The Lambeth Fringe Festival has revealed its 2025 program, which confirms a landmark edition celebrating the 10th anniversary with more than 200 events planned across the city between September 25 and October 25.
Now firmly anchored in the southern London cultural landscape, the festival – formally known as Clapham Fringe – has grown from a modest exhibition to one of the capital’s most dynamic platforms for new and underrepresented voices. This year’s anniversary edition is also its largest so far, reinforced by support from Arts Council England for the first time in its history.
Programming includes a lively mix of theater, comedy, cabaret, music and family performances, delivered over 25 arenas that reflect Lambeth’s diversity and creativity. New partners such as Arch 555 at Silly Towers, Vauxhall City Farm, Vaulty Towers and Morley College join returning arenas in a neighborhood takeover that master accessibility and artistic innovation.
Festival co-directors Velenzia Spearpoint and Rebecca Pyle described the 2025 edition as an “important milestone”, and adds: “We are pleased to present our largest and most ambitious program so far … The spirit in the fring has always been about creativity, availability and grassroots and 2025, it is.
Among the heading documents are “The Ultimate Bubble Show” (Oct 3-4), a family-playing game from Guinness World Record-Ray Bubbles, which offers bubble volcanoes, ghosts and tornadoes in a surrealist live experience. The audience can also look forward to “Willy Witches” (8-10 Oct), a sharp-edged comic takes on four women who are struggling to survive the English witch hunts, and “MJ Hibbet: Data and Droom” (Oct. 11), a one-man musical lecture that argues why Marvel’s iconic village surprises Batman-Batman-Batted Batman-Backed
In line-up is also “Catgpt-Feline & Ferall” (September 26-27), the true, absurdist story of a man using AI to bring back his cat from the dead, and “Bog Body” (September 25 & 20 Oct), a solo crime technician about a cursed core discovery in a peatless.
From satirical burlesque such as “bincels” (September 26), which parodies internet misogyny through musical features, to political story in “Mother Knows Best” (18-19 Oct)-a cross-generational examination of domestic life under oppression in Russia, South Africa and Israel-Posts festival.
New initiatives introduced this year include Lambeth Fringe BursaryCreated in collaboration with Morley College, which will donate all the ticket tests from their festival program to support students who are facing financial obstacles for higher education. The festival also expands its focus on the artist’s well -being, formalizes a partnership with well -being in the art and introduces the Glitch Awards to spotlight prominent creative contributions.
This year’s offers range from political satire and surreal performance to interactive children’s theater and AI-infused comedy, which emphasizes the festival’s broad assignment and its continued commitment to experimental, community-driven programming. For younger audiences, mythological walks “Myths, Maps & Monster: Zeus’ Birthday Bash!” (September 27-28) offers an interactive adventure to defeat Medusa and restore the order to Antique Greece. Elsewhere, shows such as “A Noise Irrors” (4 Oct) the sonic properties in the language, and the main bucket (October 13) uses dance theater to deconstruct the relationship between bodies and their material environment.
Now in its tenth year, Lambeth Fringe, produced by The Bread and Roses Theater, has developed far beyond its origin above a Clapham-Pub and carries out a reputation for risk-taking and inclusion. Its ethos remains rooted in to seek equality, diversity and artistic qualifications, welcome both local artists and tournament companies.
Tickets for 2025 Lambeth Fringe range from £ 5 to £ 16, with events that run daily over Lambeth between September 25 and October 25. With its expanded reach, landmark programming and a renewed commitment to social influence, the fringe comes into its second decade as a bold and vital fixture in London’s independent performance scene.
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