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2AM
Regulars at the Camden Fringe Festival, Solas work with the Michael Chekhov Method.
Amy De Bhrún, Miriam Babooram and Amy Hyder devise this innovative, creative explosion, which will inspire, excite and get your creative juices flowing.
Departure is at 2am, so climb aboard our creative train and fly upon the magical carpet into the theatre of the future!
A Crack In The Wall
What keeps us apart and binds us together?
We welcome you to the icon of neighbourhood, and invite you peek through the windows to encounter personal ritual, private pain and fragmented relationships.
A Crack in the Wall combines live performance, film and innovative sound to create a deeply immersive audience experience.
A Dave and Dave Show
AUDIENCE WANTED: Roguishly charming comedy duo seek attractive, vivacious, open-minded crowd, aged 16 - 160. Must have GSOH, and access to eyes and ears.
After 2008’s sell-out run, Dave & Dave are back, with a shiny new show.
“Hip, cool, seriously funny” New! Magazine
“Imaginative, inventive, very funny” Comedylounge.co.uk
A Dinner Party
Lawrence is sitting in his dining room writing a letter when there is a knock at the door. It is Michael, a man who shares past with Lawrence. As the story unfolds the history of the characters comes out and lives are torn apart in this tragic dinner party.
A Midsummer Nights Dream
Taking on every role from Puck to Bottom, veteran Shakespearean actor and comedy award winning performer Tony Howes adds a touch of the Monty Python to one of the Bard's best loved comedies.
Featured on BBC Radio 3, performed to rave reviews at the Edinburgh Festival and throughout the UK, the energetic and lovable Tony presents Shakespeare as you've never seen it before - with tap dancing and juggling thrown in. He obviously has as much fun in performing it as the youthful Bard in writing it!
Tony Howes has recently been in Emmerdale and Doctors!
A Pohutukawa Wilts
A young boy. His father. His imaginary friend.
In Aotearoa New Zealand three peoples lives are unexpectedly changed by one day and one horrible realisation. But will they learn from it?
A one man show from the other side of the world...
A Portrait of Shazia Mirza
Shazia's new show is a laugh a minute slice of ordinary life. From being brought up expected to cook and clean and nothing else to becoming a comedian, it's actually all very ordinary.
Crazy parents, psychics, discovering men, it's ordinary realizations that have happened very late but with great impact...
Adrian Poynton: Stories About People I Used To Know
Recently Adrian found a School photo. Where was everyone now? What were they doing? Who was married? Who was dead!
Finding out seemed an effort, so using info he did remember, Adrian just made it up. Now he’d like to tell you some stories about people he used to know.
Adult Child / Dead Child
Claire Dowie’s uplifting one woman show is an engaging look at mental illness and self-acceptance. Starting locked in a cupboard, ending in the park with Lady.
Katy Vans of Blurred Vision gives an open and honest performance created with Boy Who Cried’s artistic director Leah Townley.
"Gloriously touching and heart-warmingly funny" **** The Scotsman
Airswimming
Airswimming by playwright Charlotte Jones.
Performed by the acclaimed international company Aitherios Theatre.
A bewitching journey into the minds of two bedevilled and bewildered bad girls trying to be good. A dialogue between two women locked inside their own imaginations.
How do you swim if there is no water? You pretend!
Becky & Naomi: Sketchy @ Best
Becky & Naomi are back! And this time there joined by some talented pals (not the Sooty and Sweep kind.) We don't just look funny...
“Becky & Naomi work together in harmony as a duo... innovative sketch comedy, these girls are original and memorable” Fringe Review
Blonde Compassion
Welcome to the world of Srhi Srhi, L.A.'s most neurotic yoga teacher and a far cry from the peace and tranquility her London students are craving.
She's on a mission to become the worlds first ' living 'female saint by transforming her Brit students from mere mortals into radiant lotus flowers - against all odds! But can too much compassion lead to 'a fatal attraction'?
Breaking Legs
Two understudies, desperate for the limelight will do just about anything for their five minutes of fame. By fair means or foul, one of them is going on tonight.
The knives are out so watch your backs.
From the writer of the hit Christmas comedy "It's Behind You!"
Brian and Queen Tallulah's Glamorous Intergalactic Magic
Brian and Queen Tallulah are a failed 70's Blackpool duo who produce their 'magic' at working men’s clubs in Hartlepool.
The distant future 2010 - their services are needed aboard the LGC International in space!
Does 80's obsessive Captain Hann's have an alternative motive for their talent? All will be revealed!
Butoh Dance Workshop
Butoh is a contemporary dance form that emerged in Japan in the sixties but is now created worldwide. Fusing the traditional with the avant–garde, complex choreography with complete improvisation, wild physicality with meditative stillness, butoh defies easy definition and embraces paradox.
Described as a confrontational, yet poetic and non-violent dance form that evokes images of decay, fear and desperation, eroticism, ecstasy and stillness -- it connects the conscious and the unconscious.
6 hour workshop (not only for dancers, but for everybody)
Fee - £28 (the entire workshop)
or £15 (per day)
cash only – payable at workshop
For information or to register contact Ezio
eziotangini@virgilio.it
Cabaret Whore
A country and western porn star, a forgotten French diva and a talent show reject. Character comedy and original songs from Sarah-Louise Young.
“Bitingly funny... this is intelligent comedy” Broadway Baby
“A rapier wit and one of the best voices I’ve heard live this festival” Scotsgay
“An accomplished performer” Kate Copstick Scotsman
Camden Fringe 2009
Camouflage
What do you crunch if you don't have credit? How can you economize and not demoralize? Annie lives on a park bench making a living shaking a tin at passers by, Rosemary lives on Millionaires Row with her fat cat husband. Each is exactly what they seem... or are they?
CANCELLED Dan Tetsell's Waterloo CANCELLED
Ever wanted to see an award-winning comedian re-enact a 19th century battle? No? Then don't come and see this hilarious gunpowder-drenched new show from the star of R4's The Museum of Everything and BBC2's Lab Rats and We Are History. "
Smart, clever and very very funny" The Observer
CANCELLED The Spamhaus Project CANCELLED
Incorporating the techniques physical comedy such as slap-stick, and pure ensemble work, The Spamhaus Project is an irreverent look at the messages in the spam emails we all get every day.
Who is the bank manager from Ouagadoogoo? What does he want? What happens to his victims, and, above all... what is the Spamhaus Project going to do about this invasion?
Cleopatra's Gone!
Bruised Peach in association with Stuffed Animals Media (three weeks editor’s choice award top ten venues Edinburgh Festival 2008) Present Cleopatra’s Gone!
A fast paced black comedy set in the frightening and sometimes violent world of Amateur dramatics!!! John Godber’s Bouncers meets Marie Jones Stones in his Pockets.
Comecidal Lolocaust
Fresh and tart stand-up comedy from the inimitable Rose Watt (slapstick ninja mistress), the incomparable Holly Burns (scientist and fashionista), and the irredeemable Del Des Anges (do not feed or disturb).
Please allow plenty of time for digestion: fairy cakes offered to survivors, suitable for 15+
Comedy Job Lot
A grab bag of songs, sketches and stand-up from the up-and-coming comedy duo Doggett and Ephgrave. An hour-long insight into their slightly skewed take on the world.
“Doggett and Ephgrave have hit on a great set-up for cringe comedy” Fest
“Humorously quirky” Three Weeks
Coo Comedy Camden
Did you know there are more small creatures with legs on your skin than there are human beings on earth? Forget about it at Coo Comedy Camden! We’ve lots of funny two-legged creatures who are very good at stand up and musical comedy.
Free sweeties. www.myspace.com/coocomedyclub
Creating Comedy: Your First Five Minute Set
Want to write five minutes of stand-up? You might have done loads of comedy already, you might be brand new, but during this ideas generating, playful and stimulating workshop you shall get a chance to speed write, improvise and test some new stories, jokes, memories, poems and songs. You will leave with a pocket full of inspiration, to work on further when you get home!
Sara Pascoe came runner up in both So You Think You're Funny? and Funny Women competitions 2008, was named one of Time Out's Rising star's of Comedy 2009, and has performed her solo show at The Soho Theatre as well as supporting Ardal O'Hanlon on Tour.
Only £4.50 - Places are limited so book early!
Do Look Back in Anger
Ever wondered what Hamlet or Alison Porter do in their downtime?
Or what dilemmas keep Lady Macbeth, Babydoll or Wuthering Heights’ Cathy awake at night?
This new play from NOT Stalking David Tennant’s creator explores the exciting possibilities of what might happen in the margins of literature’s greatest works.
Don't Ask The Lady...!
Join cabaret artist Julie Ross in a unique celebration of 20th century female songwriters.
Through her ‘special blend of humorous and touching cabaret’, discover rarely heard gems, and ‘classics’ that are still as popular today as when they were first written.
Featuring Nathan Martin at the piano.
“Ross… holds her audience spellbound.” aussietheatre.com
Double Bill: A Master Class in Acting / McNeil and Pamphilon
Sketch and Character Comedy.
Between them, these three have appeared on BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Warner Bros' ComedyBox, Funny or Die, the 2008 Funny Women finals and the 2007 if.comedy winning show.
For goodness sake, don't miss this beautifully diverse new comedy show from three up and coming performers.
Down - a
Butoh performance about diversity, inspired by The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare.
Danced by Flavia Ghisalberti and Ezio Tangini.
Music by Frank Heierli.
Down-a is about the guilt of the human soul. Difference and folly are acts of revolt in a homogenised, intolerant and repressive society. Each character is, in his own way, a distinct soul entrapped in a guilty net.
Dummies
If the machines of the modern world turned you into a ‘dummy’, would you stay silent, or learn to speak again?
Featuring ‘Stomunculus the Homunculus’, ‘Dr.Shaboo the Shambolical Shaman’, and many more, Dummies is a radical rag-bag stuffed with puppets, clowns, automata and porridge, colliding sense with nonsense, adulthood with infancy, sanity with madness.
Eddy Brimson: Kids!... I couldn't Eat a Whole One
International stand-up comedian Eddy Brimson on the the joy of living a childfree existence.
“He manipulates the mixture of laughs and pseudo-shock masterfully... as the philosopher once said: ‘It’s the way you tell ’em’ – and Brimson certainly tells ’em with confident style” Chortle
“The crowd loved him” The Guardian
Edes Hus / Sweet Flesh
It's the story of Romeo and Juliet, except that it's just Juliet.
We perform her with two actresses, two languages, singing and various interpretations – these include girl, woman, ghost, demon and lover.
You are invited to come and search amongst these fragments of Juliet. Perhaps you'll find one that corresponds to a fragment of you.
Faultless and Torrance in a night of shining armour
Edinburgh Fringe favourites bring their twisted daft comedy to a room above a Camden pub. Perfect Summer Entertainment.
The quotes don't lie.
"Brilliant... genuinely funny... hilarious... frankly quite frightening" Chortle
"A fun way to spend an hour" Scotsman
"Very very funny... inspired" Scotsgay
"Hysterically funny yet strangely endearing" Three Weeks
Flavio, Medium De Los Muertos (Medium Of The Dead)
Flavio, Medium de los Muertos (Medium of the Dead), is a one man show, heartfelt comedy.
Flavio, a gifted Medium, not only speaks to the dead, but allows them to come through his body. The dead come alive with something to say about life. In English.
“Favorite of the Week… ingenious" MetroMix, Los Angeles
Fleshpro Comedy Impro
Two teams, a ref and a gas mask. Impro comedy... but funny.
"I laughed a LOT, what more could you ask" **** Remote Goat, Camden Fringe 2008
Follow the Hoopla
Comedy Impro. Whose Line is it Anyway? style improvised scenes, sketches and songs based on audience suggestions.
Hoopla are the resident impro group at The Bedford, South London’s leading comedy venue. Free pic n’ mix included on entry! www.HooplaImpro.com.
Four Monks and a Nun: The Ten Commandments
“Guffaw with God... Four Monks And A Nun return with a new show!” London Lite.
After a stunningly successful Camden Fringe run last year, Four Monks And A Nun give The Ten Commandments the comedy sketch treatment (ten sketches guaranteed)!
“That rarest of things in comedy – a Christian sketchgroup” Time Out.
Funny Women Awards
Funny Women is searching for the brightest new female comedy talent in the UK. Come and check out the best new acts competing to perform at the national final this autumn.
'If this is the future of womanly comedy, then it's in safe, exciting hands.' Tim Arthur, Time Out.
'A superb champion of talent' Shane Allen, Channel 4 Comedy.
Gary Colman is Very Rarely Rong
So... I’m the only comic to serve with the SAS... to compete in the British Snowboarding Championship and to hold a qualification in gynaecology.
“Not so much a ‘life’... more an overly elaborate suicide attempt”. But Len disagrees. Gary rarely admits he’s wrong... but tonight... he just might have to.
“Hilariously funny” The London Paper
God Lost
The award-winning Ten in a Bed present God Lost, a double-bill of blackly comic new plays exploring loss, death, deceit and the afterlife.
Butcher's Dozen sees a little curiosity lead a young man into a web of dangerous obsession.
In The Position, Michael finds that death is only the beginning. Of the paperwork.
Grimms
As a foolish girl nibbles daintily on a poisoned apple, two sisters hack at their hideous feet, and a sly wolf explores the simple delights of donning women's attire.
A witty, visually rich, high energy adaptation lovingly scooped from the combined imaginations of the Brother's Grimm and eight talented performers.
Happy Being as Happy as I Am
You’ve made a decision and everything that follows will be affected by that decision. If you hadn’t made it, made a different decision, every thing that followed that would be affected by that decision. So you see it’s not god or fate or anything that makes things happen. It’s other things that happen. That make things happen.
This is a play.
Him
Witness the birth of a dark comedy film from the critically-acclaimed writer of ‘The Intimate Strangers’. This is a live cast read-through and workshop of the script in which the audience are encouraged to give feedback.
Warning: May Contain Bunting.
House Party!
Join London cabaret crooner David Mills for a rollicking, gin-soaked House Party!
Mills' signature, cutting repartee and subversive pop re-inventions make for an irrepressible bitchfest.
Barbed bon mots fly fast at this soiree so buckle-up!
"His talent for whip-cracking one liners is audaciously thrilling" Time Out
Id
Look into my eyes, what do you see? A reflection of yourself or the real me?
Id is a surrealistic exploration of the internal workings of a fractured mind. Where nothing is real and the universe responds to suggestion.
Escape into the cerebral rollercoaster and see what you discover.
If You Dare Show
The If You Dare Show promises amazing performances from the hottest new talent in town. Join our scintillating Sunday Session for a mash up of poetry, comedy, music and mayhem. Come along and get involved, if... you... dare!
Is This My Art?
Theatre: Who am I? I am whoever you want me to be. My whole past can be manipulated through a series of filters, so is what I choose to tell a revelation of myself?
A lone woman shares her past, revealing truths, which goes hand in hand with many lies.
James Haslam - Gays Upon Uranus
Apparently Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus - so what F-ing planet are gay people on?
Join raconteur James Haslam on his search for the Pink Planet. A personal exploration of his existence as a gay man; where he fits in with the genders, sexes and other strange new life forms!
James Mullinger is the Bad Boy of Feminism
James Mullinger proudly studied feminism at university but his stand-up career has been plagued by accusations of misogyny.
The comedian that Jimmy Carr described as “very funny” and Time Out declared to be “excellent, hugely likable & skillful” presents a brand new show and asks, Can he still call himself a feminist?
Jude Simpson: Making Happy
Jude Simpson (“hilarious” - Guardian) returns with her unique blend of observational comedy, witty wordplay, poetry, rap and song.
From poems on the clichés of falling in love to a song honouring the humble spleen, Jude explores our haphazard pursuit of happiness - “will leave you feeling warm inside and content with the world.”– SkinnyFest
Juliet Meyers: My Life in Your Hands
Should you let your one-legged squash opponent win? Who’s better – Neanderthal or new age man? How best to annoy the BNP? Is revenge always wrong?
Come and VOTE on Juliet’s destiny in this stand-up show (with sketches) about everything*!
“wonderfully bizarre ideas” chortle.co.uk.
“Excellent” Time Out Comedy editor
*almost!
Lady in Bed
Written and performed by Alison Goldie, directed by Laura Lloyd.
A quest for love and sexual adventure from the 1970’s to the present, Lady in Bed is a one-woman Sex in the City... and it’s all true.
"Funny and touching with fabulous pithy observations on life… a brilliant piece of theatre" Helen Abbey, BBC Online
See: http://ladyinbed.wordpress.com for more
Leatherface
By Helmut Krausser.
'I am Leatherface! The man with the chainsaw! I want to order pizza!'
Based on true events, this is the story of a poet's obsession with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. This translation offers the opportunity to see the work of one of Germany's most exciting writers
Les Chaises
Can Chairs challenge, teach and entertain?
Lumenis is bringing together 3 writers to give their take on how we use chairs in a literal or a surreal way.
Using drama, dark comedy, physical theatre and acrobatics the 3 plays investigate honour, loss, relationship issues, our attachment to the past etc, and look at this everyday object and its hidden and whimsical sides.
Let's Go Back to Checkley Bush
Take an all singing French and Saunders mixed with The Two Ronnie’s. Add a shot of Victoria Wood with a camp and dark twist. Whack in a blender, pour out into your best cocktail glass...
Voila! A "CHECKLEY BUSH"!
Sold out at The Soho and Canal Cafe, 20 comedy sketches rammed into just 1 hour!
Live Book Tour
Enter the world of powerful rajas and beautiful ranis. Marvel at the thousand eyes of a peacock’s tail and listen to the hissing bite of the quick-tempered cobra.
Vayu Naidu Company, in collaboration with Tulika publishers, offers a slice of interactive storytelling for children and families.
Through rhyme and rhythm, call and response, a selection of Indian stories are brought to life to engage the wandering imaginations of a summer afternoon.
AGE: 5 years +
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Exciting all female absurdist theatre company Get Over It Productions are back for a third year running with their extraordinary version of ‘Macbeth’.
A tragic love story full of ambition, superstition and revenge, sprinkled with all the stardust and glitter of a 70’s glam-fest!
“Fame and glory awaits” Camden New Journal
Mapped
Mapped incorporates music, poetry and twisting narratives in a performance rooted in the city, exploring fleeting moments and chance glances that connect us.
Blurring the lines between lives and locations, The Scatter Collective ask - do brief encounters really exist, or are we just dreamers in the corners of our own maps?
Mascha and Vascha
I’ve lived a thousand and one lives between now and then... an outrageously hilarious tragicomedy of two ancient women at the ends of the earth.
Dreaming of donkeys, soap and the Cosmos, they fight their way through a long long day and keep looking for a fresh mountain spring.
Merriweather
The story of Shakespeare’s company – over the course of sixty minutes, Merriweather plays forty or more characters, some real, others Will’s own in their finest speeches.
Hilariously funny, hair-raising, bloody and poignantly sad, ‘Merriweather’ is a great night out for lovers of The Bard and newcomers to Shakespeare alike.
Monsieur Proust and his Stripper
A new play that reveals the darker side of Marcel Proust’s sex life - consisting of young boy strippers and wild rats!
You don’t need to know Proust to enter the underground world of Gay Paris.
Remembrances of things past - not till you get your kit off !
Mr and Mrs
Stand-up comedians are difficult people. They love adversity, they love controversy, but above all, they love themselves - so what if two comedians got married?
Aaron Counter and Liz Stephens did. Then they wrote a show about it... but can they share the limelight?
Marriage - it's a funny thing.
No More Wirehangers
A one-hour long one-woman variety show of poetry, song and theatre, written and performed by Lucy Leagrave, ‘No More Wire-hangers’ is a spectacular frolic through the rise, downfall and comeback of ageing Hollywood legend Ada Bloomsbury.
A hysterical, engaging and extravagant hour show-casing original material and old classics.
OAPz
When the NHS threaten their sheltered home, the remaining residents are left with only one option: form a band to win a lucrative TV talent competition.
But ‘OAPz’ must battle more than age and prejudice in their attempts to secure their home, they must rewrite the rules of hip hop.
On The Cusp
A fantastical journey of the performer confronting her fears and hopes of meeting the person she fears most.
As an Israeli and a new British citizen, the show reveals aspects of her background and current state, her persistent longing to meet her female counterpart and of what both sides represent.
This magical-realism piece incorporates object manipulation, movement, text and mask work.
Optimism
Based on Voltaire's Candide, Optimism follows a young man as he travels around the world and suffers innumerable ills, all the while espousing the theory that 'this is the best of all possible worlds'.
Square Moon blend puppetry and storytelling with the original satire to create a fresh and funny new adaptation.
Oscar Wilde's Salome
Originally performed in France due to the censorship on the British stage Wilde’s Salomé, a radical retelling of the famous temptress and her dance of the seven veils inspires this, the next in the Lazarus Cannon.
LOVE, SEX, PASSION.
Through the use of movement, text, an original score and the large ensemble of twenty actors we present this the most seductive and sensual of Wilde’s plays.
Pantry Manor: The Ghost of Badgers Wood
Murder and mayhem are the latest fashion at Atalanta Boutique. Among the knitwear and Kaftans true horror lurks... Will Joyce inherit Pantry Manor from her late husband? What do Jassie's visions of the ghost of Badger's Wood mean and where does Mrs White keep Knobby’s french fancies?
All will be revealed in this thrilling LIVE version of the cult online soap.
Pistols and Pansies
Created through ‘Visual Verbatim’ five innocent Beckettian clowns meet, play, love and terrorise each other in a touching combination of physical-theatre and harsh dialogue.
Transforming worlds whilst questioning our human justification for tragic events... the rest, as they say, is silence...
Deaf and Hearing Accessible.
Plastic Fantastic Tale
2039... a plastic fantastic planet! You can stay present and you can travel to the future.
But... something went wrong: you can’t access the past...
What happens when we do something as mundane as buying a fizzy drink in a plastic bottle? Plastic Fantastic Tale will tell you.
Playing Fate
Do we choose our fated cards or are they dealt for us?
H and Gem are living in the comfort of the past but hurting for the future. The play reverses time as the audience are taken on a backward journey of the moments leading up to the couple’s breaking point.
Policy Wonk International
A good idea can change the world. How many have you had today? Policy Wonk International had 427. The world’s most influential think tank advises politicians, bankers, celebrities. Watch them imaginate. Learn something, dimbos.
"Charming, funny and similar to the Fast Show" Scotsman.
"Quirky, original and jolly fun" Chortle.
Product Medea 4.0
In this brutally ironic spin on a classic tale, Medea is uprooted from ancient myth and thrust into a modern corporate world, where her tragedy is repackaged by a professional marketing team and sold, quite literally, to the highest bidder...
Pros From Dover II
**** “The Pros tear apart the idea that good sketch comedy is dead. It is alive and kicking.” Such Small Portions
***** “A truly exceptional show… fresh, brilliant and exciting… The Pros From Dover are top of the pile.” The National Student
**** “Wildly Hysterical… these guys truly are pros.” The List
Ra-Ther!
When a gap came up at The Etcetera, who better to fill it than Camden’s newest cabaret show “Ra-ther!”
The brainchild of comedian and promoter Paul B. Edwards, it’s a night full of surprises featuring top quality comics, amazing magicians and beautiful burlesque dancers. You won’t get more fun packed into an hour ANYWHERE so come and see what all the fuss is about!
18+ ONE NIGHT ONLY.
More info www.groups.to/ra-ther www.myspace.com/ra_ther
Rob Is
One man’s tale of unrequited love, his online crusade against the news becoming just another entertainment programme and the frustrations associated with pedal bins.
‘Rob Is’ is a new play from award winning writer Trent Burton and makes its world premiere at the Camden Fringe Festival starring Matthew Wade and Rayyah McCaul.
Robin Ince versus the Moral Majority
Who was right – Orwell or Huxley? Are we amusing ourselves to death?
Angry tirades, then quiet musings.
“Clever comedy by a witty man for smart people” The List.
Idiots may enjoy too.
“When someone writes a history of modern comedy, they should make room for Robin Ince” The Guardian.
Contains facetiousness.
Robin Ince's School for Gifted Children
It’s back, for two nights only.
"Under the intelligent design of Robin Ince, SFGC has evolved as a celebration of knowledge in all its forms." Chortle
"A stimulating, innovative alternative to the stag-and-hen hells that numerous stand-up clubs have become." Evening Standard
"A truly alternative evening run by a unique talent." Time Out
Guest to include BEN GOLDACRE, SIMON SINGH, ANDREW COLLINS and NATALIE HAYNES .
Rosie Wilby and the Science of Sex
Funny Women Finalist investigates the science of attraction, sexual chemistry and sexual identity with spoof experiments and handmade props.
What makes us gay or straight? What turns us on? What are pheromones? Why do we kiss?
"Excellent" Time Out
"Hilarious from start to finish" Insidecomedy.co.uk
S1L3NC3: Mind Reading & Reality Abuse
S1L3NC3 is a stunning and deeply thought provoking display of the capabilities of the human mind. You will experience a series of explorations into the boundaries of human control, communication and interaction.
This show is not for minors or the faint hearted.
Safe House
Written by Eamon McDonnell
Everybody enjoys a drink but nobody enjoys an alcoholic.
In a spectacular drama of kindness, cruelty and cocktails, Johnnie Othringshaw struggles to clutch at reality with a mind so disconnected that his past becomes inseparable from his present. Good job he’s got a sense of humour...
Scott Capurro Goes Much Deeper
Leave it to constipated American stand up comic Scott Capurro to ask the tough questions about race and gays and women and racing gay women.
Are kids ever really missing? Does the swine flu prove that Jews are right? Can the homeless get hotter? And when will Obama wipe off the make up?
Bring painkillers cuz this one’s gonna hurt.
Screamarama: Fear and Loathing in Great Yarmouth
Its difficult to get that big break when you go boo for a living, your 'terrified' audience made up of over friendly Americans.
But all is about to change for the staff of Norwich's answer to The London Dungeon, Norfolk Born Killers are out for revenge, Music, Mayhem & Murder.
Senza Lamento (Without Lament)
Senza Lamento is a physical theatre performance that revolves around an imaginary encounter between two images of the same person; one past and one present.
Their relationship explores the emotional impact of the inevitable changes that every person experiences throughout the years, and the impossibility of turning back the time once lost.
Seven Colours
Truth comes in Seven Colours... a surreal comedy-drama about truth, ambition, self-delusion and the urge to show off in public. Locked in a room for two weeks with no script and a director who stays in the shadows, six desperate performers struggle to find... the truth.
www.folduptheatre.com
SH!T
Eadie is old
She is helpless
She has just one weapon
Shit!
Tom
wants to “reach” Edie.
He stirs memories... but just what has he awakened?
Eadie is a Lady. Eadie has class - with a capital K
Her story comes to life,
with laughter, tears and a vivid theatricality
Shaft
I want you to be a good boy and look in all the wrong places.
In the lapdancing club they play the ultimate fantasy. In the changing rooms the illusion is stripped bare.
SHAFT a new comic drama based on real events. Just who exactly is paying for the pleasure?
Simon Amstell - Do Nothing
Hello.
Like everyone else, Simon Amstell will die. However before that , he will be performing Stand up comedy in this theatre. Please do not attend if the date clashes with something in your own life. Thank you. Goodbye.
"intellectually sophisticated, engagingly honest, genuinely accomplished stand-up" The Scotsman
"Amstell shows off a more tender side and delves into his inner life to expose an unexpected sensitivity" The Guardian
Sinbad
Sinbad has survived shipwrecks and cannibals but would he murder a woman in cold blood?
Scheherazade is an international company (graduates of Sacha Baron Cohen’s school - Ecole Philippe Gaulier) who will combine clowning, circus and an exploration of cultural relativism to unearth the dark heart of this Arabian Nights story. 8+
Sleazy Jet Musical
BRANSON in SLEAZY JET Scandal.
Hold on to your seats and oxygen MASKS as Trophy Wife Virginia Branson wants a new husband.
EXOTIC destinations and pilots become her schedule. Flight plans turn into MILE HIGH. Her prize won’t be won on AUTO-PILOT.
Don’t miss this MUSICAL flight of your life!
Soft Cabaret
Darren Hoskins, of "Soft Cabaret"- Storyteller, Stand-up, interactive Improviser, physical Fool - tells lies, life-stories and never-happened histories, using props, puns and illogical alliteration.
Mixing the Brothers Grimm with the Brothers Marx.
A shape-throwing stand-up, channeling Kenneth Williams on Jackanory tying the Arabian Knights in knots.
Super Birds Are Go!
‘4get the youf kulture’ – Welcome to the world of the mature modern woman!
A whistle-stop tour of the madness, frustrations and joy of life in the noughties. Two female actor/writers perform their own work in a series of comedy sketches.
Forget the Horlicks, mine’s a large gin.
Super-Slick Summer Blockbusters
Tired of super-slick summer blockbusters? Overworked, underpaid and desperate? Join like-minded individuals for a buzzard of comedy sketches, "blasphemous, full of sexual references, generally off-colour and without a doubt hilarious".
Like crack cocaine. But at a fraction of the cost! And with none of the effects. I'm Ron Burgundy?
The Common Good
By Warren Drew.
Directed by Jaclyn McLoughlin.
‘Nuclear fallout – a disagreement between Nature and Man’. Trees are wrapped in cellophane, villages are buried and pets are slaughtered. It could so easily have been a folktale... but it was not.
As Chernobyl smoulders, the local community must come to terms with what the disaster means - the destruction of a powerplant or an entire system of values?
The Dearly Beloved
Written by Arjav Chauhan.
Directed by Charles Akuruka.
Welcome to the Dearly Beloved Funeral Home. We are pleased to make your acquaintance. We are not your ordinary funeral home, unless your idea of ordinary includes talking corpses, musical numbers and inappropriate humour!
Prepare for drama, comedy, music, dance, and an answer to the meaning of life...
The Final Session
UK premiere of this griping psychological thriller by Venezuelan playwright Johnny Gavlovski.
When a national emergency obscures an unspeakable crime, desire meets betrayal in the lives of a psychiatrist, his wife and their gardener.
This play reveals how presumed normality of middle class life can be the most dangerous condition of all.
The Frog Morris Revue
Frog Morris presents a unique revue of comedy, music, fortune telling, dog handling, onstage Action Painting and poetry about pig breeding, accompanied by a select choice of special guests.
Well established in the fine art circles, Frog’s eccentric brand of performance has appeared in museums, galleries and festivals across Europe.
The Gay Liars
When not bumming & fibbing, Butler & Rice are hetrosexualist truth-tellists.
Their delusional confidence in their storytelling skills led them to perform comedy sketches which have really been something. Geocide based call-centres and a rare interview with urban artist Banksy.
The gay liars said they bummed you; did they?
The Golem
Broken Glass Theatre Company presents an original adaptation of Gustav Meyrink's classic novel, following apparitions of the golem in the Jewish ghetto of late 19th century Prague.
Music, drama and physical theatre combine to tell a tale of dark, transformative powers.
The Human Conditioner
Award-winning sketch group In The Meantime... present their latest tour-de-force performance The Human Conditioner, in which supple hands will nurture, caress and tone the broken shards of your psyche leaving you refreshed and invigorated, ready to see the truth about being a being.
The Intimate Strangers - I am Sasha Fierce
Brand new sketch comedy from The Intimate Strangers.
Featuring the all-singing, all-dancing James Bond musical ‘Casinos are Forever’, oh yes.
"A thing of beauty, smart, funny and original" – Remotegoat
"Hilarious. Very, very funny!" – Oxfringe
"Hot on the heels of Little Britain" – Esher News & Mail
The Life & Times of Lucifer Helmut Vaginis
If you had a son 13 years your junior who wanted you castrated; if you had been a goth and a telesalesman and a refugee; and if everyone you knew died when you were ten, being named Lucifer Helmut Vaginis should be the least of your problems.
Unless it was the reason for all of them.
The Lonely Hearts Club
Following the hugely successful, sell-out run at Volupte, Spilt Milk present two comedy shorts of heartbreak and obsession written by the hottest writers in town!
Dummer by James Riches
A ventriloquist wants to take his act in a new direction. His dummy has other ideas.
For A Button by Rachel Barnett
May finds love through the pursuit of a button. Will Amy's jealousy be there undoing?
"***** Witty, clever and highly engaging...a must see!' RemoteGoat
"**** The quality of the performances alone ought to tempt you... very funny!" Time Out
The Night Keeper
In a mysterious museum, Maggie stumbles through a magical dustbin into a secret wing. Can the museum’s Night Keeper convince her that history is more than a load of old rubbish?
Striking visuals, puppetry, live music and a lot of mess conjure up the final part of Gomito’s trilogy for children.
The Pigeon Affair
Introducing a gallery of comic characters that tell the chaotic tale of one man terrorised by a pigeon.
This new, one man theatre, show is inspired by and based, very loosely, on Patrick Suskind's novel 'The Pigeon'.
The Pros From Dover
**** “The Pros tear apart the idea that good sketch comedy is dead. It is alive and kicking.” Such Small Portions
***** “A truly exceptional show… fresh, brilliant and exciting... The Pros From Dover are top of the pile.” The National Student
**** “Wildly Hysterical... these guys truly are pros.” The List
The Quiz That Ate My Brain
Is it a pub quiz? Is It a comedy night? No. It’s both you numpty!
Hosted by Adrian Poynton.
Different comedians set the questions on subjects of their choice. It’s competitive; it’s hilarious and it’s the pub quiz you’ve been waiting for.
Is you’re quiz team brave enough? Bring it!
Tickets are £4 per person and teams can be a maximum of 5 people.
The Regina Monologues
Elizabeth Tudor, the sole survivor of her dynasty, narrates their remarkable rise. Dare we trust her bawdy, irreverant spin on the politics of power? Did this "virgin" fare better than modern leaders and celebrities in protecting her image from scandal and ridicule?
Robert Inston plays the Queen... but where is his Lady in Waiting...?
The Reunion
Two pashmina clad journalists struggle to conjure the necessary blood, tears and tantrums needed to make the perfect reality documentary about a school reunion.
Armed with sketches, comedy songs, jokes and a gossip column full of characters this silky duo produces a ‘hot off the press’ physical comedy exclusive.
The Three Musketeers
Written and performed by Judith Faultless and Alys Torrance.
Directed by Owen Lewis - Designed by Simon Scullion.
Two idiots play all four of the three musketeers. With Radio 4’s Faultless and Torrance.
This brilliant double-act bring you Dumas’ beloved classic shoe-horned into an hour of absurd physical comedy. All for One and One for All! Entirely appropriate for adults.
"Extremely funny… you wouldn't want to miss this show" One4Review ****
"A fast-paced flourish of plumes and rapiers… good, silly fun." Three Weeks
"Whimsical, light-hearted version of Dumas' classic tale... very tongue in cheek and delivered with gusto." The Stage
"The pair steam through an abbreviated version of Alexandre Dumas's 1844 tale, taking on all the roles with gusto and dressed in equally ridiculous ensembles." Metro
"Wonderful silliness taken to extremes by this most unlikely of duos" **** Chortle
One night only - don't miss it.
The Trap 2009 Comeback Special
After three years blessed silence, Edinburgh Fringe favourites The Trap return to bring you what will undoubtedly be the most important hour of your life.
“Extremely funny” The Guardian
“Sheer comedic genius” The Scotsman
"Breathtakingly funny... the apex of comic invention" Chortle
So. Well. This is awkward...
The Wisdom of Wozzan
Former cult leader 'Wozzan' explains how it feels to be the sole survivor of a mass suicide pact who'd like to believe his life was saved by messianic powers, but suspects that he might just have swallowed the wrong pills...
Surreal character comedy from So You Think You're funny? 2008 Semi-finalist Aaron Anderson.
Their Second Show
The Hammond’s are back with a brand new show featuring their own special blend of anarchic, surreal and borderline offensive sketch comedy.
Definately do not miss this show, it goes well with vodka.
"A truly adult, late night sketch show – Recommended" Time Out
This is a Chair
Twitter, blogging, voicemail, text, email, mms... The banalities and the extremes; the ease with which we can communicate and the difficulty to talk, the underlying tensions with unknown sources.
City life.
10 years after the original, RandomAct Theatre present Caryl Churchill’s new version of This is A Chair for 2009.
Thomas Neumark! Live!
Thomas Neumark is an award winning stand up comic.
Catch his hilarious new show, Thomas Neumark! Live! in which he asks the questions that no one else dares, questions like - is putting crack in someone’s glade plug-in a good way to drive them mad?
"an engagingly relaxed style” Steve Bennett, Chortle.co.uk
Three Shit Hot Shorts by Dean Stalham
Time Out’s “Tip for the top”, Stalham follows Camden 2008’s sell-out success with three blistering new shorts.
Featuring Alexandra Boyd (Coronation Street), Claire Keelan (No Heroics, Nathan Barley) and director Pam Brighton (Artistic Director, Dubbeljoint).
**** “A brilliant new playwright... Pinter on speed” - Time Out (Sporadicity, Hen & Chickens)
Tom and Berry
Fast paced character comedy in an all new show from Tom Verrall, supported by Nicola Berry.
Tom was joint winner of the Scotland on Sunday Award for Best Group at the Edinburgh Fringe 2007.
May contain adult humour, will contain mirth and madness!
Tom Price: My Favourite Misteaks
Everything goes wrong.
To celebrate, a brand new stand up show from the man who brought you Puppyclub (failed gang), the Disco Waistcoat (early clothing blunder), and Bad Luck Pants. He can’t laugh about any of this yet, but you can.
“One to watch” Chortle.co.uk
“He probably did the right thing” Morrissey.
Tom Tit Tot
I’m going camping - but I’ve forgotten my tent! Never mind, I’ll sit under my big umbrella and tell you a story.
An English folktale about spinning. Like Rumplestiltskin. But with some surprising twists! Sparkling object puppetry and storytelling for ages 2-10.
“Big imagination with a few things”-Jean September, British Council
Tony Law’s Illogical Edinburgh Festival Avoidance
As seen on Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle (BBC2). Join award-winning Tony Law for an hour of laughs, half-baked ideas and sausage dog jokes. He’ll even tack on a vague theme so it seems like he’s making a point (he’s not). Funny. For an hour. Easy.
“hugely entertaining” Time Out
“terrific... effortless” The Independent
Twinless
Formerly of comedy double act Mono-Z, the recent death of her professional partner and twin sister has left Charlotte Young traumatised, destitute and with an hour to fill.
Companionless, she now pieces together the tattered remnants of their unique life, and her siblings’ untimely demise at Watford Gap motorway services.
Twisted Fudge
Dark, controversial and downright hilarious, Twisted Fudge aims to drag you into a cesspit of comedy genius.
Showcasing the freshest writing and performing talent in London, this is a live sketch show with a twist.
Prepare to be shocked by this observational whore of a show... you have been warned!
Under the Arabian Moon
Seductive Stories from the Arabian Nights retold by Leon Conrad.
In sixty minutes, kings; princes; merchants; eunuchs are enchanted by love. Queens; princesses; servants; slaves find new power granted them by their admirers. Complex gender games unfold, with both sides captivated by each others’ wiles… Under the Arabian Moon.
Vera and the Sea
Vera, a shipping accident survivor, and her husband Albert go on holiday to Dorset. Joined by her sister-in-law, it is there that the past comes back to haunt her, leading to the discovery of a family secret.
An atmospheric drama set in the first decade of the 20th century, showing how secrets of the past come back to haunt their victims.
Was Hitlers Dog a Gay?
Much has been written about Hitler and his goings on during the second world war, but very little has been written about his dog. In this gripping new play we piece together the evidence and ask the question, was Hitlers dog a gay?
"A gripping roller coaster ride and tour de force" Tour de Force Productions
"Will leave the third reich quaking in their boots" Tour de Force Productions
"Catch it before it's on at the national" Tour de Force Productions
We Need to Talk about Bonnets
Gráinne Maguire (Hackney Empire Finalist, Leicester Comedian of the Year Finalist, Funny Women Finalist , Laughing Horse Finalist) proudly presents her first hour show.
Love, heartbreak, Gráinne tackles all the issues plus that all important question - What would Jane Eyre do?
“Has a big future ahead of her” Time Out
Sponsered by Angels Fancy Dress. See www.fancydress.com.
Welcome
‘Welcome’ by ‘My Little Theatre Company’ is a new play written by Lucy Corbett which follows the story of Maria, a young woman whose husband has recently died.
The play is both gently moving and boldly unsentimental as it charts her uncertain and unwilling transition from woman to widow.
Yoga for performers - Perform to the best of your ability
You Beautiful Ewe
Baahber-shopping ewes, a rather dishy ram, a zealously knitting farmer’s wife, and a crooning wolf combine amidst many a misunderstanding in The Scenic Route’s magical new musical for the under 7s.
Through a delightful comic score we experience love, loss, conquering our fears and…sheep shearing!
"delightful, witty and stylish production... enchanting" Adam Taylor, Rogues and Vagabonds
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