Space Beacon Campaign

Space Beacon is our fundraising campaign for 2024-2025 that seeks to raise up to £20,000 to support the Space's wide reaching activities.

Enter The Shadows - Goth Night

Step into a night of dark elegance, hauntingly beautiful melodies and sonic grandeur as we transform our historic theatre into a cathedral of sound.

Recitals at the Space - Madame Farrenc goes to the Revolution

The music of Louise Farrenc, composer, concert pianist, scholar, professor, set in the three days of the February Revolution in Paris 1848

Recitals at the Space

A series of monthly classical recitals of original composition and great composers to the Space. All proceeds are donated to the Space.

The Arms

The woman next door is making arms. She’s become a saviour of the hungry, the poor, and the downtrodden–and even the polar bears! But I promise you she’s hiding something.

heART and home - Showcase

A powerful night of LGBTQ+ creativity! Experience poetry, zines, and performance art at the heART and Home Showcase, featuring community talent and award-winning LGBTQ+ artists.

Open Source Intelligence and Counterinsurgency for the Jobbing Hater

An unhinged Chinese actress stalks another Chinese actress because they are the same casting type. A dramedy exploring Asian femininity and the origins of explosive rage

Summers

A story of summer—where every moment leads back to the heat: the warming Earth, the burning relationships, and the heated lives of those who live them.

Shotz

We surprise 6 teams of writers, actors and directors with a pre-assigned THEME, ACTION EVENT, and LINE OF DIALOGUE to include in the play. They have one month to prepare!

Let The B*tch Out

“It’s always like ‘she’s angry, she’s a crazy b*tch’.”
Maybe she’s just – angry? Real stories, and real voices, explore the way we are taught to embody/express/resist our anger

The Witching Hour

Survival hinges on one's ability to entertain, spin the best narrative, and sway the crowd's fickle loyalty.

Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night, read by trans and nonbinary actors – queerer than ever before!

YourSpace Festival Weekend

This is YOUR Space! Join us for a weekend takeover by our local artists and community groups.

A Day To Remember

Looking for a night full of laughs? Come see our married couple deal with their quickly approaching anniversary, crazy customers and worse family members! Oh and a drag queen!

SNOLIGOSTER

Straight from the swamp, to set the record straight…
Come and behold the Florida folktale legend, captured and shipped to The Space for your twisted delight!

Lobster Pot

Following an attack by masked shooters, Katy hides in a storage room with a teenage employee who seems to have a handle on the situation. But is the danger out there or inside?

An Intervention

A touching, funny play about what happens when you hate your best friend.
One of them supports the war, the other protests against it. Will this rip them apart?

Lavvies

Friendship, wine, gossip, gin, betrayals and cocktails —just another night in the ladies’ loo!

Crossroads: A scratch night of new work

Which voice do we follow at life’s crossroads: the mind, the heart, or destiny? Join SoulSpire Arts’ second scratch night at The Space of plays, monologues, spoken word, and more!

The YourSpace Festival

This is YOUR Space! A weeklong festival of new commissions inspired by the artists and communities on the Isle of Dogs and East London

Mabel

Bleeding out in the street, Mercutio is haunted by unfinished business.
What he shared with his lover Mabel is easy to joke about… but may prove impossible to talk about.

Honestly

A New Play About Lying. All True. Except The Bits That Aren’t.

Together In Electric Dreams

Two 1980s-set comedies starring real life British icons: Sir Clive Sinclair faces down Alan Sugar… and karaoke.

Philip Larkin: Masterspy

Two 1980s-set comedies starring real life British icons: Philip Larkin reluctantly spies for Margaret Thatcher

A Stable Home

Joan leaves London for the bumbling countryside and a simpler life; but the rural dream gruesomely dies in her hands. A lesbian romcom suffocated in a puppet-clad thriller

Inferna

Sydney, Australia, 1962.

15-year old Calynn Turner is pregnant. Sent to a maternity asylum by her hyper-religious mother, Calynn must carry out a pregnancy she has no say in.

Madame, You Have A Guest & A Tale From The Ticker - Double Bill

A double bill of new comedies from our Runner Up Winners of the 2025 East 15 Launchpad award!

BabyFace

This is not growing up, this is just getting by.