{"title": "Men Don’t Blush (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-21T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-21T20:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "Men Don't Blush is an award-winning Anglo-Spanish one-man show combining physical theatre, clown and text. Co-created by Spanish artist Jose Parra and award-winning British director Jamie Wood, it explores masculinity, vulnerability and identity. While making gazpacho at home, Ignacio is drawn into a world where reality and imagination blur, meeting a flamboyant spirit guide, a charismatic self-help guru and a clown whose confidence is quietly falling apart.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/men-dont-blush-voila-festival-60548/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/men-dont-blush/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c3dde82f01c86900e730081aeeeeb8fed1896c76ad1c2f6b6805d043960567ad-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-21T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-21T20:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-22T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-22T18:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "One Man's Land", "start": "2026-11-16T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-16T20:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/dark-comedy"], "description": "One Man's Land is a dark comedy play about petty neighbours turning violent, told by one woman playing ten characters in one hour. Written and performed by Josie Rose Embleton and directed by Esther Fernández Guerra, it is created by an all-female, international LAMDA alumni team. Margaret's house sits on an old battlefield where history seems to repeat, and peace is hard to keep in this fast-paced journey of increasingly questionable decisions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/one-mans-land-60538/", "official_url": "https://www.etceteratheatrecamden.com/events/one-mans-land", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2ee066328581424e7673e1f27c252a703aabc2db15b56323346490b5a1f230bd-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Voice of Butterflies", "start": "2026-11-11T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T16:00:00Z", "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/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! 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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"}, {"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": "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": "A Song and Dance", "start": "2026-11-17T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £16)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/play"], "description": "A Song and Dance is a theatre performance about masking, performing and 'acting the part.' Created and performed by Action Hero, with text by Gemma Paintin and James Stenhouse and direction by Gemma Paintin. A reluctant actor, lost inside a recurring nightmare filled with the phantoms of his disapproving ancestors, returns to the stage to conquer an 8-year period of intense stage fright, replays his own life story and starts to lose the plot. He re-writes his anxiety dreams live on stage with the audience, in the hope of banishing the ghosts of performances past.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-song-and-dance-73838/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/17ed1a4add0e852f4da63c74cdfec18f2d0991d9c62e62c5893554685f93b209-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Dragon Boiz Present: The Full Monty", "start": "2026-11-20T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pleasance", "address": "Carpenters Mews, N7 9EF London", "price": "From £15.00", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/cabaret"], "description": "Dragon Boiz Present: The Full Monty is a bold, hilarious and sexy cabaret show that reimagines the iconic British classic film The Full Monty. It is created and performed by the Dragon Boiz, an all-Asian cast, and blends cabaret, comedy, striptease, drag and 90s nostalgia into one high-energy night out. Set against the backdrop of London nightlife, it explores masculinity, vulnerability, identity and the joy of taking up space, with razor-sharp comedy, outrageous audience interaction and iconic music. The show contains moderate nudity and flashing lights and is for ages 18 and over as a guideline.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dragon-boiz-present-the-full-monty-63886/", "official_url": "https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/dragon-boiz-present-full-monty", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e51067d016c7bcd5eed629eb1d80b5b6927052c5e3498acc52a6c697f86b73b1-1200.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": "Deep, Deep Waters", "start": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "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", "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": "Voila! Theatre Festival", "start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "Double Bill Passes £23; Full Festival Pass £105", "price_from": "23.00", "price_to": "105.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "Voila! Theatre Festival is a multilingual, multicultural theatre festival running from 3rd to 21st November, celebrating bold new voices and stories on stage with a curated series of double shows. It is presented by Voila! Europe together with The Playground Theatre, which welcomes the festival back to its venue. The programme includes shows such as Much Crazy About Nothing, a contemporary dark comedy about a professional breakup service, alongside pieces on masculinity, migrant mothers and Shakespeare's characters in revolt. 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": "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", "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": "Devour (VOILA! Festival)", "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", "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-voila-festival-60526/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/devour/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9634f0d4deb05bc0a6de7c62232d05bd8abebbd7dab1ec149527f4a77f8a2527-1200.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", "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": "Sensitive is Not Crazy or The World through the Eyes of a Highly Sensitive Child (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T19:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£12", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "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": "Double Bill: tell me straight & aggy", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "King's Head", "address": "Upper Street 115, N1 1QN London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "society/queer"], "description": "A double bill of two critically acclaimed queer plays, 'tell me straight' and 'aggy', performed in the Main House. Both are written by Paul Bradshaw, presented by SH Productions and telling tales, and follow a critically acclaimed run at the Park Theatre. 'tell me straight' is a fast-paced, semi-autobiographical coming-of-adulthood play about a man whose hookups are all straight, who sets out on a 30-day detox of no booze, no fast food and no men. 'aggy' is a bold one-act play about privilege, gender, race and creativity, following couple Lawrence and Mahlik as a fabricated alter ego for Lawrence's art brings uncomfortable truths to the surface.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/double-bill-tell-me-straight-aggy-43414/", "official_url": "https://kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/double-bill-tell-me-straight-and-aggy-t8hc", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ed022b5775129499d5df9e41f5eff795ce0c57f310cb2776c278d7f69e2894b1-2000.webp"}]}