The Ebony Frame

17 - 19 October

The sell-out show about love, obsession, fire and death based on stories by the author of Five Children & It and The Railway Children.

An ancient ebony frame exerts a strange attraction on its new owner. His fiance watches his personality change as he remembers another man, long dead, and love, fire and death...

Based on horror stories by Edith Nesbit (Five Children & It, The Railway Children).

Cast:

Beth Eltringham (director/The Old Nurse)

Alexander Donaldson (Arthur Marsh)

Cosette Bolt (Ida/Housemaid)

Pedro Branco (Raoul)

Finlay Allan (Mother/Butler/Old Nick)

The Constant Cold part of GrimFest

20th and 21^st October 2025 7pm 

A chilling new psychological thriller that blurs the line between haunting memory and supernatural terror.

When Megan stumbles home one night convinced she’s being followed, her friends dismiss her fear as paranoia. But as the night unfolds, shadows lengthen, voices whisper, and the temperature drops. What begins as an ordinary evening between flatmates spirals into a harrowing confrontation with trauma, disbelief, and the monsters we’d rather pretend don’t exist.

Darkly funny, deeply unsettling, and unflinchingly honest, The Constant Cold explores the fragility of trust, the silencing of women’s voices, and the way the past claws its way into the present.

Is Megan losing her grip on reality—or is something unspeakable already inside the house?

DREAMBOMB

25th and 26th of October as part of Grimfest.

Meg and Gem can share dreams: but Gem doesn't want to be Dreambombed anymore. Two siblings trapped in an attic play unhinged games to distract themselves from falling asleep.A hallucination filled with chaos, clowning, and copious amounts of tea.Marvel at the strange world Meg and Gem have constructed: their grip on reality slowly unravelling.

An irreverent queer clowning show created by Ruby & Tara Kearney. 18+ explicit language and adult themes.

CONSPIRACY part of GrimFest

Sunday 26th & Monday 27th October at 8:30pm

After being fired from his job and struggling with poverty and isolation, Brian is drawn into the online world of conspiracy theories. What begins as an innocuous interest soon spirals into something darker as Brian becomes increasingly paranoid and unable to decipher internet speculation from reality. A topical dark comedy, CONSPIRACY explores the devastating real-life consequences of online hysteria and misinformation.

Voila Festival 2025
3 - 23 November 2025

Voila Festival is back and bigger than ever! With 110 shows across 8 venues, this is the biggest edition of the festival yet!

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At Barons Court, we are hosting 23 shows from Argentina, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czechia, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Phillipines, Serbia, Spain, South Korea, South Africa, United States, and others!

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Scroll down to browse through the list and come and see a show or 10!​

Letters to Joan

Samantha Streit (Finding Forests)

All of us get tangled in tall tales

12 Nov 2025 - 15 Nov 2025

In 1956 Brooklyn, an aspiring playwright falls in love, her letters brimming with desire and ambition. Decades later, her granddaughter, a writer herself, uncovers them—tracing the arc of a love story cut short and a dream left unfinished. Between a Brooklyn summer alive with possibility and a present-day American diner steeped in nostalgia, past and present blur. She sits across from the man who once held her grandmother’s heart, wrestling with the choices that shaped two lives. Letters to Joan explores the dreams we chase, the ones we abandon, and the unshakable longing for the life that might have been.

The Extraordinary Life of a Rat Racer

13 -14 November

Ever wondered what the person next to you is thinking?

Pulled earrings. Slit wrists. Chopped veins. T-rex arms.

Eva is just a regular rat racer. Single mother to a 6-year-old boy, she is stuck in a world that keeps punching her down, and is desperately trying to play the game – pay the bills, get him to football, try to survive mum’s comments.

But her mind has different plans. On her way to an important job interview, Eva gets bombarded by a series of ever-worsening intrusive thoughts.

So prepare for the uncomfortable and dive into Eva’s mind. Guided by Arthur, a grotesque, sadistic, half-real figure, The Extraordinary Life of a Rat Racer brings audiences on a journey where violent thoughts, trauma and self-hatred meet self-acceptance and empowerment.

EAT

Anna Kopacek

Dark Clown Mukbang... need I say more?

13 Nov 2025 - 15 Nov 2025



We all know the story of Hansel and Gretel.
You know the one?

A girl, lost in the woods in her gingerbread pajamas, just trying to find her way back—to the candy house or home? To the reasons why her parents left her out in the woods? And why we seek control when life is filled with so many unknowns.

This experimental reimagining of Hansel and Gretel is haunting, funny, and physically inventive—a journey through memory, desire, and the impossible game of trying to control the chaos of family and love.

Working Class Hero

DuckTape (Part of Voila Festival)

Absurdist satire about Britain’s obsession with class

19 Nov 2025 - 22 Nov 2025

"You’re not working class. You’re Bulgarian. You weren’t even born in this country."

In Working Class Hero, a white privately-educated Posh Actor frustrated by being pigeonholed decides he wants to do a “gritty” independent film “up North” with “an outrageous accent” and “red hair”. Problem is that script was written by his best friend - a migrant Working Class Actor who wrote it as a vehicle for himself. When Posh Actor gets the job, the conflict ultimately strains their friendship to a breaking point.

A chamber character piece that plays like an action-packed comedy with some absurdist plot twists, Working Class Hero is a satire in which two actors put on some silly wigs (and accents) and aided by sketch comedy, physical theatre, and multimedia performance take us on a high-speed romp through the British class system.