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Bin Juice at VAULT Festival 2020

Not your usual hazardous waste

This week, just as you’re all busy trying to keep your hands clean, watch a show where someone is about to get their hands very dirty…

Zoo (photographer credit Idil Sukan)

Climate change, relationships and flamingos collide in comedy drama

Zoo, an inventive comedy drama of heroism, feminism and a woman trying to trap 47 flamingos in a urinal, will open at VAULT Festival this month…

Notch by The Thelmas at VAULT

A dark and lyrical tale at the VAULT Festival

Watch a dark and lyrical tale of migration, homelessness and obsession from Croatian writer Danaja Wass at this year’s VAULT Festival…

Tarot (Credit Sofi Lee-Henson)

Tarot and circus meet in unusual show at VAULT

Live Tarot reading meets contemporary circus as The Feathers of Daedalus come to VAULT Festival with a reworking of their Edinburgh Fringe hit, Tarot…

Jekyll / Hyde, Fire Hazard Games at VAULT Festival

Join a Gothic scavenger hunt in London

Think you can get away with murder? Then why not join in with a modern scavenger hunt based on a Gothic masterpiece?

Fight Night, VAULT Festival 2019

A boxing match where the audience decide the champion

Fury, excitement and tension build as two boxers enter the ring at VAULT Festival’s Fight Night, and it is up to the audience to decide who is crowned the champion…

VAULT Festival 2019

Pop up venues and immersive events at London’s VAULT festival

The VAULT arts and entertainment festival will be hosting hundreds of events across theatre, comedy, cabaret, immersive experiences and late night parties…

The Dirty Thirty - VAULT Festival 2018 - Degenerate Fox

A unique show where thirty plays are performed in one hour

Fancy trying a theatre show with a difference? The Dirty Thirty is a collection of thirty original plays, which Degenerate Fox will be valiantly attempting to perform in just one hour…

GUN - VAULT Festival 2018 - London

A one-man comedy western show in London

Gun, a new comedy western about one man’s journey of defiance and reconciliation as he is chased across the Wild West, will be performed at this year’s VAULT Festival…

VAULT Festival 2018 - Waterloo London

Spy games, extraordinary magicians and a zombie apocalypse at VAULT

VAULT Festival 2018 will take place from 24th January to 18th March, with 300 shows championing new writing, immersive experiences, comedy, film and late night entertainment…

VAULT Festival 2017 - Waterloo London

Subterranean bars, cowboy capers and modern life in space

VAULT Festival returns to London from 25th January with immersive theatre, themed parties, film, comedy and circus performances…

Songs for the End of the World (Photo: Brett Harvey)

A unique mix of music gig and epic theatre in Songs For the End of the World

Songs for the End of the World straddles the line between gig and theatre, the performers appear as both musicians and characters to depict this unique story of conformity and survival, inspired by mid century pop culture and dystopian science fiction…

VAULT Festival 2015 Photo: Jack Abraham

Tunnel your way to the eclectic VAULT Festival in London

VAULT is a six-week cultural festival in the labyrinthine tunnel network under Waterloo in London, and runs from 28th January 2015…

Curiosity of the Week

Woodhenge, Stonehenge’s lesser-known neighbour
Woodhenge - ©English Heritage, Historic England Photo Library

You have heard of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, but have you heard of its lesser known neighbour, Woodhenge? Find out more in our latest Curiosity of the Week…

Top Story

Fakes, forgeries and misinformation at Royal Society Late
Dragon Fish - The Royal Society Lates in March

Next month, the Royal Society’s Late event mixes tomfoolery with science as it tackles fake news and hoaxes…

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