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Rikki Henry's production, translated by David Yan and acclaimed in 2023, returns as part of Stratford East's 2027 season. Vanya, in a midlife crisis in a rundown office, faces despondency when his brother-in-law arrives with a proposal to sell the business. Vanya and the doctor Astrov fall for the glamorous Yelena, and long-repressed confessions bring tragic consequences in this darkly witty exploration of unrequited love and quiet despair.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/uncle-vanya-112058/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bdf66c9042ed5183b36ebac847e17c4b0f4f51f3d91ddb35af88f71e17725945-600.webp"}, {"title": "The Comedy About Spies", "start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-10-02T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "New Wimbledon Theatre", "address": "The Broadway 93, SW19 1QG London", "price": "GBP 10", "price_from": "24.00", "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy/farce"], "description": "The Comedy About Spies is an action-packed comedy thriller set in 1960s London, from the creators of The Play That Goes Wrong. 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Kristin Scott Thomas stars as Lyubov Ranevskaya, who returns to her childhood estate to find her family home and beloved cherry orchard under threat. Directed by Ian Rickson, the new adaptation is by Conor McPherson and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions. As old loyalties falter and new ambitions rise, a world of privilege begins to crumble in this deeply moving portrait of love, loss and letting go.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-cherry-orchid-69944/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/eb721f0654cf636be6e1f18910773e1337885610af9b3f39b33b050687f3021d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "A Happy Birthday, Imogen Dutt", "start": "2026-11-17T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/experimental-theatre"], "description": "A Happy Birthday, Imogen Dutt is a theatre piece by Half Chewed. Polly Waldron and Adrian Greensmith devised and perform it, with Luis Odriozola as movement director and performer and Lillian Cheever as designer. Imogen Dutt celebrates her birthday every year while being haunted, and tonight at 25 she learns she did not kill what haunts her. The fictional story, loosely inspired by Mark Fisher's book Capitalist Realism, follows her out to celebrate as she reckons with why it is so hard to imagine alternatives, followed by a creature with an impossible face; it runs 70 minutes with no interval and is for ages 15+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-happy-birthday-imogen-dutt-65859/", "official_url": "https://www.theplaygroundtheatre.org.uk/projects/ahappybirthdayimogendutt", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9eca39f69f30f4da8a6f565cf5e3160a5e6770af69240093774401cc2012f5fa-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible is Going to Happen", "start": "2026-11-19T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Other Palace", "address": "Palace Street 12, SW1E 5JA London", "price": "£20 – £45", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "45.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/dark-comedy"], "description": "This is a dark comedy play at a theatre near Victoria, following a stand-up comic whose perfect romance spirals into obsession, deception and killer punchlines. 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It is written by Sam Gordon-Webb, who also performs alongside Emily Cass and Maryam Gafar. Set in London in December 2086, it begins at the launch party of a new turmeric juice brand where Gwyneth Paltrow is the only VIP who fails to show. The show is described as a gloriously strange, wildly anarchic fable on the seductive fantasy of optimal living, a playful reckoning with wellness and climate anxiety.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-juice-is-cultured-39972/", "official_url": "https://uniontheatre.biz/show/the-juice-is-cultured/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e169bc0c82a29befb225226db191800bbdc9bd6dd20bbca8799e8ffcb382568e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "National Theatre Live: The Misanthrope", "start": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy"], "description": "National Theatre Live: The Misanthrope is a filming of a play, shown live on stage at the National Theatre. Indhu Rubasingham directs Martin Crimp's razor-sharp reimagining of Molière's classic dark comedy, starring award-winner Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) in the title role, alongside Paul Chahidi, Tom Mison and Abigail Cruttenden. Alice, a brilliant novelist, despises the carefully constructed lies of modern society, but the more she challenges those around her, the fiercer the backlash becomes. Soon she must confront the price of speaking her truth in a world that would rather silence her.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/national-theatre-live-the-misanthrope-37848/", "official_url": "https://pcm.picturehouses.com/movie-details/030/HO00018166/national-theatre-live-the-misanthrope", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ceeda67395dc722c5c42065dabcd2a922478ef9de160009a3e5fd666bee07126-1200.webp"}]}