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  • Whats On

    Work In Progress

    Image: Hector Manchego
    WORK IN PROGRESS
    A pen drawing of a protestor wearing a keffiyeh (scarf) wearing handcuffs held up by two police officers, one officer has the text 'metropolitan police' printed on his uniform.
    Queen of Arts presents

    THE PIGS ARE COMING

    Tue 11th Mar at 7:15pm
    An urgent performance about protest, policing, and resistance, THE PIGS ARE COMING is born from Tasnim’s arrest in Peckham last May to explore a new, unsettling era in Britain.
    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.

    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.
    WORK IN PROGRESS
    A woman is walking through a post-apocalyptic landscape.

    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
    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.
    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.

    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.
    WORK IN PROGRESS
    A green humanoid creature just breaks the surface of pink water under a pink sky. Its hair curls into the water, becoming small waves. Its eyes gaze at you just above the waterline. Shadows of palm trees, storm clouds, and a rollercoaster are behind.
    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!
    WORK IN PROGRESS
    Woman half-asleep holding a cigarette

    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.
    WORK IN PROGRESS
    An illustrated figure in blue is superimposed in front of an orange circle, which itself is in front of a larger beige circle. The image has a dark blue background and a colourful patterned border on the top and bottom.
    boilingfrogs presents

    Glossolalia

    Fri 21 March at 9pm
    WORK IN PROGRESS
    Somebody in a flower costume holding a yellow flower hat.

    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.
    WORK IN PROGRESS
    Chaotic image with a drawing of someone crying in the centre surrounded by a collage of cut out pictures including a red hand drawn arrow, a woman holding a microphone, a woman kneeling and various tear and smiley face emojis.
    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.
    WORK IN PROGRESS
    A pond lifeguard in black and white, wearing a dark cap and white t-shirt, gets ready to dive towards the camera with a determined facial expression and both hands gripping a bright red float.
    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.
    WORK IN PROGRESS
    A drawing of a person strangling a skeleton with a halo above their head.
    Toto Bruin presents

    BO(DIES)

    Wed 26 March at 9pm
    Bo is a party-loving 'rent-a-mourner', someone hired to attend empty funerals.
    WORK IN PROGRESS
    A woman with a red head covering stares directly into the camera lense infront of a blue background with a light gradient.
    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.
    WORK IN PROGRESS
    An image of a rider on horseback decorated with American patriotic elements, including the US flag. The rider and horse appear in a silhouette or cutout style against a dramatic blue sky. The composition suggests themes of freedom and frontier spirit.

    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.
    WORK IN PROGRESS
    A smiling person in a pink shirt stands in front of a cartoon microphone. The microphone stand is in the shape of a walking stick. The background is blue with rows of chairs that go into the distance, and soft pink circles float above.
    Arthur Moss 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.
    WORK IN PROGRESS
    Drag thing, Jean, pokes their face out of a pile of denim
    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.
    WORK IN PROGRESS
    Shimmering CD, four hands reach towards it.
    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.
    WORK IN PROGRESS
    A hand painted image of four cardboard boxes stacked disjointedly together. Behind the boxes are a painted backdrop of purple, red and orange.
    OPIA Collective presents

    Babel (WIP)

    Tue 1st and Wed 2nd April at 6:45pm
    Behind a counter, Hodan Isse dreams. Drill, sex, money, receipts, dreams, missing stock, bruises, friendship, dreams, an investigation, God, fractured foundations. Dreams.
    WORK IN PROGRESS
    An image of a man with glasses, a beard and a baseball gap that has been cut up into vertical slices and reflected and glitched. It seems to suggest a man at conflict with himself who has been cut into pieces and seeks to put them back together.
    Adam Lenson presents

    IS IT TOO LATE NOW TO SAY SORRY? (WIP)

    Tuesday 1st and Wednesday 2nd April at 9:00pm
    Acclaimed theatre-maker Adam Lenson’s new solo show fuses gig, memoir, and journalistic exposé to ask how we apologise for the things we've broken before it's too late.
    WORK IN PROGRESS
    Lachlan poses as Jack Hammer, a circus strongman - with curled blonde hair in a 1920s style, wearing a blue singlet with white feather shoulders and blue sequined abs, he lifts a huge barbell with weights above his head with one hand.
    Lachlan Werner presents

    Wondertwunk (WIP)

    Thurs 17th - Saturday 19th April 9:00pm
    The Twunk: Body of a Hunk, Head of a Twink Award-winning ventriloquist clown, Lachlan Werner, builds a super strong genre-bending tale of stunts, sea-lions, sci-fi and secrets...
    WORK IN PROGRESS
    A churning sea of teal and cobalt blue
    Simon Marshall presents

    Below Decadence (WIP)

    Tues 22nd to Thursday 24th April 7pm
    Seb's sinking in customer service. When a yacht-guest offers him a taste of the high-life, he takes it. But what's the price of a white lie to the filthy rich?
    WORK IN PROGRESS
    Lorna leans over a green sofa and Jonathan is kneeling, leaning against it

    Lorna Rose Treen and Jonathan Oldfield: Make Non-Sense

    Fri 25th and Sat 26th April 7:30pm
    Lorna Rose Treen and Jonathan Oldfield: Make Non-sense. A Work-in-Progress Double Bill from the Dave Best Joke of the Fringe Winner 2023 and the BBC New Comedy Finalist 2024.
    WORK IN PROGRESS
    Fine line illustration of a rat against a navy blue background.

    Like a Rat (WIP)

    Wed 14th and Thurs 15th May 9:00pm
    Queer gig theatre about wild swimming and bodily autonomy. A cautionary tale about the slipperiness of freedom.