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Bad Jokes about Men

Tue 31 May - Wed 1 Jun at 7.15pm

What's On

Name: No More Mr Nice Guy
Start: 2022-05-17
End: 2022-05-19
Location: Camden People's Theatre

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Welcome to the spring season at CPT. This season features our annual festival of innovative theatre, Sprint, and some great performances by Theatre State (Say Yes to Tess), Adam Lenson (But What If You Die?) and Luis Amalia (Stigma).

WORK IN PROGRESS

MALOdiversary Middlesex University UN[RULY] present

The Ant Experiment & Some Things

Mon 16 May at 7.15pm

The Project x Noise festival showcases the work of emerging theatre artists from the Middlesex University's degree programmes in Theatre Performance and Theatre Design. Two newly formed theatre companies with diverse team members will explore current relevant topics and the theme of noise.

Work In Progress

BugEyed Theatre Company presents

The Ballad Of Adulthood

Tue 17 & Wed 18 May at 7.15pm

If only we could go back to clunking around in mums high heels. This is a battle cry of what it means to be young, naïve and unprepared for life.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Cal-I Jonel Nouveau Riche present

No More Mr Nice Guy

Tue 17 - Thu 19 May at 9pm & Fri 20 - Sat 21 at 7.15pm

Keloughn is a secondary school teacher caught in a love cube: his aspiration for senior leadership; his passion for music, and his fiancé, Carmelle. When his worlds collide he finds himself desperately clinging to his sanity whilst life unravels. Something has to give, but at what cost?

Freddie Hayes presents

Potatohead

Fri 20 - Sat 21 May at 9pm

Potatohead is a starch raving mad adaptation of Doctor Faustus and the Seven Deadly Sins... with puppets. An original piece of new writing by puppeteer and performer Freddie Hayes, directed by Shit Theatre.

Comedy

Live Art

Puppetry

Sian Goldby presents

Constellations

Sat 21 May at 4pm, 5.30pm, 7pm & 8.30pm

An intimate performance exploring landscapes of memory and humanity’s relationship with the earth. Constellations re-imagines the performance space in miniature, and is designed for small audiences of up to 6 people.

Live Art

Tom Adams presents

George

Mon 23 May - Tue 21 June on demand

George is a 30 minute audio experience with songs. Inspired by Tom’s memories as a young boy, George tells the story of a guide dog on the brink of retirement.

CPT Digital

Musical

Carla Keen presents

Max Velocity Takes Up Space

Tue 24 May at 7.15pm

Max Velocity is a one-man interactive, intergalactic planetary comedy experience. It may include the following: mullet-based humour, non-mullet-based music, and Max’s unconventional approach to astronaut training.

CLUNK presents

@theDISCO

Tue 24 May at 9pm

A full moon disco with homemade costumes, ridiculous dances, a loop pedal, flash photography, a surprisingly life-like seagull impression and a big fat middle finger to the patriarchy.

Jenny Gaskell presents

Hopelessly Devoted

Tue 24 May - Sat 11 Jun

Inspired by the time Jenny developed a hot and heavy crush on her universal credit consultant, Hopelessly Devoted is a quest to find connection against a backdrop of suspicion, isolation and a pervasive culture of rape.

WORK IN PROGRESS

tasteinyourmouth presents

You're Needy (sounds frustrating)

Tue 24 - Thu 26 May at 2pm, 4pm, 6.30pm & 8.30pm

Work In Progress

Hannah Ballou presents

goo:ga

Tue 24 May - Sat 11 June on demand

Raunchy feminist comedy from a very pregnant Hannah Ballou, who finds out her baby has much bigger problems than the binary gender paradigm.

CPT Digital

Anahi Saravia Herrera & Jemima Yong Hollie Miller pink suits Sophie Brain present

Cheer Up Love (it might never happen) #1

Wed 25 May at 7.15pm

The Family Jewels presents

MANdemonium

Thu 26 May at 7.15pm

Join The Family Jewels for a disarmingly sexy exploration of gendered power. A drag cabaret set in 3020, MANdemonium charts the heady glory days and spectacular decline of planet Earth’s men.

Theodora van der Beek presents

Drink Your Pink: Film Screening

Thu 26 May at 9pm

Trapped in a tower in a world of pink, a YouTuber princess does everything she is told: drinks pink, sleeps, wakes up, hair, make-up, makes content, repeats. Until…

Abby Russell presents

GUSH

Fri 27 May at 7.15pm

The FRONTBUMS dance-collective showcase their latest, most-good, pussy-busting movements! 93% of the population have vaginas and only 6% can dance (1% other). The FRONTBUMS are here to mix things up! Conceptual.

Ruby Portus presents

Shall we just retire to the lake?

Fri 27 May at 9pm

For vous tonight, and only pour you! Two women… One stage… Sparkling dirty sh*t… And why would we care?! Welcome to the cabaret fantastique des deux women…

WORK IN PROGRESS

Heather Bandenburg presents

Mummy Vs.

Sat 28 May - Sun 29 May at 7.15pm

Who would win in a battle between Instagram and the NHS? Can a working Mum fight off the patriarchy armed only with wine and self belief?

Work In Progress

presents

It Will All End in Tears: Writing Rage with Sticky Fingers Publishing

Sat 28 May at 3pm

Discussing texts such as Audre Lorde’s the Uses of Anger, Pilot Press’s A Queer Anthology of Rage, and Johanna Hedva’s Sick Woman Theory, we will think and write through what pisses us off.

Emma Bourke Ildikó Rippel Lizzy Tan Lydia Brickland Maya Williams present

WIP It Real Good #1

Mon 30 May at 7.15pm

WIP It Real Good is a jam packed night of work-in-progress performances. From theatre to cabaret, comedy to live art, we have handpicked some of the most interesting artists on the block creating new work that has never yet been seen. Join us for an evening of freshly half-baked delicacies. The outer shells may well be crisp but the interior is definitely still squidgy. Come ready to witness the unfinished.

Kerry Frampton Matilda Wilde Splendid Productions present

I Love You, But F*ck Off

Tue 31 May at 9pm

Mum and daughter duo attempt to untangle themselves from one another and retrace the events that defined them without ending up in a close spoon or physical fight.

Elise Gilbert presents

Bad Jokes about Men

Tue 31 May - Wed 1 Jun at 7.15pm

Bad jokes, dad jokes, tragically sad jokes…so why is everyone laughing? In this beautifully chaotic production, Elise journals her way into the realisation that it was not ‘just a joke.’

Maude presents

I Don't Know Why I'm Crying

Wed 1 Jun - Thu 2 Jun at 9pm

Two absurdist historians follow Ate Bush, a lost drag queen lip syncing through the pandemic-stricken city in a camp satire combining film, sci-fi, and a killer Kate Bush catalogue.

Calico presents

Curfew

Thu 2 Jun at 7.15pm

Curfew is a multi-disciplinary performance piece blending dance, theatre, drag and film, to explore the sad, frightening, funny, and hopeful verbatim experiences of women and non-binary people in public spaces at night.

Secretariat presents

HEXENHAMMER

Fri 3 Jun - Sat 4 Jun at 7.15pm

1487, Germany. Heinrich and Jacob are monks, bestselling authors and witch-hunters. They're also incels and sometimes they're Jordan B Peterson. HEXENHAMMER. An evil and medieval double-act about monks, misogyny and the manosphere.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Chloe Borthwick presents

Christ Alive!

Fri 3 Jun at 9pm

An unforgettable encounter with the son of God. Neither he nor we know why he is here. What miracles will be bestowed upon this audience? Crazy holy good.

Work In Progress

Siân Docksey presents

Siân Docksey: Work-In-Polegress

Sat 4 Jun at 9pm

Can pole dancing be funny? Mostly for tax reasons, BBC New Comedy Award nominee Siân Docksey tries to find out.

Comedy

Ali Wilson Julia Pond With Steve present

WIP It Real Good #2

Mon Jun 6 at 7.15pm

Louise Ashcroft presents

Bird Hut Sperm Bank

Tue 7 Jun at 7.15pm

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.

Paula David presents

Blood, Sweat and Vaginas

Tue 7 Jun at 9pm

Carolann’s awakening is sudden and all consuming. She stumbles out of her super woman bubble to discover her sexuality is fluid, soul music is the language of her soul and menopause has definitely arrived.

Irene Cioni Lucia Pazzini present

Cheer Up Love (it might never happen) #2

Wed 8 Jun at 7.15pm

Cheer Up Love (it might never happen) is an evening of live art and dance about identity, gender, sexuality, rage and revolution. A mini festival within the festival, see a variety of boundary pushing works in one evening. Messy, chaotic and visceral, these avant garde artists are reimagining the way we look at performance. Expect the unexpected.

Alice Christina-Corrigan presents

PAST LIFE

Thu 9 Jun at 7pm

Past Life uses multi-sensory storytelling to provoke a dynamic and hard-hitting play which has you laughing and crying and questioning the world we live in. Past Life is a one person show that questions the normalisation of sexual assault in relationships, using soundscapes, projectors, creative captioning and audio descriptive language to create a new and vibrant way of making accessible theatre.

Holly Spillar presents

HOLE

Thu 9 Jun at 9pm

“Hi, I’m HOLE and I’m IMPENETRABLE!” Join HOLE in Holly Spillar’s surreal, musical comedy about vaginismus, NHS gifted dildos and what it means to be whole.

Cosmino Productions presents

Heartburn

Fri 10 - Sat 11 Jun at 7.15pm

Two women talk about childbirth, sing about violence and dance about menopause. Everywhere they look things are still not equal and maybe they never will be.

Clout Theatre presents

A Museum for Dead Instincts

Fri 10 - Sat 11 Jun at 9pm

A horny one-woman show about hormones, myths around women’s sexuality and gender biases in scientific research. This work-in-progress dives into the nitty-gritty of such themes as sexual tension & power dynamics.

Luis Amália presents

Stigma

Wed 15 - Sat 18 Jun at 9pm

A queer kid, a horny mascot, a hairy body in a sauna, a gymnast performing at the Olympics, a Hollywood legend. Luis Amália has one hour to perform them all.

Am Stubberfield presents

The UnRealities of Love

Fri 17 - Sat 18 Jun at 7.15pm

Ever thought about what you’d order at the First Dates restaurant or scrolled through Insta posts declaring undying love? UnReAlities takes you on a whirlwind romance through a queer lens, exploring how we connect in a world full of multiple 'realities'.