UK premiere of Witkiewicz play, by new international company promoting Eastern European theatre tradition.

Follow this group of bumbling detectives as they search through the remnants of Western Civilisation, interrogating the creation of the individual soul throughout philosophy, religion and literature.

Sartre meets Fight Club! Theatre meets Live Indie Rock Music! A play with the Band A Riot in Heaven live on stage.

A new and original performance from an international company that takes visual and verbatim theatre to new places. A place at the table to which you are invited.

Tom has gathered memories and stories in response to his 'Everyone's Companion to Life & Love' trilogy and developed a new performance inspired by these.

Join little wonder on a thrilling journey through one of London’s most historical and picturesque backwaters, the Regent’s Canal.

Sprint: A festival of adventurous experiences in theatre has become an important fixture in London’s experimental theatre calendar for audiences hungry for more interesting work.

A new adaption of the Grimm’s Brother’s Classic story by DRoots, a new and unique Deaf-led company that creates specialist theatre work for children and young people.

In this Total Theatre Award-nominated, sell out show, Dancing Brick stuffs the language gap fit to bursting with movement, masks, comedy, poetry, Italian and slapstick in a visually inventive and highly energetic production.

A quirky and humorous show about language and the challenging task of imparting both random and crucially important information.

Following it's sucessful run at this years Edinburgh Fringe CPT's production returns home this Autumn. "As a piece of theatre, Icarus 2.0 soars." The Stage

Another chance to catch Chris Goode’s controversial verbatim/documentary piece, charting the rise and fall of the guest book at Hippo World

A genuinely unique poet and visual artist, Christopher Knowles is best known as the autistic teenager who, throughout the 1970s and beyond, unexpectedly found himself collaborating with theatre auteur Robert Wilson on the libretti for major avant garde works

Chris Goode presents a world premiere reading of Knowles’s most extended and perhaps most accomplished text piece

Avon Calling draws vividly on personal source material to explore the eternal triangle of mother, daughter and … Avon Cosmetics.

Sceenpool brings together 24 companies in an eclectic vision of what live theatre can be and what it can do.

Gorgonzola! Set on a red double-decker, Jumping Mouse is a totally full-throttle adventure guaranteed to get you absolutely revved up.

Sarah Kane's penultimate play, Crave, is an epic dramatic poem composed for four voices, written in her distinctively sparse and elegiac style.

Part love story, part magic show, Love and Other Magic Tricks reveals the smoke and mirrors between a couple as they search for that delicate balance between love and need.

We shared a womb, you and me!

Imagine your son or brother or best friend was found bleeding to death in street. Imagine someone you love being been taken away from your forever.

A festival of adventurous experience in theatre

Naïve Dance Masterclass is a stand-up and dance-about comedy combining deadpan wordplay and expert physical tomfoolery in a sweet blast of erudite mayhem.

Michael Pinchbeck takes his parents on tour to recreate the post-show party where they met in 1970 after an amateur dramatic production of The Sound of Music

Ever had your heart broken? Ever wanted to have your heart broken?

One man’s quest for spiritual enlightenment, through feats of amazement with toy elephants.

This is a charming and strange new story, told through paper theatre, conceived and created by Jonathan Storey.

A new solo performance using photography, film, sound, stories and poetry.

We present a theatre full of the finest artists, theatre makers and performers ready to lay their dates on you. We have commissioned them to create for you a private one-on-one, four minute date.

Total Theatre Award nominated Idle Motion explore the parallels between Borges’ life, his stories, and his readership, taking you on a journey where books transform from a flock of birds, to a city, to an airplane.

A double bill of exciting new work in development

We couldn’t get a babysitter tonight so we had to bring our babies with us. Please could you keep an eye on them so we can get on with the show?

Sat at the screen browsing, something bites online. Sails billow, tentacles snatch you under, and you encounter The Jetsam.

‘The most unpleasant woman I have ever known’.

Based on the claims of evolutionary psychology and set amidst the twin threats of ‘peak oil’ and climate change, this darkly comic show combines expert physical performance, delicate puppetry, a fact-packed text and striking visual effects in a work of social-science-fiction.

Grafting and Budding is a performance examining ideas surrounding race, heritage, and mixing.

Director Vik Sivalingam of the Royal Shakespeare Company, in his first collaboration with Sturdy Beggars, brings to life this new, simple and raw adaptation of Chekhov’s timeless classic Uncle Vanya. Alexander Andreou, fresh from his National Theatre debut, takes the title role.

A city of masked lovers, dark corners, golden arches and excessive wealth. But all that glisters is not gold…

Tom's is a devised piece that fuses new-writing, movement and puppetry to tell the true life story of Tom, a young man paralysed in a life-altering snowboarding accident.

They story if a portuguese queen.Caught by her husband whilst hiding bread in her apron, she lies telling she carries roses.She opens the apron the bread had been transformed.

As the revellers loose themselves in the sun and mayhem of the lively resort of Malia. The representative of the club Malibu struggles to contain his sobriety.

Combined with painstaking historical research into the period concerned to shed dynamic new light on the characters of this classic. A play set immediately before Shakespeare's Macbeth.

After a devastating terrorist attack, Eva is left with David hanging from a skyscraper without any memories. Together, between life and death, they rediscover their surprising pasts.

Characters go through individual journeys... sense of belonging and what makes a place home are questioned in this theatrical dance piece by Annarita Mazzilli.

Bringing a children’s drawing to life in a colorful cardboard set are women trapped in this imaginary place.Spun is a piece of experimental physical theatre.

An adult comedy that should strike chord in anyone who has ever aspired to host the perfect party. As Phillip and Phillippa try to host a childrens birthday party.

Candid is a young man questions the hypocritical side of human values, as he embarks on his journey living the most catastophic of situations.

Shakespeare's classic looks at the conflict between national loyality and family love in this twised and humours tale.

Theatre and music combine to tell a dystopian ghost story set in a world where music is forbidden. Set in a derelict house two brothers are haunted by ghosts.

Prepare to be transported to the planes of Ilium by three performers fusing words and movement, to enact this masterpiece of Greek literature

Into the Skirt is the latest multimedia solo performance by Mamoru Iriguchi. It takes you back to everything about love, sex, gender and fairytale that you used to be deadly curious about as a kid but has been left unanswered.

Danny the Wild Balloon tamer has run out of balloons and must grow his own

A symposium of gore, war, sex and greed, here the Agamemnon is dragged into 1945 London.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned...

This darkly comic show imagines the world at a point of environmental crisis, combining physical theatre, Live Art and puppetry.

Inspired by the classic Chekhov short story, DogOrange’s punchy, vivid style creates an atmospheric, exciting drama, Nominated for Best Ensemble in The Stage Acting Excellence Awards, 2009.

Naïve Dance Masterclass is a stand-up and dance-about comedy combining deadpan wordplay and expert physical tomfoolery in a sweet blast of erudite mayhem.

THE UNCLE HANS-PETER PARTY incorporates masquerade, performance and animation in a live event where the audience don plastic masks and collectively assume the persona of Uncle Hans-Peter.

n an intimate encounter between yourself and your reflection, the mirror in front of you becomes a window to an out of body experience, placing you behind the steering wheel of someone else's life.

What would happen if I sang my request for a book of first class stamps?

Maverick makers GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN went to see a show where the performers wrote them letters. They didn’t write back – instead this unravelling game of truth and lies is their response.

Natasha Davis' third solo show completes her trilogy on body, identity and migration. Her poetic journey evokes migratory bodies burdened with past memories, present fears and future anxieties.

Using luggage, maps and paper airplanes, the roaring twenties and the pioneers of aviation are remembered, when flight was exciting and we began to carve our way through silent skies.

“In 1985 a British tabloid called for Irish repatriation. I read the editorial with other Irishmen in a London railway siding. We weren’t worried, we didn’t exist anyway’.

You enter a pitch-black space, lit only by the torch in your hand.

Danny the Wild Balloon tamer has run out of balloons and must grow his own. The tamer turns gardener.

In a moment when everyone seems to be penning a memoir, and Facebook and Twitter encourage the minutae of people's lives to enter the ether, why shouldn't I, also, be famous?

A one-on-one interactive performance playing with the dark side of intimacy… When Night Falls (2010) is a durational one-to-one performance, taking place in a dark space.

Projector/Conjector is a duo dance piece about two characters called Projector and Conjector.

This March CPT will bring you our 14th Sprint Festival featuring an array of exciting talent...

Inspired by the stage direction in The Winter’s Tale, ‘Exit pursued by a bear.’ The End is part of an ongoing project by writer and live artist Michael Pinchbeck that explores endings and exits and continues an interest in the re-enactment of real life events to investigate absence and loss.

One family struggles to cope with the killing of their first-born. The other is crippled by guilt, and the stigma of a son imprisoned for life.

one of a kind artist, traveller and professional eccentric Bill Aitchison, will have a new performance of dodgy translations, misunderstandings and insights into how the British (i.e. Bill) come over to the good citizens of Xiamen.

Wash-a-bye-baby: Dark physical comedy about Infanticide
A woman shares her story and her washing machine with you. Can you help her? It could be dangerous…

FACTORÍA DE FUEGOS (Firework Factory) present a double bill of work by two of the most exciting emerging Spanish companies, two new pieces exported to the UK for the first time.

A Place at the Table is a gripping piece of company-devised theatre that explores the myths and stories that have shaped events in Burundi and the surrounding region, including Rwanda. The audience is invited to take a place at a large table to eat, drink and join a remarkable shared act of remembering and questioning.

Lecture Notes on a Death Scene is an atmospheric encounter for one audience member at a time that places you behind the steering wheel of someone else's life.

London's best established festival of new and unusual theatre: a month-long cavalcade of adventurous performance featuring some of the most exciting artists from Britain and beyond

HARD TO RESIST explores how to resist orthodoxy, and imagines status quos rocking all over the world…

Deep in the bloody fields of ancient Scotland, after the mist has cleared from a recent battle, a warrior Macbeth and his friend Banquo witness three witches prophesise the future. Macbeth will be King. Taking this information back to his beloved wife and knowing the King is due to feast at their home that very night, they decide to take the prophecy into their own hands that will lead to mass murder, ultimate power, madness and their eventual down fall.

Contain some scenes of mild stage violence, sexual references and fake blood.
Not suitable for children under 8-10 years old.
Running time 90 minutes approx, with no interval.

In this London premiere of a new show by Bread and Goose, Anthony guides us on a tour through the depths of the neuron forest, where we discover the magnitude of possibility within our own minds.

Art and The Mannequins brings to theatre a show which intends to be a live experience for the audience, rather than excluding them as mere spectators.

London 1923, the roaring twenties, an era of jazz, gin and social upheaval.

A 3 week festival of theatre and performance, cabaret, comedy, short films and lively discussion about feminism: what it meant then, what it means now, and why it's resurgent.

Drawing electrifying sounds from traditional instruments, and with a voice that will seduce and terrify you, Lady GoGo Goch is a music-theatre show about Welshness by Kindle’s Sam Fox.

Theatre-maker Andy Smith presents a unique double bill of performances as part of this year's Sprint festival. Using his trademark simple, informal and conversational style, these two works are joined by their desire to ask a few questions about what we are up to, contemplate the world we live in a little, and think about how we might change it.

Jaye is going it alone for the first time… But she can’t do it without you.

In 1994, Oasis released their debut album Definitely Maybe, Labour leader John Smith died of a heart attack, and the World Cup happened without England. Oh, and Camden People’s Theatre was founded by an idealistic gang of artists in a former pub on Hampstead Road.Twenty years on, to launch its year-long CPT@20 programme, CPT marks two decades of trailblazing theatre with a proper knees-up celebrating the sights, sounds and styles of 1994, alongside for-one-night-only, nineties-themed performances from some of our favourite artists.

Play the lead role in a zombie apocalypse. Write a postcard to your future self. Ride a car through 1990s Texas. Join us for a one-night extravaganza of intimate, one-on-one and drop-in performances featuring Claire Gaydon (Remy), GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN, Greg Wohead, Harry Giles and many more – including Citizens Exchange Bureau, by Haworth + Hayhoe and The Human Clock, by Janine Harrington.

There is no such thing as Safe Sex.

The recipient of the prestigious Spring Festivals Co-commission 2014 (awarded by the Pulse, Mayfest, Sprint and Night Watch festivals) is My Son & Heir, an anarchic celebration of the everyday heroism of parenthood, set amongst a never-ending mess of plastic, flashing-beeping, bubble-blowing chaos.

‘I remember being 5 years old and drinking a carton of Five Alive tropical juice drink and saying to myself “I am 5 and I am alive”.
Now I am 33 and on the harder stuff... Um Bongo.’

A solo by Will Dickie for the memory of his Nan and his nights of dance on deserted suburban streets.

Starring James Franco by The Same but Different is a performance about Fame; how we idolise it, how we hunger for it and how we loath it.
When you enter the space the performers are waiting for the Movie Star James Franco. Will he ever arrive and what difference would it make?

Spinning giddily – and not always clearly – between crime-scene-investigation, misguided therapy session and cack-handed séance for doomed starlet April Six, mingbeast present a cryptic and chaotic exploration of how we remember and of why we might prefer to forget.

Hello, we’re Daniel and Rachel. Our mums told us we could be anything we wanted to be. Now we want to find out if they were telling the truth.

This is a show about unemployment. The realities of unemployment. It comes from our personal experiences and the challenges we have faced.

A double-bill of works-in-progress: Non-Performer's I Was Less Than Amazing and Tristan Bernays' Propaganda

A performance for anyone who has ever picked up an instrument and put it down again or for anyone who is afraid of 'blowing it'

Old time vaudevillian and tap dancer Sid Lester helped make Variety great... and now he wants one last shot.

Inspired by the extraordinary medical memoir written by Hungarian satirist Frigyes Karinthy, A Journey Round My Skull is a passionate love story which examines the complexity of the human brain by exploring the perplexing world of auditory hallucinations.

A hilarious and ridiculously epic tale of a renegade bumblebee. Fast-paced, frenetic and farcical, Intuit This is an hour of surreally funny and downright bizarre comic-theatre brought to you by four of the most Intuitive Creatures around today.

The Blue Tits want to give the hegemony a big bitch-slap in the face and become goddesses of irony instead of ironing

Matt and Matthew are going on a journey into space and the audience is coming too. We won’t be back for tea. Or probably ever again.

There are all sorts of lessons to be learned in life. How to blend in on a march. How to crash a boardroom meeting. How to avoid becoming romantically attached to an undercover police officer. That sort of thing.

This is a story about growing up. It is about popularity and broken bones and eating chilli burgers at midnight on the roof of a parking lot. A story about bodies, and the stuff that's inside them. It is about knowing that things will end badly, but pretending that they won't.

A motor-mouthed collage of spoken word and storytelling. Tales of paranoia and young love, ultra-violence and black humour... Christopher Brett Bailey goes solo in This Is How We Die – a prime slice of surrealist trash, an Americana death trip and a b-movie for the mind's eye.

Expect fantastic, expect devilishly clever, expect daredevil neartoolatelastminuteoooohhe’sgotoutjustintime escapes and japes and high quality high jinks. Expect these things, because expected, generally, happens.

Rosa, Jean and Grantley are delighted to have you round for tea! Jean will be mother, Grantley’s the birthday boy, and Rosa’s in charge of the balloon.

Featuring No Milk for the Foxes by Beats + Elements, and How to Drown a Fish by Grace Gibson

If you want bigger Yorkshire puddings you need a bigger tin is inspired by the conflicting emotions performance artist Lucy Hutson has about her own gender and gender expression. For one year Lucy tried to live the life of a domestic goddess, a homemaker, a mother figure. She iced cakes, made pom-poms with the Women’s Institute, got a one-year subscription to Good Housekeeping magazine and learned how to weave with the Spinners & Weavers Guild of East Essex.

This is an exploration. I want to tell a story – well, my family’s story. Some of it may be true and some may not.

Two people fight over ownership of their shared history. They pluck their memories from a past that has been relocated into ‘the cloud’, where all things, all facts, and all people past, present and future exist simultaneously in time and space.

This bumper Saturday afternoon of electrifying short performances includes work from CPT favourites Figs in Wigs (pictured), Andres Velasquez, the double-act Luxurioux Snacks, and an investigative theatre piece about sex, How Was It For You?, by Mark Maughan and Kefi Chadwick.

A gig/lecture by Greg McLaren about nuclear energy, dangerous technology and the death of the cowboy, concluding in an atom smashing party. Bring an Atom (e.g a piece of throwable fruit).

Sprint is our annual festival of new and unusual theatre. It’s a cavalcade of the best brand new performance we can find, from artists you’ve never met before, and artists whose work you already love. Many of them are making theatre happen in ways you didn’t know were possible – which is just how we like it.

Starting Blocks is CPT’s unique artist development scheme. Each year, five artists or companies develop new work from scratch over an intensive and collaborative ten-week residency at CPT.

Heartwarming and hilarious, Sophie tells an unbelievable true story of how she and her slightly psychic Gran found her long lost father.

A chic, glamorous, 90 minute version of William Shakespeare's timeless Rom-Com.

What happens to a comedian when he can't make people laugh?
He 'dies' or has a nervous breakdown!
Seeking help, a comedian attends a 'drop in' centre for people with psychological problems and starts to see life in a whole new way!

Score cascades through time to tell the story of Hannah and Kirsty, two childhood friends who’ve been through everything together.

GameChanger is a combination of political theatre, cabaret and performance art.

Welcome home. To whose home? Using visual art, poetry and found-sound, Falls The Shadow invites the audience into the surreal, delicate world of How to Home.

Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A devised performance created around architecture, construction and identity.

Curated especially for Whose London Is It Anyway?, a one-off night of spoken word, rap, writing & performance on the changing face of London

Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A verbatim play revealing the human stories behind the hyper-regeneration of London.

Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A surreal show depicting the life of a London family with a 5-year old daughter

Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. Are the Chinese to blame for the UK housing crisis? Who will gain and who will lose in this dangerous real estate monopoly?

Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. Join us for a night of documentary films addressing London's changing landscape

Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A dystopian parable of homelessness and social division set in the year 2044.

Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. Activism and individualism collide over soya lattes, jerk chicken, planning applications and pop-up vintage shops. Welcome to Brixton.

Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. An exploration of the theatricality of activism and the covert politics of participatory art

Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. An exploration of the victory of the Long Live Southbank campaign, and the nature of public space.

Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. Five years ago in the middle of a shitstorm of life events, single mother, proud Londoner and theatremaker Annie Siddons found herself living in suburbia by accident...

Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A playful, epic and urgent exploration of urban regeneration, gentrification and what makes us call a place ‘home’

Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. Acclaimed re-telling of a national issue, and how one group of women refused to be marginalized

Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A performance about homelessness and belonging, based on real experiences whilst sleeping rough.

Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A dark and imaginative piece about a boy struggling to navigate the back-alleys of London, and of his own mind.

Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A politically charged portrait of the urban landscape.

Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A loophole in the Postal Services Act says you can open other people’s mail under certain circumstances. This is that certain circumstance...

Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. The inside story of the Focus E15 Open House Occupation of empty council houses in East London

Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. Welcome to London’s first ever pop-up temple... come construction site.

Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A docu-absurdist panorama of London's housing crisis, created for this festival by a crack team of CPT artists.

Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A journey through events that have transformed the area from farmland into diverse urban landscape.

A satirical drag eulogy for a world past its use-by-date. Part of Whose London Is It Anyway? festival

Part of Whose London Is It Anyway. A live action roleplay game about housing, social cleansing and a sense of community in London

From 9-31 January 2016, Camden People’s Theatre presents Whose London Is It Anyway?, a festival of theatre, performance and discussion exploring the changing face of our capital city.

Everybody is looking for a sign, but with the monetary power and propaganda behind major religions are we left hallucinating?

Royal Hunter is a fictional account of the day that Ellen Chivers achieved her life-long ambition and met Prince Harry through the social dating site, Tinder. After Harry 'swipes to the right' on her picture, we follow the progress of their budding relationship

A new play in development between writer & director Joe Bunce, and performer Billy Taylor, Alphabet explores modern masculinity, through a patchwork of romcoms, snapchats and gangbangs.