Bringing a range of comedies, new dramas, international artists and Shakesperean titans of the stage! the Space are delighted to reveal the shows that will be coming to our venue from June to October 2025.
Kicking off, three absurd comedy dramas: The Arms, Open Source Intelligence and Counterinsurgency For The Jobbing Hater & Summers
The Arms by Moon Kim Theatre explores a growing paranoia between neighbours (one of whom has 8 arms…)
A jealous Chinese actress stalks another of her casting type in Open Source Intelligence and Counterinsurgency For The Jobbing Hater
A couple stare down climate change and each other in relationship drama Summers.
Playing with form in Let The B*tch Out & SNOLIGOSTER
Experience inspriational plays with form in Fury Theatre’s Workshop performance of Let The B*tch Out, a returning show from our 2024 Voila! Festival centred on female liberation and not having to hold back your feminist rage!
SNOLIGOSTER is a Florida Folktale come to life, a bonkers comedy lecture with a vicious creature at it’s heart.
Darkly comic and pertinant new writing in Lobster Pot & An Intervention
The best of new writing and modern classics marble throughout our summer programme.
Lobster Pot is a layered and surreal, high-octane drama of smoke and mirrors, as strangers seek shelter during a hostage crisis.
Modern master Mike Barlett’s An Intervention is a comedy about what happens when you begin to hate your best friend as a row breaks out over a war.
Lies, Loos and Laughs, new touring plays Lavvies, Honestly & A Day To Remember
Lighter comedies shine throughout the season.
Ruth Carraway leads a star-studded Grange Hill reunion with Lavvies, a 1999 throwback to the grubby Dazzlers nightclub in Essex.
Award-winning Dogwood productions present Honestly, an extraordinary new production about lying inspired by unbelieveable true events.
Newcomers Seagull Theatre bring A Day To Remember, an extended family drama as a ten year anniversary approaches and Roy & Debbie struggle to manage their shop and relations.
A Shakespeare fix with Trans/Non-binary led Twelfth Night and Mercutio adaptation Mabel
The Bard and those inspired by him hold court at the Space.
The Space’s Patron Sir Ian McKellen returns to introduce Twelfth Night, if you haven’t yet seen the media frenzy, this groundbreaking evening is a table read performed by Trans & Non-Binary actors of ‘Shakespeare’s Queerest play’. [This event is now sold out in-person, with a waiting list, and livestream tickets are still available!].
Mabel gives Queen Mab a time to shine, as Mercutio bleeds out and reflects on unfinished business with his former lover.
Two Dark stories of being sent away from home, with and without Puppets, A Stable Home (Puppets) & Inferna (No Puppets)
Our 2025 Launchpad award winner, straight from East 15 Acting School is A Stable Home! A lesbian romcom suffocated in a puppet-clad thriller as Joan moves from London to embrace the simpler country life.
Inspired by true events, Inferna sees 15-year old Calynn Turner taken from her Sydney home and placed in a church-run maternity asylum to carry out a pregnancy she has no say in.
Two double bills! East 15 Transfers: Madame, You Have A Guest & A Tale From the Ticker. AND Two comedies on 1980s Icons: Together In Electric Dreams & Philip Larkin: Masterspy
Are you seeing double too? (Or should that be double 2?) Two double bills of comedies across October get you two perfect pairings.
Our Launchpad 2025 joint-runners-up Madame, You Have A Guest & A Tale From The Ticker are bonkers comedies about an alcoholic psychic unravelling and a time travelling adventure acorss the ages.
Also time travelling (but keeping it to the 1980’s) are Together In Electric Dreams & Philip Larkin: Masterspy. Two brilliant and (possibly?) historically accurate stories of Clive Sinclair butting heads with Lord Alan Sugar and Philip Larkin pressed by Maggie Thatcher into spying on the Soviets.
Two one night only of scratches and readings with Shotz! and Crossroads
Scratch nights and supporting room for new and emerging work is what we do, and we welcome the return of two regular scratch nights to the Space with both Shotz! London and SoulSpire Arts: Crossroads.
Shotz! is a series of challenges set to writers, then given a month to respond, leading to broad and brilliant interpretations.
SoulSpire Arts: Crossroads gives room for all performance, spoken word, short plays and monologues on the theme of life’s crossroads.
We’re also continuing our regular Monday Quiz nights in the Space Bar, hosted by new Artistic Director Matthew Jameson (In case you missed it) every Monday at 8pm with a £50 bar tab to be won.
We also continue our monthly series of Recitals at the Space. Featuring classical composers, modern works and original music led by local composer Andrew Campling as a series of fundraisers that support the Space. Our next Recital is June 8th, Madame Farrenc Goes To The Revolution.
See all our Summer shows (and more exciting projects to be announced)
on our What’s On!
We’re looking forward to a brilliant summer, and we’re looking forward to seeing you there.
Thank you for reading and thank you, as ever, for supporting live theatre!