Camden Fringe Preview
21 productions to see at the Camden Fringe
by Cyphermunk House
7/12/20257 min read
The 2025 Camden Fringe kicks off this month with this year’s programme proving more than ever that creative artists are bang on the pulse of contemporary social issues.
Including several world-firsts in theatre - with AI taking its first writing credits - to the unprecedented inclusion of a hidden Bitcoin private key within a play, the convergence of art and technology is set to take centre stage like never before at this year’s festival.
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And now—our picks for the 2025 Camden Fringe…
1. The Legend – The Generact Trilogy Part 1
In a dystopian world where humans are void of choice, we observe a group of Synthents who have been bred to entertain. Stripped-down, high-impact theatre with echoes of 1984, The Hunger Games, and Black Mirror exploring the lines between performance and surveillance.
31 Jul, 1 Aug – The Cockpit
2. Uproar
Inspired by Latin American protests against state violence, Uproar blends movement and audience participation to become an act of protest in itself, inviting audiences to engage with the transformative power of collective action in the face of injustice.
1 Aug – The Playground Theatre
Elon Musk is on his way to Mars. Blasting into space, he’s about to get a call from The White House that will send his universe into a spin. An action-packed, satirical epic that looks inside the mind of Elon Musk to find out what’s really going on in there.
1-2 Aug – Theatro Technis
From the beginning of creation to the collapse of civilisation, Metamorphoses journeys through the highs and lows of the history of the world. Expect gods, humans, animals and monsters!
3-4, 14-15 Aug – The Courtyard Theatre
The captivating, lesser-known history of the Forty Elephants gang—an all-female criminal syndicate based in Elephant and Castle in 1920's London. Featuring original musical and the gritty yet glamorous stories of real-life women.
4-5 Aug – Theatro Technis
6. Jolly: A Play About Pyrates
Guilty of crimes against the crown and condemned for high seas piracy three drunk pirates are locked in the brig. Merging historical sources, fiction and a touch of the supernatural, ‘Jolly’ explores the radical lives of Pirates asking if the modern world needs a resurrection of the pirate spirit.
5 Aug – Etcetera Theatre
7. Still Here
Exploring freedom – both real and imagined, Still Here challenges us to examine how we use our freedom when so many are denied it. As the youth strive to escape confinement and build a new world, it reminds us that even in darkness, the hope for a better future endures.
6-7 Aug – Bridewell Theatre
A black comedy about art, commerce, and creative control. A female writer watches her story rewritten and repackaged—not as art, but as a product. Interactive, immersive, and satirical, this show speaks to theatre-goers who crave more than safe, shallow entertainment and artists who know what it means to fight for their work.
9-10 Aug - Rosemary Branch Theatre
9. I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream
Six People. The end of time. And a planet spanning super computer. Harlan Ellison's grim short story served as a warning for the growing cold war in 1967, and now as a terrible omen of the what we face to lose as more of our humanity is given over to artificial minds.
11-12 Aug – Etcetera Theatre
12. Foolish
Experience an emotional rollercoaster inspired by modern-day relationships in the public eye. Foolish delves into the tension between love and celebrity, and the price of privacy in a social media world that never sleeps.
14-16, 21-23 Aug – The Courtyard Theatre
11. Operation Blank
Someone has dropped an atomic bomb on Copenhagen. With war looming, an underqualified junior staffer in the British government must somehow stimulate a response from his idiotic superiors. There is just one thing standing in his way: Microsoft teams.
12-15, 17-20 Aug – Hen & Chickens, Canal Café Theatre
10. Colonise This!
Political incompetence gone mad - two sisters from a remote island find themselves accidentally colonising England from a chicken shop. This biting satire turns the British Empire on its head and asks what would happen if all the UK’s chickens came home to roost at once.
11-13 Aug – The Courtyard Theatre
13. Rip Current
Experimental puppetry and physical theatre, delving into the rich the hidden emotional and perceptual landscapes experienced by neurodivergent individuals. Through visual storytelling, Rip Current invites audiences into a space where stillness hides turbulence, and where the search for truth pulls us away from the safety of social conformity.
16-17 Aug - Little Angel Theatre
The Office meets Dr. Strangelove in this anarchic farce about the UK's weapons industry. A children's entertainer breaks into ABC Systems on the day that they are under investigation for corruption and tries to expose the lies at the heart of Britain's military-industrial complex asking what it means to be a 'civilised Western country'?
17-19 Aug – Hen & Chickens Theatre
Armed with plasmids, melee weapons and enough energy drinks to kill a small dog, Player One and Player Two are on a mission to uncover the truth about women in the gaming industry. An anarchic show about video games and the women that love them.
19 Aug – Phoenix Arts Club
The first play ever written using artificial intelligence, GAP blurs the lines between human creativity and artificial intelligence, asking provocative questions about art, desire, and what it means to be authentic in the digital age.
19-20 Aug – Etcetera Theatre
Reckless banks, a housing crash and financial ruin for ordinary people. Pop Goes the Dollar plunges into the New York Federal Reserve as, one by one, the biggest banks in America crumble. As markets freefall and time runs out, a handful of decision-makers must choose who to save, who to let fail, and whether any of it will be enough.
21-24 Aug – The Hope Theatre
18. The Liminoid
Ever feel like you’ve lost hope? Uncertainty can be terrifying. But, it’s also where the possibility of transformation resides. Whether it’s a slice of bread, a belief system or the entire world. An improv-shadow-play-dance-party-game hunting for answers.
21, 23 Aug – The Cockpit
A boat. Powerful men, oppressed women. A journey that takes longer than expected, and weathers more than storms. Using theatre, music and narrative the play asks what happens when women close their legs and open their mouths?
21-24 Aug – Etcetera Theatre
20. Remote (WIP)
Erin works from home. Craving connection, she asks Chat GPT - 'How can I make friends in London?' This plunges her into the world of clubbing, volunteering, and dating apps. But meeting people in real life is hard and holding onto those connections is even harder. A hilarious, heartfelt story of loneliness and a Chat GPT love affair.
22, 24 Aug – Rosemary Branch Theatre
21. Prometheus
The first play to contain a hidden bitcoin private key. Prometheus’s mythic theft of fire is reimagined through the 2008 financial crash and the birth of Bitcoin. Blazing through history, rebellion, and the mythic cost of knowledge, to ask what happens when humanity dares to steal power from the modern gods?
23-24 Aug – The Cockpit
All tickets can be purchased on the Camden Fringe website at https://camdenfringe.com/
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