Big names – Big egos – Big it up!
Our friends at Premier Entertainments are all in a lather in announcing their super hot Fringe line-up including debuts from Chortle Student Award Winner, Kwame Asante and the Richard Gadd’s director Stoph Demetriou. Previous Fringe Favourites include a brand new hour of masterful storytelling from Sarah Kendall; an exciting twist in format for The Dark Room for Kids, an unexpected kids version of the terrifying live interactive game show. There is a fantastic new show from Brendon Burns and Craig Quartermaine, and another freewheeling masterpiece from the unstructured, unhinged, ‘the Cardinal of Chaos, the Ayatollah of Abuse, the Duke of Puke’ John Robertson. The gymnast of the absurd, do not be fooled by the halo – he was suckled on plutonium.
German punk-pop rockers Otto & Astrid (Die Roten Punkte) present Eurosmash! and we’re excited to see a new show from the much loved ballsy New Yorker, Abigoliah Schamaun.
Everyone’s favourite foolhardy foot-high puppets Boris & Sergey return with a confusingly named One Man Extravaganza, Yianni Agisilaou brings the show that was recently nominated for Best Comedy at the Perth Fringe 2017 whilst Stuart Black takes us on a dark journey to the depths of his mind.
Making his return to Fringe after 34 years away, is Richard Sparks – writer of Rowan Atkinson’s ‘Schoolmaster Sketch’ and regular writer on Not the Nine O’clock News – bringing his new piece of comedy writing Margarita Dreams. And hotfooting it over to Pleasance with the might of the Showstoppers producer’s behind them, comes the hottest new ticket in Improv comedy Murder She Didn’t Write
UP AND COMING ACTS include the charming and Irish Conor Drum and the Irish and charming Danny O’Brien. Character comedy comes in the form of Maddy Anholt and ex-political journalist Francesco De Carlo eager to drag audiences screaming from their comfort zones – and maybe even their erogenous ones as well.
Over in the CABARET & VARIETY section JoJo Bellini beguiles and charms all with her saucy signing, and Korean magical maestros SNAP return after a total sell out 2016.
WILD CARDS, Sarah Bennetto and Marny Godden promise to have some ace deals up their sleeves.
Losers invite audiences to grab a voting handset, meet four dangerously desperate contestants and decide their formidable fates. It’s the most nail-biting TV game-show of the decade. With a very dark twist.
The man with the galactic brain-pan, Fringe First winning Canadian rapper Baba Brinkman asks the hard questions in Rap Guide to Consciousness – what is it like to be a baby? We might have to take LSD to find out. How about an octopus? (We will have ours lightly sautéed, please!)
Following the notable success of No Child which debuted at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2010, Nilaja Sun returns to The Fringe with her new one-woman show, Pike ST..
Matthew Floyd Jones, (Mannish from Frisky and Mannish) brings his one man show Richard Carpenter is Close to You – a parody-tribute to the less talked about half of The Carpenters.
Fresh from huge success at the Adelaide Fringe, Blank Tiles tells the story of World Scrabble Champion, Austin Michaels used to know over 200,000 words. Now Alzheimer’s disease is eating away at his memory.
Catherine and Anita is a beautifully bleak comedy. Told over the course of decades this is a story about heartbreak, mental illness, and ultimately how those in need so often slip through life’s cracks.
Lists For The End Of The World is a show composed entirely of crowd-sourced lists, from all kinds of people in all kinds of places – including the audience as they queue up to take their seats.
The Man on the Moor Written and performed by Max Dickins of last year’s critical smash-hit The Trunk, this one-man play looks at how people come to disappear and the impact on those they leave behind.
Eggsistentialism is a comedic, autobiographical journey charting the odyssey that writer/performer Joanne Ryan embarked upon while trying to decide in her final fertile years whether or not to have a child.
Following its Fringe sell out in 2016, SNAP! returns to the Festival. This enormously entertaining magic show boasts a cast of Korea’s greatest illusion artists in an enchanting, engaging and hilarious show.
And from gigantic drums to small percussion instruments Tago – Korean Drum II performances are a masterful display of thrilling percussion and precisely choreographed movement.
