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RIGHT THAT’S IT!! (I’ve had enough) (women writers festival)
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
A patchwork of comedy, sketches, poetry and whatever else occurs, throw enough mud at the wall somethings gotta stick! “Right that’s it, I’ve had enough!”, tumbles through everyday characters and everyday experiences. The feelings, thoughts and fears of life. Fleeting conversations, the absurdness in the monotony, its all about them little things. A celebration of collaboration, different every time it’s performed, the audience the heart of it all - I’m looking at you! It’s funny and at times tender and at the very least a good time. Right that’s it, I’ve had enough - what I’ve had enough of I’m not sure!
Feb
22
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
When a successful shoe salesman discovers a local GP’s ability to animate a body, he arrives with a demand rather than a question. A Body Possessed examines grief as a struggle for control, where science turns belief into power and power into ownership. Written collaboratively, with each writer responsible for one character, the play stages belief not as shared truth but as open conflict, asking whether faith and science ultimately serve the same godly impulse: possession.
Feb
23
- 19:00 20:30
- Etcetera Theatre (map)
'Succession' meets 'Saltburn': The Prince follows Miles, a fresher at Oxford, as he is swept up in attempts to climb the ranks of the Oxford Union - the University's famous debating society and the birthplace of many a political career. As noble intentions fall to the allure of power, fewer and fewer holds are barred in this tussle to the top of the greasy pole of politics.
Feb
24
- 19:00 20:30
- Etcetera Theatre (map)
'Succession' meets 'Saltburn': The Prince follows Miles, a fresher at Oxford, as he is swept up in attempts to climb the ranks of the Oxford Union - the University's famous debating society and the birthplace of many a political career. As noble intentions fall to the allure of power, fewer and fewer holds are barred in this tussle to the top of the greasy pole of politics.
Feb
25
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
The story of a young man who decides to sell his body online.
Feb
25
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
The story of a young man who decides to sell his body online.
Feb
26
Glitter, Guilt and Good Intentions - A Self-Help Comedy Cabaret
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
'Glitter, Guilt and Good Intentions' invites you to a frazzled rather than filtered celebration of self-improvement. Blending humour, parodies and musical theatre Susan Grant and Joni de Winter bring you laughter, killer harmonies and a hint of self depreciation. This show proves that perfection is overrated and re-inventing yourself can be just as fun as it is frustrating.
Belle Street Productions are a Dorset based theatre company with previous shows including the award winning 'Hugh: The Musical' and The Rat Pack Gals.
Feb
26
Glitter, Guilt and Good Intentions - A Self-Help Comedy Cabaret
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
'Glitter, Guilt and Good Intentions' invites you to a frazzled rather than filtered celebration of self-improvement. Blending humour, parodies and musical theatre Susan Grant and Joni de Winter bring you laughter, killer harmonies and a hint of self depreciation. This show proves that perfection is overrated and re-inventing yourself can be just as fun as it is frustrating.
Belle Street Productions are a Dorset based theatre company with previous shows including the award winning 'Hugh: The Musical' and The Rat Pack Gals.
Feb
27
Dance Til You’re Dead (women writers festival)
- 13:00 14:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Set across London’s late night bars, cramped flats and audition rooms. Dance Til You’re
Dead follows a young actress as she tries to carve out a future in an industry built on proximity.
When ambition and intimacy begin to overlap, she is forced to ask who really benefits from her
wanting more. A tense and darkly funny exploration of what happens when success is always just
one favour away.
Feb
27
Hi, I'm a Nancy Meyers Addict (women writers festival)
- 15:00 16:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Can men and women really be friends? They asked in 1989, and we are finding out tonight. Is the sexual attraction too much to bear, and are platonic relationships just for the unattractive? On the cusp of Katie and Matt’s 7-year anniversary, they are forced to confront what they want out of their relationship. Are they friends or merely carefully positioned allies? They have one final night to discover if their friendship can survive the transition to a relationship. Are they really in love, or have they indulged too much in the Rom-Coms?
Feb
27
There is Rice at Home (women writers festival)
- 17:00 18:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
On the eve of his best friend's funeral, a police officer confronts his inability to experience grief as expected. Ashamed and confused by his emotional numbness, he spirals into questions about friendship, loss, and loyalty, until he receives a strange visit from a charming woman who introduces herself as Death. There Is Rice At Home is a riveting story of friendship, grief, and love.
The play is directed by Inyang Edoho.
Feb
27
- 19:00 20:00
- Etcetera Theatre (map)
From the food waste bin into which her friend had a nervous breakdown, Lia tries to make sense of the twenty years she spent serving food and drink. Crying into Bins chronicles tales collected over two decades and takes shape as a long-form spoken word poem. But expect a little more than one woman and a microphone. This is a fast-paced and funny poetical exploration of mental health, societal structures, terrible rage and bittersweet acceptance.
“I have spent my adult life shovelling leftover potato fondants into my mouth in the vain hope that the sheer volume might make up for the lack of company, posh dress and dinner music they were designed for”
Feb
27
It's My Birthday! A Night of Improv (women writers festival)
- 21:00 22:00
Three teams, one hour, infinite fun. Join us for a night of London's finest and funniest improv teams: Burn The Script, Scamps, and Silent Soundtrack, hosted by Sylvie Tamar. All proceeds from this show will be donated to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund in Minnesota, USA. Come laugh with us!
Feb
28
Hi, I'm a Nancy Meyers Addict (women writers festival)
- 13:00 14:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Can men and women really be friends? They asked in 1989, and we are finding out tonight. Is the sexual attraction too much to bear, and are platonic relationships just for the unattractive? On the cusp of Katie and Matt’s 7-year anniversary, they are forced to confront what they want out of their relationship. Are they friends or merely carefully positioned allies? They have one final night to discover if their friendship can survive the transition to a relationship. Are they really in love, or have they indulged too much in the Rom-Coms?
Feb
28
Serena and the Little Blue Dog (women writers festival)
- 15:00 16:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Serena and the Little Blue Dog
Bring your Child on an Adventure, a magic hour of interactive storytelling, with writer, storyteller and artist Rosemary Clunie
Designed to stimulate children's imagination and creativity, and their love of nature, the hour of storytelling will centre round her two published books: "Serena and the Little Blue Dog" (shortlisted for The Week Junior Book Awards) and "Serena and Laloolee Fly Away".
Saturday 28th February at 3pm at the Etcetera Theatre, Camden.
Best for children aged 3 to 8. Tickets: £5
Feb
28
The Furies (women writers festival)
- 17:00 18:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
In Ancient Greece lived the three Furies - Anger, Grudge and Retribution. In a modern day secondary school, three teen girls hide in a disabled toilet cubicle, exacting revenge against their greatest frenemy. When suddenly confronted by their victim, ten years of buried secrets come to light.
What is justice to a 16-year-old girl?
A rehearsed reading (extremely loosely) based off of Aeschylus’ The Eumenides.
Feb
28
Midnight Reflections: The Immersive Storytelling Experience
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
What if a book wasn’t just something you read but something you live?
A curated collection of stories you step into; experienced through your senses.
Words leave the page and the audience dissolves into the narrative.
One immersive experience, guided by the voice of its author.
An intimate encounter between storyteller and listener.
Welcome to Frida Rivero’s Midnight Reflections, where the audience is part of the act.
Feb
28
You Never Smelled My Dog (women writers festival)
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
You Never Smelled My Dog is a sharp, funny solo show about love, secrets, and endings. It's a bold and emotionally raw solo theatre show exploring queer love and the things we notice too late.
Through character work, lip-sync, and direct audience address, Ginny Evans-Pollard brings to life a relationship’s quiet fractures, unsaid truths, and absurd tenderness. Jovial on the surface, with a secretive emotional core, this is a playful yet poignant reflection on intimacy, visibility, and the moments that change everything.
Mar
1
Megan Rose McCarthy: Disney Dad (women writers festival)
- 13:00 14:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Come on a journey with Megan’s cigarette smoking, fact telling, sarcastic dad on a trip to the most magical place on earth: Disneyland. Or spend an hour in a fringe theatre while actor, storyteller, and comedian Megan Rose McCarthy recreates the experience of Disneyland while dressed as her father. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry and you’ll finally be able to say you’ve ridden splash mountain.
Mar
1
A YEAR IN THE LIFE (women writers festival)
- 15:00 16:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
A YEAR IN THE LIFE
Written & Performed by Teresa Rendell
“Actually really enjoyable, but obviously horrid” - a close and supportive friend
“Very impressive” - my therapist
Teresa’s debut spoken word show, A YEAR IN THE LIFE, reflects on (an imprecise) calendar year through poetry and one hell of a yap.
This collection is full of pathos, dark humour, deeply personal stories, and
pseudonyms. Teresa captures the realities of processing a sexual assault, while grieving the death of her dad.
It’s been a rough ride, so buckle up, for 45 minutes on the dangers of public
transport, a nightmare full of spiders, and just how frustrating recovery can be.
Mar
1
Sh*t & Sunshine (Women writers festival)
- 17:00 18:00
Sh*t & Sunshine
Kat François presents a whirlwind of comedic storytelling, poetry, stand-up and unforgettable characters. Hold onto your seat as Kat invites you into the quirky ups and downs of her crazy, messy world, a world full of sh*t but also full of sunshine.
Mar
1
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Strong
Written & Directed by Maria Georgiou
Strong is the powerful debut work of British-Cypriot writer and director Maria Georgiou, featuring an all-British-Cypriot creative team.
Based on a true story, Strong is a one-woman show that delves into the complexities of loss, faith, grief, joy, hope, and resilience in the face of adversity. Through the eyes of Elena, a British Greek Cypriot single mother of two, the audience is taken on an emotional yet bittersweet journey, filled with both humour and heartbreak.
Elena’s world is turned upside down when her 15-year-old daughter Lia is diagnosed with cancer. Thrust into a new and unfamiliar reality, she struggles to juggle her spiralling career, endless hospital visits, and the demands of her well-intentioned but often overwhelming Greek Cypriot family — all during the uncertainty of a global pandemic.
To process these overwhelming events, Elena takes to walking. As she walks, she shares her fears and stories, sometimes through her thoughts and other times through voice-notes to her best friend Charoulla. The emotional weight of her journey is symbolised by the growing number of objects she carries on stage, representing the cultural, personal, and emotional burdens she shoulders.
Despite the heaviness of her circumstances, Strong is ultimately a celebration of the human capacity to endure, adapt, and find hope even in the darkest moments. It reminds us that there is strength in vulnerability, love, laughter, and simply putting one foot in front of the other.
Mar
1
Two Birdes in the Hande! (women writers festival)
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Finally: comedy and poetry gold in the unlikely form of two past-it grey birds - or are they? Trigger warning, lots of smut and scatology, bathos, fat-shaming and tonnes of belly laughs. Seasoned comic poets Heather Mary Sullivan and Anna Somerset team up in a hilarious comic journey around being a lady-bird of in an age of uncertainty.
Mar
2
Megan Rose McCarthy: Disney Dad (women writers festival)
- 13:00 14:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Come on a journey with Megan’s cigarette smoking, fact telling, sarcastic dad on a trip to the most magical place on earth: Disneyland. Or spend an hour in a fringe theatre while actor, storyteller, and comedian Megan Rose McCarthy recreates the experience of Disneyland while dressed as her father. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry and you’ll finally be able to say you’ve ridden splash mountain.
Mar
2
The happy homeless (women writers festival)
- 15:00 16:00
- Etcetera Theatre (map)
“The Happy Homeless” is a journey through the life of a woman from Argentina to London. She was brought up in a loving family, and everything might have been easy-going for her, but she chooses a life out of the ordinary, and her desire for fame and adventure leads her to unknown places and unexpected situations- which in the end lead her to lose all sense of reality.
Mar
2
The happy homeless (women writers festival)
- 17:00 18:00
- Etcetera Theatre (map)
“The Happy Homeless” is a journey through the life of a woman from Argentina to London. She was brought up in a loving family, and everything might have been easy-going for her, but she chooses a life out of the ordinary, and her desire for fame and adventure leads her to unknown places and unexpected situations- which in the end lead her to lose all sense of reality.
Mar
2
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Strong
Written & Directed by Maria Georgiou
Strong is the powerful debut work of British-Cypriot writer and director Maria Georgiou, featuring an all-British-Cypriot creative team.
Based on a true story, Strong is a one-woman show that delves into the complexities of loss, faith, grief, joy, hope, and resilience in the face of adversity. Through the eyes of Elena, a British Greek Cypriot single mother of two, the audience is taken on an emotional yet bittersweet journey, filled with both humour and heartbreak.
Elena’s world is turned upside down when her 15-year-old daughter Lia is diagnosed with cancer. Thrust into a new and unfamiliar reality, she struggles to juggle her spiralling career, endless hospital visits, and the demands of her well-intentioned but often overwhelming Greek Cypriot family — all during the uncertainty of a global pandemic.
To process these overwhelming events, Elena takes to walking. As she walks, she shares her fears and stories, sometimes through her thoughts and other times through voice-notes to her best friend Charoulla. The emotional weight of her journey is symbolised by the growing number of objects she carries on stage, representing the cultural, personal, and emotional burdens she shoulders.
Despite the heaviness of her circumstances, Strong is ultimately a celebration of the human capacity to endure, adapt, and find hope even in the darkest moments. It reminds us that there is strength in vulnerability, love, laughter, and simply putting one foot in front of the other.
Mar
2
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Irene and Arjyll have the same last name but they’re not related.
Although, with the way Irene’s mother Ignacia is acting, they might as well be sisters. Tita Iggy is, after all, president of the Arjyll’s Angels Loyola Heights Chapter, a local self-organised group made of middle-aged Titas keen on supporting Arjyll's emerging showbiz career after winning the latest season of Pinoy Big Brother.
Irene knows it's not Arjyll's fault that her relationship with her mother is the way it is but it's hard to remember that sometimes especially in the face of the obvious favouritism.
Written by Glerren Bangalan, Mother Ignacia is a heartfelt comedy about learning how to advocate for yourself.
Mar
3
Book reading by Gladys Swan - "I'm Keeping My Baby" (women writers festival)
- 13:00 14:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Gladys Swan will read from her debut novel, "I'm Keeping My Baby." Introducing us to Lena White, her troubled yet heroic lead character, who travels from oblivion to consciously awake - and all the beautiful mess inbetween.
Mar
3
- 15:00 16:00
- Etcetera Theatre (map)
Nayma Chamchoun is a British Moroccan writer, poet and performance poet. Her writing is influenced by her cultural duality. She is interested in female voices in the diaspora community, the challenges they face within both communities and the taboos within their ancestral communities.
Mar
3
Two Birdes in the Hande! (women writers festival)
- 17:00 18:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Finally: comedy and poetry gold in the unlikely form of two past-it grey birds - or are they? Trigger warning, lots of smut and scatology, bathos, fat-shaming and tonnes of belly laughs. Seasoned comic poets Heather Mary Sullivan and Anna Somerset team up in a hilarious comic journey around being a lady-bird of in an age of uncertainty.
Mar
3
You/We- A One Man Show (women writers festival)
- 19:00 20:00
- Etcetera Theatre (map)
You/We tells the story of the artist Gluck — sharp-tongued, stylish, and utterly unwilling to behave. Living in open defiance of traditional gender rules, sexual silence, and polite society, Gluck’s life is a whirlwind of love affairs, artistic ambition, heartbreak, and reinvention.
Witty, intimate, and quietly radical, this solo play explores the fierce joy of self-invention and the cost of insisting on truth in a world that would rather you stayed convenient.
Written and performed by Claire Storey
Mar
3
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Strong
Written & Directed by Maria Georgiou
Strong is the powerful debut work of British-Cypriot writer and director Maria Georgiou, featuring an all-British-Cypriot creative team.
Based on a true story, Strong is a one-woman show that delves into the complexities of loss, faith, grief, joy, hope, and resilience in the face of adversity. Through the eyes of Elena, a British Greek Cypriot single mother of two, the audience is taken on an emotional yet bittersweet journey, filled with both humour and heartbreak.
Elena’s world is turned upside down when her 15-year-old daughter Lia is diagnosed with cancer. Thrust into a new and unfamiliar reality, she struggles to juggle her spiralling career, endless hospital visits, and the demands of her well-intentioned but often overwhelming Greek Cypriot family — all during the uncertainty of a global pandemic.
To process these overwhelming events, Elena takes to walking. As she walks, she shares her fears and stories, sometimes through her thoughts and other times through voice-notes to her best friend Charoulla. The emotional weight of her journey is symbolised by the growing number of objects she carries on stage, representing the cultural, personal, and emotional burdens she shoulders.
Despite the heaviness of her circumstances, Strong is ultimately a celebration of the human capacity to endure, adapt, and find hope even in the darkest moments. It reminds us that there is strength in vulnerability, love, laughter, and simply putting one foot in front of the other.
Mar
4
- 13:00 14:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Strong
Written & Directed by Maria Georgiou
Strong is the powerful debut work of British-Cypriot writer and director Maria Georgiou, featuring an all-British-Cypriot creative team.
Based on a true story, Strong is a one-woman show that delves into the complexities of loss, faith, grief, joy, hope, and resilience in the face of adversity. Through the eyes of Elena, a British Greek Cypriot single mother of two, the audience is taken on an emotional yet bittersweet journey, filled with both humour and heartbreak.
Elena’s world is turned upside down when her 15-year-old daughter Lia is diagnosed with cancer. Thrust into a new and unfamiliar reality, she struggles to juggle her spiralling career, endless hospital visits, and the demands of her well-intentioned but often overwhelming Greek Cypriot family — all during the uncertainty of a global pandemic.
To process these overwhelming events, Elena takes to walking. As she walks, she shares her fears and stories, sometimes through her thoughts and other times through voice-notes to her best friend Charoulla. The emotional weight of her journey is symbolised by the growing number of objects she carries on stage, representing the cultural, personal, and emotional burdens she shoulders.
Despite the heaviness of her circumstances, Strong is ultimately a celebration of the human capacity to endure, adapt, and find hope even in the darkest moments. It reminds us that there is strength in vulnerability, love, laughter, and simply putting one foot in front of the other.
Mar
4
Police Detective to Source Channel - the journey to soul truth (women writers festival)
- 15:00 16:00
Jo spent 25 years as a Police Officer, retiring as a senior detective. Now, Jo is a master source trans-channel and shadow shifter, light language channel and high frequency artist here to return you to your multidimensional soul truth. Jo has channelled her first book - The Book of Codes - which contains 55 light code artworks, part memoir and part channelled writings direct from her guides The Fleet. The book is a transformational journey into your remembering.
Mar
4
Dead Time Stories (women writers festival)
- 17:00 18:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Etcetera Theatre (map)
After its debut at Grim Fest 2025, Dead Time Stories is back for a second…retelling.
You have been summoned.
Dead Time Stories is a darkly comic horror anthology play, and homage to series such as The Twilight Zone, Inside No. 9 and Tales of the Unexpected.
A mysterious ghostly host, together with her silent but ever-watchful skull companion, John, invites you to a night of unsettling storytelling. A series of nasty narratives, foul fables and awful anecdotes, organised as always, by The Powers That Be.
Prepare to be engaged and unsettled, for every terrifying tale from our host’s storybook twists and turns into the unforeseen. You have been warned.
We shall be quite delighted to see you there…
Writer/Performer – Lynsey Balloch
Directed by Alex Bell
Mar
4
The In-Between: R&D Poetry & Movement Journey (women writers festival)
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
The In-Between: R&D Poetry & Movement Journey
An intimate evening of poetry and movement exploring displacement, identity, and midlife - inviting you to listen, witness, and feel these stories through the body in guided movement practice.
Created & Performed by Mélanie Lam (poetry) & Yuyu Rau (movement direction)
Mar
4
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
“Harry and Dillon are fourteen, best friends, and virgins. Something’s got to change.
On the eve of the school disco, their plan sets into motion a spiralling story of sycamore trees and first kisses.
As the sky turns black, Harry, Dillon, and an ensemble of men will take to dismantling history, setting into motion an uncertain future.”
SYCAMORE, inspired by the 2022 felling of the sycamore gap tree, questions the stories we tell ourselves and the men we’re raising.
Mar
5
- 18:30 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Through a Judas Window
Based on the novel A Mind Prone to Evil by P.S. Lynch
"All things can corrupt when a mind is prone to evil."
Step into Courtroom 600 at Nuremberg, where Hermann Göring faces justice—and himself. Through a Judas Window brings history’s most notorious war criminal vividly to life: brilliant yet brutal, charming yet monstrous, a man who reveals how terrifyingly ordinary evil can be.
Through gripping dialogue, shifting perspectives, and haunting imagery, the play invites its audience to peer through the "Judas window"—a narrow lens into power, vanity, and the fragile veneer of civilisation. At once historical and disturbingly modern, this is theatre that refuses to let us look away.
Based on P.S. Lynch’s acclaimed novel A Mind Prone to Evil—praised as “extraordinary… beautifully written and exceptionally well-researched” (Susan Ronald, Hitler’s Art Thief). This bold new play melds meticulous research with unsettling theatrical flair. Expect haunting imagery, dark humour, and unsettling truths.
This is not safe history. It is a confrontation—between past and present, between spectacle and truth, between what we want to believe about evil and the uncomfortable reality of how ordinary it can be.
Fringe theatre at its boldest: provocative, unflinching, and disturbingly relevant.
Mar
5
Loveline (women writers festival)
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
This solo show follows Eve, a phone sex operator with absolutely nothing left to lose, as she navigates a tumultuous sex life and the growing fear that she might not be attracted to men at all. Equal parts comedy and tragedy, this play unpacks compulsory heterosexuality, liberal feminism, and the way love persists even when we are afraid to call it what it is.
Mar
6
Dead Time Stories (women writers festival)
- 13:00 14:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Etcetera Theatre (map)
After its debut at Grim Fest 2025, Dead Time Stories is back for a second…retelling.
You have been summoned.
Dead Time Stories is a darkly comic horror anthology play, and homage to series such as The Twilight Zone, Inside No. 9 and Tales of the Unexpected.
A mysterious ghostly host, together with her silent but ever-watchful skull companion, John, invites you to a night of unsettling storytelling. A series of nasty narratives, foul fables and awful anecdotes, organised as always, by The Powers That Be.
Prepare to be engaged and unsettled, for every terrifying tale from our host’s storybook twists and turns into the unforeseen. You have been warned.
We shall be quite delighted to see you there…
Writer/Performer – Lynsey Balloch
Directed by Alex Bell
Mar
6
- 15:00 16:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Sam and Gary are not friends. They would likely never be friends. But could they be allies to each other?
They exist in a world where, depending on which day of the week you are born, you are assigned as a Corpus or a Creare, which dictates the careers you can have and the way you can live your life.
Only a weary, stubborn Judge can reassign you if you are unhappy with your given identity.
Gary, however, has brought his court hearing on himself through road rage. For a righteous cause, he insists.
When the Chaperone registers them on their clipboard, the waiting begins.
Mar
6
- 18:30 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Through a Judas Window
Based on the novel A Mind Prone to Evil by P.S. Lynch
"All things can corrupt when a mind is prone to evil."
Step into Courtroom 600 at Nuremberg, where Hermann Göring faces justice—and himself. Through a Judas Window brings history’s most notorious war criminal vividly to life: brilliant yet brutal, charming yet monstrous, a man who reveals how terrifyingly ordinary evil can be.
Through gripping dialogue, shifting perspectives, and haunting imagery, the play invites its audience to peer through the "Judas window"—a narrow lens into power, vanity, and the fragile veneer of civilisation. At once historical and disturbingly modern, this is theatre that refuses to let us look away.
Based on P.S. Lynch’s acclaimed novel A Mind Prone to Evil—praised as “extraordinary… beautifully written and exceptionally well-researched” (Susan Ronald, Hitler’s Art Thief). This bold new play melds meticulous research with unsettling theatrical flair. Expect haunting imagery, dark humour, and unsettling truths.
This is not safe history. It is a confrontation—between past and present, between spectacle and truth, between what we want to believe about evil and the uncomfortable reality of how ordinary it can be.
Fringe theatre at its boldest: provocative, unflinching, and disturbingly relevant.
Mar
6
god, the devil and me (women writers festival)
- 21:00 22:00
“Gabe is a perfectly average teenager, with perfectly average problems… except he is best friends with god and the devil. Gabe will have to navigate teenage life all while keeping two omnipotent beings in tow. GCSE stress… if only!”
What the show’s about:
Welcome, to the weird and wonderful world of God, the devil and me, a one hour 10 minute surreal Brechtian comedy about a strange friendship that feels too good to be true and blurs the lines of “good” or “bad.” Oh, also… the protagonist has psychosis. This quirky coming of age comedy, with a good omens meets Jojo rabbit vibe, explores religion, teenage experience,
mental illness and family with humour, joy and heart. The overall message is, people with psychosis are, well… people, like everyone else (and omnipotent beings are… not).
Have you ever wondered what having two omnipotent beings on your shoulder might feel like? Then do we have the show for you.
Mar
7
The Extraordinary Life of a Rat Racer (women writers festival)
- 13:00 14:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
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, andis 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 the 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, this two-hander surreal dark comedy will bring you on a journey that will shift your concept of normality.
Content warnings: Violent and graphic language, loud noises, swearing, flashing lights, suicidal references, balloon popping. Ages 16+
Mar
7
god, the devil and me (women writers festival)
- 15:00 16:00
“Gabe is a perfectly average teenager, with perfectly average problems… except he is best friends with god and the devil. Gabe will have to navigate teenage life all while keeping two omnipotent beings in tow. GCSE stress… if only!”
What the show’s about:
Welcome, to the weird and wonderful world of God, the devil and me, a one hour 10 minute surreal Brechtian comedy about a strange friendship that feels too good to be true and blurs the lines of “good” or “bad.” Oh, also… the protagonist has psychosis. This quirky coming of age comedy, with a good omens meets Jojo rabbit vibe, explores religion, teenage experience,
mental illness and family with humour, joy and heart. The overall message is, people with psychosis are, well… people, like everyone else (and omnipotent beings are… not).
Have you ever wondered what having two omnipotent beings on your shoulder might feel like? Then do we have the show for you.
Mar
7
- 18:30 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Through a Judas Window
Based on the novel A Mind Prone to Evil by P.S. Lynch
"All things can corrupt when a mind is prone to evil."
Step into Courtroom 600 at Nuremberg, where Hermann Göring faces justice—and himself. Through a Judas Window brings history’s most notorious war criminal vividly to life: brilliant yet brutal, charming yet monstrous, a man who reveals how terrifyingly ordinary evil can be.
Through gripping dialogue, shifting perspectives, and haunting imagery, the play invites its audience to peer through the "Judas window"—a narrow lens into power, vanity, and the fragile veneer of civilisation. At once historical and disturbingly modern, this is theatre that refuses to let us look away.
Based on P.S. Lynch’s acclaimed novel A Mind Prone to Evil—praised as “extraordinary… beautifully written and exceptionally well-researched” (Susan Ronald, Hitler’s Art Thief). This bold new play melds meticulous research with unsettling theatrical flair. Expect haunting imagery, dark humour, and unsettling truths.
This is not safe history. It is a confrontation—between past and present, between spectacle and truth, between what we want to believe about evil and the uncomfortable reality of how ordinary it can be.
Fringe theatre at its boldest: provocative, unflinching, and disturbingly relevant.
Mar
7
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Experience the vocal event of the season. Lovemore, the powerhouse vocalist with unapologetic diva energy, takes you on a soaring journey through pop and soul in this intimate yet explosive one-night-only show. An evening of glamour, vocal prowess, and pure entertainment.
Mar
8
Unscheduled (women writers festival)
- 13:00 14:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
'Unscheduled' follows two strangers, a Hairdresser and a Student, who meet by chance beneath the clock at Waterloo Station. Over a series of unexpected encounters across the years, their lives slowly intertwine, revealing how family, work, class, and culture shape who we become. Funny, sharp, and quietly devastating, this new play takes a bold look at modern life and what happens when the people who change us most arrive without warning.
Mar
8
The Extraordinary Life of a Rat Racer (women writers festival)
- 15:00 16:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
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, andis 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 the 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, this two-hander surreal dark comedy will bring you on a journey that will shift your concept of normality.
Content warnings: Violent and graphic language, loud noises, swearing, flashing lights, suicidal references, balloon popping. Ages 16+
Mar
8
Unscheduled (women writers festival)
- 17:00 18:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
'Unscheduled' follows two strangers, a Hairdresser and a Student, who meet by chance beneath the clock at Waterloo Station. Over a series of unexpected encounters across the years, their lives slowly intertwine, revealing how family, work, class, and culture shape who we become. Funny, sharp, and quietly devastating, this new play takes a bold look at modern life and what happens when the people who change us most arrive without warning.
Mar
8
The Songs My Mother Used to Sing by Fran Isherwood
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
The Songs My Mother Used to Sing by Fran Isherwood
Poems, a monologue or two, and the (very) odd song including some written using wordplayful constraints such as anagrams and antonyms, address the vagaries of the present while sporting the reading glasses of the past. Warning: May contain puns.
A playfully humorous and occasionally moving spoken word show that incorporates poetry, a monologue or two, and the (very) odd song. Were you sung to as a child? Did you sing lullabies to your own children? Were traditional folk songs passed down through generations? Perhaps there’s a song you learned at school that has stuck with you despite (or perhaps because of) ear-piercing renditions on the recorder. This show will look at how these songs reflect the mood of the time, whether the lyrics are still relevant, and if they help to shape who we are. Although looking back through the medium of old songs, it allows us to look at now. Some of the poems were developed through a variety of sometimes daft methods and ‘Translations’ including Anagrams, Predictive Text, and Scrabble.
Mar
8
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Penguin the Fish is a one hour solo clown show about a fish that was cut in half when Moses parted the Red Sea. Since then, he wanders the Earth, trying to be whole again. He is also Moses’ sub. Follow him as he discovers the meaning of wholeness, and emancipates himself from Moses and old traditions to embrace his own way of living. Penguin the Fish is clown show on the difficulties of being an anti-zionist Queer Jew since October 2023, and asks questions such as: what does a Queer Jewish body represent on stage? How does one carry on being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza? How to emancipate from an entity using our identity for genocide? And is it possible to do a happy Jewish show?
Mar
9
Handala (Women writers festival)
- 13:00 14:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
What happens when we dare to step into the life of the “other” with an open heart that sings a song of our shared humanity?
2024 Hollywood Fringe 6-time nominee and winner of the Best Solo Performance Award, Handala is a solo show written and performed by Myriam Ali-Ahmad.
Writer and performer Ali-Ahmad has interviewed Palestinians that have lived in their homeland, about life experiences that, to them, represent Palestine and highlight the beauty of its people, land and culture. Seeking to honor Palestinian life and voices, she has worked to compile these stories into a solo show with the direction of Valeria Muñoz Reyes.
Through the arts of drama, poetry, song and storytelling, Handala takes audiences on a journey in Palestine, sailing from one Palestinian to another, navigating the ups and downs of the land, through stories of love, life and resistance, and telling the real story of Palestine, in the eyes of its dignified people. A celebration of Palestine and Palestinian life, this tour de force is a call for action to preserve such beauty.
The show premiered at the 2024 Hollywood Fringe Festival where it had a successful sold-out run of 5 shows. Handala’s next moved to the 2024 Cannonball Festival and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, followed by the United Solo Festival in New York in October - the world’s largest solo show festival. Now, Handala makes its UK debut alongside the Women Writers’ Festival!
Ali-Ahmad says: “For so long, Palestinians specifically and Arabs in general have been reduced to either victims or terrorists, a narrative that has been reinforced by the horrors in Gaza and the West Bank. We want to challenge and shift this narrative all while introducing the public to the rich and beautiful culture and people of Palestine, reminding us what we are fighting for. In and of itself, this project is an act of resistance against cultural erasure. Against those who wish to destroy our stories and our history.”
Mar
9
NORMAL GIRL SHORT FILMS (women writers festival)
- 15:00 16:00
Come and watch the Normal Girl Productions short film slate with us:
- Echoes, directed by Fiona Kruschnig
- A Sin de Fella Story, directed by Sheryn Yidi
- PLUG, directed by Fiona Kruschnig
- Stranded, directed by John Moschopoulos
All short films championing women, either in front of or behind the camera.
After the screening, join us at the pub for a fun and casual networking session. We hope to see you there!
Mar
9
Handala (Women writers festival)
- 17:00 18:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
What happens when we dare to step into the life of the “other” with an open heart that sings a song of our shared humanity?
2024 Hollywood Fringe 6-time nominee and winner of the Best Solo Performance Award, Handala is a solo show written and performed by Myriam Ali-Ahmad.
Writer and performer Ali-Ahmad has interviewed Palestinians that have lived in their homeland, about life experiences that, to them, represent Palestine and highlight the beauty of its people, land and culture. Seeking to honor Palestinian life and voices, she has worked to compile these stories into a solo show with the direction of Valeria Muñoz Reyes.
Through the arts of drama, poetry, song and storytelling, Handala takes audiences on a journey in Palestine, sailing from one Palestinian to another, navigating the ups and downs of the land, through stories of love, life and resistance, and telling the real story of Palestine, in the eyes of its dignified people. A celebration of Palestine and Palestinian life, this tour de force is a call for action to preserve such beauty.
The show premiered at the 2024 Hollywood Fringe Festival where it had a successful sold-out run of 5 shows. Handala’s next moved to the 2024 Cannonball Festival and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, followed by the United Solo Festival in New York in October - the world’s largest solo show festival. Now, Handala makes its UK debut alongside the Women Writers’ Festival!
Ali-Ahmad says: “For so long, Palestinians specifically and Arabs in general have been reduced to either victims or terrorists, a narrative that has been reinforced by the horrors in Gaza and the West Bank. We want to challenge and shift this narrative all while introducing the public to the rich and beautiful culture and people of Palestine, reminding us what we are fighting for. In and of itself, this project is an act of resistance against cultural erasure. Against those who wish to destroy our stories and our history.”
Mar
9
The Extraordinary Life of a Rat Racer (women writers festival)
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
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, andis 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 the 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, this two-hander surreal dark comedy will bring you on a journey that will shift your concept of normality.
Content warnings: Violent and graphic language, loud noises, swearing, flashing lights, suicidal references, balloon popping. Ages 16+
Mar
9
Strong (women writers festival)
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Strong
Written & Directed by Maria Georgiou
Strong is the powerful debut work of British-Cypriot writer and director Maria Georgiou, featuring an all-British-Cypriot creative team.
Based on a true story, Strong is a one-woman show that delves into the complexities of loss, faith, grief, joy, hope, and resilience in the face of adversity. Through the eyes of Elena, a British Greek Cypriot single mother of two, the audience is taken on an emotional yet bittersweet journey, filled with both humour and heartbreak.
Elena’s world is turned upside down when her 15-year-old daughter Lia is diagnosed with cancer. Thrust into a new and unfamiliar reality, she struggles to juggle her spiralling career, endless hospital visits, and the demands of her well-intentioned but often overwhelming Greek Cypriot family — all during the uncertainty of a global pandemic.
To process these overwhelming events, Elena takes to walking. As she walks, she shares her fears and stories, sometimes through her thoughts and other times through voice-notes to her best friend Charoulla. The emotional weight of her journey is symbolised by the growing number of objects she carries on stage, representing the cultural, personal, and emotional burdens she shoulders.
Despite the heaviness of her circumstances, Strong is ultimately a celebration of the human capacity to endure, adapt, and find hope even in the darkest moments. It reminds us that there is strength in vulnerability, love, laughter, and simply putting one foot in front of the other.
Mar
10
ADvsHD (women writers festival)
- 13:00 14:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Alice and Bea are that kind of sisters that tell eachother everything. Or at least they used to be.
They used to be many things, before Bea moved abroad and interrupted contact almost entirely 5 years ago.
Now Bea is back, and Alice doesn't really know how to feel about it.
She demands to know why Bea left, but Bea is very determined not to tell her.
And she's also very determined to annoyingly take over Alice's space with all her backflips and her handstands; all the while stopping Alice from zoning out and wasting away in her room.
Will they rekindle their friendship, or will they loose eachother for good?
Mar
10
Prophetic Fallacy (women writers festival)
- 15:00 16:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Below ground in a large bunker remains the Mitchell family, chosen by God and by circumstance, they unite together as a family during the pivotal brink of war. Everyone has secrets, will the righteous truth unfold, or will lies and manipulation take their toll. Belief controls this family; Paul believes he is speaking to God, Lauren believes she deserves a voice, Charlie believes he has the power, Gethsemane believes she is just a means to an end, and Bethany believes she can escape her pain. We invite the audience to listen, watch, and read between it all. To find their own ending, decide their own truth, and trust in their gut instinct.
Mar
10
- 17:00 18:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Jess is young….ish and she getting married!... Probably. Life is good but her ADHD brain has bashed down the door and invited her down a tunnel of questions! Only she isn't totally sure if this is an annoying tunnel or actually a necessary exploration of self...
Is getting married uncool? Does she even want to be married? What does it mean to have a wedding and can you be a badass whilst living a simple life?
Should she be aiming for more.... or bigger?
As she tries on her wedding dress, Jess takes us down her unstoppable and hilarious curiosity spiral including thoughts on going to Bali, nice men, dancing and most importantly, cream carpets.
Mar
10
The Hole (women writers festival)
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
In a hole in the woods, a young woman awakens, having fled a life she can no longer bear. As she becomes a mother, she grapples with the collapse of the world around her and slowly becomes a vessel for Mother Earth, delivering a message to humanity about the consequences of overconsumption, environmental destruction, and societal neglect.
Part psychological odyssey, part poetic reflection, The Hole is a one-woman show that confronts audiences with urgent questions: What legacy are we leaving for future generations? How do we care for the vulnerable in a world saturated by media and consumerism?
Written and performed by Poppy Winter, directed by BAFTA Breakthrough winner Holly Reddaway and produced by Next Minute Productions, this one-woman show is unflinching, innovative, and socially conscious. This immersive performance transforms grief, trauma, and revelation into a call to action—a mirror for our times and a meditation on responsibility, connection, and the fragile beauty of life.
Mar
10
The Extraordinary Life of a Rat Racer (women writers festival)
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
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, andis 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 the 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, this two-hander surreal dark comedy will bring you on a journey that will shift your concept of normality.
Content warnings: Violent and graphic language, loud noises, swearing, flashing lights, suicidal references, balloon popping. Ages 16+
Mar
11
Imperfect-Perfect Woman (women writers festival)
- 13:00 14:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Imperfect-Perfect Woman is a one-woman show written and performed by Rupinder Kaur Waraich exploring what it means to be an imperfectly perfect woman in today’s society and the arts. Through satire, humour, spoken word and dance, she portrays four distinct characters, challenging stereotypes and perfectionism, while inviting audiences to reflect on representations of women and embrace their authentic dreams without fear.
Mar
11
Prophetic Fallacy (women writers festival)
- 15:00 16:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Below ground in a large bunker remains the Mitchell family, chosen by God and by circumstance, they unite together as a family during the pivotal brink of war. Everyone has secrets, will the righteous truth unfold, or will lies and manipulation take their toll. Belief controls this family; Paul believes he is speaking to God, Lauren believes she deserves a voice, Charlie believes he has the power, Gethsemane believes she is just a means to an end, and Bethany believes she can escape her pain. We invite the audience to listen, watch, and read between it all. To find their own ending, decide their own truth, and trust in their gut instinct.
Mar
11
- 19:00 20:00
- Etcetera Theatre (map)
Yasmina Reza's play Art is a witty, award-winning comedy about three friends whose relationships are tested when one buys an expensive, all-white abstract painting, sparking hilarious and profound debates on friendship, modern art, masculinity, and the subjective nature of truth and beauty, forcing them to confront their egos and betrayals.
Mar
11
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Jess is young….ish and she getting married!... Probably. Life is good but her ADHD brain has bashed down the door and invited her down a tunnel of questions! Only she isn't totally sure if this is an annoying tunnel or actually a necessary exploration of self...
Is getting married uncool? Does she even want to be married? What does it mean to have a wedding and can you be a badass whilst living a simple life?
Should she be aiming for more.... or bigger?
As she tries on her wedding dress, Jess takes us down her unstoppable and hilarious curiosity spiral including thoughts on going to Bali, nice men, dancing and most importantly, cream carpets.
Mar
12
New Moon (women writers festival)
- 13:00 14:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
NEW MOON is a contemporary drama about a British Hindu family living in the wake of love, illness, and unfinished arguments. Two estranged sisters who were once inseparable and now are painfully divided are drawn back together as they care for their dying mother.
As her body weakens, old wounds surface, secrets slip their restraints, and blame is quietly passed between the generations. Above it all hangs a belief written in the stars;
the moon in the tenth house.
Devastating and darkly funny, the play finds humour in the ordinary wounds of family life and tenderness in moments of unbearable truth. It traces an intimate path through grief and duty, and what is passed from mother to daughter.
NEW MOON asks what do we owe the people we love and how far we are willing to go to protect them. Can sisterhood remain when survival demands a cost?
Content warnings: references to suicide; depictions of terminal illness; references to sexual violence.
Mar
12
- 19:00 20:00
- Etcetera Theatre (map)
Yasmina Reza's play Art is a witty, award-winning comedy about three friends whose relationships are tested when one buys an expensive, all-white abstract painting, sparking hilarious and profound debates on friendship, modern art, masculinity, and the subjective nature of truth and beauty, forcing them to confront their egos and betrayals.
Mar
12
East to West (women writers festival)
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
East to West is a queer love story told in rhymed spoken word, whose protagonists are based on opposite sides of London. Nell, an aspiring poet and part-time teacher, looks through dating apps for a balm for the isolation induced by chronic illness. Asha sizes up East London’s cool trendiness against her native Mumbai and misses the family she left behind there, from whom her queer identity remains a secret. When Asha and Nell connect on a dating app, mutual excitement and a whirlwind date create a pull to spend more together. Yet the pressures they each face are stacking up in a city whose fabric is becoming increasingly tense, frayed and hostile. As the political climate seeping in via their Instagram feeds triggers despair, can love be a safe space from the world’s bared teeth? And what will love do when those forces are no longer felt merely as soundbites, but come knocking at the door?
Mar
13
Rules Schmules - How To Be Jew-ISH
- 13:00 14:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Suzie Depreli – not a typically Jewish name, is it? – brings you one woman's passive aggressive mission to educate the world about what it means to have an orthodox family that ate sausages, an Asian Catholic husband that uses more Yiddish words than her Nana, and celebrate Passover without believing in God. And that this is all ok! With original songs performed live and anecdotes that will have Jewish and gentile audiences alike feeling like they were present for it all, this is a heartfelt, humorous musical journey through the pressures and pitfalls of understanding your identity in a world full of prejudice. This is how to be Jew-ish in Britain today.
Mar
13
Unloving (women writers Festival)
- 15:00 16:00
- Etcetera Theatre (map)
Unloving is a dramatic deconstruction of Anna’s love life, baggage included. Hannah and Django take it upon themselves to re-enact their friend’s relationship from finish to start, and they want answers: how does love end? Why do we love each other the way we do? Is a theatre even the right place to tell this story?
For anyone who has found themselves ‘out of character’ in love, Unloving lifts the veil on how intimacy can make us come undone, the lasting ripple effects of lost love, and whether there is hope for any of us in the end.
Starring Hannah Chandler & Django Bevan
Written by Laura Derpic Burgos
Directed & Translated from the original Spanish by Miriam Price
A new work in development from Loan Word Theatre
Mar
13
- 19:00 20:00
- Etcetera Theatre (map)
Yasmina Reza's play Art is a witty, award-winning comedy about three friends whose relationships are tested when one buys an expensive, all-white abstract painting, sparking hilarious and profound debates on friendship, modern art, masculinity, and the subjective nature of truth and beauty, forcing them to confront their egos and betrayals.
Mar
13
BURN BABY BURN: LA INFERNO (women writers festival)
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
LA is burning. When a pair of old Angelenos lose everything, they must navigate overwhelming grief, toxic ash and paperwork purgatory, surrounded by clueless celebs, soulless politicians and insurance vampires.
6000 miles away, their (very) anxious daughter is trying hard not to unravel.
Fringe Theatre Awards 2x nominee Burn Baby Burn: LA Inferno is a stripped-back, sharp-witted mix of storytelling, satire, and songs, exploring the human cost of climate change and the humans fanning the flames. Asking questions that nobody wants to answer like: why was LA’s biggest reservoir empty? What the hell is a ‘firenado’? And how did 80s icon Steve Guttenberg become a low-key hero?
“A retelling of an environmental and social catastrophe, with a dash of Californian whimsy.” - The Reviews Hub
Mar
14
The Hole (women writers festival)
- 13:00 14:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
In a hole in the woods, a young woman awakens, having fled a life she can no longer bear. As she becomes a mother, she grapples with the collapse of the world around her and slowly becomes a vessel for Mother Earth, delivering a message to humanity about the consequences of overconsumption, environmental destruction, and societal neglect.
Part psychological odyssey, part poetic reflection, The Hole is a one-woman show that confronts audiences with urgent questions: What legacy are we leaving for future generations? How do we care for the vulnerable in a world saturated by media and consumerism?
Written and performed by Poppy Winter, directed by BAFTA Breakthrough winner Holly Reddaway and produced by Next Minute Productions, this one-woman show is unflinching, innovative, and socially conscious. This immersive performance transforms grief, trauma, and revelation into a call to action—a mirror for our times and a meditation on responsibility, connection, and the fragile beauty of life.
Mar
14
- 15:00 16:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Collect The Hearts is a post punk live music and spoken word performance by Rachel Mayfield Group. It is written and devised by the group’s front person, alt rock singer and literary artist, Rachel Mayfield, who has maintained a cult following since her 90s debut with the band delicious monster. Her uncompromising art documentary style music, film and writing is released as seasons, and her latest, ‘Collect the Hearts’ looks at ways to get lost to ultimately find ourselves, in an age
of technological reliance, economic structures, and land grabs. It explores the scope for freedom for the outsider character who seeks personal autonomy and mental freedom with likeminded travellers. Is the lived experience of the individual, the only way back to truth, peace and pleasure for the whole community?
Mar
14
- 19:00 20:00
- Etcetera Theatre (map)
Yasmina Reza's play Art is a witty, award-winning comedy about three friends whose relationships are tested when one buys an expensive, all-white abstract painting, sparking hilarious and profound debates on friendship, modern art, masculinity, and the subjective nature of truth and beauty, forcing them to confront their egos and betrayals.
Mar
14
Imogen Andrews - Work in Regress
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Known for her online sketches and comedy characters, come and watch Imogen’s debut WIP. See if she can hold your attention for more than 30 seconds. Featuring her hard to watch characters, some new ideas, and a bit of cheeky stand up. Maybe bullying the audience a little too. Don’t worry there’ll be some screen time involved.
Mar
15
Authenticity and Representation in Contemporary Fiction
- 13:00 14:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
The publishing landscape for Black and brown writers has shifted dramatically in recent years, yet questions remain about authentic representation, market accessibility, and the responsibilities authors carry when crafting diverse characters.
Join three distinctive voices from Fly on the Wall Press — Sangeeta Mulay, Zahirra Dayal, and Arathi Menon — as they draw from their novels set across India and Zimbabwe to explore: the evolving career pathways and opportunities for writers of colour in today's industry; how the market for diverse fiction has transformed and where gaps persist; and the craft and responsibility of creating authentic characters that resist stereotypes while remaining true to lived experience.
This panel offers both practical insight for aspiring writers and a nuanced discussion of representation that goes beyond surface-level diversity conversations.
Chaired by the CEO of Fly on the Wall Press, Isabelle Kenyon
Mar
15
Who to Call When the World Starts to Implode (women writers festival)
- 15:00 16:00
- Etcetera Theatre (map)
“First I want you to understand that this is not a love story.” Isabel and Sophie became joined at from the hip the moment they laid their eyes on each other. Anyone who saw them together would think they were best friends. But when feelings start to emerge and boundaries get blurry even music can’t save this sinking ship. “Who to Call When the World Starts to Implode (and You’re Crying at Tesco at 11am)" is a messy play full of music, uncontrollable word vomit, and a kiss that changed everything. Disclaimer: no keyboards were harmed in the making of this production.
Mar
15
NO ONE'S LAND (A FORUM THEATRE) Women Writers Festival
- 17:00 18:00
- Etcetera Theatre (map)
No One’s Land is a Forum Theatre performance following Bahar, a Turkish woman in her mid-thirties who flees years of domestic abuse and death threats from her ex-husband. Hoping to survive and reunite with her young daughter, she escapes to the UK hidden in a lorry arranged by smugglers.
Debt quickly traps her again. Forced to work for those who brought her, Bahar is unknowingly drawn into a criminal network and accused of carrying drug money. Arrested, she is detained in an immigration centre, where the play begins.
Inside detention, Bahar is reduced to a case number. A tense scene unfolds between Bahar, an interpreter, and a lawyer, exposing distance, procedure, and power.
As a Forum Theatre piece, No One’s Land invites the audience to intervene directly, offer suggestions, and change the dialogue between the characters. By stepping in, spectators are asked to imagine alternatives: What could have been done differently, who is truly listening, and how might systems be transformed to protect rather than punish people like Bahar?
Mar
15
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Join Nick Bain and Martina O’Sullivan for a split-bill of sharp, affectionate standup comedy that will enable anyone to claim their very own Irish passport. From the joys of Catholicism to the realities of 90s Ireland this hour of comedy will indulge those born and bred, while gifting anyone else the skills to successfully defect. Expect big laughs as two homesick, and occasionally sick of home, comedians bring the best of Ireland to Camden Town.
Mar
15
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
In this dark, fast-paced comedy, an ensemble cast — from kit men and canteen staff to kids and parents chasing Academy dreams — are caught up in the unpredictable, ever-shifting chaos of life in a Premier League Club, where loyalties unravel faster than transfers, sacrifices are made, and giving your best doesn’t always mean success. This eye-opening journey behind the scenes of The Beautiful Game is compelling, heart-breaking and – at times – very funny indeed.
Mar
16
‘Swim, Aunty, Swim!’, by Siana Bangura | Staged Readings (women writers festival)
- 13:00 14:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
DAT REN WE BIT BITA-LIF SOTE I BITA, NA-IN BIT SHUGA KEN SOTE I SWIT – Krio Proverb
(Translation: The same rain that beats bitter-leaf until its bitter, beats sugar cane until it’s sweet.)
Fatu is in search of a new life and a fresh start. Leaving London behind, she makes her way to Coventry. There she forms a friendship with fellow members of her new church, Aunty Blessing and Aunty Ama – a fiery, entertaining and sharp-witted duo of West African women in their prime, navigating changes and transitions in their own lives.
At Ama’s whim, the three of them embark on a watery challenge.
What begins as light-hearted fun and a distraction from the mundane routine of life and church, becomes a ritual of healing and rebirth, after a season of grieving.
Set where West Africa meets the West Midlands, ‘Swim, Aunty, Swim!’ is a profound, poetic story of friendship, loss, sisterhood, motherhood, ageing, starting again, and the sublime power of water.
Brought to you by Siana Bangura Productions, join us for two special staged readings of Siana Bangura’s critically acclaimed multi-award winning play. Premiering at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre in 2024, ‘Swim, Aunty, Swim!’ makes its London debut at Etcetera Theatre’s Women Writers Festival 2026 and is not to be missed!
Written and directed by Siana Bangura.
Social media:
@sianaarrgh
@sianabanguraproductions
Mar
16
Britain’s Last Invasion (women Writers festival)
- 15:00 16:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
1797. It’s wedding day in a small coastal town in Pembrokeshire – but three French revolutionary ships are spotted on the horizon.
They’re done for… right?
A historical comedy about resistance, myth-making, and the women who took up arms.
Mar
16
BEYOND THE FRAME THE TAYLOR/BURTON AFFAIR
- 17:00 18:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Set behind closed doors during the filming of Cleopatra, Beyond the Frame is an intimate, emotionally charged exploration of the moment Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s legendary affair begins. Two of the world’s most famous actors collide — not as icons, but as flawed, grieving, intoxicatingly alive human beings. As desire intensifies and private wounds surface, love becomes both refuge and threat, blurring the line between performance and truth. This rehearsed reading focuses on language, chemistry, and emotional tension, offering a stripped-back encounter with a love story that would scandalise the world — and change them forever.
Mar
16
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Join Nick Bain and Martina O’Sullivan for a split-bill of sharp, affectionate standup comedy that will enable anyone to claim their very own Irish passport. From the joys of Catholicism to the realities of 90s Ireland this hour of comedy will indulge those born and bred, while gifting anyone else the skills to successfully defect. Expect big laughs as two homesick, and occasionally sick of home, comedians bring the best of Ireland to Camden Town.
Mar
16
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Jess is young….ish and she getting married!... Probably. Life is good but her ADHD brain has bashed down the door and invited her down a tunnel of questions! Only she isn't totally sure if this is an annoying tunnel or actually a necessary exploration of self...
Is getting married uncool? Does she even want to be married? What does it mean to have a wedding and can you be a badass whilst living a simple life?
Should she be aiming for more.... or bigger?
As she tries on her wedding dress, Jess takes us down her unstoppable and hilarious curiosity spiral including thoughts on going to Bali, nice men, dancing and most importantly, cream carpets.
Mar
17
Rocco (women writers festival)
- 13:00 14:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Rocco is a dark comedy about two women stumbling through death, love, and the fragility of the body. Rocco explores what it means to live fully when the end feels close. Celebrating the ridiculous, the beautiful, and the impossible nature of being alive. In the face of loss, they find laughter, friendship, and an outrageous final wish that might carry them through.
Mar
17
‘Swim, Aunty, Swim!’, by Siana Bangura | Staged Readings (women writers festival)
- 15:00 16:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
DAT REN WE BIT BITA-LIF SOTE I BITA, NA-IN BIT SHUGA KEN SOTE I SWIT – Krio Proverb
(Translation: The same rain that beats bitter-leaf until its bitter, beats sugar cane until it’s sweet.)
Fatu is in search of a new life and a fresh start. Leaving London behind, she makes her way to Coventry. There she forms a friendship with fellow members of her new church, Aunty Blessing and Aunty Ama – a fiery, entertaining and sharp-witted duo of West African women in their prime, navigating changes and transitions in their own lives.
At Ama’s whim, the three of them embark on a watery challenge.
What begins as light-hearted fun and a distraction from the mundane routine of life and church, becomes a ritual of healing and rebirth, after a season of grieving.
Set where West Africa meets the West Midlands, ‘Swim, Aunty, Swim!’ is a profound, poetic story of friendship, loss, sisterhood, motherhood, ageing, starting again, and the sublime power of water.
Brought to you by Siana Bangura Productions, join us for two special staged readings of Siana Bangura’s critically acclaimed multi-award winning play. Premiering at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre in 2024, ‘Swim, Aunty, Swim!’ makes its London debut at Etcetera Theatre’s Women Writers Festival 2026 and is not to be missed!
Written and directed by Siana Bangura.
Social media:
@sianaarrgh
@sianabanguraproductions
Mar
17
The Hole (women writers festival)
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
In a hole in the woods, a young woman awakens, having fled a life she can no longer bear. As she becomes a mother, she grapples with the collapse of the world around her and slowly becomes a vessel for Mother Earth, delivering a message to humanity about the consequences of overconsumption, environmental destruction, and societal neglect.
Part psychological odyssey, part poetic reflection, The Hole is a one-woman show that confronts audiences with urgent questions: What legacy are we leaving for future generations? How do we care for the vulnerable in a world saturated by media and consumerism?
Written and performed by Poppy Winter, directed by BAFTA Breakthrough winner Holly Reddaway and produced by Next Minute Productions, this one-woman show is unflinching, innovative, and socially conscious. This immersive performance transforms grief, trauma, and revelation into a call to action—a mirror for our times and a meditation on responsibility, connection, and the fragile beauty of life.
Mar
17
Britain’s Last Invasion (women Writers festival)
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
1797. It’s wedding day in a small coastal town in Pembrokeshire – but three French revolutionary ships are spotted on the horizon.
They’re done for… right?
A historical comedy about resistance, myth-making, and the women who took up arms.
Mar
18
Natty Takes a Breath (women writers festival)
- 13:00 14:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Set inside a high-stakes audition, Natty Takes a Breath follows one actor as direction, expectation, and pressure begin to close in.
As notes shift and comparisons surface, the audition fractures into memory, rivalry, and self-scrutiny. Performance becomes survival, and control starts to slip.
Funny, raw, and emotionally precise, the play explores ambition, identity, and the private cost of staying visible in an industry built on judgement.
What happens when holding yourself together becomes the thing that finally breaks you?
Written by: Sara Amanda
Directed by: Sara Amanda and Jasmine Skeete
Performed by: Veronica Lewis
Mar
18
Natty Takes a Breath (women writers festival)
- 15:00 16:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Set inside a high-stakes audition, Natty Takes a Breath follows one actor as direction, expectation, and pressure begin to close in.
As notes shift and comparisons surface, the audition fractures into memory, rivalry, and self-scrutiny. Performance becomes survival, and control starts to slip.
Funny, raw, and emotionally precise, the play explores ambition, identity, and the private cost of staying visible in an industry built on judgement.
What happens when holding yourself together becomes the thing that finally breaks you?
Written by: Sara Amanda
Directed by: Sara Amanda and Jasmine Skeete
Performed by: Veronica Lewis
Mar
18
Heaving Petting, Heavier Blankets
- 19:00 20:00
Can you seduce someone, even if they know you sleep with a weighted blanket?
That’s the question we all ask, whilst laying alone under our "Silent Night Washable Weighted Blanket" with removable cover. Now available in grey.
In his latest absurd outing, silly and surreal comedian Ben O’sullivan will try desperately to avoid talking about his intimacy issues, whilst allowing the full burden of his romantic failings to land on the, already heavy, weighted blanket.
Similar to a bed at your nans house, this show consists of many incomprehensible layers. We find out if pigeons are underrated and consider the potential jeopardy of getting a piercing at 31. Could it be a cry for help?
Together, we will finally uncover the truth hidden beneath the tog ratings.
‘Ben reminds me of a young James Acaster and look what he achieved’
Everything theatre
‘Side splittingly brilliant’
welovebrighton
'Amusingly quirky’
Chortle
Mar
18
Natty Takes a Breath (women writers festival)
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Set inside a high-stakes audition, Natty Takes a Breath follows one actor as direction, expectation, and pressure begin to close in.
As notes shift and comparisons surface, the audition fractures into memory, rivalry, and self-scrutiny. Performance becomes survival, and control starts to slip.
Funny, raw, and emotionally precise, the play explores ambition, identity, and the private cost of staying visible in an industry built on judgement.
What happens when holding yourself together becomes the thing that finally breaks you?
Written by: Sara Amanda
Directed by: Sara Amanda and Jasmine Skeete
Performed by: Veronica Lewis
Mar
19
Natty Takes a Breath (women writers festival)
- 13:00 14:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Set inside a high-stakes audition, Natty Takes a Breath follows one actor as direction, expectation, and pressure begin to close in.
As notes shift and comparisons surface, the audition fractures into memory, rivalry, and self-scrutiny. Performance becomes survival, and control starts to slip.
Funny, raw, and emotionally precise, the play explores ambition, identity, and the private cost of staying visible in an industry built on judgement.
What happens when holding yourself together becomes the thing that finally breaks you?
Written by: Sara Amanda
Directed by: Sara Amanda and Jasmine Skeete
Performed by: Veronica Lewis
Mar
19
Natty Takes a Breath (women writers festival)
- 15:00 16:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Set inside a high-stakes audition, Natty Takes a Breath follows one actor as direction, expectation, and pressure begin to close in.
As notes shift and comparisons surface, the audition fractures into memory, rivalry, and self-scrutiny. Performance becomes survival, and control starts to slip.
Funny, raw, and emotionally precise, the play explores ambition, identity, and the private cost of staying visible in an industry built on judgement.
What happens when holding yourself together becomes the thing that finally breaks you?
Written by: Sara Amanda
Directed by: Sara Amanda and Jasmine Skeete
Performed by: Veronica Lewis
Mar
19
Nayonica Ghosh:Redlights (work in progress)
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Last year after a series of hospitalisations(likely an extended effect of Leicester’s extended lockdown) Nayonica read Matthew McConaughey's memoir Greenlights,which was marketed as a manual to turn life's "red lights" into "Greenlights". Only it turned out the red lights in Matthew's' life were that he was too handsome, too successful and had too many millions of dollars. So Nayonica, has created this hour of stand up in response for her fellow uglies and undesirables,looking back at all the red lights in her life.
During this comedy show Nayonica revisits all the times in her life when planning and doing the sensible thing ended up going wrong (like when she tried to eat healthily she got food poisoning from vegetables), then eventually turned out really well. Now, she’s left wondering if she should continue being logical and planning things or if she should just surrender to the chaos. This is definitely a far too philosophically and esoterically complex question for a stand up comedian to answer.
Mar
19
Natty Takes a Breath (women writers festival)
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Set inside a high-stakes audition, Natty Takes a Breath follows one actor as direction, expectation, and pressure begin to close in.
As notes shift and comparisons surface, the audition fractures into memory, rivalry, and self-scrutiny. Performance becomes survival, and control starts to slip.
Funny, raw, and emotionally precise, the play explores ambition, identity, and the private cost of staying visible in an industry built on judgement.
What happens when holding yourself together becomes the thing that finally breaks you?
Written by: Sara Amanda
Directed by: Sara Amanda and Jasmine Skeete
Performed by: Veronica Lewis
Mar
20
Animal Sense (women writers festival)
- 13:00 14:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Technology and humanity are the themes of Animal Sense. This immersive poetic performance in video and sound addresses the impact and influence of the acceleration of digital technology and artificial intelligence on daily life, and its personal and political implications. The poems are based on the bilingual chapbook Animal Sense/Tino animal, released in January 2026 by the Brazilian and British poet Rosane Carneiro (via Lunar Sheep). The author experiments with the power of poetry to expose a current moment of transition – the result is a disturbing debate about the relationship between society and digital resources, and subjective and/or collective attitudes that resist and/or incorporate contemporary technological offerings.
Poems: Rosane Carneiro
Music and Graphics: Ian Pakes
Mar
20
LYRIC DRAGONFLY, chrysalis in 3 arias (women writers festival)
- 15:00 16:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Come. Sit close. Sing along.
"Lyric Dragonfly" arrives in London for the first time at the Women Writers Festival.
It's a lyrical and clowning piece with its corset undone: a woman appropriates iconic tenor arias, glides between virtuosity and clown, and turns failure into an act of rebellion.
Raw, intimate, and unapologetic, the play breaks the mold and invites the audience to cross the line: to breathe together and risk emotion with a perspective of equality.
A bold, intimate and poetic piece that challenges the classical canon and celebrates women’s voices on stage.
The tenor arrives, as always, late.
But a crisis can be the perfect moment to discover your own potential and... FLY!
Vulnerability finds unexpected ways to fuel courage.
Mar
20
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
“What’s the point if we don’t really know each other?”
Over a series of evenings in a one bedroom apartment that used to belong to just one of them, Blake and Evie dance around the details of their personal histories as they come closer and closer to finding out who each other really are.
Side by Side explores love, commitment and honesty in a relationship, asking whether to be known is to be loved, or if to be known is to be unlovable. It’s also Stump’d Theatre Company’s debut production!
Co-directed by Robin Halliday & Dexter Robinson
Written by Dexter Robinson
Cast: Theo Taylor, Alex Wilson, Robin Halliday, Jay-Jay Alexander
Mar
20
10 First Dates (Women writers festival)
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
After 25 years of marriage, Maggie Callahan finds herself newly single and thrown into the chaotic world of modern dating. Armed with nothing but a martini and a sense of humor, she endures 10 wildly different first dates, from a narcissist obsessed with selfies to a spiritual guru who won’t stop trying to balance her chakras. As Maggie faces the absurd realities of dating apps, mismatched personalities, and midlife crises, she begins to realize that love is more complicated—and hilarious—than she ever imagined. 10 First Dates is a comedic exploration of relationships, self-discovery, and the unexpected joys of being single.
Praise for playwright Christine Rose’s previous work:
“Powerful and honest” London Fringe Theatre Reviews (4 stars)
“Gripping and thought-provoking” Theatre and Tonic (4 stars)
Praise for Gooper Dust Productions previous work:
“Bitingly witty” Theatre and Arts Review (4.5 stars)
“Raw and current” My View from the Stalls (4 stars)
“High-quality, the casting is exemplary” The Reviews Hub (4 stars)
Mar
21
Pop-Up Poetry on Demand with Emily Holtom
- 12:00 20:00
Share a word or a memory and watch a poem come to life. Throughout the day, poet Emily Holtom will be creating bespoke poems live on a vintage typewriter, inspired by conversations with festival-goers. Visitors are invited to sit for a moment, share a word, a memory or a thought, and watch as a poem is typed in real time - each one a unique keepsake to take home and treasure.
Pop-Up Poetry offers a gentle pause within the festival - a chance to slow down, reflect and connect through words. Suitable for all ages, this drop-in experience welcomes anyone curious about poetry, creativity, or simply taking a moment to be present.
Mar
21
10 First Dates (Women writers festival)
- 13:00 14:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
After 25 years of marriage, Maggie Callahan finds herself newly single and thrown into the chaotic world of modern dating. Armed with nothing but a martini and a sense of humor, she endures 10 wildly different first dates, from a narcissist obsessed with selfies to a spiritual guru who won’t stop trying to balance her chakras. As Maggie faces the absurd realities of dating apps, mismatched personalities, and midlife crises, she begins to realize that love is more complicated—and hilarious—than she ever imagined. 10 First Dates is a comedic exploration of relationships, self-discovery, and the unexpected joys of being single.
Praise for playwright Christine Rose’s previous work:
“Powerful and honest” London Fringe Theatre Reviews (4 stars)
“Gripping and thought-provoking” Theatre and Tonic (4 stars)
Praise for Gooper Dust Productions previous work:
“Bitingly witty” Theatre and Arts Review (4.5 stars)
“Raw and current” My View from the Stalls (4 stars)
“High-quality, the casting is exemplary” The Reviews Hub (4 stars)
Mar
21
LYRIC DRAGONFLY, chrysalis in 3 arias (women writers festival)
- 15:00 16:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Come. Sit close. Sing along.
"Lyric Dragonfly" arrives in London for the first time at the Women Writers Festival.
It's a lyrical and clowning piece with its corset undone: a woman appropriates iconic tenor arias, glides between virtuosity and clown, and turns failure into an act of rebellion.
Raw, intimate, and unapologetic, the play breaks the mold and invites the audience to cross the line: to breathe together and risk emotion with a perspective of equality.
A bold, intimate and poetic piece that challenges the classical canon and celebrates women’s voices on stage.
The tenor arrives, as always, late.
But a crisis can be the perfect moment to discover your own potential and... FLY!
Vulnerability finds unexpected ways to fuel courage.
Mar
21
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
“What’s the point if we don’t really know each other?”
Over a series of evenings in a one bedroom apartment that used to belong to just one of them, Blake and Evie dance around the details of their personal histories as they come closer and closer to finding out who each other really are.
Side by Side explores love, commitment and honesty in a relationship, asking whether to be known is to be loved, or if to be known is to be unlovable. It’s also Stump’d Theatre Company’s debut production!
Co-directed by Robin Halliday & Dexter Robinson
Written by Dexter Robinson
Cast: Theo Taylor, Alex Wilson, Robin Halliday, Jay-Jay Alexander
@stumpdtheatre.co
Mar
21
Imogen Andrews - Work in Regress
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Known for her online sketches and comedy characters, come and watch Imogen’s debut WIP. See if she can hold your attention for more than 30 seconds. Featuring her hard to watch characters, some new ideas, and a bit of cheeky stand up. Maybe bullying the audience a little too. Don’t worry there’ll be some screen time involved.
Mar
22
- 13:00 14:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
“What’s the point if we don’t really know each other?”
Over a series of evenings in a one bedroom apartment that used to belong to just one of them, Blake and Evie dance around the details of their personal histories as they come closer and closer to finding out who each other really are.
Side by Side explores love, commitment and honesty in a relationship, asking whether to be known is to be loved, or if to be known is to be unlovable. It’s also Stump’d Theatre Company’s debut production!
Co-directed by Robin Halliday & Dexter Robinson
Written by Dexter Robinson
Cast: Theo Taylor, Alex Wilson, Robin Halliday, Jay-Jay Alexander
@stumpdtheatre.co
Mar
22
LYRIC DRAGONFLY, chrysalis in 3 arias
- 15:00 16:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Come. Sit close. Sing along.
"Lyric Dragonfly" arrives in London for the first time at the Women Writers Festival.
It's a lyrical and clowning piece with its corset undone: a woman appropriates iconic tenor arias, glides between virtuosity and clown, and turns failure into an act of rebellion.
Raw, intimate, and unapologetic, the play breaks the mold and invites the audience to cross the line: to breathe together and risk emotion with a perspective of equality.
A bold, intimate and poetic piece that challenges the classical canon and celebrates women’s voices on stage.
The tenor arrives, as always, late.
But a crisis can be the perfect moment to discover your own potential and... FLY!
Vulnerability finds unexpected ways to fuel courage.
Mar
22
10 First Dates (Women writers festival)
- 17:00 18:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
After 25 years of marriage, Maggie Callahan finds herself newly single and thrown into the chaotic world of modern dating. Armed with nothing but a martini and a sense of humor, she endures 10 wildly different first dates, from a narcissist obsessed with selfies to a spiritual guru who won’t stop trying to balance her chakras. As Maggie faces the absurd realities of dating apps, mismatched personalities, and midlife crises, she begins to realize that love is more complicated—and hilarious—than she ever imagined. 10 First Dates is a comedic exploration of relationships, self-discovery, and the unexpected joys of being single.
Praise for playwright Christine Rose’s previous work:
“Powerful and honest” London Fringe Theatre Reviews (4 stars)
“Gripping and thought-provoking” Theatre and Tonic (4 stars)
Praise for Gooper Dust Productions previous work:
“Bitingly witty” Theatre and Arts Review (4.5 stars)
“Raw and current” My View from the Stalls (4 stars)
“High-quality, the casting is exemplary” The Reviews Hub (4 stars)
Mar
22
Animal Sense (women writers festival)
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Technology and humanity are the themes of Animal Sense. This immersive poetic performance in video and sound addresses the impact and influence of the acceleration of digital technology and artificial intelligence on daily life, and its personal and political implications. The poems are based on the bilingual chapbook Animal Sense/Tino animal, released in January 2026 by the Brazilian and British poet Rosane Carneiro (via Lunar Sheep). The author experiments with the power of poetry to expose a current moment of transition – the result is a disturbing debate about the relationship between society and digital resources, and subjective and/or collective attitudes that resist and/or incorporate contemporary technological offerings.
Poems: Rosane Carneiro
Music and Graphics: Ian Pakes
Mar
22
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Pardis, a land stuck girl, longs for freedom of the sea and the alluring song of Ayda, a mused mermaiden. In an attempt for the girl to exchange her skin for scales, the two meet at the shoreline to escape conformed ways and distrusting waves, dealing with rising tensions for a transformation that may break them.
