Chronic Insanity has produced over 100 shows in the past 5 years, and now we get to bring some of our favourites to Omnibus this January.

Enjoy award winning digital theatre, festival favourite interactive experiences, and some deep cuts from our vault of critically acclaimed theatre and performance, as well as some rehearsed readings of amazing work we hope to support in the future.

A monthly Cabaret style night featuring the best emerging musicians, comedians, drag performers and everything in between!
Where Every Month Unites Creativity, Community, and Celebration.

You are invited to the premiere of the World’s Newest Musical!

Lost The Plot: An Improvised Musical is a brand new all-singing, all-dancing production every night. Warning: this show is entirely made up on the spot. Every line of dialogue, note on the piano and catchy chorus is fully improvised.

“1984” is a compelling adaptation of George Orwell‘s classic, performed by Slavic actors.

Inspired by Nick Hern‘s adaptation, it delves into themes of surveillance and control, offering an immersive experience that challenges perceptions of truth.

Join us for an evening of hosted entertainment an immersive fun. We aspire to bring people together and form new friendships. Along with creating a safe space where we can represent the unrepresented.

A mother of a mobilised Russian soldier plunges into the abyss as she struggles to comb through state propaganda and lies.
Echoing Russia’s political and societal turbulences, the play examines the price of truth and freedom through storytelling and absurdism.

So, This Is What Happened is back! Our popular storytelling night returns.

Connection is more important than ever, so we invite you to laugh, cry and celebrate stories from the lives of real people.

Der Yidisher hunt / The Jewish Dog A one-person play, a new contemporary theatre performance inspired by a book written by Asher Kravitz.

The performance is filtering the darkest period of modern Jewish history through the naive perspective of a dog, it offers a view of the subject as never seen before.

The adaptation is a visual storytelling using close-circle-camera projection, as the dog guides us through the experience of living in Berlin in the 1930s.

Moongate Mix; February
Salon Session #19
Year of the Snake
Chosen Family
Performers and panellists: Duane Nasis, Jun Noh, Sigi Moonlight, Matt Tam, Mc and Chair Si Long Chan.

United Kingdom, 23rd of June, 2016. We are no longer Europe. But attention! We still are a kind and inclusive country, with an undeniable sense of justice. And tonight, only one European will become… MISS BREXIT.

Kafka’s Ape is a compelling adaptation of Kafka’s “Report to an Academy”, subtly transforming the original text into a universally relatable yet unsettling exploration of what it means to adapt as an “other” in society.

Lounge Onyx is a event featuring some of the most talented and sought after Black cabaret performers in the United Kingdom.

Her one goal? Land a job at Argos!

She loves Argos. Life is full of deceptive, nonsensical rules, but there’s structure in the annual catalogue. Working there is her dream. She’s the perfect candidate. They have to hire her… right?

Our regular scratch programme, where dynamic and talented theatre makers present daring, new work in the first stages of development.

Engine Room puts you, the audience, at the heart of the creative process. Following the sharing you will be asked to complete a feedback form, with your comments directly influencing the next development of the pieces. Give feedback, offer ideas and discover the next generation of theatre before anyone else.

Artists that have previously presented work include; Nouveau Riché, Vera Chok, The Queer House, Opia Collective, Cocoa Butter Club and Playing On.

What would you give for a taste of new understanding?

After a world-shattering break up, an isolated man with only questions discovers THE SOCIETY FOR NEW CUISINE, a powerful organisation who seem to have all the answers.

Your Local Communist Drag King-Comrade May and his Glamorous co-host Drag on a Budget will quiz our guests and get their raw opinions on pop culture and politicians.

With additional performances, and all-round silliness, you won’t want to miss it. (we are not the BBC and will be extremely biassed and little partial)

MUSHROOM LANGUAGE: A FUNGAL GOTHIC is about the cycles that shape us – eruption, reproduction and decay. It’s about role-playing the lichen love stories, spore shoot-outs and truffle siren songs found in our forests.

In an eerie and funny homage to folk horror, two performers absorb mushroom language through ritual and power dynamics. What are the mushrooms trying to tell them?

Mushrooms offer us a lens into a more sustainable future, but nature is hilarious and terrifying.

Ricky and Joe have lived here forever. Anyone looking over their wall wants to sit in the shade of Ricky’s beautiful vine and have Joe pour them a glass of wine.

But it’s getting hotter, cracks are starting to show and someone comes knocking. A stranger. What does she want? What’s in that cake she’s carrying? Ricky says let her in! Joe thinks what if it’s poisoned?

Set in the near future, this serious comedy asks what happens if you welcome the uninvited Guest? Will the cracks between the couple widen? And what does their mysterious Guest really want?

A monthly Cabaret style night featuring the best emerging musicians, comedians, drag performers and everything in between! Where Every Month Unites Creativity, Community, and Celebration. 

You are invited to the premiere of the World’s Newest Musical!

Lost The Plot: An Improvised Musical is a brand new all-singing, all-dancing production every night. Warning: this show is entirely made up on the spot. Every line of dialogue, note on the piano and catchy chorus is fully improvised.  

Join us for an evening of hosted entertainment an immersive fun. We aspire to bring people together and form new friendships. Along with creating a safe space where we can represent the unrepresented. 

Lounge Onyx is a event featuring some of the most talented and sought after Black cabaret performers in the United Kingdom.

Your Local Communist Drag King-Comrade May and his Glamorous co-host Drag on a Budget will quiz our guests and get their raw opinions on pop culture and politicians.

With additional performances, and all-round silliness, you won’t want to miss it. (we are not the BBC and will be extremely biassed and little partial) 

Join us for a screening of the BAFTA nominated film Limbo (2020). Set on a fictional remote Scottish island, it follows a group of new arrivals as they await the results of their asylum claims. An offbeat observation of the refugee experience. On a fictional remote Scottish island, a group of new arrivals await the results of their asylum claims. Among them is Omar, a young Syrian musician burdened by the weight of his grandfather’s oud, which he has carried all the way from his homeland.

Followed by a live Oud performance by Hemn Abdi.

Cellist Abi Hyde-Smith and pianist Jocelyn Freeman perform some of Shostakovich’s finest chamber music to mark fifty years since the composer’s death. This programme also includes a new commission from Peter Walton, who takes inspiration from Shostakovich. 

Witness Terra Invisus’ second residency event ‘Act II: Shower Music’ – a semi-staged concert exploring a merging of voices and genres. The trio are joined by composer-performer Sara Rahman, and together they will hazily drift between forms, from Sara’s music, to a new Radiohead arrangement, to free improvisation.

Enjoy a relaxed in-person speed dating event for LGBTQ+ women, trans and non-binary people at Omnibus Theatre in Clapham, London.

Meet new queer people and spark up a good conversation, and if you both match we will share your contact details so you can keep the connection going without us.

Whether you’re the next Tracey Emin or if you haven’t picked up a pencil since school, our life drawing class is for anyone who wants to have a relaxed, fun alternative night out.

Find new books, authors and maybe some friends at this friendly and welcoming monthly book club, which takes place in our café-bar. Please contact Rhiannon Croker below for more information about the club and the current books being read. Free to join!

Our lino workshops include an introduction to lino printing, etching your own lino stamp and printing your stamp onto paper.