{"title": "Roundhouse Rising If I Were To Say It In English by Thea Lungu", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Roundhouse", "address": "Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8EH London", "price": "£10.75", "price_from": "10.75", "price_to": "10.75", "tickets_url": "https://booking.roundhouse.org.uk/73140/73141", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/migration", "stage"], "description": "'If I Were To Say It In English' is a theatre piece by Thea Lungu, presented as part of Roundhouse Rising at the Roundhouse's Davey Studio. It follows Nathalie, who, failing to translate every emotion into English, recounts her experience as an immigrant to untangle her contradictory feelings towards her country. Blending Romanian and English, the words are fascinating, funny, and fierce, patching up wounds where the strongest emotions should sit. The show asks: where do you feel love, rage, or dor?", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/roundhouse-rising-if-i-were-to-say-it-in-english-by-thea-lun-64949/", "official_url": "https://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/if-i-were-to-say-it-in-english/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ecdcf2d3099cc5be6a0b85000411b3fa4241c191bcd39ca5a37011f319751bcc-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Roundhouse", "address": "Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8EH London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "My Mother Tongue Wants To Disown Me (VOILA! 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Written by Mary Mazzilli and directed by Richard Bland, it follows care worker Maurice as he is torn between the residents of an elderly care home and his own family when a global crisis forces him to live there full-time. Developed through interviews with migrant health and social care workers across London, Essex and the South East, the play explores migration, care, racism, mental health and belonging. Lumenis Theatre and Turnpike Productions present this production, whose 2 November performance is followed by a post-show Q&A with the writer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lightstreams-65426/", "official_url": "https://theatre503.com/whats-on/lightstreams/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5f4ecd42d2a9e8b8e517dc7a1a8b7ea6e2cfa4c15e83384c23034d0afe896f72-2000.webp"}, {"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": "14.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://offwestend.com/tag/tickets-under-20/", "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": "The Seat of Me (VOILA! 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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": "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", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.thecockpit.org.uk/sales/shows/voila-festival-2026/love-vs-fear-and-my-mothers-pr", "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/9140b4599bd8610668339eb535f9407d9f79f9bfe3ed7e8bdf4b91ed311e59ac-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": "Do You Know Where To Go From Here? at VOILÀ! Theatre Festival", "start": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Austrian Cultural Forum", "address": "Rutland Gate 28, London", "price": "", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "", "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! 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Written and performed by Stephanie Renae Lau, an actor and theatre maker from Hong Kong and Canada, and directed by Myriam Angela, it follows Sophie, who wakes in a strange space full of clothes with no way out and tries to escape by tidying up. Based on real events, the show confronts old wounds around love and loss, asking whether a lifeline can be found in a sea of clutter.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/do-you-know-where-to-go-from-here-65907/", "official_url": "https://space.org.uk/event/do-you-know-where-to-go-from-here/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5fa7d925a16a51e8f5766ca92994ccebeb1c6cb3dded36ecad99554066670ba5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sensitive is Not Crazy or The World through the Eyes of a Highly Sensitive Child", "start": "2026-11-05T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T18:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£12", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/sensitive-is-not-crazy-or-the-world-through-the-eyes-of-a-highly-sensitive-child/", "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": "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", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.thecockpit.org.uk/sales/shows/voila-festival-2026/three-little-pigs", "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! 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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": "Dünyada", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Space", "address": "Westferry Road 269, E14 3RS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/solo-show"], "description": "Dünyada, meaning \"on earth\", is a formally adventurous solo theatre performance that tears the fabric of the one-person play through cinematic camera work, visual extension and sound design. Internationally acclaimed actor and director Mehmet Ali Nuroğlu brings it to Voila! Theatre Festival, reimagining Will Eno's celebrated monologue Title and Deed. A man arrives with a suitcase, a camera, and a voice that seems sad somehow, offering an evocative exploration of alienation and belonging and an existential look at love and death in a digital age. Nuroğlu manages lighting and soundscapes in real-time, creating a parallax between his physical body and his digital ghost; the result is intimate, funny, unsettling, and deeply human.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dunyada-39749/", "official_url": "https://space.org.uk/event/dunyada/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b520d680fd8e97572b2c73547e935c6af4b68eb985ef6c03ffff15264603d95a-1200.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": "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, "tickets_url": "", "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": "https://noky.io/images/918076b8608160d31b4a7ebde935543f7ab63016fe31f4b59ca1674788187b1b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Bones in the Desert", "start": "2026-11-12T16:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Half Moon Theatre", "address": "White Horse Road 43, E1 0ND London", "price": "£9", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://boxoffice.halfmoon.org.uk/HalfMoonYoungPeoplesTheatre.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_0.TcsWebTab_0.TcsPerformance_798856.TcsSection_112549", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Bones in the Desert is a 60-minute immersive play for ages 13+ and young adults, with no seating as audiences stand and move among the actors. 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": "Proud Mary (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-02T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-02T20:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£15", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/proud-mary/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "\"Proud Mary\" is a solo theatre piece at the Etcetera Theatre, part of the VOILA! Festival. Written and performed by MJ Lee, it is a love letter to an immigrant's complex relationship with her immigrant mother, tracing their journey from Korea to Canada. Set during her mother's celebration of life, Mary makes three traditional offerings - food, money, and shoes - each revealing an aspect of their bond and the unattainable endeavour to simply make mom proud. The 50-minute show blends music, physical storytelling, singing, a little audience participation, and a lot of silliness.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/proud-mary-voila-festival-60515/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/proud-mary/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5aeb5c459b2e41fabe91acbd1cd1c9322b69eb84f59b964bf58121b340ae8c8b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "NINE NIGHT", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T19:30:00Z", "place": "Kiln Theatre", "address": "Kilburn High Road 269, NW6 7JR London", "price": "from £19", "price_from": "19.00", "price_to": "32.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Nine Night is a play at the Kiln Theatre described as a heartfelt drama about grief, family and forgiveness. Written by Natasha Gordon and directed by Amit Sharma, it is a brand new production of her critically acclaimed debut play celebrating the humour and hardships of grief. When Gloria passes, her family gathers for the traditional Jamaican Nine Night, and that means the whole family. As more and more mourners gather bringing rum and curry and complaints, tensions build, and the family must face some uncomfortable truths.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nine-night-36783/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/71277085fe5d28a179e1f750c704f16247b473d324d6fed65ed946b6ba75e5ef-2000.webp"}]}