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Etcetera Theatre

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Etcetera Theatre
Oxford Arms
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AddressCamden High Street
Camden, London
OwnerZena Barrie and Michelle Flowers
TypePub theatre
Capacity42 seats
Opened1986
Website
www.etceteratheatre.com

The Etcetera Theatre is a fringe venue for theatre and comedy. It was founded in 1986 and is situated above The Oxford Arms pub in Camden Town, in the London Borough of Camden.

The Theatre won the 1996 Guinness Ingenuity Award for Pub Theatre and was nominated for the 1996 Peter Brook Empty Space Award.

Plays which have been perfored at this venue include:

  • The premieres of The Westwoods and Between the Lines by Alan Ayckbourn and Paul Todd
  • Blue Jam by Chris Morris which transferred to Riverside Studio
  • Nightmare Abbey by Eleanor Zeal, winner of an Edinburgh Fringe First and Scottish Daily Express Newcomer of the Year
  • The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco
  • The Wild Party by Joseph Moncure March
  • Porcelain by Chay Yew - Best New Play and Best Playwright 1993 Fringe Awards the show successfully transferred to the Royal Court Theatre
  • My Life in Art by Andrew Cowie
  • Gospel, produced by The Yellowchair Performance Experience
  • Bondage by David Hines - toured UK and Europe and became the Ken Russell film Whore
  • Kafka's Dick by Alan Bennett.
  • Jerry Sadowitz Card tricks and Close-up Magic
  • Her Alabaster Skin by Nick Green and A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen both of which became part of BAC's 'I Wish I'd Seen That' season
  • Dutchman by Leroi Jones

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