Box House Theatre Company’s Twisted Tales is a fascinating and funny physical theatre piece about six thespians who come across the twisted tales book, When they step onto the book they are restricted to performing the tales. We see them tell the tales of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood, Alice in Wonderland, and … More TWISTED TALES – REVIEW – CAMDEN FRINGE
All starts well in this Camden Fringe entry from writer Eamonn Dolan. With macabre irreverence, a young man (Alec Taylor’s Finn) climbs atop a table and inserts his neck into a noose. There’s a dark comic punch as he is continually distracted from stepping off the edge by the sound of an ice cream truck … More SIREN SONG – REVIEW – CAMDEN FRINGE
I came to see this show at last year’s Fringe and fell in love with it. I was keen to see if my memory of the play was accurate or if those rose-tinted glasses had set in… I’m pleased to say it was just as funny as I remember! The Defectors were formed in 2022 … More DEFECTIVE INSPECTOR & DEFECTIVE INSPECTOR: A STITCH IN TIME – REVIEW – CAMDEN FRINGE
Two actors and a stage manager try to break out of their own play in [INSERT PLAY], a not-quite-successful experiment in clowning and meta-theatre by Onsen Presents, Sam Toocaram, and Joe Sear-Myles. Dressed in blacks and ready to tackle their hopeless, sprawling, repeatedly rewritten script, confusion and banter reign supreme in this physical, jokes-heavy hour … More [INSERT PLAY] – REVIEW – CAMDEN FRINGE
Written, directed, produced, and performed by Danielle Scott, Sex, Drugs and Hairy Bum Holes is a one-woman dark comedy. Candy works hard but she plays harder. She’s starting to get fed up with going out every night, meeting sleazy men online and being perpetually hungover at work. She meets this new man who seems to … More SEX, DRUGS AND HAIRY BUM HOLES – REVIEW – CAMDEN FRINGE
This one-hour memory piece by writer/performer Jed McLoughlin doesn’t give up its mysteries easily. Recounting the love affair between characters named One and Two, the action centres around a would-be romantic weekend in Paris that signalled the dissolution of the relationship. One struggles with Two, to great and increasing consternation, whose memory of their time … More REMEMBER THE BEFORE – REVIEW – CAMDEN FRINGE
The inherent likability of the two lead performers (Lauren Stones-also the writer-and Alex Smith) goes a long way towards making the material about two spiralling addicts, Emerson and Jerry, palatable and relatable over the course of an hour’s running time. In less amiable hands, the behaviour could easily have shifted to the brittle and the … More PINK ELEPHANTS – REVIEW – CAMDEN FRINGE
With a reluctant demeanour, writer/performer Martyn Hodge enters the stage through a side door. Wary, wild-eyed, and defensively primed for a fight, he takes a seat on an otherwise barren floor space, exposed and vulnerable to an interlocutor’s questions. Immediately, he launches into a laddish tale meant to deflect consequential engagement. What sort of consultation … More CHIPS AND ICE CREAM – REVIEW – CAMDEN FRINGE
Defective Inspector is an action-packed hour of ridiculousness and hilarity! A hilarious hour of (unconvincing) romance, (sloppy) action and (tenuous) espionage! Harrison Cole, writer and producer, plays Richard P. Cooper, an eccentric delusional ex-detective whose novelist career – he’s sold literally dozens of books worldwide! – has inspired this latest creative endeavour: this (heavily embellished) … More REVIEW – DEFECTIVE INSPECTOR – CAMDEN FRINGE
“I try to reassure myself that the extra kilo is a trapped fart I haven’t managed to part with yet, or potentially even the semen I swallowed last night.” Comedy-drama Keep It Down is a one performer, semi-biographical show, written and performed by Emma Oldfield and directed by Kierath Jandoo. We join Daisy on her … More REVIEW – KEEP IT DOWN – CAMDEN FRINGE
David Ian – self-proclaimed mediocrely gay – performs his one-man comedy show featuring one-liners, the expectations that come with being a gay man, and the all too true struggle of figuring out how to fit in. Mediocre Gay is Ian’s debut solo show and is being performed at the Aces and Eights Saloon Bar as … More REVIEW – MEDIOCRE GAY – CAMDEN FRINGE
As part of Camden Fringe, Dreamworld made its way down to Camden People’s Theatre. Written and performed by Amelia Gann, the debut comedy play follows Cathy, a fitness instructor, and their dreams of being centre stage! We are taken on this fun-filled dance journey as Cathy reflects on memories from childhood, their queer awakening, and Zumba! … More REVIEW – DREAMWORLD – CAMDEN FRINGE
All of the many things that come with pursuing your dreams in London – finding your best friends, persevering even when you are getting dispirited, and believing in yourself – are wrapped into the charming play Setlist. Setlist, performed at the Hen and Chickens Theatre as part of the Camden Fringe, is written by Anne Vanderelst, … More REVIEW – SETLIST – CAMDEN FRINGE
Camden Fringe brings Rome 3000 to the stage, where you’ll witness an 80-minute compacted version of one of Shakespeare’s most epic plays, Julius Caesar. It showcases modernized elements through gender switching and live music written by Company Colab. A cast of seven, who were all present on stage throughout (some of which multi rolling), took … More REVIEW – ROME 3000 (JULIUS CAESAR) – CAMDEN FRINGE
This play’s title, The Importance of Being Anxious shows the audience that they can expect humour to be bestowed upon them during this show. Hollywood Screenwriter, Hal Cantor writes and stars as the leading protagonist to this exploration into the life of an anxiety-fueled, bisexual man. This autobiographical telling from Cantor, tells his story as … More REVIEW – THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ANXIOUS – CAMDEN FRINGE
