NOW in its 12th year, Voila! Theatre Festival celebrates intercultural theatre across eight London venues, and includes 110 shows, features 70 languages and 450 artists. Produced by the Cockpit, the festival champions early-career, international and under­represented artists.

• In Le Grand Soir (ab0ve), a multilingual, interactive performance piece, French-Russian Alissia Pervozvanski-Dangles, and French-Chinese Mille Zhong use physical theatre, contemporary dance and forgiveness rituals, as well as Russian pickles and Chinese tea, to explore the intimacy of queer friendships, Daddy issues, and communist history. Nov 8, 3pm & Nov 9, 1pm. Akis Dimou’s and Juliet reflects on love’s relevance in our technocratic age, fusing physical theatre and Butoh movement with words. Performed in Greek with English subtitles. Nov 15, 5pm & 9pm.

Nikos Lekakis and Amalia Paschalidi’s The Window Project (above), examines intimacy, voyeurism, and the blurred line between public and private space in a digital world. Nov 12, 7pm; Nov 16, 3pm; Nov 23, 1pm. etceteratheatrecamden.com/

• Faizal Abdullah’s solo show Mendaki reclaims Muslim-Malay-Singaporean identity from colonial erasure. Nov 8, 5pm; Mixing physical theatre with AI, live-streaming and projections, The Uncontainable Nausea of Alec Baldwin navigates the physical breakdown of Alec Baldwin – not the real actor, just a homonym. Nov 6, 9pm & Nov 8, 7pm. thecockpit.org.uk/

• Set in 1990s Baghdad, Absent, adapted from Betool Khedairi’s novel, is a portrait of life under sanctions written with biting Iraqi humour. Nov 8-9, 5.30pm. Based on Shakespeare’s classic, Waiting for Julieta deconstructs the story and sets it in the Mexican Northeast, blending cabaret, performance, theatre of objects, and Mexican pop culture. Nov 9-11, 9.30pm. baronscourttheatre.com/

• Billed as a darkly comic, supernatural thriller, The Absence of Aunt Greta explores fate, corruption, disloyalty, and greed. Nine members of a high society club gather for dinner in the late founder’s grand mansion where past discretions come back to haunt them. Nov 10-11, 7pm.

Cypriot dancer Evie Demetriou’s Never Just I (above) blends dynamic movement, humour and storytelling to explore womanhood, motherhood and identity. Nov 18, 9pm. theatrotechnis.com/

• Be Gay, For God’s Sake is a time-bending queer drama told with satirical mischief. When a Christian mother fails to accept her daughter’s gay relationship, divine intervention digs up her forgotten queer past in Inner Mongolia. various times, Nov 14 & 18; 22 & 22. theatredeli.co.uk/

• The festival runs to November 23. voilafestival.co.uk/

Other shows in November include:

• The Dream: A Windrush Journey, this stage adaptation of Nnenna Samson Abosi’s radio play, follows Delvin, a black British teenager coming of age amid police brutality and the rise of the Black Power Movement. Exploring the Race Relations Acts and the Mangrove 9 trials, the play illuminates a pivotal era of British history that continues to resonate today. Nov 7-8, 7pm. spidtheatre.com/

• Dance and theatre titans Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney join forces with Nederlands Dans Theater for Figures in Extinction. Fuelled by the urgency of our times and increasing global destruction, Pite and McBurney weave their hopes and fears into a cross-continental conversation split into three half-hour works that fuse dance, performance, spoken word, documentary and music. until Nov 8, 7.30pm.
Ballet Black’s double bill, Shadows, includes Cassa Pancho’s darkly comic adaptation of Oyinkan Braithwaite’s international bestselling novel, My Sister, The Serial Killer, while Chanel DaSilvs’s A Shadow Work delves into the profound practice of shadow work. Nov 26-29, 7.30pm. sadlerswells.com/

• Co-written by Daniel Patten and Sol Alberman, Paratroopers mixes theatre, multimedia and standup, and charts the not very high rise and embarrassingly low fall of prospective candidates for the Cackby Labour Party’s candidate selection. Nov 10-14, 7pm. thehopetheatre.com/

• YOU is based on writer Mark Wilson’s own adoption story. Now in her mid-40s, Kathleen sits anxiously waiting for the man she was forced to give up when she was fifteen, more than 30 years ago. Nov 11-15, 7.45pm. sevendialsplayhouse.co.uk/

• In Eloise Pennycott’s Barrier(s) Alana and Katie come from different worlds. One is hearing, the other deaf. Together, they navigate the joys and struggles of love, communication and survival in a world that keeps putting up barriers. 7.30pm, 2pm matinees on Thus and Sat. Nov 11-Sat 29. cptheatre.co.uk/

• In Jan Woolf’s comedy, Porn Crackers, a pair of film examiners negotiate their own power games, while deciding movie ratings and trying not to fall in love. Nov 18-23, 7.30pm. upstairsatthegatehouse.com/

• In Tim Foley’s Jurassic, a late-night screening of Steven Spielberg’s classic causes carnage on a university campus. What starts as a misunderstanding about the film quickly spirals into mass redundancies and bizarre conspiracies. The fight for academic survival is on. Nov 18-29, 8.30pm. sohotheatre.com/

• Trapped together in a remote woodland cabin as the country locks down, Max and his ex-boyfriend Tom find themselves cut off from the world. Hugo Timbrell’s psychological thriller, An Instinct, explores fear, identity, and power. What begins as uneasy isolation unravels into something darker, and survival hinges on trust, manipulation, and the fragile border between truth and fear. Nov 18-Dec 6, 7.30pm. oldredliontheatre.co.uk/