{"title": "Oraculum (Work-in-Progress)", "start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (recommended price £12)", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "Oraculum (Work-in-Progress) is a solo performance show in which the audience takes part in a mass psychic reading. It is made by Tom Cassani, an award-winning UK-based performance maker who works with choreography, magic, sideshow and live art. Built around a classic psychic reading and a live text, the show draws on the worlds of mind readers, divinators and charismatic public speakers to reveal how we as an audience unknowingly share similar experiences and thoughts. Cassani turns an individual reading into a collective, self-reflective experience where unlikely connections begin to appear.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/oraculum-work-in-progress-73834/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/oraculum/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/458be263d7bc16cc5c799edb217590ddfebf156069a3d4b93cd5acd33c2b2fd6-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "UNREAL A Festival of Magic and Performance", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Prices from £8), all orders subject to a £2 transaction fee", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/a-mouthful-of-tongues/book/469096", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["stage/magic"], "description": "UNREAL is a festival of magic and performance at Battersea Arts Centre. 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Smart, unsettling, and wildly entertaining, it is theatre at its most compelling.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/derren-brown-only-human-69948/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d463ad3fefacdb5e3a14d1a8f0f7abbbbdad3f03705bfbfa943de84f01643d97-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Black Magic and Iterations (Double Bill)", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00Z", "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", "tickets_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/black-magic-iterations-double-bill/book/469097", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/magic"], "description": "A double bill of contemporary magic, 'Black Magic' and 'Iterations', asking how much you trust your own eyes through sleight of hand, illusion and trickery. 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Performer and musician Jim Dahl Presents an oblique history of magic, exploring the conflicting role of the magician as conjuror, raconteur and charlatan. The 50-minute performance is recommended for ages 16 and over and takes place in the venue's Members Library. 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It peeks behind the velvet curtain, blending the tricks of the trade — a white rabbit, a magic wand, a puff of smoke — with Bannon's lived experience of visual impairment. She invites audiences to glimpse a world where truth and illusion, performance and reality converge.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/autumn-winter-26-jo-bannon-the-dirty-work-65765/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Artist Talk: UNREAL", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £8), plus a £2 transaction fee per order", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/unreal-festival-artist-talk/book/470096", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "An artist talk lasting about an hour, held in the Members Bar at Battersea Arts Centre, a venue in south-west London. It brings together two trailblazing performance artists, Marisa Carnesky and Jo Bannon, who discuss their respective practices and how each has explored magic within them. With questions from UNREAL curators Tom Cassani and Augusto Corrieri, the conversation touches on covert choreographies, hidden bodies, high rituals and Show Women. It forms a thoughtful discussion on performance and magic, part of the UNREAL festival at the venue.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/artist-talk-unreal-73831/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/unreal-artist-talk/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2b5e34a120ffcb115493eccc6c5fea4d04b7a0444b090964cc571f63f6be889e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "From Another Place", "start": "2026-10-31T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Longfield Hall", "address": "50 Knatchbull Road, SE5 9QY London", "price": "Pay what you can on the door", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["art/contemporary/experimental"], "description": "From Another Place is a strange and otherworldly performance evening bringing together Figurant, Ghost Mind and Chansons Obliques. Figurant is a live audiovisual work by a visual artist, two musicians and a writer that playfully explores the concept of the séance, using 1960s 8mm film altered by submersion in the River Ravensbourne, with projected film, improvised sound, field recordings and spoken word interacting in real time. Ghost Mind improvise with instruments, toys, objects and sounds processed through their machine, conjuring a sound that is sometimes orchestral, sometimes post-hauntological, as if improvising with our memories and dreams. 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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": "Performance: felix taylor & Chloe Filani", "start": "2026-10-31T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Mosaic Rooms", "address": "Cromwell Road 226, London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "An improvised one-off performance of sound and poetry at The Mosaic Rooms. Poet and performer Chloe Filani joins felix taylor, who has worked with her on recorded projects but never live. 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It was written by Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour, who was forbidden to leave his country at the time of writing, and it asks questions about obedience, choice and freedom of expression. Since its 2011 premiere it has been translated into more than 30 languages and performed over 3,000 times, and this London season celebrates its 15th anniversary. On 8 June the performer is Lucian Msamati, with other dates featuring names such as David Tennant and Riz Ahmed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/white-rabbit-red-rabbit-37387/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7a4542b29c14ae3c8d2f80b804d8fd29e618ef9b3a75cbefbcdf32c6a735defb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "MakeBeth", "start": "2026-10-26T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Shakespeare's Globe", "address": "New Globe Walk 21, SE1 9DT London", "price": "Adult £19, Child £14 (includes a £3 per order transaction fee and a £1 per ticket restoration levy)", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "89.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/pinocchio/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/family-show"], "description": "MakeBeth is an interactive, make-along retelling of Shakespeare's Macbeth for families and young audiences aged 7+, brought to life with recycled cardboard, live music and puppetry. It was created by award-winning playwright Hannah Khalil with designer Sam Wilde, and directed by Ian Nicholson. The production comes from Cardboard Adventures and Shakespeare's Globe, in partnership with Chichester Festival Theatre and Leeds Playhouse, and runs for 1 hour 10 minutes in the Wolfson Lecture Theatre.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/makebeth-38525/", "official_url": "https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/makebeth/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b4a2cf3c6b2af380e27f9cb9b1e40fcdbd9046b96e22d49a5f160a693057bbc7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "A Night with the Madpo3t: showcasing 'Po3tryVent: Before I Self Destruct'", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word", "society/mental-health"], "description": "A 90-minute live performance event titled 'A Night with the Madpo3t: showcasing Po3tryVent: Before I Self Destruct'. Acclaimed creator Madpo3t presents his latest work, Po3tryVent: Before I Self Destruct, a kinetic exploration of survival, mental architecture, and turning chaos into art through high-energy, unfiltered spoken word. A live Q&A on the realities of the creative process follows.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-night-with-the-madpo3t-showcasing-po3tryvent-before-i-self-43670/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/night-madpo3t-showcasing-po3tryvent-i-self-destruct", "image": "https://noky.io/images/221f583bc312da52872f92aba2620d1d55ac8d11853b8a880d52f00a87d123c9-600.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, "tickets_url": "", "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"}]}