Golden Goose Theatre at The Golden Goose pub,

146 Camberwell New Road

Camberwell

London

SE5 0RR

Nearest tube: Oval (Northern Line)

Nearest bus stop: Vassal Road (36, 185, 436, N136)

13th Night Theatre Company Presents:

Women Beware Women

Written by Thomas Middleton

Tues 11th - Sat 15th March 2025

“O the deadly snares that women set for women…”

Lust, desire, obsession… the women of Florence do not live, they merely survive. When aristocratic Bianca elopes to marry the low-born Leantio, her life takes a turn when spotted by the Duke. Meanwhile, the young Isabella prepares to be married off - much to the dismay of her uncle. Trouble brews when the conniving Lady Livia meddles in the ranks of Florence’s high society, forging lewd, illicit relationships. A dangerous game is at afoot, Bianca and Isabella must play through the lies and betrayals to win.

Once the truth surfaces, beware... the bloodiest of Jacobean tragedies joins the 13th Night Theatre Company repertoire.

A brilliant cast of eleven takes on Middleton’s most provocative work, ambitiously re-imagined under director Mya Grace Kelln. With movement direction by Isabella Garland, this experimental, physical theatre revival brings Shakespeare’s finest contemporary into the spotlight.

This evocative tragedy marks the second mainstage work of the 13th Night Theatre Company, a collective designed to deliver artistically-demanding stories. Emerging artists from around the world have joined forces to push creative boundaries, demonstrating that challenging theatre can be done by anyone, in any venue, at any level.

13th Night’s fearless revival runs March 11-15 at the Golden Goose Theatre. Join us for an absurdist retelling of the early modern world’s most radical… Women Beware Women.

Charlie Folorunsho Presents:

UNBOUND

Stories - Music - Gongs - More
Exploring music from across the universe

16th March 2025

UNBOUND invites you on a journey of merging & a mixing of artforms. Accompanied by digital animation & visuals,

UNBOUND will all be live & improvised.

Charlie Folorunsho, improvised accompaniment by musician Paul Brett, tells his story living in the city since health conditions came & challenged him & in turn ask the question to the audience, just how aware are we of the ableist world?

Alicia, an experienced & travelled percussionist, takes us on a journey through her vivid imagination via the gongs.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_hushhour_/

G - delic, expressing his eclectic sounds & vibrations of the universe. All to be supported & improvised on the day by Django Pinter & his magical skills as he brings the digital animation world alive. 

Instagram: https://planetutopia1.bandcamp.com/album/magish

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Kaleidoscope Theatre Festival 2025

Tues 18th - Sat 22nd March

Kaleidoscope Theatre Festival is back!

Kaleidoscope presents the recent Mountview MA Acting and Musical Theatre graduates as the newest wave of bold and exciting theatre makers. Produced entirely by the newly graduated cohort, this week of new writing gives emerging performers a platform to debut their work, many of which were developed from projects at Mountview.

Presenting a five-night lineup of performers from Norway, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Czech Republic, China, Australia, the US, and the UK, Kaleidoscope showcases the variety of voices launching from Mountview’s newly graduated cohort. Expect one-woman anatomical comedies, mental health musicals, an experimental scratch night, and much more!

Eleanor Cobb & Fanny Le Pironnec Present:

Do Birds Hide To Die?

Fri 4th - Sat 5th April

Created by graduates of RADA, ‘Do Birds Hide to Die?’ follows a mother, a writer, who is haunted by the presence of her daughter. She must confront their shared past to finish her book and to heal. This is a story about intergenerational trauma, grief, mental health, and the complex truth of a mother-daughter relationship. There are moments of laughter, tenderness, and light that punctuate the heaviness of their journey.

Created and performed by Eleanor Cobb and Fanny Le Pironnec.

With help from Jamie Blake, Ellie Cooper, Jake Walton and Ned Sanders.

Jo Kelen Presents:

Achilles Death of the Gods

Thurs 10th - Sat 12th April 2025

★★★★★ - Get Your Coats On

★★★★ - Broadway Baby, The Student, Dereck Awards

Fresh off its debut run in Edinburgh Fringe 2024, Achilles Death of the Gods, a reimagining of the myth of Achilles in verse, comes to the Golden Goose.

The warrior, Achilles, finds himself fighting in a war that is not his. Following a bloody and tragic sequence of events, Achilles’ lover Patroclus is killed in battle. Achilles, enveloped in an insatiable rage, inflicts unspeakable horrors on those around him.

Speaking about the script development process, Jo Kelen said: “I decided to create this work as a way to respond to and attempt to process the wars raging around us”. Indeed, the story of Achilles encapsulates how grief turns into rage and what the terrible consequences are if we, as individuals, and as a society, do not process it. Achilles believes the only way to assuage his grief over the loss of his love, is through revenge. He wants compensation. He fills the river with bodies, kills and mutilates the body of Hector. It is only when he realises that this will never give him compensation for Patroclus’ death that he stops and weeps. Watching this show is a way to process the wars going on around us at a safe distance. Achilles is not real. The story, however much Kelen has changed it, is ancient.

Achilles Death of the Gods is written, performed and produced by Jo Kelen. Jo is a poet and has recently completed her MA at the Poetry School. Achilles Death of the Gods is her first play. Jo also teaches Classics at a secondary school in South London. Achilles Death of the Gods is an amalgamation of everything she loves – poetry, storytelling and Greek mythology.

Golden Goose Comedy Events

13 April

Award-winning Stand-Up and resident MC Madeleine MacMahon (Max Turner Winner; Funny Women Semi-Finalist; as seen on BBC/Amazon) hosts an epic line-up of professional comedians at the Golden Goose, with acts from BBC’s New Comedy Awards, LGBTQ+ Comedian of the Year, Leicester Comedy Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as well as tour supports for household names such as Tom Allen.

Expect riotous laughs with chilled Sunday vibes and home in time for an early start on Monday. Or got Monday off? Stay for a beer after!

New Monthly night on Sundays here at the Golden Goose.

Endlings

Tues 15th - Thurs 17th April

1977, nuclear crisis. 2025, climate collapse. We’ve been here before.

In an act of deep hopelessness, and profound love, humanity built a time capsule of music, pictures of frogs, and a cry for help, sending it into the silence of space, aboard the Voyager probes.

Endlings is a mourning dance. An emotive physical theater piece, based on the contents of the real-life Voyager records. Five womxn, whose voices were not important enough to memorialize in space, try to cope with the love that is the only living thing left on Earth.

This is a present from a small distant world.

T. Regina Theatre Company Presents:

Scenes with girls

Tues 22nd April - Sat 5th May

Tosh and Lou. 22 scenes.

Other friends have come, got boyfriends and gone.

So what? Tosh and Lou have each other. They’ll never be like other girls.

This is love. This is enough.