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The Cockpit

The Cockpit, Gateforth Street, London, NW8 8EH
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Broken Ivy/Fence Off

Broken Ivy/Fence Off

Sep 19

Broken Ivy Music: Florence Lloyd Libretto: Vivian Bayliss Fence Off Music: Ruben Doda Libretto: Rebekah King Broken Ivy & Fence Off are a pair of chamber operas created by emerging composers from the Royal Academy of Music. The evening brings two worlds onto one stage: a vivid...

Family Shakespeare: Pyramus & Thisbe - September

Family Shakespeare: Pyramus & Thisbe - September

Sep 19

The Rude Mechanicals have been asked to perform a play at the Duke's wedding. Trouble is, they've forgotten to write it! Can you help??? Do you remember Pyramus & Thisbe? The romantic tragedy that Bottom & The Rude Mechanicals were asked to perform for the Duke in A MIDSUMMER...

Sing4 Nok6/Meet the Philips

Sing4 Nok6/Meet the Philips

Sep 19

Sing4 Nok6, and other broken things Music: Ng Kwun Ho / Jerry Fryderyk Libretto: Courtney Cousins Meet The Philips Music: Alessandro Mackinnon-Botti Libretto: Wilkie Robson Sing4 Nok6, and other broken things and Meet The Philips are a pair of chamber operas created by emerging...

Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Sep 20

Notated music and performance: CN Lester Electronic music and soundscapes: IL Libretto, direction, spoken word performance: Jamie Hale This 60 minute hybrid work strips Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to its core question: is it right to create new life in a fractured and suffering...

Re-Enchant: September

Re-Enchant: September

Sep 20

RE:ENCHANT - Poetic Experiments For A New World Live literature every third Sunday Please be aware that this month, Re-enchant will be up in Studio 1. This is accessible via a spiral staircase only. There are also less seats, so make sure you grab a ticket. Martina Evans will be...

History Has No Safe Word

History Has No Safe Word

Sep 22

Professor Nathan Zangari is fading away. Once voted the sexiest professor on BBC2’s Open University, his highly celebrated archeo-linguistics paper on “Graffiti, Women and the Walls of Pompeii” is now but a distant memory. Now, he can’t sleep, he can’t get published, and… he...

Peter and the Wolf

Peter and the Wolf

Sep 24

Peter & the Wolf is a magical new production of Sergei Prokofiev’s much-loved musical masterpiece, featuring live music and dance. Created especially for 2-5 year olds and their grown-ups, this enchanting show introduces little ones to orchestral instruments, where each sound...

Mirrors - When Silence Breaks, Hope Rises

Mirrors - When Silence Breaks, Hope Rises

Sep 25

MIRRORS BY Ada Tsesmeli Edwards Twice awarded by the Cultural Centre of Northern Greece for Playwright & Direction About the performance There comes a moment in life when each of us must look into the mirror and face our own reflection. But how ready are we to truly confront...

Extremism by Anders Lustgarten

Extremism by Anders Lustgarten

Sep 29 – Oct 2, 2026

One student has disappeared. Nobody knows why. Everyone has an opinion. When a classmate is removed from school under suspicion of radicalisation, a group of teenagers are left alone to make sense of what has happened. As rumours spread and tensions rise, friendships are tested...

Living With... Love

Living With... Love

Oct 3

The second in a series of talks bringing together professionals from the arts, science, religion and philosophy, to ask: how can we help each other navigate and connect as fully as possible with the defining experiences of being human? Speakers: (tbc). Curated by Natasha Wood...

The Addams Family

The Addams Family

Oct 7 – Oct 10, 2026

This October, Geoids Musical Theatre presents its latest musical comedy, The Addams Family. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family. She confides in her father and begs him not...

Ben Çoktan Gidersiniz Sanmiştim - Tom Pain

Ben Çoktan Gidersiniz Sanmiştim - Tom Pain

Oct 11

Ben Çoktan Gidersiniz Sanmtm - korku üzerine bir oyun. Aç trnak, “Korku: 1. Yüzün münferit ksmlar, mesela gözler ya da az, ya da gözler. 2. Lower Meersham’n kuzey iç kesimlerinin güneydousunda bulunan bakenti. Nüfus: 8,000,001, yaklak olarak. 3. Korku, 4. Üçüncü maddeye bakn. 5...

Family Shakespeare: Pyramus & Thisbe - October

Family Shakespeare: Pyramus & Thisbe - October

Oct 17

The Rude Mechanicals have been asked to perform a play at the Duke's wedding. Trouble is, they've forgotten to write it! Can you help??? Do you remember Pyramus & Thisbe? The romantic tragedy that Bottom & The Rude Mechanicals were asked to perform for the Duke in A MIDSUMMER...

Hansel and Gretel

Hansel and Gretel

Oct 17 – Oct 18, 2026

Step into the dark woods this October for a deliciously chilling 60-minute production of Engelbert Humperdinck’s classic opera, Hansel and Gretel, sung in English. Lost in a mysterious forest, two brave siblings must outsmart a sinister Witch to find their way home. Packed with...

Re-Enchant: October

Re-Enchant: October

Oct 18

RE:ENCHANT - Poetic Experiments For A New World Live literature every third Sunday Performers details to be announced. To apply for the open mic slot click here . Curated and introduced by Nick Moss in collaboration with The Cockpit The world changes: we make new poetry to...

Space Hamlet

Space Hamlet

Oct 22 – Oct 31, 2026

It's Shakespeare. In space. With Norse hammers. And Muppet-like aliens running amok. The Bard's tragedy gets blasted into orbit, transformed into a cosmic Glam rock comedy featuring norse gods, gladiator pits, space misfits and a golden robot. Containing adult language, puppet...

Pick of Voila!

Pick of Voila!

Nov 2

An evening of handpicked excerpts from shows taking part in this year’s festival. Each one is followed by a short Q&A with the artist. Come for a taste of innovative pan-lingual theatre, stay for a drink in the bar afterwards to officially open Voila! Theatre Festival 2026. From...

Rostro x Eminem

Rostro x Eminem

Nov 3 – Nov 4, 2026

When classical music meets hip-hop. Rostro x Eminem is a solo performance piece — part concert, part play — that navigates the collision between two worlds: the universe of classical music and the raw, rebellious energy of hip-hop. At its centre is Olivier, a young man raised...

Naked

Naked

Nov 5

NAKED is a love story. A man and woman are getting married. Maybe they shouldn't be. They're trying everything: self-help books and kinky sex; couples counselling and sharing stories from their childhood. But nothing stops the arguments.Their differences go deeper than just...

Binary lives - Where fate takes us

Binary lives - Where fate takes us

Nov 4 – Nov 6, 2026

A train never arrives. Time slips out of sync. As the world rushes elsewhere, two strangers, trapped on the same station bench, invent increasingly absurd ways to fill the empty hours. Blending visually poetic performance and physical theatre, this wordless duet transforms a...

Family Shakespeare: Pyramus & Thisbe

Family Shakespeare: Pyramus & Thisbe

Mar 21 – Dec 12, 2026

The Rude Mechanicals have been asked to perform a play at the Duke's wedding. Trouble is, they've forgotten to write it! Can you help??? Do you remember Pyramus & Thisbe? The romantic tragedy that Bottom & The Rude Mechanicals were asked to perform for the Duke in A MIDSUMMER...

Review: TRISTAN & YSEULT, Theatre Royal Bath

Review: TRISTAN & YSEULT, Theatre Royal Bath

by Cheryl Markosky · September 18, 2026

The revival of Emma Rice's exhilarating Tristan & Yseult, with comedy, music, dance, acrobatics and love goes right to the heart.…

Review: ALCINA, Royal Ballet And Opera

Review: ALCINA, Royal Ballet And Opera

by Franco Milazzo · September 17, 2026

Returning to Covent Garden for the first time since it waltzed off with an Olivier in 2022, Richard Jones’ Alcina is ravishing to look at, a joy to hear and its clever design motifs still stand out from the crowd.…

Review: CURRENT/Y, The Coronet Theatre

Review: CURRENT/Y, The Coronet Theatre

by Cindy Marcolina · September 18, 2026

Some theatre shows defy the very nature of their definition. In 50 minutes, Taiwanese artist Chen Yi presents a new kind of storytelling, a hybrid creature born from the young marriage between tech and performance art. It’s difficult to say what Current/y is at its core. As Tu Livier controls her …

Review: THELMA & LOUISE, Young Vic

Review: THELMA & LOUISE, Young Vic

by Louise Penn · September 18, 2026

Thelma & Louise works as a musical and, more importantly, matters as a comment on why these two women made the choices they did. There's always something to catch the eye in this emotional show.…

Review: JILL'S TUPPERWARE PARTY, Underbelly Boulevard Soho

Review: JILL'S TUPPERWARE PARTY, Underbelly Boulevard Soho

by Franco Milazzo · September 16, 2026

There's an indecently good chance that you will walk out of Jill's Tupperware Party very different to how you came in. It may be because you now have a brand new attitude to those leftovers that have been mouldering away in the fridge for the past week. Or maybe its the shiny new hairnet over your h…

Past Shows

152 total · showing 11–20

Eyes See Song

Eyes See Song

Aug 29 – Aug 30, 2026

Six friends. Three secrets. One yearning hope. We enter a tangled web of love, loyalty, shame, and survival, as six women discover their world isn’t what it seems. Beneath the surface of six “ordinary” lives lie stories of reproductive health struggles, sexual violence, and...

In Her Defence

In Her Defence

Aug 29 – Aug 30, 2026

In Her Defence, an original British musical comedy written by Harrison Cranfield, will make its debut at Camden Fringe this August. Set against the vibrant backdrop of 1987, the production follows Donna, a fiery single mother whose life is turned upside down when she discovers...

Motopia

Motopia

Aug 26 – Aug 28, 2026

"Once upon a time, there was a forest, where the sun and the wind and the people ran through the trees with free abandon. Welcome to Motopia!" A new piece of writing, 'Motopia' is a musical choose-your-own adventure play where the choices of the protagonist are placed in the...

Sunrise for the Blind

Sunrise for the Blind

Aug 27 – Aug 28, 2026

Six years after a sold out run in the then ‘Tristan Bates Theatre’, Lee Lomas is bringing back his 5 star play Sunrise for the Blind. If the play was relevant in 2019 it’s perhaps even more relevant now with the rise of right wing politics, major push backs against immigration...

Darling, I think I'm Turning Into A Chicken

Darling, I think I'm Turning Into A Chicken

Aug 25 – Aug 26, 2026

Butterfly Eye Productions’ new totally absurd and slightly horrific Extravaganza comes to Camden Fringe after its premiere at Upstairs at the Gatehouse this July. Born out of lived experiences, this darkly comedic play about generational trauma and transformation, ‘Darling, I...

Church Street Goes Wild

Church Street Goes Wild

Aug 2 – Aug 23, 2026

Imagine if nature reclaimed the triangle on Church Street! Come and join local theatre makers and artists to create a world where Church Street goes wild across August. We’re taking part in Westminster City Council’s Inside Out outdoor arts festival this summer. The festival...

The Boy in the Ocean

The Boy in the Ocean

Aug 17

The Boy in the Ocean is a raw and intimate new play exploring the aftermath of sexual assault through fragmented memory, movement, and storytelling. Performed primarily as a one-person piece and supported by a movement ensemble, the play follows a young man attempting to make...

The Quietening

The Quietening

Aug 15 – Aug 16, 2026

The Quietening is a story about chosen family, queer community, and what happens when someone refuses to give up on you. When Jacob's estranged Mum dies, he has to confront a past he’s spent years trying to outrun. Grumpy, withdrawn and carrying the lasting effects of conversion...

Thieves in Satin - Londons Queens of Crime

Thieves in Satin - Londons Queens of Crime

Aug 16

Step into the dazzling yet dangerous world of "THIEVES IN SATIN", the electrifying new production from Moving Stories Dance Company. Inspired by the infamous all-female UK crime syndicate, The Forty Elephants, this breathtaking dance spectacle unravels the story of Diamond...

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