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THEATRE DELI


London, SE1 6FA



Review: GRIT, GLITTER & GASLIGHT - THE SARAH MCGUINNESS STORY, Circle And Star Theatre


by Clementine Scott - March 10, 2026

Sarah McGuinness is best known for her work producing whimsical indie documentaries about the standup comedian Eddie Izzard; in her one-woman show, though, there are only passing references to this. To put a finger on what the show is about is no easy task, because it’s a confused jumble of autofi...

Review: TELL ME STRAIGHT and AGGY, Park Theatre


by Clementine Scott - March 10, 2026

Park Theatre’s latest double bill presents two recent works from an emerging writer, both centring average queer London lives, and the lengths we’ll go to to present the versions of ourselves we want the world to see. Both are somewhat overblown in their execution, but at their best they are ima...

Review: THE HOLY ROSENBERGS, Menier Chocolate Factory


by Franco Milazzo - March 09, 2026

At the Menier Chocolate Factory, the revival of Ryan Craig’s The Holy Rosenbergs arrives with the weight of history attached to it. When it first appeared at the National Theatre’s Cottesloe Theatre in 2011, it was a sharp entry into a conversation about Jewish identity, family loyalty and moder...

Review: IT WALKS AROUND THE HOUSE AT NIGHT, Southwark Playhouse


by Cindy Marcolina - March 10, 2026

In spite of being one of the most difficult genres to stage, horror theatre is having its moment. The Woman in Black might have closed at the Fortune three years ago (almost to the day!), but the success of Paranormal Activity at the Ambassadors is proof that audiences are hungry for some spooky dra...

Review: BLINK, King’s Head Theatre


by Clementine Scott - March 07, 2026

When it premiered at Soho Theatre in 2012, Blink was a whimsical oddity, an ode to two eccentric loners falling in love. In 2026, it takes on a darker tone, with the subtitle “a parasocial love story” foreshadowing things to come....

Review: THE WRONG THEY KNEW, Chickenshed Theatre


by Gary Naylor - March 08, 2026

Musical set in the late 1950s with a strong message for today...

Review: MARIE & ROSETTA, @sohoplace


by Clementine Scott - March 06, 2026

Her name may not be widely known today, but Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s musical legacy is felt down the decades. George Brant’s play about her relationship with gospel singer Marie Knight is retelling not just a woman’s life, but the birth of an entire new genre....

Review: PLAYING SHAKESPEARE WITH DEUTSCHE BANK: ROMEO AND JULIET, Shakespeare's Globe


by Christiana Rose - March 07, 2026

A revival marking twenty years of a remarkable education initiative, Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank: Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare’s Globe demonstrates accessible theatre at its very best. Directed by Lucy Cuthbertson, this fast paced ninety minute production captures the essence of Shak...

Review: SCOTTISH BALLET - MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, Sadler's Wells


by Louise Penn - March 06, 2026

Mary, Queen of Scots, is a remarkable piece of work, offering pointed comment on the place of women in the sixteenth-century court and on the mythology that casts Mary as a martyr. With striking visuals and compositions, it is an original and modern take on a familiar part of history....

Review: OUR TOWN, Starring Michael Sheen, Rose Theatre


by Aliya Al-Hassan - March 05, 2026

Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play, Our Town, marks the first production for Michael Sheen’s Welsh National Theatre. After selling out across Welsh venues, this understated gem of a play moves west to give audiences of the Rose Theatre a chance to see what this exciting new company can do....

Past Shows

SHIFT + SPACE | Black Bird by Jaelon Love
SHIFT + SPACE | Black Bird by Jaelon Love
Apr 19 – Apr 20, 2024

With inspiration from William Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth, “Black Bird” is a commentary on and a reflection of the act of freedom and liberation against the...

SHIFT + SPACE | INVISIBLE TARGETS BY TIMNA KRENN
SHIFT + SPACE | INVISIBLE TARGETS BY TIMNA KRENN
Apr 5 – Apr 6, 2024

Invisible Targets critically examines the treatment of pregnant bodies within the Western healthcare system, with a specific focus on the experiences of women who have...

SHIFT + SPACE | PROCREATE BY BETHAN SCREEN
SHIFT + SPACE | PROCREATE BY BETHAN SCREEN
Dec 15 – Dec 16, 2023

“Remember - your life is over when you become a parent. You’ll never achieve your dreams or have fun again. Especially if you’re a mum....

SHIFT+SPACE | TELLING STORIES AND MAKING SALAD BY VENETIA TAYLOR
SHIFT+SPACE | TELLING STORIES AND MAKING SALAD BY VENETIA TAYLOR
Dec 8 – Dec 9, 2023

Telling Stories and Making Salad is a one-woman comedy show where a large salad is prepared and stories are told - vegetables washed and cut, salad...

SHIFT+SPACE | SIN BY TRISA TRIANDESA
SHIFT+SPACE | SIN BY TRISA TRIANDESA
Dec 1 – Dec 2, 2023

Sin is a stage adaptation of the novel Not A Virgin by Nuril Basri and is set in Indonesia, a country with a Muslim majority population. The play depicts the...

SHIFT+SPACE | THE ART OF DROWNING BY PENDING THEATRE COMPANY
SHIFT+SPACE | THE ART OF DROWNING BY PENDING THEATRE COMPANY
Nov 17 – Nov 18, 2023

What is an artist without their inspiration? Can there even be life without art?Disjointed portraits and crumbling canvases lie within this decaying studio. Artwork lost...

SHIFT+SPACE | UPROAR BY MOYRA SILVA & CAROLINA RIECKHOF
SHIFT+SPACE | UPROAR BY MOYRA SILVA & CAROLINA RIECKHOF
Nov 10 – Nov 11, 2023

Collaborative project between interdisciplinary Peruvian immigrant artists in the UK Carolina Rieckhof and Moyra Silva. Uproar explores how by making a collective noise our voices will come together and we...

SHIFT + SPACE | GALENTINE'S DAY CHRISTINE UBOCHI
SHIFT + SPACE | GALENTINE'S DAY CHRISTINE UBOCHI
Nov 3 – Nov 4, 2023

Set in modern-day South London, Deptford to be exact, American expat Damilola (Dami for short), finds herself in the chair of hard-working hairstylist, Aisha in...

SHIFT+SPACE | RELISH BY DEBORAH SHORINDÉ
SHIFT+SPACE | RELISH BY DEBORAH SHORINDÉ
Oct 27 – Oct 28, 2023

RELISH is a performance installation about how we anticipate and later resent the exact same moment. How we lose truth to time.A terrifying corruption lurks under the...

SHIFT+SPACE | BACCHANAL BY SPIT THEATRE
SHIFT+SPACE | BACCHANAL BY SPIT THEATRE
Oct 13 – Oct 14, 2023

Bacchanal: meaning a wild and drunken celebration, is a genre-defying hip-hopera that follows Koalemos, Greek god of stupidity and rap phenom, on a semi-fictitious journey...

SHIFT+SPACE | CHATTERBOX: LOVE BY PAVLOS CHRISTODOULOU
SHIFT+SPACE | CHATTERBOX: LOVE BY PAVLOS CHRISTODOULOU
Oct 6 – Oct 7, 2023

Welcome to Chatterbox. In this edition of this immersive audio experience, you are invited to put on a pair of headphones, grab the mic and chat....

SHIFT+SPACE| [RADIOPHONICS] by Evacollinsalonso
SHIFT+SPACE| [RADIOPHONICS] by Evacollinsalonso
Mar 17 – Mar 18, 2023

Roll up roll up!Experience the history of radio retold by a crack team of female idiots in this genre bending explosion of ideas, stories and...

SHIFT+SPACE| Retraced by Fuse
SHIFT+SPACE| Retraced by Fuse
Mar 10 – Mar 11, 2023

RETRACED integrates live decision-making between the arts, an interdisciplinary conversation that uses interactive movement to explore boundaries of visibility, articulated through large-scale projection, light, dance, and...

SHIFT + SPACE | The Dive at Wax Cave
SHIFT + SPACE | The Dive at Wax Cave
Mar 3 – Mar 4, 2023

You stand on a threshold, ready to fulfil a mission that started when you found a trepanned skull 3 miles deep in the underground river...

SHIFT + SPACE | Your Progress Will Be Saved
SHIFT + SPACE | Your Progress Will Be Saved
Feb 17 – Feb 18, 2023

Hidden in the attic of your family home you uncover a deep-rooted secret. An intergenerational mystery you need to solve before time runs out.With the...

SHIFT+SPACE | Abigail's Adventures in Boston or: An Invocation of the Goddess Babylon
SHIFT+SPACE | Abigail's Adventures in Boston or: An Invocation of the Goddess Babylon
Feb 10 – Feb 11, 2023

On the outskirts of Boston, runaway rebel and instigator of the most slay girl cult Salem will ever see, gaslighting girlboss Abigail Williams makes a...

SHIFT + SPACE | Play Upon Me
SHIFT + SPACE | Play Upon Me
Jan 27 – Jan 28, 2023

Snow lies on the ground. Ahead, two roads diverge. What would you like to do? Play Upon Me is something new - a playable play. It exists...

SHIFT + SPACE | Plewds
SHIFT + SPACE | Plewds
Jan 20 – Jan 21, 2023

Join a stressed-out clown on a genre-and-gender-bending journey to find out what happened the other night.Detectives. Drag. Confetti. Loud Men. Armed with a pride flag and a penchant for...

SHIFT+SPACE | PROJECT ATOM BOI (WORKING TITLE) BY ENSEMBLE NOT FOUND
SHIFT+SPACE | PROJECT ATOM BOI (WORKING TITLE) BY ENSEMBLE NOT FOUND
Dec 2 – Dec 3, 2022

Project Atom Boi (working title) is a research based devising project about how we imagine the end of the world using Doomer culture and Long...

SHIFT+SPACE | THE CAPITAL NATTER BY AЯT THEATRE
SHIFT+SPACE | THE CAPITAL NATTER BY AЯT THEATRE
Nov 25 – Nov 26, 2022

The Capital Natter is a new piece of verbatim writing for performance from AT Theatre, channelling the voices of Londons richly diverse community and examining...

SHIFT+SPACE | SOMETHING TO TAKE OFF THE EDGE PRESENTED BY ERROL MCGLASHAN
SHIFT+SPACE | SOMETHING TO TAKE OFF THE EDGE PRESENTED BY ERROL MCGLASHAN
Nov 18 – Nov 19, 2022

By far the best performance!" Chloe, audience member at a recent scratch night at Royal Court TheatreOften described as a force of nature, Brixton based...

SHIFT+SPACE | VRAG: STALIN'S NEW TRUTH BY IVANTIY NOVAK
SHIFT+SPACE | VRAG: STALIN'S NEW TRUTH BY IVANTIY NOVAK
Nov 11 – Nov 12, 2022

What does it take to sell the truth?In the chill of each Stalinist midnight the paranoid ramblings of the dictator arrive on the desk of...

SHIFT+SPACE | JACOB WANTS HIS GRANDAD BY JACOB SEELOCHAN
SHIFT+SPACE | JACOB WANTS HIS GRANDAD BY JACOB SEELOCHAN
Oct 21 – Oct 22, 2022

Jacob Wants His Grandad follows the real story of a grandson searching for his long lost Grandfather. Through song, video, stand-up, costume changes, audience participation...

SHIFT+SPACE | METAMORPHOSES BY JIMMY JUSTICE
SHIFT+SPACE | METAMORPHOSES BY JIMMY JUSTICE
Oct 14 – Oct 15, 2022

Metamorphoses (Work in Progress) is a radical, queer reimagining of Ovids classic poem from the 1st century.Mixing pop culture junk and garish absurdist comedy with...

SHIFT+SPACE | SIDE FX BY KATIE PATERSON
SHIFT+SPACE | SIDE FX BY KATIE PATERSON
Oct 7 – Oct 8, 2022

Join Katie for a camp, chaotic cabaret about the Pill. And Vampires. Seriously silly and based on real-life experiences, Side FX is a whistlestop experiment...

SHIFT+SPACE | CULT BY EMMA FENTON-WELLS
SHIFT+SPACE | CULT BY EMMA FENTON-WELLS
Sep 30 – Oct 1, 2022

We all need cults. Some religious, some social, others to simply give us a community to navigate the world. Gigi was no different. As a...

SHIFT+SPACE | CULT BY EMMA FENTON-WELLS
SHIFT+SPACE | CULT BY EMMA FENTON-WELLS
Sep 30 – Oct 1, 2022

We all need cults. Some religious, some social, others to simply give us a community to navigate the world. Gigi was no different. As a...

SHIFT+SPACE | SAY YOU'RE WITH ME BY LARKHALL
SHIFT+SPACE | SAY YOU'RE WITH ME BY LARKHALL
Sep 16 – Sep 17, 2022

Algorithms are art.Coding is creative.Let Larkhall show you.Music, visual art and technology collide in Larkhalls moving, cinematic performance. A composer, pianist and creative coder, he...

MY DAD AND OTHER LIES
MY DAD AND OTHER LIES
Jul 29

My Dad is the most important man in the country* but this isn't about him. Its about ME, Charlotte Johnson. You might think you know...

SHIFT+SPACE | RABBIT HOLE BY FERAL BIRD THEATRE
SHIFT+SPACE | RABBIT HOLE BY FERAL BIRD THEATRE
Oct 28 – Jul 29, 2022

Feral Bird Theatre bring you a live-digital hybrid show about information, conspiracies, and conspiracy theories. We ask why people believe the things they do and...

THICK AND FAST
THICK AND FAST
Jul 29

One of the Scotsman's Best Duos at the Fringe, Thick 'n' Fast return to take on the world. Cassie and Georgie are just two insignificant...

HOW TO RECORD THE GREATEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME
HOW TO RECORD THE GREATEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME
Jul 28

Former Daily Telegraph music critic Tom GK has decided to record the greatest album of all time despite the fact that he has lost most...

LIVING WITH SIN
LIVING WITH SIN
Jul 28

When her grandmother dies, Cece spirals into a quarter-life crisis. Lost, lonely, and looking for purpose, she finds support from some unexpected house guests: the...

THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE
THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE
Jul 27

Anesu's debut hour he's taking to the Fringe this year. Comedian Anesu takes a raw and honest look at race, colonialism, class and modern morality...

TINTED
TINTED
Jul 26

There's no access guide to sex; how to consensually sh*g your blind girlfriend.' Undateable? Laura is funny, creative and sexy. She wishes she could move...

YOU'RE SAFE TIL 2024: DEEP HISTORY
YOU'RE SAFE TIL 2024: DEEP HISTORY
Jul 26

Armed with a projector, family photos and a pile of sand, playwright David Finnigan relates how 75 hours in modern Australia came to collide with...

2 MOUTHED MEN
2 MOUTHED MEN
Jul 25

2 Mouthed Men are a beatboxing comedy duo, presenting an array of musical comedy sketches fit for audiences far and wide. They played Edinburgh Fringe...

GRUBBY LITTLE MITTS
GRUBBY LITTLE MITTS
Jul 25

An uncomfortable stare; a shriek heard in the background of a dream; the noise a sloth makes when receiving divorce papers.From the unsettling mind-meld of...

SHIFT+SPACE | THE LIGHT HOUSE BY ALYS WILLIAMS
SHIFT+SPACE | THE LIGHT HOUSE BY ALYS WILLIAMS
Sep 23 – Jul 24, 2022

Performance times: Friday 23rd September 8-9pm; Saturday 24th September 6.30-7.30pmWere in the open ocean, storm raging and suddenly Man Overboard! Port side front. Man overboard!...

I MISS AMY WINEHOUSE
I MISS AMY WINEHOUSE
Jul 23

I Miss Amy Winehouse is the first solo hour from writer / comedian / journalist Suchandrika Chakrabarti (regular writer on BBC Radio 4's The News...

ROOM
ROOM
Jul 23

Are you afraid of Virginia Woolf? It is 1929. An androgynous figure cuts a haunting shape in the shadows of Oxbridge. Scorned, ordered off the...

KID-LIFE CRISIS
KID-LIFE CRISIS
Jul 22

Award-winning character comedian Anna Morris (Channel 4's Lee and Dean, BBC's Outnumbered, The First Team, Count Arthur Strong) brings her BBC Radio 4 special to...

THERE'S NO MYSTERY IN MURDER! BY NORTHERN CORNER
THERE'S NO MYSTERY IN MURDER! BY NORTHERN CORNER
Jul 22

Murder has come to the sleepy village of Rothersdale, where nothing ever happens.A local councillor is found dead after his plan to build a big...

SHIFT+SPACE | HIGH STEAKS BY ELOINA
SHIFT+SPACE | HIGH STEAKS BY ELOINA
Sep 2 – Jul 3, 2022

BRAVE. BOLD. CAPTIVATING.With two beef-steaks hanging from her labia, Queer, Feminist Performance-Artist & Clown, ELOINA, stages a riotous rebellion against labia-shaming and cosmetic Labiaplasty. Labiaplasty...

SHIFT+SPACE | HIGH STEAKS BY ELOINA
SHIFT+SPACE | HIGH STEAKS BY ELOINA
Sep 2 – Jul 3, 2022

BRAVE. BOLD. CAPTIVATING.With two beef-steaks hanging from her labia, Queer, Feminist Performance-Artist & Clown, ELOINA, stages a riotous rebellion against labia-shaming and cosmetic Labiaplasty. Labiaplasty...

ARTivism
ARTivism
Mar 19 – Mar 20, 2022

Join Theatre Deli for six specially commissioned live performance, documentary, and installation pieces, in a festival that doesn't shy away from asking uncomfortable questions, provoking...

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