{"title": "The Radical Wedding Engine", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "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/the-radical-wedding-engine", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "The Radical Wedding Engine is a playful theatre piece about marriage, chosen family and artistic partnership. Five East Asian migrant artists from Ensemble Not Found take the wedding apart and put it back together, testing vows, rituals, traditions and expectations. It moves between sincerity and absurdity as they explore ways of caring, committing and belonging while building a ceremony of their own. 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Written by Bunmi Aworanti, directed by Estelle Uba and performed by Samantha Kanu, it is produced and presented by Mudhut IO as part of the Voila! Theatre Festival. It follows Kike, a woman in her mid-20s navigating modern dating and family expectations while her mum prays hard for a husband to appear. The audience makes decisions about her love life, spots red flags and competes in games, exploring romantic love, family approval and cultural expectations.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/love-vs-fear-and-my-mothers-prayers-39100/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/love_vs_fear_and_my_mothers_prayers", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/9140b4599bd8610668339eb535f9407d9f79f9bfe3ed7e8bdf4b91ed311e59ac-1200.webp"}, {"title": "(M)Others Between Shores", "start": "2026-11-05T21:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "£17.00 (General Admission, including £1.00 booking fee); concessions from £13.50", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://offwestend.com/tag/tickets-under-20/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/migration", "stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "(M)others Between Shores is a movement-led ethnodrama exploring migrant motherhood and belonging. Created by Resonant Shore Theatre from the lived experiences of migrant mothers, it blends physical theatre, puppetry, live music and multilingual performance to show how migration reshapes motherhood, identity and belonging. The devised production traces journeys of displacement, resilience and rebuilding home across borders, transforming personal testimony into poetic theatrical language. From the creators of the award-winning Mothering Voices, this intimate ensemble piece celebrates the strength, care and courage of mothers forging new lives.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/mothers-between-shores-46242/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/22bbe87cd86c7f26618b7746b099c606c47af9378007858aed374e073964279f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Much Crazy About Nothing", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "General Admission £16; Concession | Senior over 60 £14; Access for All | Unemployed | Student £14", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://buytickets.at/theplaygroundtheatre/2274556", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy"], "description": "Much Crazy About Nothing is a surreal new play set in a world where professional breakup agents are hired to end relationships on behalf of their clients. Voila! Theatre Festival and The Playground Theatre present the piece by Shhh Theatre, an emerging company making contemporary theatre around intimacy and modern relationships. As one employee begins to question the system they help sustain, the boundary between performance and genuine emotion starts to dissolve. Blending absurdity with wit, the play explores emotional labour, race, identity and modern intimacy, asking what remains of human connection when our most intimate relationships become transactional.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/much-crazy-about-nothing-65856/", "official_url": "https://www.theplaygroundtheatre.org.uk/projects/much-crazy-about-nothing", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/a68e758dcd484026d5167c2aced76a39390b2b5a09d50cf68fd3c9de2b683f99-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Binary lives - Where fate takes us", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T20:00:00Z", "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "Full price: £16.45 (Incl. booking fees)", "price_from": "16.45", "price_to": "16.45", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.thecockpit.org.uk/sales/shows/voila-festival-2026/binary-lives---where-fate-take", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "A wordless duet in which two strangers, stuck waiting on a station bench for a train that never arrives, fill the empty hours with increasingly absurd games. It is produced and presented by Dis Equilibre and blends visual, poetic performance with physical theatre and contemporary circus, turning boredom into play and shared silence into an unexpected encounter. The show won the 'Best Direction' award at the Rome Fringe Festival, was selected for the Thessaloniki Fringe, and has been touring Italy for two years.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/binary-lives-where-fate-takes-us-39098/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/binary_lives_-_where_fate_takes_us", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/91cc466c7e1d64deacbde3d4b07158d717e837640e5824c0c8df6c7d2164eafa-1200.webp"}, {"title": "New Stuff: November", "start": "2026-11-01T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "£3", "price_from": "3.00", "price_to": "3.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.thecockpit.org.uk/sales/shows/new-stuff-1", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/drama", "stage/theatre"], "description": "New Stuff: November is a monthly night of rehearsed readings of new theatre writing. It is produced and presented by The Cockpit as part of its Theatre Maker programme. This edition features 'VINZ & VINCÉ' by Federico Balla and Louis Lambeaux, about two friends sharing a room in London, and 'HELD' by Lei, a psychological thriller in which Chinese playwright Leanne is detained and ordered to write under surveillance, raising questions of state power, artistic freedom and who controls the narrative. 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It is produced and presented by The Cockpit and offers a taste of innovative pan-lingual theatre. 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. The night runs 90 minutes, for ages 14 and up, with welcome drinks, a sneak peek of the shows, and mingling with the artists in the bar.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/pick-of-voila-39126/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/pick_of_voila", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/7153772816ae8e03a84acf2dd93db0f815bdc0984bee90a17e7ee8c18cd47b4b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Conch", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T20:30:00Z", "place": "South London Gallery", "address": "Peckham Road 65-67, SE5 8UH London", "price": "£10/£5 members & concessions", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "The Conch is an event where artists share new work that is still in development, with the audience invited to respond after each presentation by sharing thoughts, questions and reflections. This edition brings together artists who explore domestic architectures not simply as backdrops, but as sites of labour and performance that can take on a life of their own. Georgina Hill performs a work on the overlooked history of cottage industries in Britain, Alia Hamaoui reworks behind-the-scenes footage from the whodunit crime film 8 Femmes, and Beatrice Vorster presents BOO!, a performance made with Yasmin Vardi that deconstructs the ghost-movie genre. 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It is created by Sophie Huckfield & Company with Production Designer Rosanna Vize. The show is divided into two 'Acts': one set in the Lucas corporate offices with archival materials, the other the backstage of a working theatre with a recreation of the Broadside Mobile Workers Theatre stage and original and reimagined props. Talks, performances and collaborative activities throughout revisit this history with members of Broadside Mobile Workers Theatre and Lucas Workers sharing their stories, with scripts rewritten, objects remade and the play restaged.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/sophie-huckfield-company-a-socially-useful-production-the-pa-42058/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/c606f17ca361a8050baf2d028768869cdc8e22bbe21f63973721c67623c79058-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Autumn Term Performance Makers: Theatre, Words & Movement", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-05T00:00:00Z", "place": "Roundhouse", "address": "Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8EH London", "price": "£25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word", "stage/theatre"], "description": "Performance Makers: Theatre, Words & Movement is an 8-week project for 15–17 year olds at the Roundhouse, where participants create original live performance from scratch. Led by industry professional practitioners with backgrounds in contemporary performance art, it explores theatre, spoken word, and live art through writing, movement, improvisation, and collaboration. No previous experience is required, and the project ends with a Scratch Night showcase for friends and family in a professional studio. Sessions take place at Roundhouse Works Backstage Studio.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/autumn-term-performance-makers-theatre-words-movement-64961/", "official_url": "https://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/performance-makers-15-17-au26/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/39f7f2b5fa21f6f5ee4e106531fefa1e590fe7cb88540b018ade88f7fef02112-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Do You Know Where To Go From Here? at VOILÀ! 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In it, Zoey and Ethan are deciding whether or not to have a baby, while Zoey's younger sister Trish juggles two kids with parenting her new boyfriend Matt. The new play by Scott Elmegreen and Drew Fornarola explores why couples are waiting longer to have kids, or debating whether to have them at all. It is directed by Andy Sandberg, Artistic Director of the Hermitage Artist Retreat in the U.S., and is filled with authentic characters, clever storytelling, and laugh-out-loud humour.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/expecting-46104/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/0c15d431a64a76b06706820dd0aa9bf95aed7b9840e8f5ad218b5372dc12d552-600.webp"}, {"title": "Voila! at the Space - Launch Party", "start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Space", "address": "Westferry Road 269, E14 3RS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "party-club", "tags": ["stage/theatre", "occasion"], "description": "An evening launch party at The Space marking its third year as a Voila! Theatre Festival venue and its first mini-season launch. The venue invites audiences to join its performing artists, who wanted to feel part of a venue community, in welcoming them to East London. Guests can see extracts of the shows programmed at the Space, meet the makers, and play mingle bingo with the international and migrant artists. Each ticket includes a free glass of fizz, alcoholic or non.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/voila-at-the-space-launch-party-39747/", "official_url": "https://space.org.uk/event/voila-launch-party/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/b5f0c016395adcd2dea775574feffa3bec5d8bc500e47526ddded8267c851424-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Roundhouse Rising: If I Were To Say It In English by Thea Lungu", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Roundhouse", "address": "Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8EH London", "price": "£10.75", "price_from": "10.75", "price_to": "10.75", "tickets_url": "https://booking.roundhouse.org.uk/73140/73141", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/migration", "stage"], "description": "'If I Were To Say It In English' is a theatre piece by Thea Lungu, presented as part of Roundhouse Rising at the Roundhouse's Davey Studio. 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