Upcoming Shows
Presented by: FLIM NITE
Fresh from sowing highly-acclaimed chaos up North, FLIM NITE presents a distorted adaptation of Matilda as retold by theatremakers, musicians and comedians within FLIM NITE’s unique parameters of mischief.
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: STAMP
STAMP present a new panel discussion packed with hints and tips for artists and companies on low cost and efficient ways to market themselves and their shows.
Tickets £5
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 £8
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 Riché
“It’s a short road from getting kicked out of school to ending up here [prison}” A young man caught in the prison system is challenged by the version of himself he must become in order to survive.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
Presented by: Nouveau Riché
#metoo #mewho? Chateau Marmont is a searing satire set within the blurred lines of sexual coercion, where some of the damage is collateral..and some isn’t.
Tickets £8 (work-in-progress)
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
When Camden Cadets is threatened to be shut down by some evil-white-baldy-with zero-sense-of-style, they will go to any lengths to save it. Expect lots of laughter, 2010 tunes and a true devotion to Camden Town!
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: CPT & Counterpoint Arts
After the smash-hit success of its debut gig, come join us for more unexpected laughs from our talented team – plus a Very Special Guest standup at each event.
Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
Presented by: 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: 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 shows. Examining sex, periods, abortion and the “good Indian girl”, this compendium reflects on culture, society, feminism in British-Indian culture, and the challenges faced by South Asian women from different generations. How much have things changed and how much are we still fighting for?
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.)