Upcoming Shows
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: 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.
Tickets £5
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: Citizens Band Radio
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 family's 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
A duet delving 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 toss 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 everyday 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 proselytize, 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 from the creators of Queens of Sheba to develop a next generation of theatre practitioners, collaborating to create exciting brand new work - culminating in the 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 hiphop-theatre show exposing young people's fears. Where will they live? Or is the system f****d and a home just a modern-day pipe dream?
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 £8/£5 (conc.) Free for U19s
Presented by: Sean Mahoney
Told through spoken word and within timed boxing rounds, a story about amateur boxing and a relationship between father and son: the smash-hit solo debut from Camden spoken word performer Sean Mahoney
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
Return of the acclaimed docu-theatre show uncovering the hidden histories of LGBTQ communities in London during the 1980s through shared memories of the Kings Cross area
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: The Basement Bunch
A striking new play about womanhood, deception and finding your place in a society that has already placed you.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Sarah Sigal, Fluff Productions and The Machine
Manipulation, fake news, gaslighting, control: this new work-in-progress deconstructs Hitchcock’s 'The Lady Vanishes' to find out what happens when women’s stories aren’t believed
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Katie Villa and Laura Mugridge
WILD is a bold new piece of theatre about how we might be using the wrong language when we talk about birth. Part riot, part disco, part rite of passage, expect comedy, music, loudness, bold talking and glitter.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Sian Clarke
Sian Clarke is a difficult woman, who needs to learn to take a joke and smile more. It’s a shame. She could have been such a good girl.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: NOVA
Shirley keeps this place alive. Darts, Karaoke, the worst slam poetry you’ve ever heard and ALL the moves. Shirley tells it how it is, so why is she still hiding a tampon up her sleeve…?
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Klein Blue
Meet Girl & Gorilla, handcuffed in a world of patriarchal gaze. Girl is shaved, Gorilla hairy. This is one unsolvable problem. ATFG interrogates female hairiness with “clown-like playfulness & infectious energy”.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Crossline Theatre
Friday Night Love Poem tells the coming-of-age stories of three young women as they wade through myths and misinformation to find their own way of being sexually empowered.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Paula Varjack, Luca Rutherford, Catriona James and Maddy Costa
A devised research based performance by three female performers exploring the power and inevitability of “the baby question” on women.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: FRISKY
In a playful coming-of-age comedy, Tilly and Inga live in a bedroom-sized female utopia where girls run wild. Expect laugher and love songs as two friends learn to leave their Girl World behind.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Emily Howarth
A one woman musical comedy shit-storm about getting your heart smashed into a million tiny pieces and the songs that make you feel less alone with your crazy break-up thoughts.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: SH!TS!CK
SH!TS!CK is a D.I.Y punk group responding to the political climate by writing original songs, with kids on their lap, Nan’s out the back - get us a snack!
Tickets £5
Presented by: Cheap Thrills
An entertaining show about the way pop culture and the media (mis)shape female friendship. Featuring pillow fights, lip syncing, silly dancing.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Lilly Burton
“I was 19 when I had an abortion. Looking back, I think it was a self-destructive attempt to make someone love me more. It didn’t work. The prick!”
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Clara Potter-Sweet
Joan of Arc didn’t die at the stake – she was killed by categorisation. A devised show about making myths, kaleidoscopic images, and the fear of the undefinable woman.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Snapper Theatre
Inspired by pornography, Disney princesses, Hollywood stereotypes and the Leeds club scene, Hear Me Out explores concepts of womanhood from the broadly political to the deeply personal.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Femme Club
You are hereby cordially invited to Heidi and Emily’s end of the world, frenniversary, surprise disco party! Leave all your worries of our final days behind and celebrate friendship #goodvibesonly.
Tickets £7.50 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: HISSYFIT
A cross-artform interrogation of the profundity and ludicrousness of losing your virginity, and how maybe, maybe, it’s all a bit bulls**t. Welcome to The Clinic.
Tickets £7.50 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Next to Him Productions
Two storytellers, one fast fashion question: What do we value most as a society, convenience or life? Dance, theatre and Topshop will help us teardown the seams of the fast fashion industry.
Tickets £7.50 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Nancy Ofori Geywu
Romantic relationships shouldn’t be this difficult right? A young Ghanaian woman questions who she is after the effects of emotional abuse, and begins to reflect on what self-love actually means.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Sarah Blanc
A hilarious dance comedy exploring contemporary standards of beauty and the conflict with feminist ideals. Why do women go to extreme (and painful) lengths to be ‘beautiful’?
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Louise Orwin
Inspired by the moments they have been hysterical, crazy, or over-emotional Louise Orwin presents an opportunity and an exorcism: a performative round table event for rage junkies and the rage-inclined, followed by a communal ritual and destruction party.
Tickets £8/6 (concession)
Presented by: Theodora van der Beek
A Youtuber princess is trapped in a tower in a world of pink. Isolated from the world, she is plagued by the unsettling idea that perhaps there could be more....
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Lauren Silver & Helen Foster
A fun and charming slapstick spectacular, (Silly) Little Women is a joyfully daft female-led clown show inspired by classic stories exploring the unbreakable bond between sisters
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Various artists
An explosive night of performance from which new universes of theatre may one day emerge, based on the themes of Calm Down, Dear.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: In Our Hands Theatre
A vocal journey into the messiness of one woman’s motherhood. Baba’s Song is a wild roar in the woods and a panic attack in Mothercare.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Bait Theatre
We all have a princess stuck inside us. If we kill her, what’s next? Bait invite you on a savage playground ride to tear up the stories that trap us.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Rose Eye Productions
Remember that 16-year-old house party when you did that thing with that boy in your mate’s parents’ bathroom? Me Too. Experimental gig-theatre unravelling ideas of consent when we’re young through daring alternative music, spoken word and soundscape.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Documental Theatre
A Country and Western musical about the BHS pension crisis. With a score that’s catchier than Ebola and two hard-to-forget homicidal menopausal heroines, Hot Flushes is probably the only show you'll see this year that puts hutzpah and foot spa in the same lyric.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Good Friends For A Lifetime
Lily and Maeve are just like Simon & Garfunkel. Except they can’t write songs or play guitar. This is a show about being a woman artist and making art with your friends.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Kelly Green
A messy confessional journey about sex, single-mums, class, consent and what it feels like to be seen as a bit of a goer.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Namashkar
A double bill of two powerful South Asian female-led pieces examining sex, periods, abortion and the “good Indian girl”, this compendium reflects on culture, society and feminism in British-Indian culture and the challenges South Asian women face.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Rebecca McCutcheon and Caridad Svich for Lost Text/Found Space
Part play, part dream, part meeting, part imagining a future in which new ways of connecting must be found…. a group of barely connected women come together, feeling their way towards… connection?
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.)