Clara Cupcakes: The Worst | The Deluxe | til Feb 25th | ★ ★ ★ ½ Clara Cupcakes’ The Worst draws from the pain of a failed relationship, and guides the audience through the inevitable bad decisions that many of us are doomed to make. This charming comedy show looks through the lens of Clara the […]
One Punch Wonder | The Actors’ Hub | til Feb 25th | ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ What makes a man? Is it his strength? His compassion? His ability to provide? His fists? In a time where the definition of manhood is being challenged and redefined at every level in our society, One Punch Wonder asks what […]
Flaws and All | Black Flamingo | til Feb 25th | ★ ★ ★ ½ Usually I don’t know very much about a Fringe performance ahead of time but I had read some things about this performance and it seemed exciting. I found the title of the one-woman aerial circus performance interesting and wondered if the […]
Vogue: The Madonna Circus | The Pleasure Garden | Until 24th February | ★ ★ ★ ★ Drag star BarbieQ and local circus company Kinetica have forged a great partnership combining their talents. Their show Sinsuality was a stand out at previous editions of Fringe World and now they’re presenting and brand new show – Vogue: The Madonna […]
DROWNING | Paper Mountain | til Feb 22nd | ★ ★ ★ ★ Grief is a strange beast. It is both quiet and loud, ferocious and soft. It coils around the soul with such an intensity that at times it feels like you are growing a diamond inside your chest. At other times, it feels as though […]
Raul By The Pool | Ramp @ The Ice Cream Factory | til Feb 25th | ★ ★ ★ “Shit, is this funny or not?” was my mate’s stellar, and pretty apt response, when I asked him what he’d thought about the show. Two other guys at a urinal trough chimed in with a few opinions of […]
Madame Nightshade’s Poison Garden | The Blue Room | til Feb 24th | ★ ★ ★ Wow. If ever there was a show that epitomised the spirit of Fringe, this was it. Madame Nightshade takes you on a journey of schizophrenic proportions. What that journey is exactly cannot be faithfully captured within the word limit for […]
Elixir | West Australian Spiegeltent | til Feb 25th | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Sci-fi, circus and comedy collide in this brilliant Fringe World show from the boys at Head First Acrobats. Opening with one of the stars gnawing on a severed limb, it’s clear from the outset this isn’t your typical circus show. A zombie outbreak […]
Sudden Skies | The Blue Room | til Feb 24th | ★ ★ Sometimes my friends and I play a game where we point out random objects on the street, a trolley for example, and deconstruct it, coming up with elaborate and patently false ideas of what it could mean. Maybe it’s the English teacher in […]
Damian Callinan in Swing Man | Casa Mondo | til Feb 25th | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I have a confession. Despite being a renowned character and multiple award-nominated stand-up comedian, I didn’t know who Damian Callinan was before I saw his show. I should get out more — perhaps to one of the Swing Dance classes […]
