TALOS V: Science Fiction Theatre Festival of London
11-13 December 2025
The Bread & Roses Theatre, London
“Talos is an adventure to undertake for every science fiction and theatre-lover...”
(A Younger Theatre)
Talos - created in 2015 - is the first science fiction theatre festival of London & the UK and returns for its 5th edition this December! The 2025 festival takes place for 3 days, Thursday 11 to Saturday 13 at the Bread & Roses Theatre in London.
11 Dec: Odysseus, Not Your Hero (6pm), Assigned Earth at Birth (7.30pm)
12 Dec: Assigned Earth at Birth (5.30pm), Babel Beast (7.30pm)
13 Dec: The Failure of the Century (1.30pm), Occasionally Gleeful Worms in Hell: PALESTINE BENEFIT EDITION (3.30pm), Odysseus, Not Your Hero (5.30pm), Babel Beast (7.30pm)
Find out more about The Bread & Roses Theatre & book tickets here: https://www.breadandrosestheatre.co.uk/whats-on.html
Thursday 11 December, 6pm & Saturday 13 December, 5.30pm
Odysseus, Not Your Hero
Greek warrior-king Odysseus is on the way home after the Trojan war. But his questionable methods have upset Poseidon, the God of the Sea.
The God captures Odysseus and challenges him to a series of games - from cooking for a cannibal Cyclops to resisting the song of Siren influencers. The games will determine the hero's worth and whether he deserves to make it home safe. Who is the real hero of the Odyssey, the king or the people?
MORE INFO & TICKETS HERE!
Thursday 11 December, 7.30pm & Friday 12 December, 5.30pm
Assigned Earth at Birth
Intrapology is about how people make worlds together, and the cataclysmic social fragmentation that threatens to unmake them.
It is a series of online interactive performances focused on video calls between alien anthropologists and their supervisors. The audience collectively shapes the story through multiple choice voting and free text entry.
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Friday 12 December, 7.30pm & Saturday 13 December, 7.30pm
Babel Beast
Babel Beast, the experimental cabaret of Ancient Greek monstresses, is back, and more monstrous than ever! From burlesque to stand-up-comedy to acts with a bit more bite, Mount Olympus' hottest new solo show presents Ancient women caught in the swells of hybridity. Sofia Natoli is captivating as the sole performer in her theatrical exploration of multiculturalism and her experiences (un)belonging in between cultural spaces. Cabaret lovers and Greek myth fanatics alike are invited to a night of strange, seductive encounters.
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Saturday 13 December, 1.30pm
The Failure of the Century (WIP)
H. P. Lovecraft is dying to write. But the controversial horror writer cannot bring himself to finish his magnum opus, "The Shadow Out of Time", and it’s eating away at his stomach. Then over one long and shadowy Christmas night, Lovecraft receives three visitors at his tiny Rhode Island bedsit—his younger colleague Frank Belknap Long; then his estranged wife Sonia Greene; and finally the Crawling Chaos himself - the witch-cult king, the pharaonic Outer God Nyarlathotep!
“The Failure of the Century", a blend of Lovecraftian Horror & A Christmas Carol, is the first play by award-winning Greek American writer & Hugo-award nominated editor Nick Mamatas. Nick is the author of instant cult classic Move Under Ground and the Lovecraftian murder mystery I Am Providence. His latest novel, Kalivas! Or, Another Tempest, is an anticolonial sci-fi revision of Shakespeare’s play.
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Saturday 13 December, 3.30pm
Occasionally Gleeful Worms in Hell: PALESTINE BENEFIT EDITION
Come listen to the beautiful and alarming song of the occasionally gleeful worms. Worms live in the retrofuturistic city, where they hold down jobs, but the jobs won’t hold them down for long. Soon, they will be reborn as other things, not all of them worms.
For now, they will play games, not necessarily happy ones, and do their best to heal the ancestral curse of the land (very difficult). Featuring their friends, among whom are Uncle Phil and the Orcs at your local union. You, too, can be a worm.
They are within you, and they love you.
Poetry, prose and games (including audience interaction.)
All income from ticket sales will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians: https://www.map.org.uk/
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The Talos V: Science Fiction Theatre Festival of London is a Cyborphic production.
Artistic Director: Christos Callow Jr
Associate Producer: Colleen Bowes
More info & credits TBC.