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.