{"title": "A Happy Birthday, Imogen Dutt", "start": "2026-11-17T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/experimental-theatre"], "description": "A Happy Birthday, Imogen Dutt is a theatre piece by Half Chewed. Polly Waldron and Adrian Greensmith devised and perform it, with Luis Odriozola as movement director and performer and Lillian Cheever as designer. Imogen Dutt celebrates her birthday every year while being haunted, and tonight at 25 she learns she did not kill what haunts her. The fictional story, loosely inspired by Mark Fisher's book Capitalist Realism, follows her out to celebrate as she reckons with why it is so hard to imagine alternatives, followed by a creature with an impossible face; it runs 70 minutes with no interval and is for ages 15+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-happy-birthday-imogen-dutt-65859/", "official_url": "https://www.theplaygroundtheatre.org.uk/projects/ahappybirthdayimogendutt", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9eca39f69f30f4da8a6f565cf5e3160a5e6770af69240093774401cc2012f5fa-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-17T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-18T19:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Racists, Recessions and Revolutions", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Theatre503", "address": "The 503Studio, Moat Street, Nine Elms, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy"], "description": "A 60-minute comedy play with no interval, recommended for ages 10 and up, that traces the untold birth of Fake News. It is written by Isabella Heaver, directed by Harry Conway, and presented by DBN Productions LTD/Harry Conway, with Heaver also playing Nadica. Nadica is a driven young Macedon/Brit who stops at nothing to build an empire of lies, defying tech giants, Covid lockdowns and a crumbling economy. DBN Productions is a new writing company staging cutting contemporary theatre that has toured Britain and Ireland and appears often at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/racists-recessions-and-revolutions-65430/", "official_url": "https://theatre503.com/whats-on/racists-recessions-and-revolutions/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c05d00dd2b9ac75502a93607f8843495de4d6cae6decf3499e3e3f32ab5969b1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Perpetuity (Work-in-Progress)", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £10), all orders subject to a £2 transaction fee", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/clowning"], "description": "Perpetuity (Work-in-Progress) is a solo theatre show by Shambles Ensemble, staged in the Members Bar of Battersea Arts Centre as part of the UNREAL festival. Created by the company and directed by Chris Yarnell, it fuses visual and physical storytelling, clowning, performance art and illusion to explore what it means to spend an eternity, what constitutes a soul, and how resilient the human spirit is. Inspired by Dorian Gray, lockdown and pot plants, the 60-minute show asks how you would spend forever and follows a life that is never quite finished. It is recommended for ages 14 and up and contains haze, flashing lights, sudden loud noises and themes of loss, death and suicide.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/perpetuity-work-in-progress-73832/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/perpetuity/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d1e93627a3b674fe2374f86bb3901b996fd63b0bc39ef68e33010d8035d27498-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Hamish Lloyd Barnes: Stage Presence (WIP)", "start": "2026-11-19T21:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pleasance", "address": "Carpenters Mews, N7 9EF London", "price": "from £10.00", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/character-comedy"], "description": "A work-in-progress character comedy show at the Pleasance London Studio. It is by Hamish Lloyd Barnes, co-artistic director of the award-winning theatre company Spies Like Us and a Leicester Square Sketch Off finalist, directed by Ollie Norton-Smith. The show is a ghost story told by ghosts: the haunted Ableforth Theatre will be demolished tonight, but first it stages one hell of a show, featuring whispering curtains, pouting ghosts of leading men and musical theatre kids. The hour-long performance is for ages 14 and up and contains strong language.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hamish-lloyd-barnes-stage-presence-wip-63921/", "official_url": "https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/hamish-lloyd-barnes-stage-presence-wip", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ff9f07c92892683b5d063745e5eb588744ac9469615bc82fa88b4e49ee13c110-1200.webp"}, {"title": "dissent", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-04-24T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Young Vic", "address": "66 The Cut, SE1 8LZ London", "price": "GBP 23", "price_from": "23.00", "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "dissent is a dystopian play set in a futuristic world where the state sponsors air conditioning and gives people free cigarettes in return for unquestioning compliance. It explores humanity's capacity for monstrous behaviour and our urge to resist freedom in the face of oppression. The world premiere is written and directed by Olivier and BAFTA award-winner debbie tucker green, known for ear for eye, stoning mary and dirty butterfly.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dissent-63388/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1b316bda209c33bdafe25f9566c76ae9a9afe0e0128591df320d09d9b8fc9984-600.webp"}, {"title": "Theatre in The Pound: November", "start": "2026-11-16T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "£1", "price_from": "1.00", "price_to": "1.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/new-writing"], "description": "Theatre in The Pound: November is a not-for-profit scratch night at which performers or groups try out 10-15 minutes of new work on stage. It is produced and presented by The Cockpit as part of Theatre Maker, with support from their backstage and tech crew. The November line-up includes I'M DAFT by Nikki Simon, War Crimes, Saladin's Saga by David AL-Fahmi, Defective Altruism by Alex Rowntree and Stark Raving by Beth Noonan-Roberts. For audiences it offers a cheap, fun night out with the chance to see new work and share thoughts directly with the performers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/theatre-in-the-pound-november-39128/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/theatre_in_the_pound_november_0", "image": "https://noky.io/images/838301e155dda2ab7e15eaf19524a1622a6a237f31376c4d238df2aaa34c21f1-1200.webp"}, {"title": "(Un)Shakespearean Nightmares", "start": "2026-11-07T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "£16, concessions £14", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy"], "description": "(Un)Shakespearean Nightmares is a fast-paced comedy in which Shakespeare's forgotten and iconic characters rebel against the Bard himself. Voila! Theatre Festival and The Playground Theatre present the show, whose cast plays multiple roles in a surreal battle to rewrite destiny and reclaim their stories from their tyrannical creator. It blends farce, parody, and meta-theatre and is recommended for ages 15 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/unshakespearean-nightmares-65864/", "official_url": "https://www.theplaygroundtheatre.org.uk/projects/unshakespeareannightmares", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0c8351e37d2fe144a7517d708c1896ce00f57c8905e3aef963bad633c63dca1a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "What Are you Looking At?", "start": "2026-11-18T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-19T00:00:00Z", "place": "Alexandra Palace", "address": "Alexandra Palace Way, N22 7AY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "society/media"], "description": "Two performances staged in the Creativity Pavilion by the Alexandra Palace Young Actors Company, aged 16 to 28, and the Ally Pally Ensemble, aged 50 and over. One piece, written and directed by Martin Murphy with the Young Actors Company, follows residents celebrating the 90th birthday of a community pub called The Auntie, exploring how different generations use media for entertainment. The other is directed by Suzy Catliff, and together the intergenerational pieces look at media, memory and how rapid technological change and quick takes reshape public debate. The evening promises fun, drama and lots of laughs, running from 19:30 to 21:30.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/what-are-you-looking-at-34670/", "official_url": "https://www.alexandrapalace.com/whats-on/what-are-you-looking-at/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b2a58f3d7e79eb3818401141cdd03333f63cd3eebdd4e0fb2369fe066fa9882e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Gall Of The House Of Sud: The Perils of Youth Play", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "£16 (General Admission); £14 (Concession, Senior over 60, Access for All, Unemployed, Student)", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/dark-comedy"], "description": "A play in which, in an ancient rotting house, an unseen visitor knocks and a poisonous crone and her pompous, disgraced son argue over who should answer the door. Voila! Theatre Festival and The Playground Theatre present the show. Built on a single deliberately bad joke, it becomes a dream-riff on families, intergenerational trauma, envy, hate, mothers and sons, and the theatre itself. Following a successful Camden Fringe run, it was the Camden New Journal's Pick of the Fringe of over 400 shows.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-gall-of-the-house-of-sud-the-perils-of-youth-play-65857/", "official_url": "https://www.theplaygroundtheatre.org.uk/projects/theperilsofyouthplay", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c9d2a388a03531c81fb4be307298c7ff47047d2fcc7afb2f270ac575373ce020-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Love vs Fear and My Mother's Prayers", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "£16.45", "price_from": "16.45", "price_to": "16.45", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/immersive-theatre"], "description": "An immersive one-woman play in which your smartphone becomes part of the show. Written by Bunmi Aworanti, directed by Estelle Uba and performed by Samantha Kanu, it is produced and presented by Mudhut IO as part of the Voila! Theatre Festival. It follows Kike, a woman in her mid-20s navigating modern dating and family expectations while her mum prays hard for a husband to appear. The audience makes decisions about her love life, spots red flags and competes in games, exploring romantic love, family approval and cultural expectations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/love-vs-fear-and-my-mothers-prayers-39100/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/love_vs_fear_and_my_mothers_prayers", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2414ad5468ad247cc93f57745a070b34a756c786c4590c34a331ad99771ee991-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible is Going to Happen", "start": "2026-11-19T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Other Palace", "address": "Palace Street 12, SW1E 5JA London", "price": "£20 – £45", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "45.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/dark-comedy"], "description": "This is a dark comedy play at a theatre near Victoria, following a stand-up comic whose perfect romance spirals into obsession, deception and killer punchlines. It was written by Marcelo Dos Santos, is directed by Matthew Xia, and stars West End favourite Steven Webb as The Comedian. From the Olivier Award-winning producers of Fleabag and Baby Reindeer, the Fringe First Award-winning hit explores vulnerability, intimacy, ego and truth, running about 1 hour 5 minutes without an interval.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/feeling-afraid-as-if-something-terrible-is-going-to-happen-39525/", "official_url": "https://theotherpalace.co.uk/feeling-afraid/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4df24fee7bc40557c40441bc4464d07f74cf8c63c0dd35c7149dfca07708a33c-600.webp"}, {"title": "Meet Me in The Dressing Room", "start": "2026-11-16T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Jago Dalston", "address": "Kingsland Road 440, E8 4AA London", "price": "Check Listings", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/activism", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "Meet Me in The Dressing Room is a solo performance show at the edge of history, in which a glittering showgirl of the apocalypse transforms her dressing room into a site of political organisation and resistance to a fascist moment. It is created and performed by Sophie, with an industrial soundscape by Vyvyan Stewardson built around Diane DiPrima's Revolutionary Letters and original costuming by Max Allen emblematic of leaders who offered radical hope. Through enigmatic and referential choreography, movement, live action and dirty tricks, the ritual nature of hope and defeat is embodied as the body is pushed to its extremes hoping to liberate the body politic. The show is completely self funded, with all profits going directly to the artists involved and tiered ticket prices, including free tickets for disabled persons' carers or companions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/meet-me-in-the-dressing-room-92823/", "official_url": "https://www.thejagodalston.com/event/meet-me-in-the-dressing-room/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0260ce7eadf0d1a772b8a42a48dd91f62aa1306d2fe1de5588145677183045bb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "THE JUICE IS CULTURED", "start": "2026-11-17T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Union Theatre", "address": "Old Union Arches, 229 Union Street, SE1 0LR London", "price": "£13", "price_from": "13.00", "price_to": "13.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy"], "description": "A theatre piece titled THE JUICE IS CULTURED, running 60 minutes. It is written by Sam Gordon-Webb, who also performs alongside Emily Cass and Maryam Gafar. Set in London in December 2086, it begins at the launch party of a new turmeric juice brand where Gwyneth Paltrow is the only VIP who fails to show. The show is described as a gloriously strange, wildly anarchic fable on the seductive fantasy of optimal living, a playful reckoning with wellness and climate anxiety.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-juice-is-cultured-39972/", "official_url": "https://uniontheatre.biz/show/the-juice-is-cultured/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e169bc0c82a29befb225226db191800bbdc9bd6dd20bbca8799e8ffcb382568e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "I Bought a Flip Phone", "start": "2026-11-07T19:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T20:30:00Z", "place": "Theatre503", "address": "The 503Studio, Moat Street, Nine Elms, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["comedy/stand-up", "science/technology"], "description": "A solo comedy play written and performed by Panos Kandunias, presented by Peej Productions and Panos Kandunias. It follows Charlie, who is sick of his iPhone and, for his 27th birthday, buys an old-school flip phone hoping that will fix everything. The show is a hilarious, heartfelt dive into digital burnout, raunchy texts from men, and the feeling of waiting for your life to start. It runs 60 minutes with no interval and is recommended for ages 16+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/i-bought-a-flip-phone-65427/", "official_url": "https://theatre503.com/whats-on/i-bought-a-flip-phone/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3c7a592bfa6de171666550053989f4bee2b78178aa08c6869dab417890f6cbbe-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sensitive is Not Crazy or The World through the Eyes of a Highly Sensitive Child (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T19:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£12", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/monodrama"], "description": "A bodily solo theatre piece at the edge of reality and absurdity about the gap between outer world and inner experience in a highly sensitive child. Writer, director and performer Nadia Larina uses light, sound, body and voice to show 6-year-old Kiddi through the body of a 45-year-old woman: Act I is Kiddi's subjective, distorted inner reality, Act II retells the same events objectively as a neutral narrator. The play asks what happens when an insufficiently attuned environment meets a highly sensitive nervous system.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sensitive-is-not-crazy-or-the-world-through-the-eyes-of-a-hi-60520/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/sensitive-is-not-crazy-or-the-world-through-the-eyes-of-a-highly-sensitive-child/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2b5662abfe2ab52a7e06eafdf8d112f95f4765ca9a00caf7675208cc934e8b72-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Blessed Forgetful", "start": "2026-11-13T20:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "£16 (General Admission); £14 (Concession | Senior over 60; Access for All | Unemployed | Student)", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "Blessed Forgetful is a physical, devised theatre piece. It is created by Peculiar Matter, a London-based international theatre collective founded by director Sarah Hyojin Kim. The piece reimagines Germaine Pichot, remembered largely through the men who loved and painted her, including Picasso and Casagemas. Inspired by Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, it places a fantastical memory-erasing device in Germaine's hands and asks whether forgetting could become an act of care, or whether love survives even after memory is erased.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/blessed-forgetful-65866/", "official_url": "https://www.theplaygroundtheatre.org.uk/projects/blessedforgetful", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ae99047bae412c87bd32099f2b5663e3056833ed20516c4b0fedc5741e068933-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Dog Mom", "start": "2026-11-07T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Southwark Playhouse Borough", "address": "Newington Causeway 77-85, SE1 6BD London", "price": "Standard from £22, Concessions from £18, Previews £16, Pioneers' Preview (14 Oct) £10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "22.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy", "society/family"], "description": "Dog Mom is a stage comedy at Southwark Playhouse Borough, staged by EnActe Arts in association with Riding Lights as part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. Written by Tate Elizabeth Hanyok and directed by Ajay Chowdhury, it follows Sarita, freshly divorced in a tiny Brooklyn flat, who insists she is not a dog person until a scruffy stray appears on her doorstep and refuses to leave. As she is drawn into dog parks and meddling dog owners, her ordered life slides into comic chaos and she finds that family can arrive covered in mud. The cast includes Vinita Belani, Patty Gallagher, Joey Holden, Tom Barnes and Jarreau Antoine.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dog-mom-38737/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7035d0ae737230e5240bd394417b898d0b89b497543e855af4d7bafa53f48198-1200.webp"}]}