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01/09/2026

🌊 OPENING TONIGHT: A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO WIDOWHOOD

Our new Autumn season begins tonight with A Beginner’s Guide to Widowhood, from Truthful Tales Production.

Grieving and isolated, Suria finds herself on an out-of-season package holiday. Far from home, this intimate, stripped-back production explores loss, loneliness and what happens when life suddenly looks very different from the one you thought you were going to have.

Originally created by Omar Khan, written by Rae Mainwaring and directed by Andrew Breakwell.

📅 1 - 5 September
⏰ 7.30pm
📍 Lion & Unicorn Theatre, Kentish Town
🎟️ Tickets via the link in bio

A new season. A new month. Another reason to leave the house.

THEATRE WORTH LEAVING THE HOUSE FOR.

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31/08/2026

✨ BRIGHT LIGHTS FOR DARK NIGHTS.

The Camden Fringe might be over, but there’s plenty more theatre worth leaving the house for.

Our Autumn / Winter 2026 season starts TODAY, with a packed programme of brilliant new writing, visiting companies, returning favourites and bold new work taking us all the way through the darker nights.

First up, A Beginner’s Guide to Widowhood and My Mate’s In A Play open this week, kicking off a season that also includes Grandma & Grandpa Do Have S*x, The Departure, Third Summer of Love, Doomsday, our 2026 HERE | FOR supported season, Big Love, Dauntless: Grace O’Malley - Pirate Queen, Happy in Vain and plenty more still to come.

🎭 New writing 💡 New ideas 🏠 Our little theatre above the pub ✨ Plenty of reasons to leave the house

And remember, you can make a night of it with food and drink downstairs at the Lion & Unicorn before or after the show.

🎟️ Tickets for the new season are on sale now 🔗 Linktree in bio 📱 Lion & Unicorn Theatre

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30/08/2026

FINAL SHOW OF CAMDEN FRINGE 2026.

Tonight we bring this year’s Camden Fringe at The Lion & Unicorn Theatre to a close with 3 PHONE CALLS.

An honest and raw piece written and performed by Mother & Son Productions, inviting audiences into a personal and intimate look at the effects of abuse.

3 PHONE CALLS
30 August | 8.30pm
Lion & Unicorn Theatre

One final show. One last chance to join us upstairs this Camden Fringe.

Tickets on sale now.

www.thelionandunicorntheatre.com

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27/08/2026

🎭 OPENING NIGHT | BEIGE

Tonight we welcome Wave & Loop to the Lion & Unicorn Theatre for the opening night of BEIGE, written by Jessica Nlabo and directed by Catherine Mieses.

A reckoning with identity in a world that rewards neutrality, and a reclaiming of the right to exist in full colour.

🟤 BEIGE
📅 Tonight until Saturday 29 August
🕣 8.30pm

🔥 PLUS: QUICKENING CONTINUES

Flaming Creature Productions return tonight with QUICKENING, written by Maddie Whitmore and directed by Sophia Orr.

An incendiary piece of new theatre interrogating one of society’s most emotional and contemporary debates.

🔥 QUICKENING
📅 Tonight until Saturday 29 August
🕖 7.00pm

Two brilliant pieces of new writing. One final Camden Fringe double bill.

🎟️ Tickets available now via the link in our bio.

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25/08/2026

Opening night for QUICKENING.

An incendiary new piece of theatre, QUICKENING opens tonight at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre as part of Camden Fringe.

Written by Maddie Whitmore and directed by Sophia Orr, this urgent new production from Flaming Creature Productions interrogates one of society’s most emotional and contemporary debates.

25 to 29 August
7.00pm
Lion & Unicorn Theatre

Runs until Saturday.
Tickets on sale now via the link in bio / website.

24/08/2026

FINAL WEEK 🐦

There’s one last chance to catch the final shows in this year’s Camden Fringe at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre.

This week’s line-up brings together dark comedy, urgent new writing, bold personal storytelling and fast-paced chaos, as we head into the final stretch of the festival.

Still to come:

WRAP PARTY
23 to 24 August | 7.00pm

3 PHONE CALLS
23 & 30 August | 8.30pm

ARE YOU WAITING TO BE FOUND?
24 to 26 August | 8.30pm

QUICKENING
25 to 29 August | 7.00pm

BEIGE
27 to 29 August | 8.30pm

If you’ve been meaning to join us this Fringe, this is your moment.
Book now and be part of the final week upstairs at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre.

Tickets on sale now
www.thelionandunicorntheatre.com

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21/08/2026

🚀 OPENING NIGHT | LONDON, DO WE HAVE A PROBLEM?

Camden Fringe continues tonight as we welcome Sent West Theatre Company to the Lion & Unicorn with London, Do We Have A Problem?

An adventurous assemblage of sketches and scenes, silly, sincere and sometimes improvised!

Written and directed by Persia Cennamo and Neve Lofthouse.

🌙 PLUS: UP THE A(RS)E continues tonight from Dotcam Productions, following its opening last night.

🎭 UP THE A(RS)E
📅 Tonight until Saturday
🕖 7.00pm

🚀 LONDON, DO WE HAVE A PROBLEM?
📅 Tonight & tomorrow
🕣 8.30pm

Two shows. One night. Another double bill of brilliant Camden Fringe theatre.

🎟️ Tickets available now via the link in our bio.

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16/08/2026

OPENING NIGHT.

Tonight at Camden Fringe, Steaks & Le****ns joins the season at The Lion & Unicorn Theatre.

STEAKS & LE****NS
16 to 20 August | 8.30pm

A brand new piece of writing focused on the beauty of q***r friendships and love.

And DOING REALLY WELL, ACTUALLY returns for two more performances.

DOING REALLY WELL, ACTUALLY
16 & 17 August | 7.00pm

Bridesmaids meets Fleabag, a fast-paced, wine-soaked exploration of choice and modern womanhood.

Tickets are going fast, so book now and join us upstairs this weekend.

www.thelionandunicorntheatre.com

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13/08/2026

OPENING NIGHT.

Tonight at Camden Fringe, two more shows join the season at The Lion & Unicorn Theatre.

THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW
13 to 15 August | 8.30pm

Lord of the Flies and No Exit meet your local inefficient hospital.

TAPE
11 to 15 August | 7.00pm

Stephen Belber’s Tape stays etched in your mind long after the motel door closes.

Both shows continue until Saturday.

Join us upstairs this week for more Camden Fringe theatre in the heart of Kentish Town.

Tickets on sale now.

www.thelionandunicorntheatre.com

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11/08/2026

OPENING TONIGHT AT CAMDEN FRINGE 🎭

Tonight we welcome Tape from cellar_door_theatre to the Lion & Unicorn Theatre for its opening performance.

Stephen Belber’s tense, claustrophobic play unfolds in a motel room as three old friends are forced to confront memory, truth and what really happened years before.

Tape
📅 11th to 15th August
🕖 7.00pm

And continuing tonight at 8.30pm, syncingplay is back for its penultimate performance.

The untold story of the boyz standing next to Justin, with pop obsession, ambition and plenty of early-2000s energy.

Syncing
📅 Until 12th August
🕣 8.30pm

Two shows, one Camden Fringe evening, and plenty to talk about afterwards.

🎟️ Tickets available now.

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