Skinned
Etcetera Theatre
A woman reports a sexual assault. Within an hour, her story no longer belongs to her. Skinned is a solo performance set in an interrogation room, where one woman’s testimony is picked apart and returned to her, changed. As inconsistencies are identified, her position begins to shift. Victim becomes suspect. Suspect becomes perpetrator. Blending live performance with an immersive recorded soundscape, Skinned interrogates the pressure to become the “perfect victim” - coherent, consistent, and easy to believe - and exposes the cost for those who fail to meet it. What survives isn’t always the truth... Co-written and co-directed by Aoife Parr and Kirsten Grinstead, Skinned is the new work from the team behind Anatomy of Pain (Brighton Fringe, FUSE International Festival, Edinburgh Fringe), described as “heart-wrenchingly beautiful and painfully relevant” and “brave, tight... damn good - a crusade as much as a play”.
Baby Brain
Bridewell Theatre
A new play about motherhood, giving birth, postpartum psychosis and stand-up comedy! A new mother, Cass, tackles her mental health crisis, with dark humour, bright wit, brutal honesty and dreams of becoming a comic. A ‘slightly true story’ starring BAFTA winner Kimberley Nixon (C4’s Fresh Meat, Wild Child, Under Salt Marsh).
Call Me When You Get This
The Libra Theatre Cafe
Two women meet by chance and fall deeply in love. There is only one problem: an ocean between them. Call Me When You Get This explores what it means to build a relationship when every moment together is borrowed time. Tender, funny and quietly devastating, Call Me When You Get This follows a South African woman and a British woman whose relationship unfolds across countries, cultures and time zones. Told through a non-linear structure, the play pieces together moments from across the lifespan of their relationship. Rather than following a traditional chronology, the audience encounters a mosaic of memories: first meetings, final conversations, ordinary moments and life-changing decisions. As the clock begins counting down from the moment each visit starts, the play asks a simple but impossible question: How do you build a future with someone you always leave behind?
What’s Next?
Etcetera Theatre
One rejection too much has thrown a once passionate, promising actress into a complete mental breakdown. Sophia, an Italian, London based actress just got the news from her agent, that the role she considered her "saving grace", nearly guaranteed to her, was given to another colleague. When at the height of her self pity she receives an unexpected phone call from her grandmother, which is the last thing she wants at the moment but exactly what she desperately needs.
Moving Hamlet
Barons Court Theatre
What does it take to finally act? Moving Hamlet is a solo performance tracing Shakespeare's most tormented prince through five monologues, physical theatre and music. A Hamlet that ends not in tragedy — but at the moment of decision.
The Improv Musical
The Courtyard Theatre
The Improv Musical is a fully-improvised musical where the show is in your hands! Our host leads the audiences through a “cheerocracy,” a democracy where the loudest cheers win, the audience suggests a setting, title and two characters for our wonderful cast and live band to bring to life onstage. All scenes and songs in our show are fully improvised, with our cast and band staying onstage for the whole show, ensuring that there is absolutely no conferring! Half-way through our show, the audience regains power to cheer-off plot suggestions and song genres to see in the next scene and song. We are a show for all audiences that will bring laughter, fun and sometimes a little chaos to the stage for all to enjoy! Unlike other Improv shows, our cast works not only with the audience, but also a live band to create a show that is full of laughs, funky music, and leaving the audience wanting to come back every day and see what else they can do!
GREYJOY
The Libra Theatre Cafe
Fake exam. Real unprepared actors. What could go wrong? An out-of-work actor and a trainee doctor walk in to a featureless hospital room. Across 90 minutes and 10 medical exams, the pair make a discovery that changes the course of their lives. Guest starring different actors every night, what happens when the show does go wrong? And what does everyone else do about it? GREYJOY is the second project from award-winning actor and playwright Becca Harper. Described as "intricate and thoughtful", GREYJOY explores grief, healthcare and being a young carer with sensitivity and comedic flair. No two performances are ever the same.
Wilder!
Etcetera Theatre
Welcome to Newport, a picture-perfect slice of suburbia where appearances are everything, and the Newport Village Garden Club, a community of housewives, fiercely rules the town. At the centre of it all are the Wilders, a young, glamorous couple with a deadly secret who seem to have it all. But when one of them begins to question their most... unconventional hobby, their carefully balanced marriage starts to unravel, spiralling into chaos that threatens to pull everyone down with it. As suspicions grow and nosy neighbours begin to close in, the Wilders must navigate love, betrayal, and loyalty while trying to stay one step ahead of a storm that could expose everything.
A Cup of Tea with George Eliot
Barons Court Theatre
Join Victorian author, George Eliot, for a cup of tea and a piece of cake in this one-woman show that celebrates her life, her world and her work. Complimentary cup of tea and cake provided.
Brother Country
Hen & Chickens Theatre
Baseball with hotdogs, two clown brothers, and a sick mother. Follow this rollicking ranch romp across America as Lit and Robbie rob trains, pledge allegiance, and do whatever it takes to save everything they ever thought about loving. After being banned from American theaters, and now on the run in London, the clown duo ANTIFA pilots a show you’ll #neverforget.
Windchimes
Hen & Chickens Theatre
“If I disappeared now I’m not sure anyone would call out for me... ” When two people cross paths every season at a garden party and laughing together helps escape the dull family small talk, subtle cracks in reality start to appear. Their growing connection brings into question who they are, the choices they make and the possibility that the garden knows more about them than they do.
ADvsHD
Rosemary Branch Theatre
Alice and Bea are that kind of sisters that tell each other everything. Or at least they used to be. They used to be many things, before Bea moved abroad and interrupted contact almost entirely 2 years ago. Like polar opposites of the ADHD brain. That's the only thing they certainly still are. Now Bea is back, and Alice doesn't really know how to feel about it. She demands to know why Bea left, but Bea is very determined not to tell her. And she's also very determined to annoyingly take over Alice's space with all her backflips and her handstands; all the while stopping Alice from zoning out and wasting away in her room. Will they rekindle their friendship, or will they loose each other for good? Join us for this snappy, sarcastic deeply relatable play about sisterhood and change.
THEODORE IS A STAR
Etcetera Theatre
Theodore has known since he was a little gay boy that he was born for stardom - it was only a matter of waiting until that day arrived. After a surprise encounter with his ex-boyfriend, Theodore is confronted with the crashing truth that maybe he is not destined to become the star he thought he would. THEODORE IS A STAR is a queer tragicomedy about attachment trauma, Clapham Daddies, Catholic guilt, shagging Michelangelo, Miley Cyrus, growing older as a gay person, and the fear of truly being seen.
Cut The Tapes
The Libra Theatre Cafe
A new play written by Megan Peck follows two friends trying to film a self tape against all odds. Questionable sides, janky set ups, shitty boyfriends, and the worst of all, having to sing a pop cut. Will they make their deadline? Or will someone go full Britney and shave their head on stage? Who knows!
Biscuits for Breakfast by Gareth Farr
The Courtyard Theatre
In a world where getting by can feel like survival, Biscuits for Breakfast tells a quietly powerful story of two people navigating love, pride and the reality of going without. This honest and deeply human play explores what happens behind closed doors when money is tight and choices are limited. With warmth, humour and unflinching truth, Gareth Farr’s writing shines a light on food poverty, relationships under pressure and the small acts of care that keep us going. Raw, tender and painfully relatable, this is a story that reminds us how close any of us can be to the edge and how connection can be the thing that pulls us back. Partnership Information Kaleidoscope Collective Arts is proud to be partnering with Hackney Foodbank alongside this production to help raise awareness of the play’s themes of food poverty and financial hardship. Through this partnership, we will donate a non-perishable food item for every ticket sold and encourage audiences to bring canned or non-perishable food donations to the performance. Creative Team Director/Producer Georgia Grace Gavin Co-Producer Jon-Luke Goodman Set & Costume Designer Sabina Pieroni Stage Manager / Show Operator Alex Williams Lighting Designer Daniel Yazdani Sound Designer Alexander Tonkiss Assistant Set Designer Chakriya Chhout
CLUB MISTERO
Theatro Technis
Step into the dangerous but dazzling world of CLUB MISTERO, set in 1920s New York, a thrilling murder mystery that combines glitz, glam and suspense. In the heart of a speakeasy, surrounded by deception and secrets, a murder unravels a web of betrayal, revenge and power. As tension’s rise, the line between friend and foe is blurred- and everyone is a suspect. With sharp dialogue, unexpected twists and a dynamic cast CLUB MISTERO is a gripping theatre experience that will keep you guessing until the end. Who will survive the night? Described as “Genuinely Brilliant” and perfect for all ages- A NEWLY ACCLAIMED, NOT TO BE MISSED, PERFORMANCE!
Murder on the Allotment
The Cockpit
Small Boats. Small Minds. Someone is bound to lose the plot. 17-year-old asylum seeker Karwan survived the Channel, but can he survive middle England? After being handed an allotment plot in the provinces, he finds himself trapped in a petty turf war with a bunch of “boring old age pensioners” who aren’t exactly rolling out the welcome mat. As polite masks slip, age-old prejudices take root and war breaks out over who truly belongs. Featuring eleven original songs, and inspired by real-life stories from teenage asylum seekers, this funny and provocative debut exposes the absurdities of bigotry at work in the UK.
Baby Brain
Bridewell Theatre
A new play about motherhood, giving birth, postpartum psychosis and stand-up comedy! A new mother, Cass, tackles her mental health crisis, with dark humour, bright wit, brutal honesty and dreams of becoming a comic. A ‘slightly true story’ starring BAFTA winner Kimberley Nixon (C4’s Fresh Meat, Wild Child, Under Salt Marsh).
Cornershop Showdown
Camden Comedy Club
Jake Yapp hosts Britain’s brightest new game show for 1976! It's a gleefully shambolic game show set in a 1970s corner shop where one lucky audience member could win a two-hour holiday for four in North Luton! ’Funny and smart in ways this paragraph cannot possibly convey’ - CHARLIE BROOKER
TAPE
Lion & Unicorn Theatre
TAPE by Stephen Belber When three high school friends reunite after a decade, old loyalties fracture and buried truths surface. What begins as a reunion quickly becomes a ruthless battle of memory, truth and power. TAPE is a darkly funny, hard-hitting play powered by razor-sharp dialogue. As the conversation tightens, the audience is pulled into a shifting web of half-truths, evasions and reinterpretations. With no easy answers, TAPE leaves audiences questioning what really happened and who they believe.
Edgar A. Poe’s Last Call
Camden People's Theatre
“Why will you say that I am mad?!?” Dragging a trunkful of demons, Edgar Allan Poe, stands before us bewildered, begging assurance – he is not mad. Audiences wander through the darkened corridors of Poe’s imagination, encountering midnight omens, tragic devotion, and the slow unraveling of the human mind as Poe faces his final hour. Edgar A. Poe’s Last Call is an eerie, intimate, solo performance, inspired by the tormented life, and mysterious death of Edgar A. Poe. A Gothic, haunted, and human evening – not of dusty literature, but psychological conflict. Ghosts of his past flash before us as Poe’s most beloved nightmares rise from the page – the beguiling ebony Raven, the relentless torment of the Tell-Tale Heart, and the mournful beauty of Annabel Lee. “A dark, poetic... immersive experience... ” The Daniels Review online. Come. The bell has rung for Edgar A. Poe’s Last Call.
BEATS + STRINGS – Soul Renaissance
Hen & Chickens Theatre
Enjoy an evening of R&B and Soul music performed by a trio of Kansas City's best. DJ - D. Dot Professor Violin - K'Tina Cello - RMJ Music Beats + Strings: Soul Renaissance is a unique live music experience set in a sultry nightclub aesthetic. Leave your troubles at the door and take in their dynamic playlist of soul favorites performed with acoustic strings, electronic vibes and percussive beats.
Tea, Texts and Top Of The Pops
Barons Court Theatre
Sam and Noah couldn’t be more different. But one thing they have in common is the loss of their dad. Set over the course of ten years, these two siblings must navigate the pain, fear, joy and chaos that comes with grief. Will they find a way to ride the tidal wave together, or will this heartache be too much for them to bear? Funny, nostalgic and at times heartbreaking, this play explores grief as a series of moments and the changing bond between siblings.
The Dance Plague of 1518
Upstairs at the Gatehouse
"COMPLETELY STUPID, IN THE MOST CHARMING SENSE" - A Youngish Perspective - 4/5 "TICKEL AND TROTMAN HAVE CREATED A HILARIOUS MUSICAL" - Everything Theatre - 4/5 Hamilton. Six. Cats. All musicals based on historical events. Four struggling ‘Theatre In Education’ actors decide to cash in on this trend and stage a musical retelling of histories weirdest event - “The Dance Plague of 1518”. The only catch: they know nothing about “The Dance Plague of 1518”. Featuring runaway princesses, medieval music festivals, maniacal high priests and more; don't miss out on this contagious musical by Finn Tickel and Sam Trotman.
Your Favo(u)rite American Woman
Canal Cafe Theatre
C is an Asian American woman and a history professor’s assistant, now living and working in the UK. She comes from immigrants, is an immigrant herself, and is very eager to please. But just how eager? Despite her nervous and intellectual demeanor, C’s past and emotions run deep. From show business aspirations to fleeing political instability, C has left a lot behind in America. And she still has a fresher history lecture session to teach you, through original music, choreography, and slideshow presentations. Ready for class? Your Favourite American Woman is Ciarlene Coleman’s second original, solo production. It is also the spiritual successor to her first, Your Best American Girl, which premiered at the 2019 San Diego Fringe Festival and was awarded Best World Premiere, Best of Fest, and Critic’s Pick. Off the Beat Productions, co-founded by Sofia Zaragoza and Alara Koroglu, is dedicated to producing thought-provoking and socially relevant theatre that amplifies diverse voices within working-class communities.
When We Were Us
The Courtyard Theatre
When We Were Us is a story about friendship – the kind that shapes you, saves you, and sometimes quietly slips away. Four friends meet for a long-overdue catch-up – at least, that’s what Brooke believes. What she doesn’t know is that the others have sensed something is wrong for a while, and tonight is their quiet attempt to reach her. It’s not long before old truths stir beneath the surface. And as the night unfolds, so does the cost of what’s been hidden. This is a play about the space between who we are and what we show. About love that lingers even when trust is broken, and what happens when the people who know you best finally see what you hoped they never would. Because every friendship has a turning point – a moment we only understand in hindsight. That moment is When We Were Us. ‘Broom’s performance is a masterclass in acting. She truly inhabits the role... It’s only 60 minutes but, my goodness, this brave play packs a punch.’ ★★★★ London Pub Theatres ‘Victoria Broom gives a compelling performance as the besotted, so-in-love young woman turned into the trembling waif who her friends feel they must help. This is a well directed show, using flashbacks which are a tricky manoeuvre in plays but Jade Winters, who wrote and directed the piece, pulls it off here. It is disturbing and relevant.’ ★★★★ Plays to See ‘a great piece of writing that was presented really well by a high-quality cast. ’ London Theatre 1 ★★★★ NOMINATED for a FRINGE THEATRE AWARD, Victoria Broom (Lead Performance).
Sevrin Fay
The Water Rats
Your fate is written. Now hear it sung. Ethereal vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion and Celtic harp build soundscapes where ancient worlds collide. Drawing on Slavic and Northern folklore, each song is its own rune a dark fairy tale of magic, love and loss, performed in English in the UK for the first time. No stranger to the Fringe stage — Edinburgh 2016, Camden 2026 · As heard on BBC Radio · One night only.
SYNCING
Lion & Unicorn Theatre
It's 2002. Justin Timberlake has just announced his departure from NSYNC, leaving the four remaining members - Lance, Joey, JC, and Chris - scrambling to keep the boyband together. With their frosted tips fading and egos bruised, these four friends must figure out who they are when the spotlight moves on. In this uproarious parody, the boyz are forced to confront their talent, friendship, and very existence. SYNCING is for anyone who wants to laugh and reconnect with the chaotic, unfiltered time of the noughties. If you love clowning, queer-coded comedy, and leaving the theatre a little sillier than you came in, then SYNCING is for you! SYNCING premiered to a sold-out show in February and was selected as a contender in SketchFest in March.
Mustafa Algiyadi: Your Finest Second Cheapest Wine Please (WIP)
Camden Comedy Club
Mustafa takes the audience through an exploration of modern life: the rules we invent, the lies we tell ourselves, the opinions we pretend to have and why everyone seems slightly irritating. From growing up in Libya to navigating Europe, from second-cheapest wine to identity politics, from body shame to social hypocrisy, this is comedy about belonging, status, desire, resentment and trying to seem like a decent person while quietly losing your mind. Expect crowd work, new material, risky ideas, overthinking and jokes that may never be heard again for very good reasons. Come help shape the next show. WIP = Work in Progress. Some ideas are unfinished. Some are too finished. Some should have stayed in Notes. Mustafa is so darn good because: • Tour support for Reggie Watts and Todd Barry • Featured in “Top Jokes of the Edinburgh Fringe 2024” by The Times and Edinburgh Evening News • Featured in The Guardian, Sunday Post, The Scotsman, and The List UK Critical Reviews: • “The funniest thing in the world.” – Broadway Baby • “Comedic prowess.” – The Voice UK • “Breath of fresh air.” – The Play’s The Thing UK • “Huge presence.” – Phoenix Remix • “Finest traditions of compering.” – Chortle • “Comedy that breaks down boundaries...” – Mumble Audience Reviews: • 5 stars on Google Reviews
¡I CAN’T STOP THE LONELINESS!
Hen & Chickens Theatre
Tokyo. 1989. The economy is booming, the music scene is innovating, and the UK-Japan McKilmey Consultancy international work party is attended by a grand total of 2 people. Isao Kumakawa, a Japanese salary man in his thirties troubled over his waning love for his pregnant wife, and Henry Curtis; an up-and-coming British consultant on a business trip bridled with an addiction to self-harm that’s putting his life at risk. After a shocking incident traps the two of them in the Karaoke room, indefinitely, with an infinite supply of alcohol, disagreements emerge, secrets slip and a friendship blooms to the popping tunes of a changing Tokyo. I Can't Stop The Loneliness is a show written by RADA MA Playwriting student Horatio Holloway, featuring talent from RADA to Cambridge and Durham, and from the UK to Japan! It is a black comedy, with intense dramatic elements and sharp comedic wit. Holloway, who won the Durham University Best Writing award in 2025 following its initial run, now brings the show to London with a updated script and cast!
Ian Winter Revolution
The Libra Theatre Cafe
It's time for Revolution. Ian Winters brave show is a selection box of satire, irony, characterisation and the surreal blended with one liners. Ian is a comedian unafraid to address and throw stones at Cathedrals and rotten state of politics.
A Very Divine Election
Theatro Technis
This advert is a moral disgrace and so are you if you’re reading it. Vote WEE. Adam Arkell was convinced being promoted to Head of Political Campaigns at notorious advertising agency "The Knife" was a surefire way of securing control in his life, but all he's gained so far are questions. Why is the CEO so disillusioned with her own company? Why do my co-workers act more like gremlins than human beings? And most importantly of all: why are we running the election campaign of a radical anti-advertising party whose only policy is to shut us down?? This horror-comedy is a sinister descent into the cult of symbolism and mindless consumerism.
Dance Again
The Cockpit
Dance Again follows Noa through one night at a music festival — a psychedelic celebration of love and unity that collapses into a massacre. The play explores an unfolding terror attack from the perspective of a brain under the influence of mind-expanding drugs. Told through the distorted lens of LSD and guided by a live DJ who sculpts the atmosphere in real time, the play oscillates between ecstatic peaks and traumatic episodes, fracturing Noa's reality until she can no longer tell trip from truth. All while confronting the vanishing of her partner, her friends, the very idea the dance floor represents. What follows is a reckoning with irreversible loss and the question of whether joy can ever be reclaimed. Based on real events, Dance Again is a love letter to rave and festival culture, and a confrontation with terror choosing it as battlefield — a memorial, a rave, and a refusal. How can you dance again?
Knocked Conscious: A Sketch Comedy Show
Rosemary Branch Theatre
A side of chips with your side of chips; cheating on the milkman with the postman; your dog takes you for a walk for once. This is Sketch Comedy. This is Knocked Conscious. ★★★★★ "An evening of unending laughter" All That Dazzles ★★★★ “If you were looking for a show that left your sides aching ... this is the one.” - London Pub Theatres ★★★★ “Razor Sharp” - Everything Theatre “Will leave you feeling lighter” - The Live Review London
Triptych
Camden People's Theatre
Triptych is a series of three short plays exploring relationships in their most intimate and challenging forms: with a partner, with family, and with oneself. Each piece presents a self-contained story, united by a shared focus on moral complexity. HIS AND HERS is about a couple. Their six-year anniversary is the perfect setting for a proposal until a revelation exposes the gap between expectation and reality. SIBS sees a brother visit his sister in South America, accidentally knock off the wifi, and unleash an argument that is really about a trauma from their past. In THUNDERCLAP a man argues with his conscience about what to do, after the stranger he came to hookup with has overdosed and died.
Mates
The Courtyard Theatre
Mates is a fast-paced, meta-theatrical comedy about friendship, ambition, and creative chaos. Four old friends reunite to make a play together after years apart. The venue is booked. They’ve got the props. They even have major financial backing. All they need now is... well, the play. What begins as an exciting creative reunion quickly spirals into plays-within-plays-within-plays, exposing bruised egos, old tensions, and uncomfortable truths. At its heart, Mates explores the shifting dynamics of long-term friendship and the anxieties of getting older and realising you’re far away from where you'd dreamt you’d be. Sharp, surreal, and painfully relatable, it interrogates ego, masculinity, and the struggle to create something meaningful. Developed through transcripts of real conversations and comedy improvisation, Mates blends naturalistic dialogue with escalating absurdity, resulting in a show that is both sharply comic and emotionally resonant. “Playful, delightfully bonkers yet intelligently conceived” — Spy in the Stalls “An intelligent exploration of the art of making theatre” — Everything Theatre “Inventive, unpredictable and constantly shifting in tone” — Theatre & Tonic
A Goldenberry Cage
Barons Court Theatre
Foul Young Theatre returns with an original piece by Alix Egoroff on the absurd manners of the tongue. Throughout one continuous, bizarre family dinner, deranged by impossible possession and snapping attempts at breaking down the fabulous limits of human connection, A Goldenberry Cage crafts a ludicrous parallel between cannibalism and the vernacular. Described by its director as a "weird collective hallucination", the show keeps Foul Young Theatre's byword of "violently social loud and sexy theatre" with its libertine style and preposterous characters, delving into blame games and compensation, familial horror and satire, all around a table.
This Could’ve Gone Better
Canal Cafe Theatre
"AND WHERE IS ALL THE ICE-CREAM?!" After getting stuck in a supermarket freezer during a pitiful attempt to steal ice-cream, a nameless woman is forced to come to terms with the disappointments, losses, dreams and hopes of her lacklustre existence. Quite quickly, it emerges that this woman is a walking failure; little desire, no ambition, a life of missed opportunity. Through anecdotes, poetry, dark comedy, and a complicated relationship with a freezer-wall, the complexities of a twenty-first century existence crash-down in haunting waves of grief and fantasy. ‘This Could’ve Gone Better’ is a 6o-minute, dark-comedy monologue that explores the seemingly fleeting moments of a young woman’s life. What is it like to be promised the world and receive nothing? What is it like to dream only to wake up? How do you mourn a life dying right in front of your eyes? Join the young woman as she barely-copes, complains, and deludes herself from reality at a time when hiding from the truth could be devastating.