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It was written by Tim Crouch, who calls each performance live with a new co-star who sees the script for the first time on stage, with no rehearsal and no safety net. The show is presented by the Olivier Award-winning producers of Fleabag, Baby Reindeer and Weather Girl. 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A young man, drunk and stranded after missing his last train, talks with the Signalman in a deserted underground station, where the boundary between coincidence, madness, and the supernatural begins to disappear. 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When his faith compels him to take a stand with a bereaved parishioner, he finds himself isolated, with his family, his place in the town and his certainties all at risk. This amateur production is directed by Melinda Hunt and runs 2 hours 30 minutes including an interval, with strong language and themes of bereavement, racism and family breakdown.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-southbury-child-36230/", "official_url": "https://www.thegwt.org.uk/production/the-southbury-child-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bb0d99830de5901198b86661c50e59aef9025fee0bc326a4f74b2e2010e3f700-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mother There Art Thou", "start": "2026-10-30T12:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-30T13:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://events.humanitix.com/mother-there-art-thou", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Mother There Art Thou is a play staged at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden. It follows oddball siblings Charlie and Murphy, who don't remember a world outside their remote home and are strictly governed by \"The Rules\". When their mother meets an untimely demise, the siblings must figure out which parts of their reality to keep and which to break. Writer Thomas Kirby won the WriteForTheStage Prize for New Writing for this play at the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival in 2022, and this production is fully restaged for its London debut by director Olivia Cole.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mother-there-art-thou-60511/", "official_url": "https://www.etceteratheatrecamden.com/events/mother-there-art-thou", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e9d41d630e09bd0bc935dab3ad987494f71ec03afba8e0f1327c9ab223759c8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Seagull", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-04-27T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Sam Wanamaker Playhouse", "address": "New Globe Walk 21, SE1 9DT London", "price": "GBP 7", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "8.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/the-seagull-tickets/2027/01/17/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "The Seagull is a play by Anton Chekhov staged at the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in London. Director Caroline Steinbeis and translator Rory Mullarkey, who together made the 2025 production of Three Sisters, reunite for this timeless story of ambition and desire, inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet. On a rural estate, the lives of four people intersect: the middlebrow writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the washed-up actress Irina Arkadina, and her son Konstantin Treplev, a brooding experimental playwright. When Konstantin falls in love with Nina while staging a play on his uncle's estate, but she is drawn to Trigorin, his mother's lover, a thrilling psychological drama follows.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-seagull-63524/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/25e9b6bb190dd82d3939273b1d03f7d3ea96b8a8f8892a32a7f27350d3607255-600.webp"}, {"title": "Till the Stars Come Down", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Network Theatre", "address": "Lower Road 246a, SE1 8SJ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.ticketsource.com/networktheatre", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Network Theatre Company holds auditions for its production of \"Till the Stars Come Down\", a play by Beth Steel directed by Alex T Hornby, an amateur production in association with Nick Hern Books. The play is set on a scorching summer's day, where the Stone family gathers to celebrate Sylvia's wedding to Marek, a Polish immigrant. As vodka and beer flow freely, long-buried resentments, secrets, and cultural friction boil over, testing family loyalties. It is funny in the way families are funny until the ground shifts and it heads somewhere darker, toward the things the sisters have kept from each other for years.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/till-the-stars-come-down-37324/", "official_url": "https://www.networktheatre.org/show/till-the-stars-come-down/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2310406e9480e77f90aa8c48dfcea66b98949e95f6dd5787b576396c890c305b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Lost Children of Tuam", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://actonecinema.co.uk/ActOneCinema.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_0.TcsWebTab_0.TcsPerformance_797155.TcsSection_755", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A feature film set in rural Ireland, where amateur historian Catherine Corless researches a former institution for unmarried mothers and their children and uncovers a shocking hidden history of loss. Frank Berry directed this drama based on a true story, running 84 minutes. Monica Dolan leads the cast, with Ian McElhinney, Andrew Bennett, Ruth McCabe and Lalor Roddy. Critics have praised it as a deeply moving portrait of one woman's fight for justice.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-lost-children-of-tuam-34647/", "official_url": "https://actonecinema.co.uk/ActOneCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=720145", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d1bc1e29155520e66ae8d4dcf8a886b1733cb05c64003ae64f7fb21e8696be64-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Eurotrash", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Young Vic", "address": "66 The Cut, SE1 8LZ London", "price": "GBP 14", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/eurotrash-tickets/2026/11/13/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "comedy"], "description": "Eurotrash is a darkly comedic stage play about a mother and son on a chaotic road trip through the Swiss Alps as they attempt to give away their family fortune and escape their dark history. It is an adaptation by Colin Teevan of Christian Kracht's internationally best-selling novel, directed by Walter Meierjohann, and stars Ben Whishaw and Kathryn Hunter as the bickering duo, who must come to terms with their own and Europe's dark history while carting a plastic bag stuffed with cash through the snowy mountains of Switzerland. The English language premiere reunites the creative team behind the Young Vic's productions Kafka's Monkey and The Emperor, and the show is part of the Young Vic's 2026/27 season.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/eurotrash-63384/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8a5d5693027241cbfe0db8e262f935167ed2dc5b1287fbe9da1786f11ddb1905-600.webp"}, {"title": "The Cherry Orchid", "start": "2026-10-03T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Leicester Square", "address": "", "price": "££", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "literature/drama"], "description": "A West End stage production of THE CHERRY ORCHARD, Anton Chekhov's tragicomedy about a family on the brink of irreversible change. Kristin Scott Thomas stars as Lyubov Ranevskaya, who returns to her childhood estate to find her family home and beloved cherry orchard under threat. 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