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THE HEN & CHICKENS (@TheHenChickens)
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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.
28th – 31st July 6pm & 2nd August 9pm £15/12 Dive into the dark heart of American history. 1873 – Kansas.Based on the true story of the West’s first known serial killing family, the Bloody ...
28th, 29th 30th July 7.30pm £15/12 We glimpse into six teachers’ lives as they begin to confront the unspoken universal experience of loneliness, in a seemingly very ‘together’ modern world – ...
28th, 29th & 30th 9pm £10 A One-Woman Show (With Zero Oscars… for now) After years of hearing “You know who you look like?” Cayley Rae is finally stepping into the role she never auditioned for: Anne ...
31st July (7.30pm), 1st August (7.30pm), 2nd August (7.30pm) & 3rd August (3pm & 7.30pm) £10 Needing a fresh start, Jodie takes the plunge and applies for a room in a house share. Confronted with ...
JONATHAN: By Order Of The Peaky Grindrs
31st July & 1st August 9pm £10 Jonathan Live! In Person! Join Jonathan as he shares what it’s like to have a housemate called Daddy, dealing with the ex’s (Ex-husband and ex-friends) and ...
1st August 4.30pm £14 Insert Laughter Here present Spin-a-Play! In this completely improvised comedy show, the audience are invited to suggest genres for a “brand new” play to be made up on the ...
Are We Supposed To Know What We’re Doing?
1st, 2nd & 3rd August 6pm £13 Join Cassie, Laura, Jessica and Becca as they navigate the pressures of adulthood, questioning whether anyone truly has life figured out. A coming-of-age story with a ...
2nd August 3pm £8 An intensely moving story dealing with reflections of age as the challenges of youth meld into the wisdom of a life lived long. Life may often be brief and yet so expansive. As a much ...
2nd August 4.30pm £10/7 Comedian and storyteller SJ brings an bittersweet , interactive show about how Doctor Who helped them come to terms with being a bi polar, queer, neurodiverse, wannabe activist. Out ...
MJ Hibbett: Data and Doctor Doom
3rd August 4.30pm £10 Indie legend MJ Hibbett PhD – the world’s leading (and only) academic expert on Doctor Doom – tells you all you need to know about the MCU’s next big baddie. ...
3rd & 4th August 9pm £14/9 A door closes. Footsteps fade. And two dogs are left behind. One old, faithful, fading. One young, restless, new. Together, they wait—for love, for meaning, for the one who ...
None of Them Will Get Out Alive
4th, 5th & 6th August 6pm £12/10 Set in the confines of a living room, in an isolated cottage ten miles from the nearest village, six guests are invited by a mysterious host to gather together, and ...
4th, 5th & 6th August 7.30pm £12/9 A conversation blossoms out of the pouring rain and a park bench. Two commuters meet at a bus-stop, again and again and again. Someone sketches portraits on a faded ...
5th & 6th August 9pm £10 Prepare to laugh, cry, and question the line between tragedy and comedy in Break:Out—a raw, queer, and uplifting one-person show about rejection, resilience, and ...
7th & 8th August 6pm and 9th & 10th August 4.30pm Emma’s making waves in the Love Island villa. Little does she know, the real drama is unfolding closer to home. Lisa doesn’t want to go ...
7th, 8th & 9th August 7.30pm £12/10 Expect hilarity; expect no-holds-barred songs, skits and sketches; expect to cling onto that pelvic floor like you never have before! Brighton’s award-winning ...
You’re Not In The West End Now
7th & 8th August (9pm), 14th & 15th August (7.30pm) ‘You’re Not In The West End Now!’Join Katie on a chaotic journey through Musical Theatre’s greatest hits – a love letter with a twist, from ...
8th August 4.30pm £12/9 Crimson Threads follows a girl forming into a women and how the effects of sexism and misogyny play a part in her becoming the person she is today.Our message highlights how sexism ...
9th & 16th August 3pm £10/8 Curious Planet presents A Curious Demise: A death has occurred. Join us on an improvised journey as we go back in time and explore the life of the recently deceased. Who ...
9th & 10th August 6pm £10/7 What would it be like to live as the real you? Steven is well-behaved, well-intentioned and well… a bit of a pushover. An unexpected question from his partner prompts him to ...
9th August (9pm), 10th August (7.30pm) & 11th August (6pm) £15/12 Summer in London. A massive spicy scandal strikes the city! Mei, freshly moved to England and ready to start her new life, wakes up one ...
10th & 17th August 3pm £10/8.50 As we follow Anna and Thomas in their mission for a better life; free from tyranny, we find ourselves engulfed in their noble search for a new world. Diving into a ...
Madeleine Brettingham: Michael Made Me Do It (Work In Progress)
10th August 9pm £8 Madeleine Brettingham is a prolific comedy writer for shows like Would I Lie To You, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order and The News Quiz. She never thought about doing stand-up herself, ...
11th, 12th, 13th & 16th August £10/8 ‘We’re part of a culture that’s unique as f*** mate”. Marseillie (Away) explores the subculture of football hooliganism. The story provides ...
11th August 9pm £15/10 You Never Smelled My Dog! is a whip-smart, deeply felt solo show by Ginny Evans-Pollard aka Queen Queerlysh that dives headfirst into queer love, velcro lesbianism, and the ...
12th – 14th August 9pm £12.50 What would you do if you met your exact double—but they were slightly better than you? A little bit smarter? A little more attractive? A little more charming? Suddenly, ...
12th, 13, 14th August 6pm & 15th August 9pm £15/12 Someone has dropped an atom bomb on Copenhagen. With all-out war looming, an underqualified junior staffer in the British government must somehow ...
15th, 16th & 17th 4.30pm £10 This is a hard time for you: your loved one just came out as a (gasp) fan fic writer. How do you respond to that? What will the neighbors think? What is Omega slick, ...
15th & 16th August 6pm £10/8 Chaos Theory is a sketch and character group like you have never seen before! They are four actor/writers – Maria Beadell, Mikyla Jane Durkan, Yasser Kayani and Bruce ...
16th August 9pm & 17th – 19th August 6pm £14/11 Everything is perfect. Except it´s not. Have you ever looked in the mirror and realized you have to make the biggest decision of your life?The ...
17th, 18th & 19th August 7.30pm £12/9 Twelfth Night Fanfiction: a reimagining of Shakespeare’s classic. Lady Liv mourns the death of her brother while navigating the pressures of succession ...
17th, 18th & 19th August 9pm £10 The Office meets Dr. Strangelove in this satirical farce about the UK’s weapons manufacturing industry. A former children’s entertainer breaks into ABC ...
20th – 24th August 6pm £16 Power Power is a silly comedy about hospitality and superpowers. Henry is an employee at the budget hotel chain TrailLodge when he discovers that he has a superpower and he ...
Please don’t fall in love with me (it’s really not sexy when that happens)
20th & 21st August 7.30pm £12/10 She’s Doctor Faustus meets Bridget Jones – Just with much better knickers! Something naughty this way comes! Calling on fans of Kylie Minogue, anybody that owns a ...
20th & 21st August 9pm £14/10 Amber is drowning in debt, cycling through gig work, and just got scammed out of the last of her money. So when she visits her estranged aunt Sandy—once a dazzling Playboy ...
22nd, 23rd & 24th August 4.30pm £10/8 Lomov is determined to marry his neighbour’s daughter Natalia and everything seems to be in his favour — but why can’t he get to the point? One ...
22nd, 23rd & 24th August 7.30pm £14.50/£12.50 You know her name. You know her face. You don’t know her story… … And neither do we! Witness the incredibly fictionalised events that led to ...
22nd, 23rd & 24th August 9pm £13.50/9.50 MICKLEY LANE is a daring new play directed by Esalan Gates (★★★★★, BroadwayWorld UK Nominee – Best New Production), co-produced by CRISCROSS Productions and ...
23rd & 24th August 3pm £8/5 Teenagers. They’re too sensitive, too careless, too dramatic. They don’t appreciate their youth, they don’t understand how hard things used to be and they ...
Romeo & Juliet: The Hate Story
26th – 31st August 7.30pm £13.50 BOOK TICKETS HERE A brand-new comedy inspired by Shakespeare’s classic—with a twist: Romeo and Juliet despise each other from start to finish.Set in a modern world ...
