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    SPRINT Festival

    Image: Florian Lim

    It's the million-and-one-th (we’ve lost count) edition of London’s best established carnival of new and unusual theatre, SPRINT Festival.

    From 3 - 27th March, we've assembled the most scintillating new artists making performance today – artists with bold ideas, artists who won’t play by the rules, and artists in many instances making their first professional work. With SPRINT, you never quite know what you're going to get but you can be damn certain you'll have a good night out.

    "CPT is as a beacon of fringe goodness, a theatre that champions diversity, inclusivity and the best kind of weird uniqueness" - LondonTheatre1

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    Bold white text reading Big Bang 3rd March 2026, in the background a drawing of an explosion

    Big Bang Scratch Night - 3rd March 2026

    Tues 3rd March at 7pm
    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 the CPT programme: the place to see wild and wonderful new projects take their first steps.
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    lots of stones and boulders, the sea in the background, a humanoid figure in a green boiler suit lies motionless on its back on the rocks, It has a head made of shells.
    Benji Paget presents

    BOGGIN (WIP)

    Wed 4th March at 9PM
    What if the VHS spat itself back out, the boogyman strangled us with the tape and sent us down the river? BOGGIN aims to help us navigate this low road.”
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    Collage with ornate gold frame, antique map of South America, headline ‘LOS MARICONES’, red roses, two HIV medication bottles, a red high-heeled shoe, and an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, in a vibrant cultural style.

    El Gran Varón (WIP)

    Weds 4 March at 7:15pm
    A politically urgent performance blending testimonies, humour, and archives to confront HIV stigma, colonial legacies, and institutional violence among Latin American migrants in Europe.
    A white woman in her late twenties, is soaked with water. Their eyes are closed, they have a rye smile on their face. They are stood in front of a mouldy wall with yellow graffiti writing reading Landlord's Wet Dream.
    Verity Sharpe presents

    Verity Sharpe: Landlord's Wet Dream

    Thurs 5th March at 7:15pm
    An anarchic punk gig meets protest meets stand-up hour. Landlord's Wet Dream is a hilarious deep dive into the absurdities of the UK housing crisis.
    Close up of woman with blonde hair wearing a turquoise bicycle helmet looking confused
    Untethered presents

    Am I Losing My Mind Or Just My Figure?

    Fri 6th March at 7:15pm
    Inventive, physical and achingly human the play captures the millennial female zeitgeist. Comically exploring life, pregnancy & parenthood it's a
    One person on stage standing in a pile of baby bottles, breast pumps and teats, setting off a confetti canon, with a cloud of confetti above her head
    Karla Shacklock presents

    Niplash

    Fri 6th March at 9pm
    Liberation via lactivism! Both healing balm and urgent battle cry, Niplash blows open the societal pressures and insane mixed messaging around infant feeding. Expect to see milk, tears and confetti.
    A woman holds a gold head whilst wearing a lime green showgirl headdress.

    Sam Hickman: First Woman

    Sat 7th March at 9pm
    A Comedy Harp show! What an original premise; maybe come for that!?
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    A zoomed in picture of the bark of a tree. It is covered in pale-green lichen.
    Fallow presents

    Fieldfare (WIP)

    Sat 7th March at 7:15pm
    Fieldfare is a queer folktale for the forests of modern Britain – boldly dissolving borders between us and nature in a kaleidoscope of poetry, storytelling, archive footage and folk song.
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    Two white women obscured behind translucent plastic. The taller woman wears a white t-shirt, jeans and has visible tattoos. The other wears a navy oversized jumper. They are both brunettes with bobs.
    Mad Jacks presents

    This Swollen Thing (WIP)

    Tues 10th March at 7:15pm
    Abundant sensation collides with tumbling dissocia in this surreal and poetic new play about the feelings that compose a life, presented by award-winning company Mad Jacks Theatre.
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    A yellow background with a a microphone, a mouth, Two mikes and lightning bolts all with pink and blue shadows. One Mike has a prop banana mimicking a penis, the other is flexing his biceps.

    Who Gave You The Mic (WIP)

    Tues 10th March at 9pm
    Five Mikes. One Mic. May the best Mike win. A genre-blending night of sketch comedy, centring queer joy, gender politics and everyones favourite alpha male, Mike!
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    A woman is stripping off a nuns outfit. She has on a drawn on brown beard and a partially naked body with covered nipples.
    Celeste Cahn presents

    Drag me to Communion (WIP)

    Weds 11th March 2026 at 9pm
    A drag-cabaret exploration of religion, Communion, interfaith marriage, divorce and the Bible.
    A woman with blue hair lies on the ground in a purple boiler suit with orange trim and in a white tanktop. Behind her, a cityscape blurs into a starry sky with a spaceship launching above.

    Shallowspace

    Wed 11 and Fri 13 March at 7:15pm
    Frozen blood. Coolant in your veins. Every moment of human history preserved in digital hyperspace. Memories become data. Routine becomes regimen, yet somehow, your limbs feel... wrong?
    A young woman wearing childlike clothing sat on the floor next to an empty wheelchair.
    Holly Gifford presents

    Big Little Sister

    Thurs 12th March at 7:15pm
    A darkly funny, surreal solo show about growing up beside a disabled sibling
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    Child with crown and fake mustache sit with pile of jewels.

    Lil Wenker: BOYKING (WIP)

    Thurs 12th March at 9pm
    ALL HAIL BOYKING! Joffrey (no relation) seeks power at all costs. His crown is mighty, his word is law, his favourite snack... Mummy’s Milk. Bow down—this coronation’s a killer.
    Seven colourful figures stand in front of an explosion in London. The central figure holds a bomb with a lit fuse. One figure has swords, one has a dynamite, one has a gun, one has a fake wig and beard, one has dark sunglasses, one appears elderly.
    DUM presents

    The Man Who Was Thursday

    Fri 13 March at 9pm
    A poet seeks revenge on the anarchists who destroyed her home. As chaos unfolds into twists upon turns, nothing (and no one) is quite what (who) it (they) seems (seem)!
    2 performers dressed in neon green crashing two model cars together in the middle of a makeshift 'road' which is a raised platform in the centre of the space. A third performer looks on with an expression of excitement and audience surround the performers

    Reclaim The Streets (audio version)

    Sat 14 March at 3pm
    ‘Prepare to be immersed (literally) in the forgotten protest movement 'Reclaim the Streets' that brought the spirit of rave to the roads. Bring your headphones, it’s time to party!’
    Drag performer TenCza wearing a white gown with a huge cake-shaped headpiece on her head. The headpiece incorporates an actual birthday cake which others are cutting.

    ASMR Queer Experience

    Sat 14 March at 7:15pm
    Neurodivergent queerness creates a gentle storm onstage. We relish in awkward, celebrate our quirks and have fun like 6-year-olds.
    A performer looks at themselves applying make-up in a dressing room mirror
    Theo Chen presents

    Pretty Ugly

    Sat 14 March at 9pm
    Military service, Sondheim, and family history intertwine in this cabaret to determine why Theo feels so ugly, and whether it matters that they do?
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    Bold white text reading Big Bang 17th March 2026, in the background a drawing of an explosion

    Big Bang Scratch Night - 17th March 2026

    Tuesday 17th March at 7pm
    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 the CPT programme: the place to see wild and wonderful new projects take their first steps.
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    Backlit picture of two people embracing each other, the person on the left has a cap on and the person on the right has a ponytail with a hint of pink at the end, the person on the right is blurred because they are in motion.
    Carla Ng presents

    HUG PIECE (WIP)

    Wed 18 March at 6:30pm
    “What's close enough, but not really the real thing, but sometimes exactly what you need?” Carla attempts to solve the great mystery of human contentment, one hug at a time.
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    Two collage statue torsos float on a black background. They each have a glamorous, well made up eye floating where their heads should be and heart shaped red glitter nipples pasties. A mysterous glittering liquid drips from both.
    Charlie Wood presents

    The Devil’s Eyelash (WIP)

    Wed 18th March at 20:15
    A work in progress staging of The Devil's Eyelash. A high-octane queer apocalypse play combining storytelling, live scoring, cosmic nuns and surrealist myth. A comedy/tragedy, anti-Adam and Eve epic poem.
    Three white, gay boys in suits stand with their arms crossed in front of lots of dollar bills.
    BOY Theatre presents

    CAMPITALISM: Three Gays Try To Fix The Economy (WIP)

    Thurs 19th March at 7:15pm
    A Ted X talk meets a drag brunch meets the Lehman Trilogy: three queers battle entrenched bureaucracy in an earnest attempt to understand and demystify the economy.
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    A person speaks into a microphone while crouching over their laptop and DJ controller
    Amina Aaliya Beg presents

    My Mum Told Me Not To Marry An Atheist (WIP)

    Thurs 19 and Tues 24th Mar at 9pm
    My Mum Told Me Not To Marry An Atheist is a play / DJ set exploring DADI and her granddaughter KAMAL’s relationship about love, marriage & being intergenerational trouble-makers.
    A white non-binary person wearing a pink wig, a black and white sports bra, with some fine-line tattoos on their arm is having their hair plaited. They are looking directly at the camera with a touch of attitude and a touch of boredom.

    That Song From Rocky Horror (Toucha, Toucha, Touch Me)

    Fri 20th March at 7:15
    Stoness embraces their experience as a sex worker and together we answer, is sex work care work? A playful, provocative twirl through touch, community building and the commodification of intimacy.
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    A young girl stands looking in the distance with dark brown tied back hair, small pearl studs wearing a dark denim jacket with a brown hood, and patches all over the jacket.. She holds a bright pink book in front of her front of her body.
    Ray Productions presents

    That’s Ace (WIP)

    Fri 20 March at 9pm and Sat 21 March at 3pm
    Ace tries to figure out if her feelings for her school crush, Sasha, are romantic or platonic. Is it friendship? Is it love? What’s the difference?
    A young Japanese man sitting alone in a small Tokyo internet café booth, surrounded by clutter on the desk.
    Unboxing Theatre presents

    Net Cafe Refugee 2.0

    Sat 21 March at 6:45pm
    A young man drifts through Tokyo unseen—living in a net café, speaking only to the void online. Until two strangers crack open the solitude he chose to survive.
    A person in a long white wig and blue tunic against an aqua background, with a dove, rainbow and water splash around him.
    Nathaniel Jones presents

    2 BY 2

    Sat 21 March at 9pm
    Noah’s in charge, and you’re all animals!! A Noah’s Ark character comedy about politics, polyamory, and being singled out by God as the most perfect person to ever exist.
    A shadow of a man

    Bayangkan Bayang (Imagine a Shadow) 

    Tues 24th Mar 2025 at 7:15pm
    What happens to migrant children as they mature into societies that fail to acknowledge them?
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    A layered photograph of a dance performance showing overlapping figures of two dancers. In the foreground, a dancer in a black long-sleeve top and leggings moves across the frame, partially blurred in motion.
    Mahshid Alavi presents

    Torang (WIP)

    Weds 25th Mar at 7:15pm
    Torang moves between Iran and the UK, inviting you into a shared space where two friends and the audience connect through dance, text, and digital storytelling.
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    Four Asian figures stand before a red and green background, with traces of Chinese-style watercolour painting
    Mild Peril presents

    Asian Folx Stories (WIP)

    Wed 25 March at 9PM
    A trans reworking of Mulan and bloody hilarious exploration of what it means to be trans and Asian through folklore & drag – the version Disney would never dare make.
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    A black and white image of a hand of a man desperately reaching out to a glass of water through the prison bars.
    Drift Theatre presents

    Untitled Indian Political Prisoner Show (WIP)

    Thurs 26 March at 7:15pm
    A multi-media WIP performance based on the writings and first-person accounts of Indian political prisoners and activists
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    A bearded man sits on a worn green sofa, wearing a fluffy grey robe with a hood designed like a cartoon wolf, complete with ears and a face. He looks directly at the camera with a neutral expression. The background wall is textured and cracked.
    Snap the Arrow presents

    A Very Difficult Person (WIP)

    Thurs 26th March at 9pm
    A darkly comic true story reimagined as a modern fairytale about trust, danger, and what happens when the place you call home stops feeling safe.
    Two men in white vests and braces lookin gat the camera. Poppies fall around them.
    Gait Productions presents

    Poppies

    Fri 27th March at 7pm
    Best friends address what the Poppy represents to their respective heritage and navigate their way through this historic subject matter and the British Empire’s devastating, lasting impact in Ireland.
    Alex Robins (a man in his late twenties) next to Mayor Max, the Golden Retriever Labrador, in the boot of a car.
    Alex Robins presents

    Meet Mayor Max

    Fri 27th March at 9pm
    He isn’t afraid of the RUFF questions! He won’t ROLL OVER on the big issues! Vote for him to SIT in office!