The Camden Fringe returns for its 20th birthday year with a programme of over 400 theatre, comedy, dance, and music shows held at 30 venues across Camden and North London.
The programme for this year’s Camden Fringe Festival, London’s alternative to the Edinburgh Fringe, has been confirmed.
Among the programme highlights are: BAFTA winner Kimberley Nixon’s solo show aboutpostpartum psychosis Baby Brain (10 – 12 Aug, Bridewell Theatre), Sofar Sounds’ comedy takeover featuring exciting emerging comedians, Sofar Comedy (28 Aug, The London Art Bar, 3 Phone Calls (23 & 27 Aug, Lion & Unicorn Theatre) and the Old Red Lion’s annual festival-within-the-festival; SHAKEFEST featuring a musical adaptation Shakespeare’s stormy story, Pericles (kind of) (24 – 27 Aug, Old Red Lion).
This newly announced line up includes more than 400 shows playing across over 30 venues this summer.
Also featuring this year is classic tales that are given the retelling treatment with Rossini’s comic opera The Barber of Seville (7 – 9 Aug, Upstairs at the Gatehouse) transported to the swinging 1960s and Abigail (8 – 9 Aug, Etcetera Theatre) reimagining The Crucible through the lens of sexual violence victims.
Audience interaction is in abundance with shows including interactive Western The Well (27 – 29 Aug, The Courtyard Theatre), pastiche of reality TV I’m a Philosopher! Why the Fuck am I Here? (13 – 15 Aug, The Cockpit), and the opportunity to win a two-hour holiday for four in North Luton in 70s game show, Cornershop Showdown (10 – 14 Aug, Camden Comedy Club).
Comedy highlights include: Office Drama (4 – 7 Aug, Camden Comedy Club), an improvised sketch show turning corporate trauma into comedy, female and non-binary led comedy collective Bitches in Stitches: New Grrrl Order (6 Aug, Camden Comedy Club) and a double bill of stand-up from twin comedians Chris and Matthew Ali in Twins – A Split Bill (6 – 9 Aug, Aces and Eights).
Festival founders Zena Barrie and Michelle Flower said, “It is quite incredible to be celebrating the 20th year of the Camden Fringe. Unlike our faces, the festival has got smoother, tighter and more splendid with every passing year. We have a fantastic line-up in 2026 to mark this milestone. Bring it on!”
The festival will run from the 3rd to the 30th August. For more information visit: https://camdenfringe.com/