Tag Archives | Camden Fringe

Mario: A Super Musical – Cockpit Theatre

Mario: A Super Musical at the Cockpit Theatre as part of the Camden Fringe Festival, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Since 1981, Mario has one of the most recognisable characters in the world. Everyone has seen his enthusiastic, moustachioed face as he bounces over pipes and monsters on his Sisyphean quest […]

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Smart Casual – Cockpit Theatre

Smart Casual at the Cockpit Theatre as part of the Camden Fringe Festival, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ There are few times more given to upheaval than leaving university. In Sam Woof’s musical Smart Casual a group of six recent graduates find their worlds realigning as they seek to find […]

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The Sam Neill Experience – 2 Northdown

The Sam Neill Experience – 2 Northdown, London. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ Showcasing as part of the Camden Fringe Festival, The Sam Neill Experience is a sort of amalgam of shows like A Little Shop of Horrors, Urinetown and even hints of Stephen Sondheim’s Anyone Can Whistle. It’s a tale of Sam Neill, a famous […]

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Big Shot – London Irish Centre

Big Shot at the London Irish Centre as part of the Camden Fringe 2016. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ In a theatrical age of jukebox, revival and adaptation, it’s always a relief to see original musicals being developed, and the prospect of an internationally award-winning premiere of Lauryn Gaffney’s Irish musical Big Shot arriving in the capital is an exciting […]

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Godspell – Upstairs at the Gatehouse

Godspell continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 24 August as part of the Camden Fringe 2016. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Opinion is often divided on the musical Godspell. For the faithful, it has been seen as potentially blasphemous and to non-believers it can be perceived as a musical version of the […]

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I Relate to the Sparrow – Cecil Sharp House, London

I Relate to the Sparrow at Cecil Sharp House, London as part of the Camden Fringe 2016. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Cecil Sharp House, the home of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, is an appropriate setting for Susannah Pearse’s cycle of songs inspired by British wildfowl and the […]

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