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Something old, something new, the bride is missing and the maid-of-honour too… Alex keeps her guests and the love of her life waiting while she finds refuge with best friend, Grace. What’s so worth putting off your own wedding? A Greggs, tinned daiquiris and years of buried girlhood trauma. Tucked away in her bridal suite, Alex is comforted by her lifelong friend, Grace. Just moments after failing to enter the Church doors, everything has come crashing down around her and she questions the life she has made for herself. In this love letter to female friendships, the two spend the next hour journeying back to different periods of their lives together. But before Alex comes to any decision, they're paid a visit by her fiance - who will do anything to keep his bride...

James Graham (Dear England, Punch) takes us on a thrilling ride through the infamous Coughing Major scandal, which engulfed the world’s most popular TV quiz show. April 2003. Army Major Charles Ingram, his wife Diana, and a coughing accomplice are convicted of cheating on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The evidence is damning. The nation is gripped by the sheer audacity of the plot to snatch the £1,000,000 jackpot. But were they really guilty? Fingers on keypads, it's time for you to decide. Performed by the LYT 2025 Company.

About the play: The White Lotus is a bilingual xiěyì performance exploring the legacy of Dai Ailian and a contemporary British-Chinese artist. Drawing on shadow puppetry, Chinese theatre, and water-ink painting, it re-evaluates heritage through identity, memory, and cultural belonging across time. About Chinaissance: Chinaissance is a creative laboratory that reimagines Chinese theatre (particularly Chinese opera) in an authentic and accessible way within a cross-cultural context. Through workshops, performances, and research, it opens up new possibilities for tradition in contemporary practice, making Chinese theatrical arts resonate with a global audience.

Having had its sold out debut at London Bubble Theatre Company in November as a part of the MAKE SPACE festival, ADEY ኣደይ is back and better than ever for Camden Fringe. Graduating from drama school in 2023, Bethlehem is now navigating one of the toughest industries by herself - but she's never truly alone. Living at home with her traditional Eritrean mother Tsehaynesh, Bethlehem doesn't know what privacy is! Being a stoic woman of culture and strict upbringing, Tsehaynesh struggles to understand Bethlehem's career in the arts and what it takes to be an actress, poet and writer. "When are you going to get a paid job?", "This agency is no good for you!" and "Did you hear anything?" is what Bethlehem is constantly pressed with, and to make matters worse, something drastic happens to Bethlehem which means she'll have to work harder than ever to achieve her dreams. Will the endless open mic nights, self-tapes and play drafts be worth it? ADEY ኣደይ is a heartfelt semi-autobiographical play which combines spoken word, music, movement and dance to tell Bethlehem and Tsehaynesh's stories, transporting us to the colourful and vibrant streets of West Green Road as well as the palm tree covered pavements of Asmara, Eritrea. Join us on August 11th and August 12th for relatable stories of motherhood, tasty Eritrean food and snacks, plenty of tears and laughter, learning how to shim shim and some award winning poetry. (Bethlehem is the National Heroica Poetry Prize Winner of 2024)

Hold onto your doublets, ruffs and trunk hose. The Bard is back! With story and verse improvised in the moment, enjoy a riotous new Shakespeare play every time – performed by Impromptu Shakespeare’s whip-smart cast. Packed with priceless wit, lyrical smarts, romance, and a dash of double-crossing, this leading ensemble do the Bard proud with a brand new one-act hit every time, inspired by audience suggestions. Impromptu Shakespeare have been a smash hit at the Edinburgh Fringe, Bristol Shakespeare Festival, and appeared on BBC Shakespeare Live. WINNER: Best Comedy Event, Buxton Fringe 2021 ‘Side-splittingly hilarious’ ★★★★★ (BroadwayBaby.com) ‘Ingenious’ (Will Gompertz, BBC Arts Editor) “Intelligent, funny, all of the adjectives for brilliant” ★★★★★ Pocket Size Theatre “It’s just so much fun!” ★★★★ North West End “Chaotic, riotous fun” ★★★★★ Playstosee.com “It will leave you hungry for more. See it as often as you can” – Arts York “Seasoned improv artists at the top of their game” ★★★★ StageTalk Magazine

RE:ENCHANT - Poetic Experiments For A New World Live literature every third Sunday Sunday 17 August - 7:30pm More info about performers coming soon..... To apply for the open mic slot click here. Curated and introduced by Nick Moss in collaboration with The Cockpit The world changes: we make new poetry to vandalise literary forms or retrieve those we need to renew. We make new poetry to hybridise new species of understanding and reframe consciousness. We make new poetry to have a good time. Readings, recitations, incantations and events from established and upstart poets, word artists, ranters, spell-casters, rappers......and you if you want.

Eclipse Ballroom is a postmodern performance that merges physical theatre, absurdity, and experimental storytelling. In this hybrid work of a text-based and devising theatre, holographic projections, live band improvisation, and collaborations with moving image artists and computational artists converge to create an immersive, ever-shifting sensory world.  Our bodies are the masks of our souls. Sometimes, a single body can hold more than one spirit. At night, ghosts often slip into the bodies of those who live alone, gathering in abandoned spaces that transform into the Eclipse Ballroom. They celebrate the fleeting sensation of existence, feeling gravity, weight, intimacy, and the pulse of life once more.  A young woman moves into a new apartment and follows her roommate, who is unknowingly possessed at midnight, into the Eclipse Ballroom. Her living presence disrupts the ghostly world, sparking chaos, humour, and a debate about the fate of humanity. The old souls, displaced by time like forgotten echoes, question anthropocentrism and the very nature of the Ballroom. Should this space remain an exclusive refuge for the dead, or can the living also claim a place among them? Should the human form remain exclusive to the living, or does it rightfully belong to those who still crave it?  Infused with music, rhythm, and call-and-response, Eclipse Ballroom dissolves the boundaries between performer and audience. Through choreographed physicality and digitally generated environments, it explores themes of modern nostalgia, urban isolation, physicality, and digital disembodiment. The Ballroom becomes a liminal space: between life and afterlife, body and ghost, flesh and projection. Nothing is stable here, yet everything is deeply felt.

KORE is a raw, darkly comic journey through the underworlds of grief, prescription drug dependence, and flawed friendships. When grief shatters Sam's world, she freefalls into prescription addiction. Her friends Nick and Jenna try to pull her back to the surface—but instead, they become reluctant fellow travellers, each drowning in their struggles. With the "help" of her eccentric psychiatrist, Dr. Whimsey, her Deliveroo drug dealer, Darren, and her climate-activist mother, Demi—too busy protesting the end of the world to notice Sam's apocalypse—Sam's descent becomes a tragicomedy of survival. There are no heroes, just humans failing beautifully together. With Chloe Mason's haunting original score underscoring every step of the descent, KORE reimagines the Persephone myth as a fearless, funny and devastating spiral: an ode to all the ways we numb, fight, or fail to cope. If you or someone you know in the Camden area is experiencing dependence or withdrawal from benzodiazepines or other prescription drugs, please contact or refer them to REST (Recovery Experience and Sleeping Tablets). Outside Camden, please contact Postscript360 for support.

The Liminoid, Directed by Jess Mabel Jones Devised by The Company Life is liminal, especially so in 2025. We have just the tonic for you... Ever feel like you’ve lost hope? Jelly Legs do. Uncertainty can be terrifying. It’s a risky business. But, it’s also where the possibility of transformation resides. Whether it’s a slice of bread, a belief system or the whole entire world. Jelly legs are sparkly, worn-out yet hopeful. Join them on this improv-game, shadow-play, dance-party memoir. As they hunt for answers in the in-between. If you like ghosts, absurdism and banging soundtracks then you will love this show. Audiences leave saying, “I wanna get up and groove!”, “My mojo just grew back!” and, “Everything is gonna be ok.” Jelly Legs is a group of graduate artists and performers from internationally renowned drama school Rose Bruford College, led by theatre-practitioner and director extra-ordinaire Jess Mabel Jones. Come and join us on our 60 minute journey through funky town. Plus ghosts. Please note: 'The Liminoid' is a relaxed show. This means that all of our performances have no flashing lights and are accompanied with a visual and sonic story for those who would like one. We want everyone to be able to experience our show, every time.

Jessie and Garrett are a perfect couple: she's a budding pop star, and his dad owns, like, everything. There's just one problem — Garrett's father has no idea they've been dating, and would never approve of the match. In an act of campy desperation, Garrett ropes the denizens of the last club in town into a plan so ridiculous and borderline offensive it just might work. Set in an Appalachian town on the brink of progress, The Bearcat is an exploration of gender and racial politics within the generational divide of the contemporary American Southeast. Also, it's a comedy. Promise. Featuring pop vocals, gagworthy drag, and more social commentary than you can shake your ass at, The Bearcat is a remixed take of Middleton & Dekker’s The Roaring Girl. This excerpt showing is an ode to queer club culture – who lives it, who loathes it, and who’s left standing to protect it. The Bearcat comes to Camden Fringe through a collaboration between director Charlotte Cattrall and playwright EG Roeder of the American company First Take Co. This production builds on the successful presentation of The Bearcat at new work festivals in the UK and USA. “Unique and unrepeatable…[First Take Co. is] breaking the rules and chasing a feeling.” – ArtsKnoxville Praise for Charlotte Cattrall “Full of zingers... funny, bawdy and off the wall.” -- London World “Sparky comedy with feminist and fun values at its heart.” -- North West End UK “Brave, intelligent theatre at its best” -- Reviews Hub

In a surreal 24-hour journey, a young woman's desperate search for meaning unfolds through a kaleidoscope of reality and imagination. Working as a hostess in a nightclub, she navigates broken family ties, toxic relationships, and a mind that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary - where humans morph into horses. This multimedia theatre piece blends live performance with animation, projection mapping, and original music. As the protagonist crafts her own "Golden Fly Bomb" - a whimsical remedy for her existential crisis - she discovers that the urge to destroy everything might just be the key to survival. A darkly humorous yet deeply moving exploration of how we keep living when everything seems impossible. Through stunning visuals, physical theatre, and original songs, this show asks: In a world we cannot change, how do we find the strength to go on? The Golden Fly Bomb is being developed through The Cockpit’s Theatre Maker programme, with upcoming sharings at Theatre In The Pound on 16 June 2025 and New Stuff on 6 July 2025. The production has also been awarded a supported slot from The Cockpit to support its Camden Fringe premiere. Director / Playwright: Zhiwei Wu ｜ Performer: Jiyeon Song ｜ Dramaturgs: Diyu Liu, Yueran Kan ｜ Visual Design: Chenchen Cai ｜ Choreographer: Yubing Chen ｜ Voice Coach: Jun Yang ｜ Lighting Design & Tech: Yuhan Zhao, Yaqi Sun ｜ Associate Director: Josephine Yiting Jiang ｜ Composers / Sound Designers: Yang Liu, Yancheng Jiang, Yanfan Zhang ｜ Producer: Zoe Yingying Xie ｜ Co-Producers: Cheng Qian, Alyssa Tianai Zhou

WHAT? HOW? Click the LINK Choose your DAY Enter your EMAIL Zap SATS! WHY...? “You just have to experience it” – Prof K "Mind blowing” – Big Hash What if the system was always designed to burn? The first theatrical production to contain a hidden Bitcoin private key. Prometheus’s mythic theft of fire is reimagined through the 2008 financial crash and the birth of Bitcoin. Blazing through history, rebellion, and the mythic cost of knowledge the show asks what happens when humanity dares to steal power from the modern gods? And whom among the audience is Promethean enough to steal from the show!