Past Shows
Presented by: CRANK Theatre
The amazing untrue story of Harriet Hartley, the forgotten genius of early British cinema
Presented by: Katy Dye
A work-in-progress exploring stereotypical images of female infantilisation
Presented by: Louise Orwin
Louise started noticing girls and guns everywhere. She began to wonder what it was about that coupling that was so attractive...
Presented by: Jack Dean
A story for anyone who ever dreamed of a different world
Presented by: Nicola Canavan and Dawn Felicia Knox
Talk / video event to accompany exhibition of images reclaiming the vagina
Presented by: Presented by This Theatre.
Smash Edinburgh Fringe hit, which also won the Pulse Suitcase Prize 2015
Presented by: Presented by TheatreState.
A show about false memories, father figures and the failure of the left wing.
Presented by: Presented by Owl Young.
A cross between a TED-talk and a coming-of-age action thriller.
Presented by: Presented by Leo Burtin.
The story of an unremarkable woman, who every day, sat down to record the facts of her life in a diary, until one summer day, she chose her own death
Presented by: Presented by Emma Frankland, Keir Cooper & Último Comboio.
An anarchic exploration of the novel, containing incredible visual imagery, live music and dance
Presented by: Presented by Grist to the Mill.
A tender examination of death and rebirth. Part of Suspense Festival.
Presented by: Presented by Precious Cargo
A slick, intelligent exploration of how we cope in an increasingly pressurised world
Presented by: Presented by Katie Jackson.
Taking modern notions of happiness and poking them with a stick
Presented by: Presented by Josh Coates.
Part of 'Fitter Happier More Productive': a selection of cutting-edge artists respond to the cult of self-betterment.
Presented by: Presented by Zoe Murtagh & Victoria Copeland.
An uplifting performance about panic attacks based on personal experience and shared stories
Presented by: Presented by Urban Foxes Collective.
A collage of honest storytelling, movement and music that reaches to the edge of the 90s babe stratosphere.
Presented by: Presented by Cape Theatre.
In a commentary on self-help culture and celebrity obsession, two performers strive to find out how to make an audience love them
Presented by: LaPelle's Factory
A mysterious journey through old films, pop delusions and odd expressions of love
Presented by: Lewys Holt.
Dance-storytelling-comedy performance exploring what it means to be cool
Presented by: Documental Theatre.
Acclaimed show inspired by frank and often funny accounts of parents from Bournemouth Drug Treatment Centre
Presented by: Various Artists
An explosion of performance from which new universes of theatre may one day emerge.
Presented by: Thomas Martin and Pat Ashe.
Videogames [in one hand]. Performance [in the other]. [Both hands together.] 'Boom' [explosion mime].
Presented by: Grace Gibson.
A playful solo performance that dissects the point when it all goes wrong.
Presented by: Displace Yourself Theatre.
A story about belonging and an exploration of life without nationality.
Presented by: Walrus.
Lemons won three prizes at this year's National Student Drama Festival.
Presented by: Coney, curated by William Drew.
An evening of playing theatre and artful games
Presented by: Barrel Organ
For one weekend only, see Barrel Organ like you've never seen them before.
Presented by: Barrel Organ
For one weekend only, see Barrel Organ like you've never seen them before.
Presented by: Barrel Organ
For one weekend only, see Barrel Organ like you've never seen them before.
Presented by: Barrel Organ.
A brand new show from a multi-award winning young company. Developed at and supported by CPT.
Presented by: humanish.
A 'humanette' puppet comedy starring the Holy Trinity at home for Christmas
Presented by: Simon Maeder & Adam El Hagar
A brand new show about hiphop’s most notorious pranksters
Presented by: Tit4Tat
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. Political theatre meets cabaret as six variety acts address different aspects of gentrification
Presented by: Falls the Shadow
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A deeply personal, explorative performance about what it means to call somewhere “home”
Presented by: Rough Triangle
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A devised performance created around architecture, construction and identity
Presented by: Beats&Elements
Curated especially for Whose London Is It Anyway?, a one-off night of spoken word, rap, writing & performance on the changing face of London
Presented by: Luke Barnes and Brad Birch
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A live podcast recording discussing our modern relationship with happiness.
Presented by: Luisa Amorim
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A surreal show depicting the life of a London family with a 5-year old daughter
Presented by: Changing Face Collective
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A verbatim play revealing the human stories behind the hyper-regeneration of London.
Presented by: Pokfulam Rd Productions
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. Are the Chinese to blame for the UK housing crisis? Who will gain and who will lose in this dangerous real estate monopoly?
Presented by: Various artists
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. Join us for a night of documentary films addressing London's changing landscape
Presented by:
Part of a series of talks presented with Londonist, as part of Whose London Is It Anyway?
Presented by: Outspoken Arts
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. Activism and individualism collide over soya lattes, jerk chicken, planning applications and pop-up vintage shops. Welcome to Brixton.
Presented by: Displace Yourself
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A dystopian parable of homelessness and social division set in the year 2044.
Presented by:
Part of a series of talks presented with Londonist, as part of Whose London Is It Anyway?
Presented by: Tanya Singh, Rachel Baker and Becky Coles
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. An exploration of the theatricality of activism and the covert politics of participatory art
Presented by:
Part of a series of talks presented with Londonist, as part of Whose London Is It Anyway?
Presented by: Tiffany Murphy and Tina Nanaki
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. An exploration of the victory of the Long Live Southbank campaign, and the nature of public space
Presented by: Venice as a Dolphin
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. Join us for a workshop exploring local radio, the first step in creating a new artist-developed community radio station at CPT
Presented by: Annie Siddons
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. Five years ago in the middle of a shitstorm of life events, single mother, proud Londoner and theatremaker Annie Siddons found herself living in suburbia by accident...
Presented by: Coney
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. An acclaimed exploration of our relationship to the financial system and the crisis.
Presented by: Various artists
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. An explosion of performance from which new universes of theatre may one day emerge...
Presented by: Richard DeDomenici
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A making workshop and funeral procession to reflect and mourn together on the negative consequences of regeneration
Presented by: Coney
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A playday and salon on public space.
Presented by: Write by Numbers
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A playful, epic and urgent exploration of urban regeneration, gentrification and what makes us call a place ‘home’
Presented by: FYSA Theatre
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. Acclaimed re-telling of a national issue, and how one group of women refused to be marginalized
Presented by: Annemiek van Elst
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A performance about homelessness and belonging, based on real experiences whilst sleeping rough
Presented by: Theatre Témoin
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A dark and imaginative piece about a boy struggling to navigate the back-alleys of London, and of his own mind.
Presented by:
Part of a series of talks presented with Londonist, as part of Whose London Is It Anyway?
Presented by: Emilia Weber and Claire Healy
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A politically charged portrait of the urban landscape.
Presented by:
Part of a series of talks presented with Londonist, as part of Whose London Is It Anyway?
Presented by: Sh!t Theatre
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A loophole in the Postal Services Act says you can open other people’s mail under certain circumstances. This is that certain circumstance...
Presented by: Tom Bolton
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A journey through events that have transformed the area from farmland into diverse urban landscape.
Presented by: Various artists
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. The place to see wild & wonderful new projects take their first steps...
Presented by: Permanently Visible
Part of Whose London is It Anyway. A reclamation of the red phone box, reopening a dwindling channel of communication
Presented by: You Should See The Other Guy
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. The inside story of the Focus E15 Open House Occupation of empty council houses in East London
Presented by:
Part of a series of talks presented with Londonist, as part of Whose London Is It Anyway?
Presented by: Camden People's Theatre
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A docu-absurdist panorama of London's housing crisis, created for this festival by a crack team of CPT artists.
Presented by: SoundBoxed Collective
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. Welcome to London’s first ever pop-up temple... come construction site.
Presented by: Hobo Theatre
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A live action roleplay game about housing, social cleansing and a sense of community in London
Presented by: Various artists
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. An explosion of new, in-progress performance exploring the themes of the festival
Presented by:
Part of a series of talks presented with Londonist, as part of Whose London Is It Anyway?
Presented by: Rachael Clerke
Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A satirical drag eulogy for a world past its use-by-date.
Presented by: UCLU Musical Theatre Society
Possessed is set in the bohemian art world of 19th Century London - based on the story of Jane Burden, wife of designer William Morris and muse of Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Presented by: UCLU Drama Society
A dark comedy about money, greed, and human morality. A Jacobean drama involving deceit and disguise, updated in a modern setting.
Presented by: Gameshow and Emily Lim
People’s Theatre Award winners Gameshow and Emily Lim are making a show about growing up and they need your help.
Presented by: UCLU Jazz Society
‘What the funk is jazz?’ is a musical production that aims to explore the concept of jazz and trace its influences through three movements: funk/hip-hop, electronica and modern jazz.
Presented by: RL/P
A performance devised around concepts of clarity, hyper awareness, and the sublime, At One Point. is something between a long hard look in the mirror and sudden realisation in the middle of the night.
Presented by: Lab Collective
It’s Not All Rocket Ships and Poetry is a playful, interactive piece about how we remember life changing events
Presented by: Odd Comic
My Champion Heartache is a performance inspired by people and their experiences of pet ownership.
Presented by: Atresbandes
The idea that we are all searching for our own ultimate paradise is explored through the meeting and interactions of three strangers on a train – they don’t realise that they will die in one hour.
Presented by: Tina Nanaki
A fantastical retelling of Tina Nanakini’s walk from her flat in London to her childhood home in Lincolnshire
Presented by: Thom Jordan
Combining the true stories of Thom's life growing up a minister's son with that of a Mega Pentecostal preacher caught up in a cancerous lie, this sermon-esque experience explores faith and truth
Presented by: Gur Arie Piepskovitz
In a world of sex, violence, fast cars, and horses, what would a unicorn do?
Presented by: Conrad Murray
Autobiographical one man show. Told though rapping, beatboxing and Shakespeare.
Presented by: In Bed With My Brother
Three ladies in their twenties tell the story of a former DJ in Manchester’s acid house scene, with music from the era. Lots of dancing, great music and great vibes - hyper, happy, reflective escapism.
Presented by: Matthew Robins
A cardboard science fiction puppet monster movie performed live in front of your eyes, a live music rock-opera with paper monsters and
Presented by: Two Destination Language
Declining solo will be an exploration of how we remain present in our relationships, with our loved ones, with those closest to us, with those who we most often somehow forget to really engage.
Presented by: Katharine Rose Williams Radojicic & Trevor A Toussaint
It is a show about seeing, and being seen. It is about similarities, not differences.
Presented by: ThisIsNotATest
A devised piece, based on the character of Masha in Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, exploring the relationship between identity and performance.
Presented by: Ding & sich
An intelligent, low key, off-beat meditation on bodies and desires, living and longing.
Presented by: Gameshow & Emily Lim
This is a show about growing up - what it’s like growing up, how it feels being a grown up, and what people who aren’t grown up yet want to know about being grown up.
Presented by: Various Artists
An explosion of performance from which new universes of theatre may one day emerge…
Presented by: Libby Liburd
MUVVAHOOD is a one woman, verbatim theatre piece, exploring the specific emotional and economic issues surrounding single motherhood.
Presented by: Karavan Ensemble
Award winning performer Yael Karavan Reimagines our perceptions of origins in a globalized, multicultural world.
Presented by: Laika Theatre
An exploration of the experiences of children in war and the playful curiosity they retain despite living in painful circumstances.
Presented by: Jack Kelly & Henry Maynard
A beautiful, disgusting bouffon-clown piece. Two mis-shapen freaks invite you to look into the hypocrisy of your modern life.
Presented by: Theatre Counterpoint
Don’t turn the lights on takes the audience on a journey through teenage years where movement and text are played like instruments in a musical composition. Actions deliver rhythms; images repeat; speech is dynamic.
Presented by: Sh!t Theatre
A new work-in-progress performance of the semiotics of Dolly Parton - how the signifier has overtaken the signified.
Presented by: I am not the Copacabana Theatre
The question of national identity, does is really matter-and how much of that is still within us, without even really realizing?
Presented by: Kaleido Film Collective in collaboration with Feral Foxy Ladies
A work-in-progress which explores the diverse experiences of depression and healing through a series of sensorial multi-media portraits, using first-hand documentary material, audio-visual storytelling and solo performance.
Presented by: Dan Hills
This is not an egg is a task based exploration surrounding the idea of choice, using live performance in a DIY aesthetic.
Presented by: Joanna Griffin
Joanna Griffin swap jobs with her dad, Pat, to see what it really means to walk in another (wo)man’s shoes.
Presented by: Strangeface
Dissonance is part puppet performance and part perception game; how and why do we share ideas together?
Presented by: Something Other
One-off performances of online writing. Ranging from the playful to the profound. Part curated, with spaces held open for new readers on the night.
Presented by: Various Artists
CPT's artistic development programme Starting Blocks presents a showcase of five new pieces of work, made over 10 weeks.
Presented by: Afreena Islam
A work-in-progress event taking place at Surma Community Centre. An exploration of a father's life; from his journey to this country to today.
Presented by: Oscar Silva
An artist having amnesia tries to re-create his memory together with the audience.
Presented by: Howl Yuan
Invisible Guest starts from a personal journey, tracing back to the origin of modern identity and self-contradiction with it.
Presented by: Put the Book Down
An immersive theatre experience; The Conversation Box forces us to engage with the different ways in which society communicates, such as sound, light, and imagery, in a uniquely interactive environment.
Presented by: Hannah Sullivan
Inspired by punk, protest and psychology, With Force and Noise attempts an honest articulation of anger through a personal and artistic monologue
Presented by: Isobel Rogers
The show uses the open mic format to play with the idea of using songs as self confessional personal stories.
Presented by: Orion Maxted
[THE MACHINE] is a proposition for thinking together. It is a laboratory for the creation of new modes of thinking together
Presented by: Ali Matthews & Leo Burtin
A raucous TED Talk-cum- DIY musical about our relationship with money, class, privilege and value.
Presented by: Various artists
A scratch night of new work, co-curated by CPT's associate artist Jamal Harewood
Presented by: Will Dickie
There's a DJ, a dance floor, a bouncer and good sound system, and we rave together!
Presented by: Undercurrent and CPT
An arresting new production based on the life of George Price (1922-1975), presented within yards from where Price lived, worked and died.
Presented by: Jamal Harewood
A solo participatory performance event exploring race, community and the identity of the working class citizen within today’s society.
Presented by: Thomas Martin and Pat Ashe
Beta Public Presents the newest work at the intersection of performance and play.
Presented by: Thomas Martin
Human Basic is the second story-show from Thomas Martin, creator of the award-winning Professional Supervision (or, how Johnny Knoxville's consciousness traveled from the future to live inside my teenage head).
Presented by: Change, Grow, Live
What happens when a group of strangers find themselves confined to the basement waiting room of a doctor’s surgery?
Presented by: Luca Rutherford
Written and performed by Luca Rutherford. Learning How To Die asks what scares us about dying, and how can we use that fear to drive our living actions.
Presented by: Ivo
A new play exploring the relationship between citizens and the state in light of our knowledge of contemporary surveillance practices.
Presented by: Daniel Bye
Written and performed by Daniel Bye. An urgent, fantastical story from the front line of an epidemic.
Presented by: Samuel French Events
Join Paul Clayton (Chairman of The Actors Centre, with over forty years' experience as an actor himself) in conversation, to discover the essential steps to building a successful career
Presented by: TheatreDeli Sheffield
A night showcasing brand new work by five theatre makers from Sheffield
Presented by: A Nation's Theatre
A chance for artists to meet venues from the Midlands and London
Presented by: Zoo Indigo
No Woman’s Land is a humorous and moving stagger through landscapes of past and present stories.
Presented by: Jack Britton
1.9 climbs bravely into the memories of a young man traversing the cityscapes of his hometown.
Presented by: A Nation's Theatre
Hosted by CPT associates Barrel Organ, this is an informal opportunity for artists to come together and play.
Presented by: Buzzcut
A day of events by wild and exceptional Scotland-based artists.
Presented by: Tin Can People
Somewhere between a live gig and theatre. Rock & Roll will never die and Tin Can People will be remembered.
Presented by: Battersea Arts Centre in partnership with Camden's People's Theatre
Join us to discuss the future of 'artist development' in an event that brings together early-career artists, producers and venues.
Presented by: Various
A monthly experimental comedy night which functions as a playground for exciting and innovative performers, writers, and filmmakers.
Presented by: Sh!t Theatre
What happens when women are given just one hour a day to think about what it is to be a woman?
Presented by: Vincent Gambini
This is Not a Magic Show is a performance of and about sleight-of-hand magic: its invisible mechanics, its clichés, and what it tells us about live theatre and make- believe.
Presented by: Fuel and Will Adamsdale
The Joke is a new play from comedy award winner Will Adamsdale - and company - exploring jokes and why we tell them, countries and why we need (and despair of) them, and life and why we bother. And tic tacs.
Presented by: Hannah Nicklin
Equations for a Moving Body is a new piece of theatre about endurance sport by Hannah Nicklin.
Presented by: Barrel Organ
Curated by Barrel Organ, a night of bold, experimental and uncompromising work that tackles a wide range of issues, agendas and ideas.
Presented by: The Hiccup Project
The show is a celebration of friendship; of love and lust in all their messy, confusing and hilarious forms.
Presented by: Nick Cassenbaum
Bubble Schmeisis is full of intimate and personal true stories about identity, home and getting schmeised (washed) by old men.
Presented by: Eggs Collective
Late Night Love is an investigation into how the combination of power ballads and intimate adult phone-ins impact our expectations of life and relationships.
Presented by: Rooted Moon Theatre and CapaTaro Theatre Company
Double billed evening from 2 new theatre companies performing two brand new shows.
Presented by: Various artists
A unique one-day festival exploring European identity.
Presented by: Various artists
A unique one-day festival exploring European identity.
Presented by: Various artists
Five days before the EU Referendum: a day of talks and inspiring theatre to help you make your mind up.
Presented by: RAaw London
A celebration of new writing performed by outstanding young talent.
Presented by: Camden Youth Theatre
A new performance created and performed by a group of teenagers from Camden.
Presented by: Sky Blue Theatre
With faith healing, miracle bacon and flying saucer holy communion; That Catholic Thing asks, what is the true price of religion?
Presented by: Chippy Lane Productions Ltd
Chippy Lane Productions was set up to champion Welsh work beyond Wales.
Presented by: Camden People's Theatre
A day of free workshops on marketing, technical theatre and funding to help you establish yourself as an artist.
Presented by: Samuel French events
In this talk designed for aspiring writers as well as actors, directors and other creatives, David will examine the art of storytelling and the power of words.
Presented by: Scott Turnbull
With felt-tip pens, and his ex-girlfriend's overhead projector, Scott Turnbull takes us on a journey through space and time.
Presented by: Documental Theatre
A fast, funny and absorbing two-hander drama inspired by candid conversations with teenage dads in Lambeth and Cornwall.
Presented by: Various artists
Three months on: a day of talks and performances to help you map the post-Brexit landscape.
Presented by: Various
Three months on: a day of talks and performances to help you map the post-Brexit landscape.
Presented by: Hobo Theatre
A live action role-play in which a group of up to 60 participants will undertake a symbolic exodus from London.
Presented by: Created a Monster
An unapologetic look at the masculinisation of women in power roles. A Bouffon piece with bite – not for the faint-hearted
Presented by: ThisIsNotATest
A devised piece, based on the character of Masha in Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, exploring the relationship between identity and performance.
Presented by: Elisabeth Carlile
A young woman attempting to create and care for a baby that you have just watched her mould from raw meat. A messy, provocative attempt at becoming a mother.
Presented by: Mummy's Sloppy Honey
An intimate immersive theatre installation/live art performance introducing the audience into the process of 4 women getting ready in a private flat.
Presented by: Snuff Box Theatre
Five stories exploring revenge pornography and how these can turn into acts of violence. A funny and complex look at the recent revenge pornography legislation.
Presented by: The Ruby Dolls
The Ruby Dolls have rewired the classic dark folktale Bluebeard for 2016. Through story-telling with original music and arrangements sung in four part harmony.
Presented by: Tight Theatre
Physical theatre exploring what it means to be a girl in today’s society. It’s not about cats.
Presented by: Knotworks
A colourful, collaged exploration of what it means to live in a gendered body. Why might we gender people, and what happens when you don’t fit?
Presented by: Lumo Company
A funny, one-woman rip off of Macbeth. One woman plays all the parts - its high on energy, low on iambic pentameter.
Presented by: Tom Ross-Williams & Oonagh Murphy
A performance about how toxic masculinity leads to violence and whether breaking down gender norms and the queer experience can offer a solution.
Presented by: CrossLine Theatre
A physical comedy, sex-ed, and real-life interviews with the porn-consuming public all rolled into one. A critical, open, and fun exploration of internet porn and its social impact.
Presented by: Imogen Butler-Cole
Told from a unique and challenging perspective, using a charged combination of verbatim and physical theatre, Foreign Body is a brave, liberating and life-affirming story.
Presented by: Testament
A show about privilege, with spoken word and beatboxing. Work in progress, come along and help us shape next stage.
Presented by: Various artists
A night of new works in progress exploring the themes of the festival
Presented by: Panel discussion
Theresa May. Nicola Sturgeon. Angela Eagle – not. Hillary Clinton – maybe. Come and discuss the relationship between women and power, in politics and beyond.
Presented by: Karen Hobbs
A one-woman show that spreads awareness for cervical cancer through performer Karen Hobbs' honest and hilarious story.
Presented by: Roland Smith
One man’s gentle descent into fatherhood, through the lens of an unrequited love affair.
Presented by: Rose Biggin & Keir Cooper
A theatrical performance of poledance & guitar about shame power and privilege. Witty, smart and sexy.
Presented by: Panel
What do men have to contribute to the feminist conversation? Come and discuss these and related questions with an ace panel of speakers.
Presented by: Caroline Smith
An experiential audio walk between the Feminist Library and Camden People’s Theatre exploring the precarious state of being in-between (the Bardo). With live interventions and readings.
Presented by: Eugénie Pastor
An intimate one-on-one performances exploring our relationship with public hair
Presented by: Moxie Brawl
A fun, loud and thoughtful attempt to rewrite the history of Ireland by remembering the Irish women who have been forgotten about.
Presented by: Various
A night of new works in progress exploring the themes of the festival
Presented by: Studio for Electronic Theatre
A staging of the original Russian dystopia, a satire, and a critique, 'WE' is high-tech 'poor theatre' that merges live visuals, movement, spoken text, and augmented reality
Presented by: Paula Varjack
A multimedia performance exploring how anyone can afford to be creative in these times of austerity
Presented by: Sh!t Theatre
Songs, politics, dodgy landlords and detective work: a multi award-winning company's show for Generation Rent.
Presented by: Jamal Gerald
Inspired by a black gay experience, this autobiographical piece focuses on the ups and downs of pride and self-loathing.
Presented by: Nasi Voutsas and Bertrand Lesca
Inspired by the ongoing crisis in Athens and all over Europe, your hosts for the evening summon up the spirits and ideas of their favourite revolutionary leaders.
Presented by: You Should See The Other Guy
An unconventional verbatim show telling the story of the political occupation of four empty council flats on Carpenters Estate.
Presented by: Walrus Theatre
Walrus’ critically acclaimed sell-out show returns to CPT as part of its UK tour.
Presented by: Afreena Islam
An exploration into Afreena's dad's life; from his journey to this country, to his journey to this day.
Presented by: Gameshow & Emily Lim, co-produced by CPT
Five children trying to understand the grown up world.
Presented by: Footprint Theatre
If someone you knew committed an unspeakable crime, did you ever really know them at all?
Presented by: Silent Faces
A show with a fierce political message and absolute ridiculousness and stupidity, in equal measure.
Presented by: Libby Liburd and Em-Lou Productions
A one-woman verbatim show, collated from interviews with single mums, talking about the different experiences of single motherhood in London in the “age of austerity”
Presented by: HighRise Theatre, co-produced by CPT
A Grime concept concert that brings the truth from ground level. Expect MP rap battles, tactics for revolution and a dealers guide to inflation.
Presented by: Thomas Martin and Pat Ashe
After five sellout dates at CPT, London’s only curated night of videogames and performance returns!
Presented by: 2Magpies
Last Resort is a show about enhanced interrogation techniques and the detention of terror suspects, disguised as an all-inclusive package holiday in a future Guantanamo Bay.
Presented by: Various artists
An explosive night of works in progress and short performances. Full line up announced soon.
Presented by: Alicia Jane Turner
A theatrical live music performance about mental and physical health performed by a solo violinist
Presented by: Various
Come join us in the CPT mosh-pit for a gig with a difference from some of your favourite theatre artists.
Presented by: Jack McNamara, Tim Parkinson and Angharad Davies
Artists at the forefront of musical experimentation offer their version of what theatre for the ear could be.
Presented by: Flowdan
A bona fide legend of grime and wider UK bass culture performs his lyrics as spoken word in an up-close and intimate setting.
Presented by: Vic Llewellyn & Kid Carpet
A joyously ramshackle theatre-gig celebrating Outsider artists, makers, builders and creators everywhere.
Presented by: Billy Bottle & The Multiple
A celebration of people-power in live music and video, telling a true story of democracy, trains and a pint of milk.
Presented by: Lauren Gauge
A truly original comedy, beatboxing and spoken word show about youth and rebelling against society. A homage to 90’s old school UK Garage. Theatre you can rave to.
Presented by: Moths
An extraordinary experiential musical happening that transports you into the beating heart of a mission to the moon.
Presented by: Boogaloo Stu
A musical about pubs: silly, smutty, poignant and dark.
Presented by: Ziad Nagy
Ziad Nagy uses movement, projection, and sound to tell personal stories.
Presented by: Rachel Mars
A gleeful rummage through our darkest urges. With singing.
Presented by: Rachel Mars
Sing It! Spirit of Envy! is a song piece about greed and envy, solo pursuits and communal contentment. Made anew with a pop-up choir of local singers wherever it travels, it puts two joyfully waggling fingers up to glib, economic politico-bull-speak.
Presented by: The Memory Band
Inspired by field recordings, traditional melodies, old public information films and an obsession with our haunted landscape, The Memory Band navigates its own unique path through sound, making old music from the future.
Presented by: Panel discussion
Join our panel of practitioners and experts, from both sides of the music/theatre divide, to discuss what’s happening on the front-line of gig-theatre.
Presented by: Various artists
An explosive night of new work exploring the themes of All The Right Notes festival
Presented by: Aisha Orazbayeva and Tim Etchells
Intense and spontaneous spoken word and violin improvisations.
Presented by: 274 Theatre Production
Contemporary verbatim mono drama, a one-woman show based on a play of a renown Russian docu-drama author
Presented by: Antosh Wojcik
Poems become beats become glitches in time in this poignant and mesmeric display of live drumming and spoken word
Presented by: Andy Blake & Friends
An underground man-about-town (& also one of the great polemicists and provocateurs of our time) in conversation about nightlife, subculture and much, much more besides
Presented by: Daniel Marcus Clark
Twisted spoken and sung storytelling with virtuoso guitar. Inventive, funny, touching and very unique.
Presented by: mingbeast
They want to be in a band. They talk to you, they sing, they dance, there’s joy and pain in high doses.
Presented by: Will Dickie
A Live Art DJ Set. A space for ravers old and new. Beyond Theatre. Beyond Dancefloor. Beyond The Beyond.
Presented by: Barrel Organ
A night of experimental and non-traditional work that acknowledges the presence of the audience and plays with the ‘liveness’ of theatre.
Presented by: Blooming Ludus
A participatory theatre game exploring where we source our energy from and how the choices we make about energy ultimately affects our relationship to our environment and each other.
Presented by: Kaleido Film Collective in collaboration with Feral Foxy Ladies
A multi-media performance which responds to six interviews with individuals dealing with depression to uncover the unique ways they cope: from diving and sex to song.
Presented by: Kieran Lucas
Play For A White Male is an attempt to ask how and why we tell stories and whom these stories belong to.
Presented by: Alex Fernandes
An introduction to technical theatre with Lighting Designer Alex Fernandes
Presented by: Sh!t Theatre
Back by popular demand for two nights only, the ORIGINAL and BEST Sing-a-long Muppet Christmas Carol.
Presented by: Humanish
An absurd and endearing portrait of Christmas, like The Royle Family meets Phoenix Nights, in miniature.
Presented by: CPT
An introduction to marketing with CPT's Executive Director, Amber Massie-Blomfield
Presented by: Sh!t Theatre
A work-in-progress of Sh!t Theatre's new show, about Dolly Parton.
Presented by: Powder Keg
Gig meets theatre in a boxing ring and nobody wins. A passionate look at how we respond to political events.
Presented by: YESYESNONO
Sam wants to tell you about five encounters he had on a site called Craigslist. Sam is anxious about the way he gets to know people. Sam wants this to be a chance for you to get to know him.
Presented by: Gameshow
Two men on stage. A woman’s voice telling you a story.
Presented by: Joe Bunce & Billy Taylor
A year in a teenage boy’s life, told through a patchwork of romcoms, snapchats and gangbangs.
Presented by: The Blank Slates – UCLU Comedy Club
The apocalypse has taken place. Comedy is strictly prohibited. London comedians have gathered in a secret underground location, where they plot a revolution to bring back comedy. Will they succeed?
Presented by: UCLU Jazz Society
Voodoo Jazz is a fusion of styles that combines funk, disco, jazz and latin grooves. Expect harmonic exploration, diverse instrumentation and wild improvisation
Presented by: Varjack & Simpson
A night for people of all relationship statuses, sexualities and genders to hear performers share stories of their worst ever dates, and get involved and share some of your own as well. This worst date ever could be your best date yet.
Presented by: Crowded Nest
A lo-fi DIY play that uses teens' own experience to translate what happens on 2-dimensional screens into a 3-dimensional production about social media right now
Presented by: Kate Copstick
Part of The Sick of the Fringe. A panel discussion for artists performing about themselves and their health, illness and disability.
Presented by: Daniel Baker - Social Material Cic
Part of The Sick of the Fringe. Artist, anthropologist and meditation teacher, Daniel Baker offers practical mindfulness techniques for self-care in the creative industries.
Presented by: Flabbergast Theatre
An epic filled performance from two incredibly life like puppets. Looking at life and death with humour and pathos.
Presented by: Vic Llewellyn & Kid Carpet
Part of The Sick of the Fringe. A journey into the hearts and souls that exist on the outer limits of creativity and building regulations
Presented by: Red Zone Theatre
"Who are we? Who can we trust? Are things really as they seem?"
Presented by: Brigitte Aphrodite/Boom Shakalaka Productions with Laura Keefe and Quiet Boy
Part of The Sick of the Fringe. A workshop exploring depression and mental health through music, discussion and spoken word.
Presented by: Mamoru Iriguchi
Part of The Sick of the Fringe. A playful exploration of the meaning of eating and being eaten.
Presented by: Lost Watch Theatre, Emma Frankland & Laura Dannequin
Part of the Sick of the Fringe. A panel of performances, talks and interventions exploring the reality of ‘performing change’ within artistic practice and our own ever-changing bodies.
Presented by: Greenwich & Lewisham Young People’s Theatre and Drunken Chorus
A double-bill of short solo performances around themes of mental health, from two emerging female artists.
Presented by: Elaine Miller
Part of The Sick of the Fringe. Elaine Miller explores the wonders of your pelvic floor and explains how to laugh - but not leak.
Presented by: The Conker Group
Part of The Sick of the Fringe. A shameless tale of love, laughter and lavatories exploring one woman's experience of inflammatory bowel disease.
Presented by: Le Gateau Chocolat
Part of The Sick of the Fringe. An intimate and confessional portrait of Nigerian singer Le Gateau Chocolat’s life.
Presented by: The Carbonators, Joy-Rides, Richard Rock n Roll & 2Decks
Part of The Sick of the Fringe. A gig of wild euphoric abandon, future rock n roll and accessible, integrated music for everyone.
Presented by: Various artists
Part of The Sick of the Fringe. Debate, discussion and discourse about some of today's most provocative health research.
Presented by: Drunken Chorus
Part of The Sick of the Fringe. A DIY guidebook for a teenage journey through the pitch black Yorkshire night.
Presented by: Steve Nice
Part of The Sick of the Fringe. Professional show off and nosocomephobe Steve Nice hosts a special sickness and health-themed edition of his notorious quiz show
Presented by: UCLU Musical Theatre Society
A deeply moving original musical following the lives of two couples in their final year of university.
Presented by: by Westking Music and Acting
A piece of interactive performance consisting silent film, audience interaction, music and improvisation.
Presented by: Running Dog Theatre
A heart-warming & fun exploration of social anxiety and physics
Presented by: Birkbeck University
A day-and-a-half long symposium investigating how practitioners in a range of settings work in pairs.
Presented by: Theodora van der Beek
The life story of an egg from its hatching to tragic demise at the hands of a frying pan
Presented by: Adam Foster and Susan Kempster
An often funny, often unsettling meditation on bullfighting, our collective disintegrating empathy and snails
Presented by: 104 internationale
A Double Bill of short performances by Lecoq-trained theatremakers. All monies from ticket sales donated to ‘Living Water Myanmar’.
Presented by: Houston
Part of Sprint 2017: Using live music and video projection, Houston presents a DIY Sci-FI that explores what’s important about our planet and what we’d miss if it were gone.
Presented by: Laura Kurlansky & Victoria Watson
Part of Sprint 2017: Inspired by video games and theories and the rise of artificial intelligence, this immersive performance explores the point at which humans and computers might overlap.
Presented by: Katrine Turner
Part of Sprint 2017: LATENT DREAMS is about the Apocalypse. About the rising sea waters, and the invisible plagues.
Presented by: Gameshow
Part of Sprint 2017: How much is spent each year on a cancer patient? How much on a prisoner? How much on your child’s clothes?
Presented by: Lauren Silver
Part of Sprint 2017: An interactive clown show that looks at how we can confront anxiety, overcome fear and find freedom.
Presented by: Scottee
Part of Sprint 2017: BRAVADO explores the graphic nature of maleness and the extent it will go to succeed.
Presented by: Smallest Majority
Part of Sprint 2017: The Oppression Games examines both the company’s and others personal struggles with sexuality in a world obsessed with labelling.
Presented by: Susanna Fournier & Ted Witzel
Part of Sprint 2017: A psycho-geographic performance-slash-installation about sex and loneliness in digital hookup culture
Presented by: Flickbook Theatre
Part of Sprint 2017: Casket Case is a show about our fear of death, dying and being dead.
Presented by: Shambles Theatre
Part of Sprint 2017: Love’s blind, beautiful and broken; but this isn’t a love story.
Presented by: Manic Chord Theatre
Part of Sprint 2017: In a realm of touch screens and social robots are we deprived of real, human contact?
Presented by: LaPelle's Factory
Part of Sprint 2017: An adaptation of an adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Black Cat'.
Presented by: Sisters of Eden
Part of Sprint 2017: An orgasmic celebration of the functions, beautiful variety and overdue ownership of the female body.
Presented by: Louisa Claughton
Part of Sprint 2017: A discovery of what gender means to us, where these perceptions come from and how they shape us.
Presented by: Edythe Woolley
Part of Sprint 2017: A mini historic romp through the female form grotesquely squeezed into cabinets and jars displayed for all who wish to see.
Presented by: Theatre, JK
Part of Sprint 2017: A riotous, comic and self-aware theatre where the audience decides which route the performance takes.
Presented by: Gobscure
Part of Sprint 2017: a witty exploration of the language of sanism, finding beauty beneath wounding words.
Presented by: Vijay Patel
Part of Sprint 2017: A live art/cabaret deconstruction and reconstruction of Indian corner shop culture.
Presented by: Various artists
Part of Sprint 2017: A showcase of the work created and developed by artists on our trailblazing Starting Blocks scheme
Presented by: notnow Collective
Part of Sprint 2017: A show about fatherhood, social expectations, traditions and masculinity in UK, created by two Croatian females. Funny, poignant and provoking.
Presented by: Roxanne Carney
Part of Sprint 2017: A fiery spoken word performance that’s honest and unapologetically feminist.
Presented by: Wonder Fools
Part of Sprint 2017: Using a blend of storytelling, poetry and scientific dissemination the show examines how pornography impacts on mental health, relationships, and sexual experiences.
Presented by: Performance Anxiety
Part of Sprint 2017: A mix of cringe worthy confessions, live games and surreal self-help mantras.
Presented by: Jamie Wood
Part of Sprint 2017: A homemade pilgrimage, a return to roots, slow motion time travel.
Presented by: Nathan Birkinshaw
Part of Sprint 2017: A funny look at how we struggle with death in the internet age and connection with real world.
Presented by: Various artists
Part of Sprint 2017: A Sprint special edition of our signature nights of brand new works in progress.
Presented by: Gameshow
Part of Sprint 2017: An informally-led walk from CPT to Hampstead Heath, seeing the city from the pigeons’ point of view.
Presented by: Ding & Sich
Part of Sprint 207: With a tabletop for a stage, for a limited audience, we will perform - and in performing attempt to reclaim - the language of flowers.
Presented by: Madi Maxwell-Libby
Part of Sprint 2017: Politics meets subversive aerobics routines in this physical-video-poetry-comedy show about life under capitalism, from the perspective of an award-winning office temp.
Presented by: Deanna Rodger and Gemma Rogers
Part of Sprint 2017: Blasting the past, prepare to rocket into a quest of questions, sing along banter and mystical meetings
Presented by: James Varney
A reading of the ghosts which fill our politics, our relationships and our board games. Tonight we will summon them, and see how many of these holes we can fit in a room.
Presented by: Becci Sharrock
An honest and humourous look at the advice we would give to past selves if we could.
Presented by: Catherine Duquette
A funny, brutally honest and personal show about fame.
Presented by: Haley McGee
A funny, irreverent and moving attempt to celebrate the place you’re from, that you’ve always been embarrassed by, but now wish you weren’t.
Presented by: The Mayers Ensemble
A unique two-part performance event, creating conversations around the stories we tell ourselves about race
Presented by: Rebecca Atkinson-Lord
An exploration of class mobility, social displacement, and how the 'Liberal Elite' and the 'Disenfranchised working class' aren't so far apart after all
Presented by: Theatre Counterpoint
An attempt to find out what’s left of us when we change our appearance through cosmetic surgery
Presented by: Jane English
20B charts Jane's search for the stories of her demolished estate and its lost community. Using archives, interviews & story-telling, Jane explores the far-reaching impact of regeneration.
Presented by: Jamal Harewood
Is it what you said, or how you said it? An audience led gameshow that sets out to explore words and their meanings.
Presented by: David Finnigan
A Die Hard-esque hostage thriller / action piece with a soundtrack of classic early 90s House and Techno.
Presented by: Katy Dye
An attempt to relate and re-examine what we base our national identity on by exploring patriotism and what we use flags for.
Presented by: Viki Browne
A surprisingly funny piece about loss, grief and trying to hold on to someone you love.
Presented by: Tom Adams & Lillian Henley
A fun, poignant piece of gig-theatre which wonders if what we say in our sleep holds any significance
Presented by: Showroom and Jenna Watt in association with Summerhall
A fascinating piece of documentary theatre about the Trident nuclear weapons system, performed by an artist whose family live and work on the base.
Presented by: Jules Orcullo and Robert Awosusi
A fun-filled look at what it’s like to live between cultures – East to West, Australia to the UK - through the eyes of a woman experiencing female sexual dysfunction
Presented by: MetaPlay
An intimate, outrageous, funny, audience-collaborative show exploring the perils of ‘amour de text’, female desire and trawling for sex
Presented by: Clamour Theatre
A contemporary satire on female sexuality and the attempts to control it.
Presented by: Jane Welsh & Kitty May
A political statement on sex in the UK with points illustrated with real stories from individuals
Presented by: Various artists
The first of three explosive nights of work-in-progress performances exploring the themes of the festival
Presented by: Various artists
The second of three explosive nights of work-in-progress performances exploring the themes of the festival
Presented by: YESYESNONO
Desperately hilarious and achingly bleak; one performer asks an audience to help him tell the story of five encounters.
Presented by: Rachel Mars and Folk
Before 140 characters, there were long, hand-written letters. And a lot of them were proper filthy.
Presented by: Pecs: The Drag King Collective
An audience participation show exploring the relationship between gender and sexuality
Presented by: Panel discussion
None of us would be here without it. Some of us are getting it. Most of us are thinking about it. But theatre often seems to pretend it doesn't exist...
Presented by: Ethan Mechare
Taking place in living rooms all over London your host Ethan Mechare welcomes you into this unknown world with true stories of sexual fantasy and intrigue.
Presented by: Tammy WhyNot
Tammy WhyNot and her special guests will be giving a performance to share Tammy’s exploration into ageing, desire, pleasure and intimacy.
Presented by: Milk Presents
Milk Presents drop a bull into a gender shop and hope it breaks everything. A wild work-in-progress about not taming the minotaur within.
Presented by: Wondering Hands Theatre
A journey into the weird and wonderful world of sex and relationships, inspired by real-life stories and told through innovative puppetry.
Presented by: Various artists
The final of three explosive nights of work-in-progress performances exploring the themes of the festival
Presented by: Lauren Aimee Burch
An exploration of consent and how we as a society talk about it (or don't...)
Presented by: Louise Orwin
This is a show about asking for what you want, and wondering how to ask for it. It’s also about fucking. And wondering how the fuck to make a show about fucking.
Presented by: Rebecca Atkinson-Lord and Greg Wohead
This is a show exploring and championing non-mainstream or not often publicly discussed views and experiences on sex and relationships.
Presented by: Helen Duff
A very frank exploration of all the expectations that get in the way of achieving real intimacy.
Presented by: Robert Hesp
An open look at ideas of sexual autonomy, identity and fragility and an attempt to rediscover the pleasure of skin and bone in a live space.
Presented by: Paul Haworth & David G. Lees
Before he moves back home to get hitched, David is throwing a sex party. And you’re all invited…
Presented by: Barrel Organ
A scratch night curated by Barrel Organ; presenting experimental and non-traditional work that specifically acknowledges the presence of the audience and plays with the ‘liveness’ of theatre.
Presented by: Lumo Company
A funny, one-woman rip off of Macbeth - high on energy, low on iambic pentameter.
Presented by: Slovak Theatre in London
The Academy for Women is the first place in the world where women get access to both, sex work and studies. What results can this peculiar programme produce?
Presented by: Plays Rough Theatre
New writing collective Plays Rough London present a collection of short new plays based on the theme ‘Man Versus Machine’.
Presented by: Theatre with Legs
An explanation of the nature of shared living, posing provocations on the housing crisis, love and loneliness.
Presented by: Oedipa & Lucia Lucas
An evening of song in transition; from masc to femme, classical to queer and oppression to freedom.
Presented by: Tom Marshman
A heartful and moving performances of stories of LGBTQ people living in Kings Cross in 1980s London
Presented by: Annie Siddons
Addiction, survival poverty and joy in the city: raw poetry, music and performance.
Presented by: Gracefool Collective
Outlandish, theatrical and highly entertaining, ‘This really is too much’ delves into a world of farcical stereotypes and preposterous power struggles.
Presented by: Mark Dean Quinn
A show about trust, ice creams and buckets. Directed by Sh!t Theatre's Rebecca Biscuit
Presented by: Sh!t Theatre
Oh look, Sh!t Theatre again, what is it this time? It's a show about Dolly Parton. We love her.
Presented by: Subika Anwar-Khan
An exploration of integration into the west from a South Asian female perspective whilst challenging perceptions of feminism
Presented by: Camden People's Theatre
A new in-house production with local young people, made in collaboration with the Lung Biology Group at King's College.
Presented by: The Student Workshop: Royal Holloway
An exciting new festival showcasing the best original productions being created by young, up and coming artists.
Presented by: The Centre for Performing Arts, University of Portsmouth
Actors and Singers Showcase of those graduating in 2017 from the BA (Hons) Drama and Performance and BA (Hons) Musical Theatre courses at the University of Portsmouth.
Presented by: The Centre for Performing Arts, University of Portsmouth
The Centre for Performing Arts is delighted to produce the Companies Showcase and introduce to the professional industry the varied and excellent theatre companies from the 2017 graduating class of BA (Hons) Drama and Performance and BA (Hons) Musical Theatre courses at the University of Portsmouth.
Presented by: Talawa Theatre
A series of workshops exploring experimental and contemporary theatre making techniques with some of the leading artists in the field.
Presented by: Atelier Théâtre GOOD MORNING
7 french speaking non professional actresses perform short scenes from French contemporary authors such as Jean-Paul Alègre and Jean-Michel Ribes.
Presented by: QQF
Having a moon for a head makes life difficult for Joey Moonhead. But the college talent show presents Joey with an opportunity to build a fantastic musical instrument and his self-confidence.
Presented by: Dear Hunter Theatre
The Iconoclasts, a new play by Ben Price with original music by Emily Compton. If the Iconoclasts are going down, they’re going down swinging! Music, magic, poetry, drag and comedy meet in an explosive night of would-be redemption for the Northern Irish celebrity family, but their chequered past just won't stop turning up uninvited.
Presented by: Action to the word
Welcome to Florence at the height of the Renaissance where greed and lust are amongst us: a new actor-musician adaptation of Middleton’s classic tragedy
Presented by: Frenetic Fox Theatre
Serenading you with original song & spoken word - join Paul as he explores tech-addiction and how far are we prepared to go to be fulfilled.
Presented by: Daniel P Cunningham & Mark J Hamilton
Imagine a club where the dancer is a hot priest. Come and enjoy the possibility of liberation through sweat, song and fake money
Presented by: Santina Sorrenti
G(END)ER SWAP intends to create a safe & non judgmental space for gender nonconforming individuals to access clothes aligning with their gender identity.
Presented by: Pecs: The Drag King Collective
Following the sold-out 'Pecs: Let’s Talk about Sex', the Drag King Collective bring you the second instalment of their workshop performance series
Presented by: House of Idiot
Dark and funny cabaret melodrama performed by a chorus of glamorous monsters. Silliness, dancing, laughter - and maybe a few thoughts thrown in too
Presented by: Various artists
The first of two explosive nights of work-in-progress performance exploring the themes of Come As You Are
Presented by: Bonnie and the Bonnettes
A three person, autobiographical show that combines drag performance with theatrical storytelling to mark the birth of a drag queen from Doncaster. It’s full of pop anthems, neon bobs, and glitter!
Presented by: Camilla Harding & Alexandra Sinclair
A Feminist drag theatre show exploring gender and identity that asks you to question just how and why guys and gals are put, painted and paired together.
Presented by: Milk Presents
A workshop run by Milk Presents: an introduction to positive gender inclusivity within arts organisations
Presented by: Ray Filar
A show about trans life, queer sex and radical left politics told through the medium of electro-punk songs and spoken word and dancing, and other kinds of storytelling.
Presented by: Hester Chillingworth
Shorty is a deconstructed drag child. The show is about inbetweenness in gender and the queerness of childhood. It’s light, dark, stupid and serious.
Presented by: Panel discussion
Our understanding of gender is evolving at sometimes dizzying pace. Join CPT and our panel of experts to discuss where it’s all leading.
Presented by: Mamoru Iriguchi
An interactive cabaret lecture that explores fluidity of sexual and gender identities in nature, including human society.
Presented by: various artists
The second of two explosive nights of work-in-progress exploring the themes of Come As You Are
Presented by: Pablo Pakula
What hides beneath the monolithic notion of ‘masculinity’? What is it (or should it feel like) to be a man? Pablo is still trying to figure it out
Presented by: Jo Hauge
Britney.... is a riot grrl tribute show about being aggressively sad and queer, and the journey from "I'm not like other girls, girls are stupid" to "I'm not actually a girl, but girl stuff is the bomb dot com”
Presented by: LGBTQ Arts Review
A platform for the lesser heard LGBTQ+ voices on stage from the LGBTQ Arts Review. Fun, immersive and interactive
Presented by: Ellie Stamp
Currently Untitled is an early scratch exploration into the gendered codes of emotional and physical strength and vulnerability
Presented by: Whatsthat Performance
A collage of performed self-portraits, devised and presented by a cast of trans and non-binary performers. Sometimes humorous, deeply touching and always personal
Presented by: Milk Presents
Commissioned by CPT. A lyrical new play exploring trans and non-binary identity through the lens of greek mythology. Cheeky, raucous and irreverent.
Presented by: Orley Quick and the Hairy Heroines
Welcome to the world of the Hairy Heroines. Subtle, conflicted, playful and provocative games, both familiar and reinvented, underpin and undermine expressions of gender through dance and theatre.
Presented by: Gemma Weekes
A desperate woman attempts to resurrect the spirit of long-dead artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, whilst raging at the forces that killed him.
Presented by: Luisa Amorim and Graça Kotseva
On stage a mother and a daughter prepare their home to receive guests: a portrait of a London working family, and the mutations of their city
Presented by: Sh!t Theatre
Oh look, Sh!t Theatre again, what is it this time? It's a show about Dolly Parton. They f*cking love her.
Presented by: Beside Ourselves Collective
Modern female sexuality and Christianity: are they as uncomfortable bedfellows as they appear to be?
Presented by: Neon Peach Theatre
Jim likes his routine. Going to work, visiting the church and giving blood sacrifices to the Reptilian overlords. A dark and surreal story inspired by 1950s sci fi movies.........Welcome to Little Eden.
Presented by: Nouveau Riche
Strong passionate women fight oppression in a racist and sexist society in this new show about 'misogynoir'
Presented by: The Lab Collective
A pacy, exciting and sometimes uncomfortable opportunity to challenge the status quo of our current immigration system.
Presented by: Jess Brodie & Victoria Bianchi
A story of two women who have chosen completely opposite paths in their lives and wonder whether it’s the other one who actually got it right.
Presented by: Barrel Organ
A road-trip. A haunted-house. A bedtime story. A photo-album. An ‘80s fantasy film. A demolition project. A riot.
Presented by: Pip Hambly
A live analogue recorded online video blog digital radio broadcast dance theatre show. About who we are, why we’re here, and the accident of evolution. And the meaning of life
Presented by: Laura Ryder and Company
There’s a hum at a party. Glitter in the air. Invite in hand, don’t forget why you’re here. It’s about movement, love and care. Take a journey into the world of these black and yellow pollinators.
Presented by: Timberlina
A glittering, musical, story filled romp of spectacularly unconventional, bearded, alt-drag proportions about reaching peak-worry and overcoming eco-anxiety.
Presented by: Louise White
The story of a girl who’s dreams are not what she expected. A journey to the deep and a glimpse into the future of the oceans – but is it good or bad?
Presented by: Cloud Dance Festival
Work in the arts and have topics you’d like to discuss or share with others? Then come along to our new monthly open space event which is open to all: raise issues, ask questions, offer advice, share skills, ask for feedback and network with other industry professionals.
Presented by: Running Dog Theatre
A new music theatre show about going home, climate change, and hope in the face of helplessness.
Presented by: Panel discussion
Join our panel as we discuss the challenges posed by London air pollution as part of Shoot The Breeze festival.
Presented by: Camden People's Theatre
Join us for a guided tour of The Euston Passage: a route mapped out by scientists as a way to avoid the worst of the pollution along The Euston Road.
Presented by: Camden People's Theatre
A collaboration with young Londoners and the Lung Biology Group at King’s College to explore air pollution, its consequences – and what we might do about it.
Presented by: Urban Foxes Collective
A discussion of two women's attitudes towards the ethics of reproduction in an overpopulated world.
Presented by: Matt Abbott Poet
On 23 June 2016, Abbott’s native city voted 66% in favour of Brexit. Either side of the referendum, he volunteered at the Calais Jungle. Exploring the working-class Leave vote, whilst exposing the reality of the refugee crisis, Abbott uses poetic flair and observational storytelling in this vital spoken word show.
Presented by: Thomas Martin and Pat Ashe
After six sellout dates at CPT, London’s only curated night of videogames and performance returns!
Presented by: Tribe Arts
What do you do when the people who should love and protect you, take advantage and abuse your freedoms?
Presented by: Chanje Kunda
A playful journey of discovery: about science, sensuality & spirituality and how our bodies mirror the universe through the constellations of particles twinkling within us.
Presented by: SUPERFAN
An intensely physical, funny, and tender duet by two men who wrestle with their relationship to violence - both onscreen and off
Presented by: SBC Theatre
A dramatic exploration of immigration detention centres from a former Yarl’s Wood detainee
Presented by: The Hiccup Project
Honest, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, this show asks what we do when things aren’t okay.
Presented by: Alissa AJY Cooper
A one-woman show exploring the coming-of-age journey of a slightly obsessive romantic with psychological tendencies
Presented by: Double Trouble
A journey through displacement and its consequences, using song, live and recorded music, physical theatre, film, and mischief
Presented by: Silent Faces
It makes sense to take an umbrella out when it’s raining, but mental health is much harder to understand than the weather.
Presented by: Jamal Gerald
An interactive performance focusing on the way we talk about racial and gender inequality
Presented by: Luca Rutherford
Luca’s confused, overwhelmed and feels stupid about politics. So, she’s throwing a party. A political party.
Presented by: Various artists
Our signature night of scratch performances returns for two eclectic events as part of The Shape of Things to Come festival.
Presented by: Barrel Organ
A scratch night taking for experimental and non-traditional work that plays with the ‘liveness’ of theatre.
Presented by: Breach
An investigation into rehearsals for the future – through safety drills and emergency response training.
Presented by: The End and the Beginning Theatre
A creative project by London-based theatre-makers from Finland and Colombia exploring explores the limits of language in cross-cultural human communication
Presented by: Miranda Prag
A show about identity, authenticity and the murky area between the two
Presented by: Sean Burn
A fun and accessible workshop during which you will think about language and create a DIY magazine
Presented by: Grace Lambert
An online therapy bot promises rapid recovery from a breakup in 5 days
Presented by: gobscure
A high-octane monologue about multiple possibilities for survival, exploring the reclamation of the derogatory term 'joey'
Presented by: Haley McGee
A hilarious and daring show about the cost of love… or what love costs us.
Presented by: Ruby Lawrence
A performance piece shedding light on the male commentary that accompanies sexual intimacy and relationships, and playfully celebrating womanhood.
Presented by: ThisEgg
Flog explores communication and language and whether our progression in technology is really a regression as a species.
Presented by: Twiceful Mind
Through an immersive audio-sensory experience, which will combine digital, installation art and live music, the duo Twiceful Mind will create a unique live interpretation of their first release, ‘Inertia’, in collaboration with artist Black Lune.
Presented by: The Fun Club
A fun show about three people f*cking up. Expect dancing/squabbling/comedy/games… and failure. Mostly failure
Presented by: Adam Welsh
A comparison between an unknown living man and a famous missing child.
Presented by: Kopfkino
As the public facade of a perfect couple shatters, The Bearpit interrogates what we tell ourselves to be true versus the reality raging beneath
Presented by: East15
Sketches sketched, Stunts executed, songs sung, taboos shattered.
Presented by: Keisha Thompson
A journey through space and time, fuelled by love, fear and Afro-futurism.
Presented by: Emma Berentsen & Tiffany Murphy
Would you want to meet your rapist seven years after the attack? An intimate performance about the fear of dying, losing dignity and reclaiming power by facing your biggest fear.
Presented by: Paul O'Donnell
A sideways look at the pomp and circumstance of modern jukebox musicals, asking whether the art of imagination is being lost to machinery and extravagance.
Presented by: Unfinished Productions
Acclaimed show exploring the extraordinary life and work of forgotten black composer, Julius Eastman.
Presented by: Embolon Theatre
A trio of pilot performances testing new interactive games. If you can beat us, join us.
Presented by: Adam Z. Robinson in association with LittleMighty
Three chilling tales. Two ghostly performers. One thrilling night.
Presented by: Sh!t Theatre
Back by popular demand for a mini tour! A 2014, 2015 AND 2016 CPT Christmas sellout!
Presented by: Various Artists
The first of three explosive nights of work-in-progress exploring the themes of Calm Down Dear 2018
Presented by: A&E Comedy
Enter The Dragons is a funny, frank and fearless show about the pressures facing women as they age.
Presented by: Daughter Product
Acclaimed Canadian performance in which three women unravel their girlhoods, idols and ideals
Presented by: Hannah Ballou
Dr. Hannah Ballou will diagnose and treat your feminist complaints via her mashup of stand up and live art.
Presented by: Various Artists
The second of three explosive nights of work-in-progress exploring the themes of Calm Down Dear 2018
Presented by: Vanessa Macaulay
Taking twerking, music videos & make-up tutorials to the point of the absurd. Enticement Machine pulls apart the image of the black female body in pop culture.
Presented by: Fen
Combining found text, art animation, dance and an original vapourware soundtrack, PSYCHOPOMP is the typical heroic sci-fi quest, cut up and redistributed with a female protagonist.
Presented by: Claudia Jefferies
A one-woman show about misogyny set in a 1980s Working Men’s Club with bastardised karaoke numbers and bad jokes.
Presented by: Various artists
A panel of artists and commentators discuss how much impact is intersectional thought really having, and what work is still to be done?
Presented by: Caroline Horton & China Plate
With comedy, live music, dancing and desperation, All of Me is a one-woman show that considers what it means to be alive, whilst the Showgirl contemplates wanting to end it all.
Presented by: Libby Liburd
A show about women in temporary accommodation - their experiences and the effect it’s had on them - the human cost of the housing crisis.
Presented by: China Fish
China Blue Fish & Deborah Antoinette blend music, comedy, drag, dance, buffon and the grotesque - Queen C*nt sees all power to the feminine, the wrathful, the sensual!
Presented by: various artists
The third of three explosive nights of work-in-progress exploring the themes of Calm Down Dear 2018
Presented by: MEGANDALEX
This cabaret performance-come-intimate theatre piece explores youth, class, family, sexuality, and the importance of friendship amongst the shit-storm that is all those things.
Presented by: Supporting Theatre Artists and Makers of Performance (STAMP) Network
A large-scale event for up to 400 artists to come and meet London venues and organisations and gain an understanding of how they work to support artists and produce new work.
Presented by: Racheal Ofori
Exploring cultural and generational shifts in how women see themselves and each other, this sassy and soulful new show asks what happens when we realise mums don't always know best.
Presented by: Vanessa Kisuule
A playful look at our conflicted relationship with our bodies and sexiness, exploring our obsession with what is sexy through comedy, spoken word, dance and various states of undress.
Presented by: RedCape Theatre
Thunder Road is about the power of the Heimlich manoeuvre, adventure and escape, the call of the open road, and the kind of friendship you'd take a bullet for
Presented by: Alissa Anne Jeun Yi
A hilarious and heartbreaking coming-of-age story that interweaves killer tunes, dance and rap with the autobiographical poems of a hopeless romantic. A one-woman-show (about many men) that aims to educate and empower us all beyond the bedroom.
Presented by: UCL Musical Theatre Society
Ordinary Days follows the stories of four people in New York and how their lives intersect as they seek fulfillment, happiness, love, and a ‘Big Picture’.
Presented by: UCL’s Francophone Company
Throughout the course of an evening, eight friends revel in the sweet pleasure of gossip. Unable to refrain themselves, their conversation reaches a comical paroxysm of absurdness, leading us to question our relationship to others.
Presented by: The Blank Slates
An improvisational theatre production paying homage to the heist movie genre.
Presented by: Westminster Kingsway L2 Acting, Music and Creative Media Students
An evening of short Silent Movies brought to you by the excellent Music and Acting students at Westminster Kingsway College.
Presented by: Thunderstruck Productions
The untold story of working class genius, obsession and heavy metal bagpipes.
Presented by: RED Company
The Sea is a new play about loneliness and isolation in London. Exploring themes of communication and human connection in the urban, digital city.
Presented by: Various Artists
Our first of TWO explosive nights of work-in-progress exploring the themes of Sprint 2018
Presented by: Kit Finnie
A solo performance inflected with historical violence exploring Kit Finnie's obsession with movie star Mabel Normand, and asking: what’s at stake when we try to inhabit a voice that can never be ours?
Presented by: Holly Gallagher
A one-woman show about comic conventions and Cosplay, consent and growing up on the internet
Presented by: Feat.Theatre
Imagine a world where inviting strangers for cups of tea is no longer a radical act. One woman goes on a mission to make this a reality. This show is about hot drinks, kindness being cool and how to start a revolution. Come and join us?
Presented by: Dirty Rascals
Three contestants battle it out for the title of “Most Admirable Person”. Their friends and families certainly think they’re admirable. The real question is, DO YOU?
Presented by: Jo Hauge
In 2007 Jo experienced an episode of mental illness and shaved their head. A week later, Britney followed suit, ruining Jo’s queer punk cred.
Presented by: Yoli Seker & Zlil-hen Saks
Extremely personal and utterly universal physical theatre and verbatim tour of the land called 'coupledom'
Presented by: Novasound and Belle Jones
Spoken word and music weave together in this genre-defying collaboration, telling the stories of several residents of a troubled and divided urban neighbourhood
Presented by: Camilla Borges
When was the last time you hugged someone? How did it make you feel? Did they give you their full attention? Most people don’t give good hugs. I am here to show you how. This will change your life. Trust me, I’m a hugger
Presented by: Emma Attwood & Nick Finegan
Theatre and virtual reality merge in an exploration of loneliness, longing and humankind’s ever more intimate relationship with the digital realm
Presented by: Zoo Indigo
Zoo Indigo and musician Matt Marks re-create and deconstruct your cinema memories in a flurry of foley, wigs, and camera trickery
Presented by: Rhys Slade-Jones
In Treherbert rugby club, amongst the fag smoke and the singing, Rhys’s parents fell in love. This heartfelt re-enactment of 1970s South Wales is a show about dancing to Donna Summer and what you can learn from reading your Mam’s diary
Presented by: Various Artists
The second Sprint special edition of CPT's regular night of brand new works-in-progress
Presented by: The Backpack Ensemble
When Charlie finds her father’s old birdwatching book, she sets out to find one last bird to complete it for him, and for their relationship.... A story full of music, shadows and a feathered giant
Presented by: Angela Yeoh
Like money? You'll love this show. Self-professed business guru Manyi visits from China to share top insights for a prosperous and powerful life
Presented by: Hugo Aguirre and Lizzie Manwaring
Exactly what the title promises, this piece follows the bizarre journey of a woman who in five months will be having a kid
Presented by: The Davis Brothers
Two brothers embark on a camping trip into the heart of Dartmoor, in a story about brotherhood, humanity and journey into the unknown
Presented by: Katherine McMahon
A sometimes moving, sometimes funny, always honest exploration of the complicated business of being in a body
Presented by: This Is It Theatre
Part autobiographical, part verbatim, For a Black Girl explores female sexuality, violence and the staggering effect of everyday racism
Presented by: We Are KILTER
In the dusty aftermath of Brexit, Grenfell and the refugee crisis, three derelict clowns unpick their futile attempts to make an impact on the world
Presented by: Various Artists
A showcase of the brand new work created and developed by artists on our trailblazing Starting Blocks scheme
Presented by: Willy Hudson
Are you a top or a bottom? Funny, awkward and with a big heart, Willy navigates the technicalities of finding love in 2017 and yanks open the queer experience
Presented by: Me Me Me
With only tin-foil props, existential dread and their sweet-ish dance moves, Me Me Me create an anarchic space adventure, drifting in the expanse between theatre and comedy
Presented by: Camden Youth Theatre
Camden Youth Theatre take you on a sonic journey through the world inside their head phones.
Presented by: Big Mammal
With sound, speech and sharks, The Seawolves chomps at questions of identity & belonging, diving deep to explore the wonders of the world’s most misunderstood family
Presented by: Lewys Holt
Playful new dance-theatre piece exploring non-linearity and what happens when two side of the same coin collide
Presented by: Paper Whale Theatre
If David Attenborough and Edward Lear went on a pub-crawl and at the end of the night devised a physical theatre show, this would probably be it. Stupid Zoo is a non-verbal, absurd physical comedy and lo-fi DIY puppetry show, made by two idiots with too much cardboard.
Presented by: Rosa Postlethwaite
An examination of the role of the master of ceremonies, exploring apologetic addresses, revved-up entrepreneurial spiel and whether or not you’re asking for it
Presented by: Uncanny Theatre
It’s time to make the most controversial show ever - can Uncanny Theatre tweet to their way to fame by the end of the show?
Presented by: Eden Harbud
The emotional and tragic tale of an exponentially unfortunate fox. But don’t be fooled by the cuddly toys. If you thought this was going to be a children’s show… you thought wrong.
Presented by: Juan Ayala / Decollage
Funny, disconcerting and beautiful promenade performance using the city ‘as it is’ to overlay a narrative onto incidental events, people and existing architecture
Presented by: Meraki Collective
Armed with wigs and wit, Meraki Collective’s bright and playful dance-theatre show takes on the rules around social étiquette
Presented by: Chris White
Combining comedy, poetry and songs, Sunked is a spoken-word show about salvage, salvation and Celine Dion
Presented by: Inkwell Productions, in association with The Aurelia Project
Inkwell Productions present a new version of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, a haunting, tragi-comic portrayal of boredom, impossible loves and wasted potential set against the backdrop of late-70s Russia.
Presented by: The UnDisposables
A celebration of new writing, new opportunities and new beginnings. Each piece of writing unveils a taster of life before transporting you to another time, another place, another story.
Presented by: Theodora van der Beek
Follow The Bearded Lady as she discovers the resolve to defy the inanity of a world that asks people to hide or change who they are.
Presented by: Flabbergast Theatre
Except hilarity and stupidity as clowns, puppets and mask performers unravel one of Shakespeare’s most enigmatic and evasive roles
Presented by: Karen McLeod
A thought-provoking and at times unsettling comedy poetry show featuring the self-proclaimed Poet of the South London people Barbara Brownskirt.
Presented by: Claire Gaydon
A brand-new solo show examining ideas of meaning and purpose through our obsession with social media
Presented by: Yanthe Louïs
Six rules. Ladybugs. A lift. Moving feet. A one-woman show about restrictions and awkward situations, self-discovery and making and breaking rules.
Presented by: Black Girl / White Girl
a ★★★★★ exploration of race, gender, sexuality, family and what it means to love someone who doesn't look like you.
Presented by: YESYESNONO
Desperately hilarious and achingly bleak, 5 Encounters... is an award-winning intricate and tender question mark around our attempts to encounter each other in this technologized world.
Presented by: Please Hold Project
PLEASE HOLD are a theatre collective who use spoken word, songs and movement to explore experiences of violence at the hands of the British state and how, together, we can survive them.
Presented by: Libby Liburd
TEMPORARY explores the social and political reasons for the surge in households in temporary accommodation and the emotional effects for women and children in temporary accommodation.
Presented by: COMMON
An open discussion for artists who identify as working-class to discuss the barriers to career progression they face in theatre, and contribute to support services being created to help artists overcome them.
Presented by: Rebecca W Morris, of the Rebel Choir
A workshop to create songs of class and identity. Open to all, regardless of ability.
Presented by: Jackie Hagan
A new show featuring the real voices of proper skint disabled people about the complicated weirdness of being human. Expect puppetry, poetic comedy and one underclass amputee steering the show.
Presented by: Rebecca Atkinson-Lord
This is a show about belonging. About tribes and families. About the places you change yourself to try and belong in.
Presented by: Various Artists
An explosive nights of work-in-progress exploring the themes of Common People.
Presented by: Various speakers
Join a panel of experts as they discuss the persistence – or resurgence – of class inequality in the arts, asks what can be done about it, and proposes some radical solutions.
Presented by: Holly Beasley-Garrigan
An unreliable solo show about the fetishisation of the feral female - about working class women and the trouble with 90’s nostalgia
Presented by: Beats & Elements
A new show that explores why we need safe clean homes for all, told through beats and songs, using living looping and beatboxing
Presented by: Catherine Hoffmann
Hoffmann's acclaimed rallying cry for times of brutal cuts and disparity - a solo account of shame and poverty from a personal perspective - returns to CPT
Presented by: Scottee
Joined by working class artists, thinkers and fakers Scottee & guests explore what it means to grow up on a council estate and who creates the definitions of working class identity
Presented by: Kelly Green
Part lecture, come 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.
Presented by: Pat Ashe and Thomas Martin
Explore the intersection between performance and play at this friendly, accessible evening of experiments.
Presented by: Flip The Bird Theatre
Over the course of an unusual evening, two women stumble into an unfiltered interrogation of what it means to be a contemporary woman.
Presented by: Hannah Maxwell
Utilising queer theory, degree-level practice-based research and a showstopper of a smile, I, AmDram minds the gap between the identities we assert and the worlds we leave; all through the musty vibrancy of amateur dramatics.
Presented by: Ray Filar
A tale of gender fluidity told in electro-punk form. Expect songs, spoken word, strip-tease, and possibly some surprise guests.
Presented by: Testament in association with LittleMighty
Expect beatboxing, spoken word, storytelling and hiphop classics as the twin juggernauts of feminism and hiphop collide.
Presented by: Matt Miller and Peader Kirk
Writer, performer and cross-dresser Matt Miller attempts to escape the rules of what we can or cannot be but encounters new sets of rules in the search for self-definition.
Presented by: Urielle Klein Mekongo & China Plate
Based a true story, Yvette is a one-woman show with original music about a stolen childhood and growing up with a secret.
Presented by: pink suits
A brand-new performance from poli-rock duo pink suits exploring fantasy, sexuality and gender identity.
Presented by: Rachael Young
Rachael and her badass band of super-humans embrace Afrofuturism and the cult of Grace Jones in this explosive new performance, in which live music and intergalactic visions kick-start a revolution
Presented by: YESYESNONO
With live music and video artistry, award-winning company YESYESNONO present [insert slogan here]: a fevered excavation of adverts, objects and memory.
Presented by: Olly Hawes
Masculinity, capitalism, fiction and reality all blur in this genre bending performance that is funny, unsettling, and always on the cusp of anarchy.
Presented by: Be Aware Productions
Through song and shamelessly dark humour an all female band tells the stories that you haven’t heard. Warning: the naked truth in this gritty performance may be disturbing. Do you dare?
Presented by: Setesdal Collective
A millennial anthem, a confused love song to a ‘lost generation’ that does everything and nothing all at once, exploring icons, celebrity and how we try to find our place amongst them
Presented by: Sylvia Arthur
Interweaving music, video, and images with spoken word, Obama & Me takes on the big issues of Brexit, Trump, US and EU race relations.
Presented by: Hushed Nation
Any Change aims to explore, challenge and expose the assumptions and truths surrounding homelessness using docu-theatre puppetry and live foley to bring their stories to life.
Presented by: Flight of the Escales
Stuck between highly taxed tampons and badly lit mirrors, three characters are trapped in a patriarchal purgatory, desperately looking for a way out. Will they find one?
Presented by: You Should See The Other Guy
Created by an all-female company of mothers, people at risk of homelessness and housing activists from Focus E15 Campaign, this vibrant ensemble show uses verbatim, song, civil disobedience and sock puppets to celebrate the power of resistance.
Presented by: Miranda Prag
This is a show about identity, authenticity and the murky area between the two. An intimate, awkward and hilariously ironic portrait of the people we try to be when we don’t feel like ourselves.
Presented by: CrossLine Theatre
Friday Night Love Poem tells the stories of three different women and their journeys to finding sexual empowerment while exploring the consequences of living in a society that is both hypersexual and fetishizes virginity.
Presented by: MALAPROP Theatre
You meet someone online. All you know is their name and that they seem to like you as much as you like them. In fact, you think you love each other. But do you? Can you? And what is love, anyway?
Presented by: MALAPROP Theatre
LOVE+ is a one-woman two-hander about the inevitability of human/robot relationships.
Presented by: Itch Collective
SKINNED:LIVE breaks out with rainbow-splattered latex pools, high tech haptic suits and a night of blood and burlesque in a live art take on looking beneath the surface.
Presented by: Itch Collective
Night two of SKINNED:LIVE erupts into sound with spoken word, slam poetry and spandex symphonies; in a battle cry against fixed identities and impossible ideals.
Presented by: by Itch Collective
SKINNED:LIVE draws to a close with bionic bounds into the world of post-humanism and second skins. Examine the evolution of aging, jump into projected robotics and uncover glass-shattering new tricks.
Presented by: Various Artists
An explosive nights of work-in-progress exploring the themes of All is True.
Presented by: Tom Cassani
Tom Cassani exposes the techniques of deception, and teaches how to spot it in action: watch everyday action turn into the impossible.
Presented by: Paper People Theatre
Using a language mixed of visual art, words and movement, Paper People Theatre present to you their world full of chalk and the conflict this brings between it’s performers.
Presented by: People Show
An anonymous man and woman are trying to pin down the facts. Any facts. But hurried along by a relentless modern world, stricken by disasters, how do we know what’s true?
Presented by: Wonky Table
What if Sleeping Beauty never wanted to be a princess? What if she didn’t dream of being kissed by a prince? A playful retelling for ages 5-105.
Presented by: A Slice of Lemon
‘If you forever judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life thinking that its stupid’ – Albert Einstein
Presented by: FLOP
A blustering storm sends four neighbours in front of a lens. Is this the potential near future for all humanity? Julian hopes that this brave documentary of turbulent times will make them all famous one day.
Presented by: Various artists
An explosive night of brand new work, featuring the latest recipients of our BAME Seed Commissions
Presented by: New Perspectives
New multimedia performance combining John Berger's words, Jean Mohr's images, archive film and contemporary reportage, taking the pulse of the NHS in its 70th anniversary year
Presented by: She Goat
Experimental live music and Baroque-pop mash-ups, gender-twisting visuals and gothic storytelling: this new theatre gig is an exploration of ‘the Doppelgänger’, devised and performed by a pair of real life doppelgängers.