Camden Fringe 2026

Bex Turner turns childhood awkwardness, neurodivergent experience and surreal comedy into an energetic work-in-progress whose distinctive voice and openness are already clear, even as its structure and production continue to take shape.

Simple and predictable custody-battle story into an energetic piece of theatre through distinctly British comedy, a 1980s-pop-inspired score and a strong nine-person ensemble, while leaving room for Donna and Rick’s relationship to be developed further in a longer version.

Beginning with a cup of tea placed directly in the audience’s hands, the production turns taste, scent, waiting and movement into a sensory exploration of memory, migration, home and cultural identity.

An investigative documentary performance that turns the death of a captive beluga whale into a wider examination of spectatorship, captivity and ecological grief, while leaving room for its methods of investigation and verification to be developed more fully.

English teacher Lila enters the classroom determined to challenge misogyny through literature, only for the lesson to collide with trauma she has tried to suppress. Nicole Abraham’s gripping solo performance turns audience members into pupils and asks how much responsibility one teacher can carry for changing the world outside.

A dispute over noisy chickens slowly tears apart the apparently orderly marriage of Yifei and Ming. Dongmeng Chen’s darkly absurd domestic drama turns breakfast, eggs and a bowl of soup into symbols of care, responsibility and control, exposing the violence hidden beneath everyday life.

Lebanese sisters Yara and Mina love the same homeland but imagine radically different futures: one wants to stay and fight for change, while the other feels she must leave. Antonia Chammas’s solo performance brings revolution, migration, family and the Beirut port explosion into one ordinary living room.

Sometimes, the end of a friendship can hurt more than a breakup. Christine Fang’s Stunted follows longtime friends and roommates Celine and Max as years of intimacy, dependence and unspoken resentment collide, turning an ordinary goodbye into something painfully final.

A real 1971 archive of a young Uruguayan model imagining her future becomes the starting point for an encounter with memory, identity and unrealised lives. Alba Campayo’s poetic physical performance moves between private memory, motherhood and the public image of Diana Spencer, asking what remains of the people we once imagined we would become.

At a Death Café, trainee death doula Evie helps dying clients face the end through music, tea, cats and conversation. Martia Dimmer’s gentle musical dark comedy finds warmth and humour in grief, while forcing Evie to confront the loss she has been avoiding herself.

Don’t get lost too long. Mehmet Ali Nuroğlu’s experimental solo performance uses live camera, projection, lighting and sound to create the fragmented world of a nameless traveller, blurring the boundaries between performer, audience and theatrical space.

A Malaysian Chinese mother comes to London to find a wife for her lesbian daughter. Charmaine Cheong’s lively one-woman comedy mixes clowning, sock puppetry and audience interaction with questions of matchmaking, filial expectations and queer family life.