{"title": "Lightstreams", "start": "2026-11-02T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z", "place": "Theatre503", "address": "The 503Studio, Moat Street, Nine Elms, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://theatre503.com/whats-on/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "society/migration"], "description": "Lightstreams is a stage play about a migrant couple, Maurice and Hermia, who have made their home in the UK. Written by Mary Mazzilli and directed by Richard Bland, it follows care worker Maurice as he is torn between the residents of an elderly care home and his own family when a global crisis forces him to live there full-time. 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. 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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. 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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": "Samira", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-03-13T00:00:00Z", "place": "Dorfman - National Theatre", "address": "National Theatre, Upper Ground, SE1 9PX Ground South Bank, London", "price": "GBP 24", "price_from": "24.00", "price_to": "56.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/samira-tickets/2027/02/04/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/politics", "stage/theatre"], "description": "Samira is a new stage play at the Dorfman theatre. British-Lebanese writer Carmen Nasr makes her National Theatre debut with this political play, directed by Emily Burns and starring May Calamawy. Inspired by true events, it follows London academics thrown into crisis when a Syrian blogger they follow vanishes in Damascus during the Arab Spring, raising questions of authenticity, political upheaval and identity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/samira-63511/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d59d407e34978faf095fcfb102913c3318df3f810cf9c3076690af8ad6380c7f-600.webp"}, {"title": "How To Cry In A House Full of Children", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Space", "address": "Westferry Road 269, E14 3RS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "\"How To Cry In A House Full of Children\" is a play performed at The Space. Originally from Uruguay and brought to the UK by True Life Productions, it is a powerful and intimate portrait of a mother driven to the brink of emotional collapse. Through memory, confession and raw vulnerability, this poetic work explores the invisible labour of motherhood and the longing to be truly seen. Playwright and director Victoria Vera and performer and choreographer Carolina Piñeyro Duarte lead a creative team including UK producer Rosina Piovani.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/how-to-cry-in-a-house-full-of-children-65904/", "official_url": "https://space.org.uk/event/how-to-cry-in-a-house-full-of-children/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/918076b8608160d31b4a7ebde935543f7ab63016fe31f4b59ca1674788187b1b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Baby", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Ovalhouse Theatre", "address": "Kennington Oval 52-54, SE11 5SW London", "price": "", "price_from": "24.00", "price_to": "24.00", "tickets_url": "https://brixtonhouse.co.uk/book-online/315864", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/contemporary-play"], "description": "Baby is a play about a young woman called Baby who has had it tough and wants to keep Bliss, but something terrible stands in her way, forcing her to solve a problem in which the audience becomes part of her solution. 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The evening presents four works by Olivia Bennett, Isaiah Weekes, Roger Robinson and Yomi Sode, performed by actors, plus an extract from James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time. 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A father still on Earth struggles to maintain his relationship with his daughter, who is building a new life on Mars, as they attempt to build a dialogue through very long-distance calls. It is an intimate, inventive play by Portuguese playwright and director Tiago Rodrigues, current director of the Festival d'Avignon, where it was first performed, exploring separation, hope and the bond between parent and child within a collapsing world. Original cast members Alison Dechamps and Adama Diop reprise their roles as father and daughter.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/la-distance-63386/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/17e7659591cddc3c7f1e66a66d0d883adbae838ac47fa63a58d027619c0ddf2f-600.webp"}, {"title": "Till the Stars Come Down", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Network Theatre", "address": "Lower Road 246a, SE1 8SJ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.ticketsource.com/networktheatre", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Network Theatre Company holds auditions for its production of \"Till the Stars Come Down\", a play by Beth Steel directed by Alex T Hornby, an amateur production in association with Nick Hern Books. The play is set on a scorching summer's day, where the Stone family gathers to celebrate Sylvia's wedding to Marek, a Polish immigrant. As vodka and beer flow freely, long-buried resentments, secrets, and cultural friction boil over, testing family loyalties. It is funny in the way families are funny until the ground shifts and it heads somewhere darker, toward the things the sisters have kept from each other for years.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/till-the-stars-come-down-37324/", "official_url": "https://www.networktheatre.org/show/till-the-stars-come-down/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2310406e9480e77f90aa8c48dfcea66b98949e95f6dd5787b576396c890c305b-2000.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"}]}