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Our shows are carefully picked. We look for work that excites, entertains and engages. We work with bright young things, established artists and everyone in-between. Live performance in an intimate and atmospheric venue.

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Recitals at the Space - September '26

13 Sep - 13 Sep

Andrew Campling and Revolting Women join forces for a mega recital - Music for piano and soprano.

Ek Saanjh with Manav Kaul

15 Sep - 15 Sep

An intimate evening of stories and conversation with Manav Kaul. Join us as we talk about his books, his creative journey, Traasdi, theatre, and the stories that stay with us.

Comedy In (the) Space - Marty Gleeson

18 Sep - 18 Sep

Out of this world professional comedy returns to the Space - featuring Marty Gleeson, Leah Davis, Myu Mano and MC Matt Price.

Space 30: An Evening of Celebration

25 Sep - 25 Sep

Join us for an evening of public celebration of the Space's 30th anniversary. We're looking back at 30 years and sharing some Exciting Times ahead...

Piano Space - September 27th

27 Sep - 27 Sep

Celebrating the world of contemporary piano music. Featuring live performances of original music from an exciting collection of neoclassical pianists and composers

Piano Space

27 Sep - 27 Sep

A regular series of bi-monthly concerts celebrating contemporary piano and composers.

Kate Kelly

1 Oct - 4 Oct

October 1936. Oswald Mosley plans to march the B.U.F. through the East End. When fascism arrives on her street, Kate Kelly must choose—stay silent or stand with her community?

The Battle of Stockton

2 Oct - 2 Oct

A screening of the new film created to commemorate the Battle of Stockton, when Teessiders drove back the blackshirts in 1933. Featuring a Q&A.

Hauntings

7 Oct - 9 Oct

Performed by the award-winning Gerard Logan, Hauntings is a spellbinding evening of three classic, chilling ghost stories.

Health is a Privilege

14 Oct - 16 Oct

What happens when pain is invisible? Health is a Privilege turns one’s body inside out, exposing chronic pain, trauma and addiction, and opening up to healing

Comedy In (the) Space - Lou Wall

23 Oct - 23 Oct

Out of this world professional comedy returns to the Space - featuring Lou Wall, Spring Kathryn Day, Martha McBrier and Matt Price.

Night-I-Wish

24 Oct - 24 Oct

Night-I-Wish (Nightwise Tribute) and KROMIIUS bring an evening of symphonic metal - The Symphony of the Damned

Faust and The Seven Sins

28 Oct - 30 Oct

After 400 years in Hell, Faustus is offered one final chance at salvation. To reach Heaven, he must surrender himself to the seven deadly sins—and survive what they reveal.

Enter The Shadows: All Hallows Eve Night

31 Oct - 31 Oct

Celebrate Halloween with a spectacular ball by our resident symphonic metal club night - Enter The Shadows

Voila! at the Space - Launch Party

1 Nov - 1 Nov

Join us at the Space as we meet and celebrate the companies performing as part of the '26 Voila! Festival

Voila Festival '26

2 Nov - 21 Nov

Voila! Festival returns to the Space for our third year. Celebrating migrant led and international theatre, see our what's on for this year's festival

The Not So 'Dolce Vita'

3 Nov - 4 Nov

Pizza, pasta, and mandolino? Join two Italian expats in London for an irreverent, sensory musical journey. Benvenuti - Grab a seat at our table!

Dünyada

5 Nov - 8 Nov

A monologue of a somewhat stranger.

A radical reimagining of Will Eno’s Title and Deed by Mehmet Ali Nuroğlu. An experimental solo theatre staged in cinematic language.

How To Cry In A House Full of Children

6 Nov - 6 Nov

A mother’s truth, unfiltered. A woman stands at the edge of herself, caught between devotion and desire, tenderness and fury.

H2E+ (Heaven to Earth Plus)

7 Nov - 21 Nov

A fear that generations were coped with.
An autobiographical story by a Ukrainian soldier, woven together through music, poetry, and Ukrainian folk songs.

Balance

8 Nov - 15 Nov

When the world tips over, they find their feet. Using beer kegs, bottles, and planks, two strangers turn a dusty cellar into a high-energy acrobatic playground.

Do You Know Where To Go From Here?

8 Nov - 14 Nov

Sophie wakes up in a strange space. God is nowhere to be found. In this sea of clutter, will she find a lifeline? A dark comedy on thriving despite perpetual grief and uncertainty.

The Girl

10 Nov - 11 Nov

Maybe there is no such thing as society, after all.
A contemporary adaptation of Yerma set to the backdrop of Thatcher's Britain.

The View

12 Nov - 21 Nov

An experimental theatrical nature documentary following an endangered human specimen: a young adult woman torn between her need for connection and isolation.

Marlo

14 Nov - 15 Nov

Your past and future selves meet in a living room.
Meet Marlo, a young woman stuck in her patterns. Navigating through long distance love, gender identity, exercise addiction.

Mother Tongue

14 Nov - 15 Nov

Every full moon, a sisterhood rises from the earth, the women whose identities were altered or erased by violence. They are not malicious; they simply refuse to be dismissed

My Ex-Lover Turkey

15 Nov - 15 Nov

In Scotland, an immigrant collects donations at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, falls in love and tries to begin again, only to find his old country still living inside him.

Fiasko!

19 Nov - 19 Nov

Two men, a wardrobe of dresses and a sleepover. Two friends step into a world of dresses, playing famous female characters to find joy and their inner child.

The Trojan Women of Today

19 Nov - 21 Nov

This is the story of Hecuba, Andromache, Cassandra, and all the unnamed women of Troy. It happened 2,500 years ago or in 2026. Euripides in direct dialogue with our time.

Comedy In (the) Space - Doc Brown

20 Nov - 20 Nov

Out of this world professional comedy returns to the Space - featuring Doc Brown, Rajiv Karia and Matt Price.

Recitals at the Space

22 Nov - 22 Nov

A series of classical recitals of original composition and great composers to the Space.

Piano Space - November 29th

29 Nov - 29 Nov

Celebrating the world of contemporary piano music. Featuring live performances of original music from an exciting collection of neoclassical pianists and composers

The Night Before Christmas

9 Dec - 11 Dec

Two men. One warehouse. One very special visitor.

Christmas has never been this legally questionable.