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 - 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...
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 & 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 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 - 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
Two young actors bring the eerie to a production that undermines its own tension with a choppy narrative…
Roy Fearon leads a magniificent cast in Daniel Bailey's epic production…
The revival of Emma Rice's exhilarating Tristan & Yseult, with comedy, music, dance, acrobatics and love goes right to the heart.…
Patrick Hamilton’s bleak portrait of 1920s London arrives on stage in a new adaptation by Simon Reade, exploring the fragile connections between those searching for love, belonging and something more.…
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.…
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 …
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.…
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…
What did our critic think of THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, SALISBURY PLAYHOUSE at Salisbury Playhouse?…
Clifford Odets' 1937 indictment of consumer society gets a big revival, but proves a souless waste of acting talent…
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Produced and presented by Ensemble OrQuesta Ensemble OrQuesta returns to The Cockpit with three operas. This will be a new minimalist production by Marcio da Silva, which will explore the intimate setting of The Cockpit in Ensemble OrQuesta's signature style. The performers for...
Jamie New is 16 and lives on a council estate in Sheffield. Jamie doesn’t quite fit in. Jamie is terrified about the future. Jamie is going to be a sensation. Supported by his brilliant, loving mum and surrounded by his friends, Jamie overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies, and...
Shakespeare's most romantic tragedy of young lovers from feuding families is considered the greatest love story ever told. A timeless tale of love at first sight, secret vows, violent hatred and fateful misunderstandings that lead to heart-breaking tragedy. Based in East Sussex...
Poison by Lot Vekemans, translated by Rina Vergamo, is a powerful exploration of grief and divorce. A former husband and wife are reunited to protect the memory of their lost child. The emotional intensity of Vekemans' play raises the question: can we move on from the pain?
RE:ENCHANT - Poetic Experiments For A New World Live literature every third Sunday. Performers details to be announced. Curated and introduced by Nick Moss in collaboration with The Cockpit. The world changes: we make new poetry to vandalise literary forms or retrieve those we...
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...
THE ANGRY BRIGADE By James Graham Directed by Oli Hurst Produced by HER & UP 'ERE Productions Set in 1970s Britain during a period of Tory cuts, high unemployment, and increasing inequality, focusing on the hunt for the anarchist group "The Angry Brigade" by a special police...
An interdisciplinary solo performance featuring live painting, aerial hoop dance and moving image projection. The work celebrates the life force holding us up and giving momentum to move, think, live, and create.
Produced and presented by Byline Times Written and abridged by David Edgar Directed by Umar Butt First staged in 1976, David Edgar’s Destiny quickly established itself as one of the most important political plays of its generation. Hailed by critics for its forensic examination...
Produced and presented by The Cockpit in collaboration with Burning Coal Theatre presents Mark O'Rowe's wild and hilarious haymaker of a play about two lowlife punks from Dublin's seedier side of town who stumble upon a friendship, salvation, and even grace.. Winner of the 1999...
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