Shows at The Playground Theatre

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Any Suggestions, Doctor? The Improvised Doctor Who Parody

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Camden Fringe
The Playground Theatre
2nd - 3rd Aug 2025

Go on an adventure through time and space with a live radiophonic workshop and a hilarious improv cast in this loving parody of the sci-fi classic Doctor Who.

Uproar

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Camden Fringe
The Playground Theatre
1st Aug 2025

UPROAR delves into the diverse expressions of protest through rebellious choreography, sound-producing costumes, and archival audiovisuals, exploring the physical and symbolic conn…

The LOST Lombi

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Camden Fringe
The Playground Theatre
1st - 3rd Aug 2025

The Lost Lombi A powerful new play about finding the strength within to stand tall like a tree.

A Journey to the West

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Camden Fringe
Rosemary Branch Theatre / The Playground Theatre
28th - 30th Jul 2025

What’s this? An original play using mystical Eastern face-changing opera to dissect modern youth’s ‘protective violence’ with parents? Meet Xiao Hua : A coddled man-child, r…

Swing! Swing! Admiral Byng!

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London Fringe
The Playground Theatre
30th Apr - 17th May 2025

Set in Admiral Byng’s final two days, the play explores friendship, betrayal, and honour.

Love in a Foreign Land

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UK Regional & Tours
The Playground Theatre
26th Mar - 12th Apr 2025

Yearning for love in youth is irresistible - in a foreign land it’s fearsome.

Woman in the Attic

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London Fringe
The Playground Theatre
12th - 13th Nov 2024

Inspired by the romantic topos of the mad woman, this piece explores gender and the place of femininity in the social and literary contexts.

One Man Poe

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London Fringe
The Playground Theatre
27th Sep 2024

Renowned as the ‘Godfather of Gothic Horror’, Edgar Allan Poe was a pioneer in establishing the horror genre.

Agathe

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London Fringe
Stanley Arts / The Playground Theatre
17th Apr - 4th May 2024

Marking 30 years since the 1994 genocide against Tutsi people in Rwanda, Agathe tells the true story of the extraordinary woman who became Rwanda’s head of state for less than a …

Rika’s Rooms

Rika’s Rooms is the second in the series of four works that form the Playground Theatre’s season of plays by Gail Louw and features Emma Wilkinson Wright in the eponymous solo …

Blonde Poison

Gail Louw's best-known work, Blonde Poison, forms part of a four-play season devoted to her work at the Playground Theatre.

The Quality of Mercy

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London Fringe
The Playground Theatre
24th - 28th Oct 2023

“People say they want justice, but they don’t.

Artefact & Something Unspoken

The ever-flexible performance space at the Playground Theatre is once more transformed with great imagination, this time to accommodate the double bill of Rena Brannan’s Artefact…

The Quality of Mercy: Concerning the Life and Crimes of Dr Harold Frederick Shipman

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The Playground Theatre / theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
4th Aug - 28th Oct 2023

From his cell in the early hours of the morning, Dr Harold Shipman records a confessional tape as he prepares to end his life.

Fragments

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London Fringe
The Playground Theatre
14th Apr - 16th May 2023

Using papyrus, shadow puppetry and offstage action to shed light on the way we fill in the gaps in how we see the world, Fragments searches for an ancient lost play, of which only …

Picasso

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London Fringe
The Playground Theatre
25th Jan - 4th Mar 2023

Undisputed genius, visionary and artist with whom no lover could compete, yet without whose love he could not live.

A Christmas Carol

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London Fringe
London Welsh Centre / The Playground Theatre
12th - 17th Dec 2022

Olivier Award winner, Guy Masterson, veteran of many smash hit solo works such as Under Milk Wood, Animal Farm and Shylock, now presents Dickens’ classic festive fable.

Changing The Sheets

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London Fringe
The Playground Theatre
19th - 26th Nov 2022

A new comedy about what Patti and Robert say to each other when the lights are off and no one else is listening.

Ghislaine/Gabler

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London Fringe
The Playground Theatre
27th - 29th Oct 2022

Why does a victim become a predator? In isolation, Ghislaine Maxwell maintains innocence whilst reliving the psychological abuse endured from her father.