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IONA LOTT IS YOUNG AND HOT

10 July

Iona Lott is young, hot and fun, and she wants to stay that way forever.

However she has a problem. Iona just can’t seem to stop aging! When Iona reads the first half of Oscar Wilde’s A Picture of Dorian Gray, she is hit with a stroke of genius. She’s inviting esteemed artists (the audience) to draw the perfect portrait of her, one so beautiful she’s willing to sell her soul. Part theatre, part life drawing. Paper/pencils will be supplied, but your own sketchbooks are welcome too.

WILL & NOAH: DINNER DINNER CHICKEN WINNER

11 July

Fresh from being crowned ‘Best Sketch Act’ at SketchFest 2026, Will & Noah invite crowds – losers welcome – to join them for an hour in which they will celebrate life’s unsung heroes and zeroes.

BEST SKETCH ACT – Sketchfest 2026 (Canal Café Theatre and Hen & Chickens)

Wanna feel like a winner for one hour of your miserable, worthless life? Join perennial losers Will and Noah for sketches, songs and a gazillion trophies in this award-winning show* (*show about winning awards)! Under our roof, all winners are created equal: U13s player of the season, app of the year, soup of the day, oldest man, Nobel pizza prize, Sunday best, Monday worst, longest time survived in lion cage (our money’s on the lion) and many more…

DOGS IN OFFICE

22, 24 and 25 July

One man who’s all bark, one dog who’s all bite, and only one mayoral seat… who will win the fight?

Working Girls Theatre Company and Very Shallow Viewing presents Dogs In Office, a brand spanking new comedy written by Jaymee-Leigh Thackray; directed by Tom Beattie and Harry Longbottom.

This buzzy new show is packed with barking mad energy and served with a side of political sleaze.

Things just can’t seem to go right for Mayor Nicholas Toots! His ingenious idea to demolish a local green space doesn’t go down too well with the masses at the local parish; chaos ensues when his fiercest competitor has, quite literally, both bark and bite. His secretary can’t be arsed, his boss hates him and the entire world is against him. Despite the odds, this Mayor is on a mission to stay in power despite canine intervention (and his frail nerves). Will he prevail? Or, will man’s best friend become man’s best public servant?

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CAMDEN FRINGE SHOWS

3 - 30 August

The Camden Fringe is a performing arts festival, established in 2006, which takes place in Camden during August. Anyone and everyone is welcome to apply. Previous fringe events have encompassed new writing, opera, musicals, stand-up, sketch comedy, dance, cabaret, poetry, opera, mentalism, improvisation and opera. Shows take place throughout the day and generally last one hour.

The Camden Fringe was set-up as an alternative to Edinburgh Festival, offering performers the chance to try out new material and different ideas in a supportive setting with less time and financial commitments than EdFringe did at the time. The Camden Fringe aims to give anyone the chance to perform and showcase their talents, from very experienced performers and companies, to ambitious newcomers. Since 2006 the Camden Fringe has gained a reputation for supporting acts, providing helpful information and guidance for the acts involved.

CLOSURE CABARET

3 & 4 August

How do you get over an ex? You play them on stage, naturellement! Welcome to Razmatastique’s solo clown cabaret of past lovers.

Step into the Closure Cabaret, a solo clown show for anyone who’s ever found themselves unable to get over an ex. Heartbroken emcee Razmatastique (Maria Ansdell’s French-accented, semi-autobiographical alter ego) cannot let her past lovers go, so she summons them back for one final, no-holds-barred encore in search of that elusive fix-all solution: closure.

From bad-boy playground pirates to emotionally unavailable illusionists, these heartbreakers return to the stage – jazz-handed into public inspection – to flaunt their dazzling skills and questionable charm. What begins as a vaudevillian spoof unravels into something deeper: a heartfelt exploration into the emotional fallout of modern dating and our urge to romanticise the past and idealise love that may no longer serve us. Through parody and pathos, Razmatastique becomes a mirror for anyone who’s ever tried (and failed) to let go gracefully.

Created and performed by Maria Ansdell, this absurd clown show blends character comedy, heartfelt storytelling and riotous audience participation to turn longing into laughs.

CLOSURE CABARET

3 & 4 August

How do you get over an ex? You play them on stage, naturellement! Welcome to Razmatastique’s solo clown cabaret of past lovers.

Step into the Closure Cabaret, a solo clown show for anyone who’s ever found themselves unable to get over an ex. Heartbroken emcee Razmatastique (Maria Ansdell’s French-accented, semi-autobiographical alter ego) cannot let her past lovers go, so she summons them back for one final, no-holds-barred encore in search of that elusive fix-all solution: closure.

From bad-boy playground pirates to emotionally unavailable illusionists, these heartbreakers return to the stage – jazz-handed into public inspection – to flaunt their dazzling skills and questionable charm. What begins as a vaudevillian spoof unravels into something deeper: a heartfelt exploration into the emotional fallout of modern dating and our urge to romanticise the past and idealise love that may no longer serve us. Through parody and pathos, Razmatastique becomes a mirror for anyone who’s ever tried (and failed) to let go gracefully.

Created and performed by Maria Ansdell, this absurd clown show blends character comedy, heartfelt storytelling and riotous audience participation to turn longing into laughs.

VIVE LE CRICKET – One Man’s Mission to Convert a Nation

3 - 5 August

English commentator attempts the impossible: converting the French to cricket.

The raffish, occasionally irascible, Rex Constantine Vaughan Williams is a man on a mission. For years the Paris-based Englishman has had the niche role of commentating cricket in French but now the broadcasters are pulling the plug…

Why is it, Rex wants to know, that the French were more than happy to adopt rugby and rebrand it as their own but continue to shun the glorious summer game, even though they may well have invented it?

Rex slaloms through a brief history of cricket in France, flicks on the red light in the French Match Special commentary box where we meet his gloriously mismatched gallic co-commentators.

And that’s when Rex cries Révolution!

Vive le Cricket! is a one-man show created by NG Bristow and Barney Spender who takes on the role of Rex, drawing on his own decades of experience as… a cricket commentator in France.

Please note: Unlike the commentators, the audience do NOT need to be fluent in either French or Cricket.

BOY, OH BOY… MY, WHAT A LADY!

7 & 8 August

A cabaret-inspired journey through 20th-century pop culture.

This solo performance blends dance, clowning, drag, acting, live piano, and song into a cabaret-inspired journey through 20th-century pop culture.

Alyssa Warning guides the audience from the silent film era and the Jazz Age through Hollywood glamour, the countercultural movements of the
later decades, and into the 1980s and 1990s, embodying a shifting cast of characters.

Through parody satire, nostalgia, and audience interaction, the work playfully examines gender norms and cultural stereotypes while celebrating transformation and performance