{"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", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-15T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T18:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Perpetuity (Work-in-Progress)", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £10), all orders subject to a £2 transaction fee", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/clowning"], "description": "Perpetuity (Work-in-Progress) is a solo theatre show by Shambles Ensemble, staged in the Members Bar of Battersea Arts Centre as part of the UNREAL festival. Created by the company and directed by Chris Yarnell, it fuses visual and physical storytelling, clowning, performance art and illusion to explore what it means to spend an eternity, what constitutes a soul, and how resilient the human spirit is. Inspired by Dorian Gray, lockdown and pot plants, the 60-minute show asks how you would spend forever and follows a life that is never quite finished. It is recommended for ages 14 and up and contains haze, flashing lights, sudden loud noises and themes of loss, death and suicide.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/perpetuity-work-in-progress-73832/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/perpetuity/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d1e93627a3b674fe2374f86bb3901b996fd63b0bc39ef68e33010d8035d27498-2000.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": "Pinned (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-15T21:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T22:00:00Z", "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"], "description": "Pinned, part of the VOILA! Festival, is a bilingual theatre piece set in contemporary Paris about love, purpose and belonging. It follows Claire, a New Zealand academic finishing her master's in social anthropology, who meets Léo, a disillusioned Parisian cellist, as the two women form a bond that challenges them to face who they are and what they want. Written in English and French by Anthea Freya Hill and directed by Mia Leahy, it features Hill and Marie Gouault on stage with live music by Angèle Decreux. The show runs 60 minutes and is recommended for ages 14 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/pinned-voila-festival-60535/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/pinned/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8369383894a0978695942aa0e8cd20ba1ebbb28ad4d29350741e90f259fdfe80-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Escaping Oneself", "start": "2026-11-13T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "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": ["stage/theatre", "literature"], "description": "Escaping Oneself is a haunting, intimate solo performance blending feats of memory, theatre and humour, in which literature becomes a line of flight. Writer, actor and mnemonist Chloé Vivarès performs it, from an original concept by magician Yann Frisch. It tells of two friends: Alice, an actress, and Chloé, an author with hyperthymesia, the ability to memorize and recount every detail of her life, demonstrated live on stage. Blurring reality and fiction, it explores the persistence of memories and the impossibility of forgetting, celebrating the books we read.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/escaping-oneself-73835/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/escaping-oneself/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e3acce6bef7dda7f74e33a1054809374e0e6e72118023e4e35c135500206b2ed-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Peter Rugman is Mort Whimsey in The Animagical Museum of Delights - Work in Progress", "start": "2026-11-07T19:40:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pleasance", "address": "Carpenters Mews, N7 9EF London", "price": "From £8.00", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/stand-up"], "description": "A work-in-progress comedy show in which Peter Rugman plays Mort Whimsey, the defrosting mid-century mogul behind Whimsey Studios. Together with his cartoon sidekick Lucky the Possum, Mort defends his legacy, confronts past scandals and debunks suspicious accidents. It is a dark and hilarious one-man journey through capitalism, nostalgia and animagical delights. The show contains strong language and themes including death, suicide and corporate abuse, and is recommended for ages 16 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/peter-rugman-is-mort-whimsey-in-the-animagical-museum-of-del-63936/", "official_url": "https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/peter-rugman-mort-whimsey-animagical-museum-delights-work-progress", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a7886a3c9e0b51b069ad85e959fecd28084a3e273c861e02db7914d04bdfb1ff-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Binary lives - Where fate takes us", "start": "2026-11-06T21:00:00Z", "end": null, "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", "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": "Hamish Lloyd Barnes: Stage Presence (WIP)", "start": "2026-11-19T21:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pleasance", "address": "Carpenters Mews, N7 9EF London", "price": "from £10.00", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/character-comedy"], "description": "A work-in-progress character comedy show at the Pleasance London Studio. It is by Hamish Lloyd Barnes, co-artistic director of the award-winning theatre company Spies Like Us and a Leicester Square Sketch Off finalist, directed by Ollie Norton-Smith. The show is a ghost story told by ghosts: the haunted Ableforth Theatre will be demolished tonight, but first it stages one hell of a show, featuring whispering curtains, pouting ghosts of leading men and musical theatre kids. The hour-long performance is for ages 14 and up and contains strong language.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hamish-lloyd-barnes-stage-presence-wip-63921/", "official_url": "https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/hamish-lloyd-barnes-stage-presence-wip", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ff9f07c92892683b5d063745e5eb588744ac9469615bc82fa88b4e49ee13c110-1200.webp"}]}