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Current Productions

CatGPT – The Nightmare Before Catmas

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

John HegleyDo Horses Have Teeth Sir?

The Little Prince

Past Productions

EFG London Jazz Festival

Smokestack Farewell

Tahmine Named Him SohrabRetelling Of Rostam And Sohrab

Twelfth Night

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

Ahmed AhmedIt Only Takes One of Us

Wall of BabelTouching [Mother] Tongues

Copla: a Spanish Cabaret

Guinea PigsG.R.A.C.E. A Relief For The Family?

Miniatura VA Scratch Night with Four New Shows

PostdramaticA Postdramatic Solo Performance

384 Days

Unsewn

Maso SchismHow Far is Too Far?

You Can Take Me Home Toni

Stampin’ in the Graveyard

Twelfth Night

The Improvesarios – Improvised OperaComic Opera – improvised

Knife on the TableBlood In, Blood Out

Andrias ScheuchzeriHumanity Faces The Newt Threat

Ghost

Senses/You Can’t Kill the Spirit

Mount Herzog

The Game

I Shot Mussolini

The Acts of Brizida Vaz/Heart of the MatterA Double Bill of Sin & Ambition

Rendezvous with RevengeA Triple-Bill of Vengeance!

Aqua Tofana1650. Women Rebel with Poison

Letters

A Life of One’s OwnA Quest to Become a Modern Woman

The Joy of OperaLet’s Celebrate Opera’s Joys!

Horse Person OperaTwo Brothers, Fused into a Centaur

The Parting/Buster’s TripA Double Bill Of Surreal Comedies

QueerLoveTrue Stories of Queer Romance

Serenoid

Ciphers

Star QualitySeculations for Guitar and Voice

Song Foundation

Impromptu Shakespeare

Wankernomics: As Per My Last EmailHelping You Navigate Workplace Hell

Spider

Fleecehold

Sanctuary

Navarre

The Lancashire Witches

The Restaurant

Love and Information

Real Eyes

Maar, DoraThe True Story of Artist Dora Maar

Hits & Pieces #7 (Britney Spears)

Hamlet

Ripper

Sin Eater

Rain Weaver

Because

Medea Gosperia

SunshineA Show & Workshop for Kids

The Idea

The Good Women

The Last Time I Saw Caileigh

Re-EnchantPoetic Experiments For A New World

Tim ArnoldSuper Connected

The Importance of Being Earnest

Of Song, Speech and Sound

Mythos: Ragnarok

Semele

Sammy at 66A Legendary Script Brought To Life

Sunshine1 Beach 2 Idiots. Heart and Adventure

Holy Name

Hits and PiecesThe Cher Edition

Dad Is Not My Friend

The Sad Club

Phone Killer

Honey Badger

Poetry Plays

Jupiter’s Ghost

Daniel KitsonCollaborator – A Work in Progress

Mohand & Peter

The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro)

Woman, Life, Freedom Revolution in Iran

A Midsummer Night’s DreamA New Take on a Shakespeare Classic

An Evening of Unnecessary DetailThe First Draft Sessions

Desert Poet

Safehouse

Tree Woman Tales

Pinocchio

Reggae in the RoundThe Circle of Love

All Aboard the Friend Ship

Miniatura III

Can’t See for Looking

Songs of Descent

The Monster of Gao VillageBased On a Chinese Epic Journey

ArthurArthur’s legend in 30 minutes

Roald Dahl and the Imagination Seekers

The Golden Thread/MedusaTwo Tales of Monsters and Danger

Songs Of HopeAn Audio Walking Tour About Grief

The Metamorphosis

1944: Home Fires

The Hedge The World and EverythingA Folk Opera About Cornish Nature

Masque of Vengeance

The Threepenny Opera

The Last Siren

1984

Headin for Godot

The Process

#Fit

Twisted Tales

Liselotte in May

My Body is Not Your Country

Adrift

Gary

Striking A Chord

An Obviously Very Sad Play

Untitled #1

Family Ukulele Workshop

End of the World FM

The Making of Frederick the Great

The Thin PlaceRaw, Messy and Honest

MosquitoYou’re Not Breaking Up With Me

Philautia

Untitled#1

Mischief and Mysteries in Moominvalley

10th Anniversary Concert – The Refugee Choir WOVEN GOLD

The MKC Experience

The Taming of the Shrew

Sankara

Stories>From Africa

Sister Act

Cantata for Four Wings

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

EDIFICE Dance Theatre – Tenome – eyes on hand

Young Herbert’s Horrors

Pts Rajan and Sajan Misra – Afternoon Recital

The Other Side of the Sea

Little Red Riding Hood

A Doll’s House

Split Ends

Treading Water

Into the Woods

London Voices

Commedia for Elders

Beastly Monsters and Monstrous Beasts

Spring Awakening

Jazz in the Round – George Crawley

Jean Toussaint Young Lions

Blue Stockings

Jazz in the Round – Collective X Plus Chris Montague & Wonky Logic

Identity School of Acting’s Summer Showcase – 2018

Denys Baptiste Quartet

Jazz in the Round – Special Edition curated by Laura Jurd

Revolution Pro Wrestling

Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Alina Bzhezhinska Quartet

Honey

Theatre in the Pound

Indra Dhanush (Rainbow of colours in Kathak) – An Evening of Kathak

Coelocanth

On Mother’s Day

Van Gogh on the Beach

Square

Forbidden Fruit a Flavour Has

Fred, Ted, Jack & Harold

Boxes

Empty Room

Wolf

Medea

The Passion According to BIBI

The Egg Rumour

Taramandal

HMS Pinafore

The Distance You Have Come – A Scott Alan Song Cycle

Master and Margarita

Pigspurt’s Daughter

The Little Prince

Stoney End: The Songs of Laura Nyro

The Tao Te Ching Cycle

The Arab Quarterly

Othello

Bad Cinderella

L’incoronazione di Poppea

Genau Dance Company – Kreislauf

Mozart Opera Gala

Mob Wife – A Mafia Comedy

A Nossa Bossa

Carry it to the End

Stories from Asia

The Hazard of Love

Diaries of Madmen – Reimagined Russian classics

Morphine – based on Mikhail Bulgakov

Cheating Death

Bed Peace – The Battle of Yohn and Joko

Theatre in the Pound

Ribbet Ribbet Croak

Professor Kaos So! You Want to Be a Scientist?

Tanglewood Tales

Roald Dahl and the Imagination Seekers

The Tempest

1959 The Year Jazz Changed

Festival of Brexit Scratch Night

The Sensemaker

Harp & TapAn Unprecedented Match of Sounds

ConscienceMeans, Motive & Murder

Faustine

Moshpit @ The CockpitHello Amnesia & Goon Squad

The Wizard of Oz

Rough for Opera – #17 – Speak Red (working title)/Dreaming Clouds/A Father Is Looking for His Daughter

As You Like It

Othello

Welcome to the UK

Crime and Punishment

Anna Karenina

Wild Wilma

Lysistrata

EDIFICE Dance Theatre – Salome

Doctor Dolittle

Remember

Swish!

Ordinary Days

Much Ado About Nothing

The Lost Luggage Adventures

Mr Burns – A Post Electric Play

The Web – A Series of Short Plays

The Ideal Woman

Pyneapple

Toi, La Maladie

The Werewolf of Washington Heights

Russell Howard

Emergence

The Seagull

Voices from Across the World

Reg Meuross – RAW album launch

Shinya Fukumori, BJ Cole, Iain Ballamy, Chris Montague

Coming Home – An Evening with Gary Crowley

Moth Hunting

There’s Always Room for Dessert

The Last Act of Harry Houdini

Henna Night

I Have Two Names

Rebetiko’s journey: from Greece to the World

Right Left with Heels

Ensemble OrQuesta – A Nossa Bossa/Our Rhythm

Ensemble OrQuesta – La Calisto Cavalli

Jason Yarde & ACOUTASTiC BOMBASTiC

Traditional Tales

Hanuman Moves a Mountain and Attempts to Eat the Sun

Santa in Love

Richard Herring – Me 1 vs Me 2 Snooker

Stages

Church of Burn

The F Word

Dragon

Dr Faustess

HOT (Helen of Troy)

La Calisto (Cavalli) – A Boroque Opera

Lettres Jamais ecrites (Unwritten letters)

Genau Dance Company – Hoffnung

Medusa

Cockpit Live

The Winter’s Tale

Theatre in the Pound

Extreme Improv Comedy Show

The Rocktocademy

The Finale 2020

Trilogy 2020: A Series of One Act Plays – Pissed/Cancelled/Trump

The Snow Queen

A Church Street Fairytale

Romeo and Juliet

The Addams Family

Gareth and Friends at the Cockpit

Right Left with Heels

Christmas is Ruined

A Perfect Christmas

Posthuman Meditation

I Am Echoborg Online

Genesis 37 – Work in progress

All Us Girls Have Been Dead for So Long

Clouding Blue

An Ice Thing to Say

A Nossa Bossa/Our Rhythm

Panto Story Time with Topsie and The Dame

Xerse

Elf the Musical

Trojana: Webcamming Chronicles

The Escape of Iris Dupont

Bingo!

Theatre in the Pound: Voila Special

Telephone

Farewell Concert

Right Left with Heels

Naked

State Vs. Natasha Banina

Don’t Leave Me This Way

We Missed You

Diary of An Expat: Reloaded

Voila!

Alice in Wonderland

Sh*t Happens

The Cherry Orchard

Gareth and Friends at the Cockpit

Shebaa’s Adventure to Jopplety How

Indra & The Amrit

The Quest

A Beautiful Way to Be Crazy

Naked

Lichtblick

Metamorphosis 360Degrees

Love Letters

The Return

Lear

Marathon – Rehearsed Reading

Hamlet

Oraios – Staged Reading

One Half of Two

Rushes Soho Shorts

Threesome

Once Upon a Sondheim

Bard in the Yard

Bard in the Yard

L’Egisto – A Magical Opera Fable

Breaking News – Behind the Headlines with Byline Times founders Stephen Colegrave & Peter Jukes

All About Eve – a feminist lood at Milton’s Paradise Lost thanks to Marilyn French – Host Live Online on Zoom

Journey to Nutopia

Dissident Voices

Bard in the Yard – Help Shakespeare Write a Play!

Decommissioned

Daisy Pulls it Off

Glamorous Gran & Other Tall Stories

Under Milk Wood

History on the Road

Rosetta Code

Pink Suits: Outcocking The Cockpit

Coppelia

Pit of Laughter

Penetration

Extreme Improv Comedy Show

Merry McCloud

A Waltz in New Orleans

Unexpected – Rehearsed reading

Journey To Nutopia

RadioLove

Deep Sea Dancing – A Gender-Fluid Dance Adventure!

The Musical That Goes Right

Murder Mystery – An Improvised WhoDunnit

Urinetown The Musical

Mythos: Ragnarok – Witness the Viking Apocalypse Live!

Clean!

La Ronde

Comedians of the Third Age – Old Dogs, New Schtick, Great Gig

Christmas is Ruined

Rebel Boob

Pathways’ Directors Showcase

Les Indes Galantes

The St Valentine’s Day Massacre

The Tempest

Helter Skelter – The Manson Family New Writing

Desperately Seeking Paul

Concert for Ukraine

Audition Tales

Like a Butterfly

Signdance Collective – Celebrating 35 Years of Signdance Collective: In Between Spaces/Oriente Plus/Power Cut/You Have Half a Second to Impress Me

Mythos: Ragnarok – Witness the Viking Apocalypse Live!

Vinegar Tom

All the World’s a Stage

Be My Guest

I’m Just A Little Bit OCD

Speak

Ordinary Days

Christie Done It

Moshpit @ The Cockpit – Rotten Hill Gang + Special Guests

Venus and Adonis

Dido and Aeneas

Encore

The Bees’ Knees-Up! – Sing, dance and party with The Bees!

The Duke’s Radio Show

Dissident Voices – Celebrating Writers

Blood On Your Hands

Webcamming Chronicles

Landscape with Weapon

Dead Ringers – Topical Satire Show

Dead Ringers – Topical Satire Show

The Winter’s Tale

The Professional

Pillars of the Community – My Enemies Will Tear Me To Shreds

Extreme Improv Comedy Show

Experiment Human

Talley’s Folly

Love Goddess, the Rita Hayworth Musical

The Dumb Man

Annual Student Flamenco Show

Mana Dance – In-Stinct

Linger

AdLibretto

Hoops and Hookups

Message in a Clay River

The Phase

The Sea Between

Some Boy You Are

Wolf

Capital Ballet – Prime Unison

Toadette, The Frog Opera

Some Boy You Are

London Theatre Celebrates Harry Styles

Rome 3000 (Julius Caesar) – A current and exciting adaption

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Mezzaterra

1936: Fishing

Fossils, Lies & Poison

Ganga – A work-in-progress chamber opera in Sanskrit.

She Is My Pharaoh

A Coffin, A Confession, And a Cautionary Tale

Landed

The Trans Lady Sings – The First Aria

Outlier

Voices of the Sands

The Trilobite, Or The Fall of Mr Williams

The Burning Question

Module 471

Dissident Voices

The Red Room

The Real – Success & Punishment,

9 to 5: the Musical

1902

Cannot Come to Good

Nettles – It Will Sting

Anti Gone

Freedom. You Need to Grab it!

Enos

Webcamming Chronicles

My Lover Was a Salmon in the Climate Apocalypse – A Gig Theatre Call to Arms

E – MAN – A

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

Transit – In Search of a Place to Call Home

Against – Rehearsed Reading

Let Go Home

Lear – Rehearsed Reading

999

Meeting Joe Strummer

Jazz in the Round: Emergence

Journey To Nutopia

Narcissus – Transcend Beyond The Silver

Borka, the Goose with no Feathers

The Double Down

Lobster Telephone

Tipsy

Twelfth Night

A Show for Claudia

Touch(ed) – A Rehearsed Reading

A Christmas Bees Knees-Up!

A Nossa Bossa

Life Before The Line – This Time, It’s Not a Drill

Macbeth

The Catastrophist/And Other Dreams We Had – A Rehearsed Reading Double Bill

Adrenalin Heart 2 (How to Nail Trauma) – Rehearsed Reading

Cephale et Procris – 23

Mythos: Ragnarok

Extreme (The New Norm)

A Tailor for Ladies

Trolls OnLine

Romeo and Juliet

Electra Untitled

Electra Untitled

Beyond Borders: Migration, Refugees And Conflict in Theatre – Border Crossing Theatre Conference

Don’t Clap For Me Mr Johnson – We Need Support Not Applause

Sunshine

We Are Not in the Least Afraid of Ruins; We Carry a New World in our Hearts

Dancing to Music You Hate

Dissident Voices – To Russia with Love

An Evening With She Drew The Gun – A Night of Poetry and Music

Biggest stories of the month

Wicked movie: every musical easter egg we spotted in the film

Wicked movie: every musical easter egg we spotted in the film

A Streetcar Named Desire with Paul Mescal to return to the West End before New York run

A Streetcar Named Desire with Paul Mescal to return to the West End before New York run

Lead cast revealed for Hercules in the West End

Lead cast revealed for Hercules in the West End

New 620-seat Capital Theatre to open in London – beginning with Dirty Dancing

New 620-seat Capital Theatre to open in London – beginning with Dirty Dancing

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