Comedy

DOOM BOX CABARET

An absolutely lawless hour of musical comedy to help you escape the day-to-day.

$37.00
Fringe allocation exhausted – see venue website
A person is seen in a collection of cardboard boxes, some of which feature brightly coloured clothes and materials spilling from them. She is centred, sitting inside a box, tilting it in an animated fashion. Her face is painted in bright make up, her expression is lively and laughing and her piano and be seen sitting between all the mess.
FRANKLY is seen on stage, leg propped on a chair, arm reaching towards the roof, as she drinks wine from the bottle!
FRANKLY is seen on stage, a red curtain behind her, as she holds a microphone to her mouth.
Past Event

Image Credit: Noah Sutherland

A person is seen in a collection of cardboard boxes, some of which feature brightly coloured clothes and materials spilling from them. She is centred, sitting inside a box, tilting it in an animated fashion. Her face is painted in bright make up, her expression is lively and laughing and her piano and be seen sitting between all the mess.
FRANKLY is seen on stage, leg propped on a chair, arm reaching towards the roof, as she drinks wine from the bottle!
FRANKLY is seen on stage, a red curtain behind her, as she holds a microphone to her mouth.

  • Created and Performed by: FRANKLY

Please note: Melbourne Fringe’s ticket allocation is exhausted, for tickets visit the Butterfly Club website.

Better start training that pelvic floor, darlings! FRANKLY'S cooked up a side-splitting, seat-wetting, sore-face-getting hour of absurdity that's absolutely stuffed to the brim with music, madness and thematic mayhem.

Outrageous and unpredictable, this doom box has a bit of everything. Except meaning. Or sense. Just a lawless comedy show of original songs that are so damn catchy they risk being a distraction from the completely bizarre lyrics put to them.

The Frank Ford Award recipient of 2022, and Adelaide Fringe's past artist of the week, FRANKLY is known for her animated stage presence, her "unique songs" (Weekend Notes) and for "sounding like Regina Spektor, but funnier" (HiFi Way). After her travels to the land of making "serious art", she's well and truly done with that, returning home to her inner clown that offers the world a brief break from normalcy.

"Hilarious...wickedly creative." ★★★★★ - See Do Eat Review

"Twisted." ★★★★★ - Hifi Way

"Storytelling prowess." ★★★★ 1/2 - Mindshare SA

"Talent in spades" - Melbourne Critique

  • Duration: 60 minutes

  • Age suitability: M

  • Event warnings: Moderate Coarse Language, Some Infrequent/Low Pressure Audience Interaction.

  • The Butterfly Club - Downstairs
    5 Carson Pl, Melbourne CBD, VIC, 3000

    This venue is not wheelchair accessible and there is no step-free access to this venue as there are steps throughout.

    There is no reserved parking for permit holders, though there are plenty of commercial carparks nearby.

    There is no accessible toilet at this venue.

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  • Full: $37.00

  • Concession: $33.00

  • Group 6+: $30.00

  • Blak Tix: $30.00

Sessions: In Person Events

Date Time Venue

Monday, 09 October 2023

8:30pm

The Butterfly Club - Downstairs

 Fringe allocation exhausted – see venue website

Tuesday, 10 October 2023

8:30pm

The Butterfly Club - Downstairs

 Fringe allocation exhausted – see venue website

Wednesday, 11 October 2023

8:30pm

The Butterfly Club - Downstairs

 Fringe allocation exhausted – see venue website

Thursday, 12 October 2023

8:30pm

The Butterfly Club - Downstairs

 Fringe allocation exhausted – see venue website

Friday, 13 October 2023

8:30pm

The Butterfly Club - Downstairs

 Fringe allocation exhausted – see venue website

Saturday, 14 October 2023

8:30pm

The Butterfly Club - Downstairs

 Fringe allocation exhausted – see venue website

Sunday, 15 October 2023

8:30pm

The Butterfly Club - Downstairs

 Fringe allocation exhausted – see venue website

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