Camden Fringe 2025: Lost Property at Etcetera Theatre

2^nd August 2025

Cristiana Ferrauti

Cristiana Ferrauti

2 August 2025

Since its inception, Camden Fringe has prided itself on showcasing works that challenge and make bold points on topics that touch our sensibilities at different levels. The programme is also a varied display of genres, spanning light and more serious entertainment, for theatre buffs and non alike. Amelia Dunn and Tuia Suter have made their way from Melbourne to be part of both the country’s big summer fringe festivals (as they will be going North later in the month for the Edinburgh kermesse too) with a show that superbly stays true to the core values of the fringe manifesto, funny jokes included.

One hour one-woman show, Lost Property is performed on a Friday and Saturday night at the Etcetera Theatre, above the Oxford Arms on Camden High Street. The plot? A self-investigation on the protagonist’s, Alice (interpreted by Amelia Dunn), missing vagina. What may sound from a line summary as an irreverent and racy comedy, indeed delivers an animated script. At the bottom of Alice’s desperate search, though, there’s a case of shame, a sense of guilt and responsibility for not acting in order to stop a sexual assault, allowing the violation to become normalised and acceptable. This is a provocative piece of drama, mixed with witty comedy, on the psychological and inward consequences on another party in appalling cases of sexual assaults: women witnessing the crime in silence.

The act takes place during a morning commute on a Melbourne tram. Alice’s mind is distracted and tickled by the different behaviours and appearances of the passengers, and while we see her stretching her neck to look beyond the youngsters group getting on or holding tightly an invisible bar to avoid falling face forward, we hear about her close friends, therapist sessions, the lovers who have entered and exited her life, still failing to bring her libido back. The recital is peppered with clever nicknames and gestures to the so-sought-after vagina. The body movements of Dunn are measured, spread when the comedy takes over, balanced where the matter takes a more considerate turn: she is marvellous in her rapid changes of persona and stage presence. Episodes (with their ups and downs), normal in the life of a 30ish woman, are told in a free-flowing way, interlocked with afterthoughts and doubts, but also an unwavering desire to move on and fight the stasis that has forcibly come her way.

Without any preaching pretension, actually letting the audience go with a smile and a bunch of laughs, Lost Property insinuates a down-to-earth reflection on female solidarity.

Cristiana Ferrauti
Photo: Courtesy of Lost Property

Lost Property is at Etcetera Theatre from 1^st until 2^nd August 2025. For further information or to book, visit the theatre’s website here.