{"title": "Marlo", "start": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Space", "address": "Westferry Road 269, E14 3RS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["art/media-art/video-art", "stage/theatre/absurd"], "description": "\"Marlo\" is an absurdist theatre and video installation piece in which a young woman stuck in her patterns ferociously debates with her future self, seeking a way forward. Writer Tilda Forss and director Meeri Aro created it, performed by Hille Auvinen and Luca Singelnstein, with video installations by Alberto Löfman Arranz and Tilda Forss. It is produced by Tilda Forss and Krisu Mäki. Marlo navigates long distance love, gender identity, exercise addiction and sudden grief in a living room where her past and future selves meet.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/marlo-65911/", "official_url": "https://space.org.uk/event/marlo/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/246b11eef3f5250915d8c5449715e802a31fd168507d8a7f2aefb883539624ab-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Space", "address": "Westferry Road 269, E14 3RS London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Dünyada", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Space", "address": "Westferry Road 269, E14 3RS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/solo-show"], "description": "Dünyada, meaning \"on earth\", is a formally adventurous solo theatre performance that tears the fabric of the one-person play through cinematic camera work, visual extension and sound design. Internationally acclaimed actor and director Mehmet Ali Nuroğlu brings it to Voila! Theatre Festival, reimagining Will Eno's celebrated monologue Title and Deed. A man arrives with a suitcase, a camera, and a voice that seems sad somehow, offering an evocative exploration of alienation and belonging and an existential look at love and death in a digital age. Nuroğlu manages lighting and soundscapes in real-time, creating a parallax between his physical body and his digital ghost; the result is intimate, funny, unsettling, and deeply human.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dunyada-39749/", "official_url": "https://space.org.uk/event/dunyada/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b520d680fd8e97572b2c73547e935c6af4b68eb985ef6c03ffff15264603d95a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "La Distance", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-02-13T00:00:00Z", "place": "Young Vic", "address": "66 The Cut, SE1 8LZ London", "price": "GBP 25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "science/astronomy"], "description": "La Distance is a play set in 2077, when Earth is breaking and part of humanity lives in exile on Mars. 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": "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", "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": "Sensitive is Not Crazy or The World through the Eyes of a Highly Sensitive Child (VOILA! 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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": "The Literal Translation (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-19T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-19T16:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£8", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/performance-art", "comedy"], "description": "The Literal Translation is a bilingual, autobiographical show combining gender-fluid prose, verse, comedy and song, with some foolhardy attempts at actual French. It is written and performed by performance poet Alice d'Lumiere, who was inspired by failing to order a coffee in French while performing at a festival in Avignon. The piece is a playful, silly but absurdly honest response to that failure, about late life learning, shifting identity, non-conforming voices and romanticizing the exotic. The show runs for 60 minutes and is recommended for ages 16 and up, contains some mild swearing, and is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-literal-translation-voila-festival-60544/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/the-literal-translation/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/abbf8c57494617636871f208b5545ec5ce0a76cebfd31253d112086f42d5e235-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Meet Me in The Dressing Room", "start": "2026-11-16T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Jago Dalston", "address": "Kingsland Road 440, E8 4AA London", "price": "Check Listings", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/activism", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "Meet Me in The Dressing Room is a solo performance show at the edge of history, in which a glittering showgirl of the apocalypse transforms her dressing room into a site of political organisation and resistance to a fascist moment. It is created and performed by Sophie, with an industrial soundscape by Vyvyan Stewardson built around Diane DiPrima's Revolutionary Letters and original costuming by Max Allen emblematic of leaders who offered radical hope. Through enigmatic and referential choreography, movement, live action and dirty tricks, the ritual nature of hope and defeat is embodied as the body is pushed to its extremes hoping to liberate the body politic. The show is completely self funded, with all profits going directly to the artists involved and tiered ticket prices, including free tickets for disabled persons' carers or companions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/meet-me-in-the-dressing-room-92823/", "official_url": "https://www.thejagodalston.com/event/meet-me-in-the-dressing-room/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0260ce7eadf0d1a772b8a42a48dd91f62aa1306d2fe1de5588145677183045bb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Answer Me, Pythia (Work-in-Progress)", "start": "2026-11-14T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £12)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "A work-in-progress performance sharing in which a performer and a ventriloquist's dummy share one voice between two bodies. It is made by Stina Fors, a performance artist, choreographer and experimental vocalist whose work centres on the voice. The piece continues her research into ventriloquism and its lineage, from oracle to witch to comedian, asking what happens to a voice when the belief system around it changes. It follows a two-week residency at the venue as part of the UNREAL festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/answer-me-pythia-work-in-progress-73836/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/answer-me-pythia/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d5ac507c35c4db13319d0fadf8fa95219744889eeae7575358898d018760615c-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, "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": "The Swan, the Werewolf and Gianpiero", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "£16 (General Admission); concessions £14", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy/absurd-comedy"], "description": "A dark, physical, absurd comedy in which a backstage breakup between tango partners spirals into chaos when Roxana ends her relationship with Mateo five minutes before their performance. Director Gianpiero, an eccentric 'artistic genius' and alleged descendant of Julius Caesar, decides to transform the disaster into his greatest masterpiece, casting Mateo as a werewolf and Roxana as a swan while manipulating them in front of a live audience. The result is an unhinged collision of Argentine tango, conspiracies and theatrical madness, with the director bowing while the actors call an ambulance. Voila! Theatre Festival and The Playground Theatre present the show, created by artists including Agata Nielsen, Erwin Janke, Mateusz Mirek and Maddy Miron, with Krystian Godlewski as consulting director, lasting 60 minutes with no interval.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-swan-the-werewolf-and-gianpiero-65858/", "official_url": "https://www.theplaygroundtheatre.org.uk/projects/theswanthewolfandgiawerenpiero", "image": "https://noky.io/images/be73cdbda9d281fd5a5e1710d386c4b17e5e9c77621dc11121daf6f03c0bc3a0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Ugly One", "start": "2026-11-17T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-19T18:30:00Z", "place": "Arcola Theatre", "address": "Ashwin Street 24, E8 3DL London", "price": "GBP 15–25", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "25.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy-drama"], "description": "A theatre production at the Arcola Theatre: Marius von Mayenburg's razor-sharp satire about beauty, identity and self-love, directed by Ramin Gray twenty years after its premiere at the Royal Court.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-ugly-one-34735/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Do You Know Where To Go From Here?", "start": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Space", "address": "Westferry Road 269, E14 3RS London", "price": "", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy", "society/migration"], "description": "Do You Know Where To Go From Here? is a one-woman dark comedy about grief in relation to family, faith and migration. Sophie wakes up in a strange space surrounded by clothes, with no way out, and tries to escape by tidying up, facing old wounds about love and loss. It is based on real events and tells a story about reframing our way of being in this world and the humour and resilience it takes to live well. It is part of the VOILÀ! Theatre Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/do-you-know-where-to-go-from-here-40973/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/do-you-know-where-to-go-from-here-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6d67e5a5545583366fe7a8d9c59047fac0529fb5a18dc31a8541ace7df6b7e6b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mortelle (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-14T21:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T22:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£15", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/clowning"], "description": "Mortelle is a French solo-clown show in which a sculpture comes to life to tell the story of Marie's journey alongside her mother, who died from Motor Neurone Disease. Clown performer and co-creator Marie Pichon Varin, who is both a clown and a sculptor, and director and co-creator Sophie Besse are behind it. Produced by the award-winning theatre company PSYCHEdelight, it uses poetry and humour to confront illness and death on stage. Performed in French, without subtitles, it runs 50 minutes and is recommended for ages 10 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mortelle-voila-festival-60532/", "official_url": "https://www.psychedelight.org/mortelle", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a7e3aea848c081bbd9aa65d2a8f3687a0a6500d8fad24ad64e78f1c842018c9f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Mother Tongue", "start": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Space", "address": "Westferry Road 269, E14 3RS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/horror"], "description": "Mother Tongue is a theatre show about women whose identities have been altered or taken by violence, whose sisterhood emerges from the earth each full moon desperate to have their stories heard. It mixes live music, spoken word, scenes and movement, drawing on ritualistic theatre and the horror genre, with an original score played and sung live and text in English and the performers' native languages. It is written and directed by Gabrielle Hofmann, composed and musically directed by Ciara Cogley, with assistant producers Arne van der Esch and Karol Stanisz, and is an Out of Place Theatre production.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mother-tongue-65912/", "official_url": "https://space.org.uk/event/mother-tongue/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/72b0ea1ec39b5a4a41f52dde188db2434406315dddddbdacc0ee07b2bcd3ae92-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Seat of Me (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T15:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/migration", "stage/solo-show"], "description": "The Seat of Me is an intimate autobiographical solo performance staged at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden as part of the VOILA! Festival. It is written and performed by Giulia A.Cryan and produced by Iter Pictures. 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": "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", "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/2414ad5468ad247cc93f57745a070b34a756c786c4590c34a331ad99771ee991-1200.webp"}]}