CAMDEN FRINGE 2011 Theatre Listings
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Camden People's Theatre
58 - 60 Hampstead Road, London, NW1 2PY
Show Title: Hamster Town
Company / Performer: Let Slip
Date: 02 - 07, 09 - 17 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Warren Street
Blurb: Darren spots a hamster in a pet shop window and feels a spark he's missed for months.
As life with his new friend becomes euphoric, they escape together to build Hamster Town. A surreal tale, combining playful performance with poetry and storytelling, about a man for whom everything that matters is just out of reach.
http://www.cptheatre.co.uk/
Show Title: Jonah Non Grata
Company / Performer: Simon Kane
Date: 02 - 07, 09 - 17 August
Time: 9.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Warren Street
Blurb: Is it a paranoid cabaret of morbid isolation? Is it a church for a churchless faith? Is it a loud man getting things wrong? Fresh from the protracted success of shunt's "Money", Mitchell and Webb writer Simon Kane ("Staggering" Derren Brown, "Staggering" Neil Patrick Harris) returns to the CPT with a thrilling biblical adventure in which YOU are the hero! Played by HIM!
http://www.cptheatre.co.uk/
Show Title: The Untimely Death Of Mr.String
Company / Performer: The Raven Theatre Company
Date: 18 - 24 August
Time: 9.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Warren Street
Blurb: A deliciously humorous tale following an everyman who unwittingly dismantles time. Devised with live music in a 40's noir style by The Raven Theatre Company. Join Mr. String for this rambunctious stroll down the avenue of cosmic enlightenment.
http://www.cptheatre.co.uk/
Show Title: How to Climb Mount Everest
Company / Performer: Autojeu Theatre
Date: 19 - 21 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Warren Street
Blurb: 1 Planet, 1 Mountain, 1 Goal, 1 Man, 1 Shot, 1 Outcome? Join us as we take part in one
mans epic rise from sofa dwelling pizza eater to Mount Everest conqueror! Mixing puppetry, live action, mime, & some audience interaction Autojeu bring Mount Everest to your doorstep! Follow us on this wacky, wonderful & playful adventure, it's like no other.
http://www.cptheatre.co.uk/
Show Title: Chasing Shadows
Company / Performer: Till the Table Theatre Company
Date: 25 - 28 August
Time: 9.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Warren Street
Blurb: Situated in the pulsating heart of London's underground, "Chasing Shadows" speculates
on the diverse identities encompassing today's individualist society... Entwining stylised
elements of physical theatre and puppetry, Tilt the Table invite you to delve into an
intimately true story that embodies the everyday struggles of being unique!!
http://www.cptheatre.co.uk/
Etcetera Theatre
265 Camden High Street, London, NW1 7BU
Show Title: The Echo
Company / Performer: Orpheos Productions
Date: 01 - 03 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: What if they could come back, those people we lost? What if you could have one more
hour?
For one impossible evening, ghosts of the people we loved return, not as we saw them
last, but as they were when they were most alive. But are you the same person now that
you were when they loved you? Can you justify your present to the past?
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: Love And Other Games
Company / Performer: Scriptease
Date: 01 - 04 August
Time: 4.30pm
Full Price: £6.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: our bite-sized comedies about contemporary relationships. A chance encounter, a suburban party, a family meal and a one-night stand are the arenas for these two- handers exploring the games lovers play. Brutally funny and true to life they're by award- winning Smack The Pony writer Lisa Fulthorpe.
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: Frank Incensed
Company / Performer: Frying Camel Productions
Date: 02 - 05 August
Time: 3.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: We've all heard the story of Mary and Joseph. Virgin woman free of original sin, bestowed with the glorious gift of carrying and mothering the son of God. But what if the same task was given to a 21st century couple? How would they cope? Hilarious new comedy 'Frank Incensed' explores this surreal situation and the potential pitfalls that could ensue.
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: The Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife
Company / Performer: KUDASTS
Date: 03 - 04 August
Time: 3.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Listen to the true and edifying tale of the poor henpecked Shoemaker and his fiery wife. Let this be a lesson to you all. Open your ears and sharpen your mind!
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: Alternative
Company / Performer: Trunkman Productions
Date: 03 - 04 August
Time: 9.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: The new comedy play by award winning writer Trent Burton (Sharp lines and clever writing - Fringe Report.) Will has doctors baffled with a mystery illness and test results that look like David Lynch directed them. His fed-up girlfriend feels it's time for a choice between his clueless GP or his homeopath sister. Which for Will, is no choice at all.
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: The Next Best Man
Company / Performance: Electric Mouse Company
Date: 04 - 06 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Harry, you're like a brother to me". "Don't say that, Ron. I'm marrying your sister. In 30
minutes!" Cynical geordie Harry Numan is marrying cockney diamond geezer Ron's sister. He just needs to find a new best man. And deal with the arrival of Sally, their heavily pregnant ex-lover. A hilarious comedy play based on the new sitcom 'Desperados'
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: The Forbidden Warddrobe
Company / Performer: Rag & Bone
Date: 05 - 06 August
Time: 10.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blur: Love. Transgender. Swingball. A comedy musical two hander. Jo and Alex, a twentysomething couple go on a musical adventure to escape their mundane relationship. Dare they enter and sample the delights of The Forbidden Wardrobe? All music is performed live. A swingball set saves the day.
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: Walk Like a Blackman
Company / Performer: Rafiq Richard
Date: 05 - 07 August
Time: 6.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: We've all wanted to be a black man haven't we? Rafiq is no exception he's only half a black man, half an Indian man and a whole lot of confusion! Is he black? Is he Indian? Is Sanjay from Eastenders really his dad? Who's the snake haired man? Should he have another go at being a Muslim? And ultimately can he walk like a black man to impress the black half brothers and sister he's meeting for the first time? Find out in this alternately funny, daring and poignant semi-autobiographical one-man show, about mixed raced identity and what it means to belong.
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: Permission to Cry by David Campton
Company / Performer: Made by Imps
Date: 05 - 07 August
Time: 4.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: David Campton's beautifully structured, heart-rending play about Julia Gibbon, an up- and-coming junior minister whose life is thrown into turmoil by conflict between private and public morality. Told in a series of dreamlike flashbacks, this is a compassionate, insightful play about love and politics in our hypocritical age.
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: Drama Bites
Company / Theatre: Just an Act Theatre
Date: 05 - 07 August
Time: 1.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Drama comes full of promise. It can be the stuff of dreams. But sometimes the line
between reality and fantasy can be dangerously elusive. And sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for...
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: Pagan Love Songs for the Uninitiated
Company / Theatre: The Pensive Federation
Date: 06 - 11 August
Time: 3.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: In a series of sometimes separate, sometimes connected monologues, a man and a woman recount their lives and dreams. Disconnected in the way they see and move through their child-like worlds, their stories become surreal and nightmarish as the real connection between the two is revealed.
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: Reality Vaccine Mind Illusion Show
Company / Performer: Ian Souch and Nikki Campbell
Date: 07 - 08 August
Time: 9.00pm
Full Price: £8.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Leave the real world behind and be intrigued and thoroughly entertained by Mentalist Dr
Ian Souch as he weaves together magic, illusion and suggestion to create a theatrical Show
experience for your delight. Be brave, it will only hurt a little... 'Ian performs feats so impressive he appears psychic'. Three Weeks Edinburgh Review
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: A Middle-Aged Man's Uncertainty Theory
Company / Theatre: Big Squirrel Productions
Date: 08 - 10 August
Time: 6.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Uncertainty Theory A taxi driver travels on a surreal journey to investigate if there are any certainties left in his world. Along the way he meets a cynical doctor, sex obsessed therapist, laid back vicar, evangelical line dancing lawyers, foul mouthed private eye, untalented show contestant and a bizarre set of passengers all played by his son and daughter
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: Pandora's Boxes
Company / Theatre: Fringe Benefits
Date: 08 - 11 August
Time: 4.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £6.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: WARNING: TV, advertising, credit and consumerism can seriously damage your life. Come and find out what it did to Pandora and make sure it doesn't happen to you. First aired on the radio, new writing doesn't get better than this - bring the young, the old and anyone else you can find and see it before it's too late!
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: Out, Damned Spot
Company / Performer: Not Stalking Productions
Date: 10 - 12 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £8.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Lady Macbeth - a heartless monster ruled by a sinister purpose - but what if before the ruthlessness, ambition, murder, madness and tragedy there was innocence and love, hopes and dreams? The acclaimed creator of NOT Stalking David Tennant & Do Look Back in Anger returns to suggest that Shakespeare's demon might once have been the girl next door...
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: The Whale and The Swan
Company / Performer: Solas Theatre Company
Date: 12 - 14 August
Time: 3.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £6.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: The story of an Irish childhood interrupted and a girl who seeks colour in a world of grey.
Told through story, song and movement Marie finds solace in the world of her imagination and joy and release in the power of her singing voice. Despite her stark and often brutal existence at the hands of the nuns Marie never stops looking towards the light.
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: Who Does She Think She Is?
Company / Performer: Beez Works
Date: 15 - 17 August
Time: 3.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £6.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Carefree, self assured Jo leads a happy life of luxury until one day an untimely arrival comes to question everything she thinks she knows, and is. "Who Does She think She Is?", a debut production of Beez Works, deals with dramatic issues in a comical and light hearted way designed to leave you searching for more.
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: Frozen Moment: KU MA Showcase of New Work
Company / Performer: KUDOS: A Broken Pockets Production
Date: 15 - 20 August
Time: 3.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: A revolving programme of performances showcasing new work. 'The Teacher Fence', a
play which takes a peek into the mysterious and secretive world of a school staffroom. 'The Play Room', a couple tries to rebuild their lives, while a mother strives for the best for her daughter. But who is control of their stories remains unknown. 'Katherine: A Short Life', the story of a young suicide, is told by the people who knew her, but she still remains a mystery. 'In the Darkroom', an obsessed forensics photographer is visited by a stranger who turns his entire world upside down. 'The Eyes of a Dog', a devised piece inspired by crime scene photos from early 20th century New York: forgotten lives rebuilt from violent moments captured in single images
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: Are You Lonesome Tonight
Company / Performer: NoLogoProductions
Date: 16 - 18 August
Time: 6.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £6.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: it's August 1977. Dwight and Leanne Carter are about to celebrate their twentieth
wedding anniversary. Dwight's got them tickets for every date of an Elvis Presley tour - what better present could there be? Quite a few as it turns out‚ 'Filled with wit and pathos' FringeReport.com. 'A relevant look at fanaticism and the loss of idols.' ThreeWeeks
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: A Hero's Journey
Company / Performer: ManMoth Productions
Date: 17 - 19 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £8.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: A Hero's Journey is a new comedy play by Steve Jordan and Patrick Baker. While trying to teach dramatic structure to a class of imbeciles, Matthew Rain finds himself the hero of his own quest to defeat 'The Doctor', the personification of his own self-loathing that has manifested as a twisted version of Peter Davison's kindly Doctor Who.
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: Limbo
Company / Performer: Wired to the Moon Productions
Date: 19 - 21 August
Time: 6.00pm
Full Price: £8.50
Conc Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: After his sudden death Michael is surprised to find himself sitting in his own kitchen
watching the house's former tenant knitting a jumper she knows she'll never finish. Stuck together for what promises to be a very long time, Michael and Agatha discuss the important things of life; the existence of God, the living and sausage rolls.
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: Save our Bones: Excess Deductible / That's the Spirit
Company / Performer: So it goes... Theatre Company
Date: 20 - 21 August
Time: 1.30pm
Full Price: £12.00
Conc Price: £10.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: We present a one-act double-bill that deals directly with mortality in thoughtful, provocative ways. 'Excess Deductible' aims a sharp assault at overpopulation, medical advancements & compounding healthcare costs. 'That's the Spirit' is an alternate view of the afterlife told with an absurdist twist, remote from reality & crammed with insanity.
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: Pitch in Love
Company / Performer: The Deck Theatre Company
Date: 21 - 24 August
Time: 4.30pm
Full Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Pinch in Love' is a dark, surreal comedy that revolves around two toddler's response to their new born sibling, exploring allegoric topics of xenophobia, society, hatred and fear through the actions and words of the toddlers. The audience are invited into their world of horrifying thoughts towards baby; whilst their Mother engages in usual home-building and Mothering activity and the innocent baby gurgles, how do the toddlers come to accept the changes in their world...?
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: Not Applicable
Company / Performer: Zoom in Productions
Date: 22-24 August
Time: 6.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Ally is agoraphobic. She hasn't left her house in almost five years. Tonight she has a backstage pass to meet her idol; her soulmate; the only woman she would consider turning for... Debbie Harry. Will Ally overcome her fears and make it out to meet her ultimate hero? A one-woman show co-written and performed by Kim Fraser, co-written and directed by Thomas Evans, Not Applicable is returning for a second year at the Etcetera Theatre as part of the Camden Fringe Festival. 'Thomas Evans and Kim
Fraser's play, Not Applicable is about yearning, isolation and friendship as well as delusion and realisation. That might seem like quite a lot for a short play but the themes are handled lightly and with humour.' Camden Voyeur.
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: Commencing
Company / Performance: Joined at the Hip
Date: 22 - 26 August
Time: 3.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £6.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Kelli can't wait for the blind date her office mates have set her up with, until it turns out
to be not quite what she expected. Mutually appalled, yet appallingly intrigued, they commence to challenge each other on both straight & gay women's culture, to find the common ground underneath in the search for love and identity.
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco
Company / Performance: Atelier
Date: 25-28 August
Time: 4.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: An elderly couple spend their final years half remembering stories, disagreeing about
the past and talking about what might have been; in the midst of attempting to impart an
important message to the world.
Classic Ionesco, The Chairs is a masterpiece of black humour. By turns terribly funny
and achingly poignant, laughable, but always true. Follow us on Twitter@Atelier_Theatre
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: The Lesson by Eugene Lonesco
Company / Performer: Atelier
Date: 25-28 August
Time: 6.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Even behind so apparently harmless an exercise of authority as the teacher-pupil relationship, all the violence and domination, all the aggressiveness and possessiveness, the cruelty and lust are present that make up any manifestation of power. A starkly funny comic drama, The Lesson has the power both to horrify and delight in true Absurdist style. Follow us on Twitter @Atelier_Theatre
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: Bye Bye Bernie
Company / Performer: Crazy with a K Productions
Date: 26-28 August
Time: 10.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Sitcom Mission finalists welcome you to this psycho granny farce of violence and mayhem.
Bernard's world is tossed upside down when deranged criminal sisters Mavis and Josie hijack his charity shop for orphans. Will Bernard ever escape? This escapade of fist fights and family ties is sure to end in a bang!
http://etceteratheatre.com/
Show Title: The Accomplice
Company / Performer: Rag & Bone
Date: 26-28 August
Time: 10.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: A tragicomedy about the realities of prostitution in contemporary London. Catherine, a disenfranchised graduate steals the months takings from her cafe job and decides to escape the city. Picking up Jennifer, a bitter young prostitute for company the two make plans for their new life in a Heathrow Airport hotel room.
http://etceteratheatre.com/
GBS Theatre RADA
62 - 64 Gower Street, London, WC1E 6ED
Show Title: Insights
Date: 15-16 August
Time: 9.15pm
Full Price: £10.00
Conc Price: £7.00
Nearest Tube: Goodge Street
Blurb: Insights' is a choreographic platform, which showcases the work of graduates within dance and physical theatre from around the world. This platform also includes collaborations with live music and drama. This postgraduate playground of performing art showcases the work of 8 UK based artists, giving you an insight into their creative minds.
http://www.rada.ac.uk/productions-and-events/other-events/sales-insights
Show Title: Country Life
Company / Performer: Players Plowright
Date: 15-20 August
Time: 7.00pm
Full Price: £10.00
Conc Price: £7.00
Nearest Tube: Goodge Street
Blurb: Last year Peter Briffa's 'Siren' had a sell-out run at the Camden Fringe - a two hander about prostitution, obsession, and murder set in the squalor of Liverpool Street. Now, he and director Paul Blinkhorn are back with a full length black comedy about love, death, and blackmail - this time set in the idyllic English countryside.
http://www.rada.ac.uk/productions-and-events/other-events/sales-countrylife
John Gielgud Theatre RADA
62 - 64 Gower Street, London, WC1E 6ED
Show Title: Space
Company / Performer: Timothy Mann / Nose2Nose
Date: 8 August
Time: 9.00pm
Full Price: £10.00
Conc Price: £7.00
Nearest Tube: Goodge Street
Blurb: Hilarious and heart-breaking, and packed with characters and improvisation, this interactive one-man comedy-tragedy takes you on a wild ride through a fantastical tale about 'space'. The audience are vital, as they physically and emotionally become a part of the action. 'SPACE' has travelled to Japan, China and India, and is suitable for all ages.
http://www.rada.ac.uk/productions-and-events/other-events/sales-space
Show Title: The Fan & The Star & The Star & The Fan
Company / Performer: Trio Productions
Date: 8-13 August
Time: 7.00pm
Full Price: £10.00
Conc Price: £7.00
Nearest Tube: Goodge Street
Blurb: A New one act Dramatic Comedy featuring two surprise Celebrity Divas of theatre and TV. Written by award winning playwright Jan Harris and Directed by Matthew Gould. When Fran, a besotted fan, takes pity on Ezzlie, a fading Star the "odd couple" takes on a whole new meaning.
http://www.rada.ac.uk/productions-and-events/other-events/sales thefanandthestarandthestarandthefan
Show Title: The Writers' Room
Company / Performer: Accidental Theatre
Date: 9-13 August
Time: 9.00pm
Full Price: £10.00
Conc Price: £7.00
Nearest Tube: Goodge Street
Blurb: Once a week, four very different writers meet up to rip apart each others work. Kirk can't
quit setting his stories in space. Sweet M.T.'s one-woman show is missing a good monologue. Ryan hasn't the guts to confront life on or off the page. And Beth is desperately searching for an ending. Today when they arrive for their meeting a script is sitting on the table waiting for them. It's called 'The Writers' Room'. It's about four writers, has a dead body and not many pages left
http://www.rada.ac.uk/productions-and-events/other-events/sales-thewrite...
Lomax Carpark
38-40 Pratt Street, London, NW1 0LY
Show Title: Familiar Change
Company / Performer: Depth Theatre
Date: 11-12 August
Time: 3.30pm
Full Price: £6.00
Conc Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Familiar Change is a heavily text based devised physical theatre performance, which
follows the lives of four characters living in a London estate. Through the performance we tackle present day issues of how people with disabilities are looked upon and socially excluded within everyday life.
http://www.lomaxcarpark.co.uk/
Show Title: Familiar Change
Company / Performer: Depth Theatre
Date: 12 August
Time: 1.30pm
Full Price: £6.00
Conc Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Familiar Change is a heavily text based devised physical theatre performance, which
follows the lives of four characters living in a London estate. Through the performance we tackle present day issues of how people with disabilities are looked upon and socially excluded within everyday life.
http://www.lomaxcarpark.co.uk/
Roundhouse Studio Theatre
Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8EH
Show Title: Country Girl
Company / Performer: Carmel Arts
Date: 8 August
Time: 4.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Chalk Farm
Blurb: Both sung and spoken, with a subtle soundtrack of sound and music running throughout,
this moving one woman show, brings to life the world of Lizzie, an Edwardian scullery girl, during World War 1.
http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/
Show Title: Stand-Up Comics
Company / Performer: The Sigil Club
Date: 8-9 August
Time: 6.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Chalk Farm
Blurb: Stand-Up Comics is a live theatre sitcom, infused with a bombastic comic book look, which examines how pop culture influences our lives, friendships and goals. Chris and Liz have been brought together by the comics they read, sell and write to avoid the responsibilities of the real world. But with Liam's attraction to his artist causing him writer's block and Kris' jealousy preventing him from insulting the customers' poor taste, will they be able to remain together? With jokes, fights and gravediggers abound, the staff at Stand-Up Comics certainly have issues.
http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/
Show Title: Life - A One Woman Show
Company / Performer: Solas Productions
Date: 8-9 August
Time: 3.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Chalk Farm
Blurb: "Life is a journey not a destination" Join Grainne on her journey through love, career, dating and depression as a young emigrant in London. Fresh from it's sell out Dublin run - Life is an eclectic fusion of poetry, song and theatre. "De Bhrun's performance is warm, charming and honest with insight and infectious energy"
http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/
Show Title: Seize The Day
Company / Performer: All in Theatre
Date: 8-9 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £6.00
Nearest Tube: Chalk Farm
Blurb: 2 comical plays that combine wonderful storytelling, side-splitting comedy, stimulating drama & sharp physical theatre to tell tales of people who never thought they had it in them. 8th August - Part 1 - A Head for Heights. 9th August - Part 2 - Treading Water.
http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/
Show Title: Hardcore Imprography
Company / Performer: The ImproDigies
Date: 8-9 August
Time: 1.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Chalk farm
Blurb: After last year's successful show 'It's A Scandal!' which played the 2010 Nursery Festival, The ImProDigies return with 'Hardcore Imprography' at the Roundhouse Studio Theatre. Hardcore Imprography is an improvised show where we'll play out your fantasies live in front of you! Using your suggestions we'll explore the naughty and tweek the taboo!
http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/
Shaw Theatre
100 - 110 Euston Road, London, NW1 2AJ
Show Title: Lust Lost Last
Company / Performer: Las Chicas Production Dance Theatre
Date: 9 August
Time: 8:00pm
Full Price: £7.00
Conc Price: £6.00
Nearest Tube: King's Cross
Blurb: Investigation and statement against sexual exploitation and inequality. Awareness of
global human trafficking, the injustice inflicted upon and the suffering of innocent
children and adults physically and mentally abused. Abstract paintings that are not only
violence, but highlight the importance of human being and life.
http://www.shaw-theatre.com/
Show Title: Choices & Voices
Company / Performer: Creative Tongues in association with Quirkas Productions
Date: 23 August
Time: 8.00pm
Full Price: £10.00
Conc Price: £8.00
Nearest Tube: King's Cross
Blurb: Dynamic International Spoken Word Artist and Playwright, Teju, delivers 60 mins of poetry, comedy and cutting edge drama, straight from the heart. This unique piece of theatre is interlaced with smooth jazz and urban upbeat sounds, with a splash of old skool numbers
http://www.shaw-theatre.com/
Show Title: Peter
Company Theatre: Anatrope Theatre
Date: 11 - 13, 15 - 19 August
Time: 8.00pm
Full Price: £10.00
Conc Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: King's Cross
Blurb: Only a miracle can save Daniel's mother. Miracles are his brother Peter's speciality. Can
Daniel expose Peter as a fraud and set himself free, without betraying terminally ill Sandra? Against the backdrop of the liberation of Iraq, this viscerally intense new play explores how religion inspires people to surpass themselves and poisons everything.
http://www.shaw-theatre.com/
Show Title: Hope
Company: Petar Miloshevski
Date: 26 August
Time: 8.00pm
Full Price: £12.00
Conc: £10.00
Nearest Tube: King's Cross
Blurb: Hope is the story of a lone character who is involved in a very peculiar love-triangle that takes him on a journey of fear, intrigue, darkness and eventually murder.
http://www.shaw-theatre.com/
Ception Theatre
St Martins Garden, St Martin's Close (off Camden Street), London NW1 0HR
Show Title: Little Bear
Company / Theatre: Ception Theatre
Date: 01 - 03, 05 - 07 August
Time: 7.00pm
FREE
Blurb: Set in a darkened forest like those of fairytales, a little girl finds herself in an ancient
conflict between goddess and hunter. Yet she cannot waver, she cannot give up ‚ for here in this world is the flower that will save her dying sister. All she must do is find it before Jaeger, the hunter, plunges the forest into utter darkness.
http://www.ceptiontheatre.co.uk/
Show Title: Little Bear
Company / Theatre: Ception Theatre
Date: 6 August
Time: 1.00pm
FREE
Blurb: Set in a darkened forest like those of fairytales, a little girl finds herself in an ancient
conflict between goddess and hunter. Yet she cannot waver, she cannot give up ‚ for here in this world is the flower that will save her dying sister. All she must do is find it before Jaeger, the hunter, plunges the forest into utter darkness.
http://www.ceptiontheatre.co.uk/
Black Heart
3 Greenland Place, London, NW1 0AP
Black Heart
Company / Theatre: Marika Rauscher presents...
Date: 03 - 04, 10 - 11 & 13 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £6.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: August Sirens & Songs is a journey through WWII, inspired by a true story -performing songs in
their original language, marching Cabaret back to its roots and taking you with it! Created, devised and performed by dynamic duo - Marika Rauscher and Paul Engers.
http://www.ourblackheart.com/
Black Heart
Company / Theatre: Marika Rauscher presents...
Date: 13 August
Time: 2.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £6.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: August Sirens & Songs is a journey through WWII, inspired by a true story -performing songs in their original language, marching Cabaret back to its roots and taking you with it! Created, devised and performed by dynamic duo - Marika Rauscher and Paul Engers.
http://www.ourblackheart.com/
Camden Head
100 Camden High Street, London, NW1 0LU
Show Title: Arabella's Revenge
Company / Performer: The Dark Bar
Date: 4-5 August
Time: 9.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc: £5.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: A childlike nightmare world where nothing is quite normal. Join little Arabella, junior psycho, in a darkly savage piece of new comic writing that tears through the black underbelly of suburbia, the myth of childhood innocence. 2 performers, 20 characters, murder, madness & Princess Margaret as Batman - this is clowning Tarantino-style.
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Newland
Company / Performer: M&T Productions
Date: 25 August, 26 August, 27 August, 28 August
Time: 5.00pm
Full Price: £6.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: An exciting new musical featuring an original score with roots in Jazz, Broadway and Contemporary musical theatre. With a professional cast, join us for an engaging showcase of this new work as we travel back to the Californian Gold Rush and uncover colourful characters and a gritty tale of betrayal and greed laced with a tempestuous love story.
http://www.camdenhead.com/
New Diorama Theatre
15-16 Triton Street, London, NW1 3BF
Show Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Company / Performer: Pell Mell Theatre Company
Date: 1-7 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £12.50
Conc Price: £10.50
Nearest Tube: Warren Street
Blurb: "Lord what fools these mortals be!"
Join Pell Mell Theatre Company as they present Shakespeare's anarchic comedy of magic and deception. Drawing on elements of Purcell's "The Fairy Queen" this refreshingly funny production creates an atmosphere of mystery and mayhem that will delight audiences of every age.
http://www.newdiorama.com/
Show Title: Oblivion
Company / Performance: Stoppedclock
Date: 1-7 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £10.00
Conc Price: £8.00
Nearest Tube: Warren Street
Blurb: From the award-winning company that brought 5-Star play CONCRETE BOOTS to the Camden Fringe last year. STOPPEDCLOCK present a brand new production of STUART PRICE'S latest play...OBLIVION. Stuck at the top of the scariest Roller Coaster in the Country? Whatever you do, DON'T LOOK DOWN!!! Oblivion is the THRILLING new comedy play for 2011!
http://www.newdiorama.com/
Show Title: Oblivion
Company / Performance: Stoppedclock
Date: 9-13 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £10.00
Conc Price: £8.00
Nearest Tube: Warren Street
Blurb: From the award-winning company that brought 5-Star play CONCRETE BOOTS to the Camden Fringe last year. STOPPEDCLOCK present a brand new production of STUART PRICE'S latest play...OBLIVION. Stuck at the top of the scariest Roller Coaster in the Country? Whatever you do, DON'T LOOK DOWN!!! Oblivion is the THRILLING new comedy play for 2011!
http://www.newdiorama.com/
Show Title: The Louys Project: Tales from the Deep
Company / Performer: Lifeguard Productions
Date: 17-19 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £8.00
Nearest Tube: Warren Street
Blurb: Inspired by Pierre Louys' collection of poetry published in 1894, Les Chansons de Bilitis. Charting the course from childhood to courtesan, this sensual myth is retold through a modern lens. Devised by an international group of artists, 'The Louys Project' plays with sexuality and the art of storytelling in a piece of provocative physical theatre.
http://www.newdiorama.com/
Show Title: Hope
Company / Performer: Petar Miloshevski
Date: 21st August
Time: 6.00pm
Full Price: £12.00
Conc Price: £10.00
Nearest Tube: Warren Street
Blurb: Hope is the story of a lone character who is involved in a very peculiar love-triangle that takes him on a journey of fear, intrigue, darkness and eventually murder
http://www.newdiorama.com/
Show Title: Hope
Company / Performer: Petar Miloshevski
Date: 22nd August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £12.00
Conc Price: £10.00
Nearest Tube: Warren Street
Blurb: Hope is the story of a lone character who is involved in a very peculiar love-triangle that takes him on a journey of fear, intrigue, darkness and eventually murder
http://www.newdiorama.com/
Pirate Castle
Oval Road, London, NW1 7EA
Show Title: Whoosh!
Company / Performer: Great Escape Theatre
Date: 2-3 August
Time: 7.00pm
Full Price: £10.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Railways are 'go' in this high-spirited musical revue which takes a wry look at political decision making for HS2. Transport Minister Adrian Gamut's career is placed on the line for this steely expressway. He soon collides with newly empowered celebrity IT girl Celine McWilliams, who elects to fight the plans after a visionary experience.
http://www.thepiratecastle.org/
Show Title: Peace in Our Time
Company / Performer: Raise Them Up Productions
Date: 09 - 10, 12 - 14 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Imagine a Nazi occupied London. The conversations in the pub, the suppression of dissent, the longing to be free. Yet even as on the surface all remains calm, rumblings of resistance begin to emerge.The question is, who can you trust? Noel Coward's text captures the spirit of a nation at war, not just with men and weapons, but an ideology of hate.
http://www.thepiratecastle.org/
Show Title: TaniwhaThames
Company / Performer: Shaky Isles Theatre
Date: 19 - 21 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £7.00
Conc Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: You know that feeling when you're crossing the River Thames and you think how easy it
would be to just jump in? That's the Taniwha. A sea-monster, a shape shifter, watching you - and its intentions are not always good. A show about belonging & not belonging / home & not home. And about the land and the water that runs between, beneath, and around.
http://www.thepiratecastle.org/
Show Title: The Observatory
Company / Performer: stella
Date: 26 - 28 August
Time: 8.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price; £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: will be exploring outer space, inner space and performance space; what performance is and how we can negotiate space and understand the make up of the universe.
http://www.thepiratecastle.org/
Sheephaven Bay
2-3 Mornington Street, London, NW1 7QD
Show Title: Snapshots
Company / Peformer: Shaky Isles Theatre
Date: 6-7 August
Time: 5.45pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent
Blurb: The show is a collection of stories performed through poems and monologues. Poetry with a pop culture twist; Stories that range from drinking with Gary Oldman, partying in the Hollywood hills to the day to day musings of characters living life in a city far from home.
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/34/34509/Sheephaven_Bay/Camden
Show Title: Broke Wide Open
Company / Rock WILK
Date: 09 - 14 August
Time: 5.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent
Blurb: BROKE WIDE OPEN is a musical and poetic avalanche of words dramatically cascading into the compelling journey of one man's search for his biological mother, his identity, his home.
Best described as a verbal opera, Rock WILK is a one person symphony, conducting a dynamic movement of language weaved into a beautiful theatrical experience. Rock WILK is ANTICIPATION, a BELIEVER, a SEER, EVOLVING URBAN LORE, a seatbelt on the most beautiful, turbulent flight, a Brooklyn cyclone taking you to Washington Heights, is INDEPENDENCE DAY SKY, is OUT OF THE BOX RENEGADE, not part of the club, without invitation and so he is THROW HIS OWN PARTY, he is
THINK it PLAN it DO it FEARLESS, he just wants SHARE with you. Watch him FLY. HIGH. He's all of that!
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/34/34509/Sheephaven_Bay/Camden
Show Title: The Last 60 Minutes in the life of Patrick Taylor
Company / Performer: of Patrick Taylor Theatre Audacious (Part of InGoodCompany)
Date: 10-12 August
Time: 7.15pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent
Blurb: Marriage, abandon, love, celebrities, mistaken identities, death, it's all here in this unabashed borrowing, reinventing, and reworking of a man's life story. A 'verbatim theatre' examination of the private and public lives of a member of the generation that included Francis Bacon and Julie Christie. Risks and liberities have been taken.
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/34/34509/Sheephaven_Bay/Camden
Show Title: Lies My Garden Told Me
Company / Performer: Fleur Alexander
Date: 10-14 August
Time: 8.45pm
Full Price: £6.00
Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent
Blurb: You are taken to a world where the line between childhood memory and imagination are
blurred beyond recognition. Hosted by an array of vivid colourful characters, awash with observational humour and littered with intricate metaphor.
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/34/34509/Sheephaven_Bay/Camden
Show Title: Beings
Company / Performer: In Between Butoh
Date: 18-20 August
Time: 8.45pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent
Blurb: Butoh performance inspired by The Cenci by Antonin Artaud. Danced by Flavia Ghisalberti, Ezio Tangini. Music by Frank Heierli. The inevitability of evil, the superfluity and unmasked falsity of any consciousness. Beatrice Cenci goes against the current morality. Her act is a revolt against arrogant aristocracy and conformism. www.inbetweenbutoh.com / http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/34/34509/Sheephaven_Bay/Camden
Show Title: Birthday by Crystal Skillman
Company / Performer: Kibo Productions
Date: 22-28 August
Time: 7.15pm
Full Price: £10.00
Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent
Blurb: It's a warm, NYC night and Leila's out celebrating her co-worker's birthday at a local bar.
The candles are lit and everyone's singing, so why is Leila stealing away to the back room? And who is the stranger she finds there drinking alone? Birthday is a dramatic comedy about birthday wishes, love, and finding friends in the most unlikely of places.
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/34/34509/Sheephaven_Bay/Camden
Theatro Technis
26 Crowndale Road, London, N1 1TT
Show Title: Killing Swine
Company / Performer: UpStaged Theatre Company
Date: 11 - 13 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £10.00
Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent
Blurb: A group of drama students create a play based on Shakespeare's Macbeth. But when a
popular teenage couple's chilling secrets are unearthed, personalities clash, allegiances emerge, and loyalties are tested... The lines between good and evil blur as worlds begin to merge and collide. Good people do bad things, and someone has blood on their hands.
http://www.theatrotechnis.com/
Show Title: Killing Swine
Company / Performer: UpStaged Theatre Company
Date: 13 August
Time: 3.00pm
Full Price: £10.00
Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent
Blurb: A group of drama students create a play based on Shakespeare's Macbeth. But when a
popular teenage couple's chilling secrets are unearthed, personalities clash, allegiances emerge, and loyalties are tested... The lines between good and evil blur as worlds begin to merge and collide. Good people do bad things, and someone has blood on their hands.
http://www.theatrotechnis.com/
Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Highgate Village, London, N6 4BD
Show Title: The Jive Aces Sunshine Tour
Company / Performer: The Jive Aces
Date: 1 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £12.00
Conc Price: £10.00
Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent
Blurb: The Jive Aces are the UK's No.1 jive & swing band. Their hot swing music and energetic stage show takes them the world over with 300 shows a year. After the success of their latest video and single of the classic tune "Bring Me Sunshine" on YouTube (see it at http://is.gd/sunshine) they are embarking on their "Sunshine Tour" across the nation.
http://www.upstairsatthegatehouse.com/
Show Title: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and My Hyde
Company / Performer: Tread the Boards Theatre Company
Date: 02 - 05 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £12.00
Conc Price: £10.00
Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent
Blurb: Henry Jekyll is a mild mannered scientist trying to prove that there are multiple persona inside everyone. From his experiments his alter ego Edward Hyde is born,a creature of pure dark-hearted emotion. Will good overcome evil and who are the mysterious maid and butler? All will be revealed in this chilling tale of deception, passion and mortality.
http://www.upstairsatthegatehouse.com/
Show Title: Macbeth
Company / Performer: Hiraeth Artistic Productions
Date: 09 - 13 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £12.00
Conc Price: £10.00
Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent
Blurb: 10th century Scotland. A fearless warrior named Macbeth has devastated the attacking
Norwegian and Irish armies and single-handedly secured his country's safety from invasion. A brief, chance encounter with three 'Weird Sisters' promises him the crown and glory of Scotland. Will he kill his King to assume the throne? Or will he let fate take its course? Through the use of language, puppetry, music, combat and physical theatre, be thrown into a world far removed from your own, and experience the turmoil of raging ambition, murder and deception. Exciting, dangerous, dark, complex and clever - Macbeth will leave you captivated and in unsettled awe. Not to be missed!
http://www.upstairsatthegatehouse.com/
Show Title: Macbeth
Company / Performer: Hiraeth Artistic Productions
Date: 14 August
Time: 4.00pm
Full Price: £12.00
Conc Price: £10.00
Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent
Blurb: 10th century Scotland. A fearless warrior named Macbeth has devastated the attacking
Norwegian and Irish armies and single-handedly secured his country's safety from invasion. A brief, chance encounter with three 'Weird Sisters' promises him the crown and glory of Scotland. Will he kill his King to assume the throne? Or will he let fate take its course? Through the use of language, puppetry, music, combat and physical theatre, be thrown into a world far removed from your own, and experience the turmoil of raging ambition, murder and deception. Exciting, dangerous, dark, complex and clever - Macbeth will leave you captivated and in unsettled awe. Not to be missed!
http://www.upstairsatthegatehouse.com/
Show Title: The Rival's
Company / Performer: The King's Players
Date: 16-20 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £12.00
Conc Price: £10.00
Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent
Blurb: The King's Players presents a hilarious new version of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's beloved comic masterpiece at Camden's award-winning Upstairs at the Gatehouse. Monte Carlo, 1928. The cream of English society has descended on the French Riviera Monte Carlo, 1928. The cream of English society has descended on the French Riviera for the summer season. Among them is Jack Absolute, who has fallen for the beautiful, romance-obsessed Lydia Languish. But his plan to win her hand grows steadily more complicated as a host of madcap characters become involved. In one frantic afternoon he must find his way through a web of intrigue and try not to lose the girl, his life, or both.
http://www.upstairsatthegatehouse.com/
Show Title: The Rival's
Company / Performer: The King's Players
Date: 18-21 August
Time: 4.00pm
Full Price: £12.00
Conc Price: £10.00
Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent
Blurb: The King's Players presents a hilarious new version of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's beloved comic masterpiece at Camden's award-winning Upstairs at the Gatehouse. Monte Carlo, 1928. The cream of English society has descended on the French Riviera Monte Carlo, 1928. The cream of English society has descended on the French Riviera for the summer season. Among them is Jack Absolute, who has fallen for the beautiful, romance-obsessed Lydia Languish. But his plan to win her hand grows steadily more complicated as a host of madcap characters become involved. In one frantic afternoon he must find his way through a web of intrigue and try not to lose the girl, his life, or both.
http://www.upstairsatthegatehouse.com/
Show Title: Il Trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi
Company / Performer: Opera London
Date: 22-24 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £12.00
Conc Price: £10.00
Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent
Blurb: After the successful run of The Marriage Of Figaro at the Shaw Theatre, Opera London presents a wonderful new production of Verdi's masterpiece Il Trovatore. Adaptation, imagination and intimacy replaces chorus, costume and set, beautifully conveying a tale of lust and revenge. This captivating experience and beautiful singing should not be missed.
http://www.upstairsatthegatehouse.com/
Show Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Company / Performer: Get Over It Productions
Date: 25-27 August
Time: 8.00pm
Full Price: £12.00
Conc Price: £10.00
Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent
Blurb: Delicious all-female theatre ensemble Get Over It Productions return for a fifth year running with a no-holds-barred production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. This year the girls are turning Japanese with a veritable feast of neo-geisha delights, bringing umbrellas, hilarity and sumptuous fun to Shakespeare's farce. As ever, this eclectic troupe brings a refreshing and vibrant take on a Bard classic using original text, an exciting new musical score, choreography and incorporating minimal staging for
maximum effect...all in one hour's magical entertainment!
http://www.upstairsatthegatehouse.com/
Show Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Company / Performer: Get Over It Productions
Date: 26 August
Time: 10.00pm
Full Price: £12.00
Conc Price: £10.00
Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent
Blurb: Delicious all-female theatre ensemble Get Over It Productions return for a fifth year running with a no-holds-barred production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. This year the girls are turning Japanese with a veritable feast of neo-geisha delights, bringing umbrellas, hilarity and sumptuous fun to Shakespeare's farce. As ever, this eclectic troupe brings a refreshing and vibrant take on a Bard classic using original text, an exciting new musical score, choreography and incorporating minimal staging for
maximum effect...all in one hour's magical entertainment!
http://www.upstairsatthegatehouse.com/
Show Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Company / Performer: Get Over It Productions
Date: 27-28 August
Time: 4.00pm
Full Price: £12.00
Conc Price: £10.00
Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent
Blurb: Delicious all-female theatre ensemble Get Over It Productions return for a fifth year running with a no-holds-barred production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. This year the girls are turning Japanese with a veritable feast of neo-geisha delights, bringing umbrellas, hilarity and sumptuous fun to Shakespeare's farce. As ever, this eclectic troupe brings a refreshing and vibrant take on a Bard classic using original text, an exciting new musical score, choreography and incorporating minimal staging for
maximum effect...all in one hour's magical entertainment!
http://www.upstairsatthegatehouse.com/
Show Title: The Beggar's Opera
Company / Performer: Yap Theatre Company
Date: 6 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £12.00
Conc Price: £10.00
Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent
Blurb: A titillating adaptation of The Beggar's Opera by John Gay. The show embraces the opera's bawdy humour and satirical commentary, presented by a company committed to producing both innovative and intriguing performances.
http://www.upstairsatthegatehouse.com/
Show Title: The Beggar's Opera
Company / Performer: Yap Theatre Company
Date: 7 August
Time: 4.00pm
Full Price: £12.00
Conc Price: £10.00
Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent
Blurb: A titillating adaptation of The Beggar's Opera by John Gay. The show embraces the opera's bawdy humour and satirical commentary, presented by a company committed to producing both innovative and intriguing performances.
http://www.upstairsatthegatehouse.com/
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