VOILÀ! THEATRE FESTIVAL AT THE PLAYGROUND THEATRE

3rd – 21st November 

We’re thrilled to welcome Voila! Europe back to The Playground Theatre this November!
This dynamic festival celebrates multilingual, multicultural performances, bringing bold new voices and stories to the stage. Join us for two thrilling weeks of theatre, performance and creative exploration, with a specially curated series of double shows you won’t want to miss.

Einstein's world crumbles, as this young and ambitious scientist's professional and personal life is sent sideways while trying to prove general relativity against all odds in this true and inspirational story. The longest running, nonstop show in Los Angeles comes to London for the first time.

Every family has secrets. Some can change your life forever. Inspired by an extraordinary true story, Look What Fell Out De Mango Tree is a funny, moving journey from Jamaica to America filled with laughter, love, and unforgettable revelations.

A surreal new play set in a world where breakups can be professionally outsourced. Through absurdity and unexpected humour, Much Crazy About Nothing explores emotional labour, race, identity and modern intimacy, questioning what remains of human connection when love becomes a service.

What happens when a man who never needs anything starts to crack? Deep, Deep Waters is a funny, tense and intimate solo play about corporate survival, masculinity, class, family and pressure.

In Shakespearean purgatory no one can hear you scream.

A dynamic dance theatre duet that playfully explores how we’d experience gender norms if we hadn’t yet embodied them.

Blessed Forgetful is a physical, devised theatre reimagining Germaine Pichot, remembered largely through the men who loved, desired and painted her, including Picasso and Casagemas. Given a fantastical device that erases unbearable memories, she explores whether forgetting can be an act of care.

A delicious satire set in a Great British Bake Off tent spin-off. The rules? Bake mouth-watering women, and sell their cookies! We’ve got the recipe for a good time, sweetheart, we're just missing one ingredient: you!

Brought to life with vibrant costumes, live music, and the signature physicality of classic clowning, Common Ground Theatre celebrates the full emotional range of the Bard’s beloved play. Expect mistaken identities, romantic chaos, and moments of deep humanity.

Direct from the Edinburgh Fringe, you are cordially invited to an audience with Dame Elizabeth Taylor!

Kayla Boye IS the Hollywood legend as she takes us behind the scenes to expose the realities of superstardom shrouded by glitz and glamour, uncompromisingly revealing her innermost feelings about love and life… The triumphs and tragedies of a scrutinised existence, from ‘Lassie' to ‘Cleopatra’...from Burton to Humanitarian…An extraordinary life…

★★★★★ 'Brilliant! A must-watch for any Elizabeth Taylor fan!' (EdFringeReview)

★★★★★ 'Captivating! A brilliantly polished production!' (Three Weeks)

★★★★★ 'A shattering, exquisite performance that should not be missed.' (Chicago Theatre)

A true story of high treason, espionage, spam fritters. The only British person to be tried for treason in World War 2…Join Mabel on Sandown Beach with her secateurs, sequinned tassels and heartfelt - if misguided - self-belief. 

Standing Ovation Nominee for Best Solo Show.

Spit Verse & Dub brings together acclaimed Jamaican artists Judith Falloon Reid and Malachi Smith in a powerful blend of spoken word, poetry, storytelling, music and dub poetry. A dynamic celebration of culture exploring love, identity, resilience, and social justice.

How Do I Process This Non-Existence of Him

Real stories of migrant mothers transformed into an intimate theatrical journey of resilience, identity and home.

In an ancient rotting house an unseen visitor knocks at the front door. So begins an argument between a poisonous crone and her pompous, disgraced son, over who should get up and open it. The play is built on a single, deliberately bad joke, repeated and re‑shaped until it becomes something stranger: a dream‑riff on families, intergenerational trauma, envy, hate, the power of speech, and a haunting meditation on life, death, mothers and sons, consciousness, storytelling, and the theatre itself.

Five minutes before their performance, tango partners Roxana and Mateo break up backstage. Their argument erupts onto the stage, where Gianpiero, self-proclaimed artistic genius of a director and alleged descendant of Julius Caesar, decides to turn their disaster into his greatest masterpiece.

Once a year, every year, Imogen has her birthday. And every day, every year, Imogen is haunted. At 25 she thought she’d killed it. Tonight she learns she was wrong.

A heartfelt new take on Shakespeare’s classic where grief, mental health, and betrayal take centre stage. This is Hamlet not just as a tale of revenge, but as a raw, emotional journey through the human condition.