{"title": "OPIA (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-21T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-21T16:00:00Z", "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": "OPIA (VOILA! Festival) is a theatre piece about five women orbiting their own personal crises, colliding across a season of dinner parties that lay bare the struggles of modern femininity. It was produced by Roopak K Khara. The show runs 60 minutes, is recommended for ages 18 and over, and carries content warnings for references to AI and deepfakes, child abuse, infertility and mental health, plus possible offensive language and flashing lights. It is performed in English.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/opia-voila-festival-60547/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/opia/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4436da8c7a7e774b44dfddb1813db4008bb349ad8198687c1085a9312c6e6e2e-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-21T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-21T16:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-22T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-22T16:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Overacting through song", "start": "2026-11-15T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T14:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£18", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/musical"], "description": "A comedy show at the VOILA! Festival combining songs with stand-up comedy. It tells of a Taiwanese actor chasing her musical theatre dream who struggles with life's challenges until she realises she does not have to prove her worth. It is written by and stars Yu-Ting Chen, with Gigi Kuo on piano and music by multiple composers. The show lasts 50 minutes and is recommended for ages 10 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/overacting-through-song-60533/", "official_url": "https://www.etceteratheatrecamden.com/events/overacting-through-song", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8d701e8f56df9da92b74ab6ae875803463117f247a16d6f3f9ce2790ca26944f-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": "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": "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": "VOILA! THEATRE FESTIVAL", "start": "2026-11-02T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-22T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "Voila! Theatre Festival is a multi-venue, panlingual fringe theatre festival taking place across London. It is produced by The Cockpit together with partner venues including Barons Court Theatre, Canal Cafe Theatre, Etcetera Theatre, The Playground Theatre, The Space Theatre, Theatro Technis and Upstairs at the Gatehouse. The 2026 edition presents 102 shows in 60 languages by 450 artists over three weeks, alongside scratch nights, live streams, workshops and events, spotlighting challenge and change. It invites audiences to see a show or join a discussion and grow London's transnational theatrical conversation, welcoming all languages, dialects and accents.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/voila-theatre-festival-39125/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/voilafestival", "image": "https://noky.io/images/61189eee67ebcc7ccd079f42dc9d1397d13e03b24a75765a7140c26674931911-600.webp"}, {"title": "Voila Festival '26", "start": "2026-11-02T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Space", "address": "Westferry Road 269, E14 3RS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "Voila! Festival '26 is a theatre festival running for two and a half weeks at The Space. It presents border-busting, multi-lingual and migrant-led productions, joined by 8 other venues across London. The programme includes solo theatre, dark comedy, acrobatics, adaptations and an autobiographical story by a Ukrainian soldier told through music and Ukrainian folk songs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/voila-festival-26-39748/", "official_url": "https://space.org.uk/event/voila-festival-26/", "image": ""}, {"title": "The Café (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-16T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-16T18:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/new-writing"], "description": "The Café is a piece of new writing performed as part of the VOILA! Festival at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden. Written by Roccia Zhang and directed by Siyao Wu, it follows four people in a small London café who, as money, visas and confidence run out, become one another's temporary shelter. The play explores the human need for connection, asking what home can mean when it is no longer nearby and who gets to feel safe in a city that is always moving. It lasts 60 minutes, is suitable for all ages and is performed in Chinese, English, Farsi and Portuguese.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-cafe-voila-festival-60537/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/the-cafe/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e7f63fd79c915fa469317a682a5e11e40feb36f09d78653038b9a9c1dbced938-1200.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": "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": "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! 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-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 Café (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-17T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-17T18:00:00Z", "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": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "The Café is a new piece of theatre set in a small café beneath London's ever-changing skies. Written by Roccia Zhang and directed by Siyao Wu, it follows four people living under different circumstances as they gather over coffee, uncertainty and the quiet pressure of London life. As money, visas and confidence begin to run out, they become one another's temporary shelter, sharing food, laughter and fear while searching for a place to belong. The play explores the human need for connection, asking what home can mean when it is no longer nearby, and who gets to feel safe in a city that is always moving.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-cafe-voila-festival-60540/", "official_url": "https://www.etceteratheatrecamden.com/events/the-cafe-pgxt6-bwlam", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e7f63fd79c915fa469317a682a5e11e40feb36f09d78653038b9a9c1dbced938-1200.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": "Beneath Still Waters", "start": "2026-11-09T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T18:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre", "comedy"], "description": "A solo theatre performance titled Beneath Still Waters, presented as part of the VOILA! Festival. Created and performed by Rebecka Öberg, a Swedish performer and theatre maker based in London, it was developed during an artist residency at WOMB, Mexico City, in 2024. The show blends storytelling, original music and absurd comedy, retelling the tale of the ugly duckling to explore identity, validation and beauty ideals.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/beneath-still-waters-60527/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/beneath-still-waters/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5fd240197e9722b0b106e5c959de9a49391d162ca43f88c200fc3403f956d55e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Wide Awake (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-16T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-16T16:00:00Z", "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/physical-theatre"], "description": "Wide Awake is an experimental theatre piece using movement and storytelling to explore how emotions impact the body and can dictate the course of our lives. It is created and performed by RADA graduates Helen Percival and Gen Labuschagne, and inspired by Bessel van der Kolk's book The Body Keeps the Score. Drawing on their personal explorations of how life experiences and societal expectations become lodged in the body, it invites audiences to embrace the full spectrum of their emotional capacity. The piece runs 50 minutes and is recommended for ages 16 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/wide-awake-voila-festival-60536/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/wide-awake/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fc04be703adab976873779e84cca8992096962d1d3b2928c5c9d9cbf5f52c14e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Gorgon Syndrome (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-08T16:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T17:00:00Z", "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"}]}