Drayton Arms Theatre: Pub in Kensington and Chelsea, London

Drayton Arms Theatre is a small arts venue in SW5, and it feels like a place where the story comes first. Most of the programme leans towards text: plays, readings and literary work, staged with the care that small spaces allow. The programming has a taste for the eerie. Ghost stories and gothic material come up more than once, and some of it moves out of the main room into other spaces. The programmers seem to trust a strange story more than a famous name. The crowd tends to come for the material. You'll see regulars who follow a particular company or subject, alongside people who booked one unusual evening and kept coming back. Go curious. Pick the night by the story, not the stage.