Will Lily conquer her fears?
Will she conquer her fright?
Will she conquer the ghouls in the dead of the night?
A thrilling, funny, and heart-warming story about an awesome girl called Lily who faces her fears and saves the day.
From the creators of One Duck Down (“A perfect show for kids” ★★★★★ Families Edinburgh) with music by Cat Gisby (Elle & the Pocket Belles), this adaptation of Arthur McBain’s book is full of spooks, songs, silliness, and most of all – monsters!
Faceplant Theatre is a family theatre company whose debut production One Duck Down won the Family Show of the Year 2018 award at that year’s VAULT Festival. It has since toured to venues including the Lyric Hammersmith, Pleasance Courtyard, New Wimbledon Theatre, Aylesbury Waterside, Greenwich Theatre, Turbine Theatre, GLive, Wardrobe Theatre, Canada Water Theatre, Streatham Space Project, and many more including schools and community venues.
Inspired by the Cosmos Archeology project at EPFL, Space Junk tells the story of a space suit pushed out into space on an ephemeral orbit of the earth with a radio transmitter, known as SuitSat. A friendship is formed between a life-sized puppeteered space suit and a human, embodied by a dance and aerial artist.
With over 100 million pieces of space junk orbiting the planet, Space Junk is a tale of love, loss, new frontiers, the destructive power of human carelessness and our constructive capacity for hope and compassion.
Please be aware that this a work in progress performance.
In partnership with Jacksons Lane, Norwich Theatre and Exeter Phoenix.
Come and join our Musical Theatre Choir! A fun, low pressured choir focusing on songs from musicals, and older pop songs. We rehearse on Thursday evenings, 8-9.30pm at Jackson’s Lane, opposite Highgate tube station.
Throughout the year, we will cover repertoire from Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, to Les Mis, to Sondheim, to West Side Story, to Wicked, and everything in between. Older pop songs will include songs by the Carpenters, the Beatles, and many more.
Any standard welcome, and no need to read music as the songs will be taught line by line. The choir is run by Rachel Dussek, a singer, singing teacher, and choir leader who trained in classical singing and then in musical theatre at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Please get in touch by email or phone to book a taster session.
racheldussek@aol.com
£45 for a 5 week half term, working out as £9 per session. Dates for the full 10 week term are 11th Jan – 21st March (no session on Feb 15th due to half term).
A night of fresh alternative comedy and circus theatre.
Bristol-based emerging artists bring two new experimental shows with a surreal twist on spectacle with comedy at its core:
Transcendental
Using trapeze and a comical amount of existentialism, Transcendental is a fever dream journey through the absurdity of being alive. A satirical deep dive into grotesque aspects of the human experience.
Hiding in Plain Sight
Using physical comedy and object manipulation to explore surveillance culture, Hiding in Plain Sight tackles juggling our virtual identities and our authentic selves.
Suitable for ages 12+
Brainfools is back at Jacksons Lane with a series of three scratch nights, where circus artists showcase works-in-progress to curious and adventurous audiences.
These nights provide a rare opportunity for performers to test new material, receive live feedback, and refine their pieces based on audience reactions. It’s a dynamic exchange between artists and spectators, fostering a collaborative and interactive atmosphere. Each themed night will feature six performers, unveiling a diverse range of talent and ideas.
Come and join our Musical Theatre Choir! A fun, low pressured choir focusing on songs from musicals, and older pop songs. We rehearse on Thursday evenings, 8-9.30pm at Jackson’s Lane, opposite Highgate tube station.
Throughout the year, we will cover repertoire from Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, to Les Mis, to Sondheim, to West Side Story, to Wicked, and everything in between. Older pop songs will include songs by the Carpenters, the Beatles, and many more.
Any standard welcome, and no need to read music as the songs will be taught line by line. The choir is run by Rachel Dussek, a singer, singing teacher, and choir leader who trained in classical singing and then in musical theatre at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Please get in touch by email or phone to book a taster session.
racheldussek@aol.com
£45 for a 5 week half term, working out as £9 per session. Dates for the full 10 week term are 11th Jan – 21st March (no session on Feb 15th due to half term).
Morgan & West are back with a massive magic show for kids (and their childish grown-ups), full of their trademark wit, whimsy, and wall-to-wall silliness.
Expect gawps, gasps, and guffaws in this relentlessly funny and fantastical magic filled extravaganza, guaranteed to delight those aged 5 and 105, and indeed everyone in between.
Suitable for ages 5+
Turk(ish) is an autobiographical piece using a combination of live music, contemporary circus and storytelling to discuss personal struggles of identity and Western beauty standards.
Meet two best friends.
They love to play together.
One day, one of them says “I can’t today”.
Then a hole in the ground starts to appear.
Not Today is a vibrant, daring and heartwarming circus theatre show about unlikely friendship.
This performance will be the first work-in-progress sharing of Not Today. Any feedback will be greatly appreciated as it’ll inform the future creation and development of the show.
Suitable for ages 4-8
20 Years Later Still Here! is an autobiographical show about two women’s wild joyride working in circus. Told with warmth, humour, and dizzying acrobatics, this show invites the audience to share the highs and lows of a life in show business. From the glitz and glamour to the countless hours of practice, the blood, the sweat and the tears.
In the wake of a relationship, a woman sifts through other people’s stories.
An attempt to contain her overflowing thoughts.
Blending true stories with fiction, movement with text and live music, Deluge is a comedic piece of magical realism about the things we lose and how we grieve.
Supported by Arts Council England.
Suitable for ages 12+
Brainfools is back at Jacksons Lane with a series of three scratch nights, where circus artists showcase works-in-progress to curious and adventurous audiences.
These nights provide a rare opportunity for performers to test new material, receive live feedback, and refine their pieces based on audience reactions. It’s a dynamic exchange between artists and spectators, fostering a collaborative and interactive atmosphere. Each themed night will feature six performers, unveiling a diverse range of talent and ideas.
Klein is a journalist investigating capitalism’s effect on climate change.
Her sister, Naomi, is a reclusive cellist battling nature to become pregnant.
Naomi’s husband is struggling to write a requiem to be performed at the World Climate Change Summit.
From the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps in 1945, to the stories of nature and Naomi’s young daughter, Requiem for Change is an epic devised piece about the struggle between late-capitalism and climate change.
Inspired by Naomi Klein’s book This Changes Everything, written by master theatre director David Glass and featuring a cast of 17 performers from the BA Acting & Physical Theatre course at East 15 Acting School. Originally devised with the students of East 15 Acting School class of 2018.
Klein is a journalist investigating capitalism’s effect on climate change.
Her sister, Naomi, is a reclusive cellist battling nature to become pregnant.
Naomi’s husband is struggling to write a requiem to be performed at the World Climate Change Summit.
From the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps in 1945, to the stories of nature and Naomi’s young daughter, Requiem for Change is an epic devised piece about the struggle between late-capitalism and climate change.
Inspired by Naomi Klein’s book This Changes Everything, written by master theatre director David Glass and featuring a cast of 17 performers from the BA Acting & Physical Theatre course at East 15 Acting School. Originally devised with the students of East 15 Acting School class of 2018.
Klein is a journalist investigating capitalism’s effect on climate change.
Her sister, Naomi, is a reclusive cellist battling nature to become pregnant.
Naomi’s husband is struggling to write a requiem to be performed at the World Climate Change Summit.
From the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps in 1945, to the stories of nature and Naomi’s young daughter, Requiem for Change is an epic devised piece about the struggle between late-capitalism and climate change.
Inspired by Naomi Klein’s book This Changes Everything, written by master theatre director David Glass and featuring a cast of 17 performers from the BA Acting & Physical Theatre course at East 15 Acting School. Originally devised with the students of East 15 Acting School class of 2018.
A white far-right party leader.
A black Caribbean diplomat.
And a white Oxford-educated Home Office government official.
They all give a speech. On the same day, at different times, in various locations.
They all give a speech about the one million people who migrated from the Caribbean to Britain between 1948-1973 (The Windrush Generation) and the scandal that followed in 2018.
A must-see solo performance inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s “The Little Prince”. Fragility. Vulnerability. Storytelling through sound. Original songs and instrumental music composed and performed by Luba Hilman. Directed by Nelli Chernetskaya.
Tickets and more information:
https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/walls-of-boxes/
Contact: 020 8340 5226
Tugging at the Sea
LegalAliens Theatre
Sat 6 Jul & Sun 7 Jul at 7:30PM
Tickets: £10
https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/tugging-at-the-sea/
Following the success of Ali In Wonder(Eng)land, LegalAliens Theatre returns to Jacksons Lane with another surreal, hilarious, yet deeply touching piece devised and created by 25 participants in their free classes for refugees and migrants. Using fragmented narrative, physical theatre, songs, and direct testimonies, Tugging At The Sea prompts audiences to recognize the absurdity of propaganda against asylum seekers. Collaborating with visual artist Bern O’Donoghue, the stage will be adorned with paper boats, celebrating shared humanity. 
Tugging at the Sea
LegalAliens Theatre
Sat 6 Jul & Sun 7 Jul at 7:30PM
Tickets: £10
https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/tugging-at-the-sea/
Following the success of Ali In Wonder(Eng)land, LegalAliens Theatre returns to Jacksons Lane with another surreal, hilarious, yet deeply touching piece devised and created by 25 participants in their free classes for refugees and migrants. Using fragmented narrative, physical theatre, songs, and direct testimonies, Tugging At The Sea prompts audiences to recognize the absurdity of propaganda against asylum seekers. Collaborating with visual artist Bern O’Donoghue, the stage will be adorned with paper boats, celebrating shared humanity.
London Clown Festival
We’re delighted to be a venue for the acclaimed London Clown Festival for the first time. Here are six shows that are influenced by mime, circus and physical comedy. Don’t miss this eclectic mix of performers who embody the principals of this timeless art form from countries all over the world – this is clowning for the 21st century.
Pomp and Cirque-umstance No 3.1 by Ella the Great
Richard Melanin The Third is a showman. Even in his own home. He can make magic in mundanity and splendour in simplicity. But he’s been saving his greatest stunt for a rainy day…
Internationally acclaimed clown Ella The Great “lights up the stage” (Scotsman) in an inventive debut-hour of visual comedy and circus, which sheds new light on the visionary mind of one of London’s most beloved artists.
London Clown Festival
We’re delighted to be a venue for the acclaimed London Clown Festival for the first time. Here are six shows that are influenced by mime, circus and physical comedy. Don’t miss this eclectic mix of performers who embody the principals of this timeless art form from countries all over the world – this is clowning for the 21st century.
Luke Rollason, Luke Rollason, Let Down Your Hair by Luke Rollason
Luke Rollason, Luke Rollason ,Let Down Your Hair Trumpets: parp parp parp paaarp!
Fringe favourite and Disney Prince heartthrob of Extraordinary (Disney+) Luke Rollason descends from his ivory (fairtrade) tower to glisten your eyes with this monument to creativity and fantasy. Take a swan dive into this physical comedy fantasia of Kings and Clowns, and one absolutely hideous duck.
London Clown Festival
We’re delighted to be a venue for the acclaimed London Clown Festival for the first time. Here are six shows that are influenced by mime, circus and physical comedy. Don’t miss this eclectic mix of performers who embody the principals of this timeless art form from countries all over the world – this is clowning for the 21st century.
Troll by Marie Kallevik Straume & Anna Marie Simonsen
Troll is an “irresistibly silly” (★★★★ The Guardian) two-troll clown comedy about connection, scape(goat)ing and being misunderstood. Fed up with years of misrepresentation, villainization and exclusion, two trolls find themselves at Jacksons Lane, ready and desperate to tell their side of the story and the truth about those three goats.
Inspired by Norwegian folklore, Troll is a critically-acclaimed comedy and heartwarming mash-up of music, storytelling, audience interaction, physical theatre and clown.
London Clown Festival
We’re delighted to be a venue for the acclaimed London Clown Festival for the first time. Here are six shows that are influenced by mime, circus and physical comedy. Don’t miss this eclectic mix of performers who embody the principals of this timeless art form from countries all over the world – this is clowning for the 21st century.
Lost Cabaret: A cacophony of clowns by Lost Cabaret International Clown Collective
★★★★ ENTERTAINMENT NOW
“Lost Cabaret is a magical world to be utterly treasured”
A ridiculous clown variety show featuring the visually absurd, the whimsically witty and the wildly beautiful.
Foolishness wrapped in a warm hug, Lost Cabaret is an alt-comedy garden of enchantment that began in London circa 2012 and was instrumental for the growth of many clown artists that you all love today. Lost has bloomed in venues all across the world, selling out festivals from Edinburgh to Adelaide and loads of cities in between.
Edinburgh Fringe Previews
Three bold and hilarious performances that are destined to take over Fringe this summer.
Ironing Board Man
Jody Kamali
Saturday 20 Jul at 7.30pm
Tickets: £10
https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/ironing-board-man/
Jody Kamali is Jeremy Irons in IRONING BOARD MAN!
One man. Eight ironing boards. One epic soundtrack. Watch in awe as Jody cleverly transforms these everyday household items into the tools of an epic, action-packed Hollywood romance. Ironing Board Man is an inventive physical comedy show that “demands applause” (The Scotsman).
Nominated for Best Comedy Show Buxton Fringe 2022 and Best Show Brighton Fringe 2021.
London Clown Festival
We’re delighted to be a venue for the acclaimed London Clown Festival for the first time. Here are six shows that are influenced by mime, circus and physical comedy. Don’t miss this eclectic mix of performers who embody the principals of this timeless art form from countries all over the world – this is clowning for the 21st century.
Tomatoes Don’t Fly by Jose Parra
Ignacio has discovered something that could change his life forever. But he doesn’t know how to tell his partner Maria. As he prepares a tomato soup at home, he enters another dimension where he becomes both a children’s clown in crisis and an inspirational speaker. Ignacio will learn something that will help him take the next step in his life.
Edinburgh Fringe Previews
Three bold and hilarious performances that are destined to take over Fringe this summer.
Fame Hungry
Louise Orwin
Wednesday 24 Jul at 7.30pm
Tickets: £10
https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/fame-hungry/
FAMEHUNGRY is a helter-skelter nose-dive into the TikTok universe, the attention economy and what it means to be an artist now. Fusing performance art and very real and very live TikTok Experiences, join award-winning performance artist Louise Orwin as she cosplays as a TikToker in a real-life experiment hunting for fame and fortune.
London Clown Festival
We’re delighted to be a venue for the acclaimed London Clown Festival for the first time. Here are six shows that are influenced by mime, circus and physical comedy. Don’t miss this eclectic mix of performers who embody the principals of this timeless art form from countries all over the world – this is clowning for the 21st century.
Mel McGlensey is Motorboat by Mel McGlensey
WINNER: Best Comedy weekly award Adelaide Fringe Festival 2024
Batten down the hatches and seal your porthole! It’s time for the silliest, most outrageous, naughty and nautical show ever made about someone who is part boat, part woman… and full clown.
Come with Motorboat on a sea voyage of self-discovery, silliness and stupidity.
Edinburgh Fringe Previews
Three bold and hilarious performances that are destined to take over Fringe this summer.
Silly Little Things
Trygve Wakenshaw
Saturday 27 Jul at 7.30pm
Tickets: £10
https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/silly-little-things/
After a seven-year hiatus from the Fringe, Trygve Wakenshaw returns with his new hilarious mime-clown-comedy show. Light and silly, absurd and Dada, and a sort of autobiographical, introspective look at all the silly little things that can make or break a friendship.
Trygve Wakenshaw is an award-winning and internationally-recognised mime clown. In 2015 he was nominated for Best Comedy Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards and in 2017 he sold out at the Fringe with Trygve Versus A Baby.
Transmission Residency Series
Jacksons Lane’s annual residencies and work-in-progress sharings of new circus and physical theatre returns, with tickets just £1
Bending Reality
Nua Dance
Friday 2 Aug at 4pm
Tickets: £1
https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/bending-reality/
By using play and wonder, dance, circus, video design, impossible perspectives and extreme physicality, Bending Reality encourages you to stay open to the idea that things and people might be different from what you originally thought.
Transmission Residency Series
Jacksons Lane’s annual residencies and work-in-progress sharings of new circus and physical theatre returns, with tickets just £1
Lotte
Akimbo Theatre
Friday 16 Aug at 4pm
Tickets: £1
https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/lotte/
1920’s Berlin. Eleven years before Disney made Snow White, German filmmaker Lotte Reiniger pioneered multiplane shadow puppetry and animation.
Mixing theatre, dance, acrobatics, shadow puppetry and movement, Akimbo Theatre tell the story of Lotte Reiniger and her revolutionary work in film and animation, turning fairytales into feature-length magic.
Transmission Residency Series
Jacksons Lane’s annual residencies and work-in-progress sharings of new circus and physical theatre returns, with tickets just £1
Itch
Gildas Aleksa
Saturday 31 Aug at 4pm
Tickets: £1
https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/itch/
We weren’t here before we were born, and we won’t be here after we die.
It’s terrifying, but at least we’re in this together.
Itch is a new circus and theatre show that tackles our fear of death and the existential anxiety that grips us all. Blending philosophical and psychoanalytical ideas with juggling, acro dance and aerial dancing, Itch invites us to confront the ultimate truth of our mortality.
Sunday 8 September at 11am & 2pm
Tickets: £14 | Suitable for ages 2-6
Join Shoe Baby on a fantastical sing-along journey as this baby explores the sea, the air, and the zoo – all from the comfort of a shoe! and featuring music by Tom Gray of Gomez, this 30-minute show is perfect for children aged 2-6.
After the show, enjoy 20 minutes of play and fun activities including a shoe shop, a giant shoe, and a make-a-town scene.
Rosy’s onstage career is built on her gleeful frankness about her sex life with men. Now newly single at forty, and advising her teenage daughter about relationships, Rosy wonders if revisiting hyper-macho desires could restore her sexual power, or if there’s a more uncomfortable truth to face.
“A startling, laugh out loud funny and erudite examination of age, relationships and female sexuality” — What’s On Stage
Sunday 22 September at 11am & 2pm
Tickets: £14 | Suitable for ages 3-8
Welcome to The Museum of Marvellous Things, where the impossible happens! Discover stars in jars, catch moons like balloons and dance with Doo-Dahs in cages. Because this is a museum like no other – it’s made from the magic of your imagination – and you get to bring it alive.
With giant puppets, magical effects, interactive storytelling, live original music and a chance to make your own special puppet.
Brainfools is back at Jacksons Lane this autumn with a one-off scratch night! Get ready to witness circus artists showcase their works-in-progress. These nights provide a rare opportunity for performers to test new material, receive live feedback, and refine their pieces based on audience reactions.
Playful, beautiful and highly skilled, Natalie Inside Out is a unique collaboration between world-class hand-balancer Natalie Reckert and digital artist Mark Morreau, using technology and video projections to turn our conventional ideas of circus upside down and inside out. Literally.
Sunday 13 October at 11.30am & 2pm
Tickets: £14 | Suitable for ages 4+
M6 Theatre presents A Tiger’s Tale, a fantastical production by award-winning playwright Mike Kenny. Based on the true story of Fenella, the Holmfirth Tiger, this high-spirited show features circus, puppetry, live music, and song. Follow the unbelievable journey of acrobats and their adopted tiger cub from South Africa to West Yorkshire.
After a sold-out debut, Queer Euphoria returns this autumn with even more excitement. Curated by Associate Artist Zaki Musa, this showcase celebrates the boundless creativity and talent of queer visionaries in circus and cabaret. Each act is a bold testament to the creative vision of queer artists, defying convention and challenging the status quo.
Sunday 20 October at 11am & 2pm
Tickets: £14 | Suitable for ages 1+
Join Ray, International Bubbleologist and Guinness World Record Holder, on his quest to complete the bubble game and create the ultimate bubble. This fast-paced show is brimming with high energy and surprises as Ray uses various gases to craft incredible bubble sculptures, effects, and magical displays.
Visually stunning, Gobbess seamlessly transitions from commanding on-stage performances to poetic storytelling, all while performing graceful aerial dance on a suspended hoop. It’s a captivating experience that promises to leave you spellbound.