Bathroom
Etcetera Theatre
Humankind is often arrogant and self-centred, understanding others solely through their own perspective. We yearn for unity, yet overlook a fundamental truth: two whirlpools can only merge when both their direction and velocity satisfy exacting conditions. Tonight, the light in the rented flat's bathroom flickered out. That loving couple seemed to be arguing about something. The man insisted he loved her deeply, yet to her, it felt otherwise. I knew that woman must love him profoundly, but why couldn't he sense it? I saw two whirlpools beside the drain, spinning and spinning, yet they simply wouldn't merge... The audience witnesses their quarrel, their wounds, their bloodshed, yet cannot simply judge right from wrong. Here, love is both tender and razor-sharp. Through intensely concentrated spatial storytelling, we aim to immerse the audience within an emotional vortex, prompting a profound re-examination of ‘relationships’.
Backstage
The Libra Theatre Cafe
A volunteer. A backstage tour. A room she can never quite find again. After being invited backstage following a cabaret performance aboard a luxury cruise ship, Lena expects nothing more than a brief look behind the curtain before returning to her cabin. Instead, she discovers a world that feels strangely ordinary. The crew are warm. The routines are comforting. Every corridor seems familiar. Every door appears to lead somewhere. Yet no one can tell her how to return to the passenger cabins. As rehearsals blend into daily life and performances become indistinguishable from reality, Lena must decide whether she is simply lost—or quietly becoming part of the backstage herself. Backstage is an original psychological thriller combining live magic, dark comedy, and surreal theatre. Set entirely behind the scenes of a cruise ship cabaret, it explores memory, identity, belonging, and the quiet ways we can lose ourselves inside places that make us feel unexpectedly at home. For anyone who has ever said, "I'll leave tomorrow."
Sick Dog
Etcetera Theatre
Winnie is dying (slowly – which is the worst way to go). She is despondent, miserable and fed up. She has isolated herself from her friends and family, but she is not alone. Eliza is the new top-model robot companion-carer, who looks after Winnie. Through God, pain, and Love Island, the two attempt to understand each other. These are two (sort of) beings who are desperate to love and be loved, in whatever form that takes. ‘Sick Dog’ asks questions about what it means to be human, the acceptance of death in a world that fears it and our future as maybe not the only creatures with the capacity to love.
Sonny Frasier: Porcelain
The Libra Theatre Cafe
SONNY FRASIER: PORCELAIN is an unconventional one-man musical cabaret, in which Sonny Frasier from San Diego takes the audience through the most important letters of his life. Equal parts funny and tender, the enigmatic California musician reminds us all that even through a fractured family, love can persist.
Charon Goes West
Etcetera Theatre
A caveman, a pirate, a granny, and an AI step onto a boat. Or their souls do, anyway. CHARON GOES WEST is a new dark comedy for the London stage. Fifty minutes, ten souls, and one man who has absolutely no idea why his cosmic debt keeps going up. Charon is a ferryman. His friends call him Charlie, or they would if he had any friends. Every day (or whatever passes for a day outside of time) he picks up the recently deceased at the eastern docks and rows them west to their final destination. He knows, when each soul boards, that they're headed for the Bad Place. But if they can face themselves honestly over the course of the crossing, they can change their fate. Charlie wants them to win. He just can't do it for them. What he can do is provide unmatched customer service. And this comes in the form of people-pleasing, mirroring his client-souls, contorting himself to the point of unrecognisability. To cope, he hits the coffee, flask, and cigs on rotation between rides. Whatever it takes to get through the day. His debt, tracked on a glowing monitor upstage like a cosmic game show, keeps climbing. He doesn't understand why. We begin to suspect. Then his girlfriend boards. And by the end, his own mother. This is a play about the gap between being nice and being honest, and what each one costs. It's also about the liminal space between life and death and the places we need to go to come home. Welcome to the River Styx. Step in for the ride of your life.
Seeking Your Approval
The Libra Theatre Cafe
Two actors, both alike in dignity. None. Join Katie and Imogen as they fight for leading lady. How far will they go to get their name in lights? Expect scary German doctors, sex dolls and a botched boob job. We really, really, really hope you enjoy the show.
Louise Leigh: Octopus (Work In Progress)
Camden Comedy Club
The octopus may be the perfect woman: intelligent, a born multi-tasker, sexy as hell and can make herself invisible. Plus, as soon as her kids leave home, she dies. How am I supposed to compete with that? **** Chortle ****Entertainment Focus ****The Wee Review “rubs off onto everybody around her.” (**** Funny Women)
this app is a haunted house
Hen & Chickens Theatre
THE FINAL GIRL! You know her, you love her, you ARE her. She’s the last one standing at the end of every horror movie. Sidney survived Ghostface. Laurie outran Michael. Nancy defeated Freddy... But this Final Girl must overcome the scariest villain of all - DATING APPS. Sharpen your weapons and join our Final Girl as she recounts how she survived every killer that's ever haunted her DMs. Will she find happily ever after? Or does the killer always come back for one more scare?! Bring your group chat, bring your Hinge date, bring your situationship... maybe bring your therapist??? And don't forget : SWIPE FOR YOUR LIFE! "this app is a haunted house" is an interactive horror-comedy for anyone who has ever gone looking for their love story ; only to end up in a scary movie. Inspired by iconic horror movies that are reimagined as nightmare dating scenarios. First performed at Etcetera Theatre - it is a terrifyingly relatable slasher with a whole lot of heart. Unpacking how we search for true connection in a frighteningly online world.
Aura
The London Art Bar
A raw, fun exploration of spirituality and morality. Short stories designed to make you laugh, cry and more. Expect strong language, high stakes intensity and a total subversion of traditional narrative.
Rag Spaceship
The Libra Theatre Cafe
When her beloved grandfather dies, Rag Spaceship, a young autistic person with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), starts a stream of consciousness journey into her memories, conversing with two contrasting parts of her brain. She observes from her perspective the love her grandparents have for each other and for her. She then tries to navigate through the challenges which arise when she finds herself in the role of a carer for her grandmother with dementia. Built from both imagination and fragments of real stories, this intimate solo show is an emotional and thought-provoking journey through laughter and tears, exploring the reality of neurodivergent people during challenging times. The play includes 6 characters either played by the solo actor or in voiceover.
1 Hour of Clean Comedy
Aces and Eights
Full of laughs, free from swears. This is sharp, joke-heavy stand-up that's suitable for all. Following a fully sold out run in Edinburgh 2025, Callum Mackenzie and featured guests present an hour of non-stop laughs, that you can listen to while sitting next to your nan.
An Unholy Alchemy
Etcetera Theatre
The inaugural immersive theatre/performance art prequel from doctor, actor, playwright and performance artist Roopak K Khara invites curious audiences to interfere with the nuances and archaic specialisms of the Mental Health Act, as unravelled in real time with an entity some refer to as God. Society deems psychiatrists to be arbiters of social justice so this show challenges you to see how things pan out when the tables are turned. You will be invited to make some uncomfortable, human, and ruthless observations!
Vic Holt: YAMAS
Theatro Technis
Join Vic, psychiatrist, storyteller, comedienne and actor, as she takes you on a personal journey, sharing varied experiences, good and bad, whilst navigating through life. Starting in Cyprus, where she was born and raised, moving to the UK to train as a doctor before veering in a different direction. En-route she discovered her sexuality, encountered some quirky characters, dealt with failed relationships and survived! Don’t miss this crazy mix of stories. Yamas!
Grave Matters
Lion & Unicorn Theatre
Get your shovels — we’re going to the cemetery. Miss Y, a Mexican Catholic schoolteacher living in Cardiff, has been detained after being caught digging up a grave at dawn. She insists she had a good reason. The police would beg to differ. What follows is less an investigation than a misalignment between belief and evidence, care and legality, the living and the dead. Unfamiliar traditions collide with procedure. The supernatural hovers — never confirmed, never dismissed. As the police attempt to make sense of Miss Y’s story, cultural traditions, religious belief and institutional logic begin to clash in increasingly strange and darkly comic ways. By turns dry, unsettling and unexpectedly tender, Grave Matters is a surreal horror-comedy about grief, belief and bureaucratic confusion — exploring what happens when systems unequipped to recognise grief attempt to measure devotion using the wrong tools.
The Writing of Stones
The Cockpit
The Writing of Stones is an odyssey to the beginning and the end of human creativity. A cheeky, dreamy, brainy blast of high-energy physical theatre performed by humans and stones. Welcome to a hijacked meditation, a psychedelic school trip, a reverie on the reality-altering nature of attention, the limits of language, and humanity’s place in nature. Inspired by the writings of Roger Caillois, this show is a train ride into the depths of your subconscious. Expect otherworldly phantoms, surrealism, science, illuminations, aesthetic philosophy, The Sistine Chapel, your worst haircut, an Impressionist lunch, and lots and lots of stones. The Writing of Stones is a physical theatre show about the consciousness of stones that asks if art will outlive humanity. On a reckless romp through the history of art, humans and stones search for a way of being between human and mineral, subject and object, movement and stillness, sacred and profane.
Between Strands
Rosemary Branch Theatre
Have you ever thought about what your hair holds? In some Asian cultures, hair can mark beginnings, protection, or mourning and remembrance. Between Strands follows a young woman in the UK navigating the loss of her grandmother in Taiwan. Through brushing hair, playing childhood games, recalling village stories, shadow play, and live East Asian music, small gestures become threads that connect generations. She discovers that her grandmother has never truly left her — hair becomes a living link between past and present.
Can we say something
Camden People's Theatre
Two women. A pile of potatoes. Eating and dancing. No one is listening. Can We Say Something begins with a simple action: eating potatoes. Repeated gestures gradually accumulate into a physical dialogue. Potatoes enter the stage as material presences – held, thrown, passed, piled, and eaten, their weight and resistance shaping rhythm, tempo, and relation. Breath, chewing, and trembling form the underlying rhythm. Movement shifts between everyday gestures and states of high physical and emotional intensity. Through accumulation and endurance, the performers search for a way out of silence: when language is ignored, can the body still speak?
Secrets of the Simpsons
Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Stories and Scandals from Springfield. Comedy producer Mike Reiss won four Emmys during his thirty-six years writing movie scripts, American TV shows and countless episodes of The Simpsons. His talk also features “The Science of Jokes” and a Q&A when Mike will answer the fans favourite question “Just how do The Simpsons always manage to predict the future “ ‘Entertainment Weekly’ called Season 4 of The Simpsons “the greatest season of the greatest show in history”. Mike Reiss lectures regularly throughout the USA and on the world's cruise ships including Cunard’s QM2. This Summer Mike makes his UK debut visiting London, Stockport, Birmingham and Brighton. ‘Secrets of The Simpsons’ is a two-hour presentation including interval and Q&A Tour information (not tickets): www.ovationuk.com
Six Degrees of Improvisation
Hen & Chickens Theatre
Be Right Back takes you on an improv journey between search terms in their show, Six Degrees of Improvisation. Taking inspiration from the audiences' online searches, from the inane to the intellectual, the cast connects two ideas in a high-wire act that's totally made up on the spot. It’s the show you’ve been searching for...
VIVE LE CRICKET! one man’s mission to convert a nation
Canal Cafe Theatre
The raffish, occasionally irascible, Rex Constantine Vaughan Williams is a man on a mission. For years the Paris-based Englishman has had the niche role of commentating cricket in French but now the broadcasters are pulling the plug... Why is it, Rex wants to know, that the French were more than happy to adopt rugby and rebrand it as their own but continue to shun the glorious summer game, even though they may well have invented it? Rex slaloms through a brief history of cricket in France, flicks on the red light in the French Match Special commentary box where we meet his gloriously mismatched gallic co-commentators. And that’s when Rex cries Révolution. Vive le Cricket! is a one-man show created by NG Bristow and Barney Spender who takes on the role of Rex, drawing on his own decades of experience as... a cricket commentator in France.
The Alternative to Living
Barons Court Theatre
What happens if our digital life becomes our reality? A couple caught in a battle of seclusion, control, and distraction become host to something not quite alive. Know you are not alone as you enter into this new reality, for someone or something is always with you. The Alternative to Living is a contemporary experimental play. Exploring our relationships to self image and self love this piece examines a couple, living together as they both yearn for different things in life. A deep investigation of one's mental health is explored as our characters engage with the mobile life simulator game, ALT Life. This play asks the question of who you are and who you want to be. The Alternative to Living, breaks traditional theatre convention with audience interaction, unsettling imagery, and a being that is more relatable to us all than one would think.
Banker Tailor Teacher Guy
The Water Rats
From boring banker to Savile Row tailor, lingerie-maker, film extra, and finally a maths teacher who teaches sewing. This is a fast, funny solo storytelling show about reinvention, questionable decisions, and the strange places they lead when you go all in on a creative life. Told through a series of interconnected stories, the show follows one person’s attempt to leave behind stability for something more meaningful By turns funny and reflective, the show blends sharp humour with painfully honest reflections to trace the friendships, challenges and compromises that shape a working life. It’s about juggling jobs and relationships from below the breadline, missing opportunities, and digging so deep in search of meaningful work and creative fulfilment that you nearly lose yourself. Low-tech and intimate, it’s an hour of several stories stitched together into a celebration of reinvention, resilience and the friendships that make it worthwhile.
Mother’s Prayer
The Courtyard Theatre
“If thou cometh to play no phones nor shoes shall stay” Mother’s Prayer is a fresh, bold, and non-linear devised play on the premise of five boys who are alternate versions of the same child. Each is shaped by a different world in which the conflict lies within themselves and shaped by a different answer to one question: what if all my mother’s prayers, for me, came true? Sharp, funny and emotionally charged, the vignettes explore the tension between your own dreams against the versions of you that people see.
School Disco Party Bags
Aces and Eights
Amy is obsessed with 3 things: gossip, party dances and herself. And she blames it all on her stint as an entertainer at a Caravan Park. School Disco Party Bags, is an ode to the classic British holiday, only this time it’s a behind the scenes documentary. Join Amy to find out how she became infatuated with lifeguards, an expert in bingo calling and ... what’s really underneath that tiger costume? Featuring her beautician sidekick and rogue tales from North Wales, this new show combines Amy’s high energy with her unapologetic stories and a sprinkling of impressions to reflect on how, she may not have known it at the time, but this caravan park really did change her life. Part stand-up + part disco, Amy takes you on the Venga Bus and reminds you of the joy there is to be had in (party) dancing like no-ones watching. Please dress appropriately for your Year 6 Disco. Be prepared to do the Macarena. Party Bags are included. Amy Nic is a Northern comedian, writer and actor, making plays, stand-up shows and sitcoms. Previously seen as Female MC in Magic Mike Live (West End), Kelly in The Business of Love (Warrington Arts Festival) and her 5* sold out show, One Week In Magaluf (Edinburgh Fringe) described as “a goldmine to be exploited in [her] comedic writings” (Broadway Baby). Expect to be entertained & uplifted by her hilarious, exuberant comedy. ***** Creatives of Warrington ***** Mumble Theatre **** Theatre & Tonic **** Beyond The Curtain **** Theatre Scotland
Seeking Your Approval
The Libra Theatre Cafe
Two actors, both alike in dignity. None. Join Katie and Imogen as they fight for leading lady. How far will they go to get their name in lights? Expect scary German doctors, sex dolls and a botched boob job. We really, really, really hope you enjoy the show.
Alex Kitson: Now Look Here
Camden Comedy Club
It’s nice to do things in real life isn’t it? After two critically acclaimed shows at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2024 and 2025, multi-award winning comedian Alex Kitson has a brand new hour of stand-up comedy to show the people of Camden (before he gets on the train up north for 2026). He's talking about attention - so if if you could direct yours his way for a moment he'd be very grateful. Praise for Alex Kitson: Best Reviewed Shows of the Edinburgh Fringe 2025 “The future of British comedy ” - ★★★★★ ThreeWeeks “The audience laughter is non-stop” - ★★★★★ The Phoenix Remix “Expertly constructed punchlines... Insanely original” - ★★★★★ European Comedy "Hilarious. Properly, effortlessly, hilarious." - ★★★★★ EdFringe Review “a natural comic... Robin Williams level” - Chortle “Proper funny bones... He’s going to be a huge star.” - On the Mic ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Newcomer Nominee Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Edinburgh Fringe Nominee Tour support for Fin Taylor and Vittorio Angelone
Offgridland
Lion & Unicorn Theatre
Flight. Mode. The two most wonderful words...but even with his mobile blocking the outside world, can our desperate, overworked hero ever switch off? A frantic, claustrophobic comedy play by multi-award winning writer/performer, Paul Richards, Offgridland is the true story of a man trying to switch off from the perils of technology and, you know, other people.
PsyTreedelic Xperience
Rosemary Branch Theatre
Are you feeling lost, overwhelmed or lonely? Do you sometimes feel you are just... a bit tired of being a human? Mother Earth is calling you! Sign up for this unique trans-species experience combining shamanic wisdom and astonishing tree science. You are invited to step beyond human limitations and enter the boundless experience of becoming part of the forest! Expect mind-blowing thought experiments, life-changing silly role plays, and collective rituals that shake your whole being. Disclaimer: Mushrooms are involved—but in completely legal ways. "This performance is weird, wise, and wildly original... Imagine if Carl Jung, Marina Abramović, and your funniest friend went on a mushroom trip together—that’s the territory we’re in.” --Bespoke Black Book
Racists, Recessions And Revolutions
Hen & Chickens Theatre
In 2016 an unprecedented wave of fake news exploded across our screens, feeds and lives. Public trust was devastated as Brexit, Trump and an ever-powerful far right emerged. The masterminds? A few teens in a former socialist republic that even experts struggle to find on a map: Macedonia. Join Nadica, a driven Macedon/Brit on the ground floor of this gold rush who will stop at nothing to build her empire of lies as she defies tech giants, Covid Lockdowns and a crumbling economy to champion Britain’s eager and ready supply of Racists, Recessions & Revolutions!
Londongrad
The Courtyard Theatre
Keira Palmer is the most hated prime minister in British history. In a desperate bid to save her career, she summons her “trusted” team: ex-best friend home secretary Aisha, cunning chief of staff Leela, and her liability of a foreign secretary Will. The semi-casual COBRA instantly spirals when Will’s best friend (Vladimir Putin) launches a blackmail scheme delivered in emojis. He threatens to leak the scandalous details of his 43rd birthday bash - or sell London to Putin. The situation worsens when the tech billionaire jump into the fray, demanding London is sold to their companies instead. Loyalties vanish quicker than Prince Andrew’s sweat glands as vying spheres of influences are crudely exerted on morally bankrupt puppet politicians - the custodians of London’s future.
naked
Camden People's Theatre
“Fuck the wedding.” “Fuck you.” Five months before their wedding, a man and a woman start couples therapy. Having tried everything else, they revisit old memories, read self-help books, reach for sex and play - anything to connect with the person behind the arguments. NAKED is a surreal, bilingual, love story exploring intimacy, identity, and the parts of ourselves that refuse to grow up. It asks what it means to encounter another person, and whether that encounter can truly change us.
Language of Joe and Cho
Etcetera Theatre
"What happens when the mask you wear online becomes the person you can’t escape in real life?" "And What happens your online persona causes a collision in your physical reality and your family?" "What are you going to do if that triggers the issues you've been ignoring for years?" Cho is a university student living a double life. To his father in South Korea, he is a dedicated son on the verge of graduation. To his thousands of anonymous subscribers, he is a rising far-right provocateur. With his father arriving in London for their first meeting in 15 years, Cho’s carefully curated world begins to fracture. When a "doxing" attack exposes his identity during a live stream, the digital vitriol spills into the physical world. Stalked, threatened, and cornered, Cho must navigate a collapsing web of lies before his father discovers the truth. Blending autobiographical elements with a gripping fictional narrative, Language of Joe and Cho is an intense one-actor exploration of digital radicalisation, familial duty, and the violent collision between our online personas and physical reality.
Dünyada
The Cockpit
“I’m not from here.” A man arrives with a suitcase, a camera, and a voice that seems sad somehow. He speaks of homeland, parents, lost loves, strange customs... the narrative unravels into a mosaic of unfinished thoughts and philosophical detours; A microphone picks up his distorted speech; A camera captures his eyes, lips, old photos, debris, and you... too. Images appear behind him, what it means to be seen? This August, internationally acclaimed actor and director Mehmet Ali Nuroğlu brings his visceral, high-intensity solo performance Dünyada to Camden Fringe. Reimagining Will Eno’s celebrated monologue Title and Deed, the production arrives in London fresh from Istanbul’s underground theatre scene, offering an evocative exploration of migration, identity drift, and the fragile necessity of being witnessed in a digital age. Dünyada, meaning “in the world”, is a formally adventurous solo theatre that tears the fabric of one-person play through cinematic camera work, visual extension and sound design. Nuroğlu performs a dual role as both actor and live cinematographer, walking the thin line between the mundane duties of keeping things going and the emotional disorder of remembering (like all of us). In a raw, technical struggle, he manages lighting and soundscapes in real-time, creating a parallax between his physical body and his digital ghost. The production transforms the audience from mere spectators into active material, as the camera turns to film the watchers, projecting their silent presence into the heart of the monologue. Intimate, funny, unsettling, and deeply, deeply human. Dünyada. A salute to the progress in life, to being here, now, right now. On stage.
Closure Cabaret
Canal Cafe Theatre
Distinguished guests – hold on tight as we try to let go. Welcome to the Closure Cabaret, a vaudevillian variety show hosted by Razmatastique – your hopefully devoted, French-accented emcee who cannot let her exes rest in peace. Instead, she summons them back for one final encore in pursuit of that ever-elusive promise: closure. From bad-boy playground pirates to wannabe hip-hop stars and emotionally unavailable illusionists, each former flame returns with a glittering cabaret act – jazz-handed into public inspection. Expect quick changes, original music and riotous audience participation as Razmatastique leads us through an odyssey of romantic misadventure. Created and performed by Maria Ansdell, this solo clown and character comedy show exposes romance as performance – and heartbreak as something we compulsively replay. Somewhere between a theatrical fever dream and an emotional exorcism, Closure Cabaret prompts the question: out of everyone we’ve ever dated, who really has the ‘Ex Factor’? **** “Masterful clowning” - A Youngish Perspective **** “One of my favorite performances of Edinburgh Fringe 2025” - Fernyhough Reviews
White Bitch Bingo
Barons Court Theatre
America is a crazy place, y'all. This Texan escaped the madness for a fortnight to bring this (hopefully) thought-provoking world premiere performance to London. Examining her own whiteness and the systems that shaped her, Caroline Cole's "White Bitch Bingo" is full of messy buns and lattes alongside more serious themes of colonization, evangelicalism, and desperation to become "one of the good ones."
Bug Hotel
Aces and Eights
Welcome to the Bug Hotel. A fast-moving hour of stand-up from the Lovebugs Comedy collective. Your Night Manager, Kieran Dee (G&B Comedy 2026 All Stars winner), guides your short stay through travel mishaps, cultural misunderstandings and the indignities of hotel workplace life. Each show introduces you to five comedians, with no two shows the same. Check in for laughs. Check out the staff and guests. North London's finest hospitality awaits. Questionable service is included.