Etcetera Theatre

Etcetera Theatre
Oxford Arms
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Address	265 Camden High Street, London, NW1 7BU; Camden, London
Owner	Zena Barrie and Michelle Flower
Type	Pub theatre
Capacity	42 seats
Opened	1986
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.

Shows which have been performed at this venue include:

The premiere of The Six Wives of Timothy Leary by Phillip De Gouveia
John Lenahan: Up Close
Fringe Report Award winner The Bubonic Play
The first performances of Tim Fountain: Sex Addict , which transferred to the Royal Court
Edinburgh Fringe First winner What I Heard About Iraq
The premiere of Bill Hicks: Slight Return which has gone to the went end and a world tour
The stage version of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel Everything is Illuminated, adapted by Simon Block, which transferred to Hampstead Theatre
Fringe Report Award winner Sandman
Ben Moor’s Coelocanth and Dan Tetsell’s Sins of The Grandfathers, both of which were made into Radio 4 plays.
Lizzie Roper’s Peccadillo Circus, which transferred to Trafalagar Studios.
Warm-up gigs for comedy acts such as Simon Amstell, Russell Brand, Al Murray, Milton Jones, Mark Thomas, Robin Ince, We Are Klang, Ed Hamell, Russell Howard and Richard Herring
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 (This won Best New Play and Best Playwright in the 1993 Fringe Awards, then 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's Card Tricks and Close-up Magic
Her Alabaster Skin by Nick Green (this later became part of BAC's 'I Wish I'd Seen That' season)
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (this later became part of BAC's 'I Wish I'd Seen That' season)
Dutchman by Leroi Jones
Room 110 made its world premiere as part of The Camden Fringe, created by Frazer Brown
Hamlet (abridged), produced by The Rival Theatre Company
Bea written by Lynn Howes
Hello by Frazer Brown Guiness World Recordattempt for Worlds shortest play.
The UK premiere of Trey Parker's Cannibal! The Musical took place in July 2008.
In 2006, Pat Condell.^[1]^[2]

The Etcetera Theatre is a hire-only venue and is used for rehearsals, castings and readings during the day as well as evening performances.

The Etcetera is a key venue in August's Camden Fringe.

References

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^ Hall, Julian (2007-01-11). "James Sherwood: I Know What You Did Last Sunday, Etc Theatre, London". Independent.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-03-17. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)