{"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", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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. 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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. 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The darkly funny show reckons with shame and survival, tackling domestic abuse with jokes, one-liners and trauma colliding with comedy. It was nominated for Best Show at the ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards, NextUp's Biggest Award in Comedy and the Queer Performers Award at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe, and was named one of the best reviewed shows of Edinburgh Fringe. 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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": "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": "Mother There Art Thou", "start": "2026-10-30T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-30T20:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://events.humanitix.com/mother-there-art-thou", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Mother There Art Thou is a play staged at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden. It follows oddball siblings Charlie and Murphy, who don't remember a world outside their remote home and are strictly governed by \"The Rules\". When their mother meets an untimely demise, the siblings must figure out which parts of their reality to keep and which to break. Writer Thomas Kirby won the WriteForTheStage Prize for New Writing for this play at the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival in 2022, and this production is fully restaged for its London debut by director Olivia Cole.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mother-there-art-thou-60511/", "official_url": "https://www.etceteratheatrecamden.com/events/mother-there-art-thou", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e9d41d630e09bd0bc935dab3ad987494f71ec03afba8e0f1327c9ab223759c8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Much Crazy About Nothing", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "General Admission £16; Concession | Senior over 60 £14; Access for All | Unemployed | Student £14", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://buytickets.at/theplaygroundtheatre/2274556", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy"], "description": "Much Crazy About Nothing is a surreal new play set in a world where professional breakup agents are hired to end relationships on behalf of their clients. Voila! Theatre Festival and The Playground Theatre present the piece by Shhh Theatre, an emerging company making contemporary theatre around intimacy and modern relationships. As one employee begins to question the system they help sustain, the boundary between performance and genuine emotion starts to dissolve. Blending absurdity with wit, the play explores emotional labour, race, identity and modern intimacy, asking what remains of human connection when our most intimate relationships become transactional.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/much-crazy-about-nothing-65856/", "official_url": "https://www.theplaygroundtheatre.org.uk/projects/much-crazy-about-nothing", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a68e758dcd484026d5167c2aced76a39390b2b5a09d50cf68fd3c9de2b683f99-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Southbury Child", "start": "2026-11-07T19:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Geoffrey Whitworth Theatre", "address": "Beech Walk, DA1 4NP Crayford", "price": "", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.thegwt.org.uk/your-visit/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy-drama"], "description": "The Southbury Child is a darkly funny and moving stage play about grief, faith, family and the rituals that shape our lives. Written by Stephen Beresford, it follows David Highland, a raffish and frequently drunk vicar who has held onto his remote coastal parish through charm and determination. When his faith compels him to take a stand with a bereaved parishioner, he finds himself isolated, with his family, his place in the town and his certainties all at risk. This amateur production is directed by Melinda Hunt and runs 2 hours 30 minutes including an interval, with strong language and themes of bereavement, racism and family breakdown.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-southbury-child-36230/", "official_url": "https://www.thegwt.org.uk/production/the-southbury-child-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bb0d99830de5901198b86661c50e59aef9025fee0bc326a4f74b2e2010e3f700-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Do You Know Where To Go From Here? at VOILÀ! 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It is a visually compelling new play by emerging inter-disciplinary theatre company Light The Night, written by Tania Khan and developed with support from ArcolaLAB, tenderly exploring ancestral trauma, hope and recovery. The National Theatre's New Work Department have described the writing as mysterious, unnerving, lyrically gothic, theatrical and engaging drama.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/i-can-see-the-sun-43339/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Museum", "start": "2026-11-02T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "place": "Mountview Academy", "address": "Peckham Hill Street 120, SE15 5JT London", "price": "£18 (standard); £13.50 (concessions); £12 (Southwark Presents Cardholder)", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "18.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.mountview.org.uk/shop/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy", "art"], "description": "\"Museum\" is a comedy play staged at the Backstage Theatre. It was written by the American playwright Tina Howe and is directed by Alan Pearson, performed by Mountview's acting cohort. Set in a renowned art gallery on the final day of a major exhibition, it follows more than 50 characters as they encounter the artworks, exploring what art truly means in our lives. The production runs 90 minutes without an interval and is suitable for ages 13 and over.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/museum-46192/", "official_url": "https://www.mountview.org.uk/whats-on/show/museum/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a7217f5216657ad46da1bc14c09de606cc3d9657f1e7aa7808f27e8fdcc0a7fc-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Racists, Recessions and Revolutions", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Theatre503", "address": "The 503Studio, Moat Street, Nine Elms, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://theatre503.com/whats-on/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy"], "description": "A 60-minute comedy play with no interval, recommended for ages 10 and up, that traces the untold birth of Fake News. It is written by Isabella Heaver, directed by Harry Conway, and presented by DBN Productions LTD/Harry Conway, with Heaver also playing Nadica. Nadica is a driven young Macedon/Brit who stops at nothing to build an empire of lies, defying tech giants, Covid lockdowns and a crumbling economy. DBN Productions is a new writing company staging cutting contemporary theatre that has toured Britain and Ireland and appears often at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/racists-recessions-and-revolutions-65430/", "official_url": "https://theatre503.com/whats-on/racists-recessions-and-revolutions/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c05d00dd2b9ac75502a93607f8843495de4d6cae6decf3499e3e3f32ab5969b1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Thou Shalt Sit The F*** Down", "start": "2026-11-08T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "King's Head", "address": "Upper Street 115, N1 1QN London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://kingsheadtheatre.com/spektrix/ChooseSeats?EventInstanceId=502402APCGDJNJJHCLDVBMCVBDPPJLSSN", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy", "comedy/stand-up"], "description": "\"Thou Shalt Sit The F*** Down\" is a sharp queer one-person comedy drama about children's entertainment, running 60 minutes and recommended for ages 16 and over. Written by Ben Everett Riley, who also performs as Will, it is presented by BeWry Productions and directed by Ryan Graham Hinds. Will is a booked-out professional who sticks to his \"10 commandments\", until his boss makes him train a gorgeous twinky newbie and his firm routine starts to wobble. Loosely based on real experiences, the filthy comedy features Australian daddies, pretentious kids and bubbles.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/thou-shalt-sit-the-f-down-43417/", "official_url": "https://kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/thou-shalt-sit-the-f-down-7y68", "image": "https://noky.io/images/23579311567195c28b5c3310e62bbe13e277a5a28d48dc3157049b4f76342d22-1200.webp"}]}