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The Cockpit

The Cockpit, Gateforth Street, London, NW8 8EH
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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

154 total · showing 81–90

Cinderella - The Elders Panto

Cinderella - The Elders Panto

Dec 20 – Dec 21, 2025

Oh yes it is — the Church Street Elders are back! Oh no it isn’t — the same old Cinderella you know! Originally written by Janet Locke, an 89-year-old member of the Church Street Elders Drama Group, this brand-new version of Cinderella has been joyfully reimagined through...

Boogie on the Bones

Boogie on the Bones

Dec 1 – Dec 7, 2025

In Soviet Moscow, wearing a yellow tie is an act of rebellion. Dancing to jazz could cost you everything. This is the story of the stilyagi — young people who chose colour over conformity, music over safety, and love over ideology. “We wanted to live like Americans, but we...

Fringe REvolution

Fringe REvolution

Nov 29

Fringe Revolution: Our inaugural conference on the present and future of Fringe Theatre Saturday 29 November 10:10 am - 4:30 pm Is Fringe Theatre in trouble? With The Stage reporting on the “uphill struggles” in Edinburgh over the summer, uncertainty around the future of ACE...

The Last Self Tape

The Last Self Tape

Nov 27 – Nov 28, 2025

New writing, premiering at The Cockpit. It’s 6:47 pm. An actress sits down to make a self-tape. It might be her last. In a city of lost and lonely people, how do we find our way without losing who we are? A woman, A camera, One last chance. A story you won’t forget. Written by...

Continuity

Continuity

Nov 19 – Nov 22, 2025

Continuity, by David Sear Directed by Rosina Piovani What happens when your life is abruptly changed by a tragic accident? One that ruins that life completely? And if a chance came along to use a revolutionary new cure, would you take it? Do you want to live forever? (Terms &...

Street Songs: France Cafe Bakery

Street Songs: France Cafe Bakery

Nov 14 – Nov 15, 2025

Street Songs: France Cafe Bakery Written and directed by: Mohammad Rahmanian Produced by: Mehromah Art Production Line Producer: Laleh Mousavi This theatre production is the outcome of a workshop led by Mr. Mohammad Rahmanian in London, and it explores the stories of Iranian...

Matilda Rowe presents Creases Live

Matilda Rowe presents Creases Live

Nov 13

Matilda Rowe brings together some of London’s best musicians to perform her expansive debut project - Creases - for the first time ever, in an immersive, live launch unlike any other. In the round and in two acts, central force of the independent music scene, Matilda Rowe, will...

The Tempest

The Tempest

Nov 11 – Nov 12, 2025

Actors From The London Stage (AFTLS) was founded in 1975 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, by Professor Homer “Murph” Swander and the renowned stage & screen actor Sir Patrick Stewart, best known as Captain Picard on TV’s Star Trek: The Next Generation, and...

The Lure of Class

The Lure of Class

Nov 10

Join the team behind the independent investigative news outlet Byline Times for an entertaining evening of challenging discussion to help us understand the unprecedented times we are living in – and why they are happening – with those with an inside track.

Woo Woolf

Woo Woolf

Nov 4 – Nov 9, 2025

This is not a Virginia Woolf bio-play. Devised by an all migrant ensemble, Woo Woolf is a playful protest that reaches across time, culture, and language to meet Virginia Woolf in mischief and metaphor. Tracing gendered histories, fleeting memories, and migrant feelings through...

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