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 A Marriage of Inconvenience

Date: 20th / 22nd August
Time: 19:00 / 21:00
Price: £5
Location: Etcetera Theatre

Ticket Link:https://camdenfringe.com/events/a-marriage-of-inconvenience/

Tell us a little bit about your style of show?  

It’s a split bill stand-up comedy show -two distinct 22-minute sets with a shared premise where one half is spoken standup and the second half is musical comedy. High-achieving queer people who’ve somehow failed spectacularly at the chaotic search for love and they’ve ended up in a Lavendar marriage pact with each other. 

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

Really excited to catch Phil Green’s The Boy Who Nearly Grew Up. I’m a big fan of Phil’s work and I’m looking forward to his new show.  The theme of resisting being recruited into adulthood feels like the natural sequel to our show.

 Also Dance Again by Andreas Bedorf, a show about a terror attack at a music festival, told through the perspective of someone on LSD, with a live DJ shaping the atmosphere in real time. It sounds genuinely unlike anything else on the programme. The fringe is at its best when it’s making space for something that couldn’t exist anywhere else, and that show sounds like exactly that.  

How are rehearsals going? 

 Really well – we’ve had the chance to road-test the show across three runs at Brighton Fringe, London Queer Fringe, and Edinburgh Fringe, so Camden feels like the version where everything clicks into place. All the rough edges worked out, all the quiet moments trusted. We’re genuinely excited to bring the sharpest version of the show here.

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

The audiences are actually there for comedy and it’s a great platform for some really good new shows.

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

Treat every preview as a full night out for the audience, even when you’re testing material. People will travel to a £5 show in Camden if you’ve given them a reason to. Word of mouth is your marketing budget.  

Who would be your ultimate dream audience member?  

Someone who laughs loudly at the overachiever jokes and vibes along to some musical comedy. That’s the person the show is for.  

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

Gerald. Gerald is an overachiever pigeon who wants to see every single show at the Fringe. He’s got the ambition, the colour-coded plan and a truly catastrophic dating history. Gerald is the third member of the lavender marriage we didn’t ask for. If he’s still nesting alone by next August, he’s welcome to join the pact.

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

On our instagram:https://www.instagram.com/lifeinharshmode/

https://www.instagram.com/abisharpcomedy

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

Funny, Good vibes

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