The City for Incurable Women: Performance
The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret
23 Jun 2025 | 06:30 PM
Ladies and Gentlethem – Feeling a little upset? Have you tried hypnosis, psychoanalysis, smelling salts and it just doesn’t work? Try The City for Incurable Women!
Paris, 1880s. In a psychiatric hospital, female patients performed “hysteria” on stage for the public. The doctors went to extraordinary lengths to prove their theories about the four stages of madness.
International theatre-collective, fish in a dress, follows the thread of the history of hysteria as the audience becomes complicit in an outrageous tale of medical misogyny.
(Warning: hysteria cure not included)
Running Time: 50 minutes
fish in a dress is a London and Berlin based theatre collective founded in 2024 by Christina Deinsberger, Charlotte McBurney, and Helena McBurney. ‘The City for Incurable Women’ is the first project for fish in a dress. We aim to devise new work from a queer-feminist perspective. We are committed to developing theatre across national borders and a climate conscious practice.
Instagram: @fishinadress
Cast: Charlotte McBurney
Director: Christina Deinsberger
Writer: Helena McBurney
Design: Vanessa Sampaio Borgmann
Sound: Bella Kear
Doors open: 7:15pm
Performance Start: 7:30pm
Join us after the talk for an exclusive evening view of the museum until 9pm
FREE Stitch & Stem – Stem Cell Embroidery Workshop
Florence Nightingale Museum
18 Jun 2025 | 05:30 PM
Are you creative, enjoy making things and want to learn about stem cells and stem cell research in a fun way?
Come to this FREE workshop where you’ll speak with stem cell scientists and be taught how to embroider stem cell images captured in their cutting-edge research.
Grab a drink and relax whilst discovering what stem cells are and how they are being applied in research and future therapies and then move on to embroidering real research images.
Stitch ‘n Stem is an interactive embroidery workshop that connects the public with cutting-edge stem cell research from the Centre for Gene Therapy & Regenerative Medicine (CGTRM) at King’s College London (KCL). Scientific images from researchers at the CGTRM have been transformed into stunning embroidery templates, allowing you to create your own unique piece of science-inspired art while speaking to scientists about their research.
A bar (card only) will be available throughout this events serving alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks.
This events runs between 6.30pm – 8.30pm and doors will open at 6.00pm to allow time to visit the museum before the event starts. You must reserve your free space online.
Florence Nightingale’s London Walking Tour
Florence Nightingale Museum
05 Jun 2025 | 10:00 AM
Walk in the footsteps of the ‘mother of nursing’ and discover the life of Florence Nightingale through the places where she lived and worked. From the house where she spent the last days of her long life, the hotel where she wrote her famous Notes on Nursing, the shops where she made some of her purchases, to the statue of the Lady with the Lamp. Along the way, we take a look at her life and visit London as she knew it.
This walk lasts approximately 2 hours, and will be conducted at a reasonable walking pace so please wear appropriate footwear.
Ticket Price: £16 per person - Walking Tour only ; £25 per person Walking Tour + Museum Entry
Please book your place online.
