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Lion & Unicorn Theatre

42-44 Gaisford St, Kentish Town, London NW5 2ED
London

Lion & Unicorn Theatre is a theatre in London.

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Happy In Vain

Happy In Vain

Nov 17 – Nov 21, 2026

In 2026, Thomas is no stranger to a stranger’s bed. Week after week, he parties. Hard. But after a hookup and on the advice of his best friend, he tests positive for HIV. In a wave of guilt and shame, he is invited to be the first person to take part in a new drug trial to...

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Review: MIDDLEMARCH PARTS 1 & 2, Swan Theatre

Review: MIDDLEMARCH PARTS 1 & 2, Swan Theatre

by Debbie Gilpin · October 29, 2026

First published as a series of eight individual instalments between December 1871 and December 1872, George Eliot’s seminal work Middlemarch (subtitled A Study of Provincial Life) has now been adapted into a two-part stage play by Nina Raine - its debut production at the RSC’s Swan Theatre is di…

Review: THE SEA, Starring Jennifer Saunders

Review: THE SEA, Starring Jennifer Saunders

by Cheryl Markosky · October 29, 2026

In imperious Ab Fab Eddie mode, Jennifer Saunders spiritedly dives into Edward Bond's entertaining but somewhat baffling comedy The Sea at Theatre Royal Bath.…

Review: EVEREST: THE FIRST ASCENT, Eclipso London

Review: EVEREST: THE FIRST ASCENT, Eclipso London

by Franco Milazzo · October 28, 2026

Going to Camden to get high was a teenage rite of passage a generation ago. Now, thanks to Eclipso’s latest VR expedition, kids can chase a rather different kind of high, with or without their parents in tow. …

Review: EUCHARIST, Riverside Studios

Review: EUCHARIST, Riverside Studios

by Amber-Rae Stobbs · October 28, 2026

Eucharist will have you begging for a multiple season TV show development that you can rewatch until your eyes run dry. You won’t know who to root for, let alone what to think. This show is truly worthy of a longer, more developed, run.…

Review: MEMORIAM, Southwark Playhouse, Borough

Review: MEMORIAM, Southwark Playhouse, Borough

by Clementine Scott · October 26, 2026

It has a premise that borders on sci-fi, but at its heart Memoriam is a family drama. This Papatango-shortlisted play follows Jewish siblings Rachel and David, their grandmother – the last remaining Holocaust survivor – and the way generational trauma both divides them and brings them back toget…

Review: GARRY STARR: CLASSIC PENGUINS, The Other Palace

Review: GARRY STARR: CLASSIC PENGUINS, The Other Palace

by Franco Milazzo · October 26, 2026

Not all heroes wear capes. Garry Starr’s mission is to save literature (or at least the books printed in Penguin’s series of orange-and-black paperbacks) and he’s going to do it looking like a Tudor prince who has come straight from an nudist beach.…

Review: ROLEPLAY, Soho Theatre

Review: ROLEPLAY, Soho Theatre

by Cindy Marcolina · October 27, 2026

How can you be true to yourself when feminism is a commodity, your brand is everything, and sex is only the means to an end? Regrettably, Reilly doesn’t add much to the conversation. She introduces a character, Danni, who’s given the opportunity to become the next big thing in the sex-positive p…

Review: ROOM 13, Battersea Arts Centre

Review: ROOM 13, Battersea Arts Centre

by Franco Milazzo · October 25, 2026

Halloween is the season when London’s theatres let the bats out of the belfry, and any venue with a draughty corridor suddenly has a ghost story to sell. Battersea Arts Centre has gone one better. It has cast itself as the haunted house, and in Immersive Octopus’s latest stab at a scare, the bui…

Review: LONDON CITY BALLET - FIREBIRD, Sadler's Wells

Review: LONDON CITY BALLET - FIREBIRD, Sadler's Wells

by Vikki Jane Vile · October 24, 2026

London City Ballet (LCB) is a company on the rise. Christopher Marney’s rebirth of the company was only three years ago. Now they are filling the house at Sadler’s Wells with the great and the good of the ballet world present for opening night.…

Past Shows

Uncle Monty's Antique Shop

Uncle Monty's Antique Shop

Oct 13 – Oct 17, 2026

Opening soon in a town near you! Step inside Uncle Monty’s Antique Shop — a strange little place filled with forgotten objects, each carrying traces of the lives left behind. After all... every story has a price. Violence, control, memory and power are brought to life by a core...

Don't Look at Me: A modern retelling of Medusa

Don't Look at Me: A modern retelling of Medusa

Aug 7 – Aug 9, 2026

Don’t Look At Me is a darkly funny reimagining of Greek mythology that reclaims Medusa’s story through a contemporary feminist lens. Written and performed by Anais Gralpois and directed by Julia Sopher, the play explores identity, isolation and the consequences of being labeled...

It Wasn't Like That

It Wasn't Like That

Jun 24 – Jun 26, 2026

Written & Produced by: Katherine Tempany Performed by: Zandalee Clarke She has told this story for fifteen years. Tonight, she is not sure she believes herself. It Wasn’t Like That is a razor-sharp, darkly funny one-woman play about sex, power, memory, and how some stories...

One More Star in the Sky

One More Star in the Sky

Aug 4 – Aug 6, 2025

If you grew up alongside your mum would you be friends? After her mother’s death, Flora takes a pill which allows her to live out her twenties alongside her mum, Goldie. One More Star in the Sky is a wildly imaginative and timelessly moving. It is fuelled with heart, grief...

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