Camden Fringe Pod

Elijah Lifton produced a double bill of shows called Lost and Found at the 2024 Camden Fringe. He's back again this year with 2.36, a two-hander sibling drama set in Vianden, Luxembourg. We talk to him about the lessons he learnt last year that he'll be benefitting from in 2025.2.36 is on at the Etcetera Theatre from the 1st to the 3rd of August.Marigold Productions: https://www.instagram.com/_marigoldproductions/Take A Seat Productions https://www.instagram.com/takeaseat_productions/More info on the Camden Fringe www.camdenfringe.comOur music is by: https://www.purple-planet.com/

This is a super practical episode full of advice about accounting and budgeting. Do you need to become self-employed, or start a limited company when you start putting on fringe shows? What do you do with your profit? What counts as profit? All this and more will be explored as we chat to Tyler Lappage from Nabarro Poole, the Camden Fringe accountants.Find our more about Tyler and his company Nabarro Poole https://www.nabarropoole.com/More info on the Camden Fringe www.camdenfringe.comOur music is by: https://www.purple-planet.com/

This episodes we focus on marketing, and particularly the free boost that you can get my creating great social media content for your company / show. Huge thanks to Juliet Barry from Mobius for talking us through all of this and giving us loads of great ideas.More info on Mobius: https://www.mobiusindustries.com/More info on the Camden Fringe www.camdenfringe.comOur music is by: https://www.purple-planet.com/

We chat to Amy Clare Tasker & Katharina Reinthaller from Voila! Theatre Festival, London about the ethos behind their pan-linguist programme and how to get involved in the festival this year.More info about Voila https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/More info on the Camden Fringe www.camdenfringe.comOur music is by: https://www.purple-planet.com/

In this episode we speak to Dan Mersh who is a very experienced comedy actor, sketch comedian and now director about how would go about putting tofather a show and what directors can add to the process. The show he is currently working on will be at the Camden Fringe in August. Find out more about Magic and Sex here: https://camdenfringe.com/events/magic-sex/Link to the Etties Awards: https://everything-theatre.co.uk/2025/03/the-etties-2025-and-the-winners-are/And a reminder to get in touch with us if there is anything you'd like us to cover in future episodes.More info on the Camden Fringe www.camdenfringe.comOur music is by: https://www.purple-planet.com/

An autumnal extra episode as we chat to writer/performer Thesy Surface and director Julia Sopher about their show Lady Montagu Unveiled. Lady M has had a busy year, with a debut at Brighton Fringe, shows at Camden Fringe and more performances planned for the London stageCatch the show at the Hen and Chickens at 3pm on Sundays the 27th of October and 17 November https://www.unrestrictedview.co.uk/events/47290/ before a run of Christmas flavoured performances at the Kings Head in December.Find out even more about Thesy Surface and the show at https://thesy.orgMore info on the Camden Fringe www.camdenfringe.comOur music is by: https://www.purple-planet.com/

Nearly 3 weeks after the Camden Fringe finished we're back for a little bit of reflection on this years festival. Our guest interview is with Harriet Waterhouse who performed her debut solo show Sex Chat Granny at the Etcetera Theatre on the 5, 6 and 11 August as part of the Camden Fringe. Following her performances we caught up with her to find out how it went.More info on the show Sex Chat Granny and team behind it can be found here: https://www.instagram.com/sexchatgran. Keep an eye on this account for future performances.As Zena speculated in the recording, there is indeed a show about the Brenda Line which is called The Brenda Line and is by Harry Mould. It's currently running at the Pitlochry festival theatre until 18 September and then the Traverse in Edinburgh from the 13 to 16 of November 2024. More info on the Camden Fringe www.camdenfringe.comOur music is by: https://www.purple-planet.com/

We chat to Griffin Jenkins who programmed the Camden Fringe shows at The Cockpit this year and also produced his own show. We discuss the important things to companies to present to get themselves considered seriously by a venue and future plans for The Cockpit. We also go a bit true crime and talk about Jack the Ripper, as all podcasts must do at some point.As a bonus Zena's daughter Meredith reviews a couple of shows for us.More information about The Cockpit - theatre of ideas and disruptive panache... https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/More information about Out Of Office Theatre, Griffin's company that recently produced Ripper at Camden and Edinburgh Fringes https://www.oootheatre.com/More info on the Camden Fringe www.camdenfringe.comOur music is by: https://www.purple-planet.com/

Another mid-Camden Fringe episode and we are beginning to lose our minds. I tell you who'd have something to say about that: Sigmund Freud. So it's very appropriate we are talking to 3 of the creatives behind A Series of Introductory Lectures On Psychoanalysis: The Musical which plays at the Camden Fringe on the 20th - 24th of August 2024 at the Kings Head.Alex Rawnsley is the writer, Harriet Gill is the director and Isobel Connolly is the musical director of this new musical and we have a great chat with them and include a couple of extracts from the shows. Exciting!Musketeer Productions: https://www.instagram.com/musketeer_productionsTickets for the show: https://camdenfringe.com/events/a-series-of-introductory-lectures-on-psychoanalysis-the-musical/More info on the Camden Fringe www.camdenfringe.comOur music is by: https://www.purple-planet.com/