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The Cockpit

Gateforth Street, London NW8 8EH
London

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Azovstal

Azovstal

Sep 18

Music: Alla Sirenko Libretto & Words: Olha Shvets A Ukrainian composer responding to the powerful and urgent story of Azovstal. A presentation of the new opera Azovstal with some music highlights in a concert form, followed by a talk with the composer and librettist and a Q&A...

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...

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...

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...

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: MAN TO MAN, Royal Court

Review: MAN TO MAN, Royal Court

by Franco Milazzo · September 13, 2026

Those worrying that Tilda Swinton — the patron saint of Sunday afternoon arthouse movies and performance art best experienced through reviews — has gone mainstream should make themselves a cup of chamomile tea and relax. There are likely very few famous actors (never mind Oscar winners) queuing …

Review: BBC PROMS: STRAUSS’S ‘FOUR LAST SONGS’, Royal Albert Hall

Review: BBC PROMS: STRAUSS’S ‘FOUR LAST SONGS’, Royal Albert Hall

by Debbie Gilpin · September 12, 2026

“It is difficult composing endings. Beethoven and Wagner could do it. Only great composers can do it. I can do it too.” It wasn’t just Richard Strauss’s death-embracing 'Four Last Songs' which fit this theme in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s final Prom of the season, as Franz Schube…

Review: FIRE FIRE, Arcola Theatre

Review: FIRE FIRE, Arcola Theatre

by Gary Naylor · September 12, 2026

New play that veers off in an unfortunate direction and loses much of its punch as a consequence…

Review: NIGHT CITY, Southwark Playhouse

Review: NIGHT CITY, Southwark Playhouse

by Clementine Scott · September 12, 2026

At first glance, Night City appears like your classic boy meets girl – specifically, rideshare driver meets waitress, and takes her to see the dinosaurs at Crystal Palace in the morning light. What emerges from these foundations, however, is an unflinching love letter to London, and a candid illus…

Review: DON GIOVANNI, Royal Ballet & Opera

Review: DON GIOVANNI, Royal Ballet & Opera

by Cheryl Markosky · September 12, 2026

A visually compelling Don Giovanni from Royal Ballet & Opera, with a superb set by Es Devlin and memorable star turn by Aigul Akhmetshina as Donna Elvira.…

Review: TARTUFFE (REMIXED), starring Mark Rylance

Review: TARTUFFE (REMIXED), starring Mark Rylance

by Cindy Marcolina · September 12, 2026

Adapting classical theatre for a new audience is an exciting task and Darren Raymond has relocated Molière’s farce to a Nigerian-Jamaican family living in England. We are all preparing for Adanna and Sinclair’s impending nuptials, with relatives from both sides gathering at her childhood home. …

Past Shows

148 total · showing 41–50

The Angry Brigade

The Angry Brigade

May 12 – May 16, 2026

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...

The Circle of Everything

The Circle of Everything

May 15 – May 16, 2026

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.

David Edgar's Destiny - 50th anniversary revival

David Edgar's Destiny - 50th anniversary revival

May 3

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...

Howie the Rookie

Howie the Rookie

Apr 24 – May 2, 2026

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...

Pascol - Vocal Performance

Pascol - Vocal Performance

Apr 28

After a major success at Voila! Festival 2025 and several sold-out performances at London theatres, Pascol comes to the Cockpit stage for one night only. On 28 April, Pascol presents an intimate vocal performance that invites you to bring your stories and experience how they are...

Family Shakespeare: Pyramus & Thisbe - April

Family Shakespeare: Pyramus & Thisbe - April

Apr 25

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...

Re-Enchant: April

Re-Enchant: April

Apr 19

The world changes: we make new poetry to vandalise literary forms or retrieve those we need to renew. We make new poetry to hybridise new species of understanding and reframe consciousness. We make new poetry to have a good time. Readings, recitations, incantations and events...

14/48 London

14/48 London

Apr 17 – Apr 18, 2026

In short, 14 plays that are written, cast, directed, rehearsed, scored, designed, and premiered in 48 hours. Since 1997, 14/48 has been bringing radically collaborative theatre to cities around the world. Originating in Seattle, it has grown to feature festivals in Texas...

Poetry Plays…

Poetry Plays…

Apr 9 – Apr 11, 2026

POETRY PLAYS... .... with theatre. with music. it plays with dance and storytelling. with found objects and film. poetry plays with painting. poetry plays with poetry. with time. with reality. with your head. poetry plays with... Poetry Plays 26. A festival of interdisciplinary...

I Made You A Mixtape

I Made You A Mixtape

Apr 6 – Apr 7, 2026

A new movement-theatre experience from Response Theatre Company. Welcome to the party you always wished you were invited to. 'I Made You a Mixtape' throws you straight into the heart of a 90s college dorm hangout, complete with lava lamps, folding tables, plastic cups...

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