What's On

Feminist

Rabbit Hole Ensemble presents

naked

Mon 3 August at 9pm

When sex and self-help fails, at least they have therapy.

Crystalia Varelis presents

Controlled Burn

Tues 4 and Weds 5 August at 7.15pm

A wildfire of family myth-making, scorched earth, and caustic compassion.

Feminist

Wuji Dance Company presents

I Don't Care

Tues 4 and Weds 5 August at 9pm

Shaking off identity, the body awakens its truth.

Ed Fringe Preview

TIA Theatre Company presents

This Bloody Wedding

Thurs 6, Fri 7 and Sat 8 August at 7.15pm

It was meant to be Romantic, not... This Bloody Wedding!

Martia Dimmer presents

Please Don’t Die?

Sun 9 and Mon 10 August at 7.15pm

An intimate exploration of grief and the stories we tell.

Solo Performance

Double Fang Stories presents

Stunted

Sun 9 and Mon 10 August at 9pm, Sun 16 and Mon 17 August at 7.15pm

Two best friends (and housemates) discover growing up may mean breaking up.

Feminist

Scott Robinson presents

Edgar A. Poe's Last Call

Tues 11 - Sat 15 August at 7.15pm (3pm matinee on Sat)

A haunting solo performance, inspired by Edgar Poe’s mysterious death.

Ciaran Grace presents

Triptych

Tues 11 and Weds 12 August at 9pm

Three plays in one. Voyeuristic exploration of relationships in their various forms.

AZAD presents

LIMA

Thurs 13 - Sat 15 August at 9pm

LIMA. Or how to reconcile solitude, love, loss and everyday chaos?

Tommyrot Productions presents

Bincels

Sun 16 and Mon 17 August at 9pm

Three Incels. One bin. A Manosphere on the brink of implosion.

ARiot Theatre presents

Earworm

Tues 18 - Sat 22 August at 9pm

Guy's bangers-riddled mind is compulsively looking for the PERFECT breakup song.

Toni Ruth Mina presents

A Death in Drafts

Sun 23 and Mon 24 August at 9pm

A psychological thriller debating the morality of surveillance culture.

Yu Ai presents

The Bride

Sun 23 and Mon 24 August at 7.15pm

A ritual journey of grief, memory, and becoming.

Joe Leather presents

Baby Got Back (Problems)

Tues 25 and Weds 26 August at 7.15pm

A musical comedy about the audacity of the human spine.

Jarzgar presents

Prospero's Dead

Tues 25 and Weds 26 at 9pm

A surreal dark naked ritual sequel to Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'.

presents

Sound Strokes: A Harmonious Blend of Chinese and Scottish Music

Sat 5 and Sun 6 Sept at 7pm

Sound Strokes blends guzheng, harp, and bodhrán/ percussion in an intimate performance of reimagined folk melodies, original works, and improvisation—where Chinese and Celtic traditions meet in a poetic, cross-cultural musical dialogue.

Hire

Live Art

Music/Musical

Joe Mulcrone presents

Good Grief (WIP)

Sat 26 and Sun 27 Sept at 7.15pm

When Marc dies unexpectedly, something arrives to help. Good Grief is a surreal tragicomedy about family, loss and the strange business of carrying on.

Compact Disc presents

Tripping Out (WIP)

Tues 6 Oct at 9pm

Part history play. Part mind control experiment. Part LSD light show. Enter the world of MK ULTRA and the CIA. What can you be made to do?

XO presents

Standing Ovation (WIP)

Tues 6 Oct at 7:15pm

Ever wanted to laugh at a disabled person? Miggy tries to keep you entertained for an hour whilst managing PIP assessments, broken lifts and overbearing allies.

Francesca D'Souza presents

How to Create a Life (WIP)

Wed 7 Oct at 7:15pm

Warm, irreverent, and occasionally unhinged, How to Create a Life, is a verbatim work-in-progress with a big heart, that asks the big questions in life.

SALTHOUSE presents

We Talk About Death In The Swimming Pool (WIP)

Weds 7 Oct at 9pm

A new multidisciplinary theatre work from Beth Bowden, exploring the political and personal dimensions of grief, illness and end-of-life choice.

Poetry

Tessa Parr presents

I AM JOHNNY

Thurs 8 & Fri 9 Oct at 9pm

Fresh off the FlixBus from Edinburgh Fringe, white thirty-something poet-manchild Johnny returns to Camden People's Theatre for two more chances to battle the absurdities of his complex existence.

THE BLACK SMOCK BAND AND DAEDALUS THEATRE COMPANY presents

Queer Revolutionary Singalong

Sat 10 Oct at 8:30pm

Join the Black Smock Band for fiery folk tunes and leftie singalong classics, from 'Bread and Roses' to 'Solidarity Forever'. Bring your singing voice (if you want) and your revolutionary fervour!

Music/Musical

Yaren-Medine Kesen presents

Default (WIP)

Tues 13 Oct at 9pm

mundane. human. questions. probably no answers.

Solo Performance

ANTS Theatre presents

Eat Me (WIP)

Tues 13 Oct at 7.15pm

The Royal Tastebuds™ will now determine your right to remain. What will you cook? The King is waiting. He’s salivating. Ready? Steady? COOK!

Theo Chen presents

Pretty Ugly

Wed 14 - Fri 16 Oct at 9pm

Military service in Singapore, Sondheim, and family history intertwine to determine why Theo feels so ugly, and whether it matters that they do?

Francisco Díaz Pacheco presents

SIGH (WIP)

Tues 20 Oct at 7:15pm

SIGH is a bold physical theatre piece where one phone call brakes Patíco's routine, exposing queer identity, family rejection, desire, and the enduring legacy of unresolved trauma.

Amina Aaliya Beg James Baker present

Deen over Dunya (WIP)

Tues 20 Oct at 9pm

'Deen Over Dunya' is a musical exploring the commercialisation of Islam and environmentalism from an Islamic point of view.

Climate Change

Music/Musical

Camden People's Theatre Fuse Theatre Mercury Theatre Colchester present

The Only Brown Deaf Man in England

Wed 21 Oct - Sat 7 Nov at 7:15pm (3pm matinee on Sat)

From 1970s Bangladesh - to Brick Lane - to the post-9/11 present, The Only Brown Deaf Man in England follows Rajkumar, a Deaf Bengali amateur batsman, as he navigates the chaos, comedy and contradictions of life in Britain - one ball at a time.

Solo Performance

Rosa Garland presents

Trash Salad

Fri 23 & Sat 24 Oct at 9pm

Sex. Love. Lettuce. Join gorgeous clown Trash Salad in her quest for connection: a genre-bending burlesque adventure, using lip sync, strip tease and song on a mission to understand intimacy.

Miranda Prag presents

Chicken Girl (WIP)

Tues 27 Oct at 9pm

This is a show about chickens. Part story, part slideshow, this is a surreal comedy for the eco-conscious, the eco-confused and anyone who’s ever loved - or eaten - a chicken

Functional Delusion Productions presents

Bubbly (WIP)

Tues 27 Oct at 7:15pm

Bubbly is a darkly funny pop musical about three sisters and their internal battles with self-image and identity.

EggGen presents

RAT RAT RAT

Wed 28 - Sat 31 Oct at 9pm

Fresh from two sold-out performances, three strangely adorable rat students invite you to this Halloween’s most unsettling lesson in movement theatre, creature costumes, obedience and systemic cruelty.

Len Gwyn presents

The Show I Feel I Cannot Do (WIP)

Tues 3 Nov at 7:15pm

It’s a solo show, we’re all doing it. I’m getting top surgery... we’re all doing it? A WIP with music, interviews with friends and the myth of trans warrior Caeneus.

presents

Sketchy Muslims

Wed 4 & Thurs 5 Nov at 9pm

An all-Muslim women comedy sketch show which answers the age old question: are Muslim women funny or is that just BBC propaganda?

Niall Moorjani presents

Ramayana and Other Indian Folk Tales

Fri 6 & Sat 7 Nov at 9pm (11am Saturday kids show)

Join award winning and critically acclaimed storyteller Niall Moorjani for an evening of the Raymana and other Indian folk tales to celebrate Diwali.

Imogen Frances Messy Theatre present

Lover. Worker. Mother (WIP)

Tues 10 Nov at 7:15pm

Lover. Worker. Mother. Three selves venture beyond the boundaries of womanhood. A throbbing piece of gig theatre about identity, queerness, and the cost of becoming free.

Zac Hamilton Wancke presents

Sharp Edges

Wed 11 Nov - Sat 14 Nov at 7pm (3pm matinee on Sat)

A gripping, one-woman, darkly comedic drama inspired by a Greek tragedy. For every child forced to become a fighter. Every woman living with the aftershocks. Everyone wondering how to choose a different path.

Carla Ng presents

HUG PIECE

Fri 13 & Sat 14 Nov at 9pm

HUG PIECE is a participatory performance, inviting the audience into a shared dance, from the big bang, to the world's largest hug ceremony, to how the universe ends.

Beko Wood Dilip Kumar present

Washed Ashore (WIP)

Tues 24 Nov at 7:15pm

Two men, Nigerian and Pakistani end up stranded on an island whilst on a journey to find a better life.

Eliza Jean Scott presents

This Offers No Solutions (WIP)

Tues 24 Nov at 9pm

A surreal fracturing of IT worker Luke, who encounters a glitch he cannot rectify.

BLACKRIOT presents

Boys Beware (WIP)

Wed 25 & Thurs 26 Nov at 9pm

An examination of Jamaican queer youth, folk-horror, young love, and the pursuit of freedom under the homophobic structures of the Caribbean state.

Larisa Faber presents

White Gold

Wed 25 - Sat 28 Nov at 7:15pm (3pm mat)

One white asparagus and her roots. One seasonal veg picker and her daughter left behind. Clowning, ballet and Beethoven about the price of perfection and waiting to be picked.