{"title": "Gorgon Syndrome", "start": "2026-11-06T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T16:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/gorgon-syndrome/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/violence-against-women", "stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "'Gorgon Syndrome' is a piece of physical theatre blending ritual, original music and sign language, part of the VOILA! Festival. It was devised and directed by Tatsiana Popova, Yana Alekseenko, Alana Ivory and Nadzeya Sheibak, and performed by them alongside Nela Agrenich and Sonia Rosa. Four women tell real stories of violence — a journalist, a wife, a stripper and a witness — while the figure of Medusa draws out the truths they are too afraid to tell themselves. Drawing on the myth of Medusa, the performance explores how sexual trauma settles in the body, reshapes everyday life and survives in silence, until trauma at last finds its voice.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gorgon-syndrome-60522/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/gorgon-syndrome/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/517811a8246d215b160b7fca3f58816f3fb50a8b77c0785b6f9cfe054b92669a-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-06T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T16:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-06T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-07T21:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T22:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-08T16:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T17:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Gorgon Syndrome (VOILA! 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It runs at the Etcetera Theatre at 265 Camden High Street.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gorgon-syndrome-voila-festival-60524/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/gorgon-syndrome/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9634f0d4deb05bc0a6de7c62232d05bd8abebbd7dab1ec149527f4a77f8a2527-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Voice of Butterflies", "start": "2026-11-04T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T18:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£15", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/the-voice-of-butterflies/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "society/violence-against-women"], "description": "The Voice of Butterflies is an artivistic performance originally created to commemorate the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls, running as part of the VOILA! Festival at the Etcetera Theatre on Camden High Street. Created by the company Hilanderas, directed by Stephanie Prieto and performed by Stephanie Prieto and Esmeralda Sears, it draws an analogy between butterflies' lack of a physical voice and how trauma silences parts of the human body. The narrative follows a woman and her therapist on a regressive journey into childhood to uncover a secret held within the flesh, triggering a metamorphosis in which other women listen to the protagonist within the sound of her silence. After the 45-minute performance, offered in Latin American Spanish with English surtitles for ages 14 and over, Hilanderas hosts a Q&A and a Roy Hart-based workshop.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-voice-of-butterflies-60519/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/the-voice-of-butterflies/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0e53b6b5efb173a3ed6ab8b18e3bd1a35a7ec13e53e468e751ee3a3fd1318a0a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "House of Shame (VOILA! 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Expect cringy memories, ass-shaking and slutty nuns, with references to alcohol, sex and sexual abuse; recommended for ages 16+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/house-of-shame-voila-festival-60521/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/house-of-shame/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3646fc40002ce4cdb47f6706ec2293371f6a6b0f1f51c5e6c449b9c5d3196cde-2000.webp"}, {"title": "OVERFLOOD (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-09T21:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T22:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£11", "price_from": "11.00", "price_to": "11.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/overflood/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "OVERFLOOD (VOILA! Festival) is a 45-minute theatre piece set deep underground in a doomsday bunker, where three strangers thrown together by the tides of war have made themselves into a family. It is directed by Kylie Williams, who performs alongside devisers Hector Berenger and Hollie Milne, with sound design by Hollie Milne. Day after day their routine, repeated like a loop, becomes ritual dedicated to survival, until it begins to slip and the family starts to break apart. 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": "The Pelicot Trial", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-30T00:00:00Z", "place": "London County Hall", "address": "Belvedere Road, SE1 7PB London", "price": "GBP 10", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/london-county-hall", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/documentary-theatre", "society/feminism"], "description": "The Pelicot Trial is a one-off piece of documentary theatre staged at London County Hall. Created by Milo Rau and Servane Dècle, it explores the true events of Gisele Pelicot's rape trial, drawing on trial testimonies, police files, social commentary and psychiatric reports of the 51 men prosecuted. A company of 30 actors and public figures performs it, including Alfred Enoch, Juliet Stevenson, Adjoa Andoh and Rosie O'Donnell. The play is a tribute to a woman whose bravery sparked a global reckoning with sexual violence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-pelicot-trial-63518/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6a320a53b26af2ddd0e475f7e7df1e5b6b0833e138ea0c6ed76911a8b61f4bc2-600.webp"}, {"title": "Elegy", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00Z", "place": "Ibraaz", "address": "Mortimer Street 93, W1W 7SS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/violence-against-women", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "Elegy is a ritual performance and installation project by Gabrielle Goliath that gathers collective acts of mourning around lives and histories marked by violence, erasure and structural loss. Developed over more than a decade, it has been staged in Johannesburg, Cape Town, São Paulo, Paris, Amsterdam, Munich and beyond, and arrives in London following the cancellation of the South African Pavilion in Venice. Installed in the sonic chamber of Ibraaz's Minassa, voices and moving images immerse audiences in a space of mourning, kinship and collective care. Addressing rape culture and femicide in South Africa, the genocide of Ovaherero and Nama peoples in Namibia and the ongoing devastation of Palestinian life, it proposes mourning as a sustained practice of collective presence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/elegy-36599/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bddd26bf2c80c57cde9f964f820a194720c5676bda6d23e076a328fea43bc74d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Legend of Kaliakra", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "£16.45 (Incl booking fees)", "price_from": "16.45", "price_to": "16.45", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.thecockpit.org.uk/sales/Shows/voila-festival-2026/legend-of-kaliakra", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Legend of Kaliakra is a theatre piece blending poetic text and music, performed in Bulgarian with English subtitles. It is produced and presented by the Legend of Kaliakra Collective and directed by Elitsaa Yovcheva, who has directed at the National Theatre and the Youth Theatre in Bulgaria. Inspired by the legend of forty maidens who chose death over slavery, it explores the hidden emotional lives of the women behind one of Bulgaria's most enduring stories. Through four interconnected female perspectives, it reimagines a historical narrative as a story of choice, dignity, and freedom, and premiered in Sofia in 2023 before touring cities along the Bulgarian Black Sea coast.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/legend-of-kaliakra-39101/", "official_url": "https://theatre-play.com/kaliakra-2", "image": "https://noky.io/images/550d216a98f950adb077672d65f9c328c824a89b0a31d2a66ed4505cdd1b562a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Feminine Strength: Gabrielle Goliath at Ibraaz", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00Z", "place": "Ibraaz", "address": "Mortimer Street 93, W1W 7SS London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "history/colonialism", "society/violence"], "description": "An exhibition of Gabrielle Goliath's 'Elegy', a ritual performance and installation project developed over more than a decade, installed in the sonic chamber of Ibraaz's Minassa. Created by the Johannesburg-based artist Gabrielle Goliath, it gathers collective acts of mourning around lives and histories marked by violence, erasure and structural loss. Voices and moving images immerse audiences in a space of mourning, kinship and collective care, addressing rape culture and femicide in South Africa, the genocide of Ovaherero and Nama peoples in Namibia and the ongoing devastation of Palestinian life. The work proposes mourning not as closure, but as a sustained practice of collective presence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/feminine-strength-gabrielle-goliath-at-ibraaz-70008/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e1dd0a922175fec8ccee0a1523321818c2ff8fec9b15b2430500c18ff24d1a6e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "LIBERATING: She Dances (in Chains)", "start": "2026-11-11T21:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T22:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£12", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/liberating-she-dances-in-chains/", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "LIBERATING: She Dances (in Chains) is a visceral physical theatre work about discipline, masking and the paradox of agency within constraint. Created, produced and performed by Xiaoyao Luo, it uses chains, masks, movement and multilingual text to move through the roles a woman is taught to inhabit, from daughter and student to lover and mother. It sketches a world of internalised surveillance where social scripts become muscle memory, asking what freedom might be when conduct is measured from within. Recommended for ages 16+, it runs 50 minutes and contains chains, masks, physical restraint, intense movement and swearing.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/liberating-she-dances-in-chains-60529/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/liberating-she-dances-in-chains/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6640f6fc327901363f441d2edd7391d65daa7568bcfbd3e3f1ab7c8d2e116e53-1200.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. It was created and directed by Chloe Shyan, who performs it with Eliza Jean Scott, and is produced in the UK by Wang Shao Kai and in Singapore by WUSHIREN Theatre. Through three interwoven scenarios — a scientist with an endangered bird, a young woman seeking words to tell an old tree she loves it, and two individuals meeting again and again — it explores relationships that transcend spoken language and asks what it means to be seen, heard and known. Sonic and visual landscaping meets physical performance in a show that is occasionally humorous, bordering on absurd, and achingly bittersweet at its core.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-view-65909/", "official_url": "https://space.org.uk/event/the-view/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/89ec66d985c0762da58000d357e0701b6a27b1b18c38a08a82b0d411ff81196b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "L’Arche Drama Group presents Vasilisa the Br...", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T21:00:00Z", "place": "South London Theatre", "address": "Norwood High Street 2A, SE27 9NS London", "price": "£12/8", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.ticketsource.com/slt", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre", "literature"], "description": "L’Arche Drama Group presents \"Vasilisa the Brave\", a visiting show at South London Theatre. The play is based on a traditional Russian folk tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev, with a script adapted by director Laura Blundo, and is performed by a group of people with and without learning disabilities. It tells of Vasilisa, who after losing her mother sets off into a mysterious forest with her magical doll and meets Baba Yaga, the fearsome witch who can control time itself. Ticket sales fund future productions by the drama group.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/larche-drama-group-presents-vasilisa-the-br-38727/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/889dd098e64b5acaa890c01af10dfa8a3306a629a2840cae16c61597344d906d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Devour", "start": "2026-11-08T20:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T21:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£14", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/devour/", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/stand-up", "society/sex-work"], "description": "Devour is a comedy theatre show by Lady Wentworth, part of the VOILA! Festival. In it she mixes personal experience with mischievous storytelling, taking a bold feminist look at the realities of sex work and the social norms we are taught to swallow. Inspired by Nigella Lawson and served with innuendo, whipped cream and a latex-clad gimp, it stirs the pot on desire and dismantles stigma around fetish and kink. The show lasts 55 minutes and is for audiences aged 18 and over, with content warnings for adult themes and references to domestic abuse.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/devour-60526/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/devour/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9634f0d4deb05bc0a6de7c62232d05bd8abebbd7dab1ec149527f4a77f8a2527-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Sensitive is Not Crazy or The World through the Eyes of a Highly Sensitive Child", "start": "2026-11-05T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T18:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£12", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/sensitive-is-not-crazy-or-the-world-through-the-eyes-of-a-highly-sensitive-child/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/monodrama"], "description": "A bodily solo theatre piece at the edge of reality and absurdity about the gap between outer world and inner experience in a highly sensitive child. Writer, director and performer Nadia Larina uses light, sound, body and voice to show 6-year-old Kiddi through the body of a 45-year-old woman: Act I is Kiddi's subjective, distorted inner reality, Act II retells the same events objectively as a neutral narrator. The play asks what happens when an insufficiently attuned environment meets a highly sensitive nervous system.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sensitive-is-not-crazy-or-the-world-through-the-eyes-of-a-hi-60520/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/sensitive-is-not-crazy-or-the-world-through-the-eyes-of-a-highly-sensitive-child/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2b5662abfe2ab52a7e06eafdf8d112f95f4765ca9a00caf7675208cc934e8b72-1200.webp"}, {"title": "(M)Others Between Shores", "start": "2026-11-05T21:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "£17.00 (General Admission, including £1.00 booking fee); concessions from £13.50", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://offwestend.com/tag/tickets-under-20/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/migration", "stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "(M)others Between Shores is a movement-led ethnodrama exploring migrant motherhood and belonging. Created by Resonant Shore Theatre from the lived experiences of migrant mothers, it blends physical theatre, puppetry, live music and multilingual performance to show how migration reshapes motherhood, identity and belonging. The devised production traces journeys of displacement, resilience and rebuilding home across borders, transforming personal testimony into poetic theatrical language. From the creators of the award-winning Mothering Voices, this intimate ensemble piece celebrates the strength, care and courage of mothers forging new lives.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mothers-between-shores-46242/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/22bbe87cd86c7f26618b7746b099c606c47af9378007858aed374e073964279f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Girls", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Young Vic", "address": "66 The Cut, SE1 8LZ London", "price": "GBP 26", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/the-young-vic", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Girls is an award-winning play performed at the Young Vic in London. Ewa Dina, winner of the 2026 JMK Award, makes her Young Vic debut directing Theresa Ikoko's play, about the 2014 kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian girls by the extremist group Boko Haram. Best friends Tisana, Haleema, and Ruha must rely on each other to survive, while fear and religious differences strain their friendship and hope for escape. Based on horrifying true events, it is a powerful story of friendship, survival, and the impossible choices we're faced with.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/girls-63385/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/be696a14d6f1fbd31e42caf227f4129951e8f69029932842e4429828ebe32211-600.webp"}, {"title": "The Seat of Me (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T15:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/the-seat-of-me/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/migration", "stage/solo-show"], "description": "The Seat of Me is an intimate autobiographical solo performance staged at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden as part of the VOILA! Festival. It is written and performed by Giulia A.Cryan and produced by Iter Pictures. Through storytelling, music and minimalist staging, it follows one woman's journey across Rome, New York, Los Angeles and London, exploring identity, migration and the search for belonging, with fragments of Edith Piaf's music woven through. Recommended for ages 14 and up, it lasts 50 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-seat-of-me-voila-festival-60525/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/86aa3f85a863dfe9c2b5ec0840a61e69c0e2f4cdd9e5826757fb5bbffbd76910-1200.webp"}]}