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Why a Black Woman Will Never Be Prime Minister

Tue 22 Oct - Sat 9 Nov 7pm (+ 3pm Matinee on 9 Nov)

What's On

Name: The Lollapalooza Effect
Start: 2024-09-02
End: 2024-09-04
Location: Camden People's Theatre

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Next up in CPT's programme: Autumn Season (Sep - Dec 2024).

Higlights include: Why A Black Woman Will Never Be Prime Minister / I Am Leah / Sh!t Theatre's Sing-A-Long-A-Muppet Christmas Carol & Sh!t Actually / The Spectacular / This is What Utopia Looks Like / I Dream In Colour.

Kc Gardiner Naz Şimşek Simeon Campbell present

Big Bang: Seed Commisson Scratch Night

Sun 1 Sept at 7:15pm

Join us for a special Seed Commissioned Artist edition of CPT’s Big Bang scratch night: an explosion of performance from which new universes of theatre may one day emerge.

Big Bang

RCSSD Format Fest presents

As If You Know Me

Mon 2 and Tue 3 Sept at 8pm

Six Talented Cabaret Performers, mid-twenties, seeking validation from kind-hearted audience with Good Sense Of Humour and urge to listen.

Student Showcase

RCSSD Format Fest presents

The Lollapalooza Effect

Mon 2 Sept at 6pm and Wed 4 Sept at 8pm

“The Lollapalooza Effect” is a visually and emotionally gripping performance that challenges audiences to confront the consequences of their environmental footprint. Through its innovative use of movement, the environmental theatre piece invites viewers to reflect on their role in this ongoing cycle and inspires a collective call to action for a more sustainable future.

Climate Change

Student Showcase

RCSSD Format Fest presents

The Deyrmaa

Tue 3 and Fri 6 Sept at 6pm

The Deyrmaa. The place you can dream of when you are at your worst. When everything... doesn’t work.

Student Showcase

RCSSD Format Fest presents

Behind The Veil of Connection

Wed 4 Sept at 6pm and Thu 5 Sept at 8pm

Come to the theatre, Enter the game world, Play time, Review life!

Student Showcase

Technology

RCSSD Format Fest presents

Best Before

Thu 5 Sep at 6pm and Fri 6 Sep at 8pm

Step into the fridge. What’s in there between the selves forgotten or preserved?

Student Showcase

RCSSD Format Fest presents

Salt the Threshold

Sat 7 Sep at 7:30pm and Sun 8 Sep at 2pm

Part folklore, part kitchen sink drama and part love story, Salt the Threshold is an intimate and urgent exploration of what it means to love someone you don't recognise any more.

Student Showcase

RCSSD Format Fest presents

Rhythm 24

Sat 7 Sep at 3pm and Sun 8 Sep at 5pm

Transforming Touch: Examining audience participation in performance art, focusing on consent and evolving perceptions of visual art and body expression.

Live Art

Student Showcase

WORK IN PROGRESS

Kelly Green presents

MILF The Musical

Mon 16 - Tue 17 Sep at 7.15pm

A playful work-in-progress about being a mum and 17 years of learning on the job.

Rupert Bevan presents

Darling Boy

Wed 18 - Thu 19 Sep at 7.15pm

Direct from acclaimed, sold-out shows in Edinburgh, Dublin, Melbourne and Sydney. A hilarious and heartbreaking ode to first love, sweaty clubs, family and growing up (whenever that happens...)

Sarah Malin presents

Not Dead Yet

Wed 18 - Thu 19 Sep at 9pm

Sarah Malin is NOT DEAD YET. In this unsolicited birthday retrospective she returns to her theatrical roots to play all the parts she would have been been brilliant at.

Comedy

Feminist

Solo Performance

Corinne Walker presents

The Fight Well Project

Fri 20 - Sat 21 Sep at 7pm

Ella becomes caught between 2 worlds when she begins to play The Fight Well Project, a hyper-realistic video game with sky-high stakes.

Feminist

Ellie Brewster presents

Linda

Fri 20 - Sat 21 Sep at 9pm

Pure Panic. Pure Cake. Pure Joy. This joyful comedy looks at how far women have been taught to cater to other people's needs whilst looking good in pink.

Comedy

Feminist

Solo Performance

Covered in Jam High Priestexx (Maya Williams) Tatum Swithenbank present

Big Bang: Seed Commission Scratch Night

Mon 23 Sep at 7.15pm

Join us for a special Seed Commissioned Artist edition of CPT’s Big Bang scratch night: an explosion of performance from which new universes of theatre may one day emerge.

Dora Colquhoun presents

The Lodger

Tue 24 - Wed 25 Sep at 9pm

A restless deer embarks on a journey, encountering a menagerie of characters and seeking belonging. With original music, storytelling, and comedy, The Lodger explores self-discovery and the power of home.

Laurie Stevens presents

Sticky Floors

Tue 24 Sep at 7.15pm

Emo teen David just wants to be the greatest rock star of all time. Is that too much to ask?

Marianne Tuckman presents

The Dirt

Wed 25 - Thu 26 Sep at 7.15pm

Combining voice, movement and text, this pulsing tragicomedy reduces the climate crisis to the metaphor of a filthy house. When home becomes contaminated, how do we dream about the future?

Alexis Sakellaris presents

Alexis Sakellaris: A STAN IS BORN!

Thu 26 - Sat 28 Sep at 9pm

If you can't be the star... be the STAN! Fresh off the Edinburgh Fringe, this queer musical comedy with 10 original songs is bound to dazzle you!

Tom Marshman presents

Section 28 and Me

Fri 27 - Sat 28 Sep at 7pm

What was the impact of growing up under section 28? This is a heartfelt show exploring stories and reflections on past invisibility and shame.

Guy Rapacioli presents

Beautiful Nothing

Tue 1 - Wed 2 Oct at 7.15pm

Sam, alone in a hotel room, is this year’s breakout box office star, a sex symbol, and a social media sensation. She’s built a pillow fort and won’t come out.

Aimed at Young People

Comedy

Feminist

Technology

Dreambite presents

Consumed

Tue 1 - Sat 5 Oct at 9pm

A woman who can’t get enough of gummies, of wet dreams, of herself. Three women, three writers, three insatiable appetites. Join us for Dreambite Collective’s CONSUMED.

Feminist

Queer

Cie L'Oeil Episse Sur Ame Pure presents

Vanya is Alive

Thu 3 - Fri 4 Oct at 7.15pm

A powerful new play from today’s Russia gives a look at the country grappling with the reality of war and repressions. Presented by artists in exile.

International

Solo Performance

WORK IN PROGRESS

Doug Crossley presents

No More Mr Nice Gay

Sat 5 Oct at 7.15pm

Doug Crossley is diving into his villain era in this confessional comedy with songs that sashay between hard and soft themes for a dark funny pause for thought.

Jo Ingabire Moys presents

I am Leah

Tues 8 - Sat 12 Oct at 7.15pm

Leah is a strong, independent black woman. At least that’s the role she has been playing until she has to return to the country of her birth, Rwanda.

WORK IN PROGRESS

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Who Cares

Fri 11 - Sat 12 Oct at 9pm

Bert is a Queer Belgian nurse. He likes connecting with people. But recently, everything has become difficult. Post-pandemic, fighting to claim better rights and pay his profession is turned upside-down.

Camden People's Theatre Zakiyyah Deen present

Why a Black Woman Will Never Be Prime Minister

Tue 22 Oct - Sat 9 Nov 7pm (+ 3pm Matinee on 9 Nov)

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

Aesthetics of Hope and Other Nonsense presents

The Mute Messiah

Tue 22 - Wed 23 Oct at 9pm

A Blend of verbatim theatre and dark comedy that explores the range of absurd, heartfelt, comical, humiliating, cruel, and uplifting encounters of young people within the benefits system.

Comedy

Feminist

History

presents

Beats & Elements 10 year birthday - Kinda. Not really. Things can only get better

Thu 24 Oct at 9pm

Almost 10 years since Beats & Elements debut hit show, No Milk For The Foxes, they will perform songs and scenes from both their acclaimed shows as well as brand-new material. Expect beats, bars, dialogue, class-chat and laughs.

Music/Musical

Worklight Theatre presents

It's the Economy, Stupid

Fri 25 - Sat 26 Oct at 9pm

Joe and Dylan uncover how economics wins elections, and why it's is so bloody complicated! A bold new show from the Fringe First winning creators of Labels and Fanboy.

Carmen Collective presents

The Food Bank Show

Thu 31 Oct - Sat 2 Nov at 9pm

Carmen Collective return with a searing new piece of documentary theatre, piecing together the personal and political stories of food poverty in the UK

Andy Smith presents

A Citizens' Assembly

Tue 5 Nov at 7.30pm

We are the citizens! This is our assembly! We are the actors in this story!

Climate Change

Princess Bestman presents

The Daisy Chain

Wed 6 - Fri 8 Nov at 9pm

What makes foster kids so “naughty”? Asharn Prior, trouble maker turned independent young person. How did they do it?

Poetry

Spoken Word

SHYBAIRN presents

This is What Utopia Looks Like

Sat 9 - Sun 10 Nov at 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 5pm, 7pm, 8pm, 9pm

From mushroom bricks and earthships, to teleportation in the blink of an eye, join us to visualise a liveable future, only then can we fight for it.

Aimed at Young People

Climate Change

LightMovingCompany presents

The Spectacular

Tue 12 - Sat 16 Nov at 9pm

The Spectacular is an experiment in the performance of (Irish)nationalism, interrogating how to engage with contentious history when the descendants of colonised and coloniser, are together in a theatre.

Popsie Theatre presents

The Triumph of Death

Tue 12 - Wed 13 Nov at 7.15pm

A bunch of artists with no funding, the ultra-wealthy, and one very sexy Death present to you a show about the healthy relationship between Art and Money.

Calum Perrin presents

I, Symbiont & Untitled A double-bill

Fri 15 - Sat 16 Nov at 7pm

Artists and collaborators Calum Perrin and Jenny Witzel present two work-in-progress performances: one exploring bureaucratic systems in relation to precarious lives; the other, symbiotic living in uncertain times.

TAUT presents

Taut: New Performance, New Forms

Sun 17 Nov at 7pm

Taut is a new night presenting experimental and interdisciplinary performance.

Anya Ostrovskaia presents

The World of Yesterday

Tue 19 - Wed 20 Nov at 7pm

Culture, chaos, cabaret! Step into the memories of Austrian Jewish writer Stefan Zweig, where an increasingly fractured 20th century mirrors the world of today.

History

International

Maria Machado presents

Now, and at the Hour of Our Death, Amen

Tue 19 - Wed 20 Nov at 9pm

Maria’s Catholic, homophobic, sweet grandmother is about to pass. During a night spent at the hospital, Maria, a very guilty lesbian, wonders if she should to come out to gran.

Margot Przymierska presents

The Monument

Thu 21 - Fri 22 Nov at 9pm

A one-woman performance with audience participation using drag, spoken word and comedy. A story of Bogdan - an Eastern European builder working on a mysterious construction site.

Emballage Ensemble presents

The Writing of Stones

Thu 21 - Fri 22 Nov at 7.15pm

A reverie on the reality-altering nature of attention, the limits of language, and humanity’s place in the natural world inspired by the ideas and stones of Roger Caillois.

Conor Murray Hannah Power present

Don’t Tell Dad About Diana

Sat 23 - Sun 24 Nov at 7pm

Dublin, 1997. Two friends worship Princess Diana under the nose of their nationalist families. A show that asks, Can a republican rock a revenge dress?

Isabella Leung Louiseanne Wong present

Ancestral Time Travel Agency

Sat 23 - Sun 24 Nov at 8:45pm

Using parkour and clowning to take apart the constructs of an honourable Chinese lady, this work-in-progress explores the artists' identities and memories within both East and West cultures.

Tahira Dar presents

Unpopular Culture

Tue 26 - Wed 27 Nov at 7.15pm

How does it feel when popular culture both influences and ignores you? A new show about raising children, following your dreams and the importance of representation.

Solo Performance

WORK IN PROGRESS

Ofthejackel presents

Countess Dracula

Tue 26 Nov at 9pm

From the forgotten depths something truly awful is coming. Lurking in the shadows, A parasite, A monster, A woman. Countess Dracula.

Doubletake Theatre presents

The Switchboard Project

Wed 27 - Thu 28 Nov at 9pm

The nightshift, 1987. Switchboard is a 24 hour helpline, the AIDS epidemic is on the rise, and four lesbians have answered the call.

James Rowland presents

James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show

Thu 28 - Sat 30 Nov at 7.15pm

A desert island disc spun from threads of the future. About life, humanity and of course James Rowland will die at the end of the show.

Burning Attic presents

Why Dirty Dancing is My Favourite Film

Fri 29 - Sat 30 Nov at 9pm

A new, devised show interrogating asexuality and media representation, developed based on interviews and community workshops.

Jasmin Thien presents

I Dream in Colour

Tue 3 - Fri 6 Dec at 7.15pm

Jasmine is preparing for the surgery she has wanted all her life: the removal of her remaining cancerous eye. The eye her parents fought so hard to keep.

Solo Performance

Nathan Charles presents

When the Fun Stops, Try Again?

Tue 3 - Fri 6 Dec at 9pm

An interactive and audience-led show about gambling addiction. ‘There’s a one in fifty-one chance you’ll win £500. There’s also a one in fifty-one chance you’ll end the show immediately. '

Live Art

Technology

Sh!t Theatre presents

Sing-A-Long-A Muppet Christmas Carol

10, 11, 19, 20, 21 Dec at 7pm

Join ‘anarchic performance legends’ (Time Out) Sh!t Theatre & friends this December for this cult Christmas miracle. Perfect for office parties, romantic dates and literally anything else.

Edy Hurst presents

Edy Hurst’s Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Himself

Thu 12 - Fri 13 Dec at 9pm

Hark! Grab your broomsticks and join Edy Hurst on a spirit journey following remarkable revelations about his relations, combining The Lancashire Witches, Neurodivergence and the Venga Boys.

Comedy

Music/Musical

Sh!t Theatre presents

Sh!t Actually

12, 13, 14, 17, 18 Dec at 7pm

WE ARE YOUR NEW TRADITION. WE ARE YOUR WEIRD FAMILY. A two-woman 100% faithful, word-by-word (not really) remake of the Christmas film we all hate to love: ‘Love Actually’.

Iona Bremner Productions and Sláinte! Theatre presents

DESPERATE WEE GAY BOY

Sat 14 Dec at 9pm

‘DESPERATE WEE GAY BOY’ started as a vent, an agitation towards the London dating scene and then more specifically gay dating and hookup culture.

Queer

Solo Performance

Work In Progress

Hello Strawberry / Laura Mugridge & Paul Macauley presents

Paul & Laura Don't Give a Sh*t (sorry)

Tue 17 - Wed 18 Dec at 9pm

Paul and Laura are extremely edgy performers who are very edgy actually and don't care if you like their show (sorry).

Comedy

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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