CAMDEN FRINGE 2011 Comedy Listings
Link to - Camden Fringe 2011 Theatre Listings
Link to - Camden Fringe Home Page
Bloombury Theatre Studios
15 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AH
Show Title - Bright Club: Camden
Company / Performer: Bright Club / UCL
Date: 5, 12, 26 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Euston
Blurb: Bright Club is the thinking person's variety night, where comedians and musicians are joined by people from across Camden, telling jokes about the things they know. The topics are 'Green' on the 5th, 'Music' on the 12th and 'Museums' on the 26th. See www.thebloomsbury.com for tickets and www.brightclub.org for details and lineups.
Camden People's Theatre
58 - 60 Hampstead Road, London, NW1 2PY
Show Title - The Clap Trap
Company / Performer: Camden People's Theatre
Date: 1 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Warren Street
Blurb: The Clap Trap is Camden People's Theatre monthly comedy night, every show is a heady mix of the exciting, original and bizarre, incorporating stand up, character, musical and variety acts. This
August is an extra special Edinburgh Festival Preview line up of acts, please check www.cptheatre.co.uk for updates.
Etcetera Theatre
265 Camden High Street, London, NW1 7BU
Show Title - Helen Keen: Robot of The Future!
Company / Performer: Helen Keen
Date: 1 - 2 August
Time: 9.00pm
Full Price: £7.00
Conc Price: £6.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Future! Award-winning comedian Helen Keen returns after last year's sell out show, with more stand-up science & shadow puppetry. This new hour features stories of The Future! And Robots! And a Woman! Work in progress from the creator of BBC Radio 4's *It Is Rocket Science!*
http://www.etceteratheatre.com
Show Title - Red All Over
Company / Performer: Not Sorry Enough
Date: 1 - 2 August
Time: 6.00pm
Full Price: £6.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Holly Burns and Rose Watt present a comedy show mostly based on puns and funny voices.
One hour of sketches, songs, science, and silliness. And poetry, which doesn't begin with the letter s.
Suitable for all ages.
http://www.etceteratheatre.com
Show Title - The Next Best Man
Company / Performer: Electric Mouse Comedy
Date: 4 - 6 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £6.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: 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://www.etceteratheatre.com
Show Title - Once Upon a Sketch
Company / Performer: No Yoke Productions
Date: 5 - 6 August
Time: 9.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Not everyone lives happily ever after. But what's the alternative? Telesales? Once Upon a Sketch will whizz you through the absurdity of fairy tales and modern life.
http://www.etceteratheatre.com
Show Title - Geoff Norcott Is Good In A Crisis
Company / Performer - Geoff Norcott
Date: 7 - 9 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £7.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Geoff used to think he was good in a crisis, but the last couple of years have made him wonder... In this uplifting show about making the long journey back from the worst day of his life, Geoff finds that humour is the only constant. From Acupuncture to sunbeds, religion or getting a dog, Geoff finds the funny in reclaiming happiness. Whether it's bankruptcy or redundancy, full blown depression or one of those week-long glorified hissy fits, this is the show for anyone trying to keep the smile on their face.
http://www.etceteratheatre.com
Show Title - Brokeback Britain
Company / Performer - Bucket of Fun
Date: 09 - 10 August
Time: 9.00pm
Full Price: £8.00
Conc Price: £7.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: An hour-long satirical sketch show taking a manic look at the Wild West state of Coalition Britain. Starring a government no one voted for, where all the banks have been robbed by the bankers and even the snake oil salesmen have been cut. We can’t guarantee rattlers or Apaches, but we can laughs.
http://www.etceteratheatre.com
Show Title - Dolphin Wrestling
Company / Performer - The Errors Of Comedy
Date: 10 - 13 August
Time: 10.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Dolphin Wrestling A new sketch-comedy show about love, fairytales and spatulas.
http://www.etceteratheatre.com
Show Title - Fly Me to Baboon
Company / Performer - Fat Hammond's Banjo Lounge
Date: 11 - 13 August
Time: 9.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £6.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Brand new sketch comedy from 'Fat Hammond's Banjo Lounge'. Surreal, smutty and ext!
http://www.etceteratheatre.com
Show Title - The Year Of Being A Squirrel
Company / Performer - Alys Torrance
Date: 11 - 13 August
Time: 6.00pm
Full Price: £8.50
Conc Price: £6.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
When It happened, silence seemed safest. Weaving tales of iron-toothed Baba Yaga with the invisible doors, unhelpful fairies, and hairy-legged teacher of her childhood, Alys finally finds it's safe to finish a sentence. Funny, captivating storytelling from veteran comic, writer and ex-rodent.
http://www.etceteratheatre.com
Show Title - The First Supper
Company / Performer - The Expeditionary Force / Ten in a Bed
Date: 14 -16 August
Time: 9.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: The award-winning Ten in a Bed present hearty new sketch act The Expeditionary Force in a show where ancient gods, modern foibles and the nature of infinity collide to create an hour of the slightly sinister and the very silly. It's satire: But not as you'll notice it.
http://www.etceteratheatre.com
Show Title: The Intimate Strangers' Concept Album
Company / Performer - The Intimate Strangers
Date: 17 - 18 August
Time: 9.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Album For five years The Intimate Strangers have been producing critically- acclaimed sketch shows. But this year it's going to be different. This year they're going to break some serious ground. This year they're going to change the world. "A thing of beauty, smart, funny and original" - Remotegoat "Had the audience laughing throughout" - Guide2bath
http://www.etceteratheatre.com
Show Title: Not The Adventures of Moleman
Date: 17 - 20 August
Time: 10.30pm
Full Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Not The Adventures of Moleman is... well... Not the Adventures of Moleman. But it's everything else. Sketches, characters, audience participation, a good old fashioned sing song and some cheeky
prizes. It's a dark cabaret with a sense of fun. What does the cow say? Just what is Emerald Starshine actually famous for? Will Dave from Spotify ever shut the hell up?
http://www.etceteratheatre.com
Show Title: Pekka and Strangebone's Comedy Showpiece
Date: 19-21 August
Time: 9.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Showpiece Britain's oldest unknown talent agency invite you to a night of comedy and theatrical desperation. Meet their unusual eclectic mix of clients including Fred Strangebone, prize fighter Gentlemen Johnson and the 'real' Banana Man.
http://www.etceteratheatre.com
Show Title: The Lord Sedgewick Mysteries
Company / Performer: Liam J Stratton
Date: 20 - 21 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £6.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: In the mid 20th century crime had a foil in the shape of a blue blooded bloodhound. Lord Lionel Sedgewick. 15th Earl of Essex, no crime left unsolved and no commoner left unhanged. Sir Robert Fox-
Adams, dead! But who is the killer? Only one man can find out.
http://www.etceteratheatre.com
Show Title: In the Meantime...'s Untitled Sketch Project
Company / Performer: In the Meantime...
Date: 22 - 23 August
Time: 9.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Having had a marvellous time at the Camden Fringe last year, and the year before that, In the Meantime... thought it was only fair to come back for more. Their Untitled Sketch Project unveils all-new characters, all-new sketches and all-new jollity. Join them, won't you?
"Great sketches, beautifully executed" - Tim Vine
"I'm in awe" - Nicholas Parsons
http://www.etceteratheatre.com
Show Title: The Great Puppet Horn
Company / Performer: Pangolin's Teatime
Date: 22 - 24 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Comedy from the UK's leading satirical shadow puppet show. As discarded politicians fly by your ear delight in the shadowy characters who speak, beat-box and pole-dance for your entertainment. From English syntax to budget cuts nothing is safe from two guys with a stack of puppets. This is South Park meets News Night with a whole load of cardboard.
http://www.etceteratheatre.com
Show Title: 2 Jokes a LB
Company / Performer: The Caught Jesters
Date: 24 - 25 August
Time: 10.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £7.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: New sketch company The Caught Jesters & guests, brings together a diverse range of comedic performing and writing talent especially for Camden Fringe 2011. Numbering among their ranks stand-up comics, improvisers, writers and comedic actors, the Jesters promise you a night of hilarity with just a dash of downright silliness.
http://www.etceteratheatre.com
Show Title: Genevieve Swallow
Company / Performer: Genevieve Swallow
Date: 24 - 25 August
Time: 9.00pm
Full Price: £7.00
Conc Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Stories, characters and songs celebrating house-sharing. For anyone who has fumed about the leftover washing-up... and for those who have left it! "She has the audience hooting with glee".
(THE SCOTSMAN). Funny Women Finalist, Best Actress Nominee (Stage Awards), Best Actress Award (Fringe Report) and one third of sketch group "Domestic Goddi".
http://www.etceteratheatre.com
Show Title: The Trap: X
Company / Performer: The Trap
Date: 25 - 28 August
Time: 7.30pm
Full Price: £8.50
Conc Price: £6.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Ten years ago, acclaimed comedy group The Trap first performed together on a small stage above a pub somewhere in London. Now, after a decade of Edinburgh Fringe hit shows, five-star reviews and many TV and radio appearances, see just how far they've come as they perform their brand new show on a completely different small stage above a completely different pub in a completely different bit of London.
"Extremely funny" The Guardian
"Superb comedic trio" Time Out.
"Deliciously subversive... sheer comedic genius" The Scotsman.
"One of the most innovative sketch groups around... at their best
they are untouchable" Chortle.
www.thetrap.co.uk
http://www.etceteratheatre.com
Show Title: Dart Wives
Company / Performer: Gavin & Gavin
Date: 26 - 28 August
Time: 9.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £6.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Wags are so last season. This year it’s all about Dwags. Dart Wives is an hilarious insight into the competitive, characterful, beer swigging, raucous world of darts. "The best character comedy I've
seen, Victoria Wood and League of Gentlemen couldn't do better" The Independent, **** Daily Mail, **** Metro, **** The Times.
http://www.etceteratheatre.com
GBS Theatre RADA
62 - 64 Gower Street, London, WC1E 6ED
Show Title: The 7 Detestable Sinz
Company / Performers: Stepping Stonez
Date: 17 - 20 August
Time: 9.15pm
Full Price: £10.00
Conc Price: £7.00
Nearest Tube: Warren Street
Blurb: Contrary to popular belief, the seven deadly sins aren't in the bible, but there is a list of seven detestable sins in there. Curious, interesting funny? Written by Yazz Fetto from Christian comedy
sketch group Four Monks And A Nun. Stepping Stonez are an award winning, multi cultural production company who encourage 14-25 year olds to invest their creativity into theatre, dance, music and film.
http://www.rada.ac.uk/productions-and-events/other-events/sales-7detesta...
Lock 17
Camden Lock, London, NW1 8AB
Show Title: Foster Comedy Live
Company / Performers: Highlight Company Club
Date: August 05 - 06, 12 - 13, 19-20, 26-27
Time: 7.00pm
Full Price: £17.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Every Friday and Saturday Night. Foster Comedy Live @ highlight presents 4 of the best comedians from the UK and International Circuit. As Camden's largest Dedicated Comedy Club Highlight is part of the largest Comedy Chain in the Uk. For tickets and more information got thehighlightcamden.co.uk. Teaming up with Fosters was a "Good Call"
http://www.lock17-camden.co.uk/
Roundhouse Studio Theatre
Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8EH
Show Title: James Mullinger: An Hour Of Killer Stand Up
Date: 08-09 August
Time: 9.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Chalk Farm
Blurb: James Mullinger shows why he is one of the most sought after comics on the circuit with a brand new hour of comedy. Jimmy Carr describes him as "a great stand up" and The Guardian enthuses
that ""the exuberant quality of his stand up makes him one to watch"". For the past two years he has sold out every night at the Camden Fringe with his themed shows on feminism and his schooldays. This year he brings an hour of the hilarious and insightful storytelling that led the Evening Standard to describe him as "something of a sensation. Expect the anecdotes to come thick, fast and raucously funny." http://www.thehighlight.co.uk/
Camden Eye
2 Kentish Town Road, London, NW1 9NX
Show Title: The Cabaret Of Potty People
Company Performer: Egomental Productions
Date: 2-4 August, 9-11 August
Time: 8pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £5.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: The Cabaret of Potty people is a trio of electrifying nutcases delighting audiences with comedy,stand up,off the wall poetry, original songs and dance routines. Cecilia Holmes and Gareth Nash swing between playing lesbians,Welsh psychics and drag king and queens with dizzying ease! Interspersed with Paolo Ferrari's quirky improvisation, its zany!
http://www.thecamdeneye.co.uk/
Show Title: The Cabaret Of Potty People
Company Performer: Egomental Productions
Date: 5-6 August, 12-13 August
Time: 8pm
Full Price: £10.00
Conc Price: £8.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: The Cabaret of Potty people is a trio of electrifying nutcases delighting audiences with comedy,stand up,off the wall poetry, original songs and dance routines. Cecilia Holmes and Gareth Nash
swing between playing lesbians,Welsh psychics and drag king and queens with dizzying ease! Interspersed with Paolo Ferrari's quirky improvisation, its zany!
http://www.thecamdeneye.co.uk/
Camden Head
100 Camden High Street, London, NW1 0LU
Show Title: James W Smith: Living In Syntax
Date: 1 August
Time: 6.30pm
Full Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: You're going to die. So what do you have to say for yourself? Language is a powerful thing. Some use it for good, some for evil. Others use it to dick about. Bearded up-and-comer James W Smith Others use it to dick about. Bearded up-and-comer James W Smith is keen on finding out if the pen really is mightier than the sword. 'Very good material' (Edinburgh Evening News), 'Shows lots of
promise' (Richard Herring)
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Scott Capurro: Who Are The Jocks?
Date: 1 August
Time: 8.00pm
Full Price: £10.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Following the death of his mother, Scott Capurro waddles through the piercing loss of his best friend and coke dealer. She's in a jar and he's in Cardiff, trying to survive a menacing audience while
handling his own grief.
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Matt Kirshen Wide-Eyed
Company / Performer: Matt Kirshen
Date: 1 August
Time: 9.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Following the death of his mother, Scott Capurro waddles through the piercing loss of his best friend and coke dealer. She's in a jar and he's in Cardiff, trying to survive a menacing audience while
handling his own grief.
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Matt Kirshen Wide-Eyed
Company / Performer: Matt Kirshen
Date: 2 August
Time: 9.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Young people are idiots. Kirshen (Last Comic Standing, The Late Late Show, Rude Tube and his own World Stands Up special) is 31 now, so he’s as smart as it's possible to be. See the internationally
acclaimed, award-winning comedian in this brand new stand-up show.
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Wedded Bliss
Company / Performer: Broken Dreams
Date: 2-3 August
Time: 9.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Real life husband and wife team wish to share with you the joys of marriage. They want to but unfortunately, marriage being the identity swallowing, dream crushing thing it is, they cannot. Take
their hands as they lead you down a dark path to look at the rotting corpse of love and poke a ragged stick in its eye.
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Richard Tyrone Jones has a Big Heart
Company / Performer: Utter Spoken Word
Date: 2-4 August & 7 August
Time: 6.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: How do you fight back when your own heart tries to kill you? RTJ, 'Utter!' Director and 'Ringmaster of Spoken Word' (**** - ThreeWeeks) explains in his understandably-delayed debut show, through anecdosage, cardiomyopoetry and bisoproLOLs. For anyone who ever had a heart. Or failure.
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Leads & Stern
Company / Performer: Leads & Stern
Date: 3 August
Time: 8.00pm
Full Price: £6.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Sketch duo, Leads & Stern, are fast emerging as two of the hottest talents in North West London. Fast-paced, irreverent and silly, their sketches are quick, flippant and stupid. Laurel & Hardy meets Jaws.
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: The 90's in Half an Hour
Company / Performer: Marc Burrows
Date: 3-5 August
Time: 8.00pm
Full Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Were you Blur or Oasis? 'Trainspotting' or Train Spotter? Noel Gallagher or Noel’s House Party? 90s Refugee Marc Burrows relives a decade of music, movies and growing-up-geek squeezed
into just 30 minutes of stand-up, story-telling and half-remembered playground jokes
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Iszi Lawrence's Wotnot
Company / Performer: Iszi Lawrence
Date: 4-7 August
Time: 8pm
Full Price: £6.00
Conc Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Iszi returns to the Camden Fringe with an hour of quirky, skeptical, daft, stand-up that's just on the right side of tasteless. "She's good... really good." Oxford Mail. "Iszi Lawrence finds herself in
bracket alongside Josie Long and Sarah Millican" Oxford Times. "Manages to be both intelligent and silly - a winning combination" Jo Caulfield
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: 1 Mighty Craic Comedy Hour
Company / Performer: n2o Entertainment
Date: 5-6 August, 11 - 12 August
Time: 6.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Four nights of stand-up comedy from award winning comedian Henry Ginsberg and 1 Mighty Craic resident MC Maddy Nebraska.
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Daylords Returns
Company / Performer: Morris & Vyse
Date: 6-7 August, 14-15 August
Time: 9.30pm
Full Price: £7.00
Conc Price: £6.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: August Morris & Vyse (***** Metro) bring their outrageous character comedy to Camden! After the success of last years Edinburgh Festival debut Daylords, Morris & Vyse are back by popular demand, with Daylords Return - another disastrous daytime TV show.
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Evin Donohoe: International Homewrecker
Company / Performer: Crap Dandy Productions
Date: 6-7 August, 14-15 August
Time: 5.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £6.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Last year Evin left Sydney forever. Equipped with enough passports to make Jason Bourne look like a shut-in, he's raised mischief & eyebrows smashing his way through Europe & the USA, breaking hearts & wrecking the odd home on the way. Which place will he finally call home? And when he gets there, will he wreck it? This show is action-packededness.
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Amadeus Martin Is Trying Not To Be Clever
Date: 8 - 10 August
Time: 9.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £6.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: When Amadeus Martin was a kid he stuck his cat's tail to the back of its head, so it walked around looking like a handbag. This was his first but not last attempt at trying not to be clever... An elaborate show involving fictitious observations, fake storytelling and a flipchart. By the end of his show you will be cold, hungry and asking yourself: Can a Jedi really do that to his cat?
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Craig Murray's Really Honest Travel Show - The UK
Date: 8-10 August
Time: 8.00pm
Full Price: £6.00
Conc Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Ever been driving and seen a sign to 'Gnome World', 'National Space Centre' or 'Big Fountain'? Maybe even thought ‚ one day I'll go and have a look‚ ù? Well, now you don't have to. Guided by his
routes to gigs all over the country, Craig Murray presents a frank & hilarious account of his visits to some of the UK's most intriguing tourist attractions. Kent tells stories that are full of jokes and he's very good at it.
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Kent Valentine - Sex, Maths & Eric Clapton
Date: 8-10 August
Time: 8pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £6.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Kent tells stories that are full of jokes and he's very good at it. In 2010 he won the Comedy Award & the LA Fringe Award for International performer at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. He was also nominated for best comedy at the Buxton Fringe & the Australian Comedy Review Critics Award at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Adrian Poynton - Life, Death and Birthdays
Date: 11-13 August
Time: 8pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £6.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: The award winning writer of BBC3's WHITE VAN MAN returns with a show about the awkwardness of social occasions, the overwhelming desire to celebrate everything and the crushing
disappointment of fancy dress.
Uplifting, playful and honest stand up, stories and stuff.
"A Comedy Genius" - Time Out
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Gary Colman is... very rarely rong
Date: 11-13 August
Time: 9.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: "Astonishing moments of genius" Hilarious stand-up comedy. ‚A fine solo show from an utterly
charming performer‚ TIME OUT ‚Fearlessly funny... one the hardest working and funniest comics on the circuit, he's the best deadpan act since Jack Dee so it's hardly surprising that Frank
Skinner ‚As a fan‚ A GQ ‚Highly inventive and very funny‚ FRANK SKINNER ‚ Quality Geordie stand-up‚ TNT.
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: To Be Comedians
Company / Performer: Tucked up at Knight
Date: 12-14 August
Time: 5.00pm
Full Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: A new comedy group of up and coming highly comedic comedians who are sure to make you laugh. If you are interested in seeing some of the best new comedians then this will be the perfect
evening for you. Strictly over 18's only
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Leisa Rea's (bad) Pension Plan
Company / Performer: Leisa Rea
Date: 13-14 August
Time: 6.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £7.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Brilliantly dark comedy from trouble making tosspot with no provision for the future, and little to show for the past. Losing is the new Winning.
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Strawberry and Cream's Hour Of Luxury
Company / Performer: Strawberry and Cream
Date: 14 August
Time: 8.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £6.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Two girls, two double basses, and a drummer called Meringue, Strawberry and Cream will be exploring the idea of luxury, with a Strawberry and Cream will be exploring the idea of luxury, with a
little help from their friends. Equal parts sexiness and silliness, we reckon you should come along and try this tasty treat for yourselves!
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: We Don't Care If You Like It
Company / Performer: Supercornballs
Date: 15-16 August
Time: 6.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Sketch comedy for people who don't like sketch comedy, written and performed by four women who met on a comedy writing course in 2010 and decided to stop bitching about the lack of opportunities for women in comedy and have a go themselves. Whether this is a felicitous or foolhardy decision, only time will tell...
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Evin Donohoe: International Homewrecker
Company / Performer: Crap Dandy Productions
Date: 15th August
Time: 8.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £6.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Last year Evin left Sydney forever. Equipped with enough passports to make Jason Bourne look like a shut-in, he's raised mischief & eyebrows smashing his way through Europe & the USA, breaking
hearts & wrecking the odd home on the way. Which place will he finally call home? And when he gets there, will he wreck it? This show is action-packededness.
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Bec Hill Didn't Want to Play Your Stupid Game Anyway
Date: 16-17 August
Time 8.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £6.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Bec Hill is a grown up. She does grown up things like buy free range eggs and not make eye contact on public transport. But is this really what being an adult is all about? Armed with her trusty sketch pad and overactive imagination, Bec muses on the transition from adolescence to adulthood‚ and whether she's past the point of no return...
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Mark Restuccia
Date: 16-17 August
Time: 9.30pm
Full Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: A stand-up show which make you stop whinging about stuff and jolly well appreciate what the heck you're doing with your life and give yourself a peck on the bicep. Includes puppet and mild breakdown.
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Barber and Hayward
Company / Performer: Fred Barber & Tom Hayward
Date: 17-18 August, 22-23 August
Time: 8.00pm
Full Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Like all great double acts before them: Morecambe & Wise, Laurel & Hardy, The Chuckle Brothers, Barber and Hayward will tickle your funny bones. Apart from the fact that they aren't actually
a double act. 1 hour, 2 comics. What could be funnier?
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Mike Sheer: Undergod
Date: 18-19 August
Time: 8.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
With the Atheist movement, the lunacy of cults, and endless violence in holy lands, we often look down on the religious. This debut of a solo work by Toronto comedian Mike Sheer explores our insensitivity, hypocrisy, and how God has become today’s underdog.
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Hal Cruttenden
Date: 18-21 August
Time: 9.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Following sold out shows at last year's fringe Hal's back with another hour of stand up comedy in preparation for a second national tour. It's a show jam-packed with middle class liberal moaning washed down with lashings of hypocrisy... and it's very funny.
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Chix Confidential
Company / Performer: The Spring Chix
Date: 19-21 August
Time: 5.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £5.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: The Spring Chix are back - exposing the dark, overweight underbelly of rampant youthfulness. Sexy cougars and puerile pussies purr their way into - and out of - cosmetically enhanced loveliness via comedy sketches by the writing/performing duo.
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Keep Calm And Clara On
Company / Performer: Nice 'N Spiky Comedy
Date: 19-21 August
Time: 6.30pm
Full Price: £6.00
Conc Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: A reboot and reimagining of the Ultimate Rob Deb Franchise RobA reboot and reimagining of the Ultimate Rob Deb Franchise Rob Deb Takes the Rob deb stand up comedian into the realm of Comic
Books, computer games in an hour of ThrillPower jokes. Performing at SFX weekender and Curator for ScifiLondon Comedy a ScifiNow recomendation under his utility belt , come and see the man behind
the cape!
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Rob Deb: A Comic Book Guy!
Date: 20-22 August
Time: 8.00pm
Full Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: A reboot and reimagining of the Ultimate Rob Deb Franchise RobA reboot and reimagining of the Ultimate Rob Deb Franchise Rob Deb Takes the Rob deb stand up comedian into the realm of Comic
Books, computer games in an hour of ThrillPower jokes. Performing at SFX weekender and Curator for ScifiLondon Comedy a ScifiNow recomendation under his utility belt , come and see the man behind
the cape!
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Mark Lester's Attention Span
Date: 22-23 August
Time: 9.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Songwriter Mark Lester's attention wanders through computer dating, noise pollution, famous namesakes . . . and the vegetable from hell. A versatile composer who recently discovered the
seductive allure of silly rhymes, he's performed to great acclaim in revues in Camden and elsewhere. This is his first one-man show. With guest Liza Keast.
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Luke Toulson: Laid-Back Grouch
Date: 23-25 August
Time: 8.00pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: "In terms of laughs-per-minute, the show scores well" The Daily Telegraph.
A beautifully observed and fabulously silly hour from the award-winning, Perrier nominated, 9-times veteran of the Edinburgh Festival, making his first appearance at the Camden Fringe.
"A gifted comic" The Sunday Times
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: The Pauly Show
Company / Performer: Paul F Taylor Presents
Date: 24-25 August
Time: 6.30pm
Full Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Top rated UK sitcom 'The Pauly Show' will be performed live as part of the Camden Fringe Festival. Turn up and tune in to the hilarious happenings in the life of stand-up comedian Paul F Taylor. Expect high jinks, jokes, canned laughter, audience interaction and some cheesy title music.
The Pauly Show is filmed before a live studio audience.
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Jo Romero Touched For The Very First Time
Date: 24-28 August
Time: 9.30pm
Full Price: £6.00
Conc Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Jo said goodbye drugs, alcohol & Benylin binges and emerged into a new life of Sexual intensity, naked Nigel Harman & AA Discos!... and the occasional go at Christian Dating. She emerges into a world called Reality. It hurts! ‚Fearless‚ Chortle ‚ Side splitting bitter sweet comedy‚Homovision.tv 'Enjoyable by anyone and everyone' 3 Weeks ****
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Moon Horse vs The Mars Men Of Jupiter
Company / Performer: MJ Hibbett (and Steve)
Date: 26 - 27 August
Time: 8.00pm
Full Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Moon Horse vs The Mars Men Of Jupiter' is a new two-man science fiction rock opera from the people who brought you last year's marvellous 'Dinosaur Planet', as well as indie hits like 'Hey Hey 16K'
and 'The Lesson Of The Smiths'. This show features MJ Hibbett and Steve singing, rapping, dancing, and indulging in a range of mildly lewd remarks.
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Guardian Reader
Company / Baby Chimp productions
Date: 26-28 August
Time: 6.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £6.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: The Guardian is a daily newspaper for pinkos, Marxists, tree-huggers, hippies, pacifists, proud-sluts, upper middle class pseudo-intellectuals and me. This is a stand-up show about what we
believe. Spoonfed‚ An effortlessly entertaining and witty show‚ Hairline.co.uk‚ you will struggle to find a better show at this year's Fringe.
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Show Title: Adams & Rea - Greatest Hits
Company / Performance: Sarah Adams & Leisa Rea
Date: 28 August
Time: 8pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Cheeky pluckers Sarah Adams and Leisa Rea (4 Stands Up - BBC Radio 4, Play and Record - BBC 7) are strung, gifted and back. Winners of The Musical Comedy Awards (2009), this is a chance to Winners of The Musical Comedy Awards (2009), this is a chance to see them present their greatest hits, armed with a uke, a banjo, and two guitars.
'A female Flight of the Conchords' Chortle
'Brilliantly Funny' Three Weeks
http://www.camdenhead.com/
Pirate Castle
Oval Road, London, NW1 7EA
Show Title: Mark Lester's Attention Span
Date: 2-3 August
Time: 9.30pm
Full Price: £7.50
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: Songwriter Mark Lester's attention wanders through computer dating, noise pollution, famous namesakes . . . and the vegetable from hell. A versatile composer who recently discovered the
seductive allure of silly rhymes, he's performed to great acclaim in revues in Camden and elsewhere. This is his first one-man show. With guest Liza Keast.
http://www.thepiratecastle.org/
Show Title: Screen 3: The Movie Podcast - Live!
Company / Performer: Screen 3 - Hall / Haney
Date: 24 August
Time: 8.00pm
Full Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Camden Town
Blurb: More explosive than Eat. Pray. Love! Funnier than Schindler's List! More thought provoking than Transformers 2! The UK's fastest talking movie podcast jumps out of the Internet and onto the
Camden Fringe! Join us for a heady mix of comedy and discussion, all revolving around the movies you love and love to hate. Have a listen: www.screen3.co.uk
http://www.thepiratecastle.org/
Sheephaven Bay
2-3 Mornington Street, London, NW1 7QD
Show Title: Four Women, Nine Tits
Company / Performer: Anacronym
Date: 4-5 August
Time: 5.45pm
Full Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent
Blurb: A fast-paced, feel-good, four-woman sketch show featuring eight breasts - and a special guest. Come see this musical, theatrical, anatomical comedy show from four funny friends. TWO NIGHTS
ONLY at The Sheephaven Bay, Mornington Crescent, 4-5 August. NB: There will be very little nudity.
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/34/34509/Sheephaven_Bay/Camden
Show Title: Bronagh's Big Weekend
Company / Performance: Helen O'Brien
Date: 4-6 August
Time: 7.15pm
Full Price: £7.00
Conc Price: £5.00
Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent
Blurb: The Irish Dancing Championships... our Sean's wedding... my 13th birthday... A one-woman comedy show about a mad weekend in a mad family. Think Four Weddings and a Funeral with Irish dancing and restraining orders.
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/34/34509/Sheephaven_Bay/Camden
Show Title: Jacob Edwards: Whats With That?
Date: 13-14 August
Time: 7.15pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £5.50
Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent
Blurb: Super-talented comedian Jacob Edwards proudly presents his debut solo show - an exciting blend of stand-up, smart character comedy and irreverent sketches, all in his unique surreal style. Plus, a different top-notch guest comic appearing each night!
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/34/34509/Sheephaven_Bay/Camden
Show Title: Checkley & Bush: Keep Calm and Carry On!
Date: 26-28 August
Time: 8.45pm
Full Price: £7.50
Conc Price: £6.50
Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent
Blurb: The brilliant sketch duo Checkley & Bush bring their brand new Edinburgh show "Keep Calm & Carry On" to the Camden Fringe. This 50 minute show is rammed full of original characters, fast
paced sketches and hilarious song parodies. With sell out shows and four star reviews they are are fast becoming the most talked about female duo on the circuit!
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/34/34509/Sheephaven_Bay/Camden
Booking Information for all shows: 08444 77 1000 / www.camdenfringe.org
Link to - Camden Fringe 2011 Theatre Listings
Link to - Camden Fringe Home Page