{"title": "For Services Rendered", "start": "2026-11-04T19:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Compass Theatre", "address": "Glebe Avenue, Ickenham, UB10 8PD", "price": "£13 to £17", "price_from": "13.00", "price_to": "17.00", "tickets_url": "https://mpv.tickets.com/schedule/?agency=HIMS_THE_MPV&orgid=56649&mkt_code=0737#/?event=services&view=list&includePackages=false", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Proscenium presents \"For Services Rendered\", a scathingly critical play by W. Somerset Maugham exploring the impact of war on a British family in Kent. Set in 1932, the play follows the seemingly respectable Ardsley family, who appear to be managing their lives well after World War One and the Great Depression. In reality, each of them is fighting for survival. 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Written by multi award-winning writer Lauren Yee, it follows old friends Evgeny and Dmitri in St Petersburg in the nineties, who become embroiled in racketeering and espionage as capitalism rises from the ashes of communism, before things go wrong when Evgeny falls for one of their marks. 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Playwright James Graham, a three-time Olivier Award winner, chronicles John Major's rapid rise from obscure Whip to Prime Minister, taking over from Margaret Thatcher in 1990 during a pivotal moment for the UK. 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First staged in 1925, it remains one of Coward's most entertaining comedies and runs for a strictly limited season.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hay-fever-46109/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/19fa175b20a8c265d037547f5090e8f1e2f75e74598d75557581419c0a9dc560-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Insane Asylum Seekers", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-03-20T00:00:00Z", "place": "Bush Theatre", "address": "Uxbridge Road 7, London", "price": "GBP 12", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "18.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/insane-asylum-seekers-tickets/2027/02/12/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "community/refugees"], "description": "A darkly funny and moving autobiographical play about a British-Iraqi family. 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Ruislip Dramatic Society presents Ray Cooney's riotous comedy, in which hapless private secretary George Pigden helps with increasingly elaborate invented stories and manic cover-ups. Things worsen with the arrival of Richard's wife, Jane's distraught husband Ronnie, a frustrated hotel manager, an unscrupulous waiter and the bossy Nurse Foster.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/out-of-order-36526/", "official_url": "https://pre.hillingdon.gov.uk/discover/out-of-order", "image": "https://noky.io/images/611b9ab14945132ebe72d891b077a8f8578a41d3877eda74717c9e1e6782aedf-600.webp"}, {"title": "Double Bill: Amelia al ballo & Trouble in Tahiti", "start": "2026-11-02T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T19:00:00Z", "place": "Barbican Arts Centre", "address": "Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS London", "price": "£30, £15, £6", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.barbican.org.uk/register", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera/comic-opera"], "description": "An evening of two short operas, Gian Carlo Menotti's Amelia al ballo and Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti, presented as a new double-bill production set in the 1950s. 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