It is August which only means one thing – it is Camden Fringe time! Over the next few weeks we are chatting to acts that are performing at the festival and finding all about their show and what they would call this years iconic Camden Fringe Pigeon! Today we find out about the show Seven Deadly Sins Presents: Lazy Summer of Love

Date: 30th July & 10th August
Time: 19:00
Price: £16
Location: The Water Rats
Ticket Link: https://camdenfringe.com/events/seven-deadly-sins-presents-the-lazy-summer-of-love/

How did you come up with the name of your show that you’re taking to the Camden fringe?

We performed our Seven Deadly Sins Cabaret Show at the Fringe last year – where each performer takes on one of the sins and performs an act inspired by that sin.  

Seven Deadly Sins is something we all know a bit about – the religious taboos that will condemn you to a life in hell. This was something we wanted to subvert, taking vices and turning them into virtues. Well sort of. Our shows celebrate confidence, hedonism, sexuality, and bad ass bitch-ness. Wild, carefree, unashamed and gratuitous.

We did our first show in Nov 2022 at The Cavendish Arms, and we have had several shows since at other venues, including The Glory, The Miller (Camden Fringe 2024 sold-out show), The Courtyard Theatre in Dec 2024, and over time our shows have really evolved.

In our next performance at the Camden Fringe (Water Rats, King’s Cross), instead of us each embodying a different sin, we’re all going to give our best representations of just one per show. We wanted to focus on individual sins, to see how different each performer would interpret it and fully immerse ourselves in each sin.

We felt Sloth (Wed 30th July) and Lust (Sunday 10th Aug) worked well for the time of year that the Fringe is held, and so the Lazy Summer of Love was born! We will also have future iterations where we cover the other 5 sins, so watch this space…

Tell us a little bit about your style of show?

Our cabaret shows are raunchy, feminist, and political. Our performers embrace the sins and reframe them, challenging mainstream ideology in terms of class, gender, sexuality, and other societal expectations.

What other acts are you looking forward to seeing at the fringe?

Respiration sounds like a really interesting show – it’s set in an aquarium and has very deep (pun intended) themes.

Naughty or Nice also looks really fun and playful and very much our kind of vibe!

How are rehearsals going?

We’re all really excited to plan our performances about Sloth, but we’re struggling to motivate ourselves… I’m not sure why 

The thing about burlesque and cabaret shows that differs from a theatre show for example is that when you are doing a show where everyone does a solo act, the rehearsal process is usually more of a solo experience. However, sometimes performers will take a video of their act in progress and send it to each other to get feedback. Peer-to-peer feedback and bouncing ideas off each other can be so useful in developing acts.

What is the best thing about performing at the Camden Fringe?

Camden Fringe have been great to work with. We had an amazing time last year, they supported us throughout the whole process and helped us so much with the marketing. Our venue last year (The Miller) were so lovely to work with and we are hoping our venue this year will be just as good!

It’s just nice to have our own London mini-festival at the same time as the Edinburgh Fringe, where it can be incredibly expensive to put on any kind of show – especially with  accommodation costs nowadays it has become so elitist and exclusive.

It’s also good to have the flexibility to only do a couple of dates without having to commit to a longer run, which is the norm at the Edinburgh Festival.

London can be an expensive place to perform in – what key advice would you give to performers that is a sort of life hack?

Take your time to research each venue offer and whether it will be financially viable for you before you commit to a show.

Make a budget and set ticket prices accordingly.

Have side hustles or even a day job (yawn) to make extra money while performing.

Who would be your ultimate dream audience member?

Eve, Mary Magdalene, Lilith – The original (perceived) sinners

They’d appreciate the reclaiming of the word sin – something that is often used to shame women in particular

The iconic image of the Camden Fringe is the Pigeon – if you could call this year’s pigeon a name to represent its style what would it be and why?

The 2025 pigeon looks like a suave sinner with a secret or two, so we could call it Sinatra (smooth, swoony and maybe a little bit lusty) 

If people want to find out more about you, where can they follow you on social media?

Instagram is the best for us! You’ll find out about all our shows and also where else you might be able to see our performers.  Follow us at @sevendeadlysinsburlesque

And Finally in three words – Why should people come and see the show?

SINNING IS SEXY 

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