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LAMBETH FRINGE FESTIVAL RETURNS CELEBRATING 10 YEARS WITH A PROGRAMME OF OVER 200 EVENTS 25 Sept - 25 Oct

Celebrating the vibrant culture & community of Lambeth, platforming underrepresented voices in the arts, produced by the team behind Bread and Roses Theatre.

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Lambeth Fringe shows at Bread and Roses

Overwhelm (18-19 Oct) – Intense, immersive work grappling with the weight of modern life, emotional overload, and the search for balance.

Mother Knows Best (18-19 Oct) – Interwoven stories of mothers and daughters across time and place, showing how oppression, love, and resistance are passed down.

Love and Human (18 Oct) – A reflective look at intimacy, connection and what it means to love in messy, human terms.

Tears of Joy (18-19 Oct) – A bittersweet celebration of laughter, sorrow, and the strange places where they intersect.

The Defectors Present: Scratch ’n’ Sniff (19 Oct) – A playful, sensory performance blending smell, storytelling, and political undertones in unexpected ways.

You Sou (19-23 Oct) – A layered, poetic exploration of diaspora, belonging, and ancestral voice.

Bog Body: A One-Woman Show (20 Oct) – A solo theatrical excavation into archaeology, myth, and what it means to be discovered and held apart by history.

#Hysteria: A History of Human Sexuality with Callaghans Questions (20-21 Oct) – A bold, irreverent reexamination of sex, shame, and medical culture across the centuries.

On The Thickness of Blood (21-22 Oct) – A visceral piece about lineage, trauma, and how the bonds of family shape us in seen and unseen ways.

Wanda’s Celebration (22 & 25 Oct) – A story of celebration, survival and reclamation, combining joy, ritual, and resistance.

Let’s Try Gay (22-23 Oct) – A comedic, tender performance that experiments with identity, queer life, and the act of trying — again and again.

Pentimento (23 Oct) – Like a painting revisited, this show peels back layers of memory, regret, and the revisions we make in our own stories.

Spare some Humanity, Please? (24 Oct) – A theatrical plea for compassion, connection, and the spaces between us that remind us we’re human.

Drama Girls (24-25 Oct) – A sharp, witty look at female friendship, ambition, rivalry, and the theatrics both onstage and off.

Screaming, Crying, Throwing Up, Begging to be Loved (Yikes) (25 Oct) – A full‐on, emotional ride that dives into the chaos of longing, hurt, and the desperate search for love.

One Time for the Birthday Girl! (25 Oct) – A celebratory finale: theatre, storytelling, and surprises to close this year’s festival at Bread & Roses.

NOVEMBER AT BREAD AND ROSES

No Frills Theatre Company present

PANDORA'S BOWL

by Wendy Reynolds

2 November

Inspired by Alan Bennets Talking Heads, the play is the story of a woman’s survival,

A bowl called Pandora, memories recaptured and told through childhood, motherhood.

As a daughter, mother and grandmother.

Our story will resonate with people and families as they sit, remembering their own special

Memories through the years.

‘Afterall, everyone has a washing up bowl…..don't they?

Wicked Winters Ltd

The A Word

written & directed by Jade Winters

9 & 10 November

Brooke’s friends can tell something’s off — they just don’t know what.

One night out, one too many questions, and the cracks start to show. What begins as casual catch-ups turns into something far more uncomfortable.

The A Word is a raw, intimate drama about friendship, denial, and the things we hide.

TOP PICK

Two Right Feet presents

Starfish

by Richard Fitchett

Directed by Lucy Appleby

11 - 15 November

In Starfish, a black comedy, a couple are confronted with, and try to help an ABBA-loving homeless person, they are forced to question their ideals as the story behind the intruder unravels and they discover that it wasn’t just an accident of fate that brought them together.

Stepdad Theatre in collaboration with The Defectors Comedy

Briefs Festival

18 - 20 November

Stepdad Theatre in collaboration with The Defectors Comedy are proud to present Briefs Festival, three unique nights of original theatre and film celebrating London’s greatest unsung storytellers and creatives. No theme, no parameters, no longer than 20 minutes. Keep it Brief!

Mistletoe Productions presents

The Colour Of Oil

25 - 29 November

written by Anthony Gretton , directed by Amber Williams

In a run-down pub in London, a series of chance encounters sends one woman on a journey of

discovery, through traumas, addiction and secrets from the past, which lead her to question

everything she thought she wanted.