London Clown Festival returns for its biggest festival yet!
London Clown Festival is delighted to be returning for 2025, celebrating the art of clown and physical performance with an eclectic lineup of UK and international performers showcasing a selection of the finest clowns the city, and indeed the world has to offer. The 2025 festival programme sees another exciting, inspiring, and eclectic mix of performers who embody the principals of this timeless art form from countries all over the world.
Clowning, as celebrated at London Clown Festival, is a vibrant, boundary-pushing form of performance that embraces physical theatre, improvisation, and emotional honesty. It spans a wide spectrum of styles whose performers draw on a rich tradition of physical storytelling, embracing the chaos and vulnerability of live performance to create unforgettable moments of comedy and connection.
This year’s festival will take place at two of London’s most dynamic performance venues, Soho Theatre and Jacksons Lane, from 16th June - 4th July, transforming these iconic spaces into playgrounds of physical comedy, absurdity, and creative chaos. Expect everything from side-splitting cabarets to avant-garde solo pieces, with each act pushing the boundaries of what clowning can be in the 21st century. It’s a celebration of the wild, the wonderful, and the downright ridiculous – where anything can happen, and probably will!
Highlights include
The Weight of Shadow by Sasha Krohn – a physical theatre piece that blends mime, dance, and aerial work to capture a psychiatric patient’s emotional chaos over a single day.
Red Bastard, the master of Bouffon, known for his unpredictable mix of raw conversation, comic traps, and high-stakes audience interaction.
Otto & Astrid: The Stages Tour, a blistering set of Europop anthems that all crash together.
Lachlan Werner: Wondertwunk offers a surreal circus of stunts, secrets, and minimal lip movement from the “hilarious, extraordinary ventriloquist”.
The London Clown Festival Opening Cabaret, where you can see a mix of artists from across the festival.
A Night of Drama where The Director live-directs his company of clowns in a melodramatic period piece, as the audience shower them with bottomless banana peels*!
Naughty Cabaret, bringing the 2025 festival to a high energy close, this queer feminist cabaret will be packed with a line up from various genres - clown, circus, music, burlesque, character comedy and more.
Further Information & Tickets: 2025 Shows | clownfest