{"title": "The Swan, the Werewolf and Gianpiero", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "£16 (General Admission); concessions £14", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://buytickets.at/theplaygroundtheatre/2278824", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy/absurd-comedy"], "description": "A dark, physical, absurd comedy in which a backstage breakup between tango partners spirals into chaos when Roxana ends her relationship with Mateo five minutes before their performance. 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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-15T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Man Who Thought He Was A Baboon", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Drayton Arms Theatre", "address": "Old Brompton Road 153", "price": "", "price_from": "13.00", "price_to": "13.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.thedraytonarmssw5.co.uk/onlinebookingform#", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy"], "description": "A theatre show at a small studio theatre above a pub in London, running as part of GrimFest 2026 at the Drayton Arms Theatre. 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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. 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It was created by World Tango Champion Germán Cornejo, who returns with his dance company after a sold-out 2018 run. Ten of the world's finest dancers perform alongside the 2026 World Tango Champions, Nicolás Schell and Nahir Schinca, fuelled by a live orchestra of five musicians and two singers playing the music of Astor Piazzolla. 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The company is led by the internationally celebrated César Morales and stages Tchaikovsky's most famous work. It tells the timeless story of Odette, a girl cursed by an evil sorcerer to transform into a swan in the daytime, and Prince Siegfried, who vows to save her from the curse with his love. The staging features gorgeous sets, stunning costumes and jaw-dropping choreography.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ballet-de-santiago-swan-lake-63447/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3c3afb59fc0df59ced0e67cb6512ecfc87c6bb089641293c5b16e1e5537aa09a-600.webp"}, {"title": "Chop-chop! (VOILA! 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It was written by Marta Paula and tells of a family struck by tragedy when their young boy is murdered: he returns as a bird and sings his story to a goldsmith, a shoemaker and a miller in hope of reuniting with his family. The darkly funny show blends reality and fantasy through experimental music, characters on different timelines and crossovers with Hans Christian Andersen's The Red Shoes. It is part of the VOILA! 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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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Director Caroline Steinbeis and translator Rory Mullarkey, who together made the 2025 production of Three Sisters, reunite for this timeless story of ambition and desire, inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet. On a rural estate, the lives of four people intersect: the middlebrow writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the washed-up actress Irina Arkadina, and her son Konstantin Treplev, a brooding experimental playwright. When Konstantin falls in love with Nina while staging a play on his uncle's estate, but she is drawn to Trigorin, his mother's lover, a thrilling psychological drama follows.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-seagull-63524/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/25e9b6bb190dd82d3939273b1d03f7d3ea96b8a8f8892a32a7f27350d3607255-600.webp"}, {"title": "Eurotrash", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Young Vic", "address": "66 The Cut, SE1 8LZ London", "price": "GBP 14", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/eurotrash-tickets/2026/11/13/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "comedy"], "description": "Eurotrash is a darkly comedic stage play about a mother and son on a chaotic road trip through the Swiss Alps as they attempt to give away their family fortune and escape their dark history. It is an adaptation by Colin Teevan of Christian Kracht's internationally best-selling novel, directed by Walter Meierjohann, and stars Ben Whishaw and Kathryn Hunter as the bickering duo, who must come to terms with their own and Europe's dark history while carting a plastic bag stuffed with cash through the snowy mountains of Switzerland. The English language premiere reunites the creative team behind the Young Vic's productions Kafka's Monkey and The Emperor, and the show is part of the Young Vic's 2026/27 season.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/eurotrash-63384/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8a5d5693027241cbfe0db8e262f935167ed2dc5b1287fbe9da1786f11ddb1905-600.webp"}, {"title": "Do You Know Where To Go From Here? at VOILÀ! 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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": "The Pied Piper: A Rat's Tale", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Little Angel Theatre", "address": "Dagmar Passage 13, N1 2DN London", "price": "£16.00 Adult, £14.00 Child (age 1-17); all tickets £8.50 at 4.45pm shows on Thursdays, £10 at 5.15pm", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.littleangeltheatre.com/for-schools/watch-a-show/#book", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/puppetry"], "description": "The Pied Piper: A Rat's Tale is a puppetry show for everyone over 5, lasting about 50 minutes. It is an Indefinite Articles production in association with Little Angel Theatre, written by Michael Fowkes, Steve Tiplady and Sally Todd, performed by Steve Tiplady and directed by Sally Todd. It tells the story of Horatio, a brave little rat who leaves his dull river life for the town of Hamelin, where his imprisonment sparks a rat invasion and the arrival of the mysterious Pied Piper. With puppetry, storytelling and original music, it is a funny family show that reveals the story behind the legend.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-pied-piper-a-rats-tale-37027/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/eb299f39f9b4e8ad8497aa8fd4de843486f9d3cbc5d4dc5294e36a1af8be3766-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Keep Calm and Bring Back the Cricket! (VOILA! 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Recommended for ages 12 and over.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/keep-calm-and-bring-back-the-cricket-voila-festival-60517/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/keep-calm-and-bring-back-the-cricket/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3cbbc45b0d8de5674439a9321652faf297f68682ec944dacc16acd2e9ea30d06-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-10T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Other Palace", "address": "Palace Street 12, SW1E 5JA London", "price": "GBP 24", "price_from": "24.00", "price_to": "42.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/feeling-afraid-as-if-something-terrible-is-going-to-happen-tickets/2026/11/19/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy"], "description": "A darkly funny one-man show where stand-up comedy meets theatre, following a thirty-six-year-old chronically single, professionally neurotic comedian who finally meets Mr Right, only to do everything wrong. It is written by Marcelo Dos Santos, a Fringe First Award-winning hit returning to London for the first time in three years, and stars West End favourite Steven Webb as the hapless, unhinged comedian. From the Olivier Award-winning producers of Fleabag and Baby Reindeer, it explores vulnerability, intimacy, ego and truth with razor-sharp, fast-paced and filthy humour. The show runs 1hr 5min with no interval and is for ages 14+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/feeling-afraid-as-if-something-terrible-is-going-to-happen-63513/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a893a037c38046a433901b641eb2c0e84379e06761d3ac54cf73171f3db7fafe-600.webp"}]}