News and Previews

  • Camden Fringe: Dongmeng Chen on Chicken Dropping

    Camden Fringe interview: Playwright Dongmeng Chen on watching war as spectators, black comedy and her all-ESEA team’s premiere, Chicken Dropping.

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  • Camden Fringe: Steve North on Something About England

    Camden Fringe interview: Actor and musician Steve North on Brexit, punk and the daughter who inspired his new solo show

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  • Camden Fringe: Arabella Jacobson on Gammelstad

    Camden Fringe Interview: Arabella Jacobson discusses Gammelstad, her new play about chosen family and sibling bonds set in a remote Swedish church town.

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  • Camden Fringe: Kimberley Nixon on Baby Brain

    Camden Fringe interview: Kimberley Nixon talks Baby Brain, her dark comedy about postpartum psychosis, ahead of its Camden Fringe run at the Bridewell Theatre.

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  • Camden Fringe: Banker Tailor Teacher Guy: Neil O’Dwyer on Reinvention

    Camden Fringe interview: Neil O’Dwyer on banking, tailoring and teaching ahead of Banker Tailor Teacher Guy at the Water Rats

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  • Camden Fringe: Your Favo(u)rite American Woman

    Camden Fringe interview: Ciarlene Coleman discusses her solo show Your Favo(u)rite American Woman, exploring identity, migration and the colonial mindset through comedy and music.

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  • Camden Fringe: Cowpokes in a Bunkhouse

    Camden Fringe interview: Oblique Theatre’s Faith McNeill and Saskia Monteiro discuss their immersive all-female Wild West show

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  • Camden Fringe: Bringing Shakespeare’s Fairy Queen into 2026

    Camden Fringe interview: Nia Gwynne and Dictynna Hood discuss their new one-woman show Titania, reimagining Shakespeare’s fairy queen four centuries on, ahead of its August run.

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  • Camden Fringe: Louis Linsey on Hathaleen: The Unexpected Journey to Palestine

    Camden Fringe interview: Louis Linsey on Hathaleen, a satirical black comedy rooted in the West Bank and Awdah Hathaleen’s murder.

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  • Camden Fringe: Four Face Theatre on Making Mates, a Play About Four Mates Trying to Make a Play

    Camden Fringe interview: Four Face Theatre on Mates, a meta-comedy about four friends trying, and failing, to make a play.

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  • Camden Fringe: Kaleidoscope Collective Arts launches with Biscuits for Breakfast

    Camden Fringe interview: Kaleidoscope Collective Arts on food poverty, working-class access to theatre, and their Hackney Foodbank partnership.

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  • Camden Fringe: Bunmi Aworanti and Tolu Idowu on the Games We Play in Love

    Camden Fringe interview: Love vs Fear’s Bunmi Aworanti and Tolu Idowu on mobile games, Nigerian mothers and audience choice.

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  • News: Newcomer Benjamin Cain to debut in Private Peaceful UK Tour

    News: Newcomer Benjamin Cain takes on Tommo in Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful this autumn, touring the UK (including Wilton’s Music Hall in London).

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  • Interview: Lee Farman on Ten Years of Watford Fringe

    Interview: Watford Fringe chair Lee Farman reflects on ten years of community, growth and Watford’s often overlooked creative energy scene.

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  • Camden Fringe: Ruby Thomas on Bringing Elizabeth Barrett Browning to the Stage

    Camden Fringe Interview: Aside Hustle’s Ruby Thomas on blending physical theatre with Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry, letters and debut production.

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  • Camden Fringe: Wasteland, post-apocalyptic comedy, returns for a third year

    Camden Fringe interview: Wasteland Improv’s Pete Leaman talks Camden Fringe, Mad Max-inspired dark comedy and building an entire post-apocalyptic world from a single audience suggestion.

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  • Camden Fringe: Lieve de Putter on giving Echo, Cassandra and Helen their voices

    Camden Fringe interview: Lieve de Putter on giving Echo, Cassandra and Helen their voices in her one-woman play Echoes

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  • Darkling: Actors Touring Company’s New National Tour Opens at Bush Theatre

    News: Darkling, Titas Halder’s new play about the Bhopal disaster, opens at Bush Theatre this September as an Actors Touring Company co-production. Linnea Berthelsen (Stranger Things’ Kali) has her UK stage debut.

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