Camden People's Theatre's Autumn Season to Feature CALM DOWN DEAR & More

Video-gaming/theatre mash-ups, foul-mouthed puppets, theatrical self-help and special mentions for Robert Downey Jr, JFK & the Beastie Boys: this Autumn at Camden People's Theatre is bursting at the seams with the most innovative, bold and thrilling new theatre from the UK's best emerging theatre-makers.

The season kicks off with the return of Calm Down Dear (Tue 15 Sep - Sun 11 Oct), CPT's acclaimed celebration of brilliant new theatre exploring feminism and gender politics. The stellar line-up includes artists Louise Orwin, Racheal Ofori, Emma Frankland and Milk Presents, and a number of talks and forums for debating the issues at the festival's heart: full details to be announced soon.

Beta Public (Tue 17 - Thu 19 Nov), Thomas Martin & Pat Ashe's ever-popular night of video gaming and theatre, extends for a three day mini-festival, bringing together gaming anoraks and contemporary performance nerds to explore the parallels between their obsessions, riffing on questions around game theory, gamification and audience volition.

In Bad at Being Me (Tue 3 - Sun 8 Nov), a selection of cutting-edge artists explore the cult of
self-betterment, and how it feels to be imperfect in its shadow. Cape Theatre attempt to be a bit more like JFK in We Choose to Go to the Moon (Sat 7 & Sun 8 Nov), and Urban Foxes return with their hit Be Better (Sat 7 & Sun 8 Nov), asking the audience to join them at the 'altar of the self' to become the best they can be.

A Fun Palace for Grown Ups (Sun 4 Oct), staged in partnership with New Diorama and other West Euston-based organisations, features a free programme of arts, science & cultural activities specifically targeted at adults and addressing grown-up themes such as sex, voting, booze and taxes, proving interactivity, education and fun aren't just for kids.

Barrel Organ follows massive breakthrough hit, Nothing, with the London premiere of Some People Talk About Violence (Tue 1 - Sat 12 Dec), a musing on how violence permeates every part of human life. The company, Associate Artists at CPT, also stage a weekend-long takeover of the venue (Sat 5 & Sun 6 Dec), sharing a range of scratch and work-in-progress performances.

For the first time, CPT will be open for a season of festive treats during the Christmas period: Simon Maeder & Adam El-Hagar's Licensed to Ill (Mon 23 Nov - Sat 12 Dec) is a loving, witty and skillful musing on the history of hip-hop, and questions of artistic authorship, told through the story of the Beastie Boys. And for those after more spiritual fare, Holy Presents (Tue 15 - Sat 19 Dec, 7.30pm) is a highly irreverent human/puppet comedy about the Father, the Son & the Holy Ghost spending Christmas day together: complete with bad presents, the Queen's Speech, and Slade.

Elsewhere in the season, some of the UK's most exciting, unconventional new theatre artists bring work to Hampstead Rd. Hot from the Edinburgh Fringe, the always unpredictable Theatre State present Tribute Acts (Tue 20 - Sat 24 Oct), their new show about father figures, false memories and the failure of the left-wing. Pulse Festival 2015 Suitcase Prize-winners This Theatre transfer their comic hit Police Cops (Tue 20 - Thu 22 Oct) from Edinburgh to CPT, Documental's acclaimed Score returns after a successful spring 2015 run, and graduates of CPT's prestigious Starting Blocks development scheme, Owl Young and Grace Gibson, unleash Iron MAM (Wed 28 & Thu 29 Oct) and How to Drown a Fish (Fri 20 & Sat 21 Nov).

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