Huge Range of Performances to See During Theatre Festivals
Barons Court Theatre hosting an eclectic line-up of performances
The Room of Piss with Lucia Martinez aims to look at themes of chronic illness
November 4, 2024
A series of festival performances are taking place at the Barons Court Theatre providing an opportunity to see an eclectic range of productions from across the globe.
As part of the inaugural edition of Solo Play Day Festival, Resistance and Identity: Complete Sex & Raw, a double bill from Argentinian playwright Mónica Maffía, is being staged between 5 - 9 November at 7.30 pm.
This production is a result of some long-standing collaborations at Barons Court Theatre. One of them is with Mónica Maffía and her English language translator, Sophie Stevens, which has previously produced Complete Sex being presented as part of Reboot Festival 2022; another is the one with Pro English Theatre in Kyiv and WEST Association, who had the idea for an international, cross-border festival.
The Voila! Theatre Festival relaunches this month after ten years at The Cockpit, now as a multi-venue, panlingual event running from the 4 to 24 November. Featuring diverse languages and stories, it aims to support early-career artists. It is produced by The Cockpit with support from City of Westminster College and Arts Council England, the festival is a platform for new talent.
SPENT is being performed from 9 – 17 November, as part of the festival. It is psychological drama exploring shifting power dynamics in toxic relationships. The play flips the script, showing that abuse can come from anyone.
With actors alternating roles each performance, the play offers a fresh take on the same relationship each night — A, an ambitious exec, and B, a struggling artist, must decide: stay together or split? As their love unravels, we ask—who’s at fault, and who holds the power?
Audiences are being encouraged to see both versions for a fuller perspective on how the dynamics shift.
Performance Dates (all shows are matinee performances at 2:30pm)
Saturday, 09.11: A – Female / B – Male
Sunday, 10.11: A – Male / B – Female
Saturday, 16.11: A – Male / B – Female
Sunday, 17.11: A – Female / B – Male
From Monday 11 to Saturday 16 November, Benjamin Policisto, a French actor and clown is coming from Norway to perform his show Dupon Police Trainer at Barons Court Theatre for the Voilà festival. It aims to entertain and make the audience laugh about the use of the police force in western societies.
Lucia Martinez, a 26-year-old Italian theatre-maker, performer and producer based in London is bringing a show to the Voila! International Theatre Festival. The Room of Piss will be on at the Barons Court Theatre on the 16/17/23/24 November. It is a highly physical double act clowning show which aims to tackle themes of chronic illness through an engaging and interactive self-ironical performance.
Andrea Holland is premiering Chop-chop!, a bilingual Spanglish comedy, at the Voila! Festival on 23 and 24 November with matinee performances at 2:30pm. It is set to take the stage at Barons Court Theatre as part of the Voila! Theatre Festival on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th November.
Chop-chop!, written and performed by Andrea Holland, is an energetic one-woman show that offers a unique perspective on cultural identity and self-discovery. Using humour and storytelling, it explores the conflict between two characters, a Spaniard and an English woman, and their ever growing list of obligations. Through these larger-than-life personas, Chop-chop! tackles themes of reconnecting with our inner child, the bilingual brain, procrastination and our current Toxic Productivity Culture. The performance highlights the clash between emotional and rational thinking, cultural stereotypes, and what truly matters in the hustle of daily life. At its heart, the show is an ode to the creator’s mother and the symbolic significance that Spanish tortilla has in her life, showing how something as simple as food can reconnect us with our roots.
Andrea Holland in Chop-chop!
The creator, Andrea Holland, born and bred in Spain to a Spanish mother and English father, is a London based performer, theatre-maker, and one of the founders of Volpe and Herlight Theatre. In her work she blends devised comedy with a feminist lens, focusing on themes of belonging, identity, and cultural intersections. The show is directed by Brazilian director and theatre-maker Giovanna Koyama. Chop-chop! marks another collaboration between Koyama and Holland, who co-created the short film Mulheres Que Sangran and the play Queendom, which debuted at Camden Fringe in 2023. Koyama brings her expertise in Experimental Theatre and Physical Storytelling, with recent directing credits including On the Other Side of the Sea at Out of the Wings Festival and How British Eres Tú? at Housemates Festival.
Visit voilafestival.co.uk for more information about these shows and otheras and to purchase tickets.
Voila! Theatre Festival is an annual theatre rendezvous in London each November programming a ‘genre-busting’ mix of multidisciplinary, multilingual & multicultural performance featuring British & European emerging artists.
The Barons Court Theatre is below the Curtain's Up Pub at 28a Comeragh Road, W14 9HR.
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