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What's On

Name: Comedy & Bluegrass About Strange Public Records
Start: 2025-02-23
End: 2025-02-23
Location: Camden People's Theatre

all events

Next up in CPT's programme: E xciting Hires and the return of our famous SPRINT Festival.

Higlights include: Our Big Bang scratch nights / Silly Little Things / If Not This Then That / The Freemartin.

Camden People's Theatre Zakiyyah Deen present

Why A Black Woman Will Never Be Prime Minister: Available to Stream

Available until 13th March

Parties, Trimesters and Labour - a lot can happen in nine months.

CPT Digital

King’s College London / D’Oyly Carte presents

Anatomy of a Doctor

Thu 20th, Fri 21st and Mon 24th Feb at 7:15pm

Before healing the living, future doctors learn from the dead. What do their silent teachers open up for them? Theatre for anyone who cares about who cares for us and how.

Hire

Physical Theatre

Science/Medicine

FOIA comedy presents

Comedy & Bluegrass About Strange Public Records

Sun 23rd Feb at 6:30pm

A comedy show about American public records, featuring an award-winning bluegrass band for a night of hilarious entertainment.

Comedy

Hire

History

Watering Hole Productions presents

Keith...

Wed 26th and Thu 27th of Feb at 8pm

A story about neurodiversity, Shakespeare and working-class voices, told by an Irish man.

Hire

Solo Performance

Oliver Watson presents

ARTISTS

Fri 28 Feb at 7:30pm & Sat 1 Mar at 3pm and 7:30pm

How much is a young artist willing to sacrifice in the pursuit of their success?

Hire

CPT's Local Steering Group presents

Free Community Day For Adults

Sun 9th March 2:00 - 6:00pm

Come to CPT this March for a day of FREE activities!

WORK IN PROGRESS

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.

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.

Shilpa Varma and Al Enechi presents

Pimlico

Thu 13 March at 9pm

Two strangers, a funeral and a set of dentures.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

boilingfrogs 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

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.

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.

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.

Carlota Matos and Joana Merlini Hooky Productions / Rosa Thomas, Maya Hallpike Mushmoss Collective present

Big Bang Scratch Night - 30 March 2025

Sun 30 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.

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.

Physical Theatre

Work In Progress

WORK IN PROGRESS

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.

Mulch Productions presents

Dead and Kicking

Thursday 3rd - Saturday 5th April 9:00pm

Mulch Productions returns to Camden People’s Theatre with their genre-defying, pitch-black tragicomedy based on the true story of a woman: very much alive, declared legally dead.

Make My Show presents

A Chat with Adonai

Thurs 3rd to Sat 5th April 7:15pm

Have a chat with Adonai and discover your true purpose in life.

Comedy

Technology

Emma Spearing presents

Whole

Tues 15th and Wed 16th April 7:00pm

Whole is an intimate peek into the journeys we take to re-find ourselves in our darkest moments - exploring sibling joy & the healing power of a creative mission.

Solo Performance

Lucy Mellors presents

It is I, Seagull

Tues 15th and Weds 16th April 9:00pm

What would you sacrifice to achieve something extraordinary? Explore searing truths about current and historical sexism in this hilarious celebration of joy, failure, opera & the first woman in space.

Lisa Gornick presents

Drawing on the Bottle

Thurs 17th - Saturday 19th April 7:15pm

Live projected drawing, music, comedy and pathos about the seduction of alcohol; the reality of ethanol. A unique performance about a toxic life partner and ways to step away.

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...

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?

Comedy

Solo Performance

Work In Progress

Claire Leith presents

Igloos Don't Melt

Tues 22nd to Thurs 24th April 9pm

How do we know who we are when the place that made us melts away? New performance art fusing space, self, and stability.

Live Art

Solo Performance

WORK IN PROGRESS

Jonathan Oldfield Lorna Rose Treen present

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.

Comedy

Solo Performance

Work In Progress

Bertie Hodd presents

Bertie Hodd: Dad Jokes

Mon 29th April - Saturday 3rd May 7:15pm

Chuck the gender binary aside and join award-winning drag-king Dad on a queer reparenting extravaganza. Dad Jokes is a coming-of-middle-age story about one regular dad's attempt to understand his child.

Comedy

Queer

Solo Performance

Charlotte Merriam Charotte Vickers present

Sad Bride

Wed 30 April and Thurs 1st May 9pm

A new dark solo comedy exploring compulsory heterosexuality, the industrial wedding complex and what happens when you meet 'the one' but you're still the troll under the bridge.

Seemia Theatre presents

Saria Callas

Tues 6th - Saturday 17th May (not 12th) 7:15pm

Saria Callas is a new multimedia play about aspiring to be a singer while growing up in a place where it is forbidden for women to sing.

Millie Foy Molly Stacey TO Entertainment present

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.

Kat Rose-Martin presents

Pocket Rocket

Fri 16th and Sat 17th May 9:00pm

She's shorter than 5ft. and funnier than a 10ft. badger. She's got more energy than a Duracell bunny. It's that Bradford Pocket Rocket: Kat Rose-Martin.

Comedy

Solo Performance

Tobi King Bakare and this theatre deserve a shout-out for such a young, diverse audience. There is so much talk about audiences being full of over 60s and why, why can’t theatres get the crowds in to reflect society in general? Well, I’m happy to say that on a rainy Thursday evening, the theatre was completely full.

Caiti Grove on Before I Go in CPT's Spring 2023 season London Theatre Reviews

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