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Georgie Henley- Carter presents
Summer Cabaret Night
1 June
Come along to our cabaret night on the 1st of June at the Bread & Roses in Clapham. We've got a variety of genres performed by some very talented singers. You do not want to miss out on this one night only event.
Line-up
Georgie Henley-Carter
Ariel Por Eliezerov
Hava Papo
Camila Coltri
Sara Kloc
Yoon Kim
Running time: 90mins including interval
Be Wry Productions Presents
Thou Shalt Sit The F*** Down
2 - 6 June
by Ben Everett Riley, directed by Oneikeh Campbell
Will is not just a professional, he is the professional. Booked every weekend. Rarely phased by anything his clients throw his way. Special requests? Piece of cake. And he stays primed and raring to go by religiously following his 10 Commandments.
But when his boss makes him train up a gorgeous twinky newbie, the rulebook gets thrown out the window, and Will finds his firm routine isn’t as rock solid as he thought...
Following sold out shows at the Lambeth Fringe, “Thou Shalt Sit The F*** Down” is a filthy, queer, laugh-out-loud solo comedy, crash landing in Clapham, featuring Australian Daddies, pretentious kids, and bubbles (because everyone loves bubbles). Be prepared for the awkward, the outrageous and the outright unbelievable world of kid’s entertainment that you never knew existed in our very city.
Sake Katana by Alvin Liu
7 June
Sake Katana.
The fastest sword in Japan.
Clashing Western lands.
-A haiku
A samurai flees Japan for the West, desperate to start again after a tragic past. He seeks friendship, love and a quiet life beneath the cherry blossoms. But will shadows from his past come calling?
This absurd and tender show is driven by audience interaction and the raw vulnerability of a clown. Expect cultural mayhem and plenty of ha-ha moments in a mischievous comedy about honour, romance, and very Western problems.
Sake Katana explores what happens when samurai seriousness meets fish-out-of-water chaos. A dash of classic character comedy makes this perfect for fans of clown theatre, East-meets-West stories, and Asian culture in a modern London setting.
‘Potent in its imagery, authenticity, perverse logic and volatility’ - British Comedy Guide
★★★★★
Theatre Caddis Presents
Jane Eyre Convention
9 - 13 June
by Eleanor Zeal, directed by Danielle Arkwright
Jane Eyre aficionados meet in a community hall in West Norwood to reenact their favourite novel. They fight unashamedly over the best lines examining their own neuroses and histories as they go, eventually reaching the end. Opportunities for audience to join in and feel real, potentially therapeutic emotions.
Alessandro Chessa Presents
Track Number 451 – A Rock Opera by Alessandro Chessa
14 - 15 June
Loosely inspired by Ray Bradbury.
In a future ruled by silence, music is the gravest of crimes.
The Silencemen raid homes to destroy every trace of sound — vinyl records, instruments, memory itself.
Roy Manfred is one of their finest agents, loyal and unquestioning — until a single encounter begins to fracture the silence within him. As forbidden melodies resurface and a hidden underground community emerges, Roy is forced to confront a world where sound is rebellion and listening is an act of courage.
Presented as an intimate concert staging, Track Number 451 is a contemporary rock opera about control, awakening, and the power of music to ignite change.
Music, Lyrics & Book by Alessandro Chessa.
Cast & Creatives:
To Be Announced!
Notebook Studios Presents
REFORMED
17 - 23 June
by Tommy Fletcher Mcmeekin, directed by Rikki Beadle - Blair
2028. Nigel Farage has recently been elected Prime Minister in a landslide, Joe is on track to another promotion, Lewis finally might be getting a job and England have made it to another final at Wembley so football might, just might, be finally coming home.
Reformed follows three young working class men, Joe, Lewis and Mark, as they navigate ever changing social norms, expectations and pressures. Their friendship is tested when they attend the European Championship Final at Wembley where they meet Dan, a violent nationalist who Mark has naively befriended. A rising political tide runs beneath the story, with the newly elected government pushing through a controversial "Patriot Act" under MP Penelope Thorngale.
The boys must ask themselves the question: What does being a patriot truly mean?
Makoto the Cat Productions Presents
DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS CONVERSATION Written and Directed by Mo Maka Shakespeare
25 - 28 June
Nneka is a young resident doctor finishing the late shift. Just as she is about to leave, she is suddenly asked to lead a Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR) conversation with the relative of a patient she has never met, about a patient she does not know, and with almost no time to prepare.
Set entirely within this single encounter, Do Not Attempt This Conversation exposes the emotional dissonance, and occasional absurdity of end-of-life decision-making inside a healthcare system stretched to its limits.
This play invites audiences to sit inside one such moment—witnessing the collision of grief, bureaucracy, compassion, and detachment—and asks what it really means to remain humane within an inhumane system.
Charlotte Barnes, supported by Scratch Built Productions Presents
Twelve Hours
29 & 30 June
by Phil Howe, directed by Nick Ash
You’ve read the books, or seen the film adaptions, but what do you really know about Jane Austen the woman? This is the untold story of Jane’s twelve hour
engagement. Jane must make the biggest decision of the life.
Join her on this emotional rollercoaster, as she transforms from giddy bride-to-be to strong independent woman. Help Jane decide, books or babies? Wealth or self-worth?
Hags Ahoy Theatre Company Presents
Goat. Books. Dad.
1 July
Written & Directed by Steven Todd
I’d lived with Dad all my forty-odd years, and never known him. I’d accepted that. Suddenly, the bookshop seemed like it would change everything. Did I really want that?
I was kidding about the goat.
SESTERCENTENNIAL
by Arif Silverman
3 July
Hamza, a young conservative immigrant in the United States, has abandoned his Bangladeshi cultural history, favoring instead the hypnotic allure of the American Dream. As he frantically prepares for his July 4th Barbecue celebrating America’s 250th Birthday, his anxiety continues to build. Something is clearly amiss, forcing Hamza to reflect on his relationship with his culture, his friends, and the divisions and contradictions, both longstanding and new, that exist between them and within himself.
SESTERCENTENNIAL is a new solo play that contemplates the inescapable role race plays in American politics and social life.
Running time: 75mins
Pecadillo Productions Presents
Brew Hill
Written and Directed by Kilian King
6 & 7 July
Gordon suffers from panic attacks and is obsessed with Berlin. Nat is a recovering alcoholic who has visions of the Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel. And Pieter, the great observer of wit and folly, has something he needs to tell us. As cracks appear in Nat and Gordon's routines and their story begins to overlap with Pieter's, this ‘kooky, self-assured tragicomedy with instant cult classic potential’ (Cherwell Newspaper) asks the big questions: What is the difference between community and suffocation?
Can creativity be home-grown? And is it a good idea to start a brewery if you don't like beer?
A "kooky, self-assured tragicomedy has immediate cult classic potential." - The Cherwell
Meishu Productions Presents
Party at Jackson Wang's
written & directed by Poppy Brian-Boys
8 & 12 July
Party At Jackson Wang's is a dark comedy about Quinn, a young woman in her twenties whose life revolves around a boyband member named Mason Prescott. Set against house parties, dead-end jobs, drifting friendships, and a grief she has never let herself fully feel, the play asks what it really means to love someone, and what happens when that love starts to consume you.
Written and directed by Poppy Brian-Boys, the production has movement woven into its DNA. Performed by an ensemble of professionally trained actors and dancers, with graduates from ArtsEd and Rose Bruford alongside dancers who have performed at Sadler's Wells and the Royal Ballet.
PLAYINTHEPARK Presents
HELLO, OUT THERE
by William Saroyan, directed by playinthepark company associate
9 - 11 July
Hello, Out There by William Saroyan is a short, emotionally charged one-act play set in a small-town jail during the Great Depression. It follows a young drifter accused of a crime he didn’t commit, who finds a fleeting but profound connection with a lonely woman working as a cook nearby.
As the two share their dreams of escape and dignity, the play explores themes of isolation, injustice, and the fragile hope of human connection. Despite its brevity, Hello, Out There delivers a poignant look at loneliness and the desperate need to be heard.
TOP PICK
Ain’t I A Woman? Initiative Presents
That Four Letter Word
by Nicole Acquah, Landé Belo, Sara Amanda, directed by Landé Belo
14 - 18 July
That Four Letter Word – devised and produced by Landé Belo
“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.” — bell hooks
What do we really mean when we talk about love?
The award-winning Ain’t I A Woman? returns with That Four Letter Word, three short plays that explore love in all its forms – tender and fierce, joyful and painful, complicated and hard‑won. Rooted in Black women’s experiences, these stories examine love not as a passive emotion, but as something we choose, practise and labour over. Love, here, is an action - and the consequences of acting (or failing to act) are deeply felt.
From a museum of memories to a tech boardroom to a couple’s bedroom three stories unfold, each exploring the courage, complexity and beauty of loving and being loved.
In Safekeeping, a woman journeys through personal and collective histories, inviting reflection on the objects and memories that shape us
In Heat a couple pass a restless night confronting the strains of change, revealing the difficulty of communicating when words aren’t enough
Whilst Pivot brings us into the high-stakes world of two women entrepreneurs, as they debate the future of their dating app and the meaning of love, friendship and self-worth.
A short post-show Q&A will follow the performance, offering audiences the chance to hear more about the work.
