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Oct
5
Thu
60% Banana & Ways of being ready (Double Bill) @ Jacksons Lane
Oct 5 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm

A double bill of contradictions. First an acrobatic presentation, complete with graphs, about the state of the world in 60% Banana, followed by a mime and acrobat duo, life-long friends who are polar opposites but joined in their need to be ready for anything.Two people stand on stage, and a person in a banana costume is climbing a pole.

Oct
7
Sat
Coffee AM at the Highgate Society @ Highgate Society
Oct 7 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.

The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.

Sawdust Symphony @ Jacksons Lane
Oct 7 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Craftsmanship meets circus in a spellbinding exploration of the human desire to create. On a custom-built stage, obsessed characters discover and transform their space and themselves as they take the audience into a unique DIY experience. Silly, surreal and completely captivating.A person is jumping across a stage with a woodworking tool in his hand.

Oct
8
Sun
360 @ Jacksons Lane
Oct 8 @ 11:00 am

In this capricious game between two acrobats, nothing is fixed. Feel welcome to take a seat on one of the rolling stools and be an actor in this moving composition. The performance invites to make contact, to touch, to be part of and to influence. Or none of this, you can stay invisible in the group.

Performances at 11am, 1pm & 3pm.A group of people are crowded together, someone's feet stick up into the air in the center of the crowd.

The Lady with a Dog @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Oct 8 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Alces Productions presents
The Lady With A Dog

The Chekhov story that the writer Vladimir Nabokov called ‘one of the greatest stories ever written’ returns to the UK stage in a full-length bittersweet romantic comedy transported to Jazz Age Britain.

Damian Granville is a banker and devoted family man with an unconventional way of taking his summer holidays: he travels alone and looks for a woman to seduce. This particular year he spots a beautiful young lady walking a white Pomeranian dog. How can he resist? He’s a skillful player and sure of success. Except Anne Dennis isn’t quite what he bargains for.

★★★★★ “Mark Giesser… recognises the responsibilities of taking on Chekhov demands and, with a dancer’s grace, solves them perfectly.” – Broadway World.

Previous shows by Alces Productions at Upstairs at the Gatehouse: Sirens of the Silver Screen; Strike Up the Band; Once Upon a Mattress; Call Me Madam; Luck Be a Lady; How To Build a Better Tulip. 

Written and Directed by Mark Giesser

Choreographer: Xena Gusthart

Running Time: 2 hours (TBC)

Oct
9
Mon
Kung Fu Classes for Children (5.45) and Adults (6.30) @ Highgate Society
Oct 9 @ 5:45 pm – 7:30 pm

               

               LEARN TRADITIONAL KUNG FU & TAI CHI

                  from  Three-Time International Gold Medallist

                                DANIEL SHAW-ABULAFIA

             at The Highgate Society, 10A South Grove, London N6 6BS
         Children:  Mondays weekly, 17.45 to 18.30 from September 26th
         Adults:      Mondays weekly, 18.30 to 19.30 from September 26th

                            COME TO A FREE TRIAL CLASS!

Oct
10
Tue
Annie’s Yoga in Highgate @ Highgate United Reformed Church
Oct 10 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

The class is suitable for beginners and is friendly and inclusive. Style is Hatha yoga with various influences – gentle, but still delivering strength and flexibility.   Come and try a class to enhance your sense of wellbeing, release stress and tension and to experience deep relaxation. Mats provided, free parking (for now, but check signs!) no need to book – just turn up. The class is in the beautiful church – it’s set back a bit and has big blue doors. The class is mixed level/mixed ability/mixed age. I am a registered BWY teacher and fully insured. For more info about me/my yoga, have a look at my website 

Mother Tree @ Jacksons Lane
Oct 10 @ 7:30 pm

The stage is a mess. Laundry spans floor to ceiling. Out of the chaos rises the aerial silk. In this highly physical solo show about motherhood, circus, theatre and spoken word combine to unravel the mysteries of the mother trees which hold the forest together.Two pieces of fabric hang from the ceiling, a woman stands between them with her arm outstretched.

Oct
11
Wed
Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain . @ Highgate Society
Oct 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Wednesday 11th October 2023
7.00 for 7.30 pm  10A South Grove N6 6BS and online via Zoom
Entry £7.50 including a glass of wine (£3.00 on Zoom)

Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund are trustees of the Isokon Gallery, the museum in the building,. Their richly illustrated talk is not just about design and architecture but also war, sex, death, espionage and famous dinner parties.

Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain.

Oct
12
Thu
Light Work @ Jacksons Lane
Oct 12 @ 7:30 pm

Anything is possible with the incredible power of the collective. Build a human tower, catch one another with precision and perform jaw-dropping acrobatics, all accompanied by original music performed live on stage. Teamwork makes light work of the most challenging feats.A person has been thrown into the air, they are making a star shape and there is a group of people below them ready to catch them.

Murder with Ghosts @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Oct 12 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Garden Suburb Theatre presents
Murder With Ghosts
12 – 15 October

A spine tingling, rollercoaster of suspense, spooks and laughter as eerie encounters unfold at Quittendon Manor in this hilarious murder mystery spoof.

A killer is on the loose at Lady Cholmondley’s weekend house party and only the spirits can save her in this ghastly ghostly comedy. …You’ll die laughing!

Running Time: TBC

Oct
13
Fri
Murder with Ghosts @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Oct 13 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Garden Suburb Theatre presents
Murder With Ghosts
12 – 15 October

A spine tingling, rollercoaster of suspense, spooks and laughter as eerie encounters unfold at Quittendon Manor in this hilarious murder mystery spoof.

A killer is on the loose at Lady Cholmondley’s weekend house party and only the spirits can save her in this ghastly ghostly comedy. …You’ll die laughing!

Running Time: TBC

Oct
14
Sat
Coffee AM at the Highgate Society @ Highgate Society
Oct 14 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.

The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.

Murder with Ghosts @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Oct 14 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Garden Suburb Theatre presents
Murder With Ghosts
12 – 15 October

A spine tingling, rollercoaster of suspense, spooks and laughter as eerie encounters unfold at Quittendon Manor in this hilarious murder mystery spoof.

A killer is on the loose at Lady Cholmondley’s weekend house party and only the spirits can save her in this ghastly ghostly comedy. …You’ll die laughing!

Running Time: TBC

Murder with Ghosts @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Oct 14 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Garden Suburb Theatre presents
Murder With Ghosts
12 – 15 October

A spine tingling, rollercoaster of suspense, spooks and laughter as eerie encounters unfold at Quittendon Manor in this hilarious murder mystery spoof.

A killer is on the loose at Lady Cholmondley’s weekend house party and only the spirits can save her in this ghastly ghostly comedy. …You’ll die laughing!

Running Time: TBC

Only Bones v1.9 @ Jacksons Lane
Oct 14 @ 7:30 pm

Constrained to one square metre of space, follow Matt Pasquet’s struggle from birth to consciousness through a maze of shape shifting surroundings to the edge and beyond. With an immersive foley soundscape, a dash of acrobatics, a sprinkle of clown and a fist full of Kung Fu.A person is stood with their back to the camera, they have their head ducked so you can't see it. Their arms are above their head.

Oct
15
Sun
Baby Broadway Family Concert @ Jacksons Lane
Oct 15 @ 11:00 am

A fun interactive family concert of songs from hit musicals and films featuring West End singers. Sing and dance along to songs from shows like Mary Poppins, Mamma Mia, The Little Mermaid, Frozen, while enjoying bubbles, puppets and fun dance moves.

Open to all ages.

Performances at 11am & 2pmA baby and their parent sit on the floor looking happy and clapping.

Murder with Ghosts @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Oct 15 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Garden Suburb Theatre presents
Murder With Ghosts
12 – 15 October

A spine tingling, rollercoaster of suspense, spooks and laughter as eerie encounters unfold at Quittendon Manor in this hilarious murder mystery spoof.

A killer is on the loose at Lady Cholmondley’s weekend house party and only the spirits can save her in this ghastly ghostly comedy. …You’ll die laughing!

Running Time: TBC

Murder with Ghosts @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Oct 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Garden Suburb Theatre presents
Murder With Ghosts
12 – 15 October

A spine tingling, rollercoaster of suspense, spooks and laughter as eerie encounters unfold at Quittendon Manor in this hilarious murder mystery spoof.

A killer is on the loose at Lady Cholmondley’s weekend house party and only the spirits can save her in this ghastly ghostly comedy. …You’ll die laughing!

Running Time: TBC

The Brownings – Through Casa Guidi Windows @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Oct 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

The Brownings Through Casa Guidi Windows

by Harry Meacher

A Fundraiser in Aid of Upstairs at the Gatehouse

Venice – 12th December 1889.

The great English poet Robert Browning is dying. In his last hours he summons the spirit of his beloved wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning (“Ba”).

Together they explore their lives in Casa Guidi. the apartment they shared in Florence.

Judi Bowker (Elizabeth Barrett Browning) and Harry Meacher (Robert Browning) star in an intimate portrayal of one of the most poignant love stories of all time.

This performance is kindly presented as a fundraiser for Upstairs at the Gatehouse. All proceeds go towards the theatre’s maintenance and upgrades.

Oct
16
Mon
Kung Fu Classes for Children (5.45) and Adults (6.30) @ Highgate Society
Oct 16 @ 5:45 pm – 7:30 pm

               

               LEARN TRADITIONAL KUNG FU & TAI CHI

                  from  Three-Time International Gold Medallist

                                DANIEL SHAW-ABULAFIA

             at The Highgate Society, 10A South Grove, London N6 6BS
         Children:  Mondays weekly, 17.45 to 18.30 from September 26th
         Adults:      Mondays weekly, 18.30 to 19.30 from September 26th

                            COME TO A FREE TRIAL CLASS!

Oct
17
Tue
Annie’s Yoga in Highgate @ Highgate United Reformed Church
Oct 17 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

The class is suitable for beginners and is friendly and inclusive. Style is Hatha yoga with various influences – gentle, but still delivering strength and flexibility.   Come and try a class to enhance your sense of wellbeing, release stress and tension and to experience deep relaxation. Mats provided, free parking (for now, but check signs!) no need to book – just turn up. The class is in the beautiful church – it’s set back a bit and has big blue doors. The class is mixed level/mixed ability/mixed age. I am a registered BWY teacher and fully insured. For more info about me/my yoga, have a look at my website 

Oct
18
Wed
That Day @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Oct 18 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

AIM Theatre presents
That Day
by Ben Hannigan

Performed in rep with Just Barking on the 19th & 21st October

A confused introvert trying to write a song. A dream-like girl that appears out of nowhere and a very stern mother that only wants what’s best for her son. This gripping yet hilarious play that touches on isolation, mental health, family life in unprecedented times, and very entertaining life experiences

Running Time: TBC (One act with no interval)

Oct
19
Thu
Just Barking @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Oct 19 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

AIM Theatre presents
Just Barking
by Joe Wiltshire Smith

Performed in rep with That Day on the 18th & 20th October

Stumbling back into her flat drunk at 10:30am, Tammy, a trainee nurse, decides to confess EVERYTHING to camera. To confront some demons, co-workers, postmen… this could take a while… You think you know her, but maybe you don’t know half of it.

Tammy’s life is a frantic mess of drink, insomnia and patient drama, with the usual hangover worse than death the next day – ’til one night, coming home from work, she get’s some self-help advice from the most unlikely of gurus… in fact, he’s a Chihuahua.

A richly black comedy, this one-woman, drastic reimagining of Gogol’s ‘Diary of a Madman’ investigates the strain on healthcare, the toxic cycle of hustle culture, the deafening toll on mental health and the rediscovery of the self.

Running Time: TBC (One act with no interval)

Oct
20
Fri
That Day @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Oct 20 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

AIM Theatre presents
That Day
by Ben Hannigan

Performed in rep with Just Barking on the 19th & 21st October

A confused introvert trying to write a song. A dream-like girl that appears out of nowhere and a very stern mother that only wants what’s best for her son. This gripping yet hilarious play that touches on isolation, mental health, family life in unprecedented times, and very entertaining life experiences

Running Time: TBC (One act with no interval)

Oct
21
Sat
Coffee AM at the Highgate Society @ Highgate Society
Oct 21 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.

The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.

Cirque Taboo @ Jacksons Lane
Oct 21 @ 7:30 pm

Welcome to Cirque Taboo, the sexiest circus in town.  Out of the woodwork creeps the naughtiest bunch of beautiful freaks. They guarantee to delight your night with a cabaret jam packed with cheeky circus acts, delicious drag, bizarre burlesque and even a little bit of shocking sideshow.

Suitable for ages 18+A person lies with their stomach on the floor, her legs are bent towards her head and her back is arched.

Oct
23
Mon
There’s a Tiger in the Garden @ Jacksons Lane
Oct 23 @ 11:00 am

Using puppetry, imaginative design and music, audiences are invited to join Nora as she explores the garden, discovering dragonflies as big as her head, plants that can eat you (and your toy giraffe) whole, a polar bear that likes fishing and maybe, just maybe, a tiger in the garden.

Suitable for ages 3+

Performances at 11am & 2pmAn illustration shows a child and a tiger stood among garden greenery.

Kung Fu Classes for Children (5.45) and Adults (6.30) @ Highgate Society
Oct 23 @ 5:45 pm – 7:30 pm

               

               LEARN TRADITIONAL KUNG FU & TAI CHI

                  from  Three-Time International Gold Medallist

                                DANIEL SHAW-ABULAFIA

             at The Highgate Society, 10A South Grove, London N6 6BS
         Children:  Mondays weekly, 17.45 to 18.30 from September 26th
         Adults:      Mondays weekly, 18.30 to 19.30 from September 26th

                            COME TO A FREE TRIAL CLASS!

Oct
24
Tue
There’s a Tiger in the Garden @ Jacksons Lane
Oct 24 @ 11:00 am

Using puppetry, imaginative design and music, audiences are invited to join Nora as she explores the garden, discovering dragonflies as big as her head, plants that can eat you (and your toy giraffe) whole, a polar bear that likes fishing and maybe, just maybe, a tiger in the garden.

Suitable for ages 3+

Performances at 11am & 2pmAn illustration shows a child and a tiger stood among garden greenery.

Annie’s Yoga in Highgate @ Highgate United Reformed Church
Oct 24 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

The class is suitable for beginners and is friendly and inclusive. Style is Hatha yoga with various influences – gentle, but still delivering strength and flexibility.   Come and try a class to enhance your sense of wellbeing, release stress and tension and to experience deep relaxation. Mats provided, free parking (for now, but check signs!) no need to book – just turn up. The class is in the beautiful church – it’s set back a bit and has big blue doors. The class is mixed level/mixed ability/mixed age. I am a registered BWY teacher and fully insured. For more info about me/my yoga, have a look at my website 

Bess – The Other Houdini @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Oct 24 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Escape Artists Theatre Company presents
Bess – The Other Houdini

The startling true story of Harry Houdini’s beloved wife and her breakdown in the aftermath of his death. The world knew Bess as Houdini’s loyal partner, both on and off stage, his inspiration, his guiding star – Or was their perfect marriage their greatest illusion?

It is 1929, the height of the Spiritualist frenzy. Houdini, the world’s first Superstar, has been dead two years and all attempts to contact him have failed. Yet surely if anyone can break through from the Other Side, it’s Harry.

Meanwhile his widow, Bess, his beloved partner both offstage and on, is alone and lost, her fragile health already stretched thin by years of living in daily fear as her husband was buried alive, flung manacled into icy rivers and dangled upside down ten stories high in a strait jacket. Now she is deeply in debt, struggling with addiction and desperate to stay in the public eye.

When she is accused of rigging a séance, and with the press hounding her as a fraud, she is forced to flee to a private sanitarium. Does she truly believe her husband has reached out to her from the Beyond? Or, haunted as she is by her own memories and hallucinations, can she even tell the difference? Her doctor is up-to-date with the latest treatments but neither he, nor her celebrity-obsessed nurse, nor her hovering family, can make the slightest dent in her despair.

As she battles with her own demons, she stumbles upon devastating clues about Houdini’s secret life, leading to the revelation that their perfect marriage may have been the greatest illusion of them all. But if everything she built her life upon was only for show, how will she be able to survive Life after Harry?

Running Time: TBC

Oct
25
Wed
There’s a Tiger in the Garden @ Jacksons Lane
Oct 25 @ 11:00 am

Using puppetry, imaginative design and music, audiences are invited to join Nora as she explores the garden, discovering dragonflies as big as her head, plants that can eat you (and your toy giraffe) whole, a polar bear that likes fishing and maybe, just maybe, a tiger in the garden.

Suitable for ages 3+

Performances at 11am & 2pmAn illustration shows a child and a tiger stood among garden greenery.

Bess – The Other Houdini @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Oct 25 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Escape Artists Theatre Company presents
Bess – The Other Houdini

The startling true story of Harry Houdini’s beloved wife and her breakdown in the aftermath of his death. The world knew Bess as Houdini’s loyal partner, both on and off stage, his inspiration, his guiding star – Or was their perfect marriage their greatest illusion?

It is 1929, the height of the Spiritualist frenzy. Houdini, the world’s first Superstar, has been dead two years and all attempts to contact him have failed. Yet surely if anyone can break through from the Other Side, it’s Harry.

Meanwhile his widow, Bess, his beloved partner both offstage and on, is alone and lost, her fragile health already stretched thin by years of living in daily fear as her husband was buried alive, flung manacled into icy rivers and dangled upside down ten stories high in a strait jacket. Now she is deeply in debt, struggling with addiction and desperate to stay in the public eye.

When she is accused of rigging a séance, and with the press hounding her as a fraud, she is forced to flee to a private sanitarium. Does she truly believe her husband has reached out to her from the Beyond? Or, haunted as she is by her own memories and hallucinations, can she even tell the difference? Her doctor is up-to-date with the latest treatments but neither he, nor her celebrity-obsessed nurse, nor her hovering family, can make the slightest dent in her despair.

As she battles with her own demons, she stumbles upon devastating clues about Houdini’s secret life, leading to the revelation that their perfect marriage may have been the greatest illusion of them all. But if everything she built her life upon was only for show, how will she be able to survive Life after Harry?

Running Time: TBC

Oct
26
Thu
There’s a Tiger in the Garden @ Jacksons Lane
Oct 26 @ 11:00 am

Using puppetry, imaginative design and music, audiences are invited to join Nora as she explores the garden, discovering dragonflies as big as her head, plants that can eat you (and your toy giraffe) whole, a polar bear that likes fishing and maybe, just maybe, a tiger in the garden.

Suitable for ages 3+

Performances at 11am & 2pmAn illustration shows a child and a tiger stood among garden greenery.

Bess – The Other Houdini @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Oct 26 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Escape Artists Theatre Company presents
Bess – The Other Houdini

The startling true story of Harry Houdini’s beloved wife and her breakdown in the aftermath of his death. The world knew Bess as Houdini’s loyal partner, both on and off stage, his inspiration, his guiding star – Or was their perfect marriage their greatest illusion?

It is 1929, the height of the Spiritualist frenzy. Houdini, the world’s first Superstar, has been dead two years and all attempts to contact him have failed. Yet surely if anyone can break through from the Other Side, it’s Harry.

Meanwhile his widow, Bess, his beloved partner both offstage and on, is alone and lost, her fragile health already stretched thin by years of living in daily fear as her husband was buried alive, flung manacled into icy rivers and dangled upside down ten stories high in a strait jacket. Now she is deeply in debt, struggling with addiction and desperate to stay in the public eye.

When she is accused of rigging a séance, and with the press hounding her as a fraud, she is forced to flee to a private sanitarium. Does she truly believe her husband has reached out to her from the Beyond? Or, haunted as she is by her own memories and hallucinations, can she even tell the difference? Her doctor is up-to-date with the latest treatments but neither he, nor her celebrity-obsessed nurse, nor her hovering family, can make the slightest dent in her despair.

As she battles with her own demons, she stumbles upon devastating clues about Houdini’s secret life, leading to the revelation that their perfect marriage may have been the greatest illusion of them all. But if everything she built her life upon was only for show, how will she be able to survive Life after Harry?

Running Time: TBC