What’s On
Presented by: House of Blakewell
Comedy musical about anxiety disorders, caring and trying to keep going. ★★★★★ “A packed and very rewarding experience” – Britishtheatre.com.
Tickets £12/£10 (concession)
Presented by: Vijay Patel
Pull the Trigger is a show set in an Indian corner shop. Here Vijay Patel explores his own queer discovery whilst surrounded by family conflicts and the Ugandan-Asian shop-keeping legacy.
Tickets £12/£10 (concession)
Presented by: HISSYFIT
Best friends Sophia and Charlie are losing their virginity. It’s happening. They’re doing it. No, really. They can prove it right now. They’ll see you at The Clinic.
Tickets £12/£10 (concession)
Presented by: Imprology
Love Explosion: Take part or observe a string of courageous people improvising for two minutes with a random partner. Crunch: Watch unusual, enchanting, tragicomic, dramatic or absurd stories coming to life from your suggestions.
Tickets £5 (£3 Love Explosion participants)
Presented by: Vincent Gambini
The world is in turmoil. Can magic tricks provide much-needed solace for these difficult times? Critically acclaimed magician Vincent Gambini conjures a show of disillusions, dreams within dreams, and theatrical artifice
Tickets £12/£10 (concession)
Presented by: HighRise Theatre
The return of HighRise’s 5* grime concept-concert dissecting the future of Britain post-Brexit - with MP rap battles, tactics for revolution and a weed dealers’s guide to inflation
Tickets £12/£10 (concession)
Presented by: STAMP
Are you an artist who produces their own work? This event will give you greater insight into the tough world of self-producing as an emerging or early career artist.
Tickets £5
Presented by: Kill The Cat
A unique game based experience tackling eco-anxiety and humanity’s inaction. Enter the casino and roll the dice as the planet collapses.
Tickets £12/£10 (concession)
Presented by: Do Not Adjust Your Stage
Comedy inspired by expert guest speakers. Award-winning improvised troupe Do Not Adjust Your Stage revive their sell-out hit, The Wunderkammer, creating a comedy show inspired by TED-style talks.
Tickets £12/£10 (concession)
Presented by: Haley McGee
Haley is reading from her forthcoming book! After premiering her solo ‘The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale at CPT in late 2018, she is now adapting the show into a book.
Tickets £7
Presented by: Paul Cree
A humorous and introspective journey through one man's low-wage employment history. A mix of storytelling, rap, live-looping and beatbox from one-half of CPT favourites Beats & Elements
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Amelia Stubberfield
Bonkers combines big standup-style laughs with a nuanced and honest account of navigating mental health and queer identities, treading the line between belly-laugh comedy and realism
Tickets £12/£10 (concession)
Presented by: Edith Tankus
An intimate and absurd one-person exploration of motherhood, exile and transformation. Part storytelling, part standup, part myth, it asks the question: How does an urban Canadian raising children in rural Kent, with declining parents back home, learn the codes of survival?
Tickets £12/£10 (concession)
Presented by: Various artists
An explosive night of performance from which new universes of theatre may one day emerge.
Tickets £12/£10 (concession)
Presented by: dangerously loose
April 2019. The Searcher is facing an existential crisis, but so is the world. In the paralysing epicentre of personal, political and ecological collapse, can love lend us a hand?
Tickets £12/£10 (concession)
Presented by: Scott Turnbull
An absurd, sci-fi comedy-noir with live animation and spooky stories. And a multi-dimensional alien invasion that will make your eyes water and your nose bleed.
Tickets £12/£10 (concession)
Presented by: Steven Vevers-Webb and D-Live! Theatre
A brand new series of monologues/dialogues/short scenes exploring Deaf world perspective in languages, Deaf images, discriminations and experiences
Tickets £12/£10 (concession)
Presented by: Glyn Maxwell & Hannah Maxwell
A weekly podcast, a quiz show, a surreal flight of fancy, BEST DAY EVER is the perfect antidote to whatever this country’s ON…
Tickets £10
Presented by: Various artists
An explosive night of performance from which new universes of theatre may one day emerge.
Tickets £12/£10 (concession)
Presented by: Hannah Greenstreet and Charlotte Vickers
What happens when you get stuck between a myth and a hard place? Hannah Greenstreet reimagines a lost play, constellating ancient fragments with a modern queer love story.
Tickets £12/£10 (concession)
Presented by: Joseph Morgan Schofield
A new queer myth, charged with eroticism, possibility and violence. This poetic performance art work considers queer desires for futurity
Tickets £12/£10 (concession)
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, which have often been as funny as they are awful.
Tickets £12/£10 (concession)
Presented by: Alfie James Productions
For all the family: Adapted from the classic book by Lewis Carroll, join Alice as she falls through into Wonderland and meets a range of fun and strange characters.
Tickets £6
Presented by: Various artists
The first of three explosive nights of performance from which new universes of theatre may one day emerge, based around the themes of Calm Down, Dear
Tickets £12/£10 (conc.)
Presented by: Esther Shanson
Pretend Singing fits under a wider project idea called Abnormal Kindred where confessing ‘abnormal’ isolating experiences often unwittingly leads to a Me Too underground conversation.
Tickets £8 (conc.) £5 (UCL Student)
Presented by: Carolyn Defrin
Inspired by the structure and creative power of the menstrual cycle, 28 two-minute acts of poetic chat, dance, song, & cocktail-making propose a world of greater harmony between feminine & masculine energies.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Maya Shimmin
Stemming from personal experiences, Dosage is an autobiographical two-hander, one female performer, one female sound designer, exploring the effect that the contraceptive pill can have on mental health.
Tickets £8/£5 (UCL Student)
Presented by: Emma Baskeyfield
Two sisters, ten years, why they quit figure skating and how they feel now. With rollerskating, spoken word, puppetry and fugly costumes, Go Figure talks blood, bisexuality, and beauty standards.
Tickets £12/£10 (conc.)
Presented by: Estlin Love
A bold and challenging interrogation into violence and love, BLEACH is a visually striking solo show which follows one woman’s rageful reckoning with love.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Lucy Dear
A one-woman work in progress about a struggle for reason in psychologically abusive relationships.
Tickets £6 (£5 UCL students)
Presented by: Fiona Oliver-Larkin
In moments of crisis and absolute fear, everything stands still and doors can open to other worlds. A new solo visual theatre work, SALT is a magical-realist fairytale for adults.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Natasha Brown
You know how in Monopoly you get those ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ cards? What if people used them in real life?
Tickets £12/£10 (conc.)
Presented by: Sarah Richardson
Meet Lucy. She’s average, awkward and when it comes to sex, what she lacks in experience she makes up for in curiosity. An exploration of love and sex spun out in slam.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Blush
A gig theatre show about eating disorders, depression and feeling estranged from your body, Game Face mocks the absurdities of our beauty myths with wit, warmth, dancing and donuts.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Karen Fisch
A very personal odyssey From Prejudice to Pride. She uses hilarious and heartbreaking anecdotes and songs to bring together 40 years of secret lesbian community history against the backdrop of British politics.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Lorna Meehan
An autobiographical/verbatim show about dysfunctional vaginas, the big deal with virginity and how the myths about sex that we take as truth can seriously hinder our general wellbeing
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Various artists
The second of three explosive nights of performance from which new universes of theatre may one day emerge, based around the themes of Calm Down, Dear
Tickets £12/£10 (conc.)
Presented by: Martha Watson Allpress
A 1950s housewife, a carnival dancer, two schoolgirls and a midwife share the stage: The Line of Us is an abstract look at what it is to be a female.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Beth Watson
An autobiographical comedy about coming out as a teenage lesbian, only to discover that boys are also appealing.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Authentic Artist Collective
For ten years Kath Burlinson has filmed her body ageing. This poetic and daring odyssey uses her naked form as a canvas in a ‘magical mix of wit and lyricism’ (Scotsman)
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Georgie Jones
Spoken word, standup and storytelling set to a soundtrack of nostalgic 90’s bangers in celebration of the simultaneously grotesque and glorious experience that is womanhood
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: ELOINA
“BRAVE. HILARIOUS. HONEST". Throwing a middle finger up to the patriarchy, FISH DON’T BLEED contrasts fairy tales with the stories that we are told about our bodies as young, growing women.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Hot Lemon
For women, hunger is one of the most insistent cravings and it becomes the preeminent source of our anger (Bordo). It is a hunger for food, for space, for sex, for pleasure and for power.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Official Culture
A show about the devoted, the disgruntled, the precarious and the 3-in-1 avocado tool. It’s about fuck-all wages and fake news and motivational cack which instructs you to seize happiness.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Various artists
The final of three explosive nights of performance from which new universes of theatre may one day emerge, based around the themes of Calm Down, Dear
Tickets £12/£10 (conc.)
Presented by: Susannah Henry
A story for feminists and lovers of theatre costume, taking place within a traditional theatre hierarchy – where a designer’s work may be seen, but she is not always heard.
Tickets £7
Presented by: Global Voices Theatre, directed by Lora Krasteva
Based on true events, The snake bites.. is a devised, documentary-style exploration, shedding light on one of the most high profile corruption cases in Bulgaria.
Tickets £7
Presented by: Katherine Christie Evans
A musical glimpse into the life and desires of a queer classical musician with OCD, an Eating Disorder, a drumkit, exercise equipment and a wardrobe of historical costumes.
Tickets £7
Presented by: Viv Gordon
A first look at Viv Gordon’s new work shedding light on the scale and impact of childhood sexual abuse in the UK. Part performance, part installation, part collective act of resistance, Cutting Out offers bittersweet laughs and life affirming rage.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Kat Lyons
Kat thought she was far too young to think about menopause; biology thought differently… Spoken word theatre exploring societal expectations of age and gender, and how we cope with loss.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Notes from Underground
What happens when you've been so determined not to be the victim, it transpires that you've become the villain...
Tickets £12/£10 (conc.)
Presented by: Sharlin Jahan
Sharlin’s Muslim mother wants her to get married, but also keeps telling her that men are out to ruin her purity. It’s a story about shame, culture clashes and feminism.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Katayoun Jalili and Tallulah Haddon
Mystical Femmes are two confused aliens, who are trying to figure out how to eat and repopulate their lesbian species. They are apparently the "ambassadors” of the Femme experience.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: STAMP
We will explore touring from the perspective of venues, funders, production and producers, giving artists the full overview to getting your show on the road.
Tickets £5
