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Woof is a 50-minute two-hander comedy about coming of age in an unusual setting: a human’s house. The play follows Pup, a curious young dog full of questions about what it means to “have” a human, and Old, an older dog quietly navigating love, loyalty and the ache of waiting at the door.
Age restrictions, trigger and content warnings if any, especially if adult themes are in the show: No age restriction, no adult theme, content warnings: Includes themes of ageing, loss of autonomy, emotional distress, and brief references to physical reprimand.
Jun
19
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Woof is a 50-minute two-hander comedy about coming of age in an unusual setting: a human’s house. The play follows Pup, a curious young dog full of questions about what it means to “have” a human, and Old, an older dog quietly navigating love, loyalty and the ache of waiting at the door.
Age restrictions, trigger and content warnings if any, especially if adult themes are in the show: No age restriction, no adult theme, content warnings: Includes themes of ageing, loss of autonomy, emotional distress, and brief references to physical reprimand.
Jun
20
- 19:00 20:00
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Ever felt like you almost got it right? Or wondered why men can be so... well, idiots?
This is a special, one-night-only preview of two brand-new solo shows before they hit the festival circuit this year. Expect a mix of honest storytelling, big laughs, a bit of live music, and that awkward feeling of trying to navigate modern relationships without losing your mind.
It’s fresh, it’s raw, and it’s still a work in progress—so you’ll be the very first to see it!
Best part? Every single penny from ticket sales goes straight to charity. Come grab a drink, enjoy the show, and support a great cause!
Age: +12
Jun
20
An American Comedy Show (Might Be Funny To The British)
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WORK IN PROGRESS: a brand-new show, still being built, shown rough and honest.
An American comic with a British family escapes his dumpster-fire homeland and its would-be dictator to pick apart the gap between how Britain sees America and how it actually feels to live there. Made in the British tradition: self-deprecating, joke-dense, and far more interested in taking the mickey out of himself than telling you his 'take.' It's part cultural autopsy, part love letter, a fast show about being loudly from a country everyone loves to hate, while asking whether the America he grew up in ever existed at all. You might leave feeling sorry for America. Or at least for Americans. Come see it find its feet.
SOCIALS: Instagram: @brendonfreakinglemon_ TikTok: @brendonfreakinglemon
AGE RESTRICTION / CONTENT WARNINGS: 16+. Strong language and political themes, including references to current US politics.
Jun
22
- 19:00 20:00
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Wiry Algernon and sturdy Bruno are the stars of hit 1920s silent film variety show The Algernon and Bruno Show — but each secretly think they are the one that the crowds flock to see. Always hungering for the fleeting attention of the audience, Algernon and Bruno are increasingly willing to cross any line to get what they crave. But unbeknownst to them, there is something else that craves the roar of applause even more...
Age restrictions/trigger and content warnings:
The show is intended for adults 18 years of age and older.
Partial nudity, Reference to alcohol, Simulated Violence, Death, Smoking (no actual smoking/vaping will occur on stage)
Jun
23
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Wiry Algernon and sturdy Bruno are the stars of hit 1920s silent film variety show The Algernon and Bruno Show — but each secretly think they are the one that the crowds flock to see. Always hungering for the fleeting attention of the audience, Algernon and Bruno are increasingly willing to cross any line to get what they crave. But unbeknownst to them, there is something else that craves the roar of applause even more...
Age restrictions/trigger and content warnings:
The show is intended for adults 18 years of age and older.
Partial nudity, Reference to alcohol, Simulated Violence, Death, Smoking (no actual smoking/vaping will occur on stage)
Jun
24
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Wiry Algernon and sturdy Bruno are the stars of hit 1920s silent film variety show The Algernon and Bruno Show — but each secretly think they are the one that the crowds flock to see. Always hungering for the fleeting attention of the audience, Algernon and Bruno are increasingly willing to cross any line to get what they crave. But unbeknownst to them, there is something else that craves the roar of applause even more...
Age restrictions/trigger and content warnings:
The show is intended for adults 18 years of age and older.
Partial nudity, Reference to alcohol, Simulated Violence, Death, Smoking (no actual smoking/vaping will occur on stage)
Jun
25
- 18:30 20:00
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Based off of the hit tabletop role playing game of the same name by Bully Pulpit Games, FIASCO is a fully improvised show investigating a fictional archive and the dark tales it contains. Every performance, with the help of the audience, three players will explore a new story, guided by the Archivist and our special visiting lecturer; stories filled with brutality and intrigue, rage and desire, and a tangled web of threads will combine with unfortunate circumstances to create… well, quite the fiasco.
Age Restrictions: 18+
Content Warnings: Staged violence, sexual content and themes. We have a web link for audiences to refer to a full list of possible content and themes during the improvised show as well as a content blacklist.
Jun
25
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Glass Light Opera presents: The Afterparty
A night out is ending. The bars are closing, the streets are emptying, and nobody is quite as sober—or certain—as they were a few hours ago.The Afterparty is a woven evening of opera scenes by Britten, Mozart, Bizet, Strauss and more, reimagined as one continuous story unfolding in the small hours of the morning. As friendships fracture, romances ignite, old wounds resurface and emotions spill over, a cast of characters stumble through the strange limbo between the end of one night and the beginning of the
next.By turns hilarious, heartfelt and heartbreaking, The Afterparty brings together some of opera's most compelling moments in a fresh and unexpected theatrical journey, proving that after a few drinks, we all become the protagonists of our own drama.
Jun
26
- 18:30 19:45
This Machine Kills Fascists
By David Dunn
Songs by David Dunn
This Machine Kills Fascists is a stage spectacle inspired by the life and work of Woody Guthrie, the legendary American folk singer and civil rights activists.
In the style of all Nuworks productions, it is Epic and as as one critic wrote: “an electrifying hybrid - a protest-song dressed in a theatrical form.” Its a faithful portrayal of Guthrie’s life and times. Woody was never known to compromise. He was as awkward and as flawed as he was committed to the cause of civil rights and working class people, no matter their ethnicity, colour or religion.
The force of the performance is the dramatic threads from Woody Guthrie's biography. His disdain of self seeking politicians, big corporations, and all those who sought to undermine the American Dream.
It was in this fight, led not by a rifle, but by song that his famous ‘war cry’ was born: ‘This machine kills fascists’, scrawled across Woody’s guitar.
The musical arrangements and choreography ( the songs, all originals by David Dunn in the style of Woody Guthrie ) recreate the sentiment of American protests in the 1940s. and 50. They may be read, at times, as a commentary on modern politics and the fight for the rights of ordinary people today.
REVIEW: ’The atmosphere of this remarkable performance is perfectly captured in the intensity of emotion, light and energy of the actors. The production creates images that stay in your memory. This Machine Kills Fascists by Nuworks is ‘a spectacle that is not just performed, it's a show that is lived’.
1 hour 15minutes duration
Jun
26
- 21:00 21:50
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Award-winning Chinese magician Jason Ouyang and Mason Ma bring their brand-new one man show to Etcetera Theatre this June and July!
The show delivers everything audiences expect from world-class magic: mind-reading, impossible objects, and highly interactive illusions; while introducing unique magical effects from ancient Chinese, rarely seen outside of China.
A feel-good and captivating show, the show offers an evening of laughter, storytelling, and unforgettable magic audiences won’t have seen before and anywhere else.
Age restrictions: 12 and above.
Jun
27
- 18:30 19:45
Punk defines the politics and fashion of an era, it was brief, a phenomenon that burst like a storm of protest on an unsympathetic, uncompromisingly brutal political system and leader, devoid of compassion in pursuit of greatness and material gain.
Britain, not so Great….1970 and 80’s Margaret Thatcher…the iron lady….garbage strikes, miner closures, police brutality, unemployment, the IRA, race riots. All in response to what John Lydon aka Jonny Rotten of the Sex Pistols called the ‘shitsdom’.
Nuworks, A Punk Opera is a reimagining of Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera which in itself is a reworking of John Gay’s The Beggars’ Opera 1728.
The basic story and characters belong to John Gay, Elizabeth Hauptmann and Brecht adding their Marxist doctrine. There’s no such overt political agenda in our reimagining. Nuworks is closer to John Gay with some sorry reflections on human foibles and hypocrisy than ideology. It’s not even a criticism of Thatcher, of whom, in fairness, it has been said was the leader Britain needed at the time. Debatable.
We’ve set the scene in Camden because that’s where it all began and we’re thrilled to be performing it in the deep heart of Camden, at Etcetra Theatre, in July 2026 as part of our Fringe tour.
In summary…its a great tale with all of the usual suspects…Macheath ( Mac the Knife ) the thoroughly dysfunctional Peachum family, Copper Green, not one of them with a single redeeming feature!
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
Some course contemporary language in dramatic context
Jun
27
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Alice and Bea are not just sisters. They are best friends, or at least they used to be.
Their brains rejoice in eachothers' presence, even though so different in their similarity. Alice is extremely disattentive (AD), while Bea is hyperactive (HD).
Moreover, Alice is very successful, while Bea leads a very mid professional life.
Or at least that how they used to be.
They used to be many things, before Bea left, interrupting contact almost entirely, two years ago.
Now Bea is back, and Alice doesn't really know how to feel about it.
Alice is still heartbroken, but, more importantly, she needs an explanation. She needs to know why Bea left, so she can decide whether to forgive her.
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.
Will they rekindle their friendship, or will they loose eachother for good?
Age: 12+
Jun
28
- 21:00 22:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Award-winning Chinese magician Jason Ouyang and Mason Ma bring their brand-new one man show to Etcetera Theatre this June and July!
The show delivers everything audiences expect from world-class magic: mind-reading, impossible objects, and highly interactive illusions; while introducing unique magical effects from ancient Chinese, rarely seen outside of China.
A feel-good and captivating show, the show offers an evening of laughter, storytelling, and unforgettable magic audiences won’t have seen before and anywhere else.
Age restrictions: 12 and above.
Jun
29
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Lena Johnson is a schoolgirl struggling with addiction, doubt, and a growing sense of lost potential. Once a promising athlete, she now drifts through school and home, relying on drugs to quiet her thoughts and get through each day. After a particularly difficult day, she takes drugs in an attempt to escape everything building inside her.
But instead of relief, she is pulled into something else. Lena begins to slip into a fractured night where reality, memory, and hallucination blur together. As the present unravels, she is confronted by fragments of her past; moments at home, relationships with her family and her brother, and echoes of who she used to be.
As the night deepens, she is pushed further into her own mind, where guilt, regret, and dependency begin to surface more clearly than ever before. By the end, Lena is left questioning whether she is defined by the past she keeps returning to, or whether there is still a way to step beyond it.
CONTENT WARNING: Perhaps contains themes that some audience members may find distressing. These include drug use, substance dependency, hallucinations and altered mental states, anxiety and panic, family conflict, emotional distress, and references to sexual assault. The play also explores themes of religion and faith in a psychologically intense context. This production is recommended for audiences aged
15+. Viewer discretion is advised.
Jul
1
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Monologues of Men is a raw, powerful and emotionally charged theatre experience exploring masculinity, mental health, trauma, love and redemption through a series of gripping interconnected monologues.
Following a sell-out London run, Francis Saunders brings an honest and intimate portrayal of modern manhood to the stage — exposing the silence, vulnerability and strength that often go unseen.
Raw. Intimate. Unfiltered.
Age: 18+
Jul
2
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Monologues of Men is a raw, powerful and emotionally charged theatre experience exploring masculinity, mental health, trauma, love and redemption through a series of gripping interconnected monologues.
Following a sell-out London run, Francis Saunders brings an honest and intimate portrayal of modern manhood to the stage — exposing the silence, vulnerability and strength that often go unseen.
Raw. Intimate. Unfiltered.
Age: 18+
Jul
3
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Award-winning Chinese magician Jason Ouyang and Mason Ma bring their brand-new one man show to Etcetera Theatre this June and July!
The show delivers everything audiences expect from world-class magic: mind-reading, impossible objects, and highly interactive illusions; while introducing unique magical effects from ancient Chinese, rarely seen outside of China.
A feel-good and captivating show, the show offers an evening of laughter, storytelling, and unforgettable magic audiences won’t have seen before and anywhere else.
Age restrictions: 12 and above.
Jul
4
HAYA’s Plays on Saturdays: ‘Blue Stockings’
- 13:00 14:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
'Blue Stockings' by Jessica Swale is a play set in 1896. It follows the the UK's first Female Undergraduates in their battle for the right to graduate. Although being equally academically strong as their fellow male peers, they are rejected and stigmatized as unmarriageable and unqualified of ever having a career. Despite this, the Blue Stockings kept fighting and followed their dreams to have the right to education, graduation and a career.
Insta: @academyhunt
This production is rated 12+ and includes brief scenes of violence and themes of sexism throughout the play.
Jul
4
HAYA’s Plays on Saturdays: ‘Blue Stockings’
- 15:00 16:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
'Blue Stockings' by Jessica Swale is a play set in 1896. It follows the the UK's first Female Undergraduates in their battle for the right to graduate. Although being equally academically strong as their fellow male peers, they are rejected and stigmatized as unmarriageable and unqualified of ever having a career. Despite this, the Blue Stockings kept fighting and followed their dreams to have the right to education, graduation and a career.
Insta: @academyhunt
This production is rated 12+ and includes brief scenes of violence and themes of sexism throughout the play.
Jul
4
- 18:30 19:45
This Machine Kills Fascists
By David Dunn
Songs by David Dunn
This Machine Kills Fascists is a stage spectacle inspired by the life and work of Woody Guthrie, the legendary American folk singer and civil rights activists.
In the style of all Nuworks productions, it is Epic and as as one critic wrote: “an electrifying hybrid - a protest-song dressed in a theatrical form.” Its a faithful portrayal of Guthrie’s life and times. Woody was never known to compromise. He was as awkward and as flawed as he was committed to the cause of civil rights and working class people, no matter their ethnicity, colour or religion.
The force of the performance is the dramatic threads from Woody Guthrie's biography. His disdain of self seeking politicians, big corporations, and all those who sought to undermine the American Dream.
It was in this fight, led not by a rifle, but by song that his famous ‘war cry’ was born: ‘This machine kills fascists’, scrawled across Woody’s guitar.
The musical arrangements and choreography ( the songs, all originals by David Dunn in the style of Woody Guthrie ) recreate the sentiment of American protests in the 1940s. and 50. They may be read, at times, as a commentary on modern politics and the fight for the rights of ordinary people today.
REVIEW: ’The atmosphere of this remarkable performance is perfectly captured in the intensity of emotion, light and energy of the actors. The production creates images that stay in your memory. This Machine Kills Fascists by Nuworks is ‘a spectacle that is not just performed, it's a show that is lived’.
1 hour 15minutes duration
Jul
4
- 20:00 21:15
Punk defines the politics and fashion of an era, it was brief, a phenomenon that burst like a storm of protest on an unsympathetic, uncompromisingly brutal political system and leader, devoid of compassion in pursuit of greatness and material gain.
Britain, not so Great….1970 and 80’s Margaret Thatcher…the iron lady….garbage strikes, miner closures, police brutality, unemployment, the IRA, race riots. All in response to what John Lydon aka Jonny Rotten of the Sex Pistols called the ‘shitsdom’.
Nuworks, A Punk Opera is a reimagining of Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera which in itself is a reworking of John Gay’s The Beggars’ Opera 1728.
The basic story and characters belong to John Gay, Elizabeth Hauptmann and Brecht adding their Marxist doctrine. There’s no such overt political agenda in our reimagining. Nuworks is closer to John Gay with some sorry reflections on human foibles and hypocrisy than ideology. It’s not even a criticism of Thatcher, of whom, in fairness, it has been said was the leader Britain needed at the time. Debatable.
We’ve set the scene in Camden because that’s where it all began and we’re thrilled to be performing it in the deep heart of Camden, at Etcetra Theatre, in July 2026 as part of our Fringe tour.
In summary…its a great tale with all of the usual suspects…Macheath ( Mac the Knife ) the thoroughly dysfunctional Peachum family, Copper Green, not one of them with a single redeeming feature!
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
Some course contemporary language in dramatic context
Jul
5
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Award-winning Chinese magician Jason Ouyang and Mason Ma bring their brand-new one man show to Etcetera Theatre this June and July!
The show delivers everything audiences expect from world-class magic: mind-reading, impossible objects, and highly interactive illusions; while introducing unique magical effects from ancient Chinese, rarely seen outside of China.
A feel-good and captivating show, the show offers an evening of laughter, storytelling, and unforgettable magic audiences won’t have seen before and anywhere else.
Age restrictions: 12 and above.
Jul
8
Sketchburn: a scratch night for sketch comedy films
- 19:00 20:00
It’s the return of SKETCHBURN: the sketches of tomorrow, today!
A ragtag group of comedy writers, directors and performers present works-in-progress of their latest sketch comedy films − curated by Hari Kanth (SNL UK, Horrible Science). The aim: to bring the feedback loop of live comedy to filmed comedy sketches, at every stage of the process:
- đź“š Readings: staged readings of brand-new sketch scripts
- 🎬 Rough cuts: screenings of rough cuts fresh from the edit
- 🍿 Showcase: screenings of finished sketches, ready to go!
As well as listening out for what makes you laugh, there’ll be space for more direct feedback too – so you can help us decide which bits to keep and which bits to burn forever.
So if you’re a fellow comedy creator who loves dissecting the metaphorical frog, or a comedy fan who wants to peek behind the metaphorical curtain, then SKETCHBURN is the (non-metaphorical) night for you!
Jul
8
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Someone has dropped an atom bomb on Copenhagen! With all-out war looming, one junior minister in the British Government must somehow stimulate a response from his hopeless superiors. There’s just one thing standing in his way: Microsoft Teams.
Shortlisted for best Scottish theatre Production at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
Welcome to Operation Blank, the subversive black comedy debut from up-and-coming Scottish writer, George Grant. Delve into this biting critique of modern online working, that weaves laugh-out-loud humour to themes of unfulfillment and existential dread. It’s the show where nothing happens, and nothing has ever been more entertaining.
Jul
9
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Nothing and nobody will stop Roy Tunt from spotting his wild birds and today, a stormy December morning on England's desolate east coast, he pursues a very special mission. With one more tick in his dog-eared notebook, Roy will have recorded all 567 species on the British List.
The prevailing conditions are ideal and the time is perfect to welcome an elusive vagrant from the Asian Steppe, the rare and beautiful Sociable Plover.
Roy sequesters himself away in a bird-spotter's hide on a stretch of flooded marshland. With a packed lunch and a framed photograph of his ex-wife for company, he watches and waits.
But might he, perhaps, have other plans? And who is the tall, dark and handsome stranger battling his way through the flood waters towards him?
All will be revealed inside the hide...
Age Guidance
14+ (Mild Violence)
Jul
9
- 21:00 22:00
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Someone has dropped an atom bomb on Copenhagen! With all-out war looming, one junior minister in the British Government must somehow stimulate a response from his hopeless superiors. There’s just one thing standing in his way: Microsoft Teams.
Shortlisted for best Scottish theatre Production at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
Welcome to Operation Blank, the subversive black comedy debut from up-and-coming Scottish writer, George Grant. Delve into this biting critique of modern online working, that weaves laugh-out-loud humour to themes of unfulfillment and existential dread. It’s the show where nothing happens, and nothing has ever been more entertaining.
Jul
10
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Nothing and nobody will stop Roy Tunt from spotting his wild birds and today, a stormy December morning on England's desolate east coast, he pursues a very special mission. With one more tick in his dog-eared notebook, Roy will have recorded all 567 species on the British List.
The prevailing conditions are ideal and the time is perfect to welcome an elusive vagrant from the Asian Steppe, the rare and beautiful Sociable Plover.
Roy sequesters himself away in a bird-spotter's hide on a stretch of flooded marshland. With a packed lunch and a framed photograph of his ex-wife for company, he watches and waits.
But might he, perhaps, have other plans? And who is the tall, dark and handsome stranger battling his way through the flood waters towards him?
All will be revealed inside the hide...
Age Guidance
14+ (Mild Violence)
Jul
10
- 21:00 22:00
- Etcetera Theatre (map)
Someone has dropped an atom bomb on Copenhagen! With all-out war looming, one junior minister in the British Government must somehow stimulate a response from his hopeless superiors. There’s just one thing standing in his way: Microsoft Teams.
Shortlisted for best Scottish theatre Production at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
Welcome to Operation Blank, the subversive black comedy debut from up-and-coming Scottish writer, George Grant. Delve into this biting critique of modern online working, that weaves laugh-out-loud humour to themes of unfulfillment and existential dread. It’s the show where nothing happens, and nothing has ever been more entertaining.
Jul
11
- 14:00 15:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Nothing and nobody will stop Roy Tunt from spotting his wild birds and today, a stormy December morning on England's desolate east coast, he pursues a very special mission. With one more tick in his dog-eared notebook, Roy will have recorded all 567 species on the British List.
The prevailing conditions are ideal and the time is perfect to welcome an elusive vagrant from the Asian Steppe, the rare and beautiful Sociable Plover.
Roy sequesters himself away in a bird-spotter's hide on a stretch of flooded marshland. With a packed lunch and a framed photograph of his ex-wife for company, he watches and waits.
But might he, perhaps, have other plans? And who is the tall, dark and handsome stranger battling his way through the flood waters towards him?
All will be revealed inside the hide...
Age Guidance
14+ (Mild Violence)
Jul
11
- 19:00 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Nothing and nobody will stop Roy Tunt from spotting his wild birds and today, a stormy December morning on England's desolate east coast, he pursues a very special mission. With one more tick in his dog-eared notebook, Roy will have recorded all 567 species on the British List.
The prevailing conditions are ideal and the time is perfect to welcome an elusive vagrant from the Asian Steppe, the rare and beautiful Sociable Plover.
Roy sequesters himself away in a bird-spotter's hide on a stretch of flooded marshland. With a packed lunch and a framed photograph of his ex-wife for company, he watches and waits.
But might he, perhaps, have other plans? And who is the tall, dark and handsome stranger battling his way through the flood waters towards him?
All will be revealed inside the hide...
Age Guidance
14+ (Mild Violence)
Jul
11
- 21:00 22:00
- Etcetera Theatre (map)
Someone has dropped an atom bomb on Copenhagen! With all-out war looming, one junior minister in the British Government must somehow stimulate a response from his hopeless superiors. There’s just one thing standing in his way: Microsoft Teams.
Shortlisted for best Scottish theatre Production at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
Welcome to Operation Blank, the subversive black comedy debut from up-and-coming Scottish writer, George Grant. Delve into this biting critique of modern online working, that weaves laugh-out-loud humour to themes of unfulfillment and existential dread. It’s the show where nothing happens, and nothing has ever been more entertaining.
Jul
12
- 19:00 20:00
- Etcetera Theatre (map)
L.A.'s underground hit has landed in London: Slideshow brings together storytellers, poets, comedians, musicians and more, all speaking their truth with their own slides up on the big screen to prove it. "Shockingly honest stories," cheers the Los Angeles Times, "Downright magical, uncomfortable, and anarchic."
Content warnings: Age 16 and over recommended (some language & adult content)
Jul
14
- 18:30 20:00
- Etcetera Theatre (map)
Lava By James Fritz. An amateur production by arrangement with 'Nick Hern Books', produced by Bare Bones Theatre Company.
A small asteroid has hit the capital city. Thousands have been displaced. And in a town far away, a young man called Vin is finding it hard to talk. The only person who seems to notice is Rach, who resolves to find out what's troubling him and help him find his voice again.
But when Rach's family take in an articulate and charismatic survivor of the asteroid incident, Vin's silence is no longer her first priority. How does it feel when the suffering of others seems more legitimate than our own?
Production team
Director and Producer: Javi Bone
Company Stage Manager: Eleanor Albu
Associate Producer: Jasmine Joseph
Set Designer: Harry Kenyon
Cast
Vin: Alex Taylor-Morton
Rach: Iona Judge
Vicky: Claire Quinn
Jamie: Sky Hui
No age resitrictions
Content warnings:
Mild depictions of self harm
References to death, including death of animals
Family bereavement
Swearing
Depictions of mental illness
Jul
15
- 18:30 20:00
- Etcetera Theatre (map)
Lava By James Fritz. An amateur production by arrangement with 'Nick Hern Books', produced by Bare Bones Theatre Company.
A small asteroid has hit the capital city. Thousands have been displaced. And in a town far away, a young man called Vin is finding it hard to talk. The only person who seems to notice is Rach, who resolves to find out what's troubling him and help him find his voice again.
But when Rach's family take in an articulate and charismatic survivor of the asteroid incident, Vin's silence is no longer her first priority. How does it feel when the suffering of others seems more legitimate than our own?
Production team
Director and Producer: Javi Bone
Company Stage Manager: Eleanor Albu
Associate Producer: Jasmine Joseph
Set Designer: Harry Kenyon
Cast
Vin: Alex Taylor-Morton
Rach: Iona Judge
Vicky: Claire Quinn
Jamie: Sky Hui
No age resitrictions
Content warnings:
Mild depictions of self harm
References to death, including death of animals
Family bereavement
Swearing
Depictions of mental illness
Jul
16
- 18:30 20:00
- Etcetera Theatre (map)
Lava By James Fritz. An amateur production by arrangement with 'Nick Hern Books', produced by Bare Bones Theatre Company.
A small asteroid has hit the capital city. Thousands have been displaced. And in a town far away, a young man called Vin is finding it hard to talk. The only person who seems to notice is Rach, who resolves to find out what's troubling him and help him find his voice again.
But when Rach's family take in an articulate and charismatic survivor of the asteroid incident, Vin's silence is no longer her first priority. How does it feel when the suffering of others seems more legitimate than our own?
Production team
Director and Producer: Javi Bone
Company Stage Manager: Eleanor Albu
Associate Producer: Jasmine Joseph
Set Designer: Harry Kenyon
Cast
Vin: Alex Taylor-Morton
Rach: Iona Judge
Vicky: Claire Quinn
Jamie: Sky Hui
No age resitrictions
Content warnings:
Mild depictions of self harm
References to death, including death of animals
Family bereavement
Swearing
Depictions of mental illness
Jul
17
- 18:30 20:00
- 265 Camden High StreetLondon, England, NW1 7BUUnited Kingdom (map)
Every musical needs a hero and a villain, but who truly steals the show? Is it the sultry, wicked anthems, or the soaring, hopeful ballads? Join us for an exclusive, one-night-only cabaret in the Green Room of Good & Evil as we pit angels against monsters and dreamers against schemers. Experience a thrilling musical showdown featuring tunes from both sides of the story. Expect big voices, raw emotion, and a little theatrical chaos. Who wins, good or evil? Come decide for yourself.
All ages
Jul
17
- 21:00 22:30
- Etcetera Theatre (map)
Lava By James Fritz. An amateur production by arrangement with 'Nick Hern Books', produced by Bare Bones Theatre Company.
A small asteroid has hit the capital city. Thousands have been displaced. And in a town far away, a young man called Vin is finding it hard to talk. The only person who seems to notice is Rach, who resolves to find out what's troubling him and help him find his voice again.
But when Rach's family take in an articulate and charismatic survivor of the asteroid incident, Vin's silence is no longer her first priority. How does it feel when the suffering of others seems more legitimate than our own?
Production team
Director and Producer: Javi Bone
Company Stage Manager: Eleanor Albu
Associate Producer: Jasmine Joseph
Set Designer: Harry Kenyon
Cast
Vin: Alex Taylor-Morton
Rach: Iona Judge
Vicky: Claire Quinn
Jamie: Sky Hui
No age resitrictions
Content warnings:
Mild depictions of self harm
References to death, including death of animals
Family bereavement
Swearing
Depictions of mental illness
Jul
18
- 19:00 20:00
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Set in the communal room of a grief retreat with no therapist in sight, the piece asks: what happens when strangers are left to navigate their loss together?
As tensions rise and defences fall, humour slips through the cracks. It is raw, awkward, and deeply human. Devised collaboratively, ‘That’s Life’ explores how grief is woven through the human experience, and questions if it ever truly leaves us.
Age Restrictions : 16+
Trigger and Content warnings : Discussions of death and substance abuse. Reference of miscarriage. Strong Language.
Jul
18
- 21:00 22:30
- Etcetera Theatre (map)
Lava By James Fritz. An amateur production by arrangement with 'Nick Hern Books', produced by Bare Bones Theatre Company.
A small asteroid has hit the capital city. Thousands have been displaced. And in a town far away, a young man called Vin is finding it hard to talk. The only person who seems to notice is Rach, who resolves to find out what's troubling him and help him find his voice again.
But when Rach's family take in an articulate and charismatic survivor of the asteroid incident, Vin's silence is no longer her first priority. How does it feel when the suffering of others seems more legitimate than our own?
Production team
Director and Producer: Javi Bone
Company Stage Manager: Eleanor Albu
Associate Producer: Jasmine Joseph
Set Designer: Harry Kenyon
Cast
Vin: Alex Taylor-Morton
Rach: Iona Judge
Vicky: Claire Quinn
Jamie: Sky Hui
No age resitrictions
Content warnings:
Mild depictions of self harm
References to death, including death of animals
Family bereavement
Swearing
Depictions of mental illness
