Eight weeks. 40 live days. Over 450 different events.

Up to 40 shows per night. Audiences of over 79,000.

Welcome to VAULT Festival.

Main Website: www.vaultfestival.com

VAULT Festival is a wide-ranging arts festival produced by the Heritage Arts Company, designed to provide a unique and fair platform for emerging talent in theatre, comedy and across the arts. Setting brand new work alongside more established companies, VAULT Festival creates its own momentum through lateral involvement, cooperation and equality.

VAULT Festival happens every winter, typically from late January until mid March. Since its inception, VAULT Festival has doubled and re-doubled in size, growing from a 12-day event into an eight week expo of theatre, art, music and late-night entertainment. In 2014, two groundbreaking Heritage Arts-produced adaptations – Hunter S. Thompson’s gonzo adventure Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas and Ian McEwan’s heartbreaking debut The Cement Garden – played every day, whilst the rest of the festival played host to a new line-up every single week across its 7 separate venues within the labryinthine Vaults beneath Waterloo station. In the seven festivals we’ve produced so far, we’ve added new venues, new bars, and even a restaurant, making our most recent festival (2019) the biggest and most diverse to date.

“You certainly cannot accuse the VAULT organisers of failing to provide a full and varied programme. And I wouldn’t mind betting that, as well as entertaining, a lot of this will teach, educate and develop people too because there’s nothing mainstream, about any of it.”
The Stage

So far VAULT’s featured work from Theatre Ad Infinitum, Trygve Wakenshaw, Filter Theatre, James Rowland, SPECIFIQ, The Immersive Ensemble, The Flanagan Collective, Shady Dolls, Artful Badger, Engineer, Scratchworks, Dominic Allen, The Galloping Cuckoos, Dawn State, Descent, Superbolt, The Ticket, Changing Spaces, Dissolve Theatre, Angry Bairds, Airealism, Cantadora, The Pythagoras Ensemble, Jackdaw, Wolfpack, Caligula’s Alibi, Paper Smokers, Squared Circle, Nabokov, Jessica Burgess, Another Story, Yve Blake, House of Blakewell, Chamenos Collective, BattleActs!, Move To Stand, Bucket Club, KILN, Silent Opera, HAMMER Horror, and many, many more.