What's On

30 and Out by Kit Sinclair “Mum, forgot to tell you - I’m a lesbian. Sorry it’s late - fifteen years late, but grab a rainbow flag and don some Docs... I’m 30 and I’m coming out.”
On her 30th birthday, Kit left her twenties, her boyfriend and the closet. While her friends marry, have babies and get mortgages, she is starting from scratch in a whirlwind of drugs, clubs and heartbreak.

Join Kit in this hilarious, sexy and painful portrayal of what it means to start life all over again. Is it too late to be a lesbian? Does she need a cat and an undercut? Will coming out complete her?

Using touching interviews, innovative projection and powerful storytelling, Sinclair takes us on a memorable journey about drawing your own blueprint, discovering identity and losing yourself along the way.

16+ Dates: Mon 05, Tue 06 Booking and More Information

All Aboard! At Termination Station by Lilly Burton It's personal, not political. An all-singing, all-dancing comedy cabaret ... about abortion.
In a bracing, booming and brash autobiographical tale of pro-choice, Award-winning performer, writer and activist Lilly Burton asks: have you ever just closed your eyes and hoped that it’ll all just go away?
This show is for the people who felt lonely, guilty, relieved - or nothing at all. For the people who think about it often and the people who don’t. For the boy who never knew, for the girl who never said and for anyone who didn’t know how to ask about Abortion. Bringing you a cry-to-arms that will have you slamming down your pints in support of reproductive rights.
16+ Dates: Thu 15 Booking and More Information

Anansi and Other Such Stories by Kwami Odoom There’ll be drums, loop pedals, stories and more. He wants you to kick back, relax and let him take you on a journey. It'd be a shame if someone were to ruin it...
“We do not really mean that what we’re about to say is true. A story, a story; let it come, let it go.”
Kwami invites you for a chilled night of storytelling. Combining the Ghanaian folk tales called Anansi stories and stories from his own life, it should be a lot of fun.
This is a script in hand rehearsed reading of Kwami Odoom's debut play, written on Soho Writers Lab.

16+ Dates: Sat 17 Booking and More Information

Barbie comes to tea by Shanika Warren-Markland Willow is ignoring that Jordan wants to play with a Barbie doll while Jason thinks it’s just a phase, Cherelle thinks it’s homophobia and Vivi is wondering why nobody has just asked Jordan? This family party is about to get real messy…
Barbie Come To Tea explores family dynamics, class race, sexuality and masculinity. Everything a family party needs!
Please note: This is a script in hand rehearsed reading.
16+ Dates: Sat 10 Booking and More Information

Bi Curious George: Queer Planet Dolphin Orgies, Intersex snails, Gay giraffes, Transgender fish…
London drag King Bi-Curious George presents Queer Planet: a raucous drag celebration of queerness and the animal kingdom.

Bi-Curious George is a rising star of the London drag scene and the 2022 winner of the prestigious Not Another Drag Competition at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. His work centres around queer ecology; queerness in the natural world.

“Probably one of the most ingenious ideas for a production I have ever seen [..] A performance of sheer perfection”
Get The Chance Wales

Queer Planet is a raucous romp through the animal kingdom which aims to shatter the heteronormative binaries through which we view the natural world. It is both a parody of and a homage to Britains beloved nature documentaries - combining drag, stand up comedy, parody songs and all manner of ridiculous behaviour.

"Shines and shimmers in queer Euphoria”
Binge Fringe Magazine
Queer Planet was developed through work in progress performances in independent queer venues. The entire piece is an ongoing conversation and collaboration with, as well as a small window into, the wonderful queer community which Bi-curious George has come from.

“Pretty much everything you could want in a drag show”
Theatre and Other Things
16+ Dates: Fri 16 Booking and More Information

Brent Would’s Got Wood by Francesca Reid / Brent Would Strap in & strap on for a spicy drag king cabaret romp & come on a journey with Bas Vegas's - barrow boy - Brent Would! Because he would anything…literally anything…especially you!
Brent takes you from being wooed by him to being at one with him, with a peppering of arboreal factoids, in case you thought this show was legitimately about wood. An insight into the lurid & desire filled mind of a drag king with a perpetual hard on for love…who longs to get it right, but so often gets it wrong to hilarious effect! This Essex lad's love of music has led him to write some original sexy pieces and he will even improvise some for you, using your suggestions and interactions. And if you’re dead lucky you can win a date with the man himself. Score! Willing participants only - consent is sexy...just like you!
16+ Dates: Fri 09 Booking and More Information

Charlie Vero-Martin: Picnic Funny Women Stage Award and Sketch Off 2023 finalist Charlie Vero-Martin brings her surreal character comedy fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe. Packed with laughter, puppets and dark twists, this is a one-woman sketch show like no other.
"Hilarious character sketches stuffed to the gills with mad ideas from a truly gifted performer” **** (The Wee Review)
"This show is absurd and silly, but it is also carefully crafted" **** (One4Review)
"so unhinged" **** (Edinburgh Reviews)
Recommended by the British Comedy Guide and Telegraph’s Best Comedy Shows and Jokes of the Fringe
16+ Dates: Wed 14 Booking and More Information

Cherry by Maygan Forbes What does a kebab wrapper, a flat white and an ASBO all have in common? Meet Cherry, Dagenham’s answer to Frank Gallagher. She’s shameless and wants you to know why. After a life changing medical diagnosis, Cherry has a few final words and two middle fingers she wants to share with the public.
“I’m selfish, and greedy, and a bit of a cow. But I own those stripes. Like a badge of damn honour. There is nothing no one round here can tell me about myself because it’s the foundations of my own internal dialogue. Not in like a depressing way, but a self-acknowledgement - I wake up in the morning and it’s who I am. My permanent makeup. A selfish, greedy cow.”
Following on from a sold out run at the Vault’s Festival 2023, Cherry! Returns to the stage. Written by Maygan Forbes and directed by Hamish Clayton, this isn’t a tale of hometown glory – Cherry wants the world to know she’s everything you hate, dirty, raw and so much more
16+ Dates: Wed 07 Booking and More Information

Chin Wang: Wang's Republic 'Funny, charming, and hilariously honest, Chin is fast becoming one of the most exciting new acts to see' (The Comedy Store). ‘She has a charming air of being cheerfully baffled by it all,.. evokes some cartoonishly amusing mental images’(Chortle)
Born and raised in China, Chin Wang left her homeland for the UK at the tender age of 18. At the still-tender age of 28, She had enough of both countries and decided she should lead a new country. A Wang-derful nation has therefore been born.
Fresh from Edinburgh Fringe. this show is all about the oddities of British culture, the illogical language of English, and also a few hazard warnings for any first generation immigrants from East Asia to the UK. (This show should not be used as a survival guide, but it should be, though.)

As seen on BBC 3, as heard on BBC Radio. Tour support for Olga Koch. Nominated for BBC New Comedy Award 2022. Finalist of Scottish Comedian of the Year 2021. 2NorthDown New Act Competition 2021. Winner of King Gong at The Comedy Store.
16+ Dates: Tue 06 Booking and More Information

Dina Martina: Sub-Standards The unwittingly hilarious Dina Martina is barreling back to the UK with DINA MARTINA: SUB-STANDARDS, the hysterically funny show that people are calling her best show EVER!
DINA MARTINA: SUB-STANDARDS is filled to the rim with the best intentions, yet tempered with inadvertently sad songs, ill-fitting costumes, and pointless stories. Over the years, Dina Martina has been hailed as "divinely funny" (Time Out London), "the most original drag performer in America today" (The Village Voice), "as graceful as a Coke machine moving about on a hand truck" (Seattle P-I) and has garnered a star-studded list of admirers including Eric Idle, Jennifer Coolidge, Graham Norton, Bridget Everett, Christopher Meloni and Chloë Sevigny.

Dina Martina has performed in more than one country and is a classically trained gymnast.

“Dina goes way beyond drag into some new kind of twisted art.” John Waters

"Performance art never looked so good." Whoopi Goldberg

"Staggeringly funny!" Michael Musto

"Comic Genius!" The Atlantic

"Hilarious!" Time Out New York
16+ Dates: Tue 13, Wed 14, Thu 15, Fri 16, Sat 17, Tue 20, Wed 21, Thu 22, Fri 23, Sat 24 Booking and More Information

Ed Byrne: Tragedy Plus Time Attributed to Mark Twain, humour is defined as Tragedy Plus Time. Come and join Ed as he tests that formula by mining the most tragic event in his life for laughs.
16+ Dates: Mon 19, Tue 20, Wed 21, Thu 22, Fri 23, Sat 24 Booking and More Information

FOC IT UP Comedy Club with Kemah Bob. Welcome to the FOC IT UP! Comedy Club!
Join founder Kemah Bob and her incredibly hilarious camarades in comedy for a night the Evening Standard calls “a riot of positivity and inclusivity”. The FOC IT UP! Comedy Club is an unapologetic celebration of comedians of colour that are not cis-men!
Since 2018 FOC IT UP! has brought its revolutionary energy to sold out shows in London, the Edinburgh Fringe, Latitude and Southbank Festival. ‘a vibrant and inclusive space for femmes (including women, non-binary and trans people) of colour in comedy to thrive… changing the industry, one gig at a time…” -Pink News
Hot off recording the first season of the FOC IT UP! podcast, featuring stand-up from over 50 comedians, the Femmes of Colour Comedy Club are coming to Soho Theatre and white audience members are encouraged to check their privilege at the door!
About Kemah Bob: Kemah (she/they) is a comedian, presenter, writer, actor, drag artist and producer. She founded the Femmes of Color Comedy Club with one intention: to create a joyful and empowering experience for her acts and her audience. She has supported Hannah Gadsby, Nish Kumar, Desiree Burch, Jess Fostekew and The Guilty Feminist on tour. Her TV work includes It’s A Sin: After Hours, Jonathan Ross’ Comedy Club (ITV), 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Channel 4), Richard Osman’s House of Games (BBC), Meet the Richardsons (Dave), Guessable (Comedy Central),Question Team (Dave), Stand Up For Live Comedy (BBC), Don’t Hate The Playaz, Karaoke Club: Drag Edition, and Stand-Up Sketch Show (all iTV2).
“A vibrant and inclusive space for femmes (including women, non-binary and trans people) of colour in comedy to thrive… changing the industry, one gig at a time…” -Pink
“Kemah Bob and her brilliantly diverse FOC IT UP! podcast are blowing the doors of comedy wide open” - Evening Standard
“It’s an unapologetic celebration of comedians of colour” - Diva Magazine
“Kemah Bob and her brilliantly diverse FOC IT UP! podcast are blowing the doors of comedy wide open” - Evening Standard

Pay it forward tickets – FOC IT UP would like to make the shows as accessible as possible. You can add a donation of an additional ticket for the set price of £16.

To book a ‘pay it forward’ ticket, please call the box office on 020 7478 0100. These tickets are subject to availability and on a first come, first serve basis. You will be contacted the week before the show if we have tickets available.

16+ Dates: Mon 26 Booking and More Information

Fool’s Moon 'Enter the ‘bizarre and beautiful’ world of Fool’s Moon, an anarchic, genre-bending cabaret night where the mischievous come out and play. Expect extravagant costumes, elaborate props and multiple left feet that may alleviate, if only momentarily, your existential crisis. 'It’s hard to think of a better escape’ ★★★★ To do List

Hosted by ‘magnificent physical comedian’ Paulina Lenoir, the night features the UK's most exciting performers across clowning, music, dance, drag and live art.

Past acts include Lucy Hopkins, Julia Masli, Charlie Partridge, Lorna Rose Treen, Frankie Thompson, Coral Bevan, Chewy She, Mermaid Chunky, WET MESS, Sara Segovia, Lachlan Werner, Ella Evans, Ryan Lane, Gemma Soldati, Nancy Trotter Landry, Kaajel Patel, Sarah Woolfenden, Hazel Townsend, Vic Diamente, Dan Lees, Serena Flynn, Alejo de Mesa, Luke Rollason, Anna Marie Simonsen, Charlie Wood and many more.’
16+ Dates: Mon 19 Booking and More Information

Henry Moss: Henry Queen of Squats Henry queen of Squats is "like having a scandalous gossip with a good friend... Peppered with pop culture references from rom-coms to Broadway and reality TV, a real and infectious love of performance runs through the show" - The Reviews Hub
Moss unpacks flashbacks from his days as a young ballet dancer to now planning his wedding and asks is this enough of an emotional throughline? A high camp jukebox stand-up hour.
16+ Dates: Thu 08 Booking and More Information

Hexenhammer by Sidsel Rostrup and Suzy Kohane HEXENHAMMER is loosely based on The Hammer of Witches, the 15th century guide to witch hunting. Written by two Dominican monks, it kick-started the European witch craze and was partly responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of women over the next few hundred years.
Heinrich Kramer is the Jordan B Peterson of mediaeval Bavaria, the Andrew Tate of the Catholic Church.
Jacob Sprenger is a weird little guy with sweaty hands.
All Heinrich wants is an orderly cosmos, a sizable following and a lucrative book deal.
Jacob just wants a friend.
Join them on their rabid quest to save the world, one witch trial at a time.
HEXENHAMMER is a physical comedy loosely based on The Hammer of Witches, the 15th century guide to witch hunting. Written by two Dominican monks, it kick-started the European witch craze and as partly responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of women over the next few hundred years.
Incorporating text taken directly from Die Hexenhammer and verbatim text found on online incel forums, HEXENHAMMER explores how men end up killing women as a way to solve their own problems, why that hasn’t changed in the past 500 years.
HEXENHAMMER is directed by Complicité Associate Catherine Alexander was shortlisted for the Untapped Award 2022. Secretariat presents HEXENHAMMER ⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Like a sinister Monty Python sketch” - FringeBiscuit ⭐⭐⭐⭐”A brilliant show” - Everything Theatre “Hilarious yet extremely poignant” - The Play’s The Thing “HEXENHAMMER is a witty wild ride on the misogyny train” -Gabriel Gatehouse, creator of the BBC podcast “The Coming Storm”
16+ Dates: Wed 07 Booking and More Information

Huge Davies: Whodunnit Wearable keyboard? Check! Deadpan delivery? Check! Jokes about murder?

Whodunnit promises to be a thrilling ride as Huge (Roast Battle, Cats Does Countdown) takes on the classic role of determined detective using all his wits to solve the murder mystery at hand. With his quick wit, dark humour and surreal material, Huge will guide audiences through the show as they encounter a maze of clues and red herrings and try to uncover the identity of a killer.

Creator, writer and star of Channel 4 sitcom The Artists, Huge, known for his deadpan delivery whilst wearing a full-sized customised keyboard strapped to himself, has quickly risen to become one of the most unique and captivating acts in the UK. His previous show The Carpark was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe, had three sold-out runs at Soho Theatre and was featured in Time Out as the Number 1 Comedy Show to See.

‘Heaving, dry wretched of laughter…Huge Davies [knocks] this wonder of stand-up narrative trickery out of the park!’
★★★★1/2 ToDoList

‘It’s a dark treat…had me shaking with laughter.’
★★★★ Telegraph

‘Huge Davies is possibly the most miserable man you'll see at this year's Fringe, and you'll have a bloody brilliant time.’
★★★★ Fest

‘Huge Davies is becoming a master of the craft’
★★★★ List

‘His comedy crackles with energy.’
★★★★★ EdFringe Review

‘A truly unique act, there wasn’t a dull moment.’
★★★★ Entertainment Now

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Dates: Tue 27, Wed 28, Thu 29 Booking and More Information

Ikechukwu Ufomadu: Amusements Emmy-nominated comedian and “gentleman-scholar of alt-comedy” Ikechukwu Ufomadu seeks to provide you, the Audience, with the finest Amusements he can muster.
Expect a rigorously nonsensical evening of comic absurdity that defies genre while operating within the bounds of international law.
Ikechukwu Ufomadu is an Emmy-nominated and Drama Desk Award-winning actor, writer and comedian, named a “Comedian You Should and Will Know” by Vulture/New York Magazine and a “Comic to Look Out For” by Time Out New York. He can be seen in the Oscar-nominated Judas and the Black Messiah, Los Espookys (HBO), Three Busy Debras, Joe Pera Talks To You (Adult Swim) and has written for Ziwe (Showtime).

Sold-Out Run at 2023 Edinburgh Fringe
Biggest Award in Stand-Up (Next Up) Nominee
Telegraph: Top 5 Shows of 2023
16+ Dates: Mon 26, Tue 27, Wed 28, Thu 29 Booking and More Information

Jessica Fostekew: Mettle A brand new stand-up show about passion, pace and purpose from the criticallyacclaimed star of BBC’s QI, Live at the Apollo and C4’s Travel Man.
Jess’ son’s joined a cult AND her cat’s learnt to talk – but despite all that she’s fine, actually. In fact she’s hurtling faster and hustling harder than ever for the things that she wants and needs.

Her last show Wench played a sold-out Edinburgh Fringe run and UK tour and is available now as a special. Her previous show Hench was nominated for Best Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards and won Best Show at the Chortle Awards where Jess also won Best Act. It’s available to stream now on Amazon Prime as part of the Soho Theatre Live series.

Jess is a regular co-host of The Guilty Feminist podcast, host and creator of her own podcast about eating, Hoovering, and star and writer of BBC Radio 4’s Sturdy Girl Club. Jess has also appeared in the award-winning sitcom Motherland and most recently hugely-acclaimed feature film Scrapper which won the Grand Jury prize at the Sundance festival.

She’s also been on all your favourite panel shows from Celebrity Pointless to House of Games.
16+ Dates: Thu 08, Fri 09, Sat 10 Booking and More Information

Jodie Mitchell: Becoming John Travulva John Travulva teams up with his tick-box protégé: queer, non-binary class-straddler Jodie Mitchell (Comedy Central Live). But does he need to? He's not sure, he gets plenty of praise as himself: 'John Travulva’s set is so funny it makes all the comedy in my life up to this point redundant' (TheatreBubble.com). 'The comedy turn by John Travulva... left me with actual tears of laughter' (DIVA Magazine). 'Travulva... has the audience in the palm of their hand, with excellent comic timing and real warmth' (Upper-Circle.com). ‘Standout talent’ (Stage).
16+ Dates: Thu 01, Fri 02, Sat 03 Booking and More Information

Joshua Bethania: Work in Progress Joshua Bethania is an award-winning comedian from India. His stand-up includes observations on life in London as an outsider and what he is doing to become an insider.
A Work-in-progress for Joshua’s debut hour. Come see him try to find meaning forcefully in life experiences because that’s what we’re told to do especially being an Indian, an Immigrant, a Christian which makes him a minority wherever he goes. As seen on BBC, Channel 4 and Comedy Central
Winner of ‘So You Think You're Funny?’, BBC New Comedy Awards Finalist, King Gong winner and NATYS Finalist.

As seen on Channel 4, OFTV and Comedy Central
16+ Dates: Fri 09 Booking and More Information

Julia Masli: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha hihihi hahahahahahahaha hoho hahahhahahaha hehe hahahahahahahahahaha. 'Ha' (Guardian).
From the legs behind the sell-out hit shows Legs, Logs, and Choosh! Winner of the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality and The Telegraph's Best Sad Clown Award. Off West End Theatre Award nominee.
★★★★★ Guardian
★★★★★ Chortle
★★★★ Scotsman
★★★★ Telegraph
★★★★ Times
★★★★ Skinny
★★★★ List
★★★★ Fest Mag
★★★★ Funny Women
16+ Dates: Thu 01, Fri 02, Sat 03, Mon 05, Tue 06, Wed 07, Thu 08, Fri 09, Sat 10, Mon 12, Tue 13, Wed 14, Thu 15, Fri 16, Sat 17, Mon 19, Tue 20, Wed 21, Thu 22, Fri 23, Sat 24 Booking and More Information

Kathryn Mather: Please Just Give Me A Chance Join award-winning comedian Kathryn Mather in this slightly dark, slightly whimsical show about working for the NHS, finding love and finding yourself against the backdrop of the pandemic.
“Wickedly accomplished… a thrilling rhythm and seamless flow… and the gags come at such a relentless rate. Mather positively revels in the macabre with a playful zeal” Rolling Stone UK
16+ Dates: Mon 05 Booking and More Information

Kissing A Fool by Scarlett Stitt A queer, musical fantasia on pop-singer George Michael.
In ‘Kissing A Fool’, we speculatively dive into George Michael’s psyche at the lowest point in his life. After the death of his lover, Anselmo Feleppa, and losing a high-profile legal battle with Sony Music, the pop-icon feared he’d never write another song. In his despair, George awakens the Fool from deep within, a familiar clown companion whose only intelligence is play.

Join us on this musical journey into the tumultuous creative process of one of the greatest artists of a generation, and witness the transformation of grief into transcendent creativity through song.
16+ Dates: Wed 14 Booking and More Information

Kuan-wen Huang: Ilha Formosa How much do you love your homeland? Do you love it enough so that, as a queer boy, you’d endure the dehumanising military service before running away?
In his debut hour, Leicester Comedy Festival Best Show nominee Kuan-wen recounts how he traded his beloved island for the rainy British isles, what it means to be Taiwanese and what it symbolises through generations of migrations. As seen and heard on BBC Radio 4, BBC Three and Comedy Central.

Directed by Dec Munro
16+ Dates: Fri 16 Booking and More Information

Lara Ricote: Little Tiny Wet Show (baptism) You're born, you're in it, you're dead! Symbolically! Kind of! Don't think about it right now. Right now, stay present in this moment. Stay. Present. Purchase. A. Ticket.

A sort of surreal, partially interactive, dark (like silly dark! not like edgelord dark...or is it) and maybe moving comedy show about what it's even like to live and what it means to care for someone if you always leave them.
All of this 2022’s Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer Winner (yeah!) and 2021 Funny Women Stage Award Winner (also!).
16+ Dates: Wed 21, Thu 22, Fri 23, Sat 24, Mon 26, Tue 27, Wed 28, Thu 29 Booking and More Information

Lessons on Revolution by Gabriele Uboldi 1968. Three thousand students occupy the London School of Economics, in the most significant act of protest in a generation.
2024. Two friends and flatmates try to work out what radical change means today, searching through archives, photos, first-hand accounts.
Everything’s connected: from the Prague Spring to MLK Jr’s murder, the Paris riots to the Nigerian Civil War, and it’s all converging here and now.
Lessons On Revolution is a ★★★★★ “thought-provoking” (A Youngish Perspective) piece of documentary theatre. It is a gripping and immersive journey through global and personal history which asks: in a new age of inequality and injustice, how can the voices of the past give us hope?
16+ Dates: Tue 13 Booking and More Information

Love's A Beach by Katie Sayer and William Johnston
Fresh from a 5-star sold-out run at VAULT Festival: Meet Ben and Cyrus, this year's winners of TV's biggest reality-cum-dating show.
They're 22, they have hundreds of thousands of followers - and now, 6 months on from the show that catapulted them to fame, they're spending most of their time promoting vegan dog food, and making sponsored content about lawnmowers. Ben wants to return to his old life – while Cyrus just wants his Instagram to reach 1 million followers. When they’re offered a million-pound influencing deal in Dubai, the world looks on to see what L*ve Isl*nd’s first LGBT sweethearts will do.

Starring James Akka (Pleading Stupidity, Pleasance) and Iain Ferrier (BBC 5Live) and directed by Phoebe Gibby (Spring Awakening, Anthony Burgess Foundation).

Written by Will Johnston (Netflix’s The Diplomat, National Theatre) and Katie Sayer (BBC Radio 4’s The Skewer, BBC Television).
16+ Dates: Thu 08 Booking and More Information

Lucy & Friends Lucy McCormick is back with her most ambitious medium-concept catastrophic show yet.
Join Lucy as she unveils her ensemble cabaret tent spectacular… Unfortunately, she has no friends, no money, and no tent.

Still, there’ll be pole dancing, variety acts, strip routines and some quick reworking of social policy.

In a despairing world, lonely Lucy creates community, connection, and conversation the only way she knows how.
18+ Dates: Tue 27, Wed 28, Thu 29 Booking and More Information

One Way Mirror by Jonathan Oldfield ne Way Mirror is an interactive story about the art of people watching, built for extroverts, introverts and everyone in-between. Do you ever get the feeling you’re being watched? Is people watching your guilty pleasure?
If either of the above rings true, this show is for you.
Is people watching your guilty pleasure? Come and join the ritual as we re-create the true story of a man living with a one way mirror in his living room.

“Tonight you will make a choice. Am I watching you? Or are you watching me?”

One Way Mirror is the true story of a man living with a large one way mirror in his front room. As people walk past on the busy high street, he sees them, and they see themselves. He sees everything: people pouting, people picking noses and people phoning their mum. In his time, he's seen 3 physical fights, 4 messy snogs and 1 genuine divorce. Or has he? A new interactive story about the art of people watching.

Made with support from Elevate East, Theatre Royal Stratford East and Interactive Soup. With thanks to The Pleasance and Camden People Theatre.
16+ Dates: Sat 17 Booking and More Information

OommoO By Lula Mebrahtu An acronym for One-of-many-many-of-One, teleports you to a day in the life of 1st generation immigrant Lula Berhane as she navigates the duality of two cultures, her Habesha (Eritrean/Ethiopian) and British identity.
It asks what happens when you’ve left everything behind for the promise of something better, and the something ‘better’ isn’t ‘better’? When you have nothing but memories and memory is fading, what do you have?
Interweaving language+customs+music with wearable tech MiMu gloves, it’s a poetic reflection of an emotionally visceral experience unpacked through an Afro-Futuristic East African lens.
OommoO, neither a gig theatre, musical or drama… It’s a new kind of storytelling.
16+ Dates: Fri 16, Sat 17 Booking and More Information

PADDY YOUNG: HUNGRY, HORNY, SCARED Edinburgh Comedy Award 2023 Best Newcomer nominated Paddy makes his Soho Theatre debut!
He's hungry. He's horny. He's scared. He's in the gutter but he's looking down on all of you.
Join Northern powerhouse Paddy Young for his unmissable debut stand-up tour, fresh from a sell-out, smash hit run at the Edinburgh Fringe.
16+ Dates: Fri 02, Sat 03 Booking and More Information

Paul Currie: Shtoom “SHTOOM” is a brand new show for Paul Currie, for the first time in his 10th hour long show he will not speak for 60min and still bring all the laughs. After 15 years as a professional stand-up Currie will go full fool. Imagine the anarchy & grace of Charlie Chaplin, the pathos & empathy of Buster Keaton, the charm & insanity of Lucille Ball meets the mayhem and sweat of a Parisian riot & the Muppet show all rolled into one and filtered through a single human.
Shtoom! is a truly unique, surrealist, dada punk-clown, non-verbal, stand-up comedy experience from this award-winning Belfast comedy artist.

Nominated *BEST SHOW*
NEW edinburgh comedy awards.
16+ Dates: Thu 08, Fri 09, Sat 10 Booking and More Information

Paul Foot: Dissolve (Filmed Performance) Join us for a special live recording of multi-award-winning and trail-blazing comedian, Paul Foot’s critically-acclaimed show, Dissolve. His most personal, surprising and ground-breaking show ever.
Life is a stress: full of rushed breakfasts, angry people, internal conflict, and Jacob Rees-Mogg. But what happens when everything you thought was important – your problems, grievances against others, your very identity – simply disappears?

In the year 2022 AD something momentous changed for Paul, and in this show he will reveal how he discovered the secret of life on the outskirts of Lancaster.* Inevitably he does get distracted by King Tutankhamun, the House of Lords, Sir Cliff Richard, officious lollipop ladies and what Jesus might have achieved if he’d been a plumber.
16+ Dates: Wed 07 Booking and More Information

Paul Foot: Dissolve. Multi-award-winning and trail-blazing comedian, Paul Foot, is back on tour with Dissolve, his most personal, surprising and ground-breaking show ever.
Life is a stress: full of rushed breakfasts, angry people, internal conflict, and Jacob Rees-Mogg. But what happens when everything you thought was important – your problems, grievances against others, your very identity – simply disappears?

In the year 2022 AD something momentous changed for Paul, and in this show he will reveal how he discovered the secret of life on the outskirts of Lancaster.* Inevitably he does get distracted by King Tutankhamun, the House of Lords, Sir Cliff Richard, officious lollipop ladies and what Jesus might have achieved if he’d been a plumber.

As seen on Would I Lie To You?, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

(ISH) Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2023 – Best Show Co-Winner

NextUp Biggest Award In Comedy 2023 – Nominee

16+ Dates: Mon 12, Tue 13, Wed 14, Thu 15, Fri 16, Sat 17, Mon 19, Tue 20, Wed 21, Thu 22, Fri 23, Sat 24 Booking and More Information

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Reparations by Maryam Garad After spending three years in prison for shoplifting Aisha decides to transform her life and go on a self healing journey.
Her plans are derailed when she meets V - a wealthy young woman who she falls deeply infatuated with.
Aisha soon comes to the logical conclusion that stealing material items is simply not enough - true healing will come when she steals this rich lady’s life!
16+ Dates: Fri 09, Mon 12 Booking and More Information

Ruby Carr: eBae By Deep dive into the weird and wonderful world of eBay! Ruby will lead you down the rabbit hole and introduce you to some of the bizarre eBay subcultures.
'Ruby brings an infectious energy and steady stream of animated stories... injected with a deluge of sharp-witted reflections' (Student). Winner of Funny Women Comedy Writing Award, 2022. 'One to watch' (Funny Women Stage Award, 2021). Finalist of Amused Moose New Act of the Year, 2019.
16+ Dates: Tue 13 Booking and More Information

Runi Talwar: Work In Progress International award-winning comedian and loveable dreamboat Runi Talwar (Amused Moose National Finalist, 2Northdown National Finalist, Have I Got News For You, Hypothetical) works through new material for his highly-anticipated debut hour.
From the humble beginnings of being the only Indian kid in his primary school in New Zealand, to the heady heights of moving to a studio apartment on the other side of the world one month before a global pandemic, join Runi as he explores the meaning of luck and fortune, in the hilarious and heart-warming tale of a lovely bloke who's *just a little bit* incredibly cursed.
16+ Dates: Thu 15 Booking and More Information

Sarah Keyworth: My Eyes Are Up Here To kick off an international tour, Keyworth returns to Soho Theatre with a joyous new show about family, acceptance and a pair of big (well, not super big) losses.
Star of BBC Radio 4’s Are You A Boy Or A Girl, BBC’s Live At The Apollo, BBC’s Mock The Week, Channel 4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats and many more.

Directed by Jet Vevers.
16+ Dates: Mon 26, Tue 27, Wed 28, Thu 29 Booking and More Information

Self-Raising A Graeae production in association with Soho Theatre and Theatr Iolo.

Self-Raising

Written by Mike Kenny & Jenny Sealey
Performed by Jenny Sealey
Developed with The Incubator at The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath
"It starts with a secret, but this one's different, this one's mine."
Graeae’s award-winning Artistic Director Jenny Sealey has spent a lifetime championing stories by Deaf and disabled artists. Now she takes to the stage to tell her own story. Unravelling the past and facing the future, Self-Raising is a blisteringly honest, laugh-out-loud one-woman show about growing up deaf in a family with secrets.
14+ Dates: Tue 06, Wed 07, Thu 08, Fri 09, Sat 10, Tue 13, Wed 14, Thu 15, Fri 16, Sat 17 Booking and More Information

Shafeeq Shajahan: Satyam Shivam Sundaram Step into the hypnotising world of Shafeeq Shajahan with a cabaret odyssey that peels back layers of his Muslim heritage.
An homage to the 1978 Bollywood film, 'Satyam Shivam Sundaram' is a contemporary exploration of identity and metamorphosis, celebrating the journey of reconnecting with a home left behind. In collaboration with Cypriot composer Vasilis Konstantinides, the duo fuse world music to mirror the sagas of their ancestry with iconic cinematic references. Inspired by the sultry rebellion of Bollywood actresses like Zeenat Aman, Shafeeq's queer, Muslim voice cuts through the cacophony of an increasingly alienating world. "Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram'' is an enlightening musical journey, revealing the truths, godliness, and beauty that unite us all.
16+ Dates: Sat 10, Sat 17 Booking and More Information

Sindhu Vee: Alphabet (Work in Progress) Sindhu Vee brings her critically-acclaimed, sell-out tour show, Alphabet, to Soho as she warms up for the filming of her next stand up special.
Sindhu has stormed Live at the Apollo (twice) and appeared on all of the top comedy TV shows, including: QI, Mock the Week, Have I Got News For You, The Last Leg and Would I Lie To You?

She also played Mrs Phelps in the smash hit Netflix feature film Matilda, is the star of forthcoming sitcom The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh for Amazon Freevee. Her other acting credits include Starstruck and Sex Education.

Don't miss this exceptional stand-up back on stage for two very special nights.
16+ Dates: Thu 01, Mon 05 Booking and More Information

Soph Galustian: Hey Mammas Gay & working class Soph Galustian is a gay born-and-bred poor, Mancunian comedian who is also gay and has Armenian heritage whilst being working class.
Did she mention she’s gay and working class? She doesn’t like to bring it up.
She can currently be seen in Channel 4’s Everyone Else Burns.
Dates: Mon 12 Booking and More Information

Su Mi: Banana Beard Think it’s a Stand up solo show? Think again. This immersive comedy invites you all on a surreal misadventure of absurdist sketch , untamed thrash metal guitar solos and imaginary costumed personas.
Expect high energy , wild storytelling and whimsical uplifting nonsense left right and centre. A wild, offbeat and exciting exploration of Stand-up, Musical , Character and Clown comedy, this one woman show celebrates the human experience growing up as an immigrant child of South-East Asian descent , born and bred in the treacherous depths of East London.
Su Mi is a British Malaysian Alternative Stand up Comedienne & Musician sharing her cultivating tales of her own cultural identity.
Social commentary on Intersectionality , Queerness , Racism and Mental health as a Woman of Colour growing up in the Western world.
Breaking stereotypical barriers of what a typical ‘Asian Woman’ should be and representing a voice that does exist in audiences, especially in the alternative comedy world.
SOLD out run at the Camden Fringe and SOLD OUT shows at the VAULT Festival 2023.
16+ Dates: Sat 10 Booking and More Information

Tadiwa Mahlunge: Inhibition Exhibiton Fresh from a sell-out Edinburgh Fringe run, one of the country’s top new stand-ups brings their ‘impressive debut’ (The Guardian) to Soho Theatre.
As seen on BBC One, Dave, Comedy Central. Tour support for Desiree Burch, Jessica Fostekew and Kiri Pritchard-McLean.
16+ Dates: Thu 01, Fri 02, Sat 03 Booking and More Information

The LOL Word Love comedy? Love queers? Bored of cis-male comedians? Don’t worry, The LOL Word is BACK!

Your fave queer women, trans and non-binary comedy collective is bringing you another epically gay stand-up show!

The LOL Word has hosted sell-out runs/ absolute ragers at The Edinburgh, Brighton and Cambridge Fringe Festivals, The Southbank Centre and VAULT Festival, and they’re back at Soho Theatre with another hilarious mixed-bill show! Expect a heck-load of queer comedy talent, absolutely no cis-male comics and plenty of punching the patriarchy.
16+ Dates: Mon 12 Booking and More Information

Troll by Marie Kallevik and Anna Marie Simonsen Direct from their critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe debut comes 'Troll': an ★★★★ "irresistibly silly” (The Guardian), two-troll clown comedy about connection, scape(goat)ing and being misunderstood.
Fed up with years of misrepresentation, villainization and exclusion, two trolls find themselves in a theatre, ready and desperate to tell their side of the story and the truth about those three goats. Inspired by Norwegian folklore, 'Troll' is a heartwarming mash-up of music, storytelling, audience interaction, physical theatre and clown.
Winner of Oslo Fringe's funniest show 2023
16+ Dates: Thu 15 Booking and More Information

Urooj Ashfaq: Oh No! Urooj is an Indian stand-up who hails from a tiny, unknown city called Mumbai. She not only has a degree in psychology but went on to be in therapy herself. What’s her show about, you ask? I think you should ask YOURSELF why you insist on knowing everything. Why don’t you just show up, be surprised, and go with the flow? Okay, I’ll tell you: it’s about her, her family, things that annoy her, and things she loves. She will obviously talk about herself since she’s already speaking in third person. Please come. I love you.
16+ Dates: Sat 03 Booking and More Information

Urooj Ashfaq: Oh No! At The Hen & Chickens, Bristol Dates: Thu 01 Booking and More Information

Urooj Ashfaq: Oh No! At The Wardrobe, Leeds Dates: Wed 07 Booking and More Information

Wish You Weren’t Here A Theatre Centre and Sheffield Theatres co-production
Written by Katie Redford
“I might not be able to drive legally, but I’m pretty nifty in a dodgem”
After all those extra shifts, all Lorna wants is a night out on the town and time to reconnect with her daughter. All 16-year-old Mila wants is for the world to stop burning. And for someone to take down that ‘Beach Body Ready’ poster. Please. As mum and daughter check into their ‘premium’ room where they can almost see the sea, they quickly discover that their favourite seaside town, which was once their annual sunny escape, could really use some attention – just like their relationship.
WISH YOU WEREN’T HERE is a hilarious and heart-warming exploration of family relationships, the agony of growing up, and how to find your way in the world when you can’t help thinking you’re just not good enough.
Written by Katie Redford (TAPPED, Theatre503; YELLOW LIPS, BBC Radio 4), directed by Rob Watt (HUMAN NURTURE, BIRDS AND BEES), and produced by Theatre Centre and Sheffield theatres, this world premiere production has been created in conversation with hundreds of young people across the country.
14+ Dates: Mon 19, Tue 20, Wed 21, Thu 22, Fri 23, Sat 24, Mon 26, Tue 27, Wed 28, Thu 29 Booking and More Information