What’s On
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
An adaptation - performed in BSL - of Charles Dickens' famous Christmas ghost story ‘A Christmas Carol’
Tickets £12/10 (conc.) £8 6-12 years
Presented by: Damien Warren-Smith
Come on a journey from Chaos to Achilles (with the new king of sillies) and experience Greek Mythology like you never knew you wanted to.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: The Smoke
A one-off interactive performance devised in two days by a team led by Danish artist Nina Runa Essendrop. Come to explore, watch and play. Make faces. Put on masks. Perform yourself!
Tickets £8/6 (conc.)
Presented by: Max Wilkinson
A man think he’s Franz Kafka living in Prague. As his dream is shattered he slips between different times and bodies... A black comedy about our obsession with the past. Developed in Prague with UNESCO and Potrva Theater.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Stumble Trip Theatre
Combining clown, cabaret, theatre and mime Heather and Harry is an extremely silly unpicking of what it means to be human... and in LOVE.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Gur Arie Piepskovitz
A Director wishes to create a show about the party his Jewish grandparents – uncertain about their future – threw the night before WW2. However, his crew has a different idea of how to get this party started.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: CPT & Counterpoint Arts
After the smash-hit success of its debut gig, come join us for more unexpected laughs from our talented team – plus a Very Special Guest standup at each event.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Jennifer Tang
This powerful and contemporary new show asks what it really means to be British and Chinese, and how family, love and belonging all shape who and what we are.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Alissa Anne Jeun Yi
An eccentric mix of get-on-the-dance-floor music, comedy, rap and spoken word in this smash-hit coming-of-age story that's hilarious and heart-breaking in equal measure.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: BÉZNĂ Theatre
A rehearsed reading of a protest-theatre piece journeying through the Home Office’s human rights abuses against ‘the other’ and the profit made from the illegalisation of human beings.
Tickets £8 work-in-progress
Presented by: Freya Bardell
A comic look at a millennial trying to navigate her way to adulthood as best as she can, but finding that she may be failing at every turn.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Nod at the Fox
Definitely categorically 100% based on true events; through music, absurd soulful metaphors and chain smoking puppets, Eden tells the emotional and tragic tale of an exponentially unfortunate fox…
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: anorak
An intimate and surreal show about trying to be happy, fearing the world will end, and what happens when it does.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Paula Varjack
Combines storytelling, sound design & choreography, exploring the weird and wonderful world of fashion. A playful critique on consumer culture. Why do we want the things we want?
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Heidi Niemi & Sinikka Kyllönen
Two detectives tackle the criminal underworld of northern Finland. Long nights watching Scandi Noir have not been in vain. Their minds are sharp, their bodies strong. This is their moment!
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: by Sharklegs
Robox was programmed with one ambition. To fulfil your every need. Welcome to the Fulfilment Centre. Let Robox deliver your journey to fulfilment. (Next day delivery also available.)
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Daniel Spicer/ Dirty Rascals
Part interactive theatre, part audio-visual tour of a childhood, all catharsis.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Cheap Date
A visual monologue questioning the physical, verbal, facial, tonal, nuanced way we talk to the world and exploring the filth, fun and aftertaste of our everyday interactions.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: BOX. Theatre Company
A surreal and anarchic two-woman comedy packed with glitter, friendship and desperation. For those of you that can’t be yourself in real life, you Camp Be Yourself here.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: TomYumSim
A fantastical self-help seminar for extra-ordinary special people. Prepare to be transformed and reborn as the best possible version of yourself—in just one hour. Because you are special. And you know it.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Janet
An off-piste two-man biography of Kate Moss, slaloming from the sublime to the ridiculous, and colliding storytelling, choreography, music and mime in a genre-bending look at fashion, fame and identity.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Shortwave
In the middle of the Mojave Desert, dozens of miles from the nearest pavement, a phonebooth stands on a dirt road. One evening, in the 1990's, the phone starts ringing...
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Attila Theatre in co-production with Grafted Cede
Teenagers can suffer a lot of anxiety when navigating their first romantic and sexual experiences. Most of us learn, grow and move on, but not all of us.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Battered Soul Theatre
After a seismic change, David finds himself middle-aged, lost and unable to speak to anyone about it. Anyone, that is, apart from you. A genre-defying monologue from Battered Soul Theatre.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Earwax
Earwax brings together women and femme identifying individuals who make noise. Expect live music, poetry, live edits and performance in an event which celebrates women’s voices.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Various Artists
An explosive night of performance from which new universes of theatre may one day emerge.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Contingency Theatre
George has been given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. A meeting with the mysterious ‘J’. Follow Contingency’s stunning choreography, live music and surreal comedy through a world of bizarre, dangerous ambition.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Katrina Quinn
Q. What happens when you move a 12-year-old from Basingstoke to Zambia? A. She swims. Spoken word meets physical theatre and '00s R&B in a touching and comic memoir.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Ben Kulvichit
In 1992, celebrated contemporary artist Rirkrit Tiravanija cooked a Thai green curry for gallery visitors. Now Ben will do the same for you, exploring the meeting point between food and art.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Marv Radio
Mantra is a journey into the power of words, sound and music by vocalist and storyteller Marv Radio. A high-energy hip-hop musical about mental health, music, healing and shamanism.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Emma Clark & PJ Stanley
A multimedia exploration of the politics of auteurship, told through the films of Stanley Kubrick. What does it mean to take creative risks in an era where most are only granted one shot?
Tickets £7.50
Presented by: Alex Rohmat
Music. Adverts. The news. Everything a great radio show needs to thrive. Oh, a good story, because we all love a good story, right? Hot Coffee, more than just radio.
Tickets £7.50
Presented by: Mae-Li Evans
Full moon. Half moon. Total eclipse. Drawing inspiration from home videos, personal testimonies and that jaffa cake advert, Totality explores the inexplicable experience of watching a total solar eclipse.
Tickets £7.50
Presented by: Josephine Starte and Anna Clock
Children are priceless. Teaching assistants earn minimum wage. Au pairs work for free. Who looks after your kids and how much should it cost? A rant. A conversation. A mess.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Last Word
Paris (1730) Shop workers executed their masters' cats in one of the first workers' protests. London (2018) 14 million live in poverty. An irreverent, absurdist exploration of late stage capitalism.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Various Artists
A showcase of the brand new work created and developed by artists on our trailblazing Starting Blocks scheme
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Venice as a Dolphin in association with Coney and HighTide
Ever had a look at the history of humanity and thought: I could have done a better job? Finally, interactive theatre that lets you do just that...
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Hidden Track Theatre
Drawing the Line is an interactive storytelling experience which questions identity, community, and citizenship by inviting its audiences to build nations.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Various Artists
An explosive night of performance from which new universes of theatre may one day emerge.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Rinkoo Barpaga
Rinkoo Barpaga uses British Sign Language. He has encountered both racism and discrimination, and as a result he has been constantly asking himself the question, “where do I belong?”
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Becks Turner
A hilarious combination of clown-esque theatre and live art, Melonade is an interactive game show about being neurodiverse which questions measuring intelligence by timed exams.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Bootworks
A show about heroes, why we have them, why we need them, and how we can all become one.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Caitlin Gleeson and Ross McCaffrey
In this show about dark matter, sexism, and truth, two people attempt to tell the story of an astrophysicist’s quest for recognition.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Tom Adams
A musician takes the stage and improvises musically with someone he has never performed with before. Life lessons will be learned. It will be interactive and funny.
Tickets £7.50
Presented by: Anna Marie Synstad Simonsen, Frankie Thompson and Elizabeth Parker
‘Forbruker’ places a female clown into the world of consumer culture. Through mime, lip-sync and general idiocy she battles her way through distinctive branding and absurdity.
Tickets £7.50
Presented by: Maya de Freitas
Postcode Wars is Maya and her families battle for turf. Out there looking for a roof over their head, a place to call home.
Tickets £7.50
Presented by: Elsa Couvreur and Mehdi Duman
The duet Anchor delves into the complexities of relationships. Playfully probing the tensions between passion and security, wants and needs, fantasy and compassion, within the life of a couple.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Lucy Ireland and Jim Manganello, Shotput
In this new piece of dance-theatre, a contemporary couple re-create Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece, Vertigo, live, and in the process tosses up gender roles, modern relationships and sexual obsession.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Joana Nastari & Koko Brown
Jo & Koko have returned from their gap-month spiritually lit beings. They’ve created their own church. Part sermon, part raucous party - full of music, comedy and consensual audience participation. You’re the congregation.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: I Need to Cher
A journey in to lucid dreamland ruled by one woman's unashamed, celebratory love of Cher.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Soraya Nabipour
the performers task is to stand and remember: an investigation into: the sculptural values of performance, spatial and temporal materiality and what it means to make the private public
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Oop-La!
A drag-queen, a clown, a fish, and a Frenchman walk into a theatre, which is also a gay bar, which is also a circus, which is also a secret lair, which is also a filmset- and it’s always a riot.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Barrel Organ
Barrel Organ’s regular scratch night; presenting experimental and non-traditional work from under-represented artists that is all about play, audiences and the ‘liveness’ of theatre.
Tickets £5
Presented by: Marion Burge
Through ritual and reflection, We Owe You A Legacy investigates the post colonial bonds of the maternal role in the raising of the black contemporary woman.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Dylan Townley & Sam Plumb
Trial of the century. Society outraged. Men dressed as ladies. You can get away with anything these days. These days being 1870. An explosive musical retelling of Victorian scandal.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: small performance adventures
With original songs and stories, The Washing Up takes an absurd look at the politics and practice of this every day act.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: CPT
Join a lineup of crack CPT entertainers to commemorate, question and cabaret the hell out of Britain’s departure from the European Union.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Jess Green in assocation with Discerning Nights
BBC Slam Champion, Jess Green has fallen head-over-heels in love with Jeremy Corbyn and his raw socialist magnetism but if only everyone else agrees.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Ryan O'Shea
A solo performance pungent with the euphoric melancholy of electronic music, investigating the human desire to run away from emotion.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Lanre Malaolu
An explosive dance theatre solo that explores the stigma attached to mental health in working class black men, toxic masculinity and what happens when the floodgates open...
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Jess Gibson
A hopeful show about lived experiences of Borderline Personality Disorder, being Scouse and dancing to Britney Spears. Jess welcomes you on her journey and apologises to her nan for swearing.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Amelia Stubberfield
Borderline is a comic tale about living life on the edge and trying not to fall off. Navigating mental health, queerness and identity, it poses the question what is “normal” anyway?
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Holly Gallagher
A show about Stress and the world we live in now that will prove essential viewing in a society that just can’t seem to relax anymore
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Koko Brown
A candid show exploring depression and black women’s mental health, blending spoken word, vocal looping, and British Sign Language integrated.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Hitchhiker Collective
Lou’s got a tough decision ahead of them. When doing the right thing is so difficult, is it really worth doing? There’s only one constant: what would Jeff Goldblum do?
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Two Tonne
a new play about being the parent of a child with a learning disability in an often unhelpful world that will speak to everyone who has known the magnificent, terrifying, joyful, heart-breaking chaos that is becoming a parent.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Thomas Ryalls
When Tom was a kid he wanted to be an astronaut but instead he was epileptic, now he’s going in search of a future he lost in a black hole.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Joseph Morgan Schofield
beneath the synthetic terf, we’re looking at deep time baby. a body splayed across the moors, this is a ritual for QUEER SURVIVAL, a turn to the earth, a mythic stagger thru eco + gender anxiety
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Claire Gaydon
Last year, 34% of young people voted YouTuber as their top career choice. Claire decided to have a go. See-Through is part documentary, part live performance, part parody, part desperate as f*ck.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Rhiannon Brace
Based on Rhiannon’s experiences as a child brought up in the Worldwide Church of God, The Promised Land is a haunting tale told through scriptures, songs, and recurring dreams.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Tom Cassani
Using the rhetoric of the showman, miracle monger and sceptic, Cassani will prosthelytize, pedal and preach the importance of remaining wary of those who make extraordinary claims.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Miriam Gould
A family torn apart by life and death, held together by music. Empty Room is a one-woman show exploring how music can help us survive in the darkest times.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Various artists
An explosive night of performance from which new universes of theatre may one day emerge.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Sh!t Theatre
Lads on tour Sh!t Theatre want to talk about home, your home, what we are doing in your home, what you might be doing in our home and how cheap the beers are.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: BÉZNĂ Theatre
ILLEGALISED is protest-theatre that journeys through the Home Office’s human rights abuses against ‘the other’, exposing the immigration industrial complex and the profit made from the illegalisation of human beings.
Tickets £10/8 (conc.)
Presented by: Harry Josephine Giles and Co.
A live jam of music, video and poetry, singing with humour and fury the technology of a neurotic century. How can anxious people live in systems of such astonishing destruction?
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Nouveau Riche
A new attachment scheme that aims to nurture and develop the next generation of theatre practitioners, collaborating with each other to create exciting brand new work. This work will culminate our inaugural Brand Nouveau Festival.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: YESYESNONO
A brand new show from award-winning YESYESNONO. A new guest performer each night. A summoning of conspiracy in a post-truth world.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: John Akinde
This show seeks to uncover the dark world of drug dealing through the struggle of a black family trying to make ends meet.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: by CPT
CPT’s epic new docu-theatre event digs deep into a small but stubborn community, an £80bn infrastructure project – and the ghosts of Euston past.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Beats and Elements
A stunning new show exposing young peoples fears of where will they or is the system fundamentally f****d and a home is just a modern day pipe dream for many?
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: CYT
Our world-class Youth Theatre are back with a brand new show having returned from gracing the stage at the international Chrysalis Festival at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Sean Mahoney
Told through spoken word and within timed boxing rounds, Until You Hear That Bell is a story about ten years of amateur boxing and a changing relationship between father and son. Sean Mahoney is a spoken word writer and performer; this is his first solo show.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Dani Kolanis
Follow Camden Volunteer Police Cadets as they take on a gruelling physical competition to save their unit from being disbanded. With storytelling, physical theatre and a true devotion to NW1.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Barrel Organ
Barrel Organ’s regular scratch night; presenting experimental and non-traditional work from under-represented artists that is all about play, audiences and the ‘liveness’ of theatre.
Tickets £5
Presented by: Tom Marshman
Kings Cross (Remix) uncovers the hidden histories of LGBTQ communities in London during the 1980s through memories of the Kings Cross area; an area that has undergone radical change since its day as a hub of LGBTQ communities, bars and culture.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Various Artists
An explosive night of performance from which new universes of theatre may one day emerge.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)