{"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", "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": "(M)Others Between Shores", "start": "2026-11-05T21:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "£17.00 (General Admission, including £1.00 booking fee); concessions from £13.50", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/migration", "stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "(M)others Between Shores is a movement-led ethnodrama exploring migrant motherhood and belonging. Created by Resonant Shore Theatre from the lived experiences of migrant mothers, it blends physical theatre, puppetry, live music and multilingual performance to show how migration reshapes motherhood, identity and belonging. The devised production traces journeys of displacement, resilience and rebuilding home across borders, transforming personal testimony into poetic theatrical language. From the creators of the award-winning Mothering Voices, this intimate ensemble piece celebrates the strength, care and courage of mothers forging new lives.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mothers-between-shores-46242/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/22bbe87cd86c7f26618b7746b099c606c47af9378007858aed374e073964279f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "My Mother Tongue Wants To Disown Me", "start": "2026-11-02T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-02T18:00:00Z", "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/theatre/comedy"], "description": "My Mother Tongue Wants To Disown Me is a dramatic comedy, one woman show staged as part of the VOILA! Festival. Written and performed by Briana Croitoru and directed by Saphira Wing, it follows Madalina, a Romanian girl strained by her relationship with her culture and mother. Trying to erase parts of herself by changing her name and speaking only English, she clashes with her mom, then uncovers photos and letters revealing stories her mum never told her. The 60-minute play, recommended for ages 16+, is about the deep nostalgia we feel for home despite not being connected to it.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/my-mother-tongue-wants-to-disown-me-60514/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/my-mother-tongue-wants-to-disown-me/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e9642c8b6cd87d3116c676b04706f3511b5e0e7bed20052247216c27cc872852-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Mother Tongue", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery", "address": "Conway Street 2, W1T 6BA London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["diy/ceramics"], "description": "Mother Tongue is an exhibition of ceramic sculptures by Avital Sheffer at Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery. Sheffer, an artist based on the North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, draws on her ancestral heritage and experience of migration. Her intricately worked vessels are inscribed with patterns, symbols and fragments of ancient Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic script. The works explore how memory, language and identity are carried across places and generations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mother-tongue-70266/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d91170cac70f17d7fb26755178f85c49e64bb8be0e8d6e4891cb21264c8c6730-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Gorgon Syndrome (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-06T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T16:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£14", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/violence-against-women", "stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "'Gorgon Syndrome' is a piece of physical theatre blending ritual, original music and sign language, part of the VOILA! Festival. It was devised and directed by Tatsiana Popova, Yana Alekseenko, Alana Ivory and Nadzeya Sheibak, and performed by them alongside Nela Agrenich and Sonia Rosa. Four women tell real stories of violence — a journalist, a wife, a stripper and a witness — while the figure of Medusa draws out the truths they are too afraid to tell themselves. Drawing on the myth of Medusa, the performance explores how sexual trauma settles in the body, reshapes everyday life and survives in silence, until trauma at last finds its voice.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gorgon-syndrome-voila-festival-60522/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/gorgon-syndrome/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/517811a8246d215b160b7fca3f58816f3fb50a8b77c0785b6f9cfe054b92669a-1200.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, "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": ""}, {"title": "House of Shame (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T20:00:00Z", "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"], "description": "House of Shame is an electric show about the dirty things women are told to keep to themselves, framed by the experience of growing up as a girl in Brazil. Created by Renata Garcia and Mariana Pereira, with Renata Garcia performing, it is a collective experiment in raw vulnerability and a liberating journey through a messy, irreverent, tropical ritual of soap and sweat. Expect cringy memories, ass-shaking and slutty nuns, with references to alcohol, sex and sexual abuse; recommended for ages 16+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/house-of-shame-voila-festival-60521/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/house-of-shame/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3646fc40002ce4cdb47f6706ec2293371f6a6b0f1f51c5e6c449b9c5d3196cde-2000.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": "Chop-chop! (VOILA! 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Expect audience interaction, sudden dance breaks and a celebration of every messy part of ourselves.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/chop-chop-voila-festival-60516/", "official_url": "https://www.etceteratheatrecamden.com/events/chop-chop", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5fc97a231b5ed00d3440070aa687c415bba3d6ea9a9052b51aad377b255e3d06-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Voice of Butterflies (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-04T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T18:00:00Z", "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! Festival at the Etcetera Theatre on Camden High Street. Created by the company Hilanderas, directed by Stephanie Prieto and performed by Stephanie Prieto and Esmeralda Sears, it draws an analogy between butterflies' lack of a physical voice and how trauma silences parts of the human body. The narrative follows a woman and her therapist on a regressive journey into childhood to uncover a secret held within the flesh, triggering a metamorphosis in which other women listen to the protagonist within the sound of her silence. 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-voila-festival-60519/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/the-voice-of-butterflies/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0e53b6b5efb173a3ed6ab8b18e3bd1a35a7ec13e53e468e751ee3a3fd1318a0a-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": "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"}, {"title": "Home Song", "start": "2026-10-02T10:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T13:30:00Z", "place": "Unicorn Theatre", "address": "Tooley Street 147, SE1 2HZ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["stage/musical"], "description": "Home Song is an interactive musical for babies aged 6 to 18 months, a multi-sensory show about young Adwoa and her mum on a journey to find the true meaning of home, from the streets of Kumasi to the heart of London. It is written, directed and composed by theatre-maker and composer Cassiopeia Berkeley-Agyepong, and produced by the Unicorn Theatre, originally commissioned with Talawa Theatre Company. The show features puppetry, interactive soundscapes and a cappella singing, and returns after a sold-out run last year. Adults and babies sit on the floor, with babies encouraged to play and explore under adult supervision.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/home-song-39957/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4c92ca04bc0acf5ecab10a1a749e2a29f1f99a1969b71f6572d92dca29071a9a-2000.webp"}, {"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": "Three Little Pigs", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "£20.57, concessions £18.51 (incl booking fees)", "price_from": "20.57", "price_to": "20.57", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Three Little Pigs (or Chronicles of the Building Site) is a play at The Cockpit Theatre, part of the VOILA! Theatre Festival. Written by Inna Cebotari and directed by Sava Cebotari, it is produced and presented by Kinth Square, with four performers moving between three interwoven theatrical worlds. On a British building site, three construction workers navigate inductions, deadlines and banter, while elsewhere Mummy Pig reads her three sons a book that blurs work, migration, family and ambition. The play combines contemporary writing, physical theatre, visual storytelling and humour to explore craftsmanship, migration, masculinity, loneliness and the idea of home.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/three-little-pigs-39104/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/63fc4e4ab2323be69539c0124b29e13de52b5a95c0e58d750ffd14ce285a6878-1200.webp"}, {"title": "I CAN SEE THE SUN", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-21T20:15:00Z", "place": "Hope & Anchor", "address": "Upper Street 207, N1 1RL London", "price": "£18", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/dark-comedy", "literature"], "description": "A surreal, darkly humorous drama inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy. A mother and daughter lose their way on the North York Moors and meet a stranger in the night, questioning whether to cross into deeper despair or find their path before sunrise. It is a visually compelling new play by emerging inter-disciplinary theatre company Light The Night, written by Tania Khan and developed with support from ArcolaLAB, tenderly exploring ancestral trauma, hope and recovery. The National Theatre's New Work Department have described the writing as mysterious, unnerving, lyrically gothic, theatrical and engaging drama.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/i-can-see-the-sun-43339/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Some Woman", "start": "2026-11-02T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Dorfman Theatre", "address": "", "price": "GBP 60", "price_from": "60.00", "price_to": "99.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Some Woman is a new play about Julie Robson, a woman used to being overlooked, whose life changes when an encounter on a station platform goes wrong and she feels compelled to make a stand. It asks what happens when an ordinary woman refuses to be quiet and pits herself against the forces that shape the world. The play is by Helen Edmundson and directed by Blanche McIntyre, with Anne-Marie Duff playing Julie. It runs 1hr 50min with no interval and contains strong and misogynistic language.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/some-woman-46134/", "official_url": "https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/some-woman/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fe52fabfefdc48316071b91c3fbca2c8347164dedae539a015a1bc216d63ff42-2000.webp"}]}