{"title": "Transcripts Scratch Night", "start": "2026-11-14T19:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T21:30:00Z", "place": "Young Actors Theatre", "address": "70-72 Barnsbury Road, Islington, London, N1 0ES", "price": "£15", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/new-writing"], "description": "Transcripts is a scratch night featuring new works by emerging Trans & Non-Binary playwrights. It is co-produced by Bare Bones Theatre Company and Leo Marland, and directed by Leo Marland and Javi Bone. All ticket and bar proceeds will be donated to Gendered Intelligence, a trans-led charity that works to increase understandings of gender diversity and improve the lives of trans people.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/transcripts-scratch-night-122227/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ce432ff24e6b8e85922e98f6adc08f8c126c62163aa46e6b5be63d3e3b5d9362-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-14T19:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T21:30:00Z", "place": "Young Actors Theatre", "address": "70-72 Barnsbury Road, Islington, London, N1 0ES", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "Good Sex", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £25)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "Good Sex is a piece of theatre that asks how you have sex on stage. It comes from theatre makers Dead Centre with novelist and essayist Emilie Pine, and follows two strangers each night who perform a story of desire, betrayal and loneliness without having rehearsed together, guided by an Intimacy Director. Since premiering at Dublin Theatre Festival in 2022 it has toured Europe and New York, and now makes its UK premiere at Battersea Arts Centre. The Wednesday performance features Jack Gleeson and Phia Saban.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/good-sex-73825/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/good-sex/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b5e4d98ab18e72912cc2ecf8c3ce55e557af40466d9da48ade733d08480ab262-1200.webp"}, {"title": "A Pleasance Scratch November 2026", "start": "2026-11-18T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pleasance", "address": "Carpenters Mews, N7 9EF London", "price": "From £5.00", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "A Pleasance Scratch November 2026 is a theatre scratch night in the Main House Cabaret at Pleasance London. The Pleasance runs it through its Pleasance Futures initiatives, giving audiences a first glimpse of what developing theatre makers are creating next, with a line-up to be confirmed. The Pleasance supports these artists with free performance opportunities on its Main House stage, free rehearsal space, free photography and mentoring through its theatre department. 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It is funded by Hackney Pride365 Grants as part of Transgender Awareness Week and celebrates the opening of a new room display of A High-rise Flat in 2008, curated by a cohort of community researchers. The community-led programme includes trans+ 2000s themed screenings curated and hosted by TGirlsOnFilm, trans+ poetry readings with Gayathiri Kamalakanthan and Danni Spooner, a trans+ artists and makers market, a panel talk led by Trans Action for Housing Justice, and a cabaret with Major Dom, Jet Moon, Laz Lighning and Cyro.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/changing-rooms-celebrating-trans-domesticities-37223/", "official_url": "https://museumofthehome.org.uk/whats-on/changing-rooms-celebrating-trans-domesticities/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/54df97b475ae986c96fdd485ca6580a986a892b690439bffe55929fa26aa7aef-2000.webp"}, {"title": "TWO PLAYS. ONE NIGHT.", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "place": "Union Theatre", "address": "Old Union Arches, 229 Union Street, SE1 0LR London", "price": "£17", "price_from": "17.00", "price_to": "17.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": [], "description": "Two Plays. One Night. is a double bill of two short plays presented in one evening by Actor's Instinct Studio Productions. In Jamie Davis's Beginners, directed by Richard Winsor, a small group of actors awaits the curtain on the most important night of their lives, told in real time. In Ben Stower's Natural Affairs, directed by Livia Sardão, guests, staff and resident ghosts of a rundown English B&B see their beliefs tested as secrets become scandals. Following a sold-out run at the King's Head Theatre, the evening brings together two stories about the hopes we cling to and the choices we make.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/two-plays-one-night-39970/", "official_url": "https://uniontheatre.biz/show/two-plays-one-night/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5baf4aa9fd9bc72e190263d89cc7471bce2d86eff624f1b407bf54ac3ff5414a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "BodySwap", "start": "2026-11-11T22:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T02:30:00Z", "place": "Dalston Superstore", "address": "Kingsland High Street 117, E8 2PB London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "party-club", "tags": ["society/queer/trans", "music/electronic"], "description": "BodySwap is a weekly club night at Dalston Superstore that is by and for trans people. It is run by the venue, with curators Harietta and Karlie Marx playing transgender dance music alongside guest DJs, gogos and club kids. The night celebrates and platforms trans artists from diverse backgrounds, and each week its door profits raise money for a trans person's healthcare fundraiser. It is described as a space for trans power, rage, beauty, resilience, and joy.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/bodyswap-46305/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/476971bac19f9a303d1377ebc82eb4b6557d85f0a0c5c6dfae1fecc60a38a66e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Hamish Lloyd Barnes: Stage Presence (WIP)", "start": "2026-11-19T21:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pleasance", "address": "Carpenters Mews, N7 9EF London", "price": "from £10.00", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/character-comedy"], "description": "A work-in-progress character comedy show at the Pleasance London Studio. It is by Hamish Lloyd Barnes, co-artistic director of the award-winning theatre company Spies Like Us and a Leicester Square Sketch Off finalist, directed by Ollie Norton-Smith. The show is a ghost story told by ghosts: the haunted Ableforth Theatre will be demolished tonight, but first it stages one hell of a show, featuring whispering curtains, pouting ghosts of leading men and musical theatre kids. The hour-long performance is for ages 14 and up and contains strong language.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hamish-lloyd-barnes-stage-presence-wip-63921/", "official_url": "https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/hamish-lloyd-barnes-stage-presence-wip", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ff9f07c92892683b5d063745e5eb588744ac9469615bc82fa88b4e49ee13c110-1200.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": "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"}]}