My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar [2026]

Important Information

Age Recommendation 12 and over

Performance Dates 7 April - 3 May 2026

Performance Times Tues - Sat 7:30pm, Sat 2.30pm, Sun 5 pm

Run time 1 hrs 30 mins (no interval)

Content Warning TBC

Venue Brixton House

Latinx women from South London take centre stage and dare you to call them invisible. Winner of the OFFIES Special Recognition Award for Representation. Finalist for Best Production (Plays) at the OFFIES Awards 2024.

Co-created by Valentina Andrade, Elizabeth Alvarado, Lucy Wray, Tommy Ross-Williams and Joana Nastari, rooted in the lives and experiences of Valentina Andrade & Elizabeth Alvarado.

As Alejandra, Lucia, Honey and Catalina risk everything to expose a multinational bank, they confront the audience with what it means to be both a Londoner and Latinx.

Latinx women from South London take centre stage and dare you to call them invisible.

Vogue balls.

When four different worlds collide; identity, history and status become the driving forces to unveiling the biggest money laundering scandal in history.

Confetti.

My Uncle is Not Pablo Escobar relishes in the seen and unseen of communities and systems so insidiously hidden.

Morleys or Arepas?

From not having a box to tick to challenging toxic stereotypes; as Alejandra, Lucia, Honey and Catalina risk everything to expose a multinational bank, they confront the audience with what it means to be both Londoner and Latinx.

Chihuahua.

Part-telenovela, part-heist, part-glitter-fueled activism, My Uncle is Not Pablo Escobar follows four Latinx women as they uncover a secret money laundering contract between a well-known bank and drug cartels, and attempt to expose the truth.

My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escoba returns to Brixton House after a sold-out run in 2023.