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Vitamin
Pushing the boundaries of physical comedy, storytelling and clown in 55 minutes of surreal skits, bizarre caricatures and demented accordion playing.
Soho Theatre, London W1D
Thu 20 Jun
£10; £12.50 (£10; £10) / 020 7478 0100
- 22:00
Fri 21 Jun
£10; £12.50 (£10; £10) / 020 7478 0100
- 22:00
Sat 22 Jun
£10; £12.50 (£10; £10) / 020 7478 0100
- 22:00
Up4aMeet?
Bold and brassy musical about a new app for cruising LGBT folks (so think Grindr, but … you know … not Grindr) which leads a couple of flatmates into a spot of bother. Starring X Factor 's Lloyd Daniels.
Electric Circus, Edinburgh
Tue 6 Aug
£14 / 0131 226 4224
Wed 7 Aug
£14 / 0131 226 4224
Thu 8 Aug
£14 / 0131 226 4224
Lantern Theatre, Liverpool
Wed 31 Jul
£16 / 0151 7030000
Marlborough Theatre, Brighton
Fri 19 Jul
£16 / 01273 570028
Sat 20 Jul
£16 / 01273 570028
The Well
Something Underground Theatre company presents Jonathan Brown's mixture of physical theatre and storytelling which explores the story of Brighton's famous hand-dug well.
Hove Town Hall
Sat 10 May
£10 (£8) / 01273 917272
- 21:00
Tina Sparkle & Jolene Dover & Miss Babs
Burlesque show.
Minskys Show Bar, Cardiff
Sat 8 Jun
£3 / 029 2023 3128
- 21:30
Sat 15 Jun
£3 / 029 2023 3128
- 21:30
Fri 29 Nov
£3 / 029 2023 3128
- 21:30
Tongue Fu: Spoken Word, Music, Film, Improvisation
The UK's sharpest poets, storytellers and comedians perform with jaw-dropping improvised soundtracks and films from the genre-hopping Tongue Fu Band and East London design studio CR&D. One of London's liveliest and largest spoken word shows, it is a riotous experiment in live literature, music, film and improvisation.
Royal Festival Hall, London SE1
Wed 29 May
£17.50–£12.50 Booking: £1.75 (Members £0.00) (£11) / 0844 875 0073
- 21:15
Wed 10 Jul
£17.50–£12.50 Booking: £1.75 (Members £0.00) (£11) / 0844 875 0073
- 21:15
Wed 14 Aug
£17.50–£12.50 Booking: £1.75 (Members £0.00) (£11) / 0844 875 0073
- 21:15
Wed 18 Sep
£17.50–£12.50 Booking: £1.75 (Members £0.00) (£11) / 0844 875 0073
- 21:15
Traf Takeover: Pinter Shorts (Family Voices & Victoria Station)
- Directed by: Edward Stambollouian
- Written by: Harold Pinter
Director Edward Stambollouian directs a cast including Joanna Lumley and Andrew Scott, in two of Harold Pinter's short plays.
Trafalgar Studios, London SW1A
Fri 28 Jun
Studio 1
£5 With any ticket to The Hothouse, but not Mon 15 ticket / 0844 871 7627
- 22:00
Trannyshack
Miss Dusty O, Tasty Tim and Lady Lloyd spin commercial dance and pop at a weekly celebration of glamorous polysexuality.
Madame Jojo's, London W1F
Wed 22 May
£5 ( £3) / 020 7734 3040
- 22:00 – 03:00
Wed 29 May
£5 ( £3) / 020 7734 3040
- 22:00 – 03:00
Wed 5 Jun
£5 ( £3) / 020 7734 3040
- 22:00 – 03:00
The Trilogy
Three short plays will be created on the night in one hour from audience suggestions. Whether it's a gritty thriller, a love story or a comedy, The Trilogy is chance to see fresh, responsive and entertaining new theatre.
Exeter Phoenix
Thu 6 Jun
£6 / 01392 667080
- 21:00
Tumble Circus: This is what we do for a living
Come and see the show that won the Best Circus award at Adelaide Fringe in 2012. No fanfare or sequins, just the extraordinary skill and passion of two talents on a lifelong adventure. Featuring flying hulahoops, slapstick acrobatics, aerial rope moves and daring double trapeze.
Royal Festival Hall, London SE1
Tue 6 Aug
£20.50–£15.50 Booking: £1.75 (Members £0.00) (£14) / 0844 875 0073
- 21:15
Wed 7 Aug
£20.50–£15.50 Booking: £1.75 (Members £0.00) (£14) / 0844 875 0073
- 21:15
Thu 8 Aug
£20.50–£15.50 Booking: £1.75 (Members £0.00) (£14) / 0844 875 0073
- 21:15
Fri 9 Aug
£20.50–£15.50 Booking: £1.75 (Members £0.00) (£14) / 0844 875 0073
- 21:15
Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church (S)
Trajal Harrell performs a stripped down, solo version of Twenty Looks imagining dance history as it might have been.
Tramway, Glasgow
Sat 25 May
Festival Pass £14; Evening Pass £6 / 0845 330 3501
Part of ARIKA13 Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight.
- 21:45
The Twits
- Directed by: Andrew Room
- Written by: Roald Dahl
David Wood's darkly comic adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel, which uses UV Blacklight technology to tell the story of the revolting Mr and Mrs Twit.
ADC Theatre, Cambridge
Wed 19 Jun
£5; £6 (£4; £5) / 01223 300085
- 23:00
Thu 20 Jun
£5; £6 (£4; £5) / 01223 300085
- 23:00
Fri 21 Jun
£5; £6 (£4; £5) / 01223 300085
- 23:00
Sat 22 Jun
£5; £6 (£4; £5) / 01223 300085
- 23:00
Unburden: Scratch
In the early stages of research and development, Adrian Howells offers a small group of audience-participants an opportunity to experience an intimate, one-on-one prototype 'performance'.
Battersea Arts Centre, London SW11
Fri 24 May
Donations welcome / 020 7223 2223
- 21:00
#untitled lipsync 2
Lip-sync drag performance from boychild, a young black transgender artist who re-appropriates mainstream fashion and hetro-pop to change its meaning completely.
Tramway, Glasgow
Sat 25 May
Festival Pass £14; Evening Pass £6 / 0845 330 3501
Part of ARIKA13 Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight.
- 21:15
Sun 26 May
Festival Pass £14; Evening Pass £6 / 0845 330 3501
Part of ARIKA13 Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight.
- 22:45
Unwinding Into The Windshield & Brave New World 1
- Directed by: Valentina Ceschi
- Written by: Thomas Eccleshare
A double bill of contemporary theatre pieces: in the first, Marlon Brando, Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor flee a shattered New York together. The second is created by Valentina Ceschi, Kate Lane and Guoda Jaruseviciute, with a script by Thomas Eccleshare.
The Yard, London E9
Tue 2 Jul
£10
- 21:00
Wed 3 Jul
£10
- 21:00
Thu 4 Jul
£10
- 21:00
Vesta
Fighetta welcomes you to the world of Vesta! A theatrical, darkly comic celebration of humanity, inspired by Italian film-maker Federico Fellini and brought to you by six sordid women. With startling imagery and outrageous behaviour, this playful physical piece features blood, grapes and a wedding (possibly). Suitable for…
The Temple, Brighton
Wed 22 May
Thu 23 May
Fri 24 May
Window
A thrilling multi-media performance examining our obsessive relationship with computer technology. Witness Alice fall ever deeper into the world behind the screen in this powerful and chilling contemporary tale. " IdeasTap fund winners Witness Theatre are back after last year’s sell-out performance. “…remember the name…
The Warren, Brighton
Thu 30 May
Fri 31 May
Window
Witness Theatre presents a multimedia performance in which a woman becomes entangled in an obsessive relationship involving computer technology.
The Warren, Brighton
Thu 30 May
£9 (£7.50)
- 21:00
Fri 31 May
£9 (£7.50)
- 21:00
A Year And A Day: Faded Image Theatre
- Written by: Christina Reid
In an ancient garden, hear the story of the two tribes who fought long ago, and of the two ghosts who still haunt the earth. This fully immersive performance holds the nature of humanity to the light, and questions its desire to fight and separate.
Theatre Royal, Winchester
Mon 24 Jun
£6 / 01962 840440
- 21:00
You Know Me, I'm Jack Ruby!
November 24th 1963, 11.21am. Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspected assassin of the 35th President of The United States, is gunned down in the basement of the Dallas Police Department by a man who shouldn't be there: local nightclub owner Jacob Rubenstein, also known as Jack Ruby. The Mafia's man in Dallas. Really? Take a seat.
The Dukebox Theatre, Hove
Fri 31 May
Sat 1 Jun
You Know Me I'm Jack Ruby!
Clifford Barry presents a drama based around the life of the man who murdered John F Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, hoping to dispel some of the many questions that surround his life and motives.
The Dukebox Theatre, Hove
Fri 31 May
£8 (£6) / 01273 917272
- 21:15
Sat 1 Jun
£8 (£6) / 01273 917272
- 21:15



