Upcoming Shows
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.
Tickets Pay what you can
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
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
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
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
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
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
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
Tickets £10
Presented by: Pat Ashe and Thomas Martin
Explore the intersection between performance and play at this friendly, accessible evening of experiments.
Tickets £12 / 10 (conc.)
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.
Tickets £12 / 10 (conc)
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.
Tickets £8 (work in progress)
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.
Tickets £12 / 10 (conc.)
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
Tickets £12 / 10 (conc.)
Presented by: pink suits
A brand-new performance from poli-rock duo pink suits exploring fantasy, sexuality and gender identity.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
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.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
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.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
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?
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
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
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
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.
Tickets Pay what you can
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.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
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.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
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?
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
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.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
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.
Tickets Pay What You Can
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?
Tickets £15/10 (conc.)
Presented by: Various Artists
An explosive nights of work-in-progress exploring the themes of All is True.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
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.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
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?
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
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
Tickets £15/10 (conc.)
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.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)