Break:Out, Hen and Chickens Theatre
As Camden Fringe 2025 edges closer and closer, we continue our quite frankly insane effort to publish 100 interviews to highlight some of the shows you can catch at this year’s festival. You can find all the currently published interviews here with more being added daily through to the end of July.
Our latest guest is Tristan Wolfe who will be bringing her raw, queer, and uplifting one-person show about rejection, resilience, and self-discovery, Break:Out to Hen and Chickens Theatre for two nights (4 and 5 August). But before then, we managed to grab some time with Tristan to find out more.
What can audiences expect from the show?
Break:Out is a queer, comedy storytelling show about surviving trauma, discovering identity, and finding your voice, literally, after years of silence. It’s personal, funny, raw, and uplifting. Through original songs, teenage diary entries, and absurd props like a trauma scoreboard and a knitted snail hat, Tristan charts a journey from self-doubt to self-expression and resilience. It’s about coming out, breaking down, and breaking through.
Is Camden Fringe going to be the show’s first time on stage, or have you already performed elsewhere?
We had a successful run at Brighton Fringe with great feedback. By the time I get to Camden the show will have been on in the Rik Mayall Comedy Festival, Tunbridge Wells Fringe, Buxton Fringe, and Greater Manchester Fringe.
Are there any plans for what comes next after the show has finished its run– for you or the show?
Edinburgh Fringe is next for 12 dates (tickets and info here).
If your show had a soundtrack, what songs would definitely be on it, and why?
I Want To Break Free by Queen, sums up the show really well and I’d love to recreate the video hoovering in curlers
What’s the weirdest or most unconventional prop used in your show, and how did it come to be part of the production?
Knitted Rainbow Snail Hat: the reason is in the show. Spoilers!
What’s the most valuable piece of advice you’ve received during your career, and how has it influenced your work on this show?
Don’t hold back. That’s the piece of advice that’s stayed with me throughout my career, and it’s been central to creating this show. Break:Out includes moments I never imagined I’d share on stage: deep personal trauma, raw emotional truths, and surreal, silly songs. But pushing through that fear and putting it all out there has been incredibly rewarding. I hope audiences connect with the honesty, vulnerability, and yes, the absurdity too.
What words of advice/encouragement would you give anyone thinking about doing Camden Fringe next year?
Do it.
Thanks for taking the time to explain a bit about your show, Tristan, it sounds intriguing. If you’re as intrigued about that knitted hat as we are at Everything Theatre, then Break:Out plays at the Hen and Chickens Theatre on Monday 4 and Tuesday 5 August.
