This summer sees the return of Postcards Festival. For two weeks in July, Highgate will be home to a whole host of weird and wonderful acts as we present an eclectic mix of circus, cabaret and extraordinary performance.

What’s more, Postcards 2016 is breaking the mould: for the first time at a London festival, all ticket prices are up to you with the launch of our new Pay What You Decide scheme! Tickets can be reserved in advance (maximum four per booking) and after the performance you’ll have the opportunity to make a donation, either by cash on the door or card at the Box Office.

This summer sees the return of Postcards Festival. For two weeks in July, Highgate will be home to a whole host of weird and wonderful acts as we present an eclectic mix of circus, cabaret and extraordinary performance.

What’s more, Postcards 2016 is breaking the mould: for the first time at a London festival, all ticket prices are up to you with the launch of our new Pay What You Decide scheme! Tickets can be reserved in advance (maximum four per booking) and after the performance you’ll have the opportunity to make a donation, either by cash on the door or card at the Box Office.

Myths remixed: the classic story of Persephone is retold with live music, aerial acrobatics, fire, dance and mime. A high impact show full of hope and sorrow, it’s Greek mythology but not as you know it as this tale of love, choice and empowerment gets a contemporary circus twist. Chivaree Circus will take you on a journey and leave you ready to embrace an eternity in Hades.

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We have introduced a Pay What You Decide policy for Postcards Festival 2016shows.

You can attend the shows without paying for a ticket beforehand, but tickets can be reserved in advance (max 4 per booking). When the show finishes, you will have the opportunity to make a donation – either by cash on the door or card at the Box Office.

This summer sees the return of Postcards Festival. For two weeks in July, Highgate will be home to a whole host of weird and wonderful acts as we present an eclectic mix of circus, cabaret and extraordinary performance.

What’s more, Postcards 2016 is breaking the mould: for the first time at a London festival, all ticket prices are up to you with the launch of our new Pay What You Decide scheme! Tickets can be reserved in advance (maximum four per booking) and after the performance you’ll have the opportunity to make a donation, either by cash on the door or card at the Box Office.

Presented by Falling Pennies Theatre Company

By James Hartnell

20th – 24th July

Wednesday – Saturday 7.30pm
Sunday 4pm

Remedial Remedies looks at how the youth of today are pressured, how the stress of exams and succeeding can affect their overall performance and social life. We follow the story of Bruce, Jack, Kevin and Ben, four students who have failed their English GCSE. It’s the run up to the resit of the exam and they have been placed into a special revision session with a support teacher Mr Winterdon. Each boy deals with the week differently, we see the effects of ADHD and discover more about their relationship with Winterdon, each other and their school, seeing how each boy has a different outlook on the exams and their future life. As the pressure starts to pile on we watch as the cracks begin to appear and see a hopeless Mr Winterdon trying to pave the way to greatness.

TICKETS:
Wednesday/ Thursday/ Friday – £12/£10 concessions
Saturday/ Sunday – £14/£12 concessions

If you like food, you’ll love this…

Internationally acclaimed comedian George Egg is also a rather fanatical self-taught cook with a somewhat anarchic approach to making meals. As obsessed with culinary matters as he is with comedic ones, and finding himself dissatisfied with the quality and cost of takeaways and room-service meals while touring the stand-up comedy clubs of the world, George embarks on a project to take matters into his own surprisingly capable hands.

A surreal and absurd mix of stand-up comedy and striking innovation – in the words of Jay Rayner – “You’ll never look at a Corby trouser press in the same way again”

“It’s an hilarious show, with surprisingly good food.” The Times

“It is refreshing to encounter a performer who really is unique.” The Telegraph

“Absolutely glorious.” The Scotsman

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We have introduced a Pay What You Decide policy for Postcards Festival 2016shows.

You can attend the shows without paying for a ticket beforehand, but tickets can be reserved in advance (max 4 per booking). When the show finishes, you will have the opportunity to make a donation – either by cash on the door or card at the Box Office.

This summer sees the return of Postcards Festival. For two weeks in July, Highgate will be home to a whole host of weird and wonderful acts as we present an eclectic mix of circus, cabaret and extraordinary performance.

What’s more, Postcards 2016 is breaking the mould: for the first time at a London festival, all ticket prices are up to you with the launch of our new Pay What You Decide scheme! Tickets can be reserved in advance (maximum four per booking) and after the performance you’ll have the opportunity to make a donation, either by cash on the door or card at the Box Office.

Presented by Falling Pennies Theatre Company

By James Hartnell

20th – 24th July

Wednesday – Saturday 7.30pm
Sunday 4pm

Remedial Remedies looks at how the youth of today are pressured, how the stress of exams and succeeding can affect their overall performance and social life. We follow the story of Bruce, Jack, Kevin and Ben, four students who have failed their English GCSE. It’s the run up to the resit of the exam and they have been placed into a special revision session with a support teacher Mr Winterdon. Each boy deals with the week differently, we see the effects of ADHD and discover more about their relationship with Winterdon, each other and their school, seeing how each boy has a different outlook on the exams and their future life. As the pressure starts to pile on we watch as the cracks begin to appear and see a hopeless Mr Winterdon trying to pave the way to greatness.

TICKETS:
Wednesday/ Thursday/ Friday – £12/£10 concessions
Saturday/ Sunday – £14/£12 concessions

If Kraftwerk made circus it would look something like this: comedy meets electro-robotic-vogueing in an epic feat of handstand endurance!

Natalie Reckert is a German hand balancer who loves to dance to electronic beats and read Wikipedia articles about load experiments. In her highly skilled one-woman experiment, she tests the limits of the body and the stability of quite a lot of eggs. Brilliantly absurd and totally unique.

“PURE CIRCUS MAGIC” REVIEWS HUB

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We have introduced a Pay What You Decide policy for Postcards Festival 2016 shows.

You can attend the shows without paying for a ticket beforehand, but tickets can be reserved in advance (max 4 per booking). When the show finishes, you will have the opportunity to make a donation – either by cash on the door or card at the Box Office.

This summer sees the return of Postcards Festival. For two weeks in July, Highgate will be home to a whole host of weird and wonderful acts as we present an eclectic mix of circus, cabaret and extraordinary performance.

What’s more, Postcards 2016 is breaking the mould: for the first time at a London festival, all ticket prices are up to you with the launch of our new Pay What You Decide scheme! Tickets can be reserved in advance (maximum four per booking) and after the performance you’ll have the opportunity to make a donation, either by cash on the door or card at the Box Office.

Presented by Falling Pennies Theatre Company

By James Hartnell

20th – 24th July

Wednesday – Saturday 7.30pm
Sunday 4pm

Remedial Remedies looks at how the youth of today are pressured, how the stress of exams and succeeding can affect their overall performance and social life. We follow the story of Bruce, Jack, Kevin and Ben, four students who have failed their English GCSE. It’s the run up to the resit of the exam and they have been placed into a special revision session with a support teacher Mr Winterdon. Each boy deals with the week differently, we see the effects of ADHD and discover more about their relationship with Winterdon, each other and their school, seeing how each boy has a different outlook on the exams and their future life. As the pressure starts to pile on we watch as the cracks begin to appear and see a hopeless Mr Winterdon trying to pave the way to greatness.

TICKETS:
Wednesday/ Thursday/ Friday – £12/£10 concessions
Saturday/ Sunday – £14/£12 concessions

David Bowie loved the circus, and we love David Bowie.

Jacksons Lane pays its respects with a once-in-a-lifetime night of spectacular sound and vision that we think will blow your minds. Performers from across the globe come together to celebrate Ziggy, the Thin White Duke, and maybe even Jareth the Goblin King as they choose their favourite Bowie look and song for a night of spaceman-inspired circus that’s out of this world.

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We have introduced a Pay What You Decide policy for Postcards Festival 2016shows.

You can attend the shows without paying for a ticket beforehand, but tickets can be reserved in advance (max 4 per booking). When the show finishes, you will have the opportunity to make a donation – either by cash on the door or card at the Box Office.

This summer sees the return of Postcards Festival. For two weeks in July, Highgate will be home to a whole host of weird and wonderful acts as we present an eclectic mix of circus, cabaret and extraordinary performance.

What’s more, Postcards 2016 is breaking the mould: for the first time at a London festival, all ticket prices are up to you with the launch of our new Pay What You Decide scheme! Tickets can be reserved in advance (maximum four per booking) and after the performance you’ll have the opportunity to make a donation, either by cash on the door or card at the Box Office.

Presented by Falling Pennies Theatre Company

By James Hartnell

20th – 24th July

Wednesday – Saturday 7.30pm
Sunday 4pm

Remedial Remedies looks at how the youth of today are pressured, how the stress of exams and succeeding can affect their overall performance and social life. We follow the story of Bruce, Jack, Kevin and Ben, four students who have failed their English GCSE. It’s the run up to the resit of the exam and they have been placed into a special revision session with a support teacher Mr Winterdon. Each boy deals with the week differently, we see the effects of ADHD and discover more about their relationship with Winterdon, each other and their school, seeing how each boy has a different outlook on the exams and their future life. As the pressure starts to pile on we watch as the cracks begin to appear and see a hopeless Mr Winterdon trying to pave the way to greatness.

TICKETS:
Wednesday/ Thursday/ Friday – £12/£10 concessions
Saturday/ Sunday – £14/£12 concessions

Closing the festival in screwball style, join Ireland’s most emotional dancers as they share their bullet proof secret to life and happiness! A motivational, semi-nude, breathtakingly funny show, Sean and Seamus dance and bicker their way through an hour of physical and meta-physical comedy.

“if Michael Flatley and Jim Carey had a sadomasochistic love child they would be it” Elle Magazine

“THIS SHOW WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE; OR AT LEAST MAKE YOU LAUGH. WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT?”
THE IRISH TIMES

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We have introduced a Pay What You Decide policy for Postcards Festival 2016 shows.

You can attend the shows without paying for a ticket beforehand, but tickets can be reserved in advance (max 4 per booking). When the show finishes, you will have the opportunity to make a donation – either by cash on the door or card at the Box Office.

This summer sees the return of Postcards Festival. For two weeks in July, Highgate will be home to a whole host of weird and wonderful acts as we present an eclectic mix of circus, cabaret and extraordinary performance.

What’s more, Postcards 2016 is breaking the mould: for the first time at a London festival, all ticket prices are up to you with the launch of our new Pay What You Decide scheme! Tickets can be reserved in advance (maximum four per booking) and after the performance you’ll have the opportunity to make a donation, either by cash on the door or card at the Box Office.

Presented by Falling Pennies Theatre Company

By James Hartnell

20th – 24th July

Wednesday – Saturday 7.30pm
Sunday 4pm

Remedial Remedies looks at how the youth of today are pressured, how the stress of exams and succeeding can affect their overall performance and social life. We follow the story of Bruce, Jack, Kevin and Ben, four students who have failed their English GCSE. It’s the run up to the resit of the exam and they have been placed into a special revision session with a support teacher Mr Winterdon. Each boy deals with the week differently, we see the effects of ADHD and discover more about their relationship with Winterdon, each other and their school, seeing how each boy has a different outlook on the exams and their future life. As the pressure starts to pile on we watch as the cracks begin to appear and see a hopeless Mr Winterdon trying to pave the way to greatness.

TICKETS:
Wednesday/ Thursday/ Friday – £12/£10 concessions
Saturday/ Sunday – £14/£12 concessions

Presented by Cian & Al

by Michael Frayn

Saturday 30th July 2016 7pm & 8.15pm

Would you please take a moment to check that all mobile phones and other electronic devices are switched on?
Your calls are important to us!
Photography is permitted throughout.
Please feel free to obstruct the aisles.
Leave luggage unattended!
Talk among yourselves!
Eat! Drink! Sleep! Snore!
Storm out in the middle, if you feel like it, letting your seats thump up and crashing the panic bolts as you go!

Review from Cian & Al’s 2015 Fringe production ‘The Dock Brief’:
“…a comical tour de force…”
“…perfect comic timing…”
“…should not be missed…”
– UK Theatre Network

Matchbox Theatre is a supporter of national energy-saving and traffic-reduction policies.

ALL TICKETS £10

Presented by Cian & Al

by Michael Frayn

Saturday 30th July 2016 7pm & 8.15pm

Would you please take a moment to check that all mobile phones and other electronic devices are switched on?
Your calls are important to us!
Photography is permitted throughout.
Please feel free to obstruct the aisles.
Leave luggage unattended!
Talk among yourselves!
Eat! Drink! Sleep! Snore!
Storm out in the middle, if you feel like it, letting your seats thump up and crashing the panic bolts as you go!

Review from Cian & Al’s 2015 Fringe production ‘The Dock Brief’:
“…a comical tour de force…”
“…perfect comic timing…”
“…should not be missed…”
– UK Theatre Network

Matchbox Theatre is a supporter of national energy-saving and traffic-reduction policies.

ALL TICKETS £10

PART OF THE CAMDEN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2016

Presented by Dystopian Owls

This satirical comedy explores the absurdity between what management say and how they behave.

Set in a Further Education college, this team respond to government budget cuts and an appalling Ofsted inspection by self-serving self-preservation and fraud. The play tracks the new man, Nigel, from his first day. What follows is a darkly comic series of events. His enthusiasm genuinely to put students at the heart of everything will surely make a difference, won’t it?

A Working Title

PART OF THE CAMDEN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2016

Presented by Original Impact Theatre Company

Set over 24 hours this play explores the cogs that drive the city and the people within it.

Whether they are rushing through Covent Garden, changing at Bank, sleeping through their alarms or just drinking a cider on the Thames. Come and see the big smoke and the stories of the people that live there.

PART OF THE CAMDEN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2016

Presented by Dystopian Owls

This satirical comedy explores the absurdity between what management say and how they behave.

Set in a Further Education college, this team respond to government budget cuts and an appalling Ofsted inspection by self-serving self-preservation and fraud. The play tracks the new man, Nigel, from his first day. What follows is a darkly comic series of events. His enthusiasm genuinely to put students at the heart of everything will surely make a difference, won’t it?

A Working Title

PART OF THE CAMDEN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2016

Presented by Original Impact Theatre Company

Set over 24 hours this play explores the cogs that drive the city and the people within it.

Whether they are rushing through Covent Garden, changing at Bank, sleeping through their alarms or just drinking a cider on the Thames. Come and see the big smoke and the stories of the people that live there.

PART OF THE CAMDEN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2016

Presented by Dystopian Owls

This satirical comedy explores the absurdity between what management say and how they behave.

Set in a Further Education college, this team respond to government budget cuts and an appalling Ofsted inspection by self-serving self-preservation and fraud. The play tracks the new man, Nigel, from his first day. What follows is a darkly comic series of events. His enthusiasm genuinely to put students at the heart of everything will surely make a difference, won’t it?

PART OF THE CAMDEN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2016

Presented by Dystopian Owls

This satirical comedy explores the absurdity between what management say and how they behave.

Set in a Further Education college, this team respond to government budget cuts and an appalling Ofsted inspection by self-serving self-preservation and fraud. The play tracks the new man, Nigel, from his first day. What follows is a darkly comic series of events. His enthusiasm genuinely to put students at the heart of everything will surely make a difference, won’t it?

A Working Title

PART OF THE CAMDEN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2016

Presented by Original Impact Theatre Company

Set over 24 hours this play explores the cogs that drive the city and the people within it.

Whether they are rushing through Covent Garden, changing at Bank, sleeping through their alarms or just drinking a cider on the Thames. Come and see the big smoke and the stories of the people that live there.

A Working Title

PART OF THE CAMDEN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2016

Presented by Original Impact Theatre Company

Set over 24 hours this play explores the cogs that drive the city and the people within it.

Whether they are rushing through Covent Garden, changing at Bank, sleeping through their alarms or just drinking a cider on the Thames. Come and see the big smoke and the stories of the people that live there.

PART OF THE CAMDEN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2016

Presented by Dystopian Owls

This satirical comedy explores the absurdity between what management say and how they behave.

Set in a Further Education college, this team respond to government budget cuts and an appalling Ofsted inspection by self-serving self-preservation and fraud. The play tracks the new man, Nigel, from his first day. What follows is a darkly comic series of events. His enthusiasm genuinely to put students at the heart of everything will surely make a difference, won’t it?

An Actor’s Life For Me

PART OF THE CAMDEN FRINGE FESTIVAL

Presented by The Shakespeare Revue Company

THE PERILS AND PLEASURES OF ‘LIFE UPON THE WICKED STAGE’ FROM WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TO WEST END MUSICALS

This sparkling musical entertainment reveals the pleasures and perils of ‘Life Upon the Wicked Stage’: intimidating auditions, demanding divas and fearsome landladies. First presented at Bristol Old Vic, this hilarious revue features a wonderful mix of sketches and classic songs about the theatre from the pens of Noël Coward, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern and Stephen Sondheim including: Another Op’nin’, Another Show, Everything’s Coming Up Roses, The Night I Appeared as Macbeth, Brush Up Your Shakespeare, Mrs Worthington, No Business Like Showbusiness and many more.

“delightful . . . full of sophisticated humour”
Bristol Evening Post

Stand Up Tempest

PART OF THE CAMDEN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2016

A quirky and inventive adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, exploring Prospero’s story of revenge, magic and mystery. John Wild performs a host of comic characters, making the telling of this story hilarious and often absurd!