{"title": "Autumn/ Winter 26: Jo Bannon - The Dirty Work", "start": "2026-11-10T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Place", "address": "Duke's Road 17, WC1H 9PY London", "price": "£22 (£5–£18)", "price_from": "22.00", "price_to": "22.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.thecockpit.org.uk/sales/Shows/voila-festival-2026/huella", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/solo-show"], "description": "The Dirty Work is a new solo performance by Jo Bannon at The Place. It peeks behind the velvet curtain, blending the tricks of the trade — a white rabbit, a magic wand, a puff of smoke — with Bannon's lived experience of visual impairment. 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She conceived the piece in direct response to the exhibition's themes and brings her own stories of complaint into the gallery, rehearsing and reworking them in the space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/party-done-performance-by-samra-mayanja-74130/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/exhibitions/autumn-knight-party-done", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ee6e3edce865f4e0850e10bd5daeded2b844308d0486356b76dfd4b358fd6298-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The View", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Space", "address": "Westferry Road 269, E14 3RS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["nature/animals/birds", "stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "\"The View\" is a devised physical performance running at The Space. 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It comes from theatre makers Dead Centre with novelist and essayist Emilie Pine, and follows two strangers each night who perform a story of desire, betrayal and loneliness without having rehearsed together, guided by an Intimacy Director. Since premiering at Dublin Theatre Festival in 2022 it has toured Europe and New York, and now makes its UK premiere at Battersea Arts Centre. 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Only Human explores what it means to be human, looking at our perceptions, beliefs and the fragile line between reality and illusion. Directed by Andrew O'Connor, the production runs for about 2 hours 25 minutes including one interval and is recommended for ages 12 and over.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/derren-brown-only-human-37385/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/32d99f6bf46105e9df7f52d17288566340709b5f9c703f40c683201c771eace3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Beneath Still Waters", "start": "2026-11-09T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T18:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/beneath-still-waters/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre", "comedy"], "description": "A solo theatre performance titled Beneath Still Waters, presented as part of the VOILA! Festival. Created and performed by Rebecka Öberg, a Swedish performer and theatre maker based in London, it was developed during an artist residency at WOMB, Mexico City, in 2024. The show blends storytelling, original music and absurd comedy, retelling the tale of the ugly duckling to explore identity, validation and beauty ideals.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/beneath-still-waters-60527/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/beneath-still-waters/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5fd240197e9722b0b106e5c959de9a49391d162ca43f88c200fc3403f956d55e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Do You Know Where To Go From Here?", "start": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Space", "address": "Westferry Road 269, E14 3RS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/dark-comedy"], "description": "'Do You Know Where To Go From Here?' is a one-woman dark comedy about grief, family, faith and migration. Written and performed by Stephanie Renae Lau, an actor and theatre maker from Hong Kong and Canada, and directed by Myriam Angela, it follows Sophie, who wakes in a strange space full of clothes with no way out and tries to escape by tidying up. Based on real events, the show confronts old wounds around love and loss, asking whether a lifeline can be found in a sea of clutter.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/do-you-know-where-to-go-from-here-65907/", "official_url": "https://space.org.uk/event/do-you-know-where-to-go-from-here/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5fa7d925a16a51e8f5766ca92994ccebeb1c6cb3dded36ecad99554066670ba5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "OVERFLOOD (VOILA! 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The show is in English and non-verbal, is recommended for ages 12 and up, and carries warnings for mentions of violence, reference to guns, and loud noises including sirens.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/overflood-voila-festival-60528/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/overflood/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8273de4aad53bffe0771a0de9d7215cbc9e006720387d14b0d278f2bf709072b-1200.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", "tickets_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/perpetuity-work-in-progress/book/469296", "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": "Alana Jackson: Work in Progress", "start": "2026-11-10T19:40:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pleasance", "address": "Carpenters Mews, N7 9EF London", "price": "From £8.00", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.pleasance.co.uk/via/tickets/33%3A315759", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/stand-up"], "description": "Alana Jackson: Work in Progress is a comedy show in the Studio at Pleasance London. Winner of So You Think You're Funny, Alana Jackson is working on a new hour after a sold out debut run at Edinburgh Fringe, exploring new anecdotes and characters with some jokes thrown in. She has recently supported Kyla Cobbler, Michelle de Swarte, Tom Read Wilson, Alan Davies and Kevin Bridges. 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Theatre Festival and The Playground Theatre present the piece by Shhh Theatre, an emerging company making contemporary theatre around intimacy and modern relationships. As one employee begins to question the system they help sustain, the boundary between performance and genuine emotion starts to dissolve. Blending absurdity with wit, the play explores emotional labour, race, identity and modern intimacy, asking what remains of human connection when our most intimate relationships become transactional.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/much-crazy-about-nothing-65856/", "official_url": "https://www.theplaygroundtheatre.org.uk/projects/much-crazy-about-nothing", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a68e758dcd484026d5167c2aced76a39390b2b5a09d50cf68fd3c9de2b683f99-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Conch", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T20:30:00Z", "place": "South London Gallery", "address": "Peckham Road 65-67, SE5 8UH London", "price": "£10/£5 members & concessions", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "The Conch is an event where artists share new work that is still in development, with the audience invited to respond after each presentation by sharing thoughts, questions and reflections. This edition brings together artists who explore domestic architectures not simply as backdrops, but as sites of labour and performance that can take on a life of their own. Georgina Hill performs a work on the overlooked history of cottage industries in Britain, Alia Hamaoui reworks behind-the-scenes footage from the whodunit crime film 8 Femmes, and Beatrice Vorster presents BOO!, a performance made with Yasmin Vardi that deconstructs the ghost-movie genre. The event takes place at South London Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-conch-38708/", "official_url": "https://www.southlondongallery.org/events/the-conch-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3cf5e3fce0bb7a0ab456dc088eb17a976b430c7f2da4442b2f458c2d9e29f574-2000.webp"}]}