Drayton Arms Theatre

28/01/2025

Poor Shirley Must Make Her Escape opens TONIGHT

A brand new comedy drama - A train from Ljubljana to Budapest, two strangers collide—one running from her past, the other searching for a future. What unfolds is a transformative confrontation between dreams, regrets, and the courage to face what’s next.

Running for a strictly limited run at the Drayton Arms Theatre from 28 to 31st January 2025.

Tickets are selling fast so book now!

🎟️ https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/poor-shirley

21/01/2025

Kit Lloyd's hilariously frenetic debut hour is 🚨🚨🚨SOLD OUT🚨🚨🚨

Join the waitlist for a chance to see this work in progress, think Mr Bean…on acid.

Jan 21-23
🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/frenzy

20/01/2025

Coming up this Sunday & Monday!

Jamie Sefton and Alex McKeon of Mirror Up Productions discuss their scratch night, Reflections, coming to Drayton Arms Theatre.

17/01/2025

A lovely ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for Fresh Mountain Air!

Just two more chances to catch this thrilling new play before it's gone...

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15/01/2025

We spy not one, but two upcoming Drayton Arms' shows on this fabulous list from BroadwayWorld UK

Both are part of the returning London Lovecraft Festival this February, which features four thrilling theatrical experiences you won't want to miss!

There's no doubt that 2025 will another fascinating year for immersive theatre, the fastest-growing art form around. There's more choice than ever to jump into a different world, whether it is diving into the Titanic, joining the crew of a spaceship, meeting the crazy characters of a cyberpunk Wild....

15/01/2025

Two strangers board the same train carriage traveling from Ljubljana to Budapest. Kieran is a food writer, disenfranchised from several failed attempts at a career, enjoying a pause from the daily grind of the freelance lifestyle. Shirley is a hospitality worker, re-training in her dream degree, anx...

14/01/2025

Tonight...don't get lost in the woods...

three young American women
a secluded cabin
no service
a prison break
and a gun in the drawer

Fresh Mountain Airs opens tonight, just 5 shows only and not to be missed!

Jan 14-18
🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/fresh-mountain-air

Images by Kait Feeney

10/01/2025

VARIETY BITES 1

On 19 Jan, experience a tasty melange of 10 acts -- comedy, clowning, music and new plays -- all performed by rising talent.

VARIETY BITES is a new variety night series from LAMDA alumni company ConjureMan Productions. All money raised will help fund ConjureMan's future productions!

🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/variety-bites-1

08/01/2025

Just a few tickets left for Frenzy!

Kit Loyd brings you his hilariously frenetic debut hour. Think Mr Bean… on acid.

Directed by George Chilcott (Director of Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominated Goodbear, 2019) and devised alongside Trygve Wakenshaw (Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominated, 2015)

Shortlisted for the BBC New Comedy Awards 2024. Winner of the British Comedy Guide Talent Award 2023. 'Loyd is a superb physical comedian, easily the stand-out performer on the night, Loyd was head and shoulders above the other acts' (BeyondTheJoke.co.uk).

His show Nightwatchman 2023 was listed for Best Edinburgh Fringe Comedy (Scotsman)

Book now to avoid missing out!
🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/frenzy

06/01/2025

Three young American women take shelter in a secluded cabin in the woods after getting lost on a hike.

It is getting dark, the nearest town is twenty miles away and there is no internet or phone service.

A radio bulletin announces there has been a prison break at a nearby maximum security facility.

They find a gun in the drawer.

Is the threat outside the cabin or within?

Fresh Mountain Air
By Michael Eichler

OPENING NEXT WEEK

Jan 14th-18th
🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/fresh-mountain-air

04/01/2025

Holiday
Feb 4-5

Five women and their young children spend a week in the countryside

Their relationships are tested as are their parenting skills with a series of personal challenges that ignites tensions and unsettles them all

🎟 https://s.mtrbio.com/orknjiyiqf

19/12/2024

The Christmas Quizpocalypse opens TONIGHT!

An absurd, wacky, and wildly entertaining twist on the traditional pub quiz! Set in a small-town pub, this immersive theatre experience throws you into a real quiz with teams, prizes, raffles, and plenty of festive cheer. However, there's a catch: this quiz may be one of the nine layers of hell, depending on who you ask!

Expect unpredictable surprises, hilarious moments, and a thrilling holiday outing like no other. The Christmas Quizpocalypse is not your average Christmas quiz – but filled with outlandish fun and unforgettable chaos.

December 19th-20th
🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/christmas-quiz

17/12/2024

TONIGHT & TOMORROW ONLY...

Comedy Extravaganza
Presented by Any Second Now Productions

Get ready for an extraordinary experience as London’s top comedic talent takes the spotlight for two nights of unforgettable laughter!

The Comedy Extravaganza is back! Showcasing 6 of the best comic talent for 2 nights only! Each performance showcases the incredible creativity of our stand-ups at the top of their game. Whether you’re a long-time comedy lover or just need a night of joy, this event guarantees laughter, twists, and a little something for everyone.

Secure Your Tickets Now and join the fun for an extraordinary night of comedy brilliance!

🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/comedy-extravaganza

10/12/2024

Squires opens TONIGHT

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - EdFringe Review
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Derek Awards

"superb...a consummately delivered piece of silliness" - Fringe Review, Recommended Show

Before there were knights, there were idiots who thought swinging a sword and being a hero were pretty much interchangeable.

Squires is a historical workplace comedy turned comedy of errors as a group of unlikely friends come together under a common goal: to not be accused of murder. Squires looks at pressing issues like 'how crappy is a first job exactly' and 'can you speedrun inventing the concept of gravity in a single afternoon'. The answer to both is 'yes'.

Holy Grail meets Twelfth Night with a side of New Girl in a story of pigs, bis*xual panic, and accusations of heresy.

December 10th-16th
🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/squires

03/12/2024

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨SOLD OUT SOLD OUT SOLD OUT🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

FROM TOMORROW - Knocked Conscious

A faceful of ice cold fizzy water; a smile at the shops from your neighbourhood scorpion; that moment the sea rises above your belly button, but you kind of enjoy it; this is Knocked Conscious.

An hour of helter-skelter hilarity, this is sketch comedy at its most breathless. Five comedians on the up and at the top of their game (simultaneously). Nothing is sacred, everything is funny.

Featuring Mungo Russell, Gayaneh Lara, Henrie Allen, Calum Maclean, and Jack Firoozan.

December 3-7
🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/knocked-conscious

02/12/2024

FROM TOMORROW - Knocked Conscious

A faceful of ice cold fizzy water; a smile at the shops from your neighbourhood scorpion; that moment the sea rises above your belly button, but you kind of enjoy it; this is Knocked Conscious.

An hour of helter-skelter hilarity, this is sketch comedy at its most breathless. Five comedians on the up and at the top of their game (simultaneously). Nothing is sacred, everything is funny.

Featuring Mungo Russell, Gayaneh Lara, Henrie Allen, Calum Maclean, and Jack Firoozan.

December 3-7
🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/knocked-conscious

28/11/2024

This Sunday & Monday, get in the holiday spirit with...

Ghost Stories For Christmas🎄🎅🏻

Following in the fine festive tradition of telling ghostly stories by the fireside, join Edwyrdian Tales for an evening of haunting dark delights set during Christmastide. Our night of seasonal spirits features terrors from some of the finest authors of their age… W. W. Jacobs, Algernon Blackwood and A. M. Burrage.

In Jerry Bundler, patrons gather in a London tavern at Christmastime swapping traditionally terrifying ghost stories, only to discover the establishment itself is haunted…

In Smee, some festive parlour games are just the thing to raise some spirits. But it’s always wise to know how many people are hiding in the house before you start trying to seek them…

And finally in The Kit-Bag, packing for the Christmas holidays takes a turn for the worse as a young lawyer finds his recent gruesome trial comes back to haunt him. Bone chilling tales to conjure the spirits of Christmas...

A one-man performance, directed and haunted by Matthew Wood

Dec 1st-2nd
🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/ghost-stories

25/11/2024

💀 Death and the Cat opens this week! 💀

Death and his pet cat, Panther have been guiding the souls of the dead into the afterlife for time untold. Until they have a falling out, that is, and the Grim Reaper's pet cat runs away.

Alone, angry, and missing his best friend, Death goes rogue, sending the universe tumbling into chaos. And that's just the beginning...

Featuring gods, demons, a harrowing taxi ride, a spooky hotel, and a pub in Wales, this is a tale exploring life, death, friendship, and the lengths we'll go for the ones we love.

November 26-30
🎟 https://i.mtrbio.com/vpivnoubhh

21/11/2024

Changing Rooms
November 24th-25th

Genevieve is alone in a changing room, writing fan fiction. Loser. But someone has taken her notebook, and it has to have been one of the four girls intent on ruining her life.

They’re going to find all the bad poetry and love letters to Jack (that boy everyone wants) and all of the terrible things she’s said about the girls themselves, so naturally her life is over.

She has to get that notebook back, and she has to get her period, and she has to understand the meaning of life and being a woman, and she has to unpack the deeply instilled nature of female stereotypes, and she has an hour to do it.

🎟 https://i.mtrbio.com/ueemeghsfe

19/11/2024

Ordnance opens TONIGHT

Atkinson, a young British cartographer drawing up borders in 1880s Afghanistan, stumbles into an affair with Virginia, the estranged wife of an exiled and arrogant botanist, sparking self-reflection on their national, personal and s*xual identities.

Set in the shadow of war and espionage between the colonial empires of Great Britain and Russia, Ordnance is a theatre production about imposed and manmade borders, both personal and physical, and how they can categorise, restrict and shape identity.

November 19th-23rd
🎟️ https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/ordnance

14/11/2024

Not a Big Boy is on this Sunday and Monday

The story of a man versus immigration procedures, terribly designed chairs, frozen yogurt, and growing up.

This new and longer adaptation of the play premiered at last year's Istanbul Theatre Festival, brings its unique blend of humor and poignant reflection to an international audience.

Produced by NOTT Theatre Company, the play is directed by Davy Roderick and written and performed by C. Hakan Akgül.

November 17th-18th
🎟 https://i.mtrbio.com/sihvmjsutf

11/11/2024

Opening tomorrow...⚰️🦷 Funeral Teeth 🦷⚰️

Maybe you’ve lost your marbles… Or maybe you’ve found the most transformative piece of theatre that you’ll see this year. Probably both.

What and who are we allowed to grieve? And does that really matter?

Lose yourself (geddit?) in the latest piece by Succulent Theatre, unpacking what loss looks like to them, what it looks like to you, and what it could look like for all of us.

Drugs, s*x, love, family and friendship are at the centre of this contemplative work which really puts the ‘fun’ in funeral.

Following the success of their debut show ‘NASTY: ‘Big’ girls being gross, mean and s*xy’, the Succulent girlies are back with another q***r, autobiographical, confessional piece of theatre that’s gut-busting and gut-wrenching in equal measure.

November 12th-16th
🎟 https://i.mtrbio.com/lojjkcobzh

07/11/2024

MOREAU runs this Sunday & Monday

None escape!

When a traumatised hospital patient suddenly becomes violent, he is forced to process the horrors of his past and present, challenging everything he knows. Will he find inner peace before he is permanently written off as broken and dangerous? Is it ever possible to truly escape the clutches of MOREAU?

A modern and contemporary take on the science fiction horror classic The Island of Dr Moreau by HG Wells, MOREAU reimagines the story to explore memory, therapy, identity, rebellion and ultimately, hope.

November 10th-11th
🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/moreau

05/11/2024

Opening tonight!

My Wife Fell in Love with a Life Size Cardboard Cut-out of Ronan Keating

Written by PT Rose
Adapted for the London stage by Tegwyn Burges

A Clown has completed a college degree in mysticism, those close to him sneer at its usefulness in the real world. His partner suffers abandonment issues while her mother and grandmother battle over the merits of Bowie against Presley and the daughter has her own tussle with gender identity, Buddhism and eating fads. A recent convert to Islam pops up to offer his views on fate while an Elvis impersonator takes notes and a full size cardboard cutout of Ronan Keating silently observes.

Starring Francoise Pascal as Pearl

November 5th-9th
🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/ronan-keating