Drayton Arms Theatre

30/05/2026

An absolutely stunning ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review for Patronage

“In Patronage, a uniquely talented writer, cast and crew have joined forces to create something genuinely outstanding. To pilfer from the great man himself, together, somehow, they chipped away everything that doesn’t look like David. This is how it’s done.” - London Pub Theatres

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29/05/2026

From the writer of Spy for Spy (‘a revelation!’ - The Times and The Sunday Times), Tomorrow In The Battle (‘white hot passion’ - The New York Times) and Stockwell (‘the most important play of the year’ - Daily Express).

Simultaneously a riotous laugh-a-minute comedy and a bleak reminder of the terrifying void that awaits each of us, Stories for Boys is the touching tale of a donkey and a fish grappling with the universe’s most profound question: to be, or not.* Bach, Wittgenstein, Ibsen and Turner are eagerly enlisted in a series of pell-mell, antic attempts to dissolve the outstanding paradoxes of our time; life versus death, love versus s*x, fish versus donkey.

June 9th-20th
🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/stories-for-boys

* to be.

28/05/2026

funeral teeth is one of London Pub Theatre's Top Picks for June!

Back by POPULAR demand, this exceptional show by Succulent Theatre Company explores grief in ways you will have never contemplated before.

Finalist London Pub Theatre Standing Ovation Award in its debut run, funeral teeth promises a night of chaos.

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

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - The Reviews Hub
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.4 - London Pub Theatres
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Theatre and Tonic

THREE NIGHTS ONLY
🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷

🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/funeral-teeth-2

27/05/2026

Tip Top Theatre Collective is back with Growing Pains!

Tessa is a teacher…or writer…or teacher…

Not qualified for much, at 25, Tessa is a failed fringe writer, a sponge for her partner and tasked with inspiring the future with a GCSE class more focused on her demise than their exams. Mid-Twenties angst is real. With no answers, can Tessa, really, teach anyone… anything?

May 31st-June 1st
🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/growing-pains-1

18/05/2026

What does it cost to build something that will outlive you?

Patronage, the debut play by Camellia Elerman, reimagines Michelangelo not as a solitary genius, but as a man bound by family obligation, financial pressure, and relentless expectation.

A story about legacy. Ambition. And the burden of inheritance.

May 26th–30th
Grab your tickets here 🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/patronage

15/05/2026

We have some great Deeper Learning @ the Drayton offerings coming up for emerging theatre creatives, especially those going up to Edinburgh Fringe!

May 23rd, 3pm-4:30pm
Workshop: How To Write An Effective Press Release (for Edinburgh Fringe)

Handling your own PR for Edinburgh Fringe? Not sure where to begin? This workshop will help you write your own press release.

🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/effective-press...

June 25th, 11am-4pm
Course: A Hitchhiker's Guide To Edinburgh Tech

An introduction to theatre tech and principles to maximize your 1 Day Tech time at Edinburgh Fringe or beyond!

For all ability levels, open to anyone and everyone, even if you're not going to Edinburgh. Ideal for directors, writers, and producers who want to know more of how tech works

🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/hitchhikers-guide...

11/05/2026

In a nation where human flesh is the only accepted currency, the economy is sacred and mercy is obsolete. When her sister is absorbed into the state’s system, one woman refuses to accept the arithmetic of sacrifice and sets out to confront the immaculate couple who profit from a machine that never makes mistakes.

Darkly comic and unsettlingly plausible, Debt Meat is a razor-sharp new satire about the terrifying logic of a system that consumes its own.

Starring Layla Lewis
Sister - Keegan Carr
Hope - Jane McDowell
Husband - Renny Mendoza
Friend - Alex McKeown

Writer, Director and Co-Producer - Benji Edward
Co-Producer Francesca Mepham
SFX Artist - Jason Jay Lowe

May 17th-18th
🎟 https://f.mtr.cool/dsbwktxgsz

09/05/2026

I Want to Kill Paul McCartney X POLISH!

A double bill of two original pieces by recent GSA drama school graduates Alex Gannon and Clare Nolan.

I Want to Kill Paul McCartney delves into the themes of remembrance and how an infatuation with this idea can impact one's mind when pushed to the extremes. We follow a man on a first date asking - if no one remembers you, what is the point? Which has led him to the only sound conclusion...

POLISH! is based on all of the stories that Clare heard when she was working in a nail salon (you read that right, come and get the goss) from cheating scandals to mental health issues, this story covers a whole multitude of women.

May 12th-16th
🎟 https://f.mtr.cool/grqelqvtrk

08/05/2026

FEELING A BIT DOWN ABOUT THE WORLD? WE’RE NOT SURPRISED

Come remind yourself what’s good.

🎤Alexis Sakellaris: CHILD STAR (Work in Progress)
May 19th-21st, 7pm

What if you got the opportunity of a lifetime... in your tweens?? At age 15, Alexis dreams of escaping rural Germany and becoming a famous singer. In 2013, it happens: he’s cast in Wir rocken Barcelona, a bona fide German Glee. With new original songs and unearthed footage, join acclaimed musical comedian Alexis Sakellaris (A STAN IS BORN!) as he dives into his past to share the cringiest moments of his LIFE.

☀️ Lizzy Sunshine
May 19th-23rd, 8:30pm

When her partner doesn’t show, Lizzy Sunshine makes the audience her co-star. She promised a two-person show. She got... you. Liz Coin charms in this fast-paced hour packed with gags gone wrong, big characters, and a performer who believes positivity can solve anything — whether it should or not.

💣 Sid Singh: Love Bombing
May 22rd-23rd, 7pm

Sid Singh has given up. After 17 years and the return of Donald Trump, it’s time to admit this political comic has failed as both a comedian and a human rights lawyer. That’s why after fleeing to Barcelona, he went on a date with the one person who still seemed to like him: his stalker. You are not prepared for what happens next.

BOOK NOW 🎟️ https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/index.php

07/05/2026

On the anniversary of Keir Starmer’s “Islands of Strangers” speech, a bold new voice takes the stage.

Meet Ash: mixed-heritage, London-raised, and halfway through medical training when racism pushes him toward an unexpected prescription: comedy. What begins as a defence mechanism becomes a calling.

The Full English is a razor-sharp, mash-up of stand-up and theatre that asks a deceptively simple question: what does it mean to be “English” now?

May 10th-11th
🎟 https://f.mtr.cool/nokpluljrj

Produced by Resident Company Paradigm Productions in co-production with Drayton Arms Theatre

06/05/2026

ON NOW - SMILE

What do Sexy KFC, and your homophobic Aunt Sharon have in common? Tammy Woodburn — an up-and-coming musical comedienne — is determined to find out. When her potential new manager challenges her to be more honest on stage, Tammy uses original songs, stand-up, and painfully awkward family conversations (hello Aunt Sharon) to find the line between truth and a punchline. Blending biting humour, original music, and impressive instrumentalism, SMILE is a sharp one-woman musical comedy about burnout, identity, and the pressure to always keep everyone smiling.

SMILE sold out its preview at Green Note, an award-winning Camden venue recognised by Time Out.

Tammy Woodburn just wants to make you smile - why don’t you let her try?

May 5th-9th
🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/smile

30/04/2026

Lover on the Radio 📻
May 3rd-4th

All through the night, lonely souls call the hotline at the Troika Communication Tower looking for something. Whether it’s s*x, god, or a song for the drive home, The Voice On The Other End is there to provide — but as the night shift wears on, the roles she plays on the air begin to blur, and the magic of the switchboard begins to unravel.

Lover on the Radio is a one-man comic examination of human intimacy and loneliness through the lens of a radio call-in line, a religious doubt hotline, and a phone s*x service all running off of the same operator. It is also a celebration of ugly-dancing, of freaks, of human connection, and of Nickelback.

🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/lover-on-the-radio

28/04/2026

OPENING TONIGHT

Like Holding Water in Your Hand
By Agnes Perry-Robinson

As wildfires burn outside their block of flats, Maud and Alex live in a state of constant vigilance. Inside, they are at the mercy of Lot, their embittered and intrusive landlord, who thrives on surveillance and control. What begins as casual interference slowly escalates into something far more insidious, as he tightens his grip and gains dangerous leverage over the pair.

A modern Orpheus and Eurydice, Maud and Alex must confront a question as old as time: whether it is possible to move forward when one of them keeps looking back.

April 28th, 7:30pm - 🚨SOLD OUT🚨
April 29th, 7:30pm - 24 tickets left
April 30th, 7:30pm - 16 tickets left
May 1st, 7:30pm - 32 tickets left
May 2nd, 3pm - 34 tickets left
May 2nd, 7:30pm - 🚨SOLD OUT🚨

BOOK NOW https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/like-holding-water 🎟

24/04/2026

Doorway To Perception
Where Music Meets Memory

Written & performed by Karen Cecilia

Doorway to Perception asks the audience to consider music as both memory and as part of their own story. Karen Cecilia performs the theremin throughout; a uniquely ethereal, body-responsive instrument that becomes both a musical and symbolic conduit as we journey between sound, story, identity, and political agency.

April 26th, 5pm
April 27th, 7:30pm

BOOK NOW 🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/doorway-to-perception

21/04/2026

Night Shift
By Rachel Fenn

Simon and Jay have spent years happily working the night shift at Supersave until recent graduate Nadia joins as a stop gap while applying for grad schemes. Continually demeaning their life choices, she pushes Jay to believe he’s meant for something more, and goads Simon to become something he’s not. As things start to fall apart for her colleagues, Nadia remains oblivious to the damage her ambition leaves behind as she makes plans to move on without them.

April 21st-25th
🎟️ https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/night-shift

A co-production between Roam Theatre Company & Drayton Arms Theatre

16/04/2026

This Sunday & Monday only!

Department for Love and Mischief
Kat is a super high-flyin' go-getter dontcherknow, and she has a plan to ace the day and climb the corporate ladder - if only the unseen forces could stop messing things up...?

When things go unexpectedly wrong, or right, maybe 'coincidence' is just too convenient a reason. Maybe it's the beings we can't perceive getting in our way. Enter the Department for Love and Mischief, bringing cupids, distraction demons, and guardian angels to screw up your perfectly planned life.

A work-in-progress performance of some new ideas.

Department for Love and Mischief
April 19th-20th
🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/love-and-mischief

13/04/2026

Five cooks in the small kitchen of The Golden Dragon.

They are immigrants.

They are illegal.

They have no papers.

And while they struggle in the kitchen, the people around them have no idea what is happening: The grandfather, his granddaughter, her boyfriend, the man in the striped shirt, all of them have their own hardship, hidden behind the doors of their apartments. And the shopkeeper, Hans, really has something to hide.

The Golden Dragon
By Roland Schimmelpfennig, translated by David Tushingham

KDC Theatre is BACK at Drayton Arms Theatre, opening TOMORROW

April 14th-18th
🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/the-golden-dragon

07/04/2026

Jay spends his nights

stacking shelves
stacking shelves
stacking shelves
stacking shelves
stacking shelves
stacking shelves
stacking shelves
stacking shelves
stacking shelves
stacking shelves
stacking shelves
stacking shelves

Until Nadia gets hired at Supersave.

And everything starts to chage.

Night Shift
A co-production between Roam Theatre Company & Drayton Arms Theatre

April 21-25
🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/night-shift

27/03/2026

Happy World Theatre Day 💙

We are so proud to be a part of this community

24/03/2026

Hot off the back of a sold out Edinburgh Fringe run, Mushroomification: Legs, Legs, Legs opens TONIGHT

A new play from the conjoined talents of , Mushroomification follows an unlikely and explosive encounter between man and mushroom. Deep in the woods, a mushroom rages against the oppressive mycelial hive mind; meanwhile, in their laboratory, two scientists battle it out to develop their own mycelial cure to save society.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - The Student

‘Wonderfully inventive and deceptively insightful’

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - BingeFringe

‘Mushroomification asks question that are so much bigger the the scale of a fringe show. What does it mean to want a body? What does it mean to be cursed with one?’

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - The Skinny

March 24-28
🍄‍🟫 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/mushroomification

21/03/2026

This Sunday & Monday join us for HAYWIRE: The Dark Side of New Technology

This multigenre collection of short plays explores what happens when new innovations outpace human empathy, intelligence and agency.

Each play presents harrowing and shocking insight into the dark side of technology, asking: how far will technology take humanity before we’re left behind in its shadow?

March 22nd-23rd
🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/haywire

17/03/2026

Are you taking work to Edinburgh Fringe?

Are you curious about bringing a show there in the future?

Are you overwhelmed and unsure where to start?

Come join us at Drayton Arms Theatre for our panel discussion How Do I Produce At Edinburgh Fringe? (why should I?), where three ultra-experienced producers share their expertise in bringing shows to the festival.

We will be talking marketing, venues, budgets, rehearsal schedules, future life and everything in between, with the chance to get all your questions answered throughout.

April 9th, 11am-2pm
BOOK YOUR PLACE https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/edinburgh-panel

14/03/2026

🚙💨 SKUUURT!!

If this doesn't convince you to come see DOUGHNUT DRIVE we don't know what will.

March 17th - 🚨 SOLD OUT 🚨
March 18th - just 18 tickets left

"An extremely funny, beautifully put together play with enough twists and turns to keep the mystery alive until the very end" - Everything Theatre

Written & Directed by Finella Waddilove

BOOK 🍩 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/doughnut-drive-1

11/03/2026

Cellar Door Theatre is BACK with Fresh Shoots 🌱

No polish. No filters. Just raw storytelling.

An evening of 8 new pieces - works in progress that are still discovering who they are.

Join us for a night of storytelling in its most vulnerable, honest, and unpolished form. Come be part of the moment where new work begins to grow.

March 20th - 🚨SOLD OUT🚨
March 21st - Just 7 tickets left

BOOK NOW 🎟 https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/fresh-shoots

27/02/2026

Missed connections and fleeting, pivotal moments form a tapestry of human experience, revealing how deeply communication—or the lack of it—can influence destiny...

Stitch in Time 🕰️💛
A new play written by Julia Pagett
Directed by Luke Adamson

A moving exploration of generational divides, shifting gender roles, and the quiet moments that define our lives.

March 3rd-7th
BOOK NOW
🎟 https://f.mtr.cool/epmhrbvszu