{"title": "Picnic on a Battlefield by Fernando Arrabal", "start": "2026-11-04T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Chelsea Theatre", "address": "", "price": "£25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://sevn.ly/xHnDMj5q", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/absurd", "history/war"], "description": "Picnic on a Battlefield by Fernando Arrabal is a darkly comic and absurdist anti-war play, using humour and the ridiculous to explore the human cost and senselessness of conflict. The evening is in aid of The Royal British Legion Veterans Enterprise and Chelsea Theatre. A live 'Dad's Army' piano bar plays favourite tunes from yesteryear in the bar beforehand from 7pm. Wednesday's performance is a regular show, while the special Gala Night on Thursday raises funds and includes a champagne reception.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/picnic-on-a-battlefield-by-fernando-arrabal-60201/", "official_url": "https://chelseatheatre.org.uk/picnic-on-a-battlefield/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e5e342376779fe6dab49b169730e7dd780746efe7a3626e4b16613587f1b7488-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-04T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Chelsea Theatre", "address": "", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-05T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Chelsea Theatre", "address": "", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-06T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Chelsea Theatre", "address": "", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-07T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Chelsea Theatre", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Keep Calm and Bring Back the Cricket! (VOILA! 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It asks timeless questions: what is there to be afraid of, and what does it mean to be confronted with something no one was ever meant to witness, for technology may transform the battlefield but does not alter human nature.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/h2e-heaven-to-earth-plus-65905/", "official_url": "https://space.org.uk/event/h2e-heaven-to-earth-plus/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d512dcdfe51224f89864c2e7f02af72ce82d8fdbbfd12642ce7d56db4815cf04-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Gall Of The House Of Sud: The Perils of Youth Play", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "£16 (General Admission); £14 (Concession, Senior over 60, Access for All, Unemployed, Student)", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://buytickets.at/theplaygroundtheatre/2278748", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/dark-comedy"], "description": "A play in which, in an ancient rotting house, an unseen visitor knocks and a poisonous crone and her pompous, disgraced son argue over who should answer the door. Voila! Theatre Festival and The Playground Theatre present the show. Built on a single deliberately bad joke, it becomes a dream-riff on families, intergenerational trauma, envy, hate, mothers and sons, and the theatre itself. Following a successful Camden Fringe run, it was the Camden New Journal's Pick of the Fringe of over 400 shows.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-gall-of-the-house-of-sud-the-perils-of-youth-play-65857/", "official_url": "https://www.theplaygroundtheatre.org.uk/projects/theperilsofyouthplay", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c9d2a388a03531c81fb4be307298c7ff47047d2fcc7afb2f270ac575373ce020-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Echoes from the Great War", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Shrewsbury House Community Centre", "address": "Bushmoor Crescent, SE18 3EG London", "price": "£8 (+ booking fee)", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "tickets_url": "https://wegottickets.com/f/29004", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "history/ww1"], "description": "Echoes from the Great War is an evening of dramatic readings, poetry and performance. It is presented by Shooters Hill Drama Collective and brings to life the voices and stories of those who lived, worked and fought during the First World War. All profits from ticket sales will be donated to the military charity Blesma. 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Director Gianpiero, an eccentric 'artistic genius' and alleged descendant of Julius Caesar, decides to transform the disaster into his greatest masterpiece, casting Mateo as a werewolf and Roxana as a swan while manipulating them in front of a live audience. The result is an unhinged collision of Argentine tango, conspiracies and theatrical madness, with the director bowing while the actors call an ambulance. Voila! Theatre Festival and The Playground Theatre present the show, created by artists including Agata Nielsen, Erwin Janke, Mateusz Mirek and Maddy Miron, with Krystian Godlewski as consulting director, lasting 60 minutes with no interval.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-swan-the-werewolf-and-gianpiero-65858/", "official_url": "https://www.theplaygroundtheatre.org.uk/projects/theswanthewolfandgiawerenpiero", "image": "https://noky.io/images/be73cdbda9d281fd5a5e1710d386c4b17e5e9c77621dc11121daf6f03c0bc3a0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Playground Sessions", "start": "2026-10-31T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "General Admission at £20 or PAY WHAT YOU CAN from £10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://buytickets.at/theplaygroundtheatre/2404215", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["comedy/stand-up", "literature/spoken-word", "stage/theatre"], "description": "The Playground Sessions is a night of comedy, drama, music and spoken word at The Playground Theatre. Ray Shell and the theatre present new work from Bruno Ribelo, Aaron Barschak, David Rubin, Ollie Adewusi, Lee Payne and Ray Shell, with special guest readers Deserne Dekker, Ian Pierce and Donna King and musical guest Claudia Cadette. It is also a fundraiser for The Playground Theatre, and donations are collected at the end of the evening. 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It follows Alaa as he carries a leaking container of olive oil from his mother's home in Jenin to his aunt in Amman, crossing the bridge in the Jordan Valley, the only way Palestinians in the West Bank may leave or return. It mixes storytelling, stand-up and physical comedy, directed and co-written by Sam Beale, telling a human tale of family, connection, hope and joy against the impacts of colonialism and the broken promises of the British in Palestine.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-bridge-46132/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/215be5d94dd3f3c1555e54f5090243502e3d2d1183b0f45213115756cf7ba885-1200.webp"}, {"title": "For Services Rendered", "start": "2026-11-04T19:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Compass Theatre", "address": "Glebe Avenue, Ickenham, UB10 8PD", "price": "£13 to £17", "price_from": "13.00", "price_to": "17.00", "tickets_url": "https://mpv.tickets.com/schedule/?agency=HIMS_THE_MPV&orgid=56649&mkt_code=0737#/?event=services&view=list&includePackages=false", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Proscenium presents \"For Services Rendered\", a scathingly critical play by W. 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Written by British-Armenian playwright Joe Nerssessian and staged by Half Moon, the UK's leading small-scale young people's venue and touring company, it is supported by The Benlian Trust. It tells of Artur, a 19-year-old refugee in Berlin in 2022 haunted by memories of fleeing the Syrian civil war, whose reunion with someone from that journey unravels into a reckoning with identity, belonging and the cost of silence. Spanning the deserts of 1915 to today, it confronts war's long shadows, mental well-being and racism in contemporary Europe, followed by an onstage Q&A with the company.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/bones-in-the-desert-60684/", "official_url": "https://www.halfmoon.org.uk/events/bones-in-the-desert/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/872473832ae5f12a8b56fe5565ebc4e83f172f851d163c075363bb7d4af71f25-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Christopher Kent (actor) Gamal Khamis (piano) 'Never Such Innocence'", "start": "2026-11-08T15:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Ancient Church of St Mary The Virgin", "address": "Perivale Lane, UB6 8SS Perivale", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["history/world-war/world-war-i", "literature/poetry", "music/classical"], "description": "Never Such Innocence is a narrative recital of words and music from the First World War, given by actor Christopher Kent and pianist Gamal Khamis as a special 10th anniversary Remembrance Sunday performance. First staged at St Mary's Perivale in 2016 for the Somme 100 commemorations, it has since played venues across the UK, including sell-out West End performances, and was described by BBC Radio 3 as 'an incredibly moving performance'. It juxtaposes piano music by Elgar, Ravel, Debussy and Ivor Gurney with words by writers such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Vera Brittain, interwoven with the story of Kent's great uncle, Private Percy O'Key, through his real-life letters and diaries. The result is a moving journey from innocence to loss, told with unflinching clarity and compassion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/christopher-kent-actor-gamal-khamis-piano-never-such-innocen-40773/", "official_url": "https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2026-11-08.shtml", "image": ""}, {"title": "(Un)Shakespearean Nightmares", "start": "2026-11-07T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "£16, concessions £14", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://buytickets.at/theplaygroundtheatre/2274667", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy"], "description": "(Un)Shakespearean Nightmares is a fast-paced comedy in which Shakespeare's forgotten and iconic characters rebel against the Bard himself. Voila! Theatre Festival and The Playground Theatre present the show, whose cast plays multiple roles in a surreal battle to rewrite destiny and reclaim their stories from their tyrannical creator. 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The drama was written by German playwright Bertolt Brecht, translated by Anna Jordan and directed by Elle While, with Michelle Terry starring as Mother Courage. Set during the Thirty Years War, it follows a war profiteer who trades with both sides to protect her children, until the conflict claims them one by one. The dark, urgent story explores war, survival, capitalism and complicity, and is filled with biting humour and live music.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mother-courage-and-her-children-63484/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8e85a4b2fe943e2ec4009247489bef1e28beaa3cd08e88f46010b7c0696c5393-600.webp"}, {"title": "New Stuff: November", "start": "2026-11-01T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "£3", "price_from": "3.00", "price_to": "3.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.thecockpit.org.uk/sales/shows/new-stuff-1", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/drama", "stage/theatre"], "description": "New Stuff: November is a monthly night of rehearsed readings of new theatre writing. It is produced and presented by The Cockpit as part of its Theatre Maker programme. This edition features 'VINZ & VINCÉ' by Federico Balla and Louis Lambeaux, about two friends sharing a room in London, and 'HELD' by Lei, a psychological thriller in which Chinese playwright Leanne is detained and ordered to write under surveillance, raising questions of state power, artistic freedom and who controls the narrative. Afterwards, everyone is welcome to continue conversations in the bar downstairs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/new-stuff-november-39124/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/new_stuff_november_1", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bc58e3ddc44141d5ae96c569c1e91e1f311c55c84ecf38cb164b4d571daaf775-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Cherry Orchard", "start": "2026-10-03T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Harold Pinter Theatre", "address": "Panton Street, SW1Y 4DN London", "price": "GBP 31", "price_from": "31.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/the-cherry-orchard-tickets/2026/10/28/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "The Cherry Orchard is a stage play at the Harold Pinter Theatre. Anton Chekhov wrote it, and this new version is by Conor McPherson, directed by Ian Rickson, with Kristin Scott Thomas and Stephen Mangan among the cast. It tells of Lyubov Ranevskaya, who returns to her Russian family estate and finds it in financial trouble, with the beloved cherry orchard set to be sold unless something changes. The play follows the family facing this loss, mixing humour with heartbreak.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-cherry-orchard-46110/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c1775095deb439b9cd6542f91f169d4ff7df92b62f20e0d055358a20800c1022-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Dark", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £15)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/the-dark/#book", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/childrens-theatre"], "description": "The Dark is a family theatre show for children aged 4 and over, adapted from Lemony Snicket's picture book, about a boy called Laszlo who is afraid of the dark until the night it visits his room and he journeys to meet it. It is made and performed by Peut-Être Theatre, whose shows merge vibrant physicality with live music, and it runs about 50 minutes. Every show includes creatively integrated audio description and touch tours, making it accessible for blind and visually impaired children. It is an empowering adventure about facing one's fears.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-dark-60013/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/the-dark/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c7cb2ea06a1835ddf43b30c66b272f0dd6614e53991eb2e18a138271a29cfe61-2000.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", "tickets_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/overflood/", "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"}]}