{"title": "Auditions: The Master Builder", "start": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-16T00:00:00Z", "place": "South London Theatre", "address": "Norwood High Street 2A, SE27 9NS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "An open audition for the play \"The Master Builder\" by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by David Edgar, directed by Gabriel Kellett. It is a tense and symbolic drama about a successful architect whose fear of ageing and being succeeded is brought to crisis by the arrival of a mysterious woman from his past. Performances run 23 to 27 February 2027, with first rehearsal on 6 December 2026, and roles are available for six characters of various ages and one that can be male or female. 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Henrik Ibsen wrote it, David Edgar translated it, and Mehmet Ergen directs. Halvard Solness, a leading architect at the height of his fame, is paralysed by fear of the younger generation, of irrelevance, and of the past catching up with him. When the young and enigmatic Hilde Wangel bursts back into his world, reminding him of a promise made ten years ago, Solness must confront the true cost of his success.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-master-builder-59989/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/02c4a08575b3bf6ef5d9a54f6f013484ba6debaccef300b0dccb399169f7e724-600.webp"}, {"title": "Three Little Pigs", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "£20.57, concessions £18.51 (incl booking fees)", "price_from": "20.57", "price_to": "20.57", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Three Little Pigs (or Chronicles of the Building Site) is a play at The Cockpit Theatre, part of the VOILA! Theatre Festival. 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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": "Deep, Deep Waters", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00Z", "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/drama", "society/class"], "description": "Deep, Deep Waters is a work-in-progress solo drama about a working-class British man, son of immigrants, who has built his life on control and starts to crack. 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It is a raging battle between the passion of the heart and the reason of the mind.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/desire-under-the-elms-59967/", "official_url": "https://almeida.co.uk/whats-on/desire-under-the-elms/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bbcb26fdcbc84096796433c2baadff14cdaacd11d287121f29c5aa23b690890b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Theatre Drop In", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Roundhouse", "address": "Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8EH London", "price": "£2", "price_from": "2.00", "price_to": "2.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["stage/theatre/improvisational-theatre"], "description": "Theatre Drop In is a weekly theatre session for 18–25 year olds, offering space to act, dance and explore performance while building confidence. Sessions cover a fresh focus each week, from improv and ensemble work to devising and cabaret, in a supportive, relaxed environment led by experienced facilitators including Phao May and Isaac Jordan, plus guest tutors, with guest tutors bringing expertise from different elements of theatre. No specific skills are needed, though it is most relevant to people who have done some theatre or dance before, and each session stands alone so you can drop in whenever you can. Join by coming to the front desk of Roundhouse Studios and paying on arrival; spaces are limited and first come first serve, so arrive at the latest fifteen minutes before the start to sign in.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/theatre-drop-in-64957/", "official_url": "https://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/drop-in-theatre-18-25-au26/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9a123e2cd77730b739edeec6394c8844d0be50b37af769c98a3a0f80b1f32097-2000.webp"}, {"title": "CricklePlayers Presents - A Midsummer Night's Dream with Mary Chater", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T16:00:00Z", "place": "Cricklewood Library", "address": "NW2 6UY London", "price": "", "price_from": "4.70", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["stage/theatre/shakespeare"], "description": "CricklePlayers Presents - A Midsummer Night's Dream with Mary Chater is a series of practical workshops at Cricklewood Library exploring Shakespeare's comedy. It is led by renowned local actor Mary Chater, who approaches Shakespeare dramatically rather than academically. Participants read the play, explore its characters, and bring its magical scenes to life by standing them up on their feet. No acting experience is needed, only an Arden edition of the play, and sessions are open to over 18s.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/crickleplayers-presents-a-midsummer-nights-dream-with-mary-c-89025/", "official_url": "https://www.tickettailor.com/events/thefriendsofcricklewoodlibrary/2296993?date=2026-11-07", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1d4c08ab305940bf4a3a55e88659b9f3c7d603af0b7afd8c5e818b7942bd3f35-600.webp"}, {"title": "Autumn Season: The Mill On The Floss by George Eliot, adapted by Helen Edmunson", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "place": "Rose Bruford College", "address": "Burnt Oak Lane, DA15 9DF Sidcup", "price": "", "price_from": "2.00", "price_to": "5.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama/adaptation", "literature/classics"], "description": "A stage performance of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, adapted for the theatre by Helen Edmundson, staged as part of Rose Bruford College's Autumn Season. Directed by Rachel Valentine Smith and performed by BA Acting and Actor Musicianship students, it follows Maggie Tulliver, a passionate young woman in rural nineteenth-century England whose longing for freedom clashes with her family and society. The play blends lyrical storytelling and ensemble performance in an exploration of love, loyalty, identity and the struggle for self-determination. It runs approximately two and a half hours including an interval at the college's Rose Theatre.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/autumn-season-the-mill-on-the-floss-by-george-eliot-adapted-64923/", "official_url": "https://www.bruford.ac.uk/event/the-mill-on-the-floss/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/72f604045f25dc96454e35b2810f2314de056662a0855dc0fdfa9e0de692d4b8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Postgraduate Open Evening 2026", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Mountview Academy", "address": "Peckham Hill Street 120, SE15 5JT London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "An open evening for anyone interested in postgraduate study at a theatre training academy. Visitors can tour purpose-built facilities with over 20 studios and two theatre spaces, meet MA course leaders in a panel talk, join a Q&A, and speak with current MA students. 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In Jamie Davis's Beginners, directed by Richard Winsor, a small group of actors awaits the curtain on the most important night of their lives, told in real time. In Ben Stower's Natural Affairs, directed by Livia Sardão, guests, staff and resident ghosts of a rundown English B&B see their beliefs tested as secrets become scandals. Following a sold-out run at the King's Head Theatre, the evening brings together two stories about the hopes we cling to and the choices we make.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/two-plays-one-night-39970/", "official_url": "https://uniontheatre.biz/show/two-plays-one-night/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5baf4aa9fd9bc72e190263d89cc7471bce2d86eff624f1b407bf54ac3ff5414a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "La Distance", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-02-13T00:00:00Z", "place": "Young Vic", "address": "66 The Cut, SE1 8LZ London", "price": "GBP 25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "science/astronomy"], "description": "La Distance is a play set in 2077, when Earth is breaking and part of humanity lives in exile on Mars. A father still on Earth struggles to maintain his relationship with his daughter, who is building a new life on Mars, as they attempt to build a dialogue through very long-distance calls. It is an intimate, inventive play by Portuguese playwright and director Tiago Rodrigues, current director of the Festival d'Avignon, where it was first performed, exploring separation, hope and the bond between parent and child within a collapsing world. Original cast members Alison Dechamps and Adama Diop reprise their roles as father and daughter.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/la-distance-63386/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/17e7659591cddc3c7f1e66a66d0d883adbae838ac47fa63a58d027619c0ddf2f-600.webp"}, {"title": "Oliver!", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Gielgud Theatre", "address": "Shaftesbury Avenue 35, W1D 6AR London", "price": "from £20", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "99.50", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/musical"], "description": "Oliver! is a musical playing at the Gielgud Theatre in Soho, booking until 14 March 2027. Produced by Cameron Mackintosh and directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne, with songs by Lionel Bart, it tells of a young orphan on the run who falls in with a pickpocket and a gang led by a dodgier man, a tale from Dickens wrapped in timeless songs. The performance lasts approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes including a 20 minute interval and includes gunfire and smoke. The age recommendation is 7+; children under 16 must sit next to a ticketholder aged at least 18, and children under 3 will not be admitted.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/oliver-60634/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4a88e7d31583af551186111cfc8360a1ff376301429d4d18c34b03046a3ce388-600.webp"}, {"title": "Three Creative Legends: One Actor", "start": "2026-11-10T19:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T19:30:00Z", "place": "Bridge House Theatre", "address": "High Street 2, SE20 8RZ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["literature/biography", "stage/solo-show"], "description": "A repertory theatre season in which writer and performer Mark Farrelly brings together, for the first time, his three acclaimed solo portraits of major creative figures: Quentin Crisp, Derek Jarman and Patrick Hamilton. Each evening is a one-man show, directed by Linda Marlowe or Sarah-Louise Young, celebrating the lives and courage of these artists.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/three-creative-legends-one-actor-35085/", "official_url": "https://thebridgehousetheatre.co.uk/shows/three-creative-legends-one-actor/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e856756aaa98454dd0cec57a4b9a39bc29916218d5fe63ef4b128c3269a65c4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Act of God", "start": "2026-11-09T19:15:00Z", "end": "2026-11-26T00:00:00Z", "place": "Riverside Studios", "address": "Queen Caroline Street 101, W6 9BN London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/gender/masculinity", "stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "\"Act of God\" is a stage play running at Riverside Studios. It is the debut play from Manchester writer Jacob O'Connor, following a young man from Wythenshawe sent on a ten-week poetry therapy course, exploring masculinity and class.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/act-of-god-74659/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}