{"title": "Keep Calm and Bring Back the Cricket! (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-03T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T16:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£12.50", "price_from": "12.50", "price_to": "12.50", "tickets_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/keep-calm-and-bring-back-the-cricket/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy/absurd-comedy", "sport/cricket"], "description": "A 45-minute absurd solo comedy playing as part of the VOILA! Festival. When World War III erupts under bizarre circumstances and the Cricket World Cup is cancelled, British couch potato Woodrow MacGuffin sets out to bring the cricket back. Propelled out of his Anglophone comfort zone, he navigates a world of languages and cultures he doesn't understand, racing against the clock across the globe as the war rages on. Recommended for ages 12 and over.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/keep-calm-and-bring-back-the-cricket-voila-festival-60517/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/keep-calm-and-bring-back-the-cricket/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3cbbc45b0d8de5674439a9321652faf297f68682ec944dacc16acd2e9ea30d06-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-03T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T16:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T20:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-05T21:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T22:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Voila! 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Multi-show passes are available, including Double Bill Passes at £23 and a Full Festival Pass at £105 giving access to every show at the venue.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/voila-theatre-festival-65862/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a7c89cee2e65a0ce02de96b9948fac810fa28fdab35854da5b763995234588f7-1200.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": "Pick of Voila!", "start": "2026-11-02T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "£ 5", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.thecockpit.org.uk/sales/shows/voila-festival-2026/pick-of-voila", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "Pick of Voila! is the opening night of the Voila! Theatre Festival, an evening of handpicked excerpts from shows taking part in this year's festival, each followed by a short Q&A with the artist. It is produced and presented by The Cockpit and offers a taste of innovative pan-lingual theatre. The programme features Binary lives - Where fate takes us by Dis Equilibre, Windows of Displacement by Toussaint To Move/Akeim Toussaint Buck, We Are All Fish by YA-TA Collective, Fiasko! by Angela Poulima and The View by Chloe Shyan. The night runs 90 minutes, for ages 14 and up, with welcome drinks, a sneak peek of the shows, and mingling with the artists in the bar.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/pick-of-voila-39126/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/pick_of_voila", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7153772816ae8e03a84acf2dd93db0f815bdc0984bee90a17e7ee8c18cd47b4b-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. The programme includes solo theatre, dark comedy, acrobatics, adaptations and an autobiographical story by a Ukrainian soldier told through music and Ukrainian folk songs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/voila-festival-26-39748/", "official_url": "https://space.org.uk/event/voila-festival-26/", "image": ""}, {"title": "SPECTACLE (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-06T21:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T22:00:00Z", "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/spectacle/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["comedy/character-comedy"], "description": "SPECTACLE (VOILA! Festival) is a solo show in which a world-famous rock superstar arrives before their fans to perform the greatest gig of all time. It is a piece by Finnish comedian Minttu-Maaria Makkonen, produced by HIT Helsinki, combining contemporary clowning, drag and character comedy. The show explores the imagery of stardom and fandom, and masculine charisma in a feminine body. 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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"}, {"title": "Picnic on a Battlefield by Fernando Arrabal", "start": "2026-11-04T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Chelsea Theatre", "address": "", "price": "£25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://sevn.ly/xHnDMj5q", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/absurd", "history/war"], "description": "Picnic on a Battlefield by Fernando Arrabal is a darkly comic and absurdist anti-war play, using humour and the ridiculous to explore the human cost and senselessness of conflict. The evening is in aid of The Royal British Legion Veterans Enterprise and Chelsea Theatre. A live 'Dad's Army' piano bar plays favourite tunes from yesteryear in the bar beforehand from 7pm. Wednesday's performance is a regular show, while the special Gala Night on Thursday raises funds and includes a champagne reception.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/picnic-on-a-battlefield-by-fernando-arrabal-60201/", "official_url": "https://chelseatheatre.org.uk/picnic-on-a-battlefield/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e5e342376779fe6dab49b169730e7dd780746efe7a3626e4b16613587f1b7488-2000.webp"}, {"title": "VOILA! THEATRE FESTIVAL", "start": "2026-11-02T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-22T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "Voila! Theatre Festival is a multi-venue, panlingual fringe theatre festival taking place across London. It is produced by The Cockpit together with partner venues including Barons Court Theatre, Canal Cafe Theatre, Etcetera Theatre, The Playground Theatre, The Space Theatre, Theatro Technis and Upstairs at the Gatehouse. The 2026 edition presents 102 shows in 60 languages by 450 artists over three weeks, alongside scratch nights, live streams, workshops and events, spotlighting challenge and change. It invites audiences to see a show or join a discussion and grow London's transnational theatrical conversation, welcoming all languages, dialects and accents.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/voila-theatre-festival-39125/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/voilafestival", "image": "https://noky.io/images/61189eee67ebcc7ccd079f42dc9d1397d13e03b24a75765a7140c26674931911-600.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": "Three Little Pigs", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "£20.57, concessions £18.51 (incl booking fees)", "price_from": "20.57", "price_to": "20.57", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.thecockpit.org.uk/sales/shows/voila-festival-2026/three-little-pigs", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Three Little Pigs (or Chronicles of the Building Site) is a play at The Cockpit Theatre, part of the VOILA! Theatre Festival. Written by Inna Cebotari and directed by Sava Cebotari, it is produced and presented by Kinth Square, with four performers moving between three interwoven theatrical worlds. On a British building site, three construction workers navigate inductions, deadlines and banter, while elsewhere Mummy Pig reads her three sons a book that blurs work, migration, family and ambition. The play combines contemporary writing, physical theatre, visual storytelling and humour to explore craftsmanship, migration, masculinity, loneliness and the idea of home.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/three-little-pigs-39104/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/63fc4e4ab2323be69539c0124b29e13de52b5a95c0e58d750ffd14ce285a6878-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Do You Know Where To Go From Here? at VOILÀ! 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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"}, {"title": "Balance by Brainfools at VOILÀ! Theatre Festival", "start": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Austrian Cultural Forum", "address": "Rutland Gate 28, London", "price": "", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "18.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/circus"], "description": "Balance is a contemporary circus theatre show by the Austrian-British circus artists Brainfools, presented as part of the VOILÀ! Theatre Festival. It is created and performed by the duo ich-duO (Jared & Toffy), who transform industrial kegs and precarious glass bottles into a playground for breathtaking feats. The show features gravity-defying hand-to-hand acrobatics and the tension of balancing on glass, and explores the joy of finding a partner to help you carry the load. 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": "Terror At The Haunted Starbucks: a Weirdos Comedy Halloween Special", "start": "2026-10-30T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Museum of Comedy", "address": "The Undercroft, St Georges Church, Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2SR", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.museumofcomedy.com/visit-us/booking-information/", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/sketch", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "Terror At The Haunted Starbucks: a Weirdos Comedy Halloween Special is the annual Hallowe'en show from Weirdos Comedy, part arthouse comedy farce and part terrifying horror pantomime. It is written and directed by Adam Larter and stars him alongside Beth Story, Cerys Bradley, Charlie Miller, Charlie Vero-Martin, Ellen Turnill Montoya, Jen Zheng, Kat Cade, Michael Brunström, Mikey Bligh-Smith and Yogie Belle. The show features the best character comedy, sketch and stand-up oddballs of the London comedy scene and is highly interactive, highly daft and very almost rehearsed, welcoming newcomers and fancy dress. It runs 110 minutes including interval, is for ages 18 and over, and carries warnings for horror themes, flashing lights and mild scares with optional interaction.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/terror-at-the-haunted-starbucks-a-weirdos-comedy-halloween-s-37195/", "official_url": "https://www.museumofcomedy.com/terror-at-the-haunted-starbucks-a-weirdos-comedy-halloween-special/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Beneath Still Waters", "start": "2026-11-09T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T18:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/beneath-still-waters/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre", "comedy"], "description": "A solo theatre performance titled Beneath Still Waters, presented as part of the VOILA! Festival. Created and performed by Rebecka Öberg, a Swedish performer and theatre maker based in London, it was developed during an artist residency at WOMB, Mexico City, in 2024. The show blends storytelling, original music and absurd comedy, retelling the tale of the ugly duckling to explore identity, validation and beauty ideals.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/beneath-still-waters-60527/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/beneath-still-waters/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5fd240197e9722b0b106e5c959de9a49391d162ca43f88c200fc3403f956d55e-1200.webp"}]}