{"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", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Panel Talk: Staging the (Un)translatable: Global...", "start": "2026-11-17T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "Pay what you decide: £3, £5, £10, £15", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/translation", "stage"], "description": "A panel talk bringing together theatre-makers, dramaturgs, translators, publishers and researchers to examine the interrelation between (un)translatability, (un)stageability and (un)performability. It is produced and presented by The Cockpit and UAL Wimbledon College of Arts as part of the Voila! Theatre Festival. The discussion addresses panlingualism in the theatre, making work in languages other than English or the creatives' mother tongue, what it means to be an exophonic artist, and how migration challenges the notion of the 'native speaker'. It includes a short reading from a contemporary play as a prompt, moderated by Dr Jozefina Komporaly, an academic and translator at UAL Wimbledon College of Arts, and tickets are by donation supporting migrant artists in the UK.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/panel-talk-staging-the-untranslatable-global-39129/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/panel_talk_staging_the_untranslatable_global_voices_and_panlingual_dramaturgies", "image": ""}, {"title": "Pinned (VOILA! 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The show runs 60 minutes and is recommended for ages 14 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/pinned-voila-festival-60535/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/pinned/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8369383894a0978695942aa0e8cd20ba1ebbb28ad4d29350741e90f259fdfe80-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Café (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-16T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-16T18:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/new-writing"], "description": "The Café is a piece of new writing performed as part of the VOILA! Festival at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden. Written by Roccia Zhang and directed by Siyao Wu, it follows four people in a small London café who, as money, visas and confidence run out, become one another's temporary shelter. The play explores the human need for connection, asking what home can mean when it is no longer nearby and who gets to feel safe in a city that is always moving. It lasts 60 minutes, is suitable for all ages and is performed in Chinese, English, Farsi and Portuguese.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-cafe-voila-festival-60537/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/the-cafe/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e7f63fd79c915fa469317a682a5e11e40feb36f09d78653038b9a9c1dbced938-1200.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": "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": "Overacting through song", "start": "2026-11-15T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T14:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£18", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/musical"], "description": "A comedy show at the VOILA! Festival combining songs with stand-up comedy. It tells of a Taiwanese actor chasing her musical theatre dream who struggles with life's challenges until she realises she does not have to prove her worth. It is written by and stars Yu-Ting Chen, with Gigi Kuo on piano and music by multiple composers. The show lasts 50 minutes and is recommended for ages 10 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/overacting-through-song-60533/", "official_url": "https://www.etceteratheatrecamden.com/events/overacting-through-song", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8d701e8f56df9da92b74ab6ae875803463117f247a16d6f3f9ce2790ca26944f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Voila! Theatre Festival", "start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "Double Bill Passes £23; Full Festival Pass £105", "price_from": "23.00", "price_to": "105.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "Voila! Theatre Festival is a multilingual, multicultural theatre festival running from 3rd to 21st November, celebrating bold new voices and stories on stage with a curated series of double shows. It is presented by Voila! Europe together with The Playground Theatre, which welcomes the festival back to its venue. The programme includes shows such as Much Crazy About Nothing, a contemporary dark comedy about a professional breakup service, alongside pieces on masculinity, migrant mothers and Shakespeare's characters in revolt. Multi-show passes are available, including Double Bill Passes at £23 and a Full Festival Pass at £105 giving access to every show at the venue.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/voila-theatre-festival-65862/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a7c89cee2e65a0ce02de96b9948fac810fa28fdab35854da5b763995234588f7-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Devour", "start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£14", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/stand-up", "society/sex-work"], "description": "Devour is a comedy theatre show by Lady Wentworth, part of the VOILA! Festival. In it she mixes personal experience with mischievous storytelling, taking a bold feminist look at the realities of sex work and the social norms we are taught to swallow. Inspired by Nigella Lawson and served with innuendo, whipped cream and a latex-clad gimp, it stirs the pot on desire and dismantles stigma around fetish and kink. The show lasts 55 minutes and is for audiences aged 18 and over, with content warnings for adult themes and references to domestic abuse.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/devour-60526/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/devour/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9634f0d4deb05bc0a6de7c62232d05bd8abebbd7dab1ec149527f4a77f8a2527-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Mother Tongue", "start": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "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/theatre/horror"], "description": "Mother Tongue is a theatre show about women whose identities have been altered or taken by violence, whose sisterhood emerges from the earth each full moon desperate to have their stories heard. It mixes live music, spoken word, scenes and movement, drawing on ritualistic theatre and the horror genre, with an original score played and sung live and text in English and the performers' native languages. It is written and directed by Gabrielle Hofmann, composed and musically directed by Ciara Cogley, with assistant producers Arne van der Esch and Karol Stanisz, and is an Out of Place Theatre production.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mother-tongue-65912/", "official_url": "https://space.org.uk/event/mother-tongue/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/72b0ea1ec39b5a4a41f52dde188db2434406315dddddbdacc0ee07b2bcd3ae92-1200.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", "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"}, {"title": "Escaping Oneself", "start": "2026-11-13T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £15)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre", "literature"], "description": "Escaping Oneself is a haunting, intimate solo performance blending feats of memory, theatre and humour, in which literature becomes a line of flight. Writer, actor and mnemonist Chloé Vivarès performs it, from an original concept by magician Yann Frisch. It tells of two friends: Alice, an actress, and Chloé, an author with hyperthymesia, the ability to memorize and recount every detail of her life, demonstrated live on stage. Blurring reality and fiction, it explores the persistence of memories and the impossibility of forgetting, celebrating the books we read.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/escaping-oneself-73835/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/escaping-oneself/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e3acce6bef7dda7f74e33a1054809374e0e6e72118023e4e35c135500206b2ed-1200.webp"}, {"title": "House of Shame (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T20:00:00Z", "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"], "description": "House of Shame is an electric show about the dirty things women are told to keep to themselves, framed by the experience of growing up as a girl in Brazil. Created by Renata Garcia and Mariana Pereira, with Renata Garcia performing, it is a collective experiment in raw vulnerability and a liberating journey through a messy, irreverent, tropical ritual of soap and sweat. Expect cringy memories, ass-shaking and slutty nuns, with references to alcohol, sex and sexual abuse; recommended for ages 16+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/house-of-shame-voila-festival-60521/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/house-of-shame/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3646fc40002ce4cdb47f6706ec2293371f6a6b0f1f51c5e6c449b9c5d3196cde-2000.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, "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": "Biting Off More Than We Can Chew", "start": "2026-11-13T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Union Theatre", "address": "Old Union Arches, 229 Union Street, SE1 0LR London", "price": "£10 (full), £5 (concession)", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/performance-art", "dance"], "description": "A night of performance, drag, dance, poetry, politics and provocation by seven queer artists sharpening their teeth and chewing up the rulebook. It runs 4.5 hours with multiple intervals. The creatives are Ben, Fiora, Hunter Manning, Jesse, Luminescence Thring, Rita Booke and Luka/Lula Williams.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/biting-off-more-than-we-can-chew-39971/", "official_url": "https://uniontheatre.biz/show/biting-off-more-than-we-can-chew/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cf177195ff681def574be3cf9e335e1b7f3de74667c5498f55c8d98078a00da5-1200.webp"}, {"title": "A Local Song for Local People | Kate Butch", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Bloomsbury Theatre", "address": "Gordon Street 15, WC1H 0AH London", "price": "£27, £26 concessions", "price_from": "27.00", "price_to": "27.00", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/kabarett"], "description": "A live comedy-cabaret show by drag performer Kate Butch, presented by Gag Reflex, based on the location-specific songs she performed during her 2026 UK and Ireland tour. Accompanied by Jordan Paul Clarke and a live band, she sings reworked local favourites in new ways while recording a live album for release in 2027. The show runs about two hours and twenty minutes with an interval and is recommended for ages 15 and over, with under-18s accompanied by an adult.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-local-song-for-local-people-kate-butch-35002/", "official_url": "https://www.bloomsburytheatre.com/event/2026/11/local-song-local-people-kate-butch", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7b7b0c8c635b1e8c57adf9025460a403e16c01ec3d9fdf4d1acf4ddf3e7b14e1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mortelle (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-14T21:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T22:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£15", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/clowning"], "description": "Mortelle is a French solo-clown show in which a sculpture comes to life to tell the story of Marie's journey alongside her mother, who died from Motor Neurone Disease. Clown performer and co-creator Marie Pichon Varin, who is both a clown and a sculptor, and director and co-creator Sophie Besse are behind it. Produced by the award-winning theatre company PSYCHEdelight, it uses poetry and humour to confront illness and death on stage. Performed in French, without subtitles, it runs 50 minutes and is recommended for ages 10 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mortelle-voila-festival-60532/", "official_url": "https://www.psychedelight.org/mortelle", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a7e3aea848c081bbd9aa65d2a8f3687a0a6500d8fad24ad64e78f1c842018c9f-1200.webp"}]}