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Whats On

SPRINT Festival

Image: Hunter Johns

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.

For three weeks in March, we assemble 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

WORK IN PROGRESS

Text reads SPRINT 2025 with 2 blue socks and white runnning shoes at the bottom. One of socks has a plant growing out of it.

Emma Rose Davies Tommyrot Productions present

Big Bang Scratch Night - 12th Mar 2025

Wed 12th Mar 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.

Big Bang

Comedy

Feminist

Physical Theatre

Solo Performance

Technology

Work In Progress

Shilpa Varma and Al Enechi presents

Pimlico

Thu 13 March at 9pm

Two strangers, a funeral and a set of dentures.

A stylised crowd with no identifying features is observing a glowing globe representing the Earth, placed at the centre over a black background

Wild Guess presents

if not this then that

Thu 13 March at 7:15pm

if not this then that is a play performed by the audience. It's about agency, control and the colonial origins of modern computing technology. It's a play about us.

History

Live Art

Technology

Three caucasian men in white against a black background, positioned in an inverted triangle. They are variously touching each other's cheeks and shoulders.

Bike Folds Three presents

Boy Band

Fri 14 March at 7:15pm

“Boy Band” finish their world tour with an intimate gig in Camden. A musical comedy featuring three men who are definitely teenagers singing songs of heartbreak, loneliness, and rocks.

Comedy

Music/Musical

A caucasian woman in a leopard print top looks to the side. She has DIY sheep ears and a painted sheep's nose

Ruth Berkoff presents

The Beauty of Being Herd

Sat 15 March at 7:15pm

Ever get overwhelmed and wish life was simpler? Hannah's decided to live as a sheep. Comedy, original songs and heartfelt sharing. Bonkers!

Mama Quilla Productions presents

Crossing No Man's Land - (Are we Sleep Walking into World War 3?)

Sat 15 March at 9pm

Dynamic new performance shards devised in 50 hours of Women and War workshops by Kay Adshead and Company

Beckett Gray Day Job Theatre present

Portrait of a Queer in Panic

Sun 16 March at 7:15pm

Portrait of a Queer in Panic is a messy, euphoric exploration of living as someone that doesn’t colour within the lines.

Queer

Solo Performance

Poster on an off-white background, containing a plastic toy cow with both horns and udders, a metal lighter, fake cigarette, a ginger moustache, plastic toy fence, part of a plastic toy trough, black microphone wire and red bungee cord scattered around.

Speakbeast presents

The Freemartin

Sun 16 March at 9pm

This is a show about a great British industry. It’s a show about cows, and hormones, and plenty of tractors. This is a show about transphobia. Sorry– we mean agriculture.

Queer

WORK IN PROGRESS

fish in a dress presents

The City for Incurable Women

Mon 17 March at 7:15pm

An outrageous tale of misogyny and mistreatment based on the true story of patients performing their ‘hysteria’ onstage in 19th century Paris.

Darlink Dick, Tahini Molasses, Toby Kind, Hayriye Holivud presents

Dolmuş Mini Bus

Mon 17th Mar at 9pm

The Harem of no One presents a risk taking cabaret blending storytelling and popular music from SWANA.

Comedy

Music/Musical

Queer

Jack Wakely Skye! Yifei Ma present

Big Bang Scratch Night - 18th Mar 2025

Tue 18 March 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.

Big Bang

WORK IN PROGRESS

Two people, a man and a woman, the man in the foreground wearing a backwards cap and the woman leaning on his shoulder behind him. There is a blue hue over the image.

Déviniat Adedibu presents

TwinBond.

Wed 19 March at 7:15pm

Smoldering tensions rise as Simi interrogates Kayode on his silence, revelations about their unravelled bond is brought to the surface.

Amanda Grace presents

Snoligoster

Wed 19 March at 9pm

Straight from the swamp, to set the record straight... Come and behold the Florida folktale legend, captured and shipped to her UK debut, for your twisted delight!

Serpentine Productions presents

were you in terror? did you know? did you feel the claw that cleaned you?

Thu 20 March at 7:15pm

Bennie really puts the ghost in ghostwriter. She writes suicide notes for a living. A thorny solo comedy about death, jobs, and Anthony Bourdain. Sort of.

Solo Performance

Work In Progress

A woman in a colourful dress stands on a stage, her arms extended, casting a shadow. A stuffed toy lies on the floor in front of her. Vibrant rainbow effects form a phoenix shape around her.

Alexandra Draghici presents

Beyond Unity

Thu 20 March at 9pm

Beyond Unity invites you on a disjointed dive into dissociation. Comedy, movement, sound, art and lived experiences collide and flip every five minutes, reshaping how we understand dissociative minds!

Mio Lobban presents

Baleen

Fri 21 March at 7:15pm

Delve into the belly of a whale, where a group led by a matriarch dwell. What happens when a new arrival begins challenging how things have always been done?

Pip Williams and William Byam Shaw presents

Glossolalia

Fri 21 March at 9pm

Rhiannon Lucy Bird presents

Kitty Dollparts & Other Performing Objects

Sat 22 March 7:15pm

A very serious show about porn... with puppets! A camp, silly, sexy piece of theatre which shines a light on the topic we love to clear from our browsing history.

Mindscape Arts presents

Displacement

Sat 22 March at 9pm

Part theatre, part film, part live music performance, DISPLACEMENT is a show about abstracting The Tempest, about taking photographs, about capturing a moment.

shelf/break presents

We Are On The Brink Of Something

Sat 22 March at 3pm

There is a cycle of seven scores. If you do them often enough, the world changes shape. We invite you to organise, strategise, and mobilise beneath our makeshift tent.

History

Live Art

WORK IN PROGRESS

Somebody in a flower costume holding a yellow flower hat.

Cameron Sinclair Harris presents

The Word Is On Your Lips, Say the Word

Mon 24 March at 7:15pm

We live on fascination. Cameron Sinclair Harris, performer, writer & gender menace, presents new ideas. Witness their birth in real time. The word is on your lips. Say the word.

Samra Mayanja presents

DEAD DAD DEATH CULT

Mon 24 March at 9pm

In this absurdist musical meets sad-girl performance art, HOLLLIDAY skirts around the overwhelming presence of the paternal void.

Sinéad Brady presents

Sepondment

Tue 25 March at 7:15pm

Sweaty and overwhelmed surviving summers in London? Wade in with lifeguard Nikki for an evening of cabaret as she cracks the secret to surviving London life, pondlife that is.

Tana Sirois The How Theater present

UnTethered

Tue 25 March at 9pm

UnTethered is an autobiographical comedy that follows a queer, demisexual woman with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder as she attempts to transcend her irrational fears.

Pat Rascal presents

Pat Rascal: Space Gravy

Wed 26 March at 7:15pm

Space travel, Yorkshire and the London 2012 Olympics - join three childhood best friends as they multiroll their way to Mars, via Bradford. Expect lip-syncs, clown, and many, many props.

Toto Bruin presents

BO(DIES)

Wed 26 March at 9pm

Bo is a party-loving 'rent-a-mourner', someone hired to attend empty funerals.

Halima Habil presents

Baba

Thu 27 March at 7:15pm

From the high mountains of Transylvania, dry desert of Sahara and the wet red sea comes... Baba, an hour of professional silliness by solo clown act Halima.

Shahaf Beer presents

The Jewish Dog

Thu 27 March at 9pm

The performance filters the darkest period of Jewish history through the naive perspective of a dog, offers a view of the subject as never seen before.

Christopher Whyte presents

Untitled Bruce Rowley Project

Fri 28 March at 7:15pm

The doors swing open and the room falls silent. A storyteller begins the story of a cowboy, an archetype, a man as hard as the country they’ve crossed.

City of Ladies Theatre presents

The City of Ladies

Fri 28 March at 9pm

Brand new comedy exploring gender, queer joy, and what we might learn from the ladies of the past as we attempt to build a future.

Wyn Teasdale presents

Stand Up (Comedy)

Thu 29 March at 9pm

Stories, minigames, cardio, and consequences – What more could you want? Arthur Moss pushes their body to the limits, not stopping until the audience says they can.

Sophia Hirsch presents

JEAN: Live!

Sat 29 March at 7:15pm

JEAN: Live! Is a surrealist sci-fi drag show where a denim alien from a planet made of trash is brought to Earth for scientific study.

Ellie Higgins presents

The Best Of

Sat 29 Mar at times between 5pm and 9pm

I've made you a mixtape – do you want to listen? A compilation of my favourite tracks, a selection of memories spinning round. Press play and take a pause.