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Tahmine Named Him Sohrab


It offers a different perspective on the story of Rostam and Sohrab from the Shahnameh, with a myth-breaking approach and a focus on the female ...

Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night
12/2 - 12/3/2024


Actors From The London Stage (AFTLS) undertakes the same work it has for over 40 years – spending a week's residency at each university it ...

Smokestack Farewell


An evening of radical poetry to celebrate 20 years of Smokestack Books- estabished by Andy Croft to publish oppositional, dissident, unfashionable and radical poets. After 20 ...

The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
11/28 - 12/14/2024


This new, subversive adaptation of The Great Gatsby retells the Jazz-Age classic from a queer, feminist perspective. Nick, a young and ambitious stockbroker, is befriended ...

Do Horses Have Teeth, Sir?
Do Horses Have Teeth, Sir?
12/20 - 12/22/2024


ohn Hegley, the star of radio, T.V. and school assemblies, returns with a celebratory festive jamboree chock-full of daft and deft wordplay, sing-along numbers and ...


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Guest Blog: Voila! Theatre Festival Artists Discuss Language Diversity and Interpretation


by Guest Author - November 15, 2024

London's Voila! Theatre Festival is currently hosting 72 shows across nine venues, with 35 different languages being spoken....

Review: DR. STRANGELOVE, Noel Coward Theatre


by Gary Naylor - October 30, 2024

New stage version of Stanley Kubrick's black comedy lands with as much force today as it did in cinemas 60 years ago...

Voila Theatre Festival Will Play At Venues Across London Next Month


by A.A. Cristi - October 17, 2024

Discover the VOILA THEATRE FESTIVAL take place in London next month, showcasing a diverse range of performances across multiple venues. ...

Review Roundup: BRACE BRACE at the Royal Court Theatre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 10, 2024

See what the critics are saying about Brace Brace at the Royal Court Theatre. Learn more about the play written by Oli Forsyth and read all of the critic's reviews for the production....

Newly Expanded VOILA! THEATRE FESTIVAL To Relaunch This November 


by A.A. Cristi - September 03, 2024

Voila! Theatre Festival returns to London from November 4-24, expanding to nine venues with 72 shows in 35 languages, featuring 350 artists. The festival highlights emerging and politically challenging theatre....

Review: MEDEA GOSPERIA, Cockpit Theatre


by Olivia Woods - July 04, 2024

Caribbean landscapes and musical interludes are not typically associated with the monstrous Medea. However, in Medea Gosperia, Thee Black Swan reimagines Euripides’ classic Greek myth through a fusion of diverse musical styles, showcasing the exceptional vocal talent of its ensemble....

HEARTSTOPPER's Cormac Hyde-Corrin Will Make Stage Debut in NORTHBOUND BOY at King's Head Theatre


by Stephi Wild - June 20, 2024

Netflix Heartstopper's Cormac Hyde-Corrin will make his stage debut this August in the world premiere of Northbound Boy by Oberon Books founder James Hogan. ...

Ryan Kopel and More Will Lead New Production of DEAR EVAN HANSEN at Nottingham Playhouse


by Stephi Wild - June 11, 2024

Nottingham Playhouse has announced the full cast for the brand-new production of the Olivier, Tony and Grammy award-winning Best Musical DEAR EVAN HANSEN....

Interview: 'It's Going to Feel Like A Festival in A Few Hours': Director Jimmy Fairhurst and Actor Les Dennis on TWELFTH NIGHT at Shakespeare North Playhouse


by Sarah OHara - April 05, 2024

Directed by Jimmy Fairhurst and starring Les Dennis as Malvolio, Not Too Tame return to the Shakespeare North Playhouse this summer, with an exciting new production of Twelfth Night....

THE TAILOR-MADE MAN Will Be the Inaugural Prodution at the Stage Door Theatre in Drury Lane


by Stephi Wild - February 26, 2024

A major new production of the multi award nominated The Tailor-Made Man is coming to the Stage Door Theatre in Drury Lane, the first pub theatre in the West End....

Past Shows

Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night
11/14 - 11/16/2024


After twins, Sebastian, and Viola, are shipwrecked at the start of the play, Viola must figure out a way to survive in the foreign land ...

Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night
11/14 - 11/16/2024


After twins, Sebastian, and Viola, are shipwrecked at the start of the play, Viola must figure out a way to survive in the foreign land ...

It Only Takes One of Us


The Egyptian/American Comedian Ahmed Ahmed elevates wisecracks over Islamophobia in new special ‘It Only Takes One of Us’ Last year Ahmed Ahmed performed in London ...

An Evening Of Unnecessary Detail - The First Draft Sessions


Join one, two or (sometimes) all three of science comedy trio  Festival of the Spoken Nerd  as they try out nerdy new material, live and ...

An Evening Of Unnecessary Detail - The First Draft Sessions


Join one, two or (sometimes) all three of science comedy trio  Festival of the Spoken Nerd  as they try out nerdy new material, live and ...

An Evening Of Unnecessary Detail - The First Draft Sessions


Join one, two or (sometimes) all three of science comedy trio  Festival of the Spoken Nerd  as they try out nerdy new material, live and ...

An Evening Of Unnecessary Detail - The First Draft Sessions


Join the science comedy trio of stand-up mathematician Matt Parker, experiments maestro Steve Mould and geek songstress Helen Arney as they try out nerdy new ...

Guinea Pigs
Guinea Pigs
11/10


Three big sisters across cultures are united by a single purpose: to stop being so damn responsible for everyone. But when their  Generative Response Aid ...

Guinea Pigs
Guinea Pigs
11/10


Three big sisters across cultures are united by a single purpose: to stop being so damn responsible for everyone. But when their  Generative Response Aid ...

You Can Take Me Home Toni
You Can Take Me Home Toni
11/9 - 11/10/2024


YOU CAN TAKE ME HOME TONI An alternative theatre-cabaret extravaganza! Dive into Lorraine's hilarious & heartfelt journey as a die-hard Toni Basil fan! Expect outrageous ...

Stampin' In The Graveyard
Stampin' In The Graveyard
11/8 - 11/9/2024


“This is a dispatch from the last theatre still open on this earth: your imagination.” Rose is an AI chatbot that gives advice for the ...

Stampin' in the Graveyear
Stampin' in the Graveyear
11/8 - 11/9/2024


“This is a dispatch from the last theatre still open on this earth: your imagination.” Rose is an AI chatbot that gives advice for the ...

Wall Of Babel
Wall Of Babel
11/7 - 11/9/2024


Three bodies on stage, confronting each other’s tongue; mother tongue. They are in a state of constant translation; until words are not enough, until movement, ...

MASO SCHISM
MASO SCHISM
11/5 - 11/8/2024


When does catharsis become self-harm? Where do we draw the line? Best friends Katie and Anastasia have shared everything since childhood — from scraping their ...

Copla: a Spanish Cabaret


Copla, practically unknown in England, is essential to Spain's cultural and political history. Copla songs channel the queer and migrant experiences in Spain’s early musicals, ...

Copla: a Spanish Cabaret


Copla, practically unknown in England, is essential to Spain's cultural and political history. Copla songs channel the queer and migrant experiences in Spain’s early musicals, ...

Copla: a Spanish Cabaret


Copla, practically unknown in England, is essential to Spain's cultural and political history. Copla songs channel the queer and migrant experiences in Spain’s early musicals, ...

Copla: a Spanish Cabaret


Copla, practically unknown in England, is essential to Spain's cultural and political history. Copla songs channel the queer and migrant experiences in Spain’s early musicals, ...

Copla: a Spanish Cabaret


Copla, practically unknown in England, is essential to Spain's cultural and political history. Copla songs channel the queer and migrant experiences in Spain’s early musicals, ...

Copla: a Spanish Cabaret


Copla, practically unknown in England, is essential to Spain's cultural and political history. Copla songs channel the queer and migrant experiences in Spain’s early musicals, ...

Copla: a Spanish Cabaret


Copla, practically unknown in England, is essential to Spain's cultural and political history. Copla songs channel the queer and migrant experiences in Spain’s early musicals, ...

Copla: a Spanish Cabaret


Copla, practically unknown in England, is essential to Spain's cultural and political history. Copla songs channel the queer and migrant experiences in Spain’s early musicals, ...

Copla: a Spanish Cabaret


Copla, practically unknown in England, is essential to Spain's cultural and political history. Copla songs channel the queer and migrant experiences in Spain’s early musicals, ...

Copla: a Spanish Cabaret


Copla, practically unknown in England, is essential to Spain's cultural and political history. Copla songs channel the queer and migrant experiences in Spain’s early musicals, ...

metaδραματικό | postdramatic


An urban swimmer is looking for the sea | a woman is looking for her identity in a fragmented, absurd and ridiculous world 35 small ...

Unsewn
Unsewn
11/6


"Unsewn" follows Durga and Eva, two women confronting patriarchal oppression. Durga works in an Eastern factory under harsh conditions, while Eva suffers domestic abuse in ...

Miniatura V


Our Miniatura scratch night presents four 10-minute work-in-progress performances, each followed by a short Q&A with the artists and audience. Come for the innovative panlingual ...

384 Days
384 Days
11/3


384 Days is a one-woman, tragic comedy. Set in a mental health unit, it follows Molly O'Riordan, an aspiring magician, over the course of a ...

Valchera's
Valchera's
10/30 - 11/2/2024


From the Alps to London... a story of emigration, courage and friendship. London, on the cusp of war. Valchera’s is more than a restaurant. It ...

Knife On The Table
Knife On The Table
10/5 - 10/26/2024


A new Bruntwood-longlisted play about gangs, love and family, and communities battling ambition, poverty and identity.   Flint is an excluded teen, a "soldier", dealing ...

Facing The Music: The story of Marcus Decker


This one-night-only event tells the story of Marcus Decker. The brave climate defender who climbed the QE2 Bridge to demand our government halt new oil ...

Song Foundation


Four break-out acts come together for a vintage night of exhilarating music at The Cockpit. They know each other, they share a love of great ...

Andrias Scheuchzeri


Music, text & visual design: porte renaud An excerpt from the opera Andrias Scheuchzeri, created by porte renaud and inspired by Karel apek’s novel War ...

The Improvesarios - Improvised Opera


Join The Improvesarios as they attempt to create a fully improvised, brand-new opera based on your suggestions! Sixty minutes of mayhem where their fate is ...

Ghost
Ghost
9/28


This event is part of: Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2024 If you died, who would you want to haunt? 'Ghost' is built on ...

The Game
The Game
9/28


This event is part of: Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2024 A dark, surreal comedy about the human relationship with technology and digital culture ...

Mount Herzog


This event is part of: Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2024   Mount Herzog tells the story of a filmmaker's dream, mobilised against nature, as ...

I Shot Mussolini


This event is part of: Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2024   A staged libretto reading of a new opera in progress telling the ...

Senses/You Can't Kill the Spirit


This event is part of: Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2024   Senses Music: Roger Illingworth. Words: Betty Francis, Roger Illingworth, Aga Serugo-Lugo, Dan ...

The Acts of Brízida Vaz/Heart of the Matter


This event is part of: Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2024   The Acts of Brízida Vaz "The Acts of Brízida Vaz" is a ...

A Life of One's Own


This event is part of: Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2024 Imagine being 19 years old and seeing the ocean for the first time. ...

Letters
Letters
9/24


This event is part of: Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2024   Letters is a multi-disciplinary music theatre work-in-development in collaboration with Canadian composer ...

The Joy Of Opera


This event is part of: Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2024   Like many others, we've had a fantastic 2024 with Tête à Tête, ...

Aqua Tofana


This event is part of: Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2024 1650’s Rome, wealth, power and politics pervade the city. The ruling class asserts ...

Rendezvous with Revenge


This event is part of: Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2024   “Rendezvous with Revenge” is a triple bill exploring subjects of revenge, betrayal ...

The Parting/Buster's Trip


This event is part of: Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2024 Two operatic vignettes adapted from texts by Federico García Lorca. The Parting (Quimera) ...

QueerLove
QueerLove
9/20


This event is part of: Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2024   QueerLove explores relationships in the LGBTQ+ community through the medium of the ...

Ciphers
Ciphers
9/19


This event is part of: Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2024 Music: Greg Arrowsmith Words: Bernadine Corrigan In Knossos, so the myth goes, Theseus ...

Star Quality


This event is part of: Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2024   Star Quality is an alternative opera for fixed media and live performers, ...

Horse Person Opera


Music: Ábel M.G.E. Words: Aubrey Lavender Power. Respect. Hooves. Two brothers are fused into one centaur. They will have to work together if they are ...

Serenoid
Serenoid
9/17


This event is part of: Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2024 Music/Words: Robin Fiedler Words: Wyatt Gaer There will be a touch tour before ...

Serenoid
Serenoid
9/17


This event is part of: Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2024 Music/Words: Robin Fiedler Words: Wyatt Gaer There will be a touch tour before ...

Wankernomics: As Per My Last Email


After sold-out Australian tours and millions of views online, the Wankernomics consultants are here for a deep-dive into the bureaucracy, buzzwords and bullshit of work. ...

Impromptu Shakespeare


Hold onto your doublets, ruffs and trunk hose. The Bard is back! With story and verse improvised in the moment, enjoy a riotous new Shakespeare ...

Navarre
Navarre
8/22 - 8/25/2024


"Step into the hazy, sexy world of  NAVARRE , London's infamous underground jazz club, for the  party of the century . Well known as the ...

Fleecehold
Fleecehold
8/22 - 8/24/2024


Fleecehold, a political comedy, charts the journey of three extraordinary women from the North-West who have fought to abolish leasehold over the last eight years ...

Spider
Spider
8/19 - 8/21/2024


Fresh from its runner up award for Best Show at Bitesize Festival, Riverside Studios (Feb 24), and its sell-out run at South London Theatre, comes  ...

The Lancashire Witches


It’s 1612 and Lancashire is ablaze with a witch hunt. Nine-year-old Jennet Device unwittingly becomes the face of a witch trial. Her testimony, unprecedented for ...

Sanctuary
Sanctuary
8/20


Sanctuary is a dance theatre production exploring what it means to search for sanctuary and maintain it -  looking at what it means physically, mentally, ...

Maar, Dora
Maar, Dora
8/4 - 8/18/2024


Following on from a sold out debut run at the Old Red Lion Theatre earlier this year, Dora Maar is back for more. Dora Maar ...

The Circle of Everything


An interdisciplinary solo performance featuring live painting, aerial dance and moving images. Using the shape of the circle, the work celebrates the life force that ...

Heart
Heart
8/12 - 8/13/2024


HEART is a one man show written and performed by myself, Reece Lewis. This is a passion project that is essentially a love letter to ...

The Restaurant
The Restaurant
8/12 - 8/13/2024


The Restaurant  is an immersive dance theatre program that delves into Emotional blackmail related to friends, family, and relationships. Life is full of all kinds ...

Love and Information by Caryl Churchill


Romance is virtual. Memories are trapped in the walls. Violence is only a stone's throw away. In the age of artificiality, connection feels as near ...

Because
Because
8/6 - 8/9/2024


“I’m guessing – or rather I’ve been told – that therapy is simply there to probe questions. Questions that can help one find answers. Answers ...

Real Eyes
Real Eyes
8/8 - 8/9/2024


After it's premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe and a sold out run at the Watford Fringe, "Real Eyes" returns to London! Real Eyes is a ...

Our Brothers in Cloth
Our Brothers in Cloth
8/5 - 8/7/2024


Bunderr, rural Ireland, 1995. When a young man takes his own life (the second in almost a year), his brother, Alan, comes to realise the ...

Rain Weaver
Rain Weaver
8/1 - 8/3/2024


“When the storms cleared, the people were gone. Nothing was left but heat and… One mountain, one last place where the rain survived.” When the ...

Ripper
Ripper
8/1 - 8/3/2024


In London, 1888, a bold young woman reporter desperate to make a name for herself starts tracking a string of gruesome murders. When she finds ...

Hex Sells!
Hex Sells!
7/31


“We are the grand-daughters of the witches you didn’t burn!”. Big mistake. Huge! What is it about the 'Witch' that fascinates us so? Did the ...

Sin Eater
Sin Eater
7/30 - 7/31/2024


We find ourselves in a pub during closing hours, suddenly a group of strangers rush in seeking safety. There has been an explosion. The explosion ...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare


Step into the world of corporate intrigue in ALL IN ACTORS modern "Hamlet" adaptation. Witness Hamlet's struggle amidst the sleek corridors of power, as he ...

Hits & Pieces #7 (Britney Spears)


With a taste of a poison paradise I'm addicted to you Don't you know that you're toxic? And I love what you do Don't you ...

Medea Gosperia
Medea Gosperia
7/2 - 7/20/2024


Thee Black Swan is delighted to bring their live music show to The Cockpit -  the perfect venue for this dramatic and full-on, brand new ...

Seneca's Oedipus
Seneca's Oedipus
6/27 - 6/30/2024


A Ted Hughes adaptation of  Seneca’s Oedipus.   Directed by Simon Cotton.  ‘A man's fear of fate is often his fate. Leaping to avoid it...he meets ...

Jupiter's Ghost
Jupiter's Ghost
6/22 - 6/23/2024


In humanity’s future, the connection between humans and artificial intelligence has gradually blurred into the realm of cybernetic organisms. Do any ghosts of humanity still ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
6/19 - 6/20/2024


Head to a festival to celebrate a wedding, run away for love, get lost, have fairies manipulate your romantic affections, fight, sleep, wake up, get ...

The Good Women
The Good Women
6/5 - 6/15/2024


“The Good Women” is a new, funny, bold and romantic play written, performed and directed by an all-female team from the UK, Ireland and Europe. ...

ToTheCore Company


A ToTheCore Company production dedicated to the memory of co-founder Donald McLennan who not only was instrumental in creating MPA College but also inspired many ...

Gustav Holst's Operetta - The Idea


Discover the delight of this little known, family fun, theatrical operetta, which makes a welcome return after it's UK premier during lockdown. The Prime Minister ...

Super Connected Live


Is it time to break up with our phones? A stage adaptation of the critically acclaimed new album by Tim Arnold, ‘Super Connected LIVE’ is ...

The Last Time I Saw Caileigh


The Last Time I Saw Caileigh is a dark, funny and heartfelt one-act play that explores queer erasure through the lens of an unsolved mystery. ...

RTA Kids Showcase


Rom Theatre Arts Kids presents "What Dreams Are Made Of!" - showcasing the exceptional talents of RTA Kids' wonderful students. Come and watch one of ...

Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
5/16 - 6/1/2024


Metamorphoses is a radical reimagining of Ovid’s classic poem from the 1st century. A voyeurist is ripped apart by their own hounds. A woman looks ...

Holy Name - A new play by Michael Eichler


Holy Name  In a 1960’s neighbourhood,  a working class family struggles to find unity in a home of psychological battles and chaos. Paying the price for free ...

Semele (Handel)
Semele (Handel)
5/3 - 5/4/2024


For the first time, Ensemble OrQuesta will bring one of their opera academies to The Cockpit, featuring singers from all over the world, in the ...

Top Girls
Top Girls
4/30 - 5/1/2024


Caryl Churchill’s ’Top Girls’ interrogates issues raised by second wave feminism in the era of Thatcher, Reagan and a free market economy. How do you ...

The Importance of Being Earnest


Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff are two eccentric gentlemen, both leading double lives in order to enjoy the pleasures of the country as well as ...

Poetry Plays
Poetry Plays
4/18 - 4/20/2024


POETRY PLAYS… ...with theatre. with music. it plays with dance. and storytelling. with puppets, pop-up books and film. poetry plays with poetry. with time. with ...

Hits and Pieces


If you want my future, forget my past If you wanna get with me, better make it fast Now don't go wasting my precious time ...

Honey Badger
Honey Badger
4/10 - 4/13/2024


U.K premiere ‘The honey badger. Brave. Fearless. Always finds its way or creates one. Can endure almost any harm and never gives up. All of ...

Phone Killer
Phone Killer
3/27 - 3/28/2024


The story follows the plight of parenting and how one fatal decision can cause a person to lose it all. Meet Joseph. On the outside, ...

The Sad Club
The Sad Club
3/23 - 3/24/2024


“It’s ok. I know your head’s fallen off and I just want you to know everyone’s has.” Life. Love. Family. Navigating the perils of growing ...

Every Other Mother
Every Other Mother
1/24 - 3/20/2024


You’ve never been to a mum and baby event like this! We’re giving unheard mamas a platform to talk about their experiences of motherhood in ...

Dad Is Not My Friend
Dad Is Not My Friend
3/14 - 3/17/2024


Dad Is Not My Friend  explores the relationship between three young people and their migrant parents. Torn between tradition and the need to fit in ...

Mohand & Peter
Mohand & Peter
2/28 - 2/29/2024


"You know Peter, when I close my eyes I can see my country. I can see my village. I can see my people..."  A backflip ...

Woman, Life, Freedom Revolution in Iran


In the run-up to International Women’s Day 2024, One Law For All pay homage to and celebrate ‘the Woman, Life, Freedom’ revolution in Iran. Programme ...

Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) - Mozart


Ensemble OrQuesta returns to The Cockpit with their first Mozart opera in London, featuring a brand new minimalist production by Marcio da Silva. With EO ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2/14 - 2/17/2024


William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Directed by Mark Akrill ‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’ Shakespeare’s hymn to the imagination and ...

Fairytale On Church Street
Fairytale On Church Street
12/8 - 12/30/2023


A magical, musical adventure featuring everyone's favourite fairytale characters, set in the bustling multicultural market and vibrant community of Marylebone’s Church Street. There's trouble on Church ...

Safehouse
Safehouse
12/13 - 12/14/2023


Are gay men incapable of love? It’s what Blake and Dan ask each other the night they meet after a gay play.  They don’t exchange ...

Desert Poet
Desert Poet
11/30 - 12/3/2023


A World Première with poetry by Imru' Al-Qays and Adnan al-Sayegh stitched and mounted by SplitMoon Theatre timed with the 20th anniversary of the allied ...

Pinocchio
Pinocchio
11/11


Geppetto the carpenter carves a puppet called Pinocchio from a block of wood. But the naughty puppet abandons Gepetto in favour of a life of ...

Masque Of Vengeance
Masque Of Vengeance
11/7 - 11/9/2023


Adapted from  The Revenger's Tragedy , a fine cast of 9 singers brings this new, tragicomic opera to life. "Would all those there were turned ...

Of Walking On Thin Ice (Camino To COP26)


“Can one footprint imprint on our collective consciousness and create change?” A walk; a pilgrimage, an odyssey for the planet. Five hundred miles from London ...

Can’t See For Looking
Can’t See For Looking
10/18 - 11/4/2023


When Rosa, an impoverished Filipina domestic worker, finds herself enslaved in London, she is desperate to escape - her faith and love of Karaoke dancing ...

All Aboard The Friend Ship


Join ShayShay on a storybook adventure from the high seas to the ocean floor! Settle into the seabed for a series of gorgeous stories featuring ...

Steinbeck’s ‘Canary Row’
Steinbeck’s ‘Canary Row’
10/10 - 10/15/2023


An adaptation of John Steinbeck's classic novel by Sam Chittenden - Approved by the Steinbeck Estate. Cannery Row is set during the Great Depression in ...

New Stuff
New Stuff
10/1


New Stuff is a monthly programme of rehearsed readings of new writing, hosted live in The Cockpit's Studio 1. Taking place every first Sunday of ...

I’ll Huff & I’ll Puff…


help us!  Join us for a fun workshop where children can experiment with the show's characters, try out new ways to make music, teach us ...

Cupboard Love


This event is part of Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2023 This is the first ever London staging of Madeleine Dring's (1923 - 1977) ...

Songs Of Descent


This event is part of Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2023 Songs of Descent is a monodrama for singer and Sinfonietta ensemble by trans ...

1944: Home Fires


This event is part of Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2023 The idol and the thug: well-known Queer Ivor Novello was the most successful ...

Bermondsey, 1983


In 1983, Peter Tatchell stood as the Labour candidate for the seat of Bermondsey in the upcoming by-election. Following a bitter and fractious campaign that ...

New Stuff
New Stuff
9/3


New Stuff is a monthly programme of rehearsed readings of new writing, hosted live in The Cockpit's Studio 1. Taking place every first Sunday of ...

Fierce Love


This event is part of Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2023 Immerse yourself in "Fierce Love," a compelling work-in-progress opera that vividly captures the ...

Plastic Bodies


This event is part of Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2023 An Opera about Opera How does an industry so obsessed with the voice ...

Judith
Judith
9/1


This event is part of Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2023 A one woman show based on Bluebeard's Castle by Béla Bartók. A work ...

The Hedge The World & Everything


This event is part of Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2023 The project, the hedge the world and everything, is a time based installation ...

The Last Siren


This event is part of Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2023 “O traveller on the wine dark sea!”  In Ancient Greece, two sirens with ...

The Golden Thread / Medusa


This event is part of Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2023   A double bill. The Golden Thread The Golden Thread is a contemporary ...

The Metamorphosis


This opera celebrates the centenary of Kafka's work with a faithful yet fresh and up-to-date adaptation.  The adaptation is based on the feeling of claustrophobia ...

Arthur
Arthur
8/29


“Did it have to be me?” ARTHUR is a new piece of music theatre on the final hours of King Arthur.  Merlin returns and visits ...

Songs Of Hope


A song cycle of hope located within a field recorded and sonically manipulated soundscape, including words, songs and music.  Contemporary writers have responded to the ...

Stoney End, The Songs Of Laura Nyro


Hilary Jean Watts embodies the musical legacy of Laura Nyro in her London debut performance, Stoney End: The Songs of Laura Nyro. The songbook of ...

The Making Of Frederick The Great


Out of 117 billion people who have ever lived on this earth, only 38 have been bestowed the title of ‘the Great’ in history. So, ...

The Process
The Process
8/25 - 8/26/2023


At the end of the world, the new world order begins... The Sphere is the authority over the surviving human race, who must obey the ...

Twisted Tales
Twisted Tales
8/25 - 8/26/2023


  " , Twisted Tales serves as an excellent example of the type of boundary pushing theatre that is out there if you know where ...

#Fit
#Fit
8/23 - 8/24/2023


'Tenacious-D met with Avenue Q, absurd as well as intricate'  - London Pub Theatres London. Now. LEANNE, a crisis helpline worker and cat enthusiast is ...

Headin For Godot
Headin For Godot
8/23 - 8/24/2023


Inspired by Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot, experiences of isolation and looking to delve into themes of longing for connection, loneliness, loss and the search ...

Liselotte In May


Liselotte in May  is an absurd bittersweet comedy about a gentle, lonely heart. Love is blind...and, in this case, melodramatic, depressing, paranoid, clumsy, deranged and ...

My Body Is Not Your Country
My Body Is Not Your Country
8/20 - 8/22/2023


Once upon a time, there was a girl who decided to leave. Cassandra, Marta, Natasha, Ana, Antónia. Based on autobiographical stories, this one-woman show presents ...

1984
1984
8/18 - 8/19/2023


August, 1984. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is always watching. Robert Icke and ...

Adrift
Adrift
8/14 - 8/15/2023


“I was screaming behind that glass screen. Screaming. But you…you gave me this. You gave me something to lose.” Eli drifts hopelessly through deep space ...

An Obviously Very Sad Play
An Obviously Very Sad Play
8/14 - 8/15/2023


Good Morrow, I am sure one has been made aware of the Obviously Very Sad news… Philip Albert Montgomery Julian David Gordon Theadore Reginald Archibald ...

The Thin Place
The Thin Place
8/9 - 8/13/2023


Raw, messy, and honest, a show about what could happen if we were brave enough to grieve in the open and without the expectation of ...

Striking A Chord


A musical revue show featuring father and daughter, Adrian and Emma-Jean’s trademark mix of light classical, musical theatre & pop hits that explores how the ...

Untitled #1


A play from one to all. A story of two brothers. One is gone.  The other one didn't know what's going on until it was ...

Mosquito
Mosquito
8/9 - 8/11/2023


James has just ended his two year affair with Lemy. Is it time for his wife to know the truth? What was the relationship? How ...

Gary
Gary
8/10


Performed by the all LGBTQ+ cast  of London Intersectional Arts collective, Gary tells a story of love, self-hate and identity confusion when you realise you ...

End Of The World FM
End Of The World FM
8/7 - 8/8/2023


15 years after the apocalypse, a lone radio host struggles to keep his show on the air. He ponders the warning signs that spelt our ...

Philautia
Philautia
8/7 - 8/8/2023


'Philautia' (Greek for self love) "This show is an act of self love, a catharsis, a reclamation of my body as my own. This is ...

New Stuff
New Stuff
8/6


New Stuff is a monthly programme of rehearsed readings of new writing, hosted live in The Cockpit's Studio 1. Taking place every first Sunday of ...

Conscience
Conscience
8/4 - 8/5/2023


Bella is being held in an interrogation room. She is being accused of murder. And all evidence points towards her, But is everything as it seems? ...

Faustine
Faustine
8/2 - 8/5/2023


Think: The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina meets Fleabag. After her radical PhD thesis is rejected, Faustine accidentally summons the demon Mephistophilis, who offers to eradicate ...

Harp & Tap
Harp & Tap
8/1 - 8/2/2023


The Celtic harp and tap dance join forces in this sparkling performance, drawing inspiration from the world of concerts, theatre and musical experimentation. “Harp & ...

Jazz In The Round: James Kitchman’s First Quartet + More TBA


JAMES KITCHMAN'S FIRST QUARTET A group led by “quietly rebellious” [Songlines Magazine] guitarist James Kitchman featuring a cast of London’s finest improvisers: pianist Bruno Heinen ...

Moshpit At The C*CKpit: Hello Amnesia & Goon Squad


MOSHPIT AT THE COCKPIT - Regular music nights curated by a series of music gurus. We push back the seats to create nights to remember. ...

Chaos By Laura Lomas
Chaos By Laura Lomas
7/13 - 7/16/2023


A girl is locked in a room. A boy brings another boy flowers. A girl has tied herself to a railing. A boy doesn't know ...

Cannot Come To Good
Cannot Come To Good
6/10 - 7/10/2023


Work by seven international female actor/theatre makers from the MA Collaborative Theatre Making programme at Rose Bruford College.  Cannot Come to Good  is an absurdist, ...

A Soldier’s Woman
A Soldier’s Woman
7/8 - 7/9/2023


After two sold out shows,  Amazonia Music Theatre  is back at with  A Soldier’s Woman;  an explosive musical play exploring the lives of working-class Victorian ...

A Show For Claudia
A Show For Claudia
6/24 - 6/25/2023


A night for those touched by the life and creativity of Claudia Boulton (19/04/1946 - 26/10/2021)   In a theatrical experiment that Claudia would have ...

Environmentalism As The Central Concern Of Our Age


4  Plays 1 Hour: Environmentalism as the Central Concern of Our Age.  An evening of innovative and exciting new theatre created by emerging writers exploring ...

Tipsy
Tipsy
6/13 - 6/17/2023


Maria, an overstretched, overworked young woman, walks into a nail salon to get a manicure after a stressful day at her full-time job. Sounds simple ...

Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night
6/5 - 6/6/2023


‘If music be the food of love, play on.’   When a train bound for Paris crashes on the coast, twins Viola and Sebastian become ...

The Double Down
The Double Down
6/1 - 6/3/2023


Two new and exciting devised plays performed by Final Year BA (Hons) Acting & Theatre-Making and BA (Hons) Actor Musicianship students. DoppelngerLolas life seems to ...

Nettles
Nettles
5/26 - 5/27/2023


Alyona is in her mid-twenties and has no place to settle down. She is invited to stay at Giovanni's Sloane Square penthouse for a night... ...

Borka: The Adventures Of A Goose With No Feathers


Ignite Music   celebrates 60 years since the publication of John Burningham’s touching tale,  Borka: The Adventures of a Goose with No Feathers , with ...

Lobster Telephone


An evening of surreal delights featuring performers from the UK's cabaret and alternative comedy scenes. Expect comedy, music and unusual interactive treats   Featuring:  Andrew ...

Re-Enchant: Experimental Performance Symposium


  This event is part of Re-Enchant Festival: Poetic Experiments For A New World    An afternoon symposium hosted by four performers are stretching the ...

Re-Enchant: Narcissus


This event is part of Re-Enchant Festival: Poetic Experiments For A New World    Following their sell-out run at Vault Festival, Ruby Wednesday and the ...

Re-Enchant: Garden Of Madness


This event is part of Re-Enchant Festival: Poetic Experiments For A New World    Garden of Madness is compelling, empowering and absurd. The show dives ...

Re-Enchant: Pen-Ting - Experiments In Flow


This event is part of Re-Enchant Festival: Poetic Experiments For A New World    Pen-Ting shows feature performances from artists breaking beyond genres and delivering ...

Re-Enchant: Dancing To Music You Hate


This event is part of Re-Enchant Festival: Poetic Experiments For A New World   Dancing To Music you Hate  is Jasmine Gardosi’s debut show about ...

New Stuff
New Stuff
5/7


New Stuff is a monthly programme of rehearsed readings of new writing, hosted live in The Cockpit's Studio 1. Taking place every first Sunday of ...

Dissident Voices


To Russia With Love   Readings by London artists, taken from the work of Russian artists, musicians and writers Nadya Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, part ...

Sunshine
Sunshine
4/29


Mr. Sea and Mr. Sand are very different. They look different. They act different. They are very different. And now they are stuck on the ...

We Are Not In The Least Afraid Of Ruins; We Carry A New World In Our Hearts


The nonbinary metalhead comedian (and star of their own occult-themed Radio 4 sitcom  Damned Andrew)  returns to the stage with a coruscating comedy show about ...

Don’t Clap For Me Mr. Johnson


The economy is in crisis; the country is on its knees; all that stands between the devastating and deadly effects of the coronavirus bringing this ...

Beyond Borders: Migration, Refugees And Conflict In Theatre


Junction Theatre and The Cockpit invite you to a conference exploring the journey of migrant artists in the UK as creators of border crossing work. ...

Wizard of Oz The Panto
Wizard of Oz The Panto
4/13 - 4/16/2023


Starcatcher productions present an Easter pantomime based on L.Frank Baum's much-loved fairy tale.   Click your heels and follow the Yellow Brick Road for this ...

Electra Untitled
Electra Untitled
4/4 - 4/6/2023


Electra Untitled is a Physical Theatre adaptation of the myth of Electra as seen in the Greek tragedy  Electra  by Sophocles.    Dance, puppetry and ...

New Stuff
New Stuff
4/6


New Stuff is a monthly programme of rehearsed readings of new writing, hosted live in The Cockpit's Studio 1. Taking place every first Sunday of ...

New Stuff
New Stuff
4/2


New Stuff is a monthly programme of rehearsed readings of new writing, hosted live in The Cockpit's Studio 1. Taking place every first Sunday of ...

Trolls-OnLine
Trolls-OnLine
3/30 - 4/1/2023


Epoch-making, mould-breaking, taboo-busting, TROLLS OnLINE delivers an exhilarating cascade of musical delights laced with satire and irony. But don’t be frightened, there is poignancy, there ...

Journey to Nutopia: A Cosmic Supposium


A Cosmic Supposium: Particles, Plasma, and the Spiritual Singularity   Host MICHELLE OLLEY in conversation with A New Science of Heaven author PROF. ROBERT TEMPLE ...

Romeo And Juliet
Romeo And Juliet
3/23 - 3/24/2023


Actors From The London Stage, the globally celebrated 5-actor touring company, returns with a fresh new staging of Shakespeare’s immortal tale. With each actor portraying ...

A Tailor For Ladies
A Tailor For Ladies
3/7 - 3/19/2023


Directed by Lee James Broadwood, A Tailor for Ladies is a naughty and comedic French farce translated by Penny Tomai and adapted by Tomai and Broadwood from ...

New Stuff
New Stuff
3/5


New Stuff is a monthly programme of rehearsed readings of new writing, hosted live in The Cockpit's Studio 1. Taking place every first Sunday of ...

Extreme [The New Norm]
Extreme [The New Norm]
3/3 - 3/4/2023


Slovak Theatre in London reflects on the biggest event of the past decade, which globally influenced the life of every individual. In a colourful collage ...

Mythos: Ragnarok


Weaving ancient myths, legends, and folk tales into original pieces of theatre, Mythos utilises a cast of actors who specialise in professional wrestling to create ...

Macbeth
Macbeth
2/15 - 2/25/2023

Céphale Et Procris (Jacquet De La Guerre)


An opera by the French composer Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. Jacquet de la Guerre was born into a family of French artisans. She was ...

A Nossa Bossa


Returning to The Cockpit, Brazilians Marcio da Silva and Ariel Gragnani will perform a selection of their favourite Bossa Nova and Samba songs. With two ...

New Stuff
New Stuff
2/5


New Stuff  is a monthly programme of rehearsed readings of new writing, hosted live in The Cockpit's Studio 1. Taking place every first Sunday of ...

Life Before The Line


Jewish teenagers Esty, Allister, Danny and Sara are sitting in a revision session about to take their GCSEs when the terrorist alarm rings. And this ...

The Catastrophist / And Other Dreams We Had


THE CATASTROPHIST by Lauren Gunderson A Rehearsed Reading (Rights pending) How do you plan for a catastrophe? Virologist Nathan Wolfe, named one of TIME’s 100 Most ...

Touch(ed)


Kay loves her older sister Emma. Or is it Christina? Christine? Matilda?  After spending eight years institutionalised and medicated, Emma has changed more than just her ...

Adrenalin Heart 2 (How To Nail Trauma)


Angel needs to make amends, Leigh craves help but is standing her ground, however forgiveness can work both ways.   A rehearsed reading in Studio ...

A Child In Striped Pyjamas
A Child In Striped Pyjamas
1/11 - 1/12/2023


The premiere production of Noah Max's new opera based on John Boyne's international bestseller,  The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas . A Jewish Child and a German ...

Love Goddess, The Rita Hayworth Musical


This event is part of New York Voices   Presenting a new musical from New York about one of the greatest movie stars who ever ...

Meeting Joe Strummer


The stage hit  Meeting Joe Strumme r, about the punk legend who set the agenda for a generation, is reimagined as a radio play.   ...

A Christmas Bees Knees-Up!
A Christmas Bees Knees-Up!
12/16 - 12/17/2022


The Bees are having a Christmas party! And we’re all invited!  Join Fox and Rat for a fun, informal, and interactive show as we make ...

Journey to Nutopia


Journey to Nutopia An evening of positive future narratives that refute the inevitably of global dystopia. Hosted by Michelle Olley, with special guests: JOHN HIGGS ...

Lear
Lear
12/6


This event is part of New York Voices   A collision between Shakespeare’s King Lear, Sesame Street, and Young Jean Lee’s own take on the ...

Intimate Apparel


This event is part of New York Voices   Set in 1905 in New York City, Esther, a black seamstress, who sews exquisite lingerie, has ...

Against
Against
11/15


This event is part of New York Voices   Luke is an aerospace billionaire who can talk to anyone. But God is talking to him. ...

Pourquoi Les Vieux, Qui N’ont Rien À Faire, Traversent-Ils Au Feu Rouge?


This event is part of Voila! Europe 2022   Another day in the retirement home, a death, a new arrival, card games and a 100th ...

The Return
The Return
11/13


This event is part of Voila! Europe 2022   The Return is a devised one-woman show exploring hidden consequences of war. Combining movement, storytelling, and ...

Voila! Europe Theatre Festival
Voila! Europe Theatre Festival
11/3 - 11/13/2022


Voila! Europe is a multilingual theatre festival produced by The Cockpit. A curated programme of cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary performance opening a trusted portal to new European ...

Webcamming Chronicles
Webcamming Chronicles
11/8 - 11/13/2022


This event is part of Voila! Europe 2022   A disruptive yet light-hearted labyrinth built on gonzo journalism, interviews, performance, video art and theatre....

999
999
11/11 - 11/12/2022


This event is part of Voila! Europe 2022   Donald Tenborogh has decided to give up nature documentaries and join a hibernation programme to wake ...

My Lover Was A Salmon In The Climate Apocalypse


This event is part of Voila! Europe 2022   Fin's deep empathy for nature culminates in him thinking he's a salmon, onstage, whilst the band ...

E - Man - A
E - Man - A
11/10


This event is part of Voila! Europe 2022   Using the body, language, autobiography, video projection, and improvised vocal looping, this premiere solo performance creates ...

Let Go Home


This event is part of Voila! Europe 2022   Welcome to a home in the throes of bereavement. A father and son try to rationalise ...

Transit
Transit
11/9


This event is part of Voila! Europe 2022   A sensorial journey told through live music, dance, and poetry. Inspired by the biomythic tales of ...

Miniatura II


This event is part of Voila! Europe 2022   In this brand new scratch night, we’re setting the stage for independent European theatre makers to ...

On The 20th Of November


This event is part of Voila! Europe 2022   18-year-old Sebastian Bosse is about to carry out a massacre in the school where he studied. ...

Anti Gone
Anti Gone
11/2 - 11/5/2022


In this contemporary take on Sophocles tragedy, directed by an award-winning director Ovlyakuli Khodzhakuli, XAMELEON THEATRE explores the subjects of tyranny, abuse of power and living ...

Enos
Enos
11/5


This event is part of Voila! Europe 2022   A multimedia solo performance devised and developed from personal interviews and research into the mission archives ...

This Is Why We Live


This event is part of Voila! Europe 2022   Combining physical theatre, live music and clown; two actors and a cellist bring to life the ...

A Visit To The Minotaur


This event is part of Voila! Europe 2022   World premiere of a documentary performance which tells authentic stories like no other, directly from war-torn ...

Extreme Improv Comedy Show


The Extreme Improv Comedy Show is a hilarious and competitive improvised sketch show where performers battle each other with comedy to win the Extreme Improv ...

 Talley’s Folly
Talley’s Folly
10/13 - 10/29/2022


Its 1944 and the chaos of war means societies fracture, traditional expectations are collapsing, and peoples lives are the collateral damage. For Sally and Matt, ...

Talley’s Folly
Talley’s Folly
10/13 - 10/29/2022


Lanford Wilson's beautiful and funny Pulitzer Prize winning 1980 play introduces us to Matt Friedman and Sally Talley, who come together, for better or for ...

Late, a Cowboy Song


This event is part of New York Voices   Mary, always late and always married, meets a lady cowboy named Red who teaches her how ...

9 To 5 The Musical
9 To 5 The Musical
10/5 - 10/8/2022


Follow three unlikely friends as they navigate work and life under their tyrannical boss, with hilarious twists and turns along the way....

The Real
The Real
9/29 - 10/1/2022


Set in a heightened version of todays world, The Real is a tragicomic story about four people who try to understand what it means to ...

The Real
The Real
9/29 - 10/1/2022


Set in a heightened version of todays world, The Real is a tragicomic story about four people who try to understand what it means to ...

1902
1902
9/22 - 9/24/2022


The multi award-winning 1902 takes an access-all-areas approach to working-class life in Scotland, as we follow four young wannabe football hooligans in their quest to ...

Extreme Improv Comedy Show


The Extreme Improv Comedy Show is a hilarious and competitive improvised sketch show where performers battle each other with comedy to win the Extreme Improv ...

Landscape With Weapon
Landscape With Weapon
9/13 - 9/18/2022


Ned has created a new military technology that is so utterly brilliant, it will revolutionize how wars are fought. Sadly, Neds plans and dreams go ...

Dissident Voices


Live watch party and live stream preview of I-DO Lab's upcoming 2022 production, Visit to the Minatour, with sections read from the new work plus ...

The Crocodile Of Old Kang Pow - Grand Finale


This event is part of Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2022The Marquis De Sade has lost his libido and must find it or lose his ...

The Dong With A Luminous Nose / The Journey


This event is part of Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2022The Dong With A Luminous Nose:A magical, tragical tale of love and loss told in ...

A New England


This event is part of Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2022Having overcome a ruthless Viking onslaught, political betrayal by his own brother, a carousel of ...

Memoirs Of An Amnesia: The Life of Erik Satie


This event is part of Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2022'Erik Saties Memoirs of an Amnesiac' is a set of surreal, humorous vignettes based on ...

Memoirs Of An Amnesia: The Life of Erik Satie


This event is part of Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2022'Erik Saties Memoirs of an Amnesiac' is a set of surreal, humorous vignettes based on ...

Music And The Brain


This event is part of Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2022Inspired by Musicophilia, writings of neurologist Oliver Sacks, it tells the story of The Singer, ...

Sometimes I Visualise Myself Back In The Belly Of My Mother


This event is part of Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2022In this immersive new opera these singers use the edges of their voices - from ...

The Red Room


This event is part of Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2022A portable opera for three voices. Set 1930s Iran, The Red Room is an intimate ...

The Red Room


This event is part of Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2022A portable opera for three voices. Set 1930s Iran, The Red Room is an intimate ...

Fossils, Lies & Poison


This event is part of Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2022Fossils, Lies & Poison: a three-course operatic taster menu with sides orders of justice, farce ...

Outlier
Outlier
9/7


This event is part of Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2022Late at night a junior doctor, Thomas, attends a patient in an unknown ward. They ...

The Trilobite, Or The Fall Of Mr Williams (2022)


This event is part of Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2022Mr Williams has fallen off a cliff. Will the hapless geography teacher survive? Will heget ...

1936: Fishing


This event is part of Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2022Homo Promos, Britains oldest LGBT company and international award-winner, presents the premiere of Episode 7 ...

The Trans Lady Sings - The First Aria


This event is part of Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2022At Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2021, full-time Performance Poet and part-time woman Alice d'Lumiere ...

Film Performance


This event is part of Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2022This work is a musical response to the short film Film (Samuel Beckett, Buster Keaton).This ...

Landed
Landed
9/3


This event is part of Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2022Landed tells the story of a Greek family fleeing the Suez Crisis to find their ...

Voices Of The Sands


This event is part of Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2022More than 2000 ships have foundered and sunk on the Goodwin Sands, a perilous sandbar ...

She Is My Pharaoh


This event is part of Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2022Hatshepsut, the only female pharaoh, journeys through ancient Egypt in search of herbs and exotic ...

The Burning Question


This event is part of Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2022Attended by a roguish demon and a guardian angel, the female Pope has died. She ...

A Coffin, A Confession, And A Cautionary Tale


This event is part of Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2022This triple bill consists of three pieces of music theatre each having its London premiere. ...

Ganga
Ganga
8/31


This event is part of Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2022A work-in-progress chamber opera in Sanskrit.The story of Ganga: a saga of heartbreak, promises and ...

Mezzaterra


This event is part of Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2022Mezzaterra, a song cycle of eight songs based on themes of culture and identity, was ...

Module 471


This event is part of Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2022'Module 471' is scratch performance of a new work-in-progress scifi-horr-OPERA by composer Lucy Mulgan and ...

Toadette, The Frog Opera


This event is part of Tte Tte: The Opera Festival 2022She is a toad. He is a frog. According to the laws of nature, their ...

Prime Unison
Prime Unison
8/22 - 8/27/2022


Capital Ballet returns to The Cockpit with itsBallet Workshopprogramme.An evening of exciting new ballets, pushing the boundaries of classical ballet....

Some Boy You Are
Some Boy You Are
8/19 - 8/20/2022


This event is part of The Camden Fringe 2022Some Boy You Are is the story of one summer in Liams life, the weeks leading up ...

Wolf
Wolf
8/17 - 8/18/2022


This event is part of The Camden Fringe 2022Directed by Naomi Wirthner (Paradise, National Theatre; The Doctor, Almeida) and written by Cameron Corcoran (Lone Star ...

London Theatre Celebrates Harry Styles


This event is part of The Camden Fringe 2022.London musical theatre artists are coming together to celebrate British pop icons. This concert is all about ...

Rome 3000 (Julius Caesar)
Rome 3000 (Julius Caesar)
8/12 - 8/13/2022


This event is part of The Camden Fringe 2022A mixture of cabaret; live music and a post-apocalyptic retelling of one of Shakespeare's most epic plays ...

The Phase
The Phase
8/12 - 8/13/2022


This event is part of The Camden Fringe 2022The phase follows a journey of discovery of who Her is as a newly single woman having ...

Hoops and Hookups
Hoops and Hookups
8/10 - 8/11/2022


This event is part of The Camden Fringe 2022A new dark comedy offering a limited run on stage at Camden Fringe Festival.This play follows two ...

The Sea Between
The Sea Between
8/10 - 8/11/2022


This event is part of The Camden Fringe 2022After a sold out preview at the Etcetera Theatre, The Sea Between is coming to the Cockpit ...

Message In A Clay River
Message In A Clay River
8/7 - 8/9/2022


This event is part of The Camden Fringe 2022The Message In A Clay River is a Nigerian mythological tale using Greek theatre as a tool ...

AdLibretto
AdLibretto
8/7 - 8/8/2022


This event is part of The Camden Fringe 2022What did you want to be when you grew up?AdLibretto improvises musicals on your childhood ambitions and ...

Linger
Linger
8/5 - 8/6/2022


This event is part of The Camden Fringe 2022How well do we know the partner that we have been with for God knows how long?Linger ...

The Dumb Man
The Dumb Man
8/5 - 8/6/2022


This event is part of The Camden Fringe 2022The Dumb Manis a dark comedy about the man who lives inside a psychedelic world he created ...

In-Stinct
In-Stinct
8/3 - 8/4/2022


This event is part of The Camden Fringe 2022Inspired by leading women, IN-STINCT is a celebration of strength, resilience and nurture. Drawing from human instinctual ...

Extreme Improv Comedy Show


The Extreme Improv Comedy Show is a hilarious and competitive improvised sketch show where performers battle each other with comedy to win the Extreme Improv ...

Experiment Human
Experiment Human
7/19 - 7/20/2022


Blending dark comedy with the surreal, Experiment Human tells the story of Monkion, a non-human creature, curious to understand the world outside their laboratory in ...

The Winter’s Tale
The Winter’s Tale
7/4 - 7/5/2022


Graduating foundation students from Bodens College present one of William Shakespeare's final plays, spanning 16 years, 'The Winter's Tale.In a world imagined within a scarcely ...

Pillars Of The Community
Pillars Of The Community
6/30 - 7/2/2022


"You've forgotten who they are if you think they wouldn't hang me for that...If this gets out, my enemies will unite, and fall on me, ...

The Professional
The Professional
6/24 - 6/26/2022


A jaded book publisher receives a visitor carrying a suitcase with some very unexpected contents.The play, performed in Farsi, is set in Yugoslavia after the ...

Dead Ringers


Dead Ringers returns to record a new series of the award-winning topical satire show, featuring a huge cast of characters drawn from the worlds of ...

Extreme [The New Norm]
Extreme [The New Norm]
6/18 - 6/19/2022


Pandemic rules created contrasting experiences. Some were relieved to finally slow down. Some became frustrated and bored. Some worked more, some lived in constant fear, ...

I’m Just A Little Bit OCD
I’m Just A Little Bit OCD
6/11 - 6/12/2022


Tilly has started to get intrusive thoughts about causing harm to her loved ones. Disturbed by the thoughts, she hides them from everyone and finds ...

Webcamming Chronicles
Webcamming Chronicles
6/6 - 6/8/2022


Welcome to my chatroom bigaudiencemember4u69!Does the show go behind the scenes of the webcamming industry? Yes.Do/Did you work as webcammers? Yes.Webcamming Chronicles is a contemporary ...

Encore
Encore
6/1


Rom Theatre Arts are showcasing their outstanding talent in two acts.Act 1 is performed by our talented college students with musical numbers from, Blood Brothers, ...

Dissident Voices


Prophetic Poems for the Planet.From Blake in 1791 to Bukhowski in 1991.Poetry and Jazz performed by Peter Marinker, co-founder of Dissident Voices and maestro of ...

Venus & Adonis / Dido & Aeneas - Two Great Operas Of The English Baroque


Strong, powerful and dynamic women are caught up in love that will sap both their identity and their agency; for them, love proves fundamentally unkind.HGOs ...

Venus and Adonis / Dido and Aeneas


HGO presents the earliest masterpieces of British opera - John Blow's 'Venus and Adonis' and Henry Purcell's ''Dido and Aeneas' - in a new fully-staged ...

The Duke’s Radio Show


The Cyprus High Commission in the United Kingdom presents the "Duke's Radio Show", a tragicomic musical brimming with vibrant colours, euphoric mood, and relentless reflections ...

Ordinary Days
Ordinary Days
5/13 - 5/15/2022


Ordinary Days is a sung-through musical with music and lyrics by American composer Adam Gwon.Set in New York City, it tells the story of four ...

Speak.
Speak.
4/28 - 4/30/2022


Speak. is an electric piece of semi autobiographical new writing that weaves dramatic narrative storytelling with spoken word and live music to create an engaging ...

Christie Done It
Christie Done It
4/23 - 4/24/2022


In November 1949, Beryl Evans and her baby, Geraldine, are murdered in their Notting Hill home. Timothy Evans, a lorry driver, father to Geraldine and ...

All The World’s A Stage


When one of William Shakespeare's actors decides she's had enough, her fellow Players must convince her of his genius before the mysterious stranger in the ...

Be My Guest


Be My guestis both a comedy and a ceremony that examines, with the audience, the doubts and the struggle of the artistic process of making ...

Mythos: Ragnarok


Witness the ultimate Viking myth the way it was meant to be experienced: live in front of your face, and filled with enough Gods, giants, ...

Vinegar Tom
Vinegar Tom
4/7 - 4/8/2022


In rural 17th century England strange happenings, angry neighbours, and a mysterious man in black give rise to suspicions and accusations of witchcraft.By placing modern ...

Christmas Is Ruined!
Christmas Is Ruined!
12/14 - 12/23/2021


After this show was abruptly cut short last year, this fun, festive, family favourite returns with more laughs, more songs, more magic and enough fun ...

The Musical That Goes Right!
The Musical That Goes Right!
12/14 - 12/23/2021


From the company behind the sold out 5* success, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, London / Edinburgh 2018...and the powerhouse Little Shop ...

The Musical That Goes Right! The Musical Concert that doesn't feature James Corden


This Christmas, Ethereal Theatre guarantees hit after musical hit in our brand-new Musical Theatre concertwhich doesnt feature James Cordenthank god! This treat is as sweet ...

United We Stand


General Giuseppe Garibaldi is a hero; the famous and revered freedom fighter, who unified a fragmented Italy, championed the underdog and those suffering from oppression ...

Comedians of the Third Age


Chris Orr is MC for the first Comedians of the Third Age show. The lineup includes Ronnie Golden - a musical comedy legend who has ...

Mythos: Ragnarok


Witness the ultimate Viking myth the way it was meant to be experienced: live in front of your face, and filled with enough Gods, giants, ...

La Ronde
La Ronde
12/1 - 12/2/2021


A play about yearning, the fragility of children, misremembered memories and the power of love and betrayal...

Deserted Shores // Negative Photographs


Deserted Shores // Negative Photographs focuses on a woman imagining a family gathering that never happened after a tragedy connected to the uneasy political atmosphere ...

I Am
I Am
11/17 - 12/1/2021


A Documentary Play About Childhood Produced & Presented by Kupalaucy Independent Theatre Group BelarusBased on real childhood stories from Belarus, I AM is a documentary ...

RadioLove
RadioLove
11/18 - 12/1/2021


RadioLove is awake while you are asleep. It plays what you dream of. It is where radio host Janis collects the stories of lonely people. ...

Urinetown: The Musical
Urinetown: The Musical
11/26 - 11/27/2021


Winner of three Tony awards,Urinetownis aside-splitting send-up of greed, love, revolution (and musicals!), in a time when water is worth its weight in gold....

Clean!
Clean!
11/23 - 11/24/2021


Winner of the Outstanding Theatre Award at Brighton Fringe 2021, Clean! is a rousing folk musical about the women of laundry hill, Brighton through different ...

Going Home
Going Home
11/20 - 11/21/2021


An English actor considers going home after 24 years in Budapest. A Hungarian-Algerian actress thinks she should have left years ago. The actors are put ...

Unforgettable Girl
Unforgettable Girl
11/20 - 11/21/2021


Money cant buy love, but with GBP 19.99/month, you can have Vaccinea mail order bride delivered straight from [our made up stereotype composites of 'the ...

Voila! Europe 2021
Voila! Europe 2021
11/15 - 11/21/2021


This Autumn, Voila! Europe 2021 will return both online and in-person to The Cockpit with their eclectic programme of some of the most exciting and ...

Voila! Europe Theatre Festival
Voila! Europe Theatre Festival
11/15 - 11/21/2021


Connecting Border-Busting Theatre To Citizens Of Everywhere 15 - 21 November On Stage & OnlineVoila! Europe is a multilingual theatre festival produced by The Cockpit. ...

Withered Optimism


Withered Optimism is a tender comic ode to the tyranny of work. The show explores the eroded boundary between work and leisure and interrogates the ...

You In My House
You In My House
11/15 - 11/21/2021


Produced and presented by National Theatre Drama PragueYOU IN MY HOUSE is an an audio-mobile specific-performance (in English or Czech) for two spectators and an ...

Are You Done? [ _solitude_ is _bliss_ part 1a]


Who the hell is Siri to tell you what to do? Francasixi imagines a deeper relationship with the obscure technologies behind voice assistants, by giving ...

Murder Mystery


Produced & Presented by the French British ImprovisationA handful of strangers, a closed space. They get acquainted and all seems well... until one of them ...

Fear Eats Life
Fear Eats Life
11/18 - 11/19/2021


What happens when you are confronted with Fear?Mary faces the challenges of her relationship with Fear who doesnt want to hang out with her anymore. ...

Transit
Transit
11/18 - 11/19/2021


TRANSITfollows the stories of displaced voices in search of a place to call home. From Hungary to Harare heat to the bustle of London city ...

Awakening
Awakening
11/16 - 11/17/2021


With an aerial rope and several fairies, two characters search for their essential selves in a never-ending process of growing up. In their world, magic ...

Awakening
Awakening
11/16 - 11/17/2021


Produced & Presented by Ladder Art Company HungaryWith an aerial rope and several fairies, two characters search for their essential selves in a never-ending process ...

Emmeline
Emmeline
11/3 - 11/14/2021


Emmeline follows the journey of the inspirational leader of the Suffrage movement on her life's mission to achieve the vote for women. Delving into the ...

Penetration
Penetration
9/22 - 10/9/2021


The world premiere of Penetration by Carolyn Lloyd-Davies comes to The Cockpit this autumn. Based on seven true stories of accusations and acquittals, the play ...

Penetration
Penetration
9/22 - 10/9/2021


Penetration, by Carolyn Lloyd-Davies, is a socially provocative piece of theatre, of particular significance in the light of recent shocking reports. Based on true events, ...

History On The Road
History On The Road
9/8 - 10/8/2021


The play focuses on Mary Johnson, along with her two best friends Gloria and Susanna. They demonstrate female solidarity whilst they continually fight for black ...

Gareth & Friends


Gareth Edward hosts a show featuring both emerging and established variety performers.Expect unhinged performances, eccentric characters, and fabulous filth!Featuring:Kiki LovechildFrankie ThompsonChlamydia JonesPussykat BangkokHosted by Gareth ...

God's Promise
God's Promise
9/16 - 9/18/2021


What happens when losing your home becomes the least of your worries?Mohammed faces the challenge of mapping a route from his house to his grandmothers ...

Pit of Laughter with Dane Baptiste


Welcome to Pit of Laughter, the hit new comedy show series at the Cockpit!After the stress of the pandemic, we think it's time to sit ...

OutC*CKing The Cockpit


Join pink suits for an evening of political punk rock and rage as they perform their debut album 'political child' plus new and never before ...

Coppelia
Coppelia
9/2 - 9/11/2021


The reimagining of Coppelia will take the original classical score by Delibes along with various versions of the story and re-mix them to delve deeper ...

Smart Casual
Smart Casual
8/20 - 8/21/2021


Sex with friends and other tiny catastrophes. Told over 18 months, Smart Casual is a brand new musical that follows six inseparable friends as they ...

Kiss Her
Kiss Her
8/18 - 8/19/2021


"The rules of lesbian fiction are as follows..."History hasnt told the truth about women- about gay women. Were going to re-write history, re-write the rules. ...

Rosetta Code
Rosetta Code
8/18 - 8/19/2021


Rosetta Code is a revolutionary AI-powered multilingual improv comedy show.Performed in nine languages, with live translation, by an international troupe with actors present both on ...

Jammy Dodgers
Jammy Dodgers
8/16 - 8/17/2021


The New World is a new start, not the same start at least thats what The System has promised. Aleece, Si, and The People are ...

Jammy Dodgers
Jammy Dodgers
8/16 - 8/17/2021


The New World is a new start, not the same start at least thats what The System has promised. Aleece, Si, and The People are ...

Jammy Dodgers
Jammy Dodgers
8/16 - 8/17/2021


The New World is a new start, not the same start at least thats what The System has promised. Aleece, Si, and The People are ...

Jammy Dodgers
Jammy Dodgers
8/16 - 8/17/2021


The New World is a new start, not the same start at least thats what The System has promised. Aleece, Si, and The People are ...

EXISTENTIAL FISH & DREAD
EXISTENTIAL FISH & DREAD
12/8 - 8/15/2021


Stephen Hawking's dead. Martin's having a breakdown. And Ellie? She's feeding the fish. When Martin hears that the world's greatest scientific mind has died, he's ...

Home Burial


Home Burial is a theatrical adaptation of the poems Home Burial (1914) and The Witch of Cos (1922) by the North American poet Robert Frost.Using ...

Fester
Fester
8/13 - 8/14/2021


Gretchen wakes up one day in a cold, dark place, greeted by the voice of a figure named Mephistopheles.Gretchen realizes she's in hell.Gretchen realizes she ...

Truly, Madly, Baldy


Truly, Madly, Baldy focuses on the comedic elements of dealing with hair loss and being bald, both for men and women.Created entirely through real life ...

Festival Of Money
Festival Of Money
7/22 - 7/25/2021


Over the past five years, Church of Burn has initiated a deeply personal conversation between you and your money. Building on this The Festival of ...

Daisy Pulls It Off
Daisy Pulls It Off
7/7 - 7/11/2021


Gloriously witty parody about life in a girls boarding school.The perfect antidote to lockdown, Covid and the gloom of the modern world. Splendid adventures, treasure-hunting, ...

New Stuff presents Decommissioned


Our monthly night of rehearsed readings at The Cockpit - live online. Decommissioned by Molly Anne Sweeney A play about how climate change stopped being ...

The House Of Bernarda Alba
The House Of Bernarda Alba
6/24 - 6/27/2021


After the death of her second husband, Bernarda Alba puts her five daughters under a strict eight year mourning period. Under the intensely watchful eyes ...

CAVALLI'S 'L'EGISTO'
CAVALLI'S 'L'EGISTO'
6/4 - 6/13/2021


HGO's mission is advancing young singers, and once again they are bringing opera back to London with two fabulous casts in a specially-commissioned new edition ...

L'Egisto
L'Egisto
6/9 - 6/13/2021


Cavalli's wonderful fairy tale opera of 1643, fully staged with baroque orchestra...

Juliet & Romeo
Juliet & Romeo
9/8 - 1/8/2021


What do young adults do on a Saturday night? They go to a house party, get drunk and maybe make some questionable decisions.Follow Juliet as ...

Feel The Fear
Feel The Fear
8/9 - 8/10/2018


"Let me describe something to you. Not to say I’m horrified or shamelessly petrified because I’d have lied to say this creature does not exist...." ...

Baby
Baby
8/19 - 8/20/2017


I was born to two of the most clueless parents. What they knew about parenting they learnt from a David Bowie song. This is the ...

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