{"title": "Gothic Type", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Questors Theatre", "address": "Mattock Lane 12, W5 5BQ London", "price": "£10.00", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama/gothic", "dance"], "description": "Gothic Type is an evening of four separate plays with a dark gothic feel, ranging from Hamlet to Dante's Inferno. It is staged by Chiswick School Performing Arts, a multi award-winning department, bringing together around 60 students from year 7 up in their first big production of the year. The pieces are Sghoul, the story of the Pendle witches; a new adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet; Jekyll and Hyde told as a camp fire tale; and a full narrative dance retelling of Dante's Inferno. The running time is approximately 2 hours.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gothic-type-129639/", "official_url": "https://questors.org.uk/event/gothic-type/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/286bc0325dc1d21af853f1988545f71f668c4e18d034f2333a2137de2bbeab1a-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Questors Theatre", "address": "Mattock Lane 12, W5 5BQ London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Ghosts & Ghouls Family Tour", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-30T00:00:00Z", "place": "Shakespeare's Globe", "address": "New Globe Walk 21, SE1 9DT London", "price": "£23.00", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "23.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["literature/classics", "occasion/halloween", "society/folklore"], "description": "The Ghosts & Ghouls Family Tour is a family-friendly spooky guided tour of the Globe Theatre that brings to life the ghosts, spirits and scary happenings of Shakespeare's most chilling plays. It is run at Shakespeare's Globe, an open-air theatre, as part of its Guided Tours. The tour covers the Three Witches' spells in Macbeth, Hamlet's father's ghost, Shakespeare's love of the supernatural, grisly medical practices of his time, folktales of creatures like the Thames River Monster, and traditional ways to protect against evil spirits. Tickets include entry to the exhibition, the tour runs about an hour, is in English and suitable for all ages, though some content may scare younger audiences.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ghosts-ghouls-family-tour-38515/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0d8c6b477fde7b8ecbe8447586996db1d22e387dbf18f4a623463a3acf70c672-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Hamish Lloyd Barnes: Stage Presence (WIP)", "start": "2026-11-19T21:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pleasance", "address": "Carpenters Mews, N7 9EF London", "price": "from £10.00", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/character-comedy"], "description": "A work-in-progress character comedy show at the Pleasance London Studio. It is by Hamish Lloyd Barnes, co-artistic director of the award-winning theatre company Spies Like Us and a Leicester Square Sketch Off finalist, directed by Ollie Norton-Smith. The show is a ghost story told by ghosts: the haunted Ableforth Theatre will be demolished tonight, but first it stages one hell of a show, featuring whispering curtains, pouting ghosts of leading men and musical theatre kids. The hour-long performance is for ages 14 and up and contains strong language.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hamish-lloyd-barnes-stage-presence-wip-63921/", "official_url": "https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/hamish-lloyd-barnes-stage-presence-wip", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ff9f07c92892683b5d063745e5eb588744ac9469615bc82fa88b4e49ee13c110-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Northanger Abbey", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Hampton Hill Playhouse", "address": "High Street 90, TW12 1NZ Hampton Hill", "price": "£17", "price_from": "17.00", "price_to": "17.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy", "literature/adaptation"], "description": "A stage production of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey at Hampton Hill Playhouse. It is staged by YAT (Youth Action Theatre) and follows Catherine Morland, a young reader whose love of Gothic novels fires her imagination as she navigates the social whirl of Bath and the mysterious Northanger Abbey. The ensemble production promises wit, romance and Gothic drama in a lively Regency world.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/northanger-abbey-36397/", "official_url": "https://www.hamptonhilltheatre.org.uk/events/northanger-abbey", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b99d6b2ebf7851aca6aa524f4c63fd65f393d9d9ec07b6abb4af29b0126baed5-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Life Drawing Theatre – ‘Through me is the way to the sorrowful city’ (Divine Comedy – Inferno epic stanzas)", "start": "2026-11-15T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Abney Park", "address": "219 Stoke Newington High Street, N16 0LH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing/figure-drawing", "literature/poetry"], "description": "Life Drawing Theatre – ‘Through me is the way to the sorrowful city’ (Divine Comedy – Inferno epic stanzas) is an interactive storytelling workshop combining performance and drawing. Sonnets from Dante's Divine Comedy are narrated by Paul McGill, while models hold poses inspired by each sonnet for 5 to 10 minutes, letting attendees sketch their own storyboard without needing any artistic experience or prior knowledge of the poem. Among the sonnets is the tale of Odysseus from Canto XXVI, in which Dante and Virgil encounter the voyager among the Fraudulent Counsellors. The workshop is part of the Tales of Departure series within the Gates of the Abode season, and takes place in the Gothic, picturesque setting of Abney Park, whose Egyptian Revival gateway has long marked a threshold between the world of the living and the dead.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/life-drawing-theatre-through-me-is-the-way-to-the-sorrowful-59941/", "official_url": "https://abneypark.org/upcoming-events/2026/8/31/life-drawing-theatre-through-me-is-the-way-to-the-sorrowful-city-divine-comedy-inferno-sonnets", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ff20b8136beca411d2c94379862d5b2218145ae7369b979bee2b7aa90f6408a3-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The College Players present A Pain In The Neck", "start": "2026-11-09T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Queen's Theatre", "address": "RM11 1QT Hornchurch", "price": "£12.70", "price_from": "12.70", "price_to": "12.70", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "The College Players present 'A Pain In The Neck', a Halloween themed murder mystery at the Queen's Theatre. A murder is committed in plain sight during a Fright Night event, where blood and screams are all around so nobody takes any notice. Using detective skills and powers of deduction, audiences follow the clues to identify the murderer killing the reputation of the Police. With laughs and screams, motives and suspects, it promises to be a 'bloody' good night out.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-college-players-present-a-pain-in-the-neck-64304/", "official_url": "https://queens-theatre.co.uk/shows-items/the-college-players-present-a-pain-in-the-neck/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/358e0b4a29ccdb5f9db7166db5582888a6a9c48fca1d014eb4b839acb86f61a8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Romeo and Juliet: GCSE Revision Boost", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-02-06T00:00:00Z", "place": "Shakespeare's Globe", "address": "New Globe Walk 21, SE1 9DT London", "price": "£48.00", "price_from": "23.00", "price_to": "48.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["stage/theatre/shakespeare"], "description": "A practical revision session for ages 14–16 on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, designed for GCSE students. It begins with a look inside the Globe Theatre and the history of Shakespeare's London, then moves to a rehearsal studio for an interactive workshop led by an experienced education practitioner, exploring the play's language, characters and themes through acting techniques and drama activities. The session lasts two hours, participants attend independently, and bursaries are available for those facing financial difficulties.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/romeo-and-juliet-gcse-revision-boost-38532/", "official_url": "https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/romeo-and-juliet-gcse-boost/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/50366ccd744387bd15769e691906becbe40d3ba639d8b5459eb89a1baad5eeca-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Shakespeare Schools Festival Nov 2026", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Questors Theatre", "address": "Mattock Lane 12, W5 5BQ London", "price": "£11.50 – £13.50", "price_from": "11.50", "price_to": "13.50", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/shakespeare"], "description": "An evening of Shakespeare performed by local school students as part of the world's largest youth drama festival. It is presented by Coram Shakespeare Schools, a national cultural education charity, whose festival gives students from more than 350 schools a platform to develop oracy and teamworking skills, grow in confidence and perform abridged plays on a professional theatre stage for their community.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/shakespeare-schools-festival-nov-2026-70226/", "official_url": "https://questors.org.uk/event/shakespeare-schools-festival-nov-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/50ee5defd2e52ef00d19e65ab7407391351b316661d681d485676bfc109033f8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lost Dog – The Last Hamlet", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Sadler's Wells East", "address": "Carpenters Road 101, E20 2AR London", "price": "From: £15.00", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/dance-theatre"], "description": "Lost Dog – The Last Hamlet is a dance-theatre work imagining the final performance of Hamlet, after which Shakespeare's play will never be staged again. It is made by Lost Dog, an award-winning dance and theatre company led by director and choreographer Ben Duke. Having learned his drama has been cancelled, Hamlet takes the stage one last time with new material, hoping to persuade the audience to let him stay. In the company's hands, Shakespeare's most iconic character becomes the starting point for a darkly comic exploration of existence, love, revenge, and the stories we cannot seem to escape.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lost-dog-the-last-hamlet-74767/", "official_url": "https://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/lost-dog-the-last-hamlet/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/94bb4dd7d793f8d5f650fb76f2fe0d9fd1c512c3592b05d877e5833ed684f44b-600.webp"}, {"title": "Hamlet Hail to the Thief", "start": "2026-11-06T19:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Barbican Centre (Cinema)", "address": "Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS London", "price": "GBP 38", "price_from": "36.00", "price_to": "144.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "music/rock"], "description": "'Hamlet Hail to the Thief' is a stage show that fuses theatre, music and movement, distilling Shakespeare's great tragedy with Radiohead's critically acclaimed album into a live experience. It is co-created by Thom Yorke and directors Steven Hoggett and Christine Jones, with Yorke reworking the band's sixth album into a deconstructed score performed by live musicians. Elsinore has a new ruler, and the show centres on Hamlet and Ophelia's awakening to the lies and corruption infecting their war-like state. Originally produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company and Factory International, it runs at the Barbican for a strictly limited season.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hamlet-hail-to-the-thief-46116/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/887ec008afb9e6669e51da31810f447a10bf81e849e5c3ed8ab34db17b95c3db-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Hamlet Hail to the Thief", "start": "2026-10-31T19:45:00Z", "end": "2027-01-23T19:45:00Z", "place": "Barbican Arts Centre", "address": "Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS London", "price": "From £34 (including a £4 transaction fee); £18 tickets for ages 16–29 from public booking date", "price_from": "34.00", "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["music/rock/alternative", "stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Hamlet Hail to the Thief is a live stage show that fuses theatre, music and movement, bringing Shakespeare's tragedy and Radiohead's album together on one stage. It is co-created by Thom Yorke and directors Christine Jones and Steven Hoggett, with Yorke reworking the band's sixth album into a deconstructed score performed live by musicians. In this frenetic retelling, Elsinore has become a surveillance state where paranoia reigns, and Hamlet and Ophelia awake to lies and corruption revealed by ghosts and music. The production, played by a cast of actors and musicians (though Radiohead themselves are not performing), distils the tragedy to its dark and glittering emotional core.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hamlet-hail-to-the-thief-34802/", "official_url": "https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2026/event/hamlet-hail-to-the-thief", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c05fba420aa2262e6b2b67accbe34b5ba59ccb29f859d144fa1ec2f09a96c83c-1200.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": "THE DIONYSIA", "start": "2026-11-08T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Union Theatre", "address": "Old Union Arches, 229 Union Street, SE1 0LR London", "price": "£13.50", "price_from": "13.50", "price_to": "13.50", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "THE DIONYSIA is a theatre show at the Union Theatre, running about two hours with an interval and containing violence. It is presented by Metalore and consists of four new plays inspired by the ancient Greek classics, written by Anna Ebert, Carly Whittaker, Lucien von Schomberg and Max Quiney.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-dionysia-39968/", "official_url": "https://uniontheatre.biz/show/the-dionysia/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/50c89c3532cedfa62fb27bf64bb60f1b3adc45ce8a76c834b9d86ade7724bc42-1200.webp"}, {"title": "(Un)Shakespearean Nightmares", "start": "2026-11-07T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "£16, concessions £14", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy"], "description": "(Un)Shakespearean Nightmares is a fast-paced comedy in which Shakespeare's forgotten and iconic characters rebel against the Bard himself. Voila! Theatre Festival and The Playground Theatre present the show, whose cast plays multiple roles in a surreal battle to rewrite destiny and reclaim their stories from their tyrannical creator. It blends farce, parody, and meta-theatre and is recommended for ages 15 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/unshakespearean-nightmares-65864/", "official_url": "https://www.theplaygroundtheatre.org.uk/projects/unshakespeareannightmares", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0c8351e37d2fe144a7517d708c1896ce00f57c8905e3aef963bad633c63dca1a-1200.webp"}]}