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Mystery writer Crane and her secretary Kate become entangled in a new mystery while renting a country holiday home. It is revealed the house is ...

A double bill of two award-winning/nominated solo fringe shows. JUST A FEW WORDS Just a few words to say how you feel. Shouldn’t take long. ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Shakespeare meets Narnia in this sparkling midwinter frolic, brought to joyful life by an all-female company. Fury and ...

Six comedians pit their homemade remote control cars against one another in the world’s smallest demolition derby. The winner of each race takes one step ...

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 ...

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 ...

CatGPT is the mostly true tail of a Welshman’s attempts to bring back to life his beloved dead cat Lentil, by using sophisticated robotics, sensors, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

“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 ...

“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 ...

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, ...

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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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. ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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) ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

"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, 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 ...

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  ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 is a dark, funny and heartfelt one-act play that explores queer erasure through the lens of an unsolved mystery. ...

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 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  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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

“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 ...

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  explores the relationship between three young people and their migrant parents. Torn between tradition and the need to fit in ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

'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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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? ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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... ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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, ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

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

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

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

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....

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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, 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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

"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...." ...

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 ...