The Camden Fringe


Camden Fringe will take place from 28th July - 24th August 2025... and applications to bring your show to The Cockpit are now open! 

We're also introducing for 2025 THE ROOST -  a new pop-up venue on the Triangle, around the corner on Church Street. 

The Roost is a 30-seat, multi-purpose space. By day, a hub for family theatre, by night, host to a variety of small-scale performances.

The Roost is operating 11th-24th of August 2025. Applications will open soon on Eventotron.

For more information on the Camden Fringe and how to apply, click here. 

If you have any questions you can email our Camden Fringe producer, Griffin, on camdenfringe [at] thecockpit.org.uk.
 

11 Aug to 24 Aug
On Stage
The Roost @ Camden Fringe

A Pop-up Theatre On Church Street

The Camden Fringe was started in 2006 as an alternative to Edinburgh Fringe, offering performers the chance to perform in a festival setting without the time and money needed to take a show to Edinburgh.

We've become a key venue at the festival, each year programming a broad range of bold and innovative work for our large and versatile space throughout the month of August.

Want to know more about the festival? Visit the Camden Fringe website.

www.camdenfringe.com

Here's what they're saying:

"Edinburgh isn’t the only place with a bursting, brilliant fringe, and indeed as the Scottish capital’s iconic event becomes ever more expensive, the once scrappy outsider Camden Fringe looks ever more like a serious contender."

Time Out, 2022

"Honestly, this performance was already outmatching any words I could ever write..." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Obscure Reviews on The Circle of Everything, 2024

"All of the cast are superb... more than worth the trek from Edgware Road station." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
"[I] found this production a sheer delight with a great soundtrack from start to cheeky, meta finish."

LondonTheatre1 blog and Holly Regan on Navarre, 2024

"A fabulous addition to Camden fringe, this was a fun and refreshing show to watch even in the summer heat." ⭐⭐⭐⭐

A Theatre Loving Londoner blog on Rain Weaver, 2024

"This quality of the work is exactly what makes it so powerful."

Fringe Review on Because, 2024

"The Restaurant goes down like a smooth Merlot. ‘Interactive dance theatre’ was a new experience for me, and I'm glad to have been proven wrong."

Obscure Reviews on The Restaurant, 2024

"The play is staged “in-the-round” which means that it is easy to feel involved with the protagonists..."

LondonTheatre1 blog  on The Making of Frederick the Great, 2023 (best-selling show of the Camden Fringe Festival 2023)