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LAMBETH FRINGE at 28 venues across Lambeth including Bread and Roses Theatre
24 September - 25 October
The south London event showcases theatre, comedy, cabaret, music and family events in 28 venues. It is designed as a celebration of the vibrant culture and community of Lambeth and it continues to champion underrepresented voices and emerging artists.
A few of the many highlights at Bread and Roses Theatre:
- Mekhala & Ramasura The Jewel of Light and the Storm (25 Sept), journeying through Thai mythology,
- Mid-week comedy returns with NHS doctors performing in
GP Receptionist Appreciation Society (6 Oct)
- Character comedy
Chair Woman (17 & 18 Oct), a tightly-choreographed conspiracy thriller about the intense world of upholstery.
- Character comedy returns to the workplace, this time a recruitment consultant in Clots (21 & 22 Oct).
Ticket prices range from Pay What You Can and £3 - £20
The full programme can be viewed
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GrimFest
SLEAZE Theatre presents
Six Kinds of Wednesday
written by Scott Slocombe
26 - 28 October
“Dracula meets Withnail & I through a fuzz pedal.”
Peckham. Valentine’s Day 1989. A young musician's chance encounter with the girl he's loved since school ends with a promise to run away together. But then, of course, he gets abducted by a vampire with writer's block. A deal is made; help the vampire finish the record he's been writing for over 300 years. Once complete, he'll be returned to the night they met, run away with the girl he loves and carry on his life as if nothing ever happened. Right?
SLEAZE Theatre presents a darkly comic play that explores regret, nostalgia, and the dangerous fantasy of rewriting the past. Through an original score performed live by actor-musicians, the play examines creation versus stagnation and the emotional cost of romantic myth.
GrimFest
DollfaceTheatre Presents
Hourglass
written & directed by Alice Mayer
29 & 30 October
Hourglass is a one woman darkly comedic deep dive into dating horrifically. Charlie thinks she’s turning into a black widow spider because all her exes keep dying after they break up... except one. Hourglass teeters on the edge of horror and romantic comedy, tackling themes of guilt, sexual assault and death through music, monologues, puppetry and original songs.
Larius Productions presents
SPIKE HEELS
Written by Theresa Rebeck and Directed by Danny O Hara
3 - 7 November
Pygmalion goes awry in this contemporary comedy of manners which explores sexual harrassment, misplaced amour, and the possibility of a four sided love triangle. The characters are a sexy volatile young woman, a writer, a lawyer and a fiancee in sensible shoes.
Full of tart wit, feminist insight and quirky detours of plot.
MTAO Productions Presents
Maybe Things Are Okay
Written by Ella Barnett, Jo Wickham, and Becky Popović. Directed by Ozzie Ozgun.
8 & 9 November
Originally an Edinburgh Fringe production in 2023, Maybe Things Are Okay is a project that represents a culmination of real-life coming-of-age stories, collaboratively written and inspired by true experiences. When a routine night out is interrupted by unexpected confessions, four young adults find themselves navigating grief, sexual identity, breakups, and the complicated business of growing up. Set in real time, Maybe Things Are Okay is a heartfelt, funny and deeply human exploration of the stories we hide behind "I'm fine", and the people who help us believe that maybe things really will be okay.
Blue Fox Theatre Presents
Flying Ducks
10 - 13 November
Baloney is nicked. In Zed’s world, that’s worse than dead for her and her band of day-drinkers, and made even worse now eviction is around the corner. Through illicit activity, tomfoolery and tales too wild to be true, everything is not as it seems in this world of irrelevance, strangeness and (of course) sheer idiocy.
Flying Ducks is a surrealist-absurdist play following on from Blue Fox Theatre’s debut production, Struck.
The Dial Up presents
Love in Slough
written & directed by Alexander Williams
15 November
Love in Slough, a brand new one-man musical comedy written by Alexander Williams and based on the songs of Phil Craddock, is the story of Jack, a middle-aged man tied to an unfulfilling marriage, whose drab, directionless life is given an injection of vigour when he embarks on an unexpected affair.
This funny, fast-paced show is bursting with wonderful jazz tunes, which propel us through Jack’s journey of self-discovery and redefined relationships with sparkling wit and brutal honesty. Join us for an entertaining hour packed with toe-tapping, finger-clicking music and a story brimming with humour, heart and hope.
Vernacular Productions
Dear Grandma...
written by Kian Berry, directed by Emily Hawkins
16 - 18 November
In a bungalow in North Yorkshire, Grandma is running late to meet with you, the audience. She has something she needs to get off her chest. The other day she dropped her grandchild off for his future life in London. Now she is alone with her thoughts and an audience to listen to her. One memory becomes five, and before she knows it, she starts to unravel everything.
We To Play Presents
The Thousand Days
By Callum Murray, Directed by Grace Ward
19 - 21 November
Those of us who doped mostly started in our third year… Everybody has their thousand days; everybody has their choice’. From The Secret Race by Tyler Hamilton.
What does it take for a pro cyclist to become a doper? No one starts off wanting to cheat, right? Cyclists do it because they love it. They love to race. They love to test themselves. They want to know just how far and how fast they can go. Clean.
But it’s a monumental step-up from racing as an amateur to becoming a professional; adapting to a new and alien environment in which what people say and what they do are not always aligned.
Doping in cycling is itself a cycle. As the dopers retire or get banned (or even die), new young riders hungry for success at any price, take their place. How is a neo-pro supposed to both keep his place in the team and stay true to his principles? And after all, it's not cheating if everyone's doing it. Is it?
The Thousand Days is written by Callum Murray and produced
by We to Play, the same team that brought the highly successful Here Comes Your
Ghost Again to the Bread & Roses in 2024.
