{"title": "BIG LOVE", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Lion and Unicorn", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "BIG LOVE is a solo show and Proforca's new flagship production. It is about belief, desire, epic love songs, big feelings and the people we choose in the end, and somewhere there's a big red phone that won't stop ringing. It runs at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre as part of the Here | For 2026 season, selected from more than 50 applications. 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It is performed by lovemusic, a Strasbourg-based ensemble, and continues the WACK x lovemusic project supported by the Diaphonique fund. The programme includes a bass flute in dialogue with sign language, violin and cello as extensions of the performers' bodies, an abstract city portrait, a piece for flute, screens and ASMR, an audience participation work using the public's own phones, and an excerpt from Neil Luck's Respect for Reality. No expertise is needed to enjoy it, just curiosity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lovemusic-74175/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agenda/lovemusic/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4d30ac15be2f90ed2c6b770c5e497857ba9b6104dc185e27a68ba1b92e9b4209-2000.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", "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": "Balance by Brainfools at VOILÀ! 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It runs at The Space Theatre in London from 8 to 15 November 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/balance-by-brainfools-at-voila-theatre-festival-40972/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/balance-contemporary-circus-show-by-ich-duo/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/233f5242bb65c1d66b7b47de5f6bfd63db07a092e15d7d0460391f9bd8c85230-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Voila! at the Space - Launch Party", "start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Space", "address": "Westferry Road 269, E14 3RS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "party-club", "tags": ["stage/theatre", "occasion"], "description": "An evening launch party at The Space marking its third year as a Voila! Theatre Festival venue and its first mini-season launch. The venue invites audiences to join its performing artists, who wanted to feel part of a venue community, in welcoming them to East London. Guests can see extracts of the shows programmed at the Space, meet the makers, and play mingle bingo with the international and migrant artists. Each ticket includes a free glass of fizz, alcoholic or non.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/voila-at-the-space-launch-party-39747/", "official_url": "https://space.org.uk/event/voila-launch-party/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b5f0c016395adcd2dea775574feffa3bec5d8bc500e47526ddded8267c851424-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Voila Festival '26", "start": "2026-11-02T00:00:00Z", "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": "festivals-street", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "Voila! Festival '26 is a theatre festival running for two and a half weeks at The Space. It presents border-busting, multi-lingual and migrant-led productions, joined by 8 other venues across London. 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Five East Asian migrant artists from Ensemble Not Found take the wedding apart and put it back together, testing vows, rituals, traditions and expectations. It moves between sincerity and absurdity as they explore ways of caring, committing and belonging while building a ceremony of their own. It was developed through The Yard Theatre's Live Drafts programme and a Making Space residency at Battersea Arts Centre.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-radical-wedding-engine-39102/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_radical_wedding_engine", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2dc6814570f8d1cb38b7cd03aae09333a5208c91701521e32a9a1c531c5fb94c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "New Stuff: November", "start": "2026-11-01T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "£3", "price_from": "3.00", "price_to": "3.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.thecockpit.org.uk/sales/shows/new-stuff-1", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/drama", "stage/theatre"], "description": "New Stuff: November is a monthly night of rehearsed readings of new theatre writing. It is produced and presented by The Cockpit as part of its Theatre Maker programme. This edition features 'VINZ & VINCÉ' by Federico Balla and Louis Lambeaux, about two friends sharing a room in London, and 'HELD' by Lei, a psychological thriller in which Chinese playwright Leanne is detained and ordered to write under surveillance, raising questions of state power, artistic freedom and who controls the narrative. Afterwards, everyone is welcome to continue conversations in the bar downstairs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/new-stuff-november-39124/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/new_stuff_november_1", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bc58e3ddc44141d5ae96c569c1e91e1f311c55c84ecf38cb164b4d571daaf775-1200.webp"}]}