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THE HEN & CHICKENS (@TheHenChickens)
(Production company Unrestricted View)
at The Hen & Chickens Theatre Bar
109 St. Pauls Road, Highbury Corner, London, N1 2NA
LOCATION
The Hen and Chickens Theatre is just across the road from Highbury & Islington Tube and Train Station. It's at the intersection between Highbury Corner and St Paul's Road.
SKETCHFEST 16 - 29 March
The ultimate sketch comedy showdown is set to open this March. A festival, a competition and a celebration of sketch comedy from across the UK and beyond. The sharpest, funniest new work from emerging and established teams alike will perform their shows at both venues, once at The Hen & Chickens Theatre and once at Canal Cafe Theatre. Over the two weeks, judges will select their top three acts. Those three sketch teams will then be invited to perform in the finale, where a guest judge will choose the grand winners ... Let the laughter begin ...!
Bebe Cave: Swoon
29th March, 11th April, 25th May, 8th June 7.30pm £10.50
Character comedian and actress Bebe Cave’s conclusion of her trilogy exploring historical female main-character-syndrome. This time it’s the Victorian era, where men wear top hats and waistcoats and ladies don’t have the vote yet. Good times! Through the lens of the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, some very silly men who were very good at painting, and their most famous muses, Bebe skewers pretentious male artistry and the women they love to drown. Why are women such beautiful artistic objects, especially when they are dead, and why are the men who paint them so difficult and very much alive?
Shoes Daddy
30th March 7.30pm £13.50 – £7.50
We perform shortform and longform improv with total commitment and varying levels of dignity. “★★★★★ – The Guardian*” (*not actually The Guardian, we’ve never been reviewed).
The Nutter Next Door
1st, 2nd & 3rd April 7.30pm £10.50
The Nutter Next Door is a dark comedy murder mystery set on a very ordinary British road.- the sort where everyone knows everyone else’s business, whether they like it or not.
When a storm cuts the power. A murder breaks the silence.
Trapped together, two feuding neighbours race to unmask a killer before the flute plays again.
As the hours pass, theories harden, tempers fray and the line between logic and obsession begins to blur. After all, when everyone’s a bit unhinged, who decides where “normal” ends.
Fast, funny and dangerously unpredictable, The Nutter Next Door is a dark comedy whodunnit where suspicion turns savage and nobody is quite as normal as they seem.
Shake it Up: The Improvised Shakespeare Show
6th April, 4th May, 1st June 7.30pm £13
Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for an age, so we thought we’d give him a hand. Using his language, your audience suggestions and our overactive imaginations, we create a brand new Shakespeare play live on stage! Join ShakeItUp Theatre for an evening of improvised Bard-based Bedlam. Every show is a classic Shakespeare would have been proud to write…. (probably).
“Quick witted, inexhaustible and absolutely hysterical.” *****
London Theatre Reviews
“A great night out!” ****
Broadway World
“Alas I wishe I had written this myselffe”
Christopher Marlowe
Impro Show in French – Comédie Romantique improvisée
8th April 7.45pm £11.50
Notre troupe de comédien.ne.s expérimenté.e.s vous propose un spectacle jouissif et entièrement improvisé sous vos yeux.
Show fully in French – door 7.15pm
Vous donnez vos suggestions et pendant une heure vous regardez votre nouvelle comédie romantique préférée s’écrire sous vos yeux.
Viens rire avec nous.
Ouverture des portes 19h15
You Won’t Help Me
12th – 18th April 7.30pm (+ 3pm matinees on 16th & 18th) £12.50
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
After two hugely successful runs in 2024, ‘You Won’t Help Me’ is back.
’You Won‘t Help Me’ truly is a play like no other. This is not just a play about domestic violence. The script was written by Phoenix Benham, who has created the play, based on her own experiences from three separate abusive relationships.
’You Won’t Help Me’ doesn’t just tackle domestic violence, it forces the audience to be completely immersed within the lives of the leading couple, watching their relationship evolve, and all of the very real situations they find themselves in.
This play is not just about the lead couple though, ’You Won’t Help Me’ also focuses on the people closest to the couple – Their best friends and allows them to speak for how society often reacts to domestic violence relationships.
’You Won’t Help Me’ is a captivating, raw, very real look into domestic violence relationships, and how they REALLY happen, aside from what you usually see them depicted as on the TV.
This play will make you reassess how you, and society thinks about, reacts to, and feels about Domestic Violence.
Knowing that you’re watching someone’s real life experiences, in front of your eyes, really hits home just how serious this subject matter is.
Trigger warnings – Domestic violence, swearing, manipulation, coercive control, attempted suicide, substance abuse and sexual assault.
Channel Surfing At The End of Days
20th – 25th April 7.30pm £17.50
Inspired by the works of David Lynch and Joy Division comes a new apocalyptic anthology. Glimpse the (unbeknownst to them) last moments of a selection of characters – some strange, some frightening, some sad – before an unknown reckoning ends all life on Earth.
An exercise in experiencing humanity in all its fleeting beauty, silliness, and heartache.
BERLIN BERLIN
15th & 17th May 7.30pm £7
BERLIN BERLIN is an award-winning hilarious comedy by Patrick Haudecoeur and Gérald Sibleyras. First performed in 2022, the show is finally making its début in the UK and will be performed in its original language (French) with English subtitles for the first time!
Imitations
20th, 21st & 22nd May 7.30pm £13.50
A surprise visit from Bea’s childhood best mate Frank leads the pair down the twisted, dark path of memory lane.
An intimate play where witty blunt dialogue exposes realities of memory, love, and loss.
A new play by emerging writer and performer Anna Ticehurst, brought to you by Pinch Me Productions.
A Bottle of Something Nice
31st May 4pm £14
A Bottle of Something Nice is a poignant and relevant modern relationship story: a one person show written by Mark Jackson chronicling the life of Rey. Wrestling emotionally with the struggles of a life of promise that delivers so little. The play explores the dynamic of power and subjugation in a relationship played out against a backdrop of serial lying and hostility and a need to be loved. Insecurity, false intention, damage and the inability to be able answer the question “What is love?”. Written by British playwright Mark Jackson also known for other works such as FUFC, My Time of Life and Scarbados.
