{"title": "I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/000/HO00018837/cinecity-2026-i-see-buildings-fall-like-lightning?filter=", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning is a bittersweet drama about five friends in Birmingham who have known each other since childhood and, now in their 30s, must deal with economic pressures, unfulfilled dreams and unravelling secrets. Directed by Clio Barnard, whose previous work includes Ali & Ava, Dark River and The Selfish Giant, with a screenplay by Enda Walsh. The film stars Anthony Boyle, Daryl McCormack, Jay Lycurgo, Lola Petticrew and Joe Cole, an ensemble of up-and-coming British and Irish actors whose lives are portrayed with great on-screen chemistry. 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Developed through interviews with migrant health and social care workers across London, Essex and the South East, the play explores migration, care, racism, mental health and belonging. Lumenis Theatre and Turnpike Productions present this production, whose 2 November performance is followed by a post-show Q&A with the writer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lightstreams-65426/", "official_url": "https://theatre503.com/whats-on/lightstreams/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5f4ecd42d2a9e8b8e517dc7a1a8b7ea6e2cfa4c15e83384c23034d0afe896f72-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Night is Fading Away", "start": "2026-10-30T14:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "The Night is Fading Away is a film from Argentina directed by Ramiro Sonzini and Ezequiel Salinas. 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'Into The Light' by Emmy Award winning filmmaker Mikey Corker follows two young South African surfers, Indiphile Indi Osinachi and Ntando Biggie Msibi, whose dreams carry them across an ocean they were never meant to touch, showing education as resistance and the search for belonging. The Q&As feature Noah Lane, Whitmarsh, Hunt and Corker.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/fault-lines-into-the-light-double-bill-qa-74668/", "official_url": "https://riversidestudios.co.uk/whats-on/u40-fault-lines-into-the-light-double-bill-qa/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/631ed189dba7c0da7bf8ba36437c5a11e82bad16cf87c5c08c523186f251c0f6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Down Terrace", "start": "2026-11-02T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Nickel Cinema", "address": "Clerkenwell Road 117-119, EC1R 5BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/crime-drama"], "description": "A launch screening of DOWN TERRACE followed by a Q&A, with a free signed fanzine for every ticket holder. Ben Wheatley's 2009 debut follows father and son Bill and Karl, who return from prison to their Brighton home convinced someone in their small criminal operation betrayed them, as suspicion, old resentments and sudden violence fill the family kitchen. The film turns the British gangster story into cramped black comedy about a family destroying itself, made for less than £10K. The evening celebrates the launch of Wheatley's fanzine film & television Thoughts & notes 5, the Low Budget issue, which unpacks the thoughts, processes and mistakes behind the film and includes an interview with Charlotte Regan about making her debut feature Scrapper.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/down-terrace-39474/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f3beb82c08fda1b316347222fa50e23f8f0ea4c777b248b0e6555783fa4e817b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Affluenza", "start": "2026-09-26T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "Riverside Studios", "address": "Queen Caroline Street 101, W6 9BN London", "price": "GBP 28", "price_from": "28.00", "price_to": "32.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/affluenza-tickets/2026/10/28/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Affluenza is a dark comedic play about wealth and the consequences of immense privilege. It is written and directed by Andy Sandberg, who stages its world premiere with a company including Noah Schnapp, Janette Manrara, Juliet Cowan, Wallis Currie-Wood, Rupert Young and Donald Sage Mackay. Set within the extreme wealth of the Hamptons, it begins after a teenager's drunken car ride ends in devastation and asks whether a person who has grown up with so much privilege can truly tell right from wrong. Inspired by true events around a controversial legal defence, it examines what happens when money and entitlement are passed from one generation to the next.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/affluenza-46112/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5908cd32ae100dd6f2a44323d90c08139a0e28b77df0cf78e68e6c1dc936ef17-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Boys Who Dance", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Other Palace", "address": "Palace Street 12, SW1E 5JA London", "price": "£5", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Boys Who Dance is a work-in-progress scratch performance of a new play, running for one hour and recommended for ages 14 and up. It was written by Grant Corr and is produced by Mai Elphinstone and Raquel Cipriano, with development guidance and facilitation from R Creatives, an organisation supporting emerging playwrights, and dramaturgical advice from Melissa Syversen. Set in modern-day East Belfast, it follows Val Fitzpatrick, who fled Afghanistan decades ago and runs a pet shop with two teenage assistants, whose ordered life is thrown into chaos when her nephew Rafi appears desperate for refuge. Against rising anti-migrant sentiment and mob mentality, the play explores the human lives these events affect, with funding from Arts Council England.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/boys-who-dance-39523/", "official_url": "https://theotherpalace.co.uk/boys-who-dance/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2888bc0d7aefe916408b77b6aaa86ebf1293a8a1f203cb2491083c5607668512-600.webp"}, {"title": "TWO PLAYS. ONE NIGHT.", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "place": "Union Theatre", "address": "Old Union Yard Arches", "price": "£17", "price_from": "17.00", "price_to": "17.00", "tickets_url": "https://uniontheatre.savoysystems.co.uk/UnionTheatre.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_836.TcsWebTab_837", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Two Plays. One Night. is a double bill of two new plays celebrating original writing and emerging talent, presented by Actor's Instinct Studio Productions after a sold-out run at the King's Head Theatre. Jamie Davis's Beginners, directed by Richard Winsor, unfolds in real time over the thirty minutes before the curtain rises on the most important night in a small group of actors' lives, asking whether pursuing the arts is worth it. Ben Stower's Natural Affairs, directed by Livia Sardão, follows the guests, staff and resident ghosts of a rundown English B&B as secrets become scandals and beliefs are tested. The evening runs 80 minutes with an interval.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/two-plays-one-night-39970/", "official_url": "https://uniontheatre.biz/show/two-plays-one-night/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5baf4aa9fd9bc72e190263d89cc7471bce2d86eff624f1b407bf54ac3ff5414a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Fences", "start": "2026-10-06T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Lyric Hammersmith", "address": "King Street, Lyric Square, W6 0QL London", "price": "GBP 41", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "41.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/fences-tickets/2026/10/28/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "A landmark play by August Wilson, staged in a new production at a London theatre. Directed by award-winning Daniel Bailey, it follows Troy Maxson, a man whose past stands in the way of his family's future. Set in 1950s Pittsburgh, it tells of his wife Rose holding the family together and the reckoning that builds as dreams collide and tempers flare.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/fences-46120/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8669dee810f4e979d31a35b227393d47a5fe89d4876d4646a13c647b6b30eae3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Deep, Deep Waters", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "£16 (General Admission); £14 (Concession | Senior over 60; Access for All | Unemployed | Student)", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://buytickets.at/theplaygroundtheatre/2274582", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "society/class"], "description": "Deep, Deep Waters is a work-in-progress solo drama about a working-class British man, son of immigrants, who has built his life on control and starts to crack. Written and performed by Güni Koçak and directed by James Haddrell, the intimate play follows him as career, family and love begin to strain and his belief that control is safety fractures. It is a funny, tense and quietly moving piece about masculinity, class, silence and the emotional cost of becoming the kind of person the world rewards. Voila! Theatre Festival and The Playground Theatre present it.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/deep-deep-waters-65863/", "official_url": "https://www.theplaygroundtheatre.org.uk/projects/deep-deep-waters", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b099e7696b806de7465c8f0fc5c4fe05eaef4dfff3eece38aca828ff24f69521-1200.webp"}, {"title": "We Anchor in Hope", "start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Hampton Hill Playhouse", "address": "High Street 90, TW12 1NZ Hampton Hill", "price": "£20 (£16 for Members) plus £1.90 transaction fee", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://purchase.hamptonhilltheatre.org.uk/EventAvailability?EventId=4001&ref=bookNow&scroll=timeAndDates", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "We Anchor in Hope is a stage play about the final night of The Anchor, a London pub closing for good, as Kenny and his friends go out with a bang of karaoke, a blow-up sheep and a lot of Campari. As secrets, grudges and forgotten dreams surface and the bar is drunk dry, there is more to lose than just a pub. The sharply funny and melancholy play is by Anna Jordan, the award-winning writer behind TV's Succession, Killing Eve and One Day, and was previously a 2024 hit for the club. This amateur production is staged by Teddington Theatre Club, directed by Joanna Taylor, and recommended for ages 16+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/we-anchor-in-hope-36394/", "official_url": "https://www.hamptonhilltheatre.org.uk/production/we-anchor-hope", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8f1d1bbdc370e40f68e94a0c5d431b4cd9cdaa3080cf35a5de75514c8e1d46e2-1200.webp"}, {"title": "I Can See The Sun", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-21T20:15:00Z", "place": "Hope & Anchor", "address": "Upper Street 207, N1 1RL London", "price": "£18", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "18.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/dark-comedy", "literature"], "description": "A surreal, darkly humorous drama inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy. A mother and daughter lose their way on the North York Moors and meet a stranger in the night, questioning whether to cross into deeper despair or find their path before sunrise. It is a visually compelling new play by emerging inter-disciplinary theatre company Light The Night, written by Tania Khan and developed with support from ArcolaLAB, tenderly exploring ancestral trauma, hope and recovery. The National Theatre's New Work Department have described the writing as mysterious, unnerving, lyrically gothic, theatrical and engaging drama.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/i-can-see-the-sun-43339/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}