{"title": "2026: The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt, France 1940", "start": "2026-10-08T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T18:30:00Z", "place": "Arcola Theatre", "address": "Ashwin Street 24, E8 3DL London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.britishtheatreguide.info/listings/7674", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama/historical-drama", "history/holocaust"], "description": "A world premiere play, 'THE BANALITY OF EVIL: HANNAH ARENDT, FRANCE, 1940', written and directed by Julia Pascal, presented by Arcola Theatre and Pascal Theatre Company. It follows Hannah Arendt, artist Charlotte Salomon and teenage Communist Eva Daube, three Jewish women interned in 1940 at Camp Gurs, the largest French internment camp near the Spanish border, from their arrest to their escape. Drawing on testimony, archival research and Arendt's own interviews, and weaving cabaret, physical theatre, satire and Brechtian theatricality, it uncovers the little-known story of thousands of refugees fleeing Hitler who were interned by the French state. The cast is led by Mai Weisz as Hannah Arendt, alongside Anna Eckhard as Charlotte Salomon and Ariella Barnett as Eva Daube, with Pat Dynowska as Trude, Helen Goldwyn as Agathe and Anja Fahlenkamp as musical composition & arrangement/ensemble.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/2026-the-banality-of-evil-hannah-arendt-france-1940-59988/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/30d6dd73c0956cb0fa15d0477009377c0385baa1242fc1548d8154af16be02a4-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-08T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T18:30:00Z", "place": "Arcola Theatre", "address": "Ashwin Street 24, E8 3DL London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Bones in the Desert", "start": "2026-11-12T16:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Half Moon Theatre", "address": "White Horse Road 43, E1 0ND London", "price": "£9", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://boxoffice.halfmoon.org.uk/HalfMoonYoungPeoplesTheatre.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_0.TcsWebTab_0.TcsPerformance_798856.TcsSection_112549", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Bones in the Desert is a 60-minute immersive play for ages 13+ and young adults, with no seating as audiences stand and move among the actors. 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Spanning the deserts of 1915 to today, it confronts war's long shadows, mental well-being and racism in contemporary Europe, followed by an onstage Q&A with the company.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/bones-in-the-desert-60684/", "official_url": "https://www.halfmoon.org.uk/events/bones-in-the-desert/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/872473832ae5f12a8b56fe5565ebc4e83f172f851d163c075363bb7d4af71f25-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Memoriam", "start": "2026-10-22T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Southwark Playhouse Borough", "address": "Newington Causeway 77-85, SE1 6BD London", "price": "£10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "28.00", "tickets_url": "https://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/group-booking-enquiry-form/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "history/holocaust", "science/technology"], "description": "Memoriam is a new play making its UK premiere, a story both startlingly funny and deeply moving. Written by Noga Flaishon and presented by Tangram Theatre Company and Gabriella Sills Productions, it is directed by Daniel Goldman and stars Olivier Award-nominated Beverley Klein as Rivka. In the near future, a tech company can extract human memories and repackage them as immersive VR experiences. When her grandmother becomes the last living Holocaust survivor, employee Rachel sees a chance to preserve her memories, but as commerce and remembrance blur, the repercussions for the family prove far greater than anyone could imagine.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/memoriam-38738/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/87a57b5ee153cad422c35aeebc8a8bd43b6c0bfa95c51ec945fd81106a77cec5-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Reading Group on Quand tu écouteras cette chanson by Lola Lafon", "start": "2026-11-12T18:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "£7 standard, £5 members", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "7.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_6972196.TcsSection_1931314", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/contemporary-fiction", "history/holocaust"], "description": "A reading group held in French, dedicated to Lola Lafon's Quand tu écouteras cette chanson, with the author not present in person. In the book, Lola Lafon recounts the night she spent in the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam. She recalls her feelings while wandering in the empty apartment as though a threat were ever-present, reconnecting with the past of her own family, victims of the Holocaust.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/reading-group-on-quand-tu-ecouteras-cette-chanson-by-lola-la-74190/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agenda/reading-group-on-quand-tu-ecouteras-cette-chanson-by-lola-lafon/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6ebd0d770ac3fca0edd9cefc227dcd5b5fc7af19818a33c44d4b2d7a234a265e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Long After the Labyrinth", "start": "2026-10-21T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Upstairs at the Gatehouse", "address": "North Road, N6 4BD London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://upstairsatthegatehouse.ticketsolve.com/shows/1173675580/events", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "history/wwii"], "description": "\"Long After the Labyrinth\" is an epic new play inspired by the Minotaur and the true tale of the lost Jews of Crete. Set in 1944, it follows Rena Depas, a young girl who watches her family rounded up before falling into a labyrinthine quest for peace in the wake of violence. The story is told through text, movement and shadow-play by NMT Automatics, with a creative team who have worked with companies including 1927, Gecko, Theatre Re and Les Enfants Terribles.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/long-after-the-labyrinth-40031/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6743f2acf29a6ea237af14a083ba79859af2e1fa2c5952907408e4283dbab8d5-600.webp"}, {"title": "Girls", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Young Vic", "address": "66 The Cut, SE1 8LZ London", "price": "GBP 26", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/the-young-vic", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Girls is an award-winning play performed at the Young Vic in London. Ewa Dina, winner of the 2026 JMK Award, makes her Young Vic debut directing Theresa Ikoko's play, about the 2014 kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian girls by the extremist group Boko Haram. Best friends Tisana, Haleema, and Ruha must rely on each other to survive, while fear and religious differences strain their friendship and hope for escape. Based on horrifying true events, it is a powerful story of friendship, survival, and the impossible choices we're faced with.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/girls-63385/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/be696a14d6f1fbd31e42caf227f4129951e8f69029932842e4429828ebe32211-600.webp"}, {"title": "The Pelicot Trial", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-30T00:00:00Z", "place": "London County Hall", "address": "Belvedere Road, SE1 7PB London", "price": "GBP 10", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/london-county-hall", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/documentary-theatre", "society/feminism"], "description": "The Pelicot Trial is a one-off piece of documentary theatre staged at London County Hall. Created by Milo Rau and Servane Dècle, it explores the true events of Gisele Pelicot's rape trial, drawing on trial testimonies, police files, social commentary and psychiatric reports of the 51 men prosecuted. A company of 30 actors and public figures performs it, including Alfred Enoch, Juliet Stevenson, Adjoa Andoh and Rosie O'Donnell. The play is a tribute to a woman whose bravery sparked a global reckoning with sexual violence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-pelicot-trial-63518/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6a320a53b26af2ddd0e475f7e7df1e5b6b0833e138ea0c6ed76911a8b61f4bc2-600.webp"}, {"title": "IWM In Conversation: Elżbieta Moczarska", "start": "2026-11-09T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "IWM London", "address": "", "price": "£20", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.iwm.org.uk/event-tickets/81022?catID=75771&branches.branchID=2992", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/holocaust"], "description": "A talk marking the UK launch of Conversations with an Executioner, followed by a question-and-answer session and after-hours access to IWM London's Holocaust Galleries. Elżbieta Moczarska, translator Sean Gasper Bye and award-winning historian Roger Moorhouse discuss the book by her late father, Kazimierz Moczarski, a Polish writer, journalist and soldier who fought the Nazi occupation as part of the resistance. Imprisoned by Poland's Communist regime after the war, Moczarski shared a cell with Nazi war criminal Jürgen Stroop, the man responsible for the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and wrote the book as a first-hand account of the 255 days they spent together.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/iwm-in-conversation-elzbieta-moczarska-50308/", "official_url": "https://www.iwm.org.uk/events/iwm-in-conversation-elzbieta-moczarska-conversations-with-an-executioner", "image": "https://noky.io/images/63d81ef2b151e7b5f2535ddc5cab4ce6e79f766f98edc2565896239e44a07bf7-1200.webp"}]}