Paradise in The Vault

100% Cotton

Liz Cotton Brace yourself for Liz Cotton: she is a comic songwriter unlike any other. Classical guitarist with a penchant for sex and satire, she tells tales of wanton ghosts, artful arthritics and burning desires on bonfire night. 'Sharp, rude and very, very funny' (George Jeffrie,The Windsors). 'Cotton-picking lovely…

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Apropos Theatre The Shipping Forecast has stopped ships becoming wrecks since 1911. Now it helps James cope with his mother's death. James' step-father, Alan, must learn to connect with an autistic child who is his sole responsibility. When James decides that he and Tobias, his imaginary friend, are going to travel to…

Animal Farm (Bond)

ExADUS Theatre Company ExADUS presents Bond's adaptation of Orwell's classic as a reminder that since there have been wars and intolerance, there have been refugees. Don't let those in power fool us that some people are more equal than others. What the critics have said about ExADUS past productions. 'A great…

The Bacchae

Soma Theatre ‘You will acknowledge me. And love me because I am Dionysos. I am the Scream.’ Ritual madness has descended upon Thebes. This retelling of Euripides' The Bacchae is a radical examination of liberation and oppression. The cracks in our moral code are exposed as civilisation wars with instinct, the threat of…

Being Frank About Sinatra

Atina Arts 'If it weren’t for music, I would've ended up in a life of crime.' Frank Sinatra was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, selling over 150 million records worldwide. With all his fame, why was Sinatra so attracted to the Mafia? Was it the power, the notoriety or was it the glamour of…

Bulldogs

Lil' Sister Productions It’s the most pressing question of our time: what’s it like to be white and male in #MeToo America? Luckily for you, Kurt and Bradley have answers! Two years after high school graduation, these two ex-football players rekindle their friendship and seek to resurrect their glory days – but lies…

Catching Rainbows

Kerry Leigh Kerry has broken the habit of a lifetime – pleasing people. In this funny, feel-good solo show she blends stand-up, song parody and literal dance into an inspiring rainbow of comedy. After struggling with the adult world where we are taught to chase rainbows, she gives up trying to become a ninja in time…

Checkpoint

Startled Cat In a time of hard borders and systematic segregation, enigmatic stranger Roman arrives at Checkpoint-4 and attempts to bluff and bribe his way past two incompetent border guards. Daredevil tourist or diehard terrorist? Could the answer lie concealed in the contents of his curiously cumbersome trunk?…

Crystal Bollix presents: The Bitch Ball

Haus of Bollix Ever been called a bitch? Want to escape reality? Or simply want to have a motherf*cking good time? Welcome to the Bitch Ball. Join drag artist Crystal Bollix (and their ever-suffering pianist) as they try to discover their bitch realness in a wildly entertaining fusion of lip-sync, dance, and a lot of…

Dangerously Dark and Somewhat Spectacular

Doncaster Little Theatre X is a prisoner confined to the walls of their cell, placed there for a crime they refuse to discuss. Once a day, X is forced to re-witness the crime via video. Should they refuse, the cell walls shrink around them. X tells it one way, the video another. Whatever the truth, whatever the lies, X…

Early Mornings – The Musical

Joel Goodman Early Mornings – The Musical is a show about writing a show. The lead character decides to start waking up early each morning in order to find the time required to write a musical. Will he overcome his self doubts and the never-ending to-do list of creating a stage production? Early Mornings – The Musical…

Frank Foucault: Desk

Frank Foucault and Shmuck Theatre Thump. James Corden hears a thump underneath his chat-show desk. Thump. It's the evening before the start of his American talk-show career. Thump. This is not a stand-up show. Thump. But it's written and created by my stand-up comedy persona. Thump. I understand that's confusing.

The Grandmothers Grimm

Some Kind of Theatre Cannibalism, werewolf trials, deceit, and murder: Marie Hassenpflug and the Brothers Grimm are trying to edit the darkness out of old stories. But as they do so, the voices of the women who created these tales are lost… What will be saved and what will be forgotten? The Grandmothers Grimm explores…

The Greatest Theatrical Event… Ever!

John Hancock Productions After numerous fires and showbiz bombs, The Grand Carlysle Theatre is amazingly celebrating its 100th anniversary. Experience the historical highlights! A musical view from the iceberg's perspective in Titanic, King Kong leashed and vaudeville acrobats! From kitchen sink dramas to spectacular…

Headhog

Beacon Productions A hedgehog has spontaneously appeared in Malcolm’s brain. No one knows how it got there. Malcolm just wants to know why, jeopardising his relationships with those around him in the process. With unavoidable themes including purpose, anxiety and hedgehog worship, Headhog by Tom Jensen is a dark comedy…

Josh Baulf: Boy

Josh Baulf As a boy, Josh Baulf aspired to be a lad. This hilarious 45 minutes details his failings. Award-winning newcomer Baulf covers childhood, small towns and lads’ holidays. Winner, Get Up Stand-Up 2018. Finalist, Amused Moose New Comic 2018. Shortlist, BBC New Comedy Award. 'A cross between Micky Flanagan and…

The Lament of Dorothy Wordsworth

PenPal Productions Dorothy Wordsworth has finally found her place, living in domestic and literary bliss in the Lake District with her famous brother, William. They write poetry collaboratively, nurture their garden and take inspiration from the mountains they climb together. Dorothy believes they cannot get any…

Liars and Nonsense

Harry T Thompson Productions Ltd Join us as we explore the ways Gilbert and Sullivan changed the world! Through their own words and music, and those of their influences and contemporaries, this fun, intimate show will present operetta in a new light.

The Man From Verona

The Music Firm The Man From Verona – The Trouble with Harry is that he's hanging from a Rope by the Rear Window. If Hitchcock did comedy he'd wish he'd written this. The only problem with the love triangle between Jimmy, Blaze and Mafia Don, Harry Verona, is that Harry's mother is due for dinner and his guts are…

The Musical of Musicals

Musicality In this hilarious satire of musical theatre, one story becomes five delightful musicals, each written in the distinctive style of a different master of the form, from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim. The basic plot: June is an ingenue who can't pay the rent and is threatened by her evil landlord.

The Perfect Opera

Virtually Opera Love! Death! And a pantomime camel! After extensive audience research, we listed the 47 things people demanded in operas and shoehorned them into this show. Macbeth enters, riding a camel. Macbeth and the camel are deeply in love – but when Lady Macbeth finds out, magic, murder and a mad scene ensue.

Prefer Not To Say

Riot Road 'But the terror wasn't about what I was being accused of, the terror was what I could get done for…' Through a series of verbatim monologues, Prefer Not To Say recalls the gripping testimonies of real-life people within the LGBTQ+ community. Through these first-hand accounts you are taken on a journey of…

Quantum

The Nine Streets Theatre Company An original musical composed by Annie Scalmanini, an Apple engineer straight out of the Silicon Valley pressure cooker. Come follow Myrah as she chases game-changing Quantum computing in the high-stakes start-up world. Her new colleague Jacq tries everything from persuasion to sabotage…

A Shadow of Doubt

Time Will Tell Theatre Co Time is precious and when dementia is the villain, who is the criminal? This play is subtly powerful, sympathetic and sharp, sad and funny. A carer is brought in to help a family living with dementia only to discover that there is more than meets the eye. A father-daughter relationship is at…

Sharon Stacy Statue

Bernadette Alice Cranage This is a show about letting others and experiences steal your identity and what to do to get it back. As told by Sharon Stacy Statue.

The Soundtrack of Life

KinkyFish Everyone has a soundtrack to their life – from the songs that get you up on the dance floor to the ones that get you singing in your car, the songs that get you through hard times and the songs you think you know all the words to. From Elvis to Ed and everything in between what songs make up the soundtrack to…

Souvenirs

UCL Runaround Souvenirs presents the real stories of four young people in London who have been involved in cases of harassment and stalking. When does passion become obsession and what is the mental toll on those involved? Age category: 12+

Subject Mater

Woven Voices Three siblings. A kitchen. A box of cassette tapes left by their mother. On them, titles for every chapter of her life. Together, the siblings engage in a ritual game of make-believe. As they uncover the reality behind their mother's veneer, an absurd dystopian world emerges where kitchen appliances become…

These Streets

Palmtree and Pine Greenwich Village, 1961. These Streets follows the lives of four young artists immersed in the folk music scene. Age category: 12+

To Be or Not to Be? Purgatory Is the Question

Falling Stars Theatre The scene is set, the story is well known, the outcome for most is death. It started with a son following his father’s instructions; it ended with 10 people dead in Elsinore and families torn apart. This is now the opportunity for recriminations and truth-telling. The scene is purgatory, the story…

Wait… Let's Have Fun!

Tim Murray Wait… Let's Have Fun! is an hour of stand-up comedy from gay, ridiculous, ultra-positive comedian and internet personality Tim Murray. Growing up a closeted gay boy in middle-of-nowhere Ohio, Tim is constantly trying to be the cool girl in school, at gay clubs in Miami, waiting tables in NYC, hanging out…

Without Your Permission

Interference Dance Company 'What I had experienced had not been a full life, nor was it a full death but it was a real loss.' This performance comments on the female body being policed and manipulated through the politics of abortion. It uses strong, powerful movement to show the strength of women with the aim of…

Zero Hour

Interference Dance Company This abstract contemporary dance show depicts the loss of perception of time in an abstract movement form. It uses a combination of musical scores and movement to portray this, using motivation from dementia and mental illness sufferers.