{"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", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T20:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-14T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T18:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "KOKONA", "start": "2026-11-11T19:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "General Admission £16; Concession | Senior over 60 £14; Access for All | Unemployed | Student £14", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://buytickets.at/theplaygroundtheatre/2278802", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/dance-theatre"], "description": "KOKONA is a dance theatre duet exploring ideas around body, identity and self-expression. It is presented by AllouAqui Dance Theatre, choreographed and performed by Delicia Sefiha and Xavi De Santos, with creative producer Sam De La Torre and some original music by Jordan Dilger. The piece follows KOK and KONA, two figures who explore their own and each other's bodies and playfully experiment with the feminine and masculine, creating space for transformations. It builds a world where bodies are detached from their materiality, imagining how we would experience different norms and constraints if we had not yet embodied them.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/kokona-65865/", "official_url": "https://www.theplaygroundtheatre.org.uk/projects/kokona", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5c3e68c836462188eb6ed12a51e4def5ea7f8121857251b1bd8572205e3a3d9e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "New Stuff: November", "start": "2026-11-01T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "£3", "price_from": "3.00", "price_to": "3.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.thecockpit.org.uk/sales/shows/new-stuff-1", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/drama", "stage/theatre"], "description": "New Stuff: November is a monthly night of rehearsed readings of new theatre writing. It is produced and presented by The Cockpit as part of its Theatre Maker programme. This edition features 'VINZ & VINCÉ' by Federico Balla and Louis Lambeaux, about two friends sharing a room in London, and 'HELD' by Lei, a psychological thriller in which Chinese playwright Leanne is detained and ordered to write under surveillance, raising questions of state power, artistic freedom and who controls the narrative. Afterwards, everyone is welcome to continue conversations in the bar downstairs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/new-stuff-november-39124/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/new_stuff_november_1", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bc58e3ddc44141d5ae96c569c1e91e1f311c55c84ecf38cb164b4d571daaf775-1200.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": "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 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": "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": "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": "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! 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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"}, {"title": "Love vs Fear and My Mother's Prayers", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "£16.45", "price_from": "16.45", "price_to": "16.45", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.thecockpit.org.uk/sales/shows/voila-festival-2026/love-vs-fear-and-my-mothers-pr", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/immersive-theatre"], "description": "An immersive one-woman play in which your smartphone becomes part of the show. Written by Bunmi Aworanti, directed by Estelle Uba and performed by Samantha Kanu, it is produced and presented by Mudhut IO as part of the Voila! Theatre Festival. It follows Kike, a woman in her mid-20s navigating modern dating and family expectations while her mum prays hard for a husband to appear. The audience makes decisions about her love life, spots red flags and competes in games, exploring romantic love, family approval and cultural expectations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/love-vs-fear-and-my-mothers-prayers-39100/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/love_vs_fear_and_my_mothers_prayers", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9140b4599bd8610668339eb535f9407d9f79f9bfe3ed7e8bdf4b91ed311e59ac-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Motionhouse - Hidden", "start": "2026-10-30T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Sadler's Wells East", "address": "Carpenters Road 101, E20 2AR London", "price": "From: £15.00", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "28.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.sadlerswells.com/your-visit/group-bookings-at-sadlers-wells/", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "Motionhouse - Hidden is a dance-circus performance blending spectacular dance and jaw-dropping circus. It is the latest multimedia production by the internationally renowned dance-circus company Motionhouse, exploring how, in an increasingly divided world, light can come out of darkness in times of crisis. Gravity-defying choreography, an emotive soundscape, a shape-shifting set and groundbreaking projections create an immersive world on stage. Fearless performers throw, catch and lift each other with immense precision, building on the company's distinctive and visceral dance-circus language.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/motionhouse-hidden-65030/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3aa2b7e562d87b9503b7b459307ff54877322d1a850816d21c7549dede6624ba-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Binary lives - Where fate takes us", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T20:00:00Z", "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "Full 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/binary-lives---where-fate-take", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "A wordless duet in which two strangers, stuck waiting on a station bench for a train that never arrives, fill the empty hours with increasingly absurd games. It is produced and presented by Dis Equilibre and blends visual, poetic performance with physical theatre and contemporary circus, turning boredom into play and shared silence into an unexpected encounter. The show won the 'Best Direction' award at the Rome Fringe Festival, was selected for the Thessaloniki Fringe, and has been touring Italy for two years.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/binary-lives-where-fate-takes-us-39098/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/binary_lives_-_where_fate_takes_us", "image": "https://noky.io/images/91cc466c7e1d64deacbde3d4b07158d717e837640e5824c0c8df6c7d2164eafa-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Odissi – Ekam: The Many Within the One", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Nehru Centre", "address": "South Audley Street 8, W1K 1HF London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ekam-the-many-within-the-one-centre-for-peace-and-performing-arts-tickets-2003916141122", "category": "dance", "tags": ["dance/indian-classical/odissi"], "description": "A dance evening of Odissi, a classical Indian dance form, titled Ekam: The Many Within the One. Baisali Mohanty presents Ekam, a celebration of diversity and artistic dialogue that brings together traditional Odissi choreographies and contemporary interpretations, exploring the relationship between classical heritage and modern expression. The programme also includes She Exists, a contemporary work set to folk melodies that celebrates a woman's journey of self-discovery and identity. Through movement and storytelling, the performances highlight dance as a medium of personal expression and connection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/odissi-ekam-the-many-within-the-one-74977/", "official_url": "https://www.nehrucentre.org.uk/events/dance-odissi-ekam-the-many-within-the-one/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/09d5eed1766b909ef6d1f3b16dd87b58adfea3f2598beddbab2c385eebe61c4f-600.webp"}, {"title": "A Mouthful Of Tongues", "start": "2026-11-07T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £15)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/a-mouthful-of-tongues/book/469096", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["music/singing", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "A Mouthful of Tongues is a solo performance in which a figure in a suit arrives on an empty stage and voices begin to fill the void from hard-to-locate places. It is created and performed by dancer and choreographer Stina Fors, a performance artist and experimental vocalist whose work centres on the voice. Built on several years of research into the relationship between body and voice, it uses distorted ventriloquism to let multiple identities be seen and heard. The piece explores what a body can hold and what it cannot contain, using the voice as a choreographic tool to ask what we do and do not give a voice to.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-mouthful-of-tongues-73828/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/a-mouthful-of-tongues/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/01bc47dc287f95c2b07c5b99e675c83680758cdaeabe92e11cb67439119350ef-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"}]}