{"title": "Wide Awake (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-16T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-16T16:00:00Z", "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/physical-theatre"], "description": "Wide Awake is an experimental theatre piece using movement and storytelling to explore how emotions impact the body and can dictate the course of our lives. It is created and performed by RADA graduates Helen Percival and Gen Labuschagne, and inspired by Bessel van der Kolk's book The Body Keeps the Score. Drawing on their personal explorations of how life experiences and societal expectations become lodged in the body, it invites audiences to embrace the full spectrum of their emotional capacity. The piece runs 50 minutes and is recommended for ages 16 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/wide-awake-voila-festival-60536/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/wide-awake/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fc04be703adab976873779e84cca8992096962d1d3b2928c5c9d9cbf5f52c14e-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-16T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-16T16:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Sensitive is Not Crazy or The World through the Eyes of a Highly Sensitive Child (VOILA! 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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": "The Voice of Butterflies", "start": "2026-11-11T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T16:00:00Z", "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/drama", "society/violence-against-women"], "description": "The Voice of Butterflies is an artivistic performance originally created to commemorate the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls, running as part of the VOILA! Festival at the Etcetera Theatre on Camden High Street. Created by the company Hilanderas, directed by Stephanie Prieto and performed by Stephanie Prieto and Esmeralda Sears, it draws an analogy between butterflies' lack of a physical voice and how trauma silences parts of the human body. The narrative follows a woman and her therapist on a regressive journey into childhood to uncover a secret held within the flesh, triggering a metamorphosis in which other women listen to the protagonist within the sound of her silence. After the 45-minute performance, offered in Latin American Spanish with English surtitles for ages 14 and over, Hilanderas hosts a Q&A and a Roy Hart-based workshop.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-voice-of-butterflies-60519/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/the-voice-of-butterflies/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0e53b6b5efb173a3ed6ab8b18e3bd1a35a7ec13e53e468e751ee3a3fd1318a0a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Gorgon Syndrome", "start": "2026-11-06T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T16:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£14", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/violence-against-women", "stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "'Gorgon Syndrome' is a piece of physical theatre blending ritual, original music and sign language, part of the VOILA! Festival. It was devised and directed by Tatsiana Popova, Yana Alekseenko, Alana Ivory and Nadzeya Sheibak, and performed by them alongside Nela Agrenich and Sonia Rosa. Four women tell real stories of violence — a journalist, a wife, a stripper and a witness — while the figure of Medusa draws out the truths they are too afraid to tell themselves. Drawing on the myth of Medusa, the performance explores how sexual trauma settles in the body, reshapes everyday life and survives in silence, until trauma at last finds its voice.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gorgon-syndrome-60522/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/gorgon-syndrome/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/517811a8246d215b160b7fca3f58816f3fb50a8b77c0785b6f9cfe054b92669a-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": "BalletBoyz - Six Lethargies", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Sadler's Wells", "address": "Rosebery Avenue, EC1R 4TN London", "price": "GBP 15", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": null, "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "BalletBoyz - Six Lethargies is a dance work marking the 25th anniversary of the contemporary dance company BalletBoyz. Built around a pioneering composition for string orchestra by artist and composer Keaton Henson, it chronicles a journey through six stages of emotional landscape. The piece explores how trauma, memory, anxiety, and empathy live together in the body and the mind, and how art and movement can serve as tools for resolution and recovery. Performed by 35 dancers with choreography by Iván Pérez and Seirian Griffiths and accompanied by a live 37-piece orchestra, it draws audiences into a visceral experience of trauma.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/balletboyz-six-lethargies-63375/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/06758584264276ef643063f77440f7553ee6f8b539f95e2417007f80b459538f-600.webp"}, {"title": "Perpetuity (Work-in-Progress)", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £10), all orders subject to a £2 transaction fee", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/clowning"], "description": "Perpetuity (Work-in-Progress) is a solo theatre show by Shambles Ensemble, staged in the Members Bar of Battersea Arts Centre as part of the UNREAL festival. 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. It is recommended for ages 14 and up and contains haze, flashing lights, sudden loud noises and themes of loss, death and suicide.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/perpetuity-work-in-progress-73832/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/perpetuity/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d1e93627a3b674fe2374f86bb3901b996fd63b0bc39ef68e33010d8035d27498-2000.webp"}, {"title": "LIBERATING: She Dances (in Chains)", "start": "2026-11-11T21:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T22:00:00Z", "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": "dance", "tags": ["stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "LIBERATING: She Dances (in Chains) is a visceral physical theatre work about discipline, masking and the paradox of agency within constraint. Created, produced and performed by Xiaoyao Luo, it uses chains, masks, movement and multilingual text to move through the roles a woman is taught to inhabit, from daughter and student to lover and mother. It sketches a world of internalised surveillance where social scripts become muscle memory, asking what freedom might be when conduct is measured from within. Recommended for ages 16+, it runs 50 minutes and contains chains, masks, physical restraint, intense movement and swearing.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/liberating-she-dances-in-chains-60529/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/liberating-she-dances-in-chains/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6640f6fc327901363f441d2edd7391d65daa7568bcfbd3e3f1ab7c8d2e116e53-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Sleep Show", "start": "2026-11-06T10:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Polka Theatre", "address": "The Broadway 238-244, SW19 1SB London", "price": "£14.00 +£2.50 booking fee per order", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/childrens-theatre", "dance"], "description": "The Sleep Show is a dreamy performance for children aged 3 to 6 that turns the mysteries of sleep into a playful adventure of dance and storytelling. It is a Peut-Être Theatre production directed by Daphna Attias, exploring the funny and frustrating parts of trying to fall asleep. Instead of stressful bedtime, the show makes sleep fun, magical and wonderfully silly, with soft cosy vibes, eclectic music and a bedtime story coming to life on stage. The performance lasts 55 minutes, includes a stay and play session afterwards, and aims to spark gentle chats between kids and parents about why sleep matters.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-sleep-show-63959/", "official_url": "https://polkatheatre.com/event/the-sleep-show/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cec01a36d798deccaa2f7def3eda8cee75ceaf69c2ee7b1dd42dcd28e4032e4f-2000.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": "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 Seat of Me (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T15:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/migration", "stage/solo-show"], "description": "The Seat of Me is an intimate autobiographical solo performance staged at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden as part of the VOILA! Festival. It is written and performed by Giulia A.Cryan and produced by Iter Pictures. Through storytelling, music and minimalist staging, it follows one woman's journey across Rome, New York, Los Angeles and London, exploring identity, migration and the search for belonging, with fragments of Edith Piaf's music woven through. 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": "Love vs Fear and My Mother's Prayers", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "£16.45", "price_from": "16.45", "price_to": "16.45", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/immersive-theatre"], "description": "An immersive one-woman play in which your smartphone becomes part of the show. Written by Bunmi Aworanti, directed by Estelle Uba and performed by Samantha Kanu, it is produced and presented by Mudhut IO as part of the Voila! Theatre Festival. It follows Kike, a woman in her mid-20s navigating modern dating and family expectations while her mum prays hard for a husband to appear. The audience makes decisions about her love life, spots red flags and competes in games, exploring romantic love, family approval and cultural expectations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/love-vs-fear-and-my-mothers-prayers-39100/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/love_vs_fear_and_my_mothers_prayers", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2414ad5468ad247cc93f57745a070b34a756c786c4590c34a331ad99771ee991-1200.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": "A Memory Of Love (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-13T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-13T18:00:00Z", "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": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "A Memory Of Love is a romantic drama with sci-fi elements in which a scientist journeys inside his wife's memories through an experimental procedure meant to wake her from an unconscious state. Written and directed by Oscar Alexander, who performs alongside Andrea Somerville, the piece is set within an intercultural love story between an American man and a Mexican woman living in London. Through an intimate, emotionally grounded theatrical style, it explores the beauty, complexity, and fragility of romantic love, examining memory, identity, and distance. The show runs 60 minutes, is in English, and carries references to suicide, with an age recommendation of 16+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-memory-of-love-voila-festival-60531/", "official_url": "https://www.etceteratheatrecamden.com/events/a-memory-of-love", "image": "https://noky.io/images/593fd1902a95651f1f413e330d14ded1eeac33105b7fc705ca5dfe9faf727ba1-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Do You Know Where To Go From Here?", "start": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Space", "address": "Westferry Road 269, E14 3RS London", "price": "", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy", "society/migration"], "description": "Do You Know Where To Go From Here? is a one-woman dark comedy about grief in relation to family, faith and migration. Sophie wakes up in a strange space surrounded by clothes, with no way out, and tries to escape by tidying up, facing old wounds about love and loss. It is based on real events and tells a story about reframing our way of being in this world and the humour and resilience it takes to live well. It is part of the VOILÀ! Theatre Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/do-you-know-where-to-go-from-here-40973/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/do-you-know-where-to-go-from-here-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6d67e5a5545583366fe7a8d9c59047fac0529fb5a18dc31a8541ace7df6b7e6b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Pinned (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-15T21:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T22:00:00Z", "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/drama"], "description": "Pinned, part of the VOILA! Festival, is a bilingual theatre piece set in contemporary Paris about love, purpose and belonging. It follows Claire, a New Zealand academic finishing her master's in social anthropology, who meets Léo, a disillusioned Parisian cellist, as the two women form a bond that challenges them to face who they are and what they want. Written in English and French by Anthea Freya Hill and directed by Mia Leahy, it features Hill and Marie Gouault on stage with live music by Angèle Decreux. 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"}]}