London Clown Festival 2026
2026 Festival Opening Cabaret
@ Jacksons Lane
30th May, 19:00 (120 mins inc interval)
£20 (plus £1.95 venue fee)
Join us as we celebrate the opening of the 2026 London Clown Festival with a high energy cabaret night that gives you a taste of what's to come in the festival overall.
Come for a night of fun and laughter and discover more to come back for.
Full Frontal Mikey Mode
@ Soho Theatre, Upstairs
1st June, 18:45 (60 mins)
From £14 (plus £4 venue fee)
“A funny comedy show all about a silly little guy called me.”
Alternative comedian and kindly clown Mikey Bligh-Smith presents an open-house tour of his carefully constructed mind-palace. Madcap prop chaos. Tremendous jokes and wordplay. Hardcore, unfiltered, Full-Frontal Mikey Mode.
Blizzard (WIP)
@ Soho Theatre, Upstairs
1st June, 20:30 (60 mins)
From £14 (plus £4 venue fee)
A Polish clown attempts the most epic adventure story ever told. With a suitcase that becomes a horse and falling fake snow, he carries an orange from the love of his life - and everything except what he truly needs.
Heroic, absurd, melodramatic, and stupidly beautiful. Wordless physical comedy. WIP.
AY AM: MAYA RICOTE
@ Soho Theatre, Upstairs
2nd June, 18:45 (60 mins)
From £14 (plus £4 venue fee)
Cryogenically preserved and freshly defrosted, this passionate Latina with dangerous curves is ready to make you melt. In her debut clown spectacle, The Queen of Wails FINALLY performs her Latin-melodramatic-soap-opera slash camp musical, for you.
Maya Ricote is a Mexican/Venezuelan-American telenovela actress turned clown.
Josh Glanc: Work-in-progress show
@ Soho Theatre, Upstairs
2nd June, 20:30 (60 mins)
From £14 (plus £4 venue fee)
Josh Glanc is making a brand new show.
It’s not finished and he doesn’t know what it will be called, but he really wants to show you some of it.
He might read from a script.
He might improvise.
Whatever happens, it’ll be very fun
Lucy Hopkins & Lexi Strauss: Auntie Show and Nana Subversion Share Their Biscuits
@ Soho Theatre, Upstairs
3rd June, 18:45 (60 mins)
From £15 (plus £4 venue fee)
Welcome to the future.
Two liberated elders share the wisdom from their lives so far in the form of nourishing baked goods.
Expect nothing.
Biscuits included.
Hear We Ahh: ANGELS
@ Soho Theatre, Upstairs
3rd June, 20:30 (60 mins)
From £15 (plus £4 venue fee)
Two Angels land in no-where, yet - somewhere, yet - everywhere.
This surreal-dadasist-clown-sound duo is waiting - for? The miraculous tension and slack and lack so full. We share the shore of our delight and plight.
A quasi-ritual experience to deliver the un-deliverable. A dreamscape encounter.
Lawrence Dodd: This Can’t Be It
@ Soho Theatre, Upstairs
4th June, 18:45 (60 mins)
From £15 (plus £4 venue fee)
Come and see the show of your LIFETIME.
It’s my (LOZ DODD) show - a special show like NO other. DIFFERENT EVERY TIME.
Powerful AND urgent. What is this, where are we going & How do WE stay open to it ALL in the midst of Collapse?
COME, you’ll CHANGE - GUARANTEED.
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Tom Penn and Dan Lees: The Sonic Joy Orchestra
@ Soho Theatre, Upstairs
4th June, 20:30 (60 mins)
From £15 (plus £4 venue fee)
Award-winning duo Dan Lees and Tom Penn present The Sonic Joy Orchestra, an explosive blend of clowning and musical joy.
These two clowns set out to summon music so divine it could make the heavens quake. Not for the faint hearted.
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Dru Cripps: Juicy Bits
@ Soho Theatre, Upstairs
4th June, 22:15 (60 mins)
From £15 (plus £4 venue fee)
Multi award-winning clown Dru Cripps presents his improvised loopstation based shenanigans. “Juicy Bits” is bespoke, transforming discoveries into songs, sketches and “utterly winning” chaos LIVE. Selling out the Edinburgh Fringe and earning five-star reviews for leaving audiences “rolling in the aisles with laughter.” Anything really could happen.
Closure Cabaret
@ Soho Theatre, Upstairs
5th June, 18:45 (60 mins)
From £16 (plus £4 venue fee)
Distinguished guests – hold on tight as we try to let go.
In this solo clown show, heartbroken emcee Razmatastique brings past lovers back to the stage for one final performance, in pursuit of that ever-elusive promise: closure.
Lil Wenker: BOYKING (WIP)
@ Soho Theatre, Upstairs
5th June, 20:30 (60 mins)
From £16 (plus £4 venue fee)
All hail BOYKING! Eight-year-old Prince Wilfred (Willy for short) seeks power at all costs including but not limited to: death, destruction and dastardly deeds. Nowhere near in line for the throne, Prince Wilfred ruminates on a plan for world domination while guzzling mummy's milk. Bow down – this coronation's a killer.
Gutter – A Bouffon Comedy Ritual
@ Soho Theatre, Upstairs
5th June, 22:15 (60 mins)
From £16 (plus £4 venue fee)
The world's first bouffon comedy night — the cult hit cabaret, nominated for a Chortle Award and making its Soho debut.
A troupe crawl out of a bin and insidiously turn the audience into part of the show. Clowning, drag, grotesque. Unmissable. Unruly.
Created by Tom Greaves.
Do All The Things
@ Soho Theatre, Upstairs
6th June, 16:00 (60 mins)
From £16 (plus £4 venue fee)
With a playful interactive twist this isn’t just a show, it’s an invitation to get involved, dose up on dopamine and soak up the serotonin. Part cabaret, part house party, Do All The Things is a celebration of commonality, an ode to the absurd, and, at its heart, a joyous middle finger to despair and disconnection. With big prizes
Moonkid
@ Soho Theatre, Upstairs
6th June, 18:45 (60 mins)
From £16 (plus £4 venue fee)
A lonely moon, a dirty nun, a pensive hunter with no gun…
MOONKID invites you into quiet little worlds, brought to dazzling life by these eccentrics as they fight to suppress their wildest - and most lovable - selves.
Zoe Wohlfeld: DOG FUNERAL
@ Soho Theatre, Upstairs
6th June, 20:30 (60 mins)
From £16 (plus £4 venue fee)
Take the “fun” out of “funeral” and throw the rest away!
Zoe W is holding a funeral for her childhood dog. She wants your sympathy, your tears, and a goddamn glass of wine (please!)
Join this solemn ceremony and pay your respects with the good boys (may they rest in peace)
The Clong Show
@ Soho Theatre, Upstairs
6th June, 22:15 (60 mins)
From £16 (plus £4 venue fee)
Experience the ultimate showdown as a selection of courageous clowns compete for the prestigious London Clown Festival Clong Award.
The clowns go head-to-head in a series of hilarious tasks and challenges, and the audience decides the winner.
Who will be crowned the biggest idiot of all?
Riss Obolensky: Stinky Little Pilgrim (WIP)
@ Jacksons Lane
8th June, 19:00 (60 mins)
£10 (plus £1.95 venue fee)
For centuries, mystics, prophets and holy people have traversed the lands in search of enlightenment.
For one night only, this guy is going to walk around Jackson’s Lane with a tent. Stinky Little Pilgrim invites you on a hero’s journey into the Great Unknown.
Elf Lyons as The Woman On The Edge - A Work In Progress
@ Jacksons Lane
9th June, 19:00 (60 mins)
£15 (plus £1.95 venue fee)
'I'm sorry, I've said too much...' Sky Arts Award-winning comedian Elf Lyons is The Woman on the Edge. A completely normal, autobiographical (and in no way complex) – observational stand-up show about love.
VITAMIN
@ Jacksons Lane
12th June, 19:00 (60 mins)
£15 (plus £1.95 venue fee)
“Vitamin” is a man failing completely, repeatedly, as different people who shouldn’t exist. A caterpillar. A guru. A runner making very poor choices.
It slips, mutates, derails. Nothing lands where it should. It’s loose, risky, and possibly alive. Book early. Sit close to a stranger. Don’t expect reason.
Jamie Wood presents O No!
@ Jacksons Lane
13th June, 19:00 (60 mins)
£15 (plus £1.95 venue fee)
A psychedelic ride, and a wonky homage to the woman damned for destroying the Beatles, O No! borrows Yoko Ono’s art instructions to ask whether falling in love is always catastrophic.
Funny and surprising in equal measure this show from a multi-award winning theatre maker, is about reckless optimism, avant-garde art and what we might yet have to learn from the hippies.