin
Explore the cutting edge of performance and play at London’s only night of theatre and video games! Now in its FIFTH year! Bleep bloop.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Haley McGee
Can we turn sentimental value into cold, hard cash? The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale is a hilarious and daring show about the cost of love… or what love costs us.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Jonluke McKie and Allison Davies
Combining the intimacy of a singer/song writer gig with theatre, The Devil Danced in Our Eyes explores sexuality, class and mental illness through soulful looped vocals and story-telling.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Adam Welsh
HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE journeys between London and Egypt and involves Adam and the story of someone he’s never met. Let's call her Basila, which is not her real name, but it means Brave in Arabic.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Trip Hazards
A woman. A man. A screen. Dance Dance Revolution. Trip Hazards' latest show follows a couple on the verge of a discovery that will change things forever.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: CPT
CPT's playful new docu-theatre event uncovers a small community, a huge infrastructure project – and the biggest exhumation in British history.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Roshi Nasehi
Roshi Nasehi’s encounters with bigotry have shown her that while racism is no laughing matter, it is risible. Through storytelling and music, she recounts her experiences.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Biscuit & Field
In Paid Fantasist we explore myths of Soho and the ravages of neo-liberalism. And we aim to be the most disappointing barbershop trio you’ve ever seen.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Milk Presents, Ray Filar, Liz Clarke & Tom Marshman
Come As You Are Festival heads to Lighthouse, Poole for a weekend of adventurous performance addressing attitudes towards and understanding of gender.
Tickets Various
Presented by: Barrel Organ
Barrel Organ’s scratch night LIVE is back. Experimental and radical new work from a whole host of companies and artists from under-represented backgrounds.
Tickets £5
Presented by: Emily Souter Johnson
Follow Emily on a heart-warming story of love and laughter back to Dublin, back in time, to the week her father died. There will be sing-a-longs, stories, laughter and tears all served with a healthy dose of brandy.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Will Dickie
A 90-minute mix of jungle music, theatre, spoken word and ritual. It's not what you think - This is something you never raved to before.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Various artists
An explosive night of brand new work, some of it by recipients of CPT’s seed commissions to artists from BAME backgrounds. Tonight’s performers include Kenton Jordan Thomas and Charlie George.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Hugo Aguirre, Chloe Borthwick and Lizzie Manwaring
Emily is pregnant with a goat. Exactly what the title promises. An absurd comedy probing the peculiar relationship between humans and animals.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Nick Field
Unicorns are everywhere right now, as are increasingly bizarre news cycles. But let’s not talk about that! Unicorn Party takes a sneaky gawp at what happens when escapism becomes inescapable.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Josh Coates & Ali Pidsley
A solo work-in-progress about why/how we anthropomorphise robots and how that will effect society moving forward. A new collaboration between Josh Coates and Ali Pidsley
Tickets £8
Presented by: Sh!t Theatre
Back by popular demand! A 2014, 2015, 2016 AND 2017 CPT Christmas sellout!
Tickets £12 / 10 (conc)
Presented by: D-Live! Theatre
Scrooge is an adaptation from Charles Dicken’s famous Christmas ghost story of ‘A Christmas Carol’
Tickets £12/10 (conc.) £8 6-12 years