{"title": "Rostro x Eminem", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T20:00:00Z", "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "£16.45", "price_from": "16.45", "price_to": "16.45", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.thecockpit.org.uk/sales/shows/voila-festival-2026/rostro-x-eminem", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["music/classical/cello", "stage/solo-show"], "description": "Rostro x Eminem is a solo performance piece, part concert and part play, in which classical music meets hip-hop. Written, directed and performed by Olivier van den Hende, a Franco-American actor and classically trained cellist based in London. It tells of Olivier, a young man raised to become a great cellist in the image of Mstislav Rostropovich, who hears something else calling him. Through live music and storytelling, it traces his coming of age between inheritance and rebellion, with the cello sometimes a demanded instrument and sometimes a weapon of his own rebellion.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/rostro-x-eminem-39097/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/rostro_x_eminem", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/12c692604fe3b51e35850937e633a98c4a1cecd229e457863c6c11f5e0c90a8f-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T20:00:00Z", "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Seat of Me (VOILA! 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The programme features Binary lives - Where fate takes us by Dis Equilibre, Windows of Displacement by Toussaint To Move/Akeim Toussaint Buck, We Are All Fish by YA-TA Collective, Fiasko! by Angela Poulima and The View by Chloe Shyan. 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It is co-created by Thom Yorke and directors Steven Hoggett and Christine Jones, with Yorke reworking the band's sixth album into a deconstructed score performed by live musicians. Elsinore has a new ruler, and the show centres on Hamlet and Ophelia's awakening to the lies and corruption infecting their war-like state. 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Founded by Ben Armstrong in 2021, it champions greater access, inclusivity, and opportunity in the performing arts, and proceeds support The Boury Academy, helping young Asian performers pursue professional training. The cast includes Hiba Elchikhe, Zheng Xi Yong, Mia Kobayashi, Nadim Naaman and Olivier Award-winner James Hameed, and the evening is hosted by Nina Wadia. 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It was written by Tim Crouch, who calls each performance live with a new co-star who sees the script for the first time on stage, with no rehearsal and no safety net. The show is presented by the Olivier Award-winning producers of Fleabag, Baby Reindeer and Weather Girl. 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The concert was born from a year of conversations in a community kitchen between musicians and people seeking asylum in the UK, and explores what home means, how we hold onto it and how we carry it with us when we have to leave. The programme moves across continents and centuries with music by Reena Esmail, Bushra el-Turk, Lembit Beecher, Piazzolla, Vaughan Williams and Copland, and forms part of City of London Sinfonia's wider season exploring asylum and migration in the UK. 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It is created by the company's co-founders, Michael 'Mikey J' Asante MBE and Kenrick 'H2O' Sandy MBE, together with poet and playwright Inua Ellams. Drawing on voice notes, letters, films and raw conversations from generations of Boy Blue dancers and alumni, it turns real lived experiences into a high-octane stage memoir. Ellams' poetry fuels Asante's new score and Sandy's choreography in a show of sound, word and movement.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/boy-blue-25-stories-65394/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/3aa818228b0ad640188ef5dd62960f5ebb70891eff544f254638c85a0f4a29b2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Chop-chop! (VOILA! 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It is written by Marcelo Dos Santos, a Fringe First Award-winning hit returning to London for the first time in three years, and stars West End favourite Steven Webb as the hapless, unhinged comedian. From the Olivier Award-winning producers of Fleabag and Baby Reindeer, it explores vulnerability, intimacy, ego and truth with razor-sharp, fast-paced and filthy humour. The show runs 1hr 5min with no interval and is for ages 14+.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/feeling-afraid-as-if-something-terrible-is-going-to-happen-63513/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/a893a037c38046a433901b641eb2c0e84379e06761d3ac54cf73171f3db7fafe-600.webp"}]}