4 July
Coming up for another residency to ensure the summer laughter at Barons Court... it's Kid Smokers!
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Barons Court Theatre At Curtains Up Pub,
28a Comeragh Road ,London, W14 9HR
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Barons Court Theatre is just a short walk from both Barons Court and West Kensington stations
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MAY & JUNE 2025
Provenance by Jonathan Skinner
24 - 28 June 2025, 7.30 pm
Ellie wants to get on. Move up. Get ahead for once.
She can't do that on her own, so when she lands a cushy mentorship scheme, she thinks she's finally on her way.
But when Ellie meets her new mentor Patrick, an older artist who hides away painting abstracts in a dingy studio, she's sure she buzzed the wrong flat.
Ellie pushes Patrick to the limit and then some. As banter turns to barbs that cut too close to the quick, Ellie and Patrick find themselves in a standoff of culture, class and secrets.
Jonathan Skinner returns to the Barons Court Theatre (Everything's Brilliant, 2022) with the world premiere of his award-winning play Provenance, directed by Artistic Director Sharon Willems.
Jonathan and Sharon previously collaborated on his play Indignitas for Little Pieces of Gold and the Criterion West End New Writing Showcases.
27 June
Shows Every Month
Check Schedule Below For Dates & Times
Best friends Hamza and Jake discover characters, scenes and storylines on the spot, without the faintest idea what might happen next.
Watch as Avocado pull an ORIGINAL ONE-ACT PLAY out of thin air, turning truth into belly laughs; imagine Tarantino meets Spinal Tap.
Adding fuel to the fire, legendary music fills each show, from soulful grooves to rare classics, leaving you dancing in your seat and rolling in the aisles.
29 June
by Inna Cebotari (WIP)
Sunday, 29 June 2025, 6 pm
“Vera, are there any writers that don’t drink?”
“Yes, G., there are. But they’re very boring.”
Meet Vera — a migrant playwright with a pen in one hand and an existential crisis in the other. She’s trying to write a play, but stories, like suitcases, are hard to unpack.
Was it love? Was it limerence?… Or just too much wine?
Limerence is a sharp and soulful comedy where reality wobbles, identity shapeshifts, and home is more a concept than postcode. And here is G., who keeps showing up in her mind - and in her script. A delicate dance between fiction and reality, and the question isn’t just who she’s writing about, but who she’s really writing for.
Inspired by real conversations with Ukrainian, Moldovan, and Romanian immigrants in the UK, Limerence is a fictional play for anyone who’s ever felt out of place, in love, or one step away from a meltdown.
A heartfelt and hilarious meditation on belonging, identity, and the stories we tell to survive.
Cast: Gus Flind-Henry and Inna Cebotari
Directed by Sava Cebotari
A Dark line Upstairs
by Matilde Vigna
8 - 12 July 2025, 7.30 pm
Performance in Italian on Sat, 12 July, 2.30 pm
Two stories are intertwined: a flood in rural Italy in 1951 and a young woman dealing with the umpteenth move in 2021. What does it mean to lose something.? When water suddenly floods your house - and you have to run without being able to chose what to take with you - or when you chose to leave and take everything with you, just because you can - is it the same? What does re-building your life means, in 1951 or in 2021?
The 1951 flood in Italy was the first natural disaster with a national TV coverage - just after the end of WWII. Many Italian people will remember that, but every audience has its own "flood" - a literal one, being natural catastrophes more and more common nowadays, or a metaphorical one.
Kill Drill
by Luke Ofield
15 - 19 July 2025, 7.30 pm
After getting employed on a North Sea oil rig with the sole intention of staging a sit-in protest, Agent One (AKA Dawn), treasurer to the choir, and Agent Two (AKA Kit) an environmental science graduate, find themselves in a perilous situation.
Trapped in a room full of drilling instruments and forced to negotiate, the lines of protest, activism, and terrorism are blurred. With the clock ticking and danger closing in from all sides, is the only option to Kill Drill or be killed?
Award-winning Unmasked Theatre returns with a timely dark comedy that explores if there is ever a right way to protest, the perils of an oil rig, and the improvement in vegan pizza.
Pretty Witty Nell
by Ryan J W Smith
22 - 26 July 2025, 7.30 pm
Returning to Barons Court Theatre as an OFFIE award winner, Smith’s 7th verse play, Pretty, Witty Nell® is an original one-woman tragicomic history, written entirely in rhyming iambic pentameter, that tells the true story of Nell Gwynne, the famous actress and mistress of the wild British monarch, King Charles II.
The show is a celebration of both women on the stage; and of Nell, “a one-woman force of nature.” Smith asks, rhetorically, “what better way to celebrate the life of this absolutely amazing woman than by writing her a tribute in the style of theatre (rhyming iambic verse) that made her famous?” Pretty, Witty Nell® is indeed the first ever play about Nell Gwynne written in iambic verse.
The show lasts for 60 minutes with no interval.
The show is appropriate for all audiences.
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
20 July 2025, 7 pm
Persever Productions brings a new rehearsed reading to the Barons Court Theatre. With their “Persever Emerging Artists” initiative they bring Lidia Cieniewska into the fold and together they tackle Oscar Wilde’s most famous play. Whether you know all about the convoluted love story or it’s your first time watching the trials and tribulations of its participants, you are cordially invited to join Persever Productions for an evening of summertime theatre.
The Weirdest Sisters
by Heather Frances Kelly
27 July 2025, 6.00 pm
Don’t rattle that egg encased in your skull, you know your worth. No one can take this from you. . .From us!
In their debut performance of The Weirdest Sisters, Swivel Eye Theatre Company are bringing you a piece of thrilling new writing by Heather Frances Kelly.
Three half-sisters move to London - away from the comfort of the countryside - in the hope of building a better life for themselves. As they begin to set up their new business a competitive neighbour tries to force them out, and their carefully planned life begins to unravel - leading them to face their truths and become what they always truly were. . .
The harder you work. The luckier you get. Right?
Three sisters. One fate.
Through a comedic & dark tale witness a modern retelling - doused in madness and myth - of the origin story to Shakespeare’s most iconic witches.
Camden Fringe 2025 @ Barons Court Theatre
28 July - 24 August 2025
Barons Court Theatre is incredibly excited to join Camden Fringe this year! Running for almost 20 years, the Camden Fringe has emerged into a much more affordable alternative for theatre-makers in London to have their work presented in a festival setting, while for the audiences it's bringing fringe festival variety without a 5-hour train journey North.
Check our programme and catch as many shows as possible!
