{"title": "Simile: Highly Sprung", "start": "2026-11-17T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Jacksons Lane", "address": "Archway Road 269a, N6 5AA London", "price": "£10.00 - £20.00", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "Simile is a bold show for young people, by young people, blending poetry, physical theatre, dance, and spoken word into a high-energy celebration of growing up. It is performed by Highly Sprung Performance Company and inspired by the GCSE anthology Worlds and Lives. Three friends revise the night before a poetry exam: one is being trolled, another struggling to hold it together, and a dark secret binds them together. Co-written by Mark Worth, Highly Sprung, and Jasmine Gardosi with The Co-Creatives Group, aged 13-18, it explores the excitement, fear, and hope of finding your you.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/simile-highly-sprung-60797/", "official_url": "https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/similie-highly-sprung/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9ce5b4ccbff9824a97eb3f87dfe58a509fdeea0dff9faf00df34678dd593d037-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-17T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Jacksons Lane", "address": "Archway Road 269a, N6 5AA London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Grow: Highly Sprung", "start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T11:00:00Z", "place": "Jacksons Lane", "address": "Archway Road 269a, N6 5AA London", "price": "£12.50", "price_from": "12.50", "price_to": "12.50", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "Grow by Highly Sprung is an immersive dance and physical theatre adventure for young children aged 3 to 7. It is created by the company Highly Sprung and directed by Emily-May Hyde. The show travels to the skies, dives beneath the oceans and journeys through lush jungles, using dance, physical theatre, intriguing soundscapes and tactile props to bring the natural world to life. It is suitable for children under 12.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/grow-highly-sprung-46240/", "official_url": "https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/grow-highly-sprung/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67ada2a015e75ec7fe777a18e36421099abc7ca5de47df11e9ad37ff70da74c2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Binary lives - Where fate takes us", "start": "2026-11-06T21:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "Full price: £16.45 (Incl. booking fees)", "price_from": "16.45", "price_to": "16.45", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "A wordless duet in which two strangers, stuck waiting on a station bench for a train that never arrives, fill the empty hours with increasingly absurd games. It is produced and presented by Dis Equilibre and blends visual, poetic performance with physical theatre and contemporary circus, turning boredom into play and shared silence into an unexpected encounter. The show won the 'Best Direction' award at the Rome Fringe Festival, was selected for the Thessaloniki Fringe, and has been touring Italy for two years.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/binary-lives-where-fate-takes-us-39098/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/binary_lives_-_where_fate_takes_us", "image": "https://noky.io/images/91cc466c7e1d64deacbde3d4b07158d717e837640e5824c0c8df6c7d2164eafa-1200.webp"}, {"title": "A Song and Dance", "start": "2026-11-17T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £16)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/play"], "description": "A Song and Dance is a theatre performance about masking, performing and 'acting the part.' Created and performed by Action Hero, with text by Gemma Paintin and James Stenhouse and direction by Gemma Paintin. A reluctant actor, lost inside a recurring nightmare filled with the phantoms of his disapproving ancestors, returns to the stage to conquer an 8-year period of intense stage fright, replays his own life story and starts to lose the plot. He re-writes his anxiety dreams live on stage with the audience, in the hope of banishing the ghosts of performances past.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-song-and-dance-73838/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/17ed1a4add0e852f4da63c74cdfec18f2d0991d9c62e62c5893554685f93b209-1200.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": "Boy Blue: 25 Stories", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T19:30:00Z", "place": "Stratford East", "address": "Gerry Raffles Square, E15 1BN London", "price": "from £10.00", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["dance/hip-hop-dance", "music/hip-hop", "stage/dance-theatre"], "description": "Boy Blue: 25 Stories is a world-premiere hip-hop dance theatre show marking 25 years of Boy Blue, staged at Stratford East. It is created by the company's co-founders, Michael 'Mikey J' Asante MBE and Kenrick 'H2O' Sandy MBE, together with poet and playwright Inua Ellams. Drawing on voice notes, letters, films and raw conversations from generations of Boy Blue dancers and alumni, it turns real lived experiences into a high-octane stage memoir. Ellams' poetry fuels Asante's new score and Sandy's choreography in a show of sound, word and movement.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/boy-blue-25-stories-65394/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3aa818228b0ad640188ef5dd62960f5ebb70891eff544f254638c85a0f4a29b2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Theatre in The Pound: November", "start": "2026-11-16T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "£1", "price_from": "1.00", "price_to": "1.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/new-writing"], "description": "Theatre in The Pound: November is a not-for-profit scratch night at which performers or groups try out 10-15 minutes of new work on stage. It is produced and presented by The Cockpit as part of Theatre Maker, with support from their backstage and tech crew. The November line-up includes I'M DAFT by Nikki Simon, War Crimes, Saladin's Saga by David AL-Fahmi, Defective Altruism by Alex Rowntree and Stark Raving by Beth Noonan-Roberts. For audiences it offers a cheap, fun night out with the chance to see new work and share thoughts directly with the performers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/theatre-in-the-pound-november-39128/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/theatre_in_the_pound_november_0", "image": "https://noky.io/images/838301e155dda2ab7e15eaf19524a1622a6a237f31376c4d238df2aaa34c21f1-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Balance", "start": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "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/circus/contemporary-circus"], "description": "Balance is a contemporary circus and physical theatre show in which two performers turn a cellar full of beer kegs, bottles and planks into an acrobatic playground. It is created, co-produced and performed by the duo ich-duO, Jared and Toffy, with music curated by the pair. The show pairs gravity-defying hand-to-hand acrobatics with the tension of balancing on glass, exploring trust and the joy of finding a partner to help carry the load. Visually stunning, funny and full of heart, it also carries subtle environmental themes through its repurposing of everyday discarded objects.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/balance-65906/", "official_url": "https://space.org.uk/event/balance/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8d20cb00ab773b08a22eada1b482eca05e8507d6337b68ad7baf02b87fa5c9bc-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Song & A Scene", "start": "2026-11-18T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Union Theatre", "address": "Old Union Arches, 229 Union Street, SE1 0LR London", "price": "£17.50, concession £15", "price_from": "17.50", "price_to": "17.50", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/musical"], "description": "Song & a Scene is a showcase celebrating emerging musical theatre writers and performers, bringing together scratch nights for plays and concerts for musicals. Presented by Mint Face Productions, it weaves song and book together as a tapestry of talented creatives and exciting new musical theatre writing. The programme presents pieces including 'Sense and Sensibility' by Grace O'Keefe and Thomas F. Arnold, 'The Mayfly Man' by Neil Bastian, 'Smile for the Camera' by Greg Link, Ewen Christie and Dee Taylor-Thompson, and 'Seven – A Sinful New Musical' by Ben Sheldrick and Chris Burgess, among others. It runs two hours with an interval.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/song-a-scene-49672/", "official_url": "https://uniontheatre.biz/show/song-a-scene-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c29c74489d842e8de4bf03533b81e4c29d491b68df6e1ab77be6387f56e6ae41-1200.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": "Meet Me in The Dressing Room", "start": "2026-11-16T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Jago Dalston", "address": "Kingsland Road 440, E8 4AA London", "price": "Check Listings", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/activism", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "Meet Me in The Dressing Room is a solo performance show at the edge of history, in which a glittering showgirl of the apocalypse transforms her dressing room into a site of political organisation and resistance to a fascist moment. It is created and performed by Sophie, with an industrial soundscape by Vyvyan Stewardson built around Diane DiPrima's Revolutionary Letters and original costuming by Max Allen emblematic of leaders who offered radical hope. Through enigmatic and referential choreography, movement, live action and dirty tricks, the ritual nature of hope and defeat is embodied as the body is pushed to its extremes hoping to liberate the body politic. The show is completely self funded, with all profits going directly to the artists involved and tiered ticket prices, including free tickets for disabled persons' carers or companions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/meet-me-in-the-dressing-room-92823/", "official_url": "https://www.thejagodalston.com/event/meet-me-in-the-dressing-room/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0260ce7eadf0d1a772b8a42a48dd91f62aa1306d2fe1de5588145677183045bb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Samira", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-03-13T00:00:00Z", "place": "Dorfman - National Theatre", "address": "National Theatre, Upper Ground, SE1 9PX Ground South Bank, London", "price": "GBP 24", "price_from": "24.00", "price_to": "24.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/politics", "stage/theatre"], "description": "Samira is a new stage play at the Dorfman theatre. British-Lebanese writer Carmen Nasr makes her National Theatre debut with this political play, directed by Emily Burns and starring May Calamawy. Inspired by true events, it follows London academics thrown into crisis when a Syrian blogger they follow vanishes in Damascus during the Arab Spring, raising questions of authenticity, political upheaval and identity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/samira-63511/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d59d407e34978faf095fcfb102913c3318df3f810cf9c3076690af8ad6380c7f-600.webp"}]}