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For a Palestinian

Tue 13 Sept - Sat 1 Oct at 7pm

What's On

Name: this is not a party.
Start: 2022-08-19
End: 2022-08-20
Location: Camden People's Theatre

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Welcome to the Autumn season at CPT.

Highlights include (but are certainly not limited to!) For a Palestinian which brought its audience to tears, then to their feet at our Sprint Festival in 2021; Block'd Off which explores what it is to be Working Class in London; wipe these tears, a critical look at the actions of the British state overseas; and Hot in Here: an energy generating dance party, a fantastic show which celebrates the work of young climate activists.

Amelia Gann presents

Dreamworld

Thu 11th - Sun 14th August at 7.15pm

Join fitness instructor Cathy and an array of eclectic characters for a dysfunctional dance party that tells the story of Cathy’s youth, queer awakening, and complicated relationship with Zumba.

Hire

Sabean Bea presents

Dolls & Guys

Fri 12th - Sun 11th August at 9pm

Objet d’art or person? Life can be brutal in its expectations of women. In this surrealist fantasy not too unlike the reality we know, we meet five dolls who give us an insight into their world on the shelf.

Hire

Icarus Theatre Collective: The MAKING-SPACE Programme presents

this is not a party.

Sat 20th August & Sun 28th August at 7.15pm

How do celebrations affect our personal connections? Explore the young adult experience with three distinct performances from a new collective innovating how we create and work in theatre.

Hire

ŠITE Productions presents

Rajesh and Naresh

Sun 21 Aug - Tue 23 Aug at 9pm

A feel-good love story. When Rajesh visits Mumbai he encounters Naresh - not exactly the Indian wife his mother hoped for. The Queer South Asian rom-com you've been waiting for.

Hire

Turning Hatts Productions presents

FRYDAYS

Wed 24th - Sat 27th Aug at 9pm

Wacky, wonderful and weird, FRYDAYS is an absurd musical comedy about family, friendship and fish and chips. Can two wide eyed twins reclaim their father’s shop before it’s too late?

Hire

Spores Theatre presents

this is not about death.

Mon 29 Aug at 5pm & Tue 30 Aug at 8pm

Everyone becomes a mushroom - sooner or later. Amidst the chaos of the human population turning into fungi, two friends meet in the forests to play games and talk philosophy. Will their friendship withstand the changes yet to come?

Hire

Beth Bowden presents

RIGHT OF WAY

Tue 30th Aug at 5pm & Wed 31st Aug at 8pm

Rooted in a place of joy, breath, and deep listening, RIGHT OF WAY is an embodied reflection on chronic illness, accessibility, Young Carers, and radical joy.

Hire

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OUROBOROS

Wed 31 Aug at 5pm & Thu 1st Sept at 8pm

An author trying to write a myth, but the characters start to make their own decisions. The reality collides with the fantasy. Who is really writing this story?

Hire

The Good Crunch presents

POP POP POP: Till you stop!

Thu 1st Sept at 5pm & 7pm, Fri 2nd Sept at 7pm & 9pm

‘Pop pop pop’ explores the constant struggle of being overstimulated yet being stuck in the repetitive loop we call modern life.

Hire

AMBERSAND collective presents

Idle: What Next?

Fri 2nd Sept at 5pm & 8pm

AMBERSAND collective’s new show examines the realities of existing when it seems like everything is falling apart. We are stuck, you are stuck. What do we do next? Can theatre help? We’ll see.

Hire

The Others presents

Tunnel Vision

Sat 3rd Sept at 5:30pm

Doors are closing. Please mind the gap between you and ‘the others'.

Hire

Deadweight presents

Keep me in the Loop

Sun 4th Sept at 3pm, 4.30pm, 7pm & 8.30pm

Don’t you wish your 9-5 job was longer? More intense? So do we!

Hire

WoLab presents

For a Palestinian

Tue 13 Sept - Sat 1 Oct at 7pm

Bilal has always been obsessed with love stories. In this one-person show he tells you his favourite: the true story of Palestinian poet and translator Wa’el Zuaiter.

Serena Ramsey presents

CHAV-RODITE

Fri 16 Sept - Sat 17 Sept at 9pm

Love. Death and Smirnoff ice. The genre bending Serena Ramsey is back on a quest to re-write the folk lore and mythology that makes us CHAVs who we are. Oi Oi x

Comedy

Live Art

Queer

presents

Big Bang: SEPTEMBER 18th

Sun 18 Sept at 7.15pm

Big Bang is CPT’s regular scratch night: an explosion of performance from which new universes of theatre may one day emerge. These jam-packed platforms are highlights of any CPT season: the place to see wild and wonderful new projects take their first steps.

Big Bang

Roshi Nasehi presents

Ramalama Ding Dong

Wed 21 - Thu 22 Sept at 9pm

Ramalama Ding Dong is an innovative solo multimedia theatre piece inspired by real life experiences of funny, surreal and intimidating racism. The piece combines experimental approaches to stand up, storytelling, singing and live sound art.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Miranda Prag presents

An Attempt to Lose Time

Fri 23 Sept - Sat 24 Sept at 9pm

After five years living in the city, Miranda thought about time all the time - so she gave it up. A solo show about time and our relationships with it.

Comedy

Live Art

Work In Progress

Pigfoot Theatre presents

HOT IN HERE (An energy-generating dance-party)

Sun 25 Sep - Mon 26 Sep and Tue 4 Oct - Thu 6 Oct at 7.15pm

A protest. A theatre show. An energy-generating dance-party. Developed from interviews with climate activists around the world and powered by an energy-harvesting dancefloor, HOT IN HERE celebrates action taking place internationally against climate injustice, and the UK’s place within it. Made by multi award-winning Pigfoot, with the least carbon impact possible.

Louise Ashcroft presents

Bird Hut Sperm Bank

Tue 27 - Wed 28 Sept at 9pm

Louise Ashcroft builds a DIY sperm bank outside her home, using an old bird hut, to reflect on who gets to have kids, who doesn't, and how to reinvent family.

David Labi presents

Pieces of a Man

Thurs 29 Sept at 9pm

David performs the rollercoaster story of his late father, a Libyan-Italian Holocaust Survivor. A hilarious and powerful one-man show examining fatherhood, identity, trauma, and joy.

Comedy

The tana project presents

TANA

Fri 30 Sept - Sat 1 Oct at 9pm

When F and T moved together during lockdown, they didn’t know that the clear boundaries that their friendship held suddenly would begin to blur. A play about identity, and sexuality in a Queer-Asian context.

Queer

presents

STAMP Connects 2022

Tue 4 Oct at 2pm

The STAMP (Supporting Theatre Artists and Makers of Performance) network is bringing back its not-to-be-missed annual event for new, early-, and mid-career artists: STAMP Connects.

Lila Robirosa presents

The Not-12 Days of Not-Christmas

Fri 7 Oct - Sat 8 Oct at 9pm

One woman. One song. One board game. 50 minutes to unlock the secrets lying within... Come and roll the dice on one woman's hilarious story of queer confusion and chaos.

Meg Hodgson presents

MOONFACE

Fri 7 Oct - Sat 8 Oct at 7.15pm

2022. Shady billionaires make plans to colonise and mine the solar system behind all our backs, and one rocky satellite is dangerously close to the edge. One last cycle to figure out where it all went wrong and how (if) we can course-correct before it’s too late.

BÉZNĂ Theatre presents

Wipe These Tears

Tue 11 Oct - Sat 22 Oct at 7pm

A bouquet of flesh flowers melted into each other // Hand to hand // Face to shoulder // Chemical unification of skins wipe these tears is a world premiere from British-Romanian BÉZNĂ Theatre.

Feminist

Anna Clover presents

Going Deutsch

Fri 14 Oct - Sat 15 Oct at 9pm

Should you ever go back to someone, (or something), that almost destroyed you? What if they’re sorry? What if they say they’ve changed? What if they’re offering an EU passport?

Comedy

Feminist

presents

Big Bang: OCTOBER 16th

Sun 16 Oct at 7.15pm

Big Bang

WORK IN PROGRESS

Twisted Reality Productions presents

Cute But Psycho

Thu 20 Oct - Fri 21 Oct at 9pm

Exploring the magnetic beauty and mind-altering struggle of psychosis, Cute But Psycho asks what happens when spiritual awakening and mental illness collide with the medical approach to recovery.

Jamie Sefton presents

A Thousand Sons

Tue 1 Nov - Sat 5 Nov at 9pm

A one person show detailing the true horrors of nuclear weapons and the deceit by those in power.

Poetry

Tingying Zhaolin Zhou present

Walking Cats

Tue 1 and Wed 2 Nov at 7.15pm

When you can’t travel back home, will your home come to you?

Live Art

Puppetry

Young People

Attic James Rowland present

Learning to Fly

Thu 3 Nov - Sat 5 Nov at 7.15pm

James tells the story of a friendship he made with the scary old lady who lived on his street and her last wish: to get high once before she dies.

Comedy

Musical

Spoken Word

El Gordo Theatre Co. Pleasance Theatre Wooden Arrow Productions present

Block'd Off

Tue 8th Nov - Sat 19th Nov at 7.15pm

Block’d Off is a One-Woman Show following 5 characters living in the Cycle of Deprivation, and explores what it is to be Working-Class in London. Based on real stories in real locations.

Physical Theatre

Nwoko Arts presents

Sweet Mother

Tue 8 Nov - Wed 9 Nov at 9pm

Set in a time of racial unrest in Liverpool, Sweet Mother is a celebration of white women who fell in love and married black men. Sweet Mother is based on true stories from the heart of the community.

Liv Ello presents

SWARM

Thu 10 Nov - Sat 12 Nov at 9pm

SWARM is a surreal dark comedy exploring the connection between toxic expressions of privilege and the behaviour of flies. Using character comedy, stand-up and spoken word, SWARM subverts the language used to dehumanise those othered in British society to re-tell a far more evocative reality.

Cheryl May Ndione presents

For The Love Of A Primary Caregiver

Tue 15 - Sat 19 Nov at 9pm

Rosemary is about to do a speech at her mother’s wedding. She’s not quite sure how to hit the right note as the relationship between Rosemary and her mother has been... less- than- rosy. As latent thoughts and feelings bubble to the surface, we realise maybe the apple hasn’t fallen very far from the tree.

presents

heartfelt

Tue 22 Nov - Wed 23 Nov at 7.15pm

heartfelt. a wildly inventive disability-led solo theatre show about hearts & heartlessness - spiralling out of our heart-attacks. with love-heart sweets for all. a must-watch. Slung Low.

Victor Esses presents

The Death & Life of All of Us

Tue 22 - Wed 23 Nov at 9pm

The Death & Life of All of Us is an experimental performance that uses biographical documentary film and live music to reclaim erased histories.

Urban Foxes Collective presents

MOTHERLOAD!

Thu 24 Nov - Fri 25 Nov at 7.15pm

MOTHERLOAD! is a dark comedy for the end of days. Meet Mother Nature, the sexiest woman alive turned dumpster fire. She's doing a TED Talk, a last chance bid to save her favourite creation.

Larisa Faber presents

Good Girls

Thu 24 Nov - Sat 26 Nov at 9pm

A musical about abortions and no regrets. 3 performers, 3 keyboards, 6 jazz hands, multiple stories.

Alistair Hall presents

Declan

Tue 29 Nov - Sat 3 Dec at 9pm

A haunted, hallucinatory tale of isolation and sexual discovery.

Queer

Odd Eyes Theatre presents

On The Line

Tue 29 Nov - Sat 3 Dec at 7pm

Camden teenagers Tia and Kai’s perfect day is ruined when a robbery threatens to test their childhood bonds and complexities of aspiration in this witty and urgent play for today.

FlawBored presents

It's a Motherf**king Pleasure

Tue 6 Dec - Thu 8 Dec at 7.15pm

Winners of the Greenwich Theatre Award, 2022. We join a social media manager and an up-and-coming blind influencer as they embark on a quest to make blindness sexy.

Comedy

WORK IN PROGRESS

Hannah Maxwell presents

Nan, Me & Barbara Pravi

Tue 6 Dec - Wed 7 Dec at 9pm

An epic tale of love, loss and explaining how to use the microwave.

Jack Boal presents

Thatcher-Rite

Thu 8 Dec - Sat 10 Dec at 9pm

Thatcher-Rite invites you for a traditional English tea party with Margaret Thatcher. From cucumber sandwiches to Conservative policy, this interactive and entertaining production revisits the legacy of the UK's first woman Prime Minister.

Millie Wood-Downie presents

There Was a Little Girl

Fri 9 Dec - Sat 10 Dec at 7.15pm & Sun 11 Dec 5pm

Millie is not like other girls. Join Millie (and her alter ego Michael) in this witty, unflinching & truthful insight into growing up opposing the female narrative covered in 90s nostalgia galore.

Burning Attic presents

Patient is a Verb

Tue 13 Dec - Thu 15 Dec at 9pm

Welcome to the waiting room to enter the realm of Transition*. You are the 11,174th player. Only 33 players have made it through Level One this month.

Live Art

Physical Theatre

Queer

Sonny Howes presents

The Benefits of Disabled Sex

Tue 13 Dec - Wed 14 Dec at 7.15pm

He lost his legs, but what about his virginity? A true story of a teenage boy who plays with his crutch more than his crotch.

Popsie Theatre presents

Not a Girl Not Yet a Woman

Fri 16 Dec - Sat 17 Dec at 9pm

You’re invited to enter a liminal space between girlhood and womanhood, and watch as we tear apart Britney’s conservatorship, victim-blaming and female autonomy - all while drunk on early-2000s MTV nostalgia.

presents

Scrooge

Tue 20 Dec - Fri 23 Dec at 7.15pm

D-live! present an adaption Charles Dickens’ classic tale A Christmas Carol for hearing and non-hearing audiences with full length digital live theatre

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Councillor Jonathan Simpson Camden Council

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