Grandma and Grandpa Do Have Sex

8 - 12 September

What does a woman say when ten men are sitting opposite her?

Lesya comes seeking help, but instead she is forced to justify every decision she has ever made.

As she tells her story, an ordinary life unfolds in extraordinary detail: marriage, desire, motherhood, shame, family expectations, and the quiet compromises that slowly become impossible to ignore. Funny, brutally honest, and deeply moving, her confession reveals how love can become control and how easily a woman’s own voice can disappear.

Written with razor-sharp wit and emotional precision, Grandma and Grandpa Do Have Sex is a powerful contemporary drama about intimacy, autonomy, and the choices that shape a life.

Darkly funny and deeply affecting, it is a gripping play that asks who gets to judge a woman’s life—and what it takes to reclaim your own voice.

The Departure

15 - 19 September

Lily has just buried her idol. Ross is desperate to disappear. One flat, two strangers, and a collision neither of them saw coming.
When Lily (played by Harriet Chomley), an anxious, sharp-witted chemist, returns from her mother’s funeral, she finds Ross (played by Tom Wells), a rugged stranger living in her flat. What begins with shock and confusion slowly becomes something more surprising: an unexpected connection between two people carrying unresolved grief.

Tender, funny, and deeply human, The Departure explores how we can sometimes be more honest with strangers than with those closest to us. At its heart, The Departure is a play about the stories we tell ourselves and the possibility that, through connection, those stories can change.

Third Summer of Love

22 - 26 September

"This isn’t just a party, this is a performance...oh my god where do I start"

Grief has taken over Sam's life, and the only way she can think of solving it is by following her obsession with 90's dance music and going to an illegal rave. Does she know anyone there? No. Does she know what the music will be? No. Will she be safe? Who knows, but it might be her chance to find the community and pure euphoria she's wanted all her life. Even if it does mean creating a whole new identity and masking the symptoms of her autism. But is hiding yourself really worth the euphoria? 

Join Sam and their best friends DJ and Jo as we travel to illegal raves, tunnel parties, 90s mega-raves and maybe the odd funeral as they find out if it's really worth putting on a disguise and sacrificing yourself to find your own personal summer of love. 

After a sold out run at the 2025 Camden Fringe, this debut play from Thursday Meltdown productions combines gig theatre, immersive elements and lived experience to give audiences a front seat to what it's like to be neurodivergent in a neurotypical world.

Doomsday

29 September - 3 October

After 104 interviews, Oscar has finally landed a job: Threat Analyst at the dysfunctional office behind the Doomsday Clock, the bulletin that measures how close humanity is to the end of the world. As global tensions spiral over the course of his increasingly ridiculous first day on the job, the office receives a classified government secret that sends his colleagues into panic, completely and utterly collapsing under the pressure. With the clock edging ever closer to midnight, can Oscar step up and prevent catastrophe?

Unfortunately, there's one small problem.

Oscar isn't Oscar. He's Ethan. And with absolutely zero qualifications, he's somehow stumbled into a high-paying job assessing the threat of nuclear war... on the day the bombs fall.

The debut play from George Evans & Wilf Walsworth, DOOMSDAY is a darkly comic play about imposter syndrome, unrealistic expectations, and the baffling peculiarity of employment. Blending rip-roaring comedy with genuine heart, it asks what happens when ordinary people are expected to solve extraordinary problems - and whether a world that seems determined to destroy itself is even worth saving.



God Save Us! [HERE | FOR]

6 - 10 October

It's 1066. The French have invaded England, no one understands the new tax laws or the Latin church services, and Joan has a plan (that may or may not include livestock).

When Joan convinces her local priest to let her write and direct a morality play for the village, she accidentally starts something she can’t finish, unknowingly falls into the middle of a land dispute, and discovers that the Bible is considerably more exciting than anyone let on. God Save Us! is a medieval comedy about what happens when the people who control information forget that the people who don't are paying attention. 

Think Horrible Histories meets The Office politics, set in a medieval village where nobody understands the church services, the tax laws have just changed for the worse, and Joan has a plan.

Seventy-five minutes. No interval. One very large pig.



Uncle Monty's Antique Shop [HERE   FOR]

13 - 17 October

Opening soon in a town near you! Step inside Uncle Monty’s Antique Shop — a strange little place filled with forgotten objects, each carrying traces of the lives left behind. After all... every story has a price.

Violence, control, memory and power are brought to life by a core ensemble cast performing across four chilling psychological shorts, woven together by one uncanny setting. Blurring the line between the ordinary and the unusual, Uncle Monty’s Antique Shop invites audiences into a world where every item has a history… and some histories refuse to stay buried.

Darkly atmospheric, unnervingly intimate and quietly haunting, this is horror that lingers long after the lights go down. Monty only has one last question... what would you like to leave behind?

Big Love [HERE   FOR]

27 October - 7 November

“The problem with making a big entrance is that there’s always someone left to clear it up later.”

He believes in love.

Big songs. Big feelings. Big entrances. The kind of love that comes with a key change, a confetti cannon and absolutely no sense of self-awareness.

He believes love is probably somewhere else. Somewhere warmer. Somewhere louder. Somewhere with better lighting.

Edith Piaf. Strobe lights. Strangers. Perfect nights. Bad decisions. The one that got away. The one that might still be out there.

He believes in loving everyone to bits and throwing it all in the air for the world to see.

Most of all, he believes in looking the truth right in the eye and running away.

Because love should be extraordinary, shouldn’t it?

It should be cinematic. Transcendent. Life-changing.

It should feel like dancing in the moonlight with the whole world falling away.

But what if it isn’t?

What if it’s been somewhere much closer all along?

And somewhere there’s a big red phone that won’t stop ringing.

From tiny gestures scrawled on sticky notes to 1,001 dancefloors, from the songs that made us believe in a thing called love to the quiet moments in between, Big Love is a brand new solo show about belief, desire, avoidance and the people we choose to give it all up for in the end. 

Part party, part confession, part love letter to all of life’s best bits, Big Love is a funny, generous and quietly devastating new piece of fringe theatre about chasing extraordinary moments, the people we love to bits, and finally having to answer a call that won’t go away. 

And that’s a lot of love to cram into one little theatre in Kentish Town. 

Written and directed by David Brady with and produced by the critically-acclaimed, award-winning team behind Feel, At Last, Lately and Flashbang, Big Love crash-lands into the Lion & Unicorn Theatre for a two-week run as part of the Here | For Season of new work this October. 

You should probably get that. 

Right? 

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