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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 fullāon, 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.








