Voila! Theatre Festival

Festival which connects border-busting theatre to citizens of everywhere, returns to the capital on grand scale across nine London venues from 4th– 24th November

NINE LONDON VENUES // 72 SHOWS AND EVENTS // 35 LANGUAGES // 350 ARTISTS

After 10 years hosted at The Cockpit theatre in Marylebone, Voila! Theatre Festival is delighted to announce its return and relaunch on a far wider scale.
From 4th – 24th November the festival will be reborn as a new multi-venue, panlingual festival reflecting a wide breadth of cultures, stories, and aesthetics, with challenge and change in the spotlight.

Throughout its programme, Voila! Theatre Festival continues its welcoming grassroots ethos for both artists and audiences, even as it grows in scope and ambition. Host venues will encompass Applecart Arts, Barons Court Theatre, Camden People’s Theatre, The Playground Theatre, The Questors Theatre, The Space Theatre, Theatre Deli, Upstairs at the Gatehouse and of course The Cockpit, with the aim of providing a launchpad for early career artists working in theatre, platforming their work right across the capital.

With a focus on programming in as many languages as possible, Voila will see three weeks of performances, scratch nights, live streams, workshops, and events which will encompass a huge range of performances from all over the world. The programme is
panlingual, multidisciplinary and fully committed to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI).

To encourage as broad an audience as possible, the works encompass 35 languages present within the performances at the festival, with half the works being performed in both English and at least one other language. This is part of an endeavour to meet one aim of this collaborative festival umbrella model; which is to enable venues to engage more with their non-English
speaking local communities, encouraging local people to get more involved in the arts, providing a space for social cohesion, support, and coming together in sharing cultural interests.

The full programme is of course wholly accessible to English speakers,with subtitles/surtitles provided for those works not performed in English.