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This production is recommended for ages 13+.
Performance dates
7 April - 3 May 2026
Run time: 1hr 30mins
No interval
Part-telenovela, part-heist, part-glitter-fueled activism. The award-winning My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar returns to Brixton House for a strictly limited run. Book your official tickets today.
As Alejandra, Lucia, Honey, and Catalina risk everything to expose a multinational bank’s secret ties to drug cartels, My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar boldly interrogates what it means to be both Londoner and Latinx today.
When four lives collide, identity, history, and power fuel the unravelling of one of the biggest money-laundering scandals in history. Moving between the seen and unseen forces shaping marginalised communities, the play confronts systems designed to erase them, and dares audiences to look closer.
It’s a quietish week post-Easter, but Tuesday sees a return of My Uncle is Not Pablo Escobar at Brixton House after a sellout run in 2023. This zippy thriller is a heist comedy drama, inspired by the 2012 HSBC money laundering scandal when the bank was fined over a billion for profiting from money laundering profits from Mexican drug gangs. It’s a smart piece of writing which-woman employs wit and humour to subvert Western stereotypes about being South American in the UK, particularly if you’re a woman.
6 Apr, 2026 | By Lyn Gardner
President Trump may not have been appreciative of the halftime Super Bowl performance by Latin artist Bad Bunny, but the show by the Puerto Rican star has become the most watched halftime set ever. It’s that kind of visibility that South American creative and activist Valentina Andrade says the UK’s Latinx community still dreams of achieving. But that’s not going to stop her from doing her bit to change that, campaigning to get one of the UK’s fast-growing communities, Latin Americans, recognized on the 3031 census. By whatever means she can, including art.
26 Mar, 2026 | By Lyn Gardner