Reading Time: 2 minutesNever meet your heroes; you may just have to write their suicide note. Bennie, played by Eleanor Shaw, is a ghostwriter residing in corporate limbo tasked with penning suicide letters for the soon to be deceased. With…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA spectacle about legacy and individuality. Diving into the life of a frankly deplorable but fabulous aristocrat Henry Cyril Paget, this short musical sets out to be obvious in its condemnation of queer erasure throughout history. Regrettably,…
Reading Time: 3 minutesWinner of the Best Music Award at Adelaide Fringe and featuring music and lore from Joplin, Winehouse, Cobain, Morrison and Hendrix, this must-see live rock-umentary will get you praying to the rock gods for more. Saluting the members of the 27 Club are some of Australia's top rock icons and musicians. We sat down Creator, Producer and Director of 27 Club, Zac Tyler.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s 1880s Paris and Dr Jean-Martin Charcot is studying hysteria at the Salpêtrière Hospital. Here, the doctors go to extraordinary lengths to prove their theories about the four stages of madness, having female patients perform ‘hysteria’ to…
Reading Time: 2 minutesHappy Ending Street is as laugh out loud funny, as it is a gripping exploration of what freedom means within patriarchy (and it is pretty damn funny).
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom costuming and music to the script itself, everything about Ryan Stewart’s KINDER is a fantastic celebration of queer identity and childhood. What begins as a brilliant comedic set-up – what if a drag performer mistakes a ‘reading hour’ for “reading” (as in making fun of) hour? – spirals into a beautiful deep-dive into a three-act performance of identity, storytelling, and the precarious position of queer people in today’s world.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Fringe’s home for Scottish-Canadian artistic collaboration, Venue 13 kicked off the first of Climate Change Theatre Action’s 20 days of play readings. This is the Canadian theatre company’s tenth year of commissioning short-form climate theatre. Throughout the festival month, CCTA will present a total of fifty of its commissioned works, including ten new ones specifically written for the festival and in response to this year’s theme: The Time is Now.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI would class this particular piece of stand-up as a hidden gem of the Fringe this year. A show that is as clever as it is chaotic, Will Davies brings a neurodivergent voice to the stage with cutting wit and delightfully dry humour, making it a must-see for anyone who has ever struggled with the slightest bit of anxiety!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCerys Bradley’s Queer Tales for Autistic Folk is a refreshingly inventive and joyfully subversive piece of interactive storytelling that invites audiences to not just witness a show, but shape it.
Reading Time: 2 minutesChildhood ruining in the best of ways. Trigger Happy Productions has returned to the Fringe stage with their childhood ruining, engrossing parody performance. Taking pride of place on the Assembly Main stage, the cast has set the…