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THE HEN & CHICKENS (@TheHenChickens)
(Production company Unrestricted View)
at The Hen & Chickens Theatre Bar
109 St. Pauls Road, Highbury Corner, London, N1 2NA
LOCATION
The Hen and Chickens Theatre is just across the road from Highbury & Islington Tube and Train Station. It's at the intersection between Highbury Corner and St Paul's Road.
Shake it Up: The Improvised Shakespeare Show
3rd November & 1st December 7.30pm £13
Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for an age, so we thought we’d give him a hand. Using his language, your audience suggestions and our overactive imaginations, we create a brand new Shakespeare play live on stage! Join ShakeItUp Theatre for an evening of improvised Bard-based Bedlam. Every show is a classic Shakespeare would have been proud to write…. (probably).
“Quick witted, inexhaustible and absolutely hysterical.” *****
London Theatre Reviews
“A great night out!” ****
Broadway World
“Alas I wishe I had written this myselffe”
Christopher Marlowe
Emerging Artists Festival – Rebound Productions
5th & 6th November 6.30pm & 8.30pm £14/12
Emerging Artists Festival – Rebound Productions
Join us for a celebration of new writing and emerging talent! Our festival brings together 36 talented actors and 12 exciting short plays, all produced as part of our Showcase Course.
Get Involved! Join our vibrant community of emerging artists and take your career to the next level.
– Performers: Apply now to be part of our Showcase Course and take the stage at our Emerging Artists Festival. Learn more and apply: https://www.reboundproductions.com/showcase-course
– Writers: Share your unique voice with us! Submit your work for consideration in our festivals. Find out more and submit your play: https://www.reboundproductions.com/play-submissions
Instaprov
7th November 7.30pm £11.50
Instaprov is back. The show that takes your Instagram photos (if you volunteer them) and turns them into hilarious, ridiculous and even, dare we say it, life-changing sketches; all performed by some of the best improv-comedy talent in London. ⭐⭐⭐⭐London Theatre1
Tickets booked online must be collected 15mins before showtime. Cash tickets are available for 30 mins at the box office. TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE*
Ticket price includes a £1.50 membership fee which entitles you to £1.50 off all further shows at the theatre for one year and 10% off drinks at the bar. The membership card will be presented with your ticket(s) at the box office, on the day.
HOOF Are Best Friends: An Improvised Comedy
8th November 7.30pm £9.50
HOOF Are Best Friends: An Improvised Comedy
HOOF is a London-based improv supergroup. They are also best friends. Join us for an hour of made up characters, imagined scenes, and fabricated stories: all based on your (friendly) suggestions. “A night not to be missed!” – Phoenix Remix
Tickets booked online must be collected 15mins before showtime. Cash tickets are available for 30 mins at the box office. TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE*
Ticket price includes a £1.50 membership fee which entitles you to £1.50 off all further shows at the theatre for one year and 10% off drinks at the bar. The membership card will be presented with your ticket(s) at the box office, on the day.
(w)Hormones: Here We Go Again
9th November 7.30pm £9.50
We just can’t keep our (w)Hormones under control!
It’s our time of the month again, and we’ve levelling up for round 3.
‘(w)Hormones: Here We Go Again’ is bursting with female talent in a collection of short plays and monologues. This critically acclaimed company’s sell-out show is not to be missed!
Mrs Gary Breath
10th & 11th November 7.45pm £15
Annie Hughes is happily single, gainfully employed and financially…fine. But all that changes on her 34th birthday when her parents make her an offer she can’t refuse – even if she really, definitely should.
A new solo play from writer/comedian Ellie Ross about marriage, mates, morals and a few other things not beginning with M
Tickets booked online must be collected 15mins before showtime. Cash tickets are available for 30 mins at the box office. TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE*
Ticket price includes a £1.50 membership fee which entitles you to £1.50 off all further shows at the theatre for one year and 10% off drinks at the bar. The membership card will be presented with your ticket(s) at the box office, on the day.
Delightfully Dark
13th November 7.30pm £13.50
“Fresh, funny and original… might be the most life affirming show you are likely to find this Fringe.” – Brighton Source
Join Victor Von Plume’s hilarious cabaret exploring mortality through song and storytelling. This heartwarming journey into the afterlife blends humor with poignant reflections, celebrating life’s imperfect moments and discovering laughter in the great unknown.
★★★★ “Do not miss it.” – TheatreInBrighton
The Beat of the Bronzewing
12th November 7pm £10.50
When Peggy rocks up at Lorraine’s shack in dead-end tropical Australia, she comes with an offer that her estranged friend surely won’t refuse: a one-way ticket out of there. Yet with a cyclone looming and their past creeping in through the rickety floorboards, what will it take to convince Lorraine that she’s got nothing to lose?
Speaking in Tongues
18th – 22nd November £16 (KDC members £12.50)
Nine parallel lives, four infidelities, one missing person and a mysterious stiletto. A series of confessionals and interrogations that gradually reveal a darker side of human nature and blends sharp psychological insight with a bold, theatrical structure. At its heart, it’s about connection—missed, broken, rediscovered—and how our lives overlap in ways we don’t always see.
Penguin the Fish
23rd November 7.30pm £10/8
Penguin the Fish is a one-hour solo drag clown show about a fish cut in half when Moses parted the Red Sea. Since then, he wanders the Earth, trying to be whole again. Follow him as he discovers the meaning of wholeness and emancipates himself from old traditions to embrace his own way of living.
Waiting Room
24th & 25th November 7.30pm £11.50
Waiting Room follows three siblings; Alex, Jennifer and Harvey are forced to face each other after years apart as they find their father has collapsed from a heart attack. They must reckon with each other and their antics, as they wait around for answer that might not come.
Jess Carrivick: For Your Consideration
26th & 27th November 7.30pm £11
Inspired by her home movie archive, character-comedian Jess Carrivick presents a hilarious one-woman showcase of every film EVER made-ish. Set in the nostalgic days when families filmed for memories, not views or likes from strangers. Blending childhood imagination, iconic films and new characters to create a fast-paced debut comedy hour.
Histerical Christmas Special 2
30th November 3pm £10
A journey through time. A peak into the past. A glance into the future. Welcome to Histerical! An afternoon where we bring you through the history of our world through a series of improvised scenes based on your suggestions. You’ve never seen history come to life quite like this. This is our Christmas special so it will be special and christmasy.
Six Degrees of Improvisation
1st December 7.30pm £11.50
Your search history. Our problem. Five improvisers race to connect two of your Google terms in six degrees flat. Smart patterns, stupid choices, festive mayhem. Nothing written. Everything permitted.
Six Degrees of Improvisation – Mon 1 Dec, 7:30pm, The Hen & Chickens Theatre, Islington. 60 mins. Probably chaotic. Possibly profound.
The First Course
2nd & 3rd December 7.30pm £13.50
Dinner Party REP invites you to ‘The First Course’, a series of scratch nights that will raise funds toward their first full production in 2026 – watch this space 😉 People go to a dinner party wondering what will happen and hoping for a spicy bit of drama, Dinner Party REP are here to deliver the goods.
Our Scratch Night is a celebration of fresh stories, fearless experimentation and a chance to feast your eyes on a whole host of scenes – consider yourself formally invited.
No Flirting in the Bunker Please
4th, 5th & 6th December 7.30pm + 3pm matinee on 6th £15
Two teenagers fall in love in a nuclear bunker. But when Lily gets pregnant and wants to leave, Denzel is left with an impossible decision. Can their love conquer their fear? First look at a new romantic-comedy musical by Kat Kleve (TINK, ★★★★★ Reviews Hub, EdFringe Review) and Joe Venable (On Your Bike, ★★★★★BingeFringe, Theatre Weekly).
Tickets booked online must be collected 15mins before showtime. Cash tic
You Should Be a Comedian (WIP)
7th December 7.30pm £10
Life feels like a show until you’re on the stage.
It’s the day after my career ending performance and I’m confessing my last day to the bathroom mirror.
Are you real? Just joking. That was funny. Laugh please.
Londongrad
17th & 18th December 7.30pm £13
After a disastrous Labour Party conference and a year of dire polling, Prime Minister Keira Palmer is feeling pretty stressed. In a desperate bid to save her career, she summons her “trusted” chief of staff, Leela, and her “loyal” foreign secretary, Will, for a late-night semi- casual COBRA.
But things quickly spiral when Will’s best friend (Vladimir Putin) and ex-father-in-law (Sir Daddy Murdoch) launch a blackmail scheme delivered entirely through emojis. Armed with the scandalous details of Will’s 43rd birthday party, Putin threatens to leak the photos unless he’s allowed to buy London.
Loyalties vanish faster than Prince Andrew’s sweat glands as the trio scramble to contain an ever-escalating string of absurd scandals in this fast-paced, “outrageously funny”, and utterly unhinged political satire.
A tale of spin, corruption, and chaos, Londongrad skewers the last decade of British politics through a brilliantly absurd lens. Fresh from its 4★ Camden Fringe run, Londongrad returns to the stage with new and improved scandals.
“If the world is truly burning, then maybe this is exactly the sort of satire we deserve” – 4★ Salterton Arts Review
“A mix between the humour of The Office, Horrible Histories and Spitting Image.” – 4★ Everything Theatre
