Theres a plague. Everyone is worried. Everyone is in turmoil. Everyone is panicking. Everyone except for the Kings newest messenger. Why on earth would they be in turmoil, when they can find and deliver the cure to become the greatest messenger of all? One small catch - the position of the Kings messenger is cursed. But its okay! Surely with the help of doctors, friends, foes, and some of the most famous messengers of all - everything will be okay right! Right? Written and performed by recent LAMDA Acting grad Rachael Dowsett, 'Please Shoot the Messenger' is a fast paced, fun and witty solo show featuring an array of dynamic characters, Shakespeare, clowning, and physical comedy. LATECOMERS MAY NOT BE ADMITTED. UNDER 18s ARE NOT PERMITTED INTO THE THEATRE FOR THIS PERFORMANCE. The performance lasts approximately 60 minutes without interval. No re-admittance once the performance has commenced. Refunds and exchanges are not available.

Ann stands before an audience, tasked with delivering a loving eulogy for her mother, Suewho refused vaccines, distrusted science, and ultimately died of COVID-19. But how do you honour a life that feels like it was lost to something preventable? As the funeral looms, Ann wrestles with grief, frustration, and guilt, slipping into different characters and memories in a whirlwind of humor, raw emotion, and biting truth. What begins as procrastination becomes an unfiltered exploration of loss, love, and the seductive power of misinformation. Based on true events, Fickle Eulogy is a gripping solo performance that delves into the messy, unpredictable nature of mourning, the weight of ideology, and the struggle to reconcile love with irreconcilable choices. LATECOMERS MAY NOT BE ADMITTED. UNDER 18s ARE NOT PERMITTED INTO THE THEATRE FOR THIS PERFORMANCE. The performance lasts approximately 60 minutes without interval. No re-admittance once the performance has commenced. Refunds and exchanges are not available.

'Succession' meets 'The Big Short' in this tense, pressure-cooker drama set on the eve of the 2008 financial crash. While most remember reckless banks and collapsing housing markets, few know about the desperate, behind-the-scenes attempts to stop the global economy from falling apart. 'Pop Goes the Dollar' plunges into the heart of the New York Federal Reserve as markets spiral and Americas biggest banks crumble. At the centre is Tim Geithner, President of the NY Fed and a young father, forced to confront what hes willing to sacrifice in the name of survival. As political pressure mounts and time runs out, decisions must be made: who to save, who to let fail, and what it really means to keep the system standing. Written and directed by Esalan Gates, whose previous work has received reviews and a Broadway World UK Award nomination, this new play combines economic history with human drama to make a complex crisis thrillingly accessible. Presented by Codex Theatre, a company dedicated to unpicking big ideas through clear, compelling storytelling, 'Pop Goes the Dollar'; is not just about 2008: its about now. When systems falter and pressure rises, what (and who) will we choose to protect?

Theyre the most prestigious universities in America: Harvard. Princeton. Yale. Columbia. Brown. Cornell. UPenn. Dartmouth. And all eight release their admissions decisions on the same day! In an American high school, six friends await the release of admissions decisions. But tension grows as the hour passes, forcing them to grapple with the pressures and prejudices driving their desire to get into the Ivy League. Succession meets the petty dramas of high school, Ivy Day is a sharp and darkly funny interrogation of elite higher education. Ivy Day previously received a rehearsed reading at The Space Theatre during their ScriptSpace season, and a sold-out performance at The Golden Goose Theatre in 2024. Writer/Director Arianna Muoz is an Off West End nominated-theatremaker and Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist. Other writing includes #Edit (Hope Theatre, Theatre Deli) and her debut feature screenplay, Mary Shelley. LATECOMERS MAY NOT BE ADMITTED. UNDER 18s ARE NOT PERMITTED INTO THE THEATRE FOR THIS PERFORMANCE. The performance lasts approximately 60 minutes without interval. No re-admittance once the performance has commenced. Refunds and exchanges are not available.

When Leena steps foot inside the boxing ring, shes invincible. Unshakable. Basically a 15-year-old legend in the making. But outside the ring? Thats where things get a bit messier. Guard Up is a bold, funny, and unfiltered coming-of-age comedy about growing in up, standing your ground, and holding on to who you areeven when life tries to throw you off course. Leenas got big dreams: becoming a professional boxer, an astronaut, or even a CIA agent (or maybe all three?). Shes full of confidence and delusion in equal measure, and proud of it. But then puberty barges in like an uninvited guest, and suddenly men are looking at her weird, her mums signing her up to a boxing gym to channel her growing frustration, and her bodys doing things no one warned her about. As her life outside the ring gets more confusing, Leena starts punching her way through itone sparring match, awkward school day, and unwanted male gaze at a time. Partly told inside a boxing ring through rounds of sparring Leena takes you on a journey of self-realisation, sacrifice and determination. Can she stay true to herself, and after everything, is becoming a professional boxer still possible? LATECOMERS MAY NOT BE ADMITTED. UNDER 18s ARE NOT PERMITTED INTO THE THEATRE FOR THIS PERFORMANCE. The performance lasts approximately 60 minutes without interval. No re-admittance once the performance has commenced. Refunds and exchanges are not available.

After the loss of a loved one, Autistic 90's rave fan Sam tries to escape their grief and find solace in parties and dance music while trying to find the friendships they've always wanted. However, she has a choice: either face the horrors of trying to be yourself or mask her neurodivergence with a brand new identity. Can she find the life she's always dreamed of or will masking cause more problems than it seems? Join Sam and their best friends DJ and Jo as we travel to illegal raves, tunnel parties, 90s mega-raves and maybe the odd funeral as we travel through Sams direct experience of what its like to be neurodivergent in a neurotypical world. Originally performed at the Ricochet Theatres Bulletpoints scratch night, this fringe run will be the plays feature length debut as well as the first full play debut from the writer Kieran Faulkner. LATECOMERS MAY NOT BE ADMITTED. UNDER 18s ARE NOT PERMITTED INTO THE THEATRE FOR THIS PERFORMANCE. The performance lasts approximately 60 minutes without interval. No re-admittance once the performance has commenced. Refunds and exchanges are not available.

Tenner Bag is a brutal and darkly funny new play about family, violence, and survival in a town on the brink. Set in post-riot Teesside, it follows the fallout of a fractured family forced back together after a funeral. Old resentments resurface, loyalties buckle, and buried histories refuse to stay quiet. There are no clean exits only what youre willing to carry. Tenner Bag is about the collision between self and environment how a place shapes you, traps you, and lives inside you long after youve left. Its both a personal reckoning and a wider one a microcosm of a system that fails people, then blames them for surviving it. Francesca Bolam, Writer. Written by Francesca Bolam and directed by Finella Waddilove, Tenner Bag is working-class theatre that doesnt pull punches. With biting dialogue, claustrophobic tension, and flashes of stark tenderness, it asks what it really costs to leave and whats left when you stay. Developed between London and New York, this is the UK debut from a cross-Atlantic team bringing bruising honesty and lived-in grit to the Camden Fringe. LATECOMERS MAY NOT BE ADMITTED. UNDER 18s ARE NOT PERMITTED INTO THE THEATRE FOR THIS PERFORMANCE. The performance lasts approximately 60 minutes without interval. No re-admittance once the performance has commenced. Refunds and exchanges are not available.

Coming Home tells the story of Jack and Suzie. They are a couple in their early 30s who have decided to watch England play in a major tournament together. Jack is clearly a big football fan whereas Suzie is trying to show her partner she is getting into the spirit of it all. At first, all is exciting and hilarious as Jack is frantically pacing the room and singing the national anthem, however as the game begins to unfold and his drinking becomes a compulsion to handle his emotions, the couples deep routed issues of intimacy, their future and Jacks paranoia, take their toll on Suzie and she is left isolated, frightened and furious at the man she is in a relationship with.The play follows a timeless paradox universe from 1998 with England playing Argentina, to England vs Italy in 2021. Jack and Suzie are trapped in a pattern of the same scenarios and outcomes from football and his behaviour. The couple can also be a representation of the many relationships that have been impacted by their partners behaviour whilst watching football. Suzie is a woman having to deal with the man child that is Jack and therefore represents the many women who have found themselves throughout the years being the crutch or tragically the punching bag for their emotionally repressed, bar watching football partner. LATECOMERS MAY NOT BE ADMITTED. UNDER 18s ARE NOT PERMITTED INTO THE THEATRE FOR THIS PERFORMANCE. The performance lasts approximately 60 minutes without interval. No re-admittance once the performance has commenced. Refunds and exchanges are not available.

Its the oldest profession in the book, and Mistress is there to guide you with a trusty whip in hand. Theres a new dominatrix in town, and she wants to leave a mark. Tish is stuck, studying musical theatre in Bognor Regis (the Broadway of the South Coast). Theyre told to be a leading man, not to put a foot wrong, and facing them in the mirror is a body they dont recognise. Something in them is screaming, longing to be free. But after a chance exchange on Grindr, how far will she push herself to become what she's always wanted. Sex sells, and selling out is just one flogging away PROVOCATEUR is a bold new show from drag fetish sensation Letitia Delish on her world as an ex dominatrix, from the sordid sessions to the eye opening experiences that started out as a quick way to pay rent but become her first ways to explore their gender and their trans identity LATECOMERS MAY NOT BE ADMITTED. UNDER 18s ARE NOT PERMITTED INTO THE THEATRE FOR THIS PERFORMANCE. The performance lasts approximately 60 minutes without interval. No re-admittance once the performance has commenced. Refunds and exchanges are not available.

You know, its terrible that a woman should have to sit there and say Gay Switchboard. Why isnt it Lesbian and Gay Switchboard? Its 1985. Above a bookshop in Kings Cross, volunteers answer calls from across the country. There's been a vicious queer-bashing in Leeds, a young man in Bristol dreads his HIV test, and a breathless voice really wants to know what they're wearing. For Lou, Joan, Nana and Jackie, its just another shift. Battling phone line outages, understaffing, and vanishing pens, these four lesbians are determined to answer the call to connect their divided community. The Switchboard Project is a new dramatic comedy that brings often-ignored stories out of the archive and onto the stage. Inspired by real phone calls and interviews with ex-Switchboard volunteers, this play celebrates the important role lesbians have played in gay liberation, battling the AIDS crisis, and building the queer community as we know it today. Previous praise for The Switchboard Project includes: "The piece is alive, questioning and resonant [...] a highly polished one-hour production that goes by in an instant" ( , Theatre & Tonic) LATECOMERS MAY NOT BE ADMITTED. UNDER 18s ARE NOT PERMITTED INTO THE THEATRE FOR THIS PERFORMANCE. No re-admittance once the performance has commenced. Refunds and exchanges are not available.

Nessas drinking a cuppa she probably can't afford. ding-a-ling someone walks into the caff. (Thats caff, not caf.) Wait, isnt that...? Emma Bentleys latest solo show cracks open the heads of four women, wanting and questioning, whose search for comfort leads them to the fried embrace of the greasy spoon. Take a seat in the world of tea in white mugs and having a cheeky Kit Kat for breakfast pudding. This is the place you can show up how you like, whether thats in your scruffiest hoodie or your Fred Perry queer armour. Directed by Moses Gale ( FAKE, Damien Nettles ) and returning to London after a sold-out run, the supermodel in the caff is bonkers, warm, relatable and a chance to people-watch without looking away. Audience reviews for The Supermodel In The Caff queer and quirky a witty rollercoaster the talent and sheer force and stamina presented by Emma is astounding Praise for Emmas previous work magnetic presence sparklingly funny Scotsman ferocious intensity Define Arts Image credit: Louise Kings Running time is approximately 75 minutes. LATECOMERS MAY NOT BE ADMITTED. UNDER 18s ARE NOT PERMITTED INTO THE THEATRE FOR THIS PERFORMANCE. No re-admittance once the performance has commenced. Refunds and exchanges are not available.

In your darkest hour, what would you wish for? In Edwardian London, newlyweds John and Jenny White set up home together. They look forward to a happy and prosperous life, their home echoing with the laughter of their children. As the years pass, things do not turn out the way they had hoped. Living in an isolated cottage on a pitch-black street, with a world war rumbling away in the background and the price of everything going through the roof, John and Jenny face the ravages of poverty and childlessness. One day, a mysterious, ancient object comes into their possession, a ghoulish talisman that seems to grant wishes. Could this be the remedy for all their troubles? Or is it something more sinister, with the power to plunge them into far deeper miseries? Adapted from the macabre Edwardian ghost story by W. W. Jacobs, we bring you a re-imagining of The Monkey's Paw: a spine-tingling warning of the dangers of meddling with fate and a chilling reminder to be careful what you wish for. LATECOMERS MAY NOT BE ADMITTED. UNDER 18s ARE NOT PERMITTED INTO THE THEATRE FOR THIS PERFORMANCE. No re-admittance once the performance has commenced. Refunds and exchanges are not available.