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What's on at the Hub!

    The Desert Bard

    An immersive tale of steampunk nightmares and wide-open dreams.

  • Presented by Hot Heads
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Square
    • Two boys lean out of a rusted and derelict car, looking to camera.
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    Ratbag

    Legit, epic, and allergic to girls. Danny Sewell is a Ratbag.

  • Written and Performed by Danny Sewell
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Archive Room
    • A young man is onstage holding a microphone. He is dressed in a baggy tshirt with an alien on it and looks out with a mischievous smile as he tells a joke.
    Comedy
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    Annie and Lena Have A Talk Show

    A barrage of sketch comedy from two friends who are all about farts, feminism and feeling good.

  • Created and Performed by Annie Lumsden & Lena Moon
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Archive Room
    • Two women sit in armchairs against a bubblegum pink background. One has brown hair and is in a blue suit the other has blonde hair and is in a dress and blazer. They both hold white coffee mugs and looking at the camera with a confident look on their faces.
    Comedy
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    CADET KELLY IS THE BEST MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY FRIGGIN LIFE

    Nostalgia meets chaos in this absurdist solo comedy.

  • Created and Performed by Ben McCarthy
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Evatt Room
    • A girl in a pink t shirt and sparkly jewellery salutes while an admiral behind looks at her disapprovingly. Both of their faces have been photoshopped to be Ben, the performer in the show
    Comedy
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    Impromptunes - The Completely Improvised Band Musical

    A brand new musical made up on the spot every night!

  • Presented by Impromptunes
  • Dates 11 - 13 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Common Rooms
    • A group of five performers wearing red, black and white are sitting surrounded by musical instruments in a black box theatre space, laughing together.
    Comedy
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    Bisexual Intellectuals

    A camp and chaotic celebration of queer joy, dismantling bi-phobia with levity and heart.

  • Created by Millicent Sarre, Rosie Russell & Jemma Allen
  • Dates 02 - 13 Oct (60 min)
  • Venues Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Common Rooms, Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room
    • Three white women laugh widely with their arms wrapped around each other and smiling at one another. Their heads are stacked on top of one another. The woman at the top, Rosie, has platinum blonde hair and is wearing her hair in plaits with bright pink ribbons and heart-shaped earrings. The woman in the centre, Mim, has dark blonde hair, and is wearing sparkly earrings and a fluffy purple coat. The woman at the bottom, Jemma, is wearing a blue denim jacket and maroon eyeshadow and lipstick. Behind them is a gradient of bright pink, purple and blue, reminiscent of the bisexual flag.
    Cabaret
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    Lotus Root Support Group

    Powerpoints, Potato Raps and a Performance about Chronic Illness.

  • Created and Performed by Miriam Cheong and Shannen Tan
  • Dates 09 - 13 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Old Council Chambers
    • Miriam and Shannen stand side by side, a white wall in the background. They are surrounded by multiple circles of various sizes in cyan blue and hot pink. Miriam is a Chinese woman with long black hair and is wearing heart shaped sunglasses, a backwards cap, a hot pink crop top and black pants while holding a baguette loaf erect. Shannen is a Chinese woman with short brown hair and is wearing a white tube top, a blue jacket, grey-blue bicycle shorts and bright blue boxing gloves.
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    The Von Donk Family Old-Timey Vaudeville Revue

    A rip-roaring tribute to all the music, magic & comedy of the 20th century (except minstrel shows).

  • Created and Performed by Andrew McClelland & Louisa Fitzhardinge
  • Dates 09 - 13 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Solidarity Hall
    • A man with short blonde hair wearing a blue and white sailor's outfit sits as a woman wearing an identical sailor suit stands behind him and rests her hands on his shoulder. Both have ridiculous smiles and they are against a yellow background.
    Cabaret
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    Layered Point / VOYAGER #3

    A fusion of two unique contemporary works performed by Melbourne emerging artists.

  • Produced by CoExist Collective
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Square
    • Two people standing opposite each other, wearing a white singlet and blue pants. Their elbows raised, fists clenched, with their gaze staring ahead. A blue tint and halftone effect filters the entire image.
    Dance & Physical Theatre
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    Hello Red Planet VR

    A sales pitch in virtual reality : why we should re-locate to Mars.

  • Directed by Jeff Achtem
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (180 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall
    • An AI generated image of a horse wearing a bright yellow space suit in front of a grey background.
    Experimental
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    The Black Cat

    Poe’s Gothic masterpiece - sinister crime and supernatural horror in an award winning production.

  • Performed by Mark Penzak & Glendon Blazely
  • Dates 02 - 06 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Old Council Chambers
    • An old disheveled priest-like character with a top hat and long beard, is outside an old prison door. He's looking upwards perhaps in prayer. Through an opening in the prison door, we see the face of second man who seems alarmed.
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    Dad Genes

    Losing a father while becoming kinda, sort of a man.

  • Written and Performed by Eddie Pattison
  • Dates 02 - 06 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Evatt Room
    • Eddie sits upright on the floor partially consumed by a big pile of blue denim jeans, with their legs, arms and head emerging out. Scattered amongst the jeans are seven empty vials of Testosterone and one small silver keepsake urn. Eddie is white, they have a cropped bleached blonde mullet, big wire frame glasses, and multiple piercings in their nose. They have a confused, overwhelmed and slightly amused expression on their face.
    Comedy
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    Burn it.

    Two queers in a raw, dark and hilarious drama. “Powerful and edgy” – The List.

  • Written and Produced by Lydia Kuelsen
  • Dates 09 - 13 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Archive Room
    • Two young people standing closely together against a plain black background with soft, coloured lighting that creates a blend of pink and purple tones on their skin and clothes. The person on the left is smiling slightly towards the camera, has long, wavy blonde hair and is wearing a mauve sleeveless crop top with a black choker necklace. The person on the right has short, wavy red hair and is wearing a lavender short-sleeve button-up shirt over a black bra. They have tattoos on their arms and are also looking directly at the camera with a serious expression. Their left arm is wrapped around the other person's shoulders, holding them close, while their right hand is slightly pulling the strap of the other person's shirt off their shoulder.
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    Never Gonna Die

    High energy, heartfelt chaos.

  • Performed by Maddy Weeks
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Evatt Room
    • Comedian Maddy Weeks is holding a skeleton, draped in a black cloak, resembling the grim repaer. Maddy is a non-binary comedian with a mullet, brown hair and black glasses. They are wearing a button-up cherub-print shirt and brown pants. Maddy has a shocked look on their face and the skeleton is positioned to appear like it's whispering something to them.
    Comedy
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    A Brief Episode

    An odyssey so strange it could only be true.

  • Written and Performed by Ash Flanders
  • Dates 02 - 20 Oct (65 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Solidarity Hall
    • A marble statue of a man's head, badly cracked, in front of a green background. The face has a moustache drawn onto it in marker.
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    I Once Was A Tree

    A journey through the wilds of aging.

  • Created and Performed by Bonkel Theatre
  • Dates 09 - 13 Oct (30 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Corner Store
    • A three-panel room-divider screen is backlit with pink and purple light. A shadow of a cane chair is cast on the screen. A painted cardboard woman with red wavy hair leans out from the side of the screen and reveals her red stiletto at the bottom.
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    Emilie Biggar & Jeremy Moses: Hear/See No Evil

    Good ol' fashioned comedy has a fresh new face - one lacking functioning eyes and ears!

  • Written and Performed by Emilie Biggar & Jeremy Moses
  • Dates 02 - 06 Oct (45 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Corner Store
    • In a park, a man with facial hair and a woman with long blonde hair stand back-to-back. They are wearing matching striped red suits with yellow bow ties and flat straw hats. She has a cheeky smile and he looks somewhat frustrated.
    Comedy
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    KINDER

    Booked? Yes. Blessed? No.

  • Created and Performed by Ryan Stewart
  • Dates 02 - 20 Oct (60 min)
  • Venues Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Square, Upstairs @ Floridia
    • A drag artist in white clown make up is sitting at the bottom of a slide in a playground at night with a cigarette hanging out of their mouth. They are holding an open picture book and a plastic cup in one hand, and a lighter in the other hand. There are a few toys on the ground around them.
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    Twenty Million Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

    If we could afford a submarine this show would be a lot better, but we'll have to make do with junk.

  • Created and Performed by Pummel Squad
  • Dates 02 - 10 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room
    • Two disembodied and distorted colourfully illustrated heads float in the sky above tumultuous seas. A sketch sits in the foreground of a boat of poor travellers defiantly sail into an enormous wave.
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    Tom Moran is a Big Fat Filthy Disgusting Liar

    Join Tom as he begs the question: “If I never lied again, would any of my loved ones love me?"

  • Written and Performed by Tom Moran
  • Dates 02 - 06 Oct (70 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room
    • Tom stares at the camera close-up with a heart sweet pursed between his lips. The sweet reads
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    Colin Ebsworth - Me, My Cult & I

    The incredible true story of life, family and the cult that brought it all together

  • Performed by Colin Ebsworth
  • Dates 09 - 13 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room
    • Performer Colin Ebsworth as a child on a polaroid photograph, taped to a table and covered in some gold star stickers. Colin is dressed in a yellow school polo shirt and is standing in front of a religious offering table.
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    The Late Nite PowerPoint Comedy Showcase

    6 comedians. 6 PowerPoints. A line-up show like no other.

  • Presented by Sweeney Preston & Ethan Cavanagh
  • Dates 09 - 13 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Archive Room
    • Comedy
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    Saccharine

    A musical spiral through the world's issues.

  • Produced by Relevant Productions
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room
    • A portrait of a man wearing a bright orange Hawaiian shirt and wielding a Ukulele in front of a bright yellow background. He's smiling but his eyes look very concerned.
    Comedy
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    Prune

    A woman gets into the tub and decides to never get out. A shambolic bath-bomb of comedic theatre.

  • Written and Directed by Isabelle Carney & Pat Mooney
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (50 min)
  • Venues Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room, Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room
    • A figure covered in foam except for their eyes sits neck-deep in a bathtub and peers into the camera. They are surrounded by white and green tiled walls.
    Comedy
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    Linda (for one more week)

    What if you died, but due to a clerical error, you had an extra week? What would you do?

  • Created and Performed by Andy Balloch & Justin Porter
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room
    • Two men wearing yellow tee shirts on a blue background, with cutout paper clouds in front of them at the bottom of the frame. They stare out wondrously into the distance and both have halos illuminated above their heads. The man on the left holds a small cartoon globe of the earth, and the man on the right holds his hands in a religious pose.
    Comedy
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    Flies on What-If Island

    A cabaret about breaking up, breaking down, and feeling less broken.

  • Artist Ilana Charnelle
  • Dates 02 - 06 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room
    • Ilana Charnelle, a white woman with short brown hair and bright red lipstick, is pictured on a rocky outcrop with the ocean visible in the distance. She leans back at a dramatic angle against the rock, with one hand on the rocks and the other striking a pose above her head.
    Cabaret
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    Hello Players! Vol 2.

    An hour of original hip hop musical comedy.

  • Created and Performed by Randy Adeva & Brendan Wan
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room
    • A man in a blue and purple corduroy suit with large chains around his neck sits on a 2006 Toyota Corolla taken with a fish eye lens. Another man is behind him leaning on the side of the car in a varsity jacket. The car is parked along a street lined with grass and palm trees.
    Comedy
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    Where You Were

    Settle into a comfy armchair for an intimate storytelling experience blending memory and imagination

  • Created and Performed by Eidann Glover and Oliver Cowen
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (10 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Temple
    • A drawn image of a red, plush cozy chair on a background of painted swirling rainbow colours.
    Experimental
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    Close to Home

    An immersive visit to the zoo fusing hopepunk, climate-fiction and the myth of domesticity.

  • Presented by flatpack.
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Square
    • A white woman with her hair tied back in a bun is sitting in an arm chair facing the side. Her head is turned towards the camera. The image has been collaged so that the chair is a bed of flowers and the woman's top is the ocean. The background is solid light blue.
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    Warb

    Me, my dog, a travelling side show and nothing in-between.

  • Performed by Cameron Ribbons
  • Dates 02 - 06 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Evatt Room
    • Close up of a man's face staring into camera with grease and dirt on face. He is sitting in his car.
    Comedy
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    We, The Outsiders

    Real life stories of migrants, by migrants, for everyone.

  • Created and Performed by Romina Meneses
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room
    • The image shows a woman with text projected onto her face and body. She has her hand raised, partially obscuring her face, with words visible on her hand and shirt. The background is dark, with more text projected, creating a visually striking and mysterious scene.
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    Trades Hall Art Prize

    Annual art prize supporting arts, workers, arts-workers, art by workers and art about working life.

  • Presented by Victorian Trades Hall Council
  • Dates 02 - 20 Oct (330 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Paddy's Gallery
    • An illustration of a cluttered wooden desk with a variety of items, including a stapler, a potted plant, a can of soda, and a variety of papers. On the desk are two signs, one that says
    Visual Arts & Film
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    Otto & Astrid - The Stages Tour

    Taylor Swift had Eras. Otto & Astrid go through Stages.

  • Performed by Otto & Astrid Rot – Die Roten Punkte
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Common Rooms
    • On the left is a woman with black hair and vibrant red-and-blue makeup. She wears black dress with a cherry-red sash around the waist, and a matching ruff that extends above her head. She wears a string of large black beads around her neck. On the right is a man with black hair and bright red lipstick, who is wearing a band t-shirt. He has a red electric guitar in one hand, and a ripe banana in the other, which he is about to eat. They are both rockstars.
    Cabaret
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    The Big Queer Quiz

    The queerest quiz for queers and their friends to win prizes and be super queer.

  • Presented by Tom Noble
  • Dates 09 - 16 Oct (90 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom
    • A man in a sparkly sequin coat looks up to the right, holding a champaign flute with a progressive pride flag sticking out of it, while holding onto glasses with no lenses in them
    Parties & Social Events
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    Shitbag

    A one-person dark comedy about Crohn’s Disease, mania and casual sex.

  • Created and Performed by Hayley Edwards
  • Dates 02 - 18 Oct (55 min)
  • Venues Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Archive Room, Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Evatt Room, Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Old Council Chambers
    • Hayley Edwards sits on an accessible toilet seat wearing a white hospital gown and holding a toilet roll with their shoulder revealed flirtatiously. The background is a purple-lavender colour.
    Theatre
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    Impromptunes - Naughty Broadway

    Strap in for a risqué ride - an improvised musical with mature themes for immature audiences!

  • Presented by Impromptunes
  • Dates 11 - 13 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room
    • A group of five performers are sitting together on a round pouffe looking seductively at the camera. A rope is wrapped around one artist, with the other end held in another's teeth. Another artist has their fingers to their lips in a naughty
    Comedy
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    Gets You Going

    Your favourite new hour of experimental stand-up.

  • Created and Performed by Ashley Apap
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (45 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Corner Store
    • Ashley (woman with olive/Caucasian skin, brown, wavy shoulder length hair, hazel eyes, wearing small silver hoop earrings) stands in front of a background of white clouds with her arms outstretched to show her wingspan (she is tall and has long, gangly arms). Her head looks up towards the sky behind/above her and she has a big, open mouthed smile as her eyes look up. She wears a black, spaghetti strap dress that comes to her thighs, and a large, woollen, knitted cardigan that has horizontal multi-coloured, thick stripes knitted onto it (forest green, a burnt orange, a lime green, baby blue, baby pink, a light mauve and a deep indigo).
    Comedy
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    Scamp LIVE

    A one-night-only LIVE episode of cheeky talk show 'Scamp', created & hosted by comedian Ashley Apap.

  • Created and Performed by Ashley Apap
  • Dates 17 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Solidarity Hall
    • Ashley (a Caucasian woman with olive undertones who has brown wavy shoulder length hair and hazel eyes) sits on on a colourfully decorated couch. Behind her is an LED screen showing the interior of a wood-clad clubhouse with pink and green paint covering some panels. Ashley wears pink jeans, and a half pink, half light green jumper that has light purple cuffs at the sleeves and a big embroidered daisy in the middle of her chest. She holds a crocheted landline phone to her ear, looks to the side of the frame and wears a cheeky smile.
    Comedy
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    MAFIA The Game: The Show

    It's kill or be killed as the hit role-playing game comes to life in a hilarious late night show!

  • Presented by Ashley Apap & Nick Robertson
  • Dates 04 - 18 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Solidarity Hall
    • This image depicts a silhouette of a detective or spy character in a noir style. The figure is wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a trench coat, with the left arm raised, holding a gun. The silhouette is black against a solid red background, with the lower part of the figure blending into a stylized city skyline.
    Comedy
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    Cabaret Unscripted

    A wild and sexy 1930s cabaret comes to life with two of Australia’s best musical comedy improvisers.

  • Starring Isabella Valette and Greg Lavell
  • Dates 02 - 13 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Solidarity Hall
    • Greg, a white man in his 40s is standing holding a hat with a white shirt and bow tie, and Isabella, a woman in a black sparkly leotard and hat with a diamante choker, is standing crouched on a black bentwood chair next to him.
    Cabaret
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    Gluttony by Night | A one-woman live-singing drag show

    A journey of self-discovery and empowerment in an electrifying one-woman live-singing drag show.

  • Created and Performed by Tony Tong (aka Honey Gluttony)
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room
    • A performer dressed in a tight black outfit covered in silver rhinestones holds a microphone to their face with one hand and holds back their long curly hair with the other in a very dramatic singing pose. They are situated in front of a large projected image of a disco ball.
    Cabaret
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    A Night With Cherry Vinyl

    The tantalising tale of Surfers Paradise's oldest living showgirl!

  • Performed by Ruby Teys
  • Dates 09 - 13 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room
    • A blonde woman wearing a very colourful, feathery and sparkly burlesque/cabaret outfit and head dress leans toward the camera, hand on her chest
    Comedy
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    TOD Talks

    Improvised TED talks given by comedians to slides they have never seen before.

  • Written and Directed by Gatt & Owen
  • Dates 02 - 06 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Solidarity Hall
    • A man with a bald head and full beard is lying on his side on a red circular rug in the center of a dark stage. He appears relaxed, with his legs stretched out and his upper body slightly propped up by one elbow. Above his head is a large white thought bubble filled with whimsical line drawings, including symbols like light bulbs, hearts, helmets, planets, and tools. These images suggest a variety of ideas, thoughts, or inventions.
    Comedy
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    Casual Receptionist of the Quarter

    Cancel that gym membership because these 50 tabata-minutes of lols will give you a 6-pack.

  • Written and Performed by Nicole Gulasekharam
  • Dates 09 - 13 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room
    • The image shows a woman with light brown hair, glasses, and a friendly smile. She is wearing a blue polo shirt with a 'Primary Fitness' logo and has her arms crossed. The background is divided into blue and yellow sections, with a circular frame highlighting her. She also wears an orange-strap smartwatch on her wrist.
    Theatre
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    The Good Immigrant

    A bold, thought-provoking, interactive, fast-paced, award-winning comedic tale of ‘Happy.’

  • Written and Performed by CeeJay Singh
  • Dates 09 - 13 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Square
    • A very happy and excited male in his late 20s, jumping for joy wearing a blue shirt over a grey t-shirt, a green pant and leather boots. Two beige suitcases sit in front of him. Slightly at distance, a milestone points to three directions- New Delhi, Adelaide and Sydney.
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    1925

    The only sketch comedy show set entirely in the year 1925!

  • Written and Performed by The Burton Brothers
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room
    • Two brothers stand smiling at the camera with arms wide open, wearing white tailcoat suits with top hats and canes in front of a spotlight-lit red curtain. One brother wears a green waistcoat and bowtie, while the other's is pink.
    Comedy
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    T4T: A Transgender Showcase

    A variety spectacular of trans performers – performing for a trans ONLY audience.

  • Presented by Heartfelt Havoc Productions
  • Dates 13 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom
    • Comedian and trans woman Anna Piper Scott stands on stage with outstretched arms, she is wearing a flowing black dress and black lipstick. The background is purple LEDs with
    Cabaret
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    SUGAR

    A gender-queer cabaret about luxury, power and being paid to have sex on a grand piano.

  • Starring Tomáš Kantor
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Common Rooms
    • The image shows performer Tomáš Kantor with a curly brown hair, bright pink blush, and lipstick, lying in a white bathtub. They are wearing a sheer yellow outfit with frilled layers and bold pink high heels. The person is holding a showerhead close to their face while resting on their side.
    Cabaret
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    Delusions and Grandeur

    A solo cello recital meets a clown show.

  • Created by Karen Hall
  • Dates 09 - 20 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Evatt Room
    • A cellist with long blonde hair and formal black attire sits playing her cello. Her eyes looking sideways as if on the lookout for something.
    Experimental
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    Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence

    Crash Theatre shoots & scores with award-winning original musical hailed "the ultimate Fringe show".

  • Presented by Crash Theatre Co
  • Dates 02 - 04 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom
    • A full cast of 8 performers on stage posed in a group photo position with arms crossed. Seven are dressed in pink netball uniforms, while the centre character is dressed as a coach in a tracksuit and cap, holding a netball.
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    Vantage Points

    We weave the future from the margins.

  • Composed and Produced by Na'im Fine Fine
  • Dates 12 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom
    • Two images collated into one - On the top is a satellite captured image of a phytoplankton bloom in the Sea of Marmara. The sea is blue and purple with green landmasses and there are swirling white lines of phytoplankton in the sea. On the bottom - is the image of someone playing drums with mallets and a leaf. A well lit score of music sits is in the background.
    Experimental
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    The Book of Divergence

    The interactive DJ Adventure; Join the party and Save the Rave!

  • Devised by Matt Frequencies
  • Dates 10 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Common Rooms
    • A composite image of a bald man with a bright red beard, shown in three different personas. He wears a black leather vest and a black shirt with a gold star-like symbol. Left: He peers over small glasses with a thoughtful expression. Right: He looks bewildered, wearing a silver and black half-mask. Center: Larger and more dramatic, he stands confidently with a gold and black full-face mask resembling a mythical creature.
    Experimental
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    Oliver Coleman - Seeing What Happens (An Improvised Stand-Up Comedy Show)

    Fully immerse yourself in the magic of live performance with Oliver Coleman!

  • Presented by Token Events
  • Dates 09 - 13 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Evatt Room
    • Image is of Oliver Coleman. He has short curly hair and blue eyes. He is wearing a green shirt.
    Comedy
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    FLEM

    A thoughtful comedy about following your dreams and making it work in a cost of living crisis.

  • Written and Performed by Darcy Fleming
  • Dates 02 - 06 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Corner Store
    • Darcy is sitting on a wooden box at a 45 degree angle to the camera. He has a precocious smile, curly hair and dark thick-rimmed glasses. He is wearing a bright orange vest over a white long-sleeve t-shirt and light blue jeans.
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    FLOP

    Arthur Hull uncovers some of the best songs from the worst musicals ever written.

  • Performed by Arthur Hull
  • Dates 02 - 13 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room
    • The face of Arthur Hull with brown floppy hair, peering through stage curtains looking at the camera surprised.
    Cabaret
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    Promising Young Mensch

    Groundbreaking comedy from a unique voice.

  • Performed by Jacob Sacher
  • Dates 02 - 06 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Old Council Chambers
    • Striking yellow background. In the centre of the image is a 20sish year old man with a face of euphoric bliss, wearing a red hat. Above him are four collaged versions of himself playing cricket with odd expressions. The effect looks like a bouquet of flowers exploding out of the mans head.
    Comedy
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    Dizney in Drag: Once Upon a Parody

    A nostalgic musical comedy pantomime riotous romp!

  • Presented by The Hairy Godmothers
  • Dates 02 - 13 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom
    • Colourfully dressed characters all look to a central narrator character who is holding a pink book.
    Cabaret
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    Welcome to the Jungle "Dancehall Bashment"

    Astral travel from the concrete Jungles of Melbourne to the vibrant street parties of Jamaica.

  • Presented by Jungle City Projects
  • Dates 03 Oct (210 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Common Rooms
    • Two dancers dancing together in the style of Dancehall
    Parties & Social Events
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    Feminist Hall Tours at Trades Hall

    An insightful walking tour of Trades Hall.

  • Presented by The Victorian Trades Hall Council
  • Dates 03 - 10 Oct (90 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall
    • A bronze statue depicting Zelda D'Aprano holding a sign that reads
    Words & Ideas
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    CLUB FRINGE: Awards Ceremony and Closing Night Party

    That’s a wrap baby – but not before we hand out the accolades!

  • Presented by Melbourne Fringe
  • Dates 20 Oct (360 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • A plastic crown lit in pink lighting
    Parties & Social Events
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    Hot Department

    Unhinged sketch comedy from two failed actors.

  • Performed by Hot Department
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Solidarity Hall
    • The image shows two dolls holding hands, against a backdrop of deep red flames. The doll on the right is wearing a green trousers with matching suspenders and a cream shirt and has long blonde hair. The doll on the right is wearing a black trousers and a red shirt with black print, and thick brown hair.
    Comedy
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    Henry Yan - Please don’t come

    As mentioned, don’t come, this will not be a great show but if you do decide to come, no refunds :)

  • Performed by Henry Yan
  • Dates 02 - 06 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Evatt Room
    • Photo of Comedian Henry Yan doing Kamehameha in car park with Graffiti on the background walls.
    Comedy
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    Lewis Garnham - Figuring it Out - Live

    Lewis Garnham is figuring it out, after a sellout season at Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

  • Presented by Lewis Garnham
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Archive Room
    • Lewis Garnham looking at his iPhone face down, front on image.
    Comedy
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    A House of This and That

    A silly, irreverant homage to theatre ushering and the restlessness of the creative mind.

  • Written and Performed by Caitlin A. Kearney
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Evatt Room
    • A tall woman in her mid-twenties with long brown hair wears a white shirt and black brogues, trousers, waistcoat, and necktie. She is standing leant against the back of a row of seats in a red and gold themed heritage musical theatre venue. Her body is facing the back of the auditorium, away from a stage. Her left hand is braced against the top of a chair behind her, and her right hand is on her hip. She is looking up to her right, into the spotlight that falls over her, and the bright light over-illuminates her shirt, hair, and face. She is wearing a neutral expression. She is the only person visible in the auditorium.
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    Maybe He's Born With It, Maybe It's ADHD

    An ADHD masterclass and essential viewing for family, friends and those with the condition.

  • Presented by Colin Ebsworth
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room
    • The performer is shirtless with body faced away from the camera, looking into the lens holding a modelling pose with hands near the face. Behind them is a cut out pill bottle and small yellow pills strewn across the image.
    Comedy
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    Pope Benedict the IX

    The hilariously unpredictable antics of history's most notorious teenage pope.

  • Performed by Pedro Cooray
  • Dates 09 - 13 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Old Council Chambers
    • Sri Lankan Man in red and white pope costume adorned with an ornate cross necklace, cheekily smiles at camera in front of bright red background.
    Comedy
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    Me, My Mother And Suzy Cato

    She’s just a girl, standing in front of her mum, asking not to spend Y2K in an apocalypse bunker.

  • Created and Performed by Florence Hartigan
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room
    • A medium close up shot in the style of a 90s school picture - dark grey gradiated background and that trademark center glow. In the foreground is an adult woman dressed like a teenager from 1999 - wearing a long sleeved mesh top with a black singlet underneath, a choker necklace, and butterfly clips in her auburn hair, which is in a 90's era up-do: straight at the front - curly at the back. She has a gold party hat askew on her head and holds a gold party blower, and while she's technically smiling, underneath she looks terrified.
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    CLUB FRINGE: POPCHOPS PRESENTS TIMEBOMB

    I just wanna go back...

  • Presented by Melbourne Fringe and Popchops
  • Dates 05 Oct (300 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • Pictured from left to right is Madonna, Britney Spears, Beyonce, Rihanna and Dua Lipa. In the background is an outline of a blurred watch face. There is purple and orange neon hue over the image with the Club Fringe logo, a neon eye, in the bottom-right corner.
    Parties & Social Events
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    PHOSPHENES

    An innovative audiovisual live show combining electronic music performance & audioreactive visuals.

  • Created and Performed by CZUCHWICKI
  • Dates 09 - 10 Oct (30 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Common Rooms
    • A man is standing in front of a microphone and electronic music equipment. He is wearing headphones and a dark shirt. Behind the man is a visual projection of green and pink abstract patterns.
    Music
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    B.L.I.P.S.

    A wild ride of real-life circus psychosis, acrobatic madness, hula-hoop hope and radical resilience.

  • Performed by Margot Mansfield
  • Dates 09 - 13 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room
    • A close up shot of a performer doing a back handspring. She is in a backbend shape halfway through doing this skill. There is a redish tinge around the image and she is wearing a one piece costume that is inspired by a hospital gown/straight jacket.
    Circus
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    Mel McGlensey is MOTORBOAT

    Part woman. Part boat. Full clown.

  • Created and Performed by Mel McGlensey
  • Dates 09 - 13 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Archive Room
    • A causcasion woman with curly brown hair salutes and then stares off into the distance with a silly expression on her face. She's wearing a very revealing sailor shirt and a captain's hat.
    Comedy
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    Meg Jager - FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006)

    I've never gotten over anything in my whole life.

  • Performed by Meg Jager
  • Dates 02 - 06 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Evatt Room
    • A woman with dark brown very long hair and a fringe looks into the camera. She has glamorous makeup on with bright pink lips and a brown cord jacket. She is sitting on a green couch and appears to be in a green room.
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    Jeromaia Detto: When I Grow Up...

    Award winning expert in play & silliness, Jeromaia Detto, turns your childhood dreams into a show!

  • Created and Performed by Jeromaia Detto
  • Dates 09 - 13 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Old Council Chambers
    • A babies body is sitting with an adult head of performer Jeromaia Detto, who has dark curly hair and a cheeky grin on his face. In the background are a range of small painted portraits of children performing various jobs. There is a builder, doctor, lawyer and artist.
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    RECESS

    A theatrical memory playground packed with noughties nostalgia.

  • Artists Nina Mountford, Brigid Quonoey and Taylor Reece
  • Dates 02 - 06 Oct (45 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Square
    • Three people sit tightly enclosed in a hollow tree made out of cardboard. They wear school polo shirts coloured blue, green and red with a school logo on them. They are holding hands and have excited looks on their faces.
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    Wil Greenway: It's Probably Nothing

    Award winning storyteller/aging millennial tries to make sense of something. Anything.

  • Written and Performed by Wil Greenway
  • Dates 02 - 06 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Old Council Chambers
    • A black and white photo of a shakespearean actor, in fancy vintage attire, poses with two marked up scripts
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    The Dilly Dally of Death & Dying

    A striking new comedy about death and grief.

  • Written by Ben Noble
  • Dates 02 - 06 Oct (75 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Square
    • A blonde woman in a gold sequinned dress sits comfortably in a black coffin blowing a pink party favour trumpet and wearing a pink party hat. Her look is someone who is over the situation - a cheeky wry roll of the eyes, her hand rests on the top of the coffin as metallic tinsel curtain lies in the back ground surrounded by the colour pink.
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    Spoon Fools

    3 comedians. In the style of Mr. Bean but UNHINGED, sometimes raunchy, and always fun.

  • Artists Michele O, Maty D, Roxie H and Katy B
  • Dates 09 - 13 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Evatt Room
    • A wide-angle image of 4 caucasian people, standing side-to-side in a vibrant pink background. They are dressed in different outfit, donning different hats and wearing dramatic facial expressions, while staring straight at the image source.
    Comedy
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    SEEN & HEARD

    The art of storytelling meets the thrill of the variety show. Seen & Heard is back!

  • Directed by Rebecca Church
  • Dates 09 - 13 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room
    • The cast of Seen & Heard are depicted in black and white against a candy pink background. From left to right: Lazy Susan with a beehive hairdo and sunglasses, Maureen McGillicuddy in a floral dress, Tina Del Twist in a mumu and cloche, Frankie van Kan with long, flowing locks, and Anna Lumb in a leotard and ribbons.
    Cabaret
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    Scrum

    “Hi, I’m Bruce Scrumson but the boys just call me Scrum. I love the Cronulla Sharks, VB and my wife"

  • Created and Performed by Alex Reynolds
  • Dates 09 - 13 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room
    • Drag King Scrum wears a button up shirt, undone tie with football shorts. He has an aggressive expression and is holding a football in one hand and the other hand out in front.
    Comedy
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    Running Into The Sun

    10 musicians, dancers and actors come together from far and wide for this high energy collaboration.

  • Written and Directed by Ben Ashby
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Solidarity Hall
    • The image features chaotic snapshot of 4 people in a cluttered garage at night time, with several props featuring. A man dressed in an oversized blue-denim jacket, thick yellow scarf and a yellow hat stares intensely into the camera. He is holding a bright orange kite with black print of a bird with it's wings spread. Around him are three other people shouting at each other and at the camera with their mouths wide open. There's table with a lit green candle, a washing machine and an inflated ball with blue, black and yellow panel around these characters.
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    If You're from Africa?

    A dark satirical mix of clown and "standup" that’ll leave you equally humoured and concerned.

  • Created and Performed by Lukas Meintjes
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Old Council Chambers
    • The image features Lukas Meintjes with a puzzled expression. He is looking slightly off camera, mouth slightly open as if in mid-sentence. Lukas has light blonde hair, a trimmed beard, and is wearing a lilac t-shirt. The background is softly blurred, highlighting his facial expression.
    Comedy
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    I'm Ready To Talk Now

    An experimental one-on-one piece exploring chronic illness and identity.

  • Created and Performed by Oliver Ayres
  • Dates 09 - 13 Oct (45 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Temple
    • A completely dark room with a window in the center. The view is suburban - framing a wet wooden fence with a wall beyond, weathered white paint flaking, revealing the orangey red bricks beneath. A figure stands in silhouette, and we can just make out his medium length dark wavy hair and the texture on the back of the corduroy shirt he wears. On the windowsill, in the left corner, is an empty white paper cup, next to a palm-sized nautilus-like seashell.
    Experimental
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    CLUB FRINGE: 3 Minutes to Save the World

    Forget Madonna and JT — it’s Fringe artists who will save the world.

  • Featuring Oozing Future, Imogen Kelly, Karma Dance, Lilium and more!
  • Dates 18 Oct (300 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • A collection of different clocks in a haphazard pile
    Parties & Social Events
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    CLUB FRINGE: Fringe-o-vision

    Europe’s most iconic contest gets the Club Fringe treatment.

  • Presented by Melbourne Fringe
  • Dates 13 Oct (300 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • A mannequin head wearing a blonde wig and heart shaped sunglasses sits amongst bits of fabric and a disco ball. A microphone presses towards its mouth. The microphone has the words
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    "Echoes from the Horn" Poetry Reading

    Experience Mo's struggle from Somalia to a new life, blending personal stories in a hero's journey.

  • Presented by Mohamed Sudi
  • Dates 02 - 06 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room
    • A man is standing on stage, holding a microphone close to his mouth. He is wearing a dark vest, a long-sleeved shirt, a black cap, and gloves with skull patterns. The background is dark, emphasizing the spotlight on him.
    Words & Ideas
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    IBS: Irritable Blood Suckers

    A rom-com from your 2012 tumblr dreams. A garlic-induced IBS girly meets a vampire from Geelong.

  • Presented by Artistic Allsort
  • Dates 02 - 06 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room
    • A man and women's facial side profile, both kissing a bulb of garlic. The woman's face has blood dripping from her lip. Their faces are on front of a red background.
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    GRRRL Power

    Celebrating the rebels, pioneers, queens and femme fatales of the girl band revolution.

  • Written and Directed by Chelsea Wilson and Fem Belling
  • Dates 02 - 06 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom
    • Four women are standing in front of a white background, their legs and feet are on display. They are all wearing different outfits. The woman on the left is wearing a green coat and white boots. The next woman is wearing a colorful jacket, a green skirt, and gray boots. The next woman is wearing a black and white jumpsuit and black boots. The last woman on the right is wearing a purple suit and leopard-print shoes.
    Cabaret
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    Villains: A Dizney in Drag Parody

    A devilishly delicious & tantalisingly twisted musical parody with heart

  • Presented by The Hairy Godmothers
  • Dates 03 - 13 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom
    • A tattooed arm with long nails appears from green smoke holding a red apple
    Cabaret
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    CLUB FRINGE: BONEZ

    Calling all queers, goths, punk rockers and emo lovers!

  • Presented by Melbourne Fringe and BONEZ Queer Party
  • Dates 12 Oct (300 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • Drag King wearing black and white performing on stage. Large crowd cheering them on.
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    Then, they never came back again - Video Art Installation

    Four screens, four artists, four stages of womanhood—one compelling narrative.

  • Presented by Art Echo Foundation
  • Dates 02 - 19 Oct (240 min)
  • Venues Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Temple, Festival Hub: Trades Hall
    • A black-and-white collage featuring various portraits of women. On the left, three close-up shots are displayed: one shows a woman with short hair smiling, the next captures a woman with braided hair and glasses, and the third image features a woman holding a camera. On the right, a full-body image of a woman in a patterned dress and glasses appears, with her arms extended and a joyful expression on her face.
    Visual Arts & Film
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    The Migration Office

    To the people who have been asked, "but where are you really from?" this show is for you.

  • Produced by Beray Uzunbay and Benzir Siddiqui
  • Dates 02 - 12 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Corner Store
    • Five people (two women and three men) are leaning against a vacant butcher's cabinet. They appear laidback, cool and calm. They are looking into the camera.
    Comedy
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    The Platonic Human Centipede: TWO NIGHTS ONLY

    High energy, queer, award-winning musical comedy madness ft. the beauty (& horrors) of codependency.

  • Created and Performed by Mel O'Brien & Samantha Andrew
  • Dates 05 - 06 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom
    • Two girls (Mel & Sam) wear black leotards, industrial-style silver jewellery (chokers and multiple earrings) and glare straight down the barrel of the camera. They are embracing one another so almost to resemble one body with two heads, have their hair styled in a 'bug-like' style with tiny plaits sprouting from the tops of their heads, have dramatic blue eyeshadow look on and enlarged 'bug' eyes.
    Cabaret
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    The Big Sing Your Heart Out

    Together we’ll belt out songs from across generations, laugh and sing with our hearts on our sleeves

  • Hosted by Luke Hockley
  • Dates 13 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Common Rooms
    • The image is close up of a person with short dark hair, singing joyfully. He is wearing a dark suit jacket over a white shirt. A round badge is pinned to his jacket, though the text on it is not fully legible. The background is softly blurred, featuring what appears to be vertical blinds and some indoor plants.
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    The Farewell

    Appuyez sur "1" pour lui briser le coeur. Press "2" to break her heart.

  • Presented by BK Opera
  • Dates 02 - 20 Oct (330 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall
    • The image is of a man in a darkened room, sitting at a desk. He is holding the receiver of a red rotary phone to his ear and is facing a 1960s television, which is filled with static. He is caucasian with short brown hair, and is wearing a crumpled khaki shirt, the phone receiver is obscuring his face from view.
    Experimental
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    The Loved One

    An urgent, wild and passionate night of new love songs from the next wave of cabaret artists.

  • Created and Performed by Students of Monash University
  • Dates 04 - 06 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Common Rooms
    • A young person dancing with one hand raised, looking at the sky. In the background are other people dancing.
    Cabaret
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    Le Freak

    Sideshow. Reimagined. A queer and disability focused retelling of circus exploitation.

  • Created and Performed by Elle Diablo and Themme Fatale
  • Dates 10 - 12 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom
    • Two performers in red bikinis and thigh high boots stand on stage, holding a whip and a sword above their heads triumphantly.
    Circus
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    Teyze Patrol: An improv comedy show

    A celebration of ethnic humour through dynamic improv comedy, and storytelling.

  • Produced by Beray Uzunbay, Ece Mustafoff and Esma Yucel
  • Dates 02 - 06 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Archive Room
    • The tops of the faces of three women looking over a suburban metal fence spying on their neighbours. They are dressed in casual attire. The woman in the middle is looking through a pair of binoculars, the woman on the right appears shocked, and the woman on the left looks curious and suspicious.
    Comedy
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    ALT GRL WRLD

    Alt Grls, Alt the time! Showcasing the genius divas of the festival. Live, Laugh, Lobotomy!

  • Presented by Ruby Teys
  • Dates 19 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Solidarity Hall
    • Ruby Teys on stage in a three piece suit. Enchanting the audience with her physical comedy, wit and charisma.
    Comedy
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    Baliti - A Physical Theatre Monodrama

    Folklore. Magical realism. Physical theatre.

  • Created and Performed by Ricardo Magno
  • Dates 09 - 13 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Square
    • A black-and-white photograph of an expansive and intricate banyan tree. The tree's numerous roots and branches create a dense, almost maze-like network, giving the scene a mysterious and ancient feel. Sunlight filters through the canopy, casting dappled shadows on the ground and highlighting the tree's textured bark and entwined roots.
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    CLUB FRINGE: A Grand Bazaar

    Experience the lavish golden age of nightclubs across the Middle East.

  • Produced by Habibi Hafla and Mähallä
  • Dates 11 Oct (300 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • MzRizk DJing to a happy crowd of dancing people on a club rooftop.
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    CLUB FRINGE: Creatures of the Blak Lagoon

    Join this Murky Mob for a night of freaky frivolities...

  • Created and Performed by The Motherless Collective
  • Dates 04 Oct (300 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • Three hands decorated with long nails, googly eyes and diamonds extend out to one another covered in slime. There is a pink and orange wash over the image with a neon eye in the corner, the Club Fringe logo.
    Parties & Social Events
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    Grave Sounds

    Surreal comedy and hypnotic beats.

  • Created and Performed by Thomas Fahey
  • Dates 02 - 06 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room
    • Holding a tiny blue plastic toy, wearing a straw hat and an overcoat, a person with grey hair and a beard dramatically stares off frame.
    Comedy
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    CLUB FRINGE: The Fringe Formal Vol 2: 1994

    Last year's sold out cult comedy lineup returns!

  • Produced by Hairbrush Comedy x Limbo Comedy
  • Dates 06 Oct (300 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • Four people stand in front of a spangly star backdrop in an awkward
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    CLUB FRINGE: Born to Party

    Cake, candles & chaos - your birthday treat!

  • Curated by Scratch Arts and Blanke Pop
  • Dates 19 Oct (240 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • A woman with blue and green hair is wearing a pink leather skirt and a black shirt with trolls printed on the collar. She is smiling brightly whilst looking at another woman who has party hats all over her body and is smearing frosting on her chest. The background is full of lots of blurred colours and the foreground has a tray of food bits for baking.
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    Laugh Music

    Musical comedy to tap your toes to and also laugh to.

  • Featuring Aiden Willcox
  • Dates 02 - 20 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Corner Store
    • a slightly uncanny man with a buzzcut and light facial hair. His head has been edited to be slightly larger. He is wearing a red rust shirt jacket and is situated in the real estate picture for his bathroom.
    Comedy
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    CON 2077

    The last comedian on earth.

  • Created and Performed by Con Coutis
  • Dates 09 - 13 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room
    • A young man with short dark hair, wearing a black vest, stands against a background of neon grid lines. He is holding a weapon. The bottom half of the weapon resembles a pistol, the top half of the weapon resembles a microphone.
    Comedy
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    Completely Improvised Shakespeare

    Promising laughs and gasps in equal measure!

  • Performed by Soothplayers
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Old Council Chambers
    • The image features seven people jostling against a purple background, to be in the frame. They are all dressed in similar off-white shirts, and their expressions and body language are exaggerated, conveying a sense of fun and chaos. Some are pulling at their shirts or making animated gestures.
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    David

    Three young men compete to be the model for Michelangelo's masterpiece.

  • Directed by Wheeler Maurer & Jake Stewart
  • Dates 02 - 06 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room
    • The image contains two close-up shots of faces. The top image shows the upper part of a face with curly dark hair, thick eyebrows, and a fair complexion. The bottom image shows another face with straight dark hair, slightly visible scars on the cheek, and well-defined eyebrows. Both images focus on the eyes and part of the noses, with no background visible.
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    Dancefloor Dedications: Late Night Love Games

    A night for singles to mingle, lovers to linger, and the heartbroken to heal.

  • Presented by Game Boys Comedy
  • Dates 17 Oct (210 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Common Rooms
    • A female mannequin in a teal sleeveless top is holding a poorly photoshopped red phone with a long curly red cord. There are pink hearts in the background, like wallpaper. The image looks like it is from the 1990s.
    Parties & Social Events
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    Fin, Like the End of a French Film

    A debut solo hour of stand up comedy about being queer and upsetting your Dad.

  • Written and Performed by Fin McLachlan
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Old Council Chambers
    • The image depicts a person sitting in a bathtub while fully dressed in a wet suit and tie. They have disheveled hair and are holding a drink in one hand, looking somewhat dazed or contemplative. The setting is a plain, tiled bathroom, and water is still running from the faucet, adding to the chaotic, perhaps melancholic atmosphere. The overall vibe suggests a dramatic or surreal moment, with a touch of dark humor or cinematic intensity, reminiscent of a scene from a French film.
    Comedy
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    FUTURE

    An exhilarating crowd-sourced vision of the future assembled by award-winning theatre-makers.

  • Artists PIGEONPIGEON
  • Dates 09 - 20 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room
    • A person in a white sweater with black jeans and converses sits leaning against a large concrete pillar. They are staring at the camera with a knowing look. The pillar is lit in a blue light and arches out into the ceiling. Around the pillar are blurs of the same person in motion.
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    Finucane & Smith's Global Smash Club

    Finucane & Smith’s wild club takeover. Global smash. F*cked up hits. Living legends. Futurespective.

  • Created by Finucane & Smith
  • Dates 16 - 19 Oct (75 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom
    • An image of a woman holding a mirror ball in her arms, as she stands against a silver-pink background. She is wearing a shimmering silver corset, has long, silver taloned fingernails, long dark hair, curled eyelashes, sparkling pink eye shadow and a closed mouth wearing dark pink lipstick. Silvers stars on slender silver sticks appear to be forming a crown above her ahead.
    Cabaret
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    Scout Boxall - God's Favourite

    The latest offering from Fringe's cult comedy icon.

  • Performed by Scout Boxall
  • Dates 09 - 20 Oct (60 min)
  • Venues Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Corner Store, Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Old Council Chambers
    • Scout Boxall, looking away from the camera in a black and white photo.
    Comedy
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    Forever 41

    A comedic musical odyssey exploring love, happiness and meaning in a world without aging.

  • Created and Performed by Greg Lavell
  • Dates 02 - 06 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Archive Room
    • A cheerful man sitting at a decorated table with a colorful polka-dotted birthday cake displaying the number
    Theatre
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    Years Years Bears

    A dark comedy about cults, community and true crime podcasts.

  • Written and Directed by Cassandra-Elli Yiannacou
  • Dates 16 - 20 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Corner Store
    • One blonde woman with smeared lipstick, sunglasses, a scarf and a fur coat looks shocked, while another blonde woman also in sunglasses and a scar, and a long red coat stands behind her menacingly. The woman in the red coat has her her left hand wrapped around the woman in front of her, and her right hand smearing the woman in front of hers lipstick in a way that suggests she had her hand over her mouth.
    Theatre
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    Split Lip

    Witness a lip-sync battle like you've never seen before!

  • Created and Performed by Blake Anderson
  • Dates 18 - 22 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room
    • Performer sits in front of white curtain drapes at a desk, presented in 5 different variations of themselves, wearing different wigs and facial expressions in each variation, portraying 5 different personalities. Performer has white coloured foundation makeup, smudged lipstick and is wearing a white hospital gown. On the desk is a hand written journal and lamp.
    Theatre
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    Fringe Flavours

    We hope you’re hungry, because it’s time for some Fringe snacks!

  • Presented by Melbourne Fringe
  • Dates 04 - 18 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Common Rooms
    • A person dressed as grapes, with multiple purple balloons attached to their body and a short purple bob wig
    Cabaret
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    Jazz Or A Bucket Of Blood

    A sketch comedy that toes the line between absurdity, Bunnings-flavoured farce and a musical.

  • Presented by Ange Lavoipierre & Jane Watt
  • Dates 04 - 08 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room
    • There are two people in front of an orange background. One of them (Ange) is being lifted up by the other person (Jane). Ange is smirking at the camera while Jane looks stoic and stares off to the right.
    Comedy
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    night sweat

    An experimental, all-sensory adventure into the hidden characters of a sleepwalker's subconscious.

  • Written and Performed by Michelle McCowage
  • Dates 04 - 08 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Square
    • A caucasian person with shaved red hair stands upright, their face is tilted up towards the ceiling. They are wearing a black boiler suit with a silver zipper against a black background. There is smokey haze in the air and they are lit under a warm, orange glow from a stage light.
    Theatre
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    Your Mother Chucks Rocks And Shells

    You just can’t sleep. You've tried everything! Will it be fine? No, stop asking.

  • Created and Performed by Ange Lavoipierre
  • Dates 04 - 08 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Corner Store
    • There is a person (Ange) laying down and floating in the centre of the image. They have light pink hair and a white night gown on. They're looking at the camera and appear to be distressed.
    Comedy
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    Poncho Flow

    Poncho flows on stage, looking for flow with a flowing audience. So how Flow can you go?

  • Created and Performed by Dani Cabs
  • Dates 11 - 15 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Evatt Room
    • A brown haired man wearing a orange plaid suit is superimposed on top of a surf board riding a long wave at sunset. The full moon is in the sky to the left, and trees line the horizon on the right. The man is leaning backward, and has a half peeled mango sticking out of his mouth.
    Comedy
    Past Event
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    HIGH PONY

    Musical comedy madness from award-winning duo Mel & Sam; a high energy, side-splitting spectacular.

  • Created and Performed by Mel & Sam
  • Dates 04 - 22 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Common Rooms
    • Mel and Sam barrel the camera with intense stares. They are wearing ridiculous extension ponytails, glamorous/Marie Antoinette inspired looks (corsets, pearl hair clips and outrageous neck ruffles) in baby pinks, whites and blues. They each have soft glam makeup with orange, pink and blue eyeliner, respectively.
    Cabaret
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    Eulogiser Bunny

    We put the Funer in Funeral. We also put the Ban in Banana but that's a whole different story.

  • Created and Performed by Cameron Ribbons
  • Dates 04 - 08 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Corner Store
    • Man sitting on bed outdoors dressed all in black with pastor collar. Plush rabbit head on his knee and floor lamp as light source.
    Comedy
    Past Event
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    Picture This

    A musician's deep dive into understanding visual imagery – what is it? How do we make pictures?

  • Performed by Brian KM
  • Dates 04 - 08 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Square
    • Music
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    Vegas Residency

    The Burton Brothers have got their lucky break!

  • Written and Performed by Tom and Josh Burton
  • Dates 18 - 22 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Corner Store
    • Tom and Josh Burton stand arms outstretched with goofy smiles. They wear sparkly clothes with rings and necklaces and have fake tan on. A toy tiger sits in the middle of them.
    Comedy
    Past Event
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    JUDGE WINSTON

    Real Cases. Real People. Definitely Not a Real Judge.

  • Presented by Elwood Social Club Productions
  • Dates 18 - 22 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Old Council Chambers
    • Kieran Bullock in character as Judge Winston, wearing black judge's robes, a traditional British judge's wig, and a stern expression. He is ready to dispense justice!
    Comedy
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    Bradbury The Musical

    “Outright absurd in the best way a Fringe show can be” ★★★★1/2

  • Created and Performed by George Glass
  • Dates 18 - 22 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room
    • A cartoon Steven Bradbury
    Comedy
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    Outer Demons

    A delightfully devilish cabaret starring some of Melbourne's best alternative drag artists!

  • Created by Lilium
  • Dates 18 - 22 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room
    • Lilium, a drag queen with red skin and eyes, is wearing a vaudeville-inspired outfit including black bowler hat and blazer, red shirt, gloves, and sequin bowtie, and pentagram earrings. They are standing in front of a dark red background and hold two lit red candles in either hand. They are looking directly at the viewer with a mischievous smile.
    Cabaret
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    Tight Mums, Loose Units

    A smorgasbord of stand-up comedy and song featuring four multicultural mammas cutting loose.

  • Created by Tight Mums
  • Dates 04 - 08 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room
    • The Tight Mums are huddled together. Marilyn Leder is wearing a rose gold sequin top and black sparkly mini skirt, holding a cocktail and kicking up her heel, Pradeepa Timmermans is wearing a red floral dress and black choker and is lighting a joint, Lisa Lee is wearing a black sparkly dress and is chugging on a bottle of Tanqueray gin and Aarti Vincent is wearing tan leopard print pants, a red jacket and yellow beaded necklace and is running her hand through her hair while pouting.
    Comedy
    Past Event
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    Aza: stories of grief in diaspora

    A vulnerable exploration of migrant and diasporic grief through storytelling.

  • Concept by Charaf Tartoussi
  • Dates 18 - 22 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Old Council Chambers
    • Charaf is sitting at a wooden dining table. She is wearing a black long sleeve dress with a white headscarf as is typical in her tradition while mourning. Her hands are on the table around a small coffee cup. In the middle of the table, a golden brass tray with a traditional coffee pot. The chair on the side of the table facing her is tucked in, a coffee cup identical to the one in her hands is placed on the table in front of the empty, tucked in seat. In the background, a photograph of her deceased grandmother in a golden frame hanging on a white wall.
    Theatre
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    Leather Lungs: Happy Ending

    Experience the power of a voice spanning over four octaves in this hilarious cabaret romp!

  • Created by Leather Lungs
  • Dates 12 - 15 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Common Rooms
    • Wearing a purple and red wig, and red and black ruffles, drag performer Leather Lungs stares into the distance, with a look of shock
    Cabaret
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    Lost in Translation

    Your favourite movies translated badly.

  • Presented by Braw Media
  • Dates 11 - 15 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Solidarity Hall
    • A cartoon image of four people in costumes from famous films in front of red curtains. From left to right the characters are Gandalf the Grey, Harry Potter, Jack Sparrow and the Titanic.
    Comedy
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    Body Fiction

    A ritual re-authoring of the body.

  • Created by Skye Gellmann & Yolanda Frost
  • Dates 11 - 15 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Square
    • Two naked bodies pose in contortion amongst mannequin legs and drum mallets.
    Dance & Physical Theatre
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    Japanese Worry (Encore)

    Winner - Directors’ Choice Award, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2023

  • Performed by Takashi Wakasugi (JPN)
  • Dates 18 - 22 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Evatt Room
    • A Japanese man wearing a multi-coloured patterned shirt stands in front of a field of sunflowers.
    Comedy
    Past Event
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    Pork Chop

    An hour of cerebral comedy chaos.

  • Produced by Junkyard Artists
  • Dates 11 - 22 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room
    • Scout Boxall has a mullet and glasses. They wear a pink shirt against a blue background and stand at a forty-five degree angle looking away from the camera with a smile.
    Comedy
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    Beauty Queen

    Modesty meets vanity and hero becomes villain in this provocative pageant.

  • Written and Performed by Emily Carr
  • Dates 04 - 15 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Archive Room
    • A caucasian, blonde woman in her early 30's is smiling into the distance with a light grey backdrop. She has on glam makeup and wears a tiara . She is clutching a large mirror. Within the mirror is another photo of herself wearing the tiara, a jewelled necklace and a lilac dress. This version of her looks shocked and is holding a knife with blood dripping on the end.
    Theatre
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    CLUB FREAK OUT!

    The most outrageous, freakiest and wild late night dance party! Hosted by The Party Prince, Flynn V!

  • Presented by Flynn V
  • Dates 21 Oct (90 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom
    • Group of people are standing on a set of stairs dressed up in extravagant costumes.
    Cabaret
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    Sam Kissajukian: 300 Paintings

    Winner of Best Comedy and Director's Choice Award at Sydney Fringe Festival 2022.

  • Created and Performed by Sam Kissajukian
  • Dates 11 - 22 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Archive Room
    • Sam Kissajukian is a caucasian mid 30s male with a beard, beret and suit jacket standing in front of numerous paintings.
    Comedy
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    Journey to the Kingdom of Hypnos

    An immersive underworld audio adventure.

  • Created and Performed by Carmel Clavin
  • Dates 04 - 15 Oct (40 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Temple
    • A woman with red long curly hair in a green flowing dress standing in a dark rough hewn rock cave making a beckoning gesture with her left arm to the onlooker with her face forward and her body turned away.
    Experimental
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    The Coconuts - Brown on the Outside, White on the Inside

    A hilarious commentary on being brown in Australia from a critically acclaimed musical comedy duo.

  • Written and Performed by The Coconuts
  • Dates 11 - 15 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room
    • Shabana and Leela stand side by side, wearing the same brown jumper together. They hold a guitar with paintings of it. They look stone cold serious.
    Comedy
    Past Event
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    How to Shave

    A celebration of trans joy, bodies, and the beautiful, silly and quite gross things they do for us.

  • Created and Performed by Han Arbuthnott
  • Dates 11 - 15 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Corner Store
    • Han is standing in front of a navy blue background. They are wearing a classic blue jean and white tee combo, with a brown overshirt. They are looking slightly to the side of the camera with one hand placed under their chin, squishing their cheeks a bit.
    Comedy
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    The Death of @BlancheMarcot

    Egos clash and tensions rise as Blanche Marcot Production Company's fate seems written on the wall.

  • Written by Ruwanthi Wijetunga
  • Dates 18 - 22 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Solidarity Hall
    • The cartoon back of a man with silver hair, wearing a suit and sitting in an office chair. The background is made up of pencil scribbles which form the scene of a meeting table with other figures around it.
    Theatre
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    Jon & Jero: Improv Narrated By Comedians

    A silly story-filled adventure, with a different guest every night!

  • Created and Performed by Jon & Jero
  • Dates 11 - 15 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Evatt Room
    • Jero is on a toy rocking horse. Jon is standing behind him looking outwards, wearing an inflatable gold crown. Both are wearing white overalls with a red Tshirt for Jero and a Blue Tshirt for Jon
    Comedy
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    Ned Kelly: the Big Gay Musical

    The outlawed Kelly Gang are fighting to establish the Queerdom of Slaytoria!

  • Written and Directed by Kaine!
  • Dates 11 - 22 Oct (65 min)
  • Venues Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room, Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom
    • Pink back drop with five drag kings posed in front. Each individual has a monochromatic colour scheme with glittery beards. The person in front is holding a Ned Kelly helmet and has a shocked expression.
    Comedy
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    CLUB FRINGE: Klub Kong

    Kween Kong is back at Club Fringe! Category is: UNIQUE!

  • Hosted by Kween Kong
  • Dates 14 Oct (300 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • Kween Kong is posed in front of a pink backdrop. She is wearing patchwork denim pants with 90s style distressing and embelissments. Across her mid section is a fishnet corset, with two hands made out of denim reaching across her chest. She is also wearing fishnet gloves, and her wig is long and plaited. Kween Kong has a casual facial expression, as she pouts and looks off to the side.
    Parties & Social Events
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    Two Fingers Up

    A masturbation celebration sticking two fingers up to Northern Ireland's conservative sex education!

  • Written and Directed by Seón Simpson and Gina Donnelly
  • Dates 04 - 08 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room
    • A young woman facing away putting two fingers up to Stormont (Northern Ireland's government building).
    Theatre
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    CLUB FRINGE: Artist Knock-Offs

    It’s been a long week... so you deserve to let loose.

  • Presented by Melbourne Fringe
  • Dates 08 - 15 Oct (360 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • A room full of people dancing, they're bathed in a pink light and a DJ console can be seen at the bottom of the image.
    Parties & Social Events
    Past Event
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    CLUB FRINGE: Festival Hub Opening Party

    A Fringe-licious party with our friends to celebrate the Festival Hub opening night!

  • Presented by Melbourne Fringe
  • Dates 04 Oct (360 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • Image of people dancing in Fringe's Common Rooms, there is a bright neon sign that says
    Parties & Social Events
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    CLUB FRINGE: Beam Me Up

    An intergalactic extravaganza for your inner alien!

  • Presented by Scratch Arts
  • Dates 07 Oct (360 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • On a background that fades from deep blue to a bold pink colour an astronaut is seen reaching for a floating female figure whose face is obscured by shadows.
    Parties & Social Events
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    CLUB FRINGE: The Fringe Formal

    Melbourne's best alternative comedians put on an immersive 80s prom night.

  • Presented by Hairbrush Comedy & Limbo
  • Dates 19 Oct (240 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • An AI generated image of three people in 80s formalwear (one in a black dress with long curly hair, one in a suit with two pocket squares, the third in a pink dress with blue neckscarf) in a lounge room. Their faces are distorted and blurred. They each have a yellow crown scribbled over their heads.
    Parties & Social Events
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    CLUB FRINGE: Rhinestone Whispers

    Deep Soulful Sweats brings structure to the dance floor in a crossfade from hoedown to rave.

  • Presented by Deep Soulful Sweats
  • Dates 12 Oct (180 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • A pair of bejewled nike airs in front of a pale pink backdrop
    Parties & Social Events
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    CLUB FRINGE: CONNECT

    A dance performance that needs your help to complete.

  • Created and Directed by Maggie Madfox
  • Dates 18 Oct (135 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • TOUCH: connectivity is a participatory dance performance that aims to celebrate the social aspect of the moving bodies. It challenges the common ideas of what a show should be by encouraging organic responses from both dancers and audiences. It is a guided performance, a sensory experience and a dance party.
    Parties & Social Events
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    CLUB FRINGE: Beers for Queers XL

    Naarm’s favourite queer soiree is taking over Club Fringe with a party to end all parties.

  • Produced by Keely Wins
  • Dates 21 Oct (300 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • A colourful crowd of people, most of them femme-presenting, on a dance floor under a disco ball.
    Parties & Social Events
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    CLUB FRINGE: Club Worship

    Celebrate Queer Asian Excellence with DJs, live music and drag performances!

  • Produced by Worship Queer Collective
  • Dates 05 Oct (240 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • Worship Queer Collective presents... CLUB WORSHIP MELBOURNE LAUNCH PARTY! CLUB WORSHIP is a new dance party with an all Queer Asian lineup. Dance, drag, DJs and more!
    Parties & Social Events
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    CLUB FRINGE: Dancefloor Piano Bar with Josh Cake

    From Beatles to Beyoncé, we're cranking up the volume to 11.

  • Produced by Ivka Taylor-Moss
  • Dates 11 Oct (180 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • Josh Cake is sitting behind a piano with a smile on their face. A person is to their left, singing into a microphone and smiling.
    Parties & Social Events
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    CLUB FRINGE: Mx Fringe

    This anti-pageant beauty pageant burns the rule book and embraces the Fringe-tastic.

  • Presented by Melbourne Fringe
  • Dates 06 Oct (300 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • A sillohette of a person stands in front of a neon sign that is pink and purple and says CLUB FRINGE. The person's silhouette has a fuzzy hat and a sharp nail pointing up.
    Parties & Social Events
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    Am I the Drama?

    The Golden Gibbo nominated show returns for one last time!

  • Created and Performed by Andy Balloch
  • Dates 18 - 22 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Corner Store
    • A blonde man wearing a pink sequinned top stares confusedly into the air while bathed in the glow of a spotlight.
    Comedy
    Past Event
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    Stuart Daulman: A Day in the Life

    A brand new show for every brand new day.

  • Performed by Stuart Daulman
  • Dates 04 - 08 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Evatt Room
    • A painted image of confused Stuart Daulman standing in a field surrounded by clouds in the sky
    Experimental
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    Love Letters

    Experience a heartfelt story of love, loss and growth from this award-winning theatre company.

  • Directed by Fini Liu
  • Dates 11 - 22 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Old Council Chambers
    • Two children, a boy and a girl, are sitting on a bench in a park. They're holding hands, laughing joyfully together. Positioned in front of them, there's a box brimming with letters
    Theatre
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    Sunday Roast

    Eight characters, two actors. A family get-together like no other.

  • Written by Thomas Sainsbury
  • Dates 11 - 15 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Corner Store
    • Two actors with their faces repeated three times changing in expression as they fade up the image. Splashes of reds, pinks, blues and purples.
    Theatre
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    Boredroom

    A thrilling comedy about odd jobs, ambition, and assorted cream biscuits.

  • Written and Performed by Nicolette Minster
  • Dates 04 - 08 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room
    • A brunette woman. She has her head tilted to the side. Underneath her head is a plate of biscuits. Her cheek rests on the biscuits. She looks worried.
    Comedy
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    Rakali

    Houseboat. Baby. Carnivorous water rat.

  • Performed by Lily Fish
  • Dates 18 - 22 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room
    • A pencil drawing of a rakali killing a grebe. The two animals are entangled and covered in blood. They still seem cute, but also creepy.
    Theatre
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    Charlie's Cultish Christmas

    A Christmas tale with hellish consequences!

  • Written by Ben Provan-Koch
  • Dates 04 - 08 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Solidarity Hall
    • Charlie, Sam, and TJ stand huddled together in fear, with Satan's followers surrounding them. Charlie is holding a red candle, and Sam is holding the book they used to try to summon Santa.
    Theatre
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    A FINE LINE

    You know it's not the same as it was. Maybe it's just a fantasy.

  • Written and Performed by Lotte Beckett and Lily Hensby
  • Dates 11 - 15 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Old Council Chambers
    • A recreation of Harry Styles' album Harry's House, in which there is an upside down living room. One person is standing upright, looking down thoughtfully. Another person is sitting on the couch looking curiously out the window. They are upside down.
    Theatre
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    MAFIA The Game: The Show

    It's kill or be killed as the hit role-playing game comes to life in an hilarious late night show!

  • Created by Ashley Apap & Nick Robertson
  • Dates 13 - 20 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Solidarity Hall
    • A bold red background with two cartoon silhouettes layered over each other of two masculine looking people in trench coats, pointing guns.
    Comedy
    Past Event
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    So...

    Cult double act Ridiculusmus play estranged odd couple in award-winning dark comedy.

  • Created and Performed by Ridiculusmus
  • Dates 11 - 15 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Solidarity Hall
    • A man is standing in the dark and staring into a frame of light. He is wearing a dark shirt and looking downwards.
    Theatre
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    Full Cream

    A new play about fat pride, kinship and joy.

  • Created and Performed by Em Keagan & Ryan Hamilton
  • Dates 04 - 15 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Corner Store
    • Two fat people sit cross legged facing each other in a pink pillow fort. Between them is a tray filled with french fries and burgers, and drink cups are scattered around them. They are staring at each other while holding burgers and about to take a bite.
    Theatre
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    Leave To Enter

    In 2017, Nick was deported from Scotland. In 2023, he's ready to talk about it.

  • Written and Performed by Nick Robertson
  • Dates 04 - 08 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Evatt Room
    • Wide up shot of Nick smiling. He's got long, red, curly hair, a moustache and wearing glasses. In a white shirt and tan, checked pants , he's sitting with both legs crossed and his hands on the ground.
    Comedy
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    Latchkey

    Who are we really behind locked doors? We bet you'd LOVE to know.

  • Written and Performed by Matt Jenner & Taylor Griffiths
  • Dates 11 - 22 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Archive Room
    • Matt (he/him) is on the left and Taylor (she/her) is standing on the right. They are both wearing blue and are both matching the blue backdrop. They are peering curiously ahead, leaning inward until their shoulders touch.
    Comedy
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    Douglas Rintoul: Brave and Bold

    A high-energy blend of musical comedy, cabaret, sketch, and refusing to take life too seriously.

  • Created and Performed by Douglas Rintoul
  • Dates 04 - 22 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Corner Store
    • A man in a white t-shirt and green shirt against an orange background. He is smiling and holding a glass of water in front of his mouth, which is mirroring it to face back towards him. A musical keyboard is out of focus behind him.
    Comedy
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    A very normal dinner with your parents

    An improv comedy show set in your family home, starring the people who love you most – your parents!

  • Created by Allen Dorsey, Ece Mustafoff and Kirsten Law
  • Dates 11 - 22 Oct (45 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room
    • Central to this image is a close up of a rotisserie cooked chicken on a white plate with its orange-ish chicken juice pooling underneath it, all on top of a wooden dining table background. A piece of the chicken breast has been ripped off by an unseen person revealing the sinewy white meat within – it doesn't look very appetising. Placed behind and in front of the chicken, slightly out of focus, are side dishes; there are bright green peas, a green bottle of sparkling water, the stem of a wine glass, and then another plate with some salad greens, a red tomato, and what could be the missing piece of chicken breast – a blurry dinner knife is next to this plate. At the bottom of the image there are the edges of two more plates suggesting the table is set for a normal, suburban, family dinner.
    Comedy
    Past Event
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    Dragon Hearts

    Bria McCarthy explores dragon mythologies, eco-feminism and power through shadow puppet art.

  • Created and Performed by Bria McCarthy
  • Dates 04 - 08 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Archive Room
    • A woman stands in front of a screen that features a firey projection through crumpled cellophane. She holds up her arms like a matador, or a dancer.
    Theatre
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    TRADE

    In this immersive game, you'll help to invent the rules by which you'll trade...

  • Created and Performed by Students of Monash University
  • Dates 11 - 15 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Square
    • An office in the 1970s. In the foreground, a woman with dark hair enters records into a rolodex with a pen. In the background, two men in light-coloured suits point to a long wall-mounted board on which multiple index cards have been placed.
    Experimental
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    Cry Baby

    A poetic sketch comedy cabaret... and maybe sock puppets.

  • Written and Performed by Isabella Perversi
  • Dates 04 - 08 Oct (45 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Evatt Room
    • A brown haired woman crying with black mascara down her face. A background of a blue sky and rainbow like a kids drawing.
    Theatre
    Past Event
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    Galah Galah

    Where my anxious girlies at? This one's for you.

  • Written by Gemma Caruana
  • Dates 18 - 22 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Old Council Chambers
    • A sky-blue backdrop. Gemma wears a hot pink dress and matching shoes, she is sitting on the floor with her legs out and hands in her lap, surrounded by pink feathers. She is looking a bit defeated and looking off to the side.
    Cabaret
    Past Event
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    I'm Ready To Talk Now

    An experimental one-on-one piece exploring chronic illness and extended hospital stays.

  • Created and Performed by Oliver Ayres
  • Dates 18 - 22 Oct (20 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Temple
    • An image of the artist's hand is layered over images of the interior of his hospital room, reaching towards the window. The room is filled with lights that look as though they have all spun together, and the image has a grainy film-like quality to it.
    Experimental
    Past Event
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    All The Fraudulent Horse Girls

    Nostalgic, Queer, and the Equine Divine.

  • Directed by Mitchell Whelan
  • Dates 18 - 22 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room
    • An actor from 'All The Fraudulent horse Girls' photoshopped into the Mexican dessert with a pink sky. She wears a brown vest over a purple t-shirts over a long sleved striped t-shirt and a cowboy hat. The image looks like an old magazine cover and the actor looks at the sky in wonder
    Theatre
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    For Love Nor Money

    A poet, a director, a politician. A twisted game of sex and love. A hunger for success.

  • Written by Angus Cameron
  • Dates 11 - 22 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room
    • A close up shot of three people. You can only see their shoulders and the bottom halves of their faces and there are shadows across most of the image. On the far right, a person with red lipstick on has their tongue out, about to lick the face of the person in the middle. The person in the middle is wearing a striped navy and white shirt, and they have their face tilted up with a look of both pain and pleasure. On the far left, a person in a blue suit is whispering in the ear of the person in the centre. They also have their hand around the throat of the person in the centre.
    Theatre
    Past Event
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    90 Day Comedian

    Award-winning South African comedian Dalin Oliver is heading down under.

  • Written and Performed by Dalin Oliver
  • Dates 04 - 08 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Old Council Chambers
    • Dalin Oliver is bald and wearing a green t.shirt and jeans with his arms in a shrug. He looks like Vin Diesel you ordered on Wish.
    Comedy
    Past Event
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    An Evening with JK

    A bold and daring new play from one of Australia's leading trans voices.

  • Presented by Heartfelt Havoc Productions
  • Dates 18 - 22 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room
    • An image of Anna Piper Scott, a woman with long hair staring at the camera with a slight grin. The image has been edited so it is highly contrasted red and blue.
    Theatre
    Past Event
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    What I Know, How I See

    A photographic exhibition at the intersections of place and Blak identity.

  • Curated by Peta Duncan
  • Dates 04 - 22 Oct (300 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall
    • A close-up image of hands caressing a glowing chest.
    Visual Arts & Film
    Past Event
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    Embrace

    Disability-led theatre at its finest!

  • Directed by Rosanne Stuart
  • Dates 12 - 13 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom
    • A group of dancers in school uniforms. Long white socks, navy and white, checked netball skirts, white shirts, and red neck ties. The dancer in focus is holding their hands above their had and smiling.
    Dance & Physical Theatre
    Past Event
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    Rainbow History Class

    School’s in! See why the internet is wild for 'Rainbow History Class' in their hilarious live show.

  • Performed by Hannah McElhinney & Rudy Jean Rigg
  • Dates 18 - 22 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room
    • Hannah is looking into the camera with a half-smile, seated on a swivel chair on Rudy's left. Rudy is standing with right hand on knee and left holding white-framed sunnies as they lean into the camera. Rudy wears a denim vest, check pants and sneakers, while Hannah has a big-haired 80s vibe in an oversized tweed suit. It's giving 'Breakfast Club'
    Comedy
    Past Event
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    Tom Ballard - Yes/ No: A Comedy Lecture

    Tom Ballard deploys jokes and funny pictures to blast through the history of Australian referenda.

  • Presented by Token Events
  • Dates 04 - 08 Oct (65 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Solidarity Hall
    • Image of Tom Ballard holding his hand in a first in front of his mouth, with his other hand on his hip. He is wearing a maroon button up shirt against a grey background.
    Comedy
    Past Event
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    THROWBACK: A Comedy Talent Show

    Comedians reprising their breakout roles from childhood.

  • Curated and Produced by Melissa McGlensey
  • Dates 07 - 21 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Solidarity Hall
    • A singing star with a smiling face stands in a spotlight onstage. Behind it is a brightly colored curtain.
    Cabaret
    Past Event
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    Clown Alley

    Experience a high energy celebration of clowning from this diverse theatre troupe.

  • Produced by BAM ARTS INC.
  • Dates 15 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom
    • A group of artists dressed as clowns, smile with open arms showing enthusiastic body language.
    Circus
    Past Event
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    Lathered

    A melodramatic sketch show from award-winning comedian and member of RRR's Breakfasters, Nat Harris.

  • Created and Performed by Nat Harris
  • Dates 18 - 22 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Archive Room
    • A close up photo of a woman smiling and looking up to her left with her eyes with red hair, she is wearing a purple top in front of a purple backdrop, she is wearing blue eyeshadow, pink blush and lip liner.
    Comedy
    Past Event
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    Video Games Made My Son Like Country Music

    Mammas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.

  • Performed by Blake Everett and his band
  • Dates 05 - 08 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Common Rooms
    • A performance picture of a young man sitting in a chair playing an acoustic guitar with a microphone set up in front of him.
    Music
    Past Event
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    do you mind ?

    Are you ready to be asked 577 questions?

  • Performed by Shay Debney
  • Dates 04 - 08 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Archive Room
    • A person in a suit does a handstand next to a big balloon in the shape of a question mark. The image is in black and white.
    Theatre
    Past Event
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    Edgar Rice Playground

    A cooperative game played in a jungle of hanging LEDs.

  • Design by Douglas Wilson
  • Dates 04 - 14 Oct (180 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall
    • A woman holds two PlayStation move controllers with bright LED bulbs of different colors. Around her are more lit controllers, dangling by a string.
    Experimental
    Past Event
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    Spankie Jackzon - Just The Tip

    The outrageously entertaining debut one-woman show from Australia’s Drag Superstar.

  • Created and Performed by Spankie Jackzon
  • Dates 20 - 21 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Common Rooms
    • The drag artist, Spankie Jackzon. She has straight blonde hair as is wearing a green snakeskin leotard and boots.
    Comedy
    Past Event
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    Burnout Paradise

    Four performers on four treadmills celebrate the optimistic stages before burnout.

  • Created and Performed by Pony Cam
  • Dates 11 - 22 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Solidarity Hall
    • A young person shoots confetti towards the camera. Their face is seen through the confetti, looking at the camera. They are wearing glasses and short brown hair with a mullet. Another young person behind is squirting a bottle of blue liquid into their face. The liquid is splashing into their face and they have their eyes shut. The have short brown hair.
    Theatre
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    The Artist: Finding The Muse; A Tour

    An. Interactive. Absurdist. Improv. Art. Tour.

  • Performed by Jenni Townsend
  • Dates 06 - 22 Oct (45 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall
    • White woman wearing white with brown curly hair, blue eyes and overdrawn red lips looks over her shoulder at something in the distance with wonder and a tiny bit of fear. Block colours in a vaguely 70s palette trail her image.
    Comedy
    Past Event
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    DEAF ENOUGH

    A unique conversation about a Deaf-Queer actor living in the middle of the Deaf & Hearing worlds.

  • Created and Performed by Nathan Borg
  • Dates 20 - 22 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Common Rooms
    • A tall man with olive skin and has dark features, such as dark-trimmed beard and dark wavy hair. He is signing 'middle' in Auslan (Australian Sign Language) which the left hand is flat, and the other hand has the middle finger placing onto the flat hand which is the definition of that is 'middle' in Auslan. There is a white cochlear implant hooked onto his ear. The man is wearing a tight black tee tucked in a high-waist black business pants.
    Words & Ideas
    Past Event
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    YUMMY: Joy Machine

    An outrageous and joyful drag variety show with world class performers.

  • Presented by YUMMY Productions
  • Dates 04 - 21 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom
    • Drag queen Valerie Hex wears a white and rainbow outfit while standing in the middle of swirling rainbow ribbons
    Cabaret
    Past Event
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    Stickybeak

    Every street needs a stickybeak...

  • Featuring your best and worst neighbours
  • Dates 04 - 15 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room
    • Four people in outlandish outfits peer over a white picket fence
    Comedy
    Past Event
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    Sheltered

    Award-winning solo show about finding adulthood in a youth shelter while navigating cerebral palsy.

  • Created and Performed by Kathryn Hall
  • Dates 18 - 22 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Square
    • Performer Kathryn Hall is a white woman in her 30s with long brown hair. She is sitting on the ground in front of a rustic wall covered in blankets. She is holding a cardboard sign saying 'Disabled Beggars Can't Be Choosers'.
    Theatre
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    TattleTales: Immersive Tarot Storytelling

    Venture into an enchanting den of stories, secrets and sorcery for an immersive 60-minute adventure.

  • Presented by Ponydog Productions
  • Dates 04 - 15 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Temple
    • A performer wearing a cloak, seated a table and holding a crystal ball in one hand, and a tarot card in the other.
    Theatre
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    i know the end.

    Enter a world that comes to life when the lights go out in this new interactive dance work.

  • Created by Alix Kuijpers
  • Dates 11 - 15 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Square
    • A black and white image of a ghost made of bedsheets with a pillow for a head stands with arms drooping. It is surrounded by many little hand drawn green stars.
    Dance & Physical Theatre
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    The Modern Music Machines

    A hybrid DJ set that uncovers the secrets of legendary electronic music machines.

  • Presented by Boyd Kelly
  • Dates 11 - 15 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room
    • Boyd Kelly, the main performer, is handling a pair of turntables. He has his right hand on the mixer and his left hand is scratching the vinyl record.
    Music
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    Completely Improvised Shakespeare

    Nominated: Best Comedy, Melbourne Fringe.

  • Performed by Soothplayers
  • Dates 04 - 08 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Old Council Chambers
    • Four actors pose theatrically.
    Comedy
    Past Event
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    Gender is a Scam and I am Winning

    An uplifting musical comedy playing with intersections between race, nationality, and gender.

  • Created and Performed by Josh Cake
  • Dates 18 - 22 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Corner Store
    • Josh Cake sits behind a piano with a goofy smile and arms raised in triumph. A pink and a blue balloon are floating from the piano either side of Josh. Josh is wearing a plain white T-shirt.
    Cabaret
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    Quirky Best Friend

    Your favourite romantic comedy... starring the main character's best friend.

  • Written and Performed by Nicole Gulasekharam
  • Dates 11 - 22 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Evatt Room
    • A young woman with purple hair and glasses is hiding very badly behind a plant. She is spying on a beautiful blonde wearing a pink dress, who is smiling at a man in a blue shirt.
    Comedy
    Past Event
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    She's Crowning

    Liz is dead, but these Queens are back!

  • Created and Performed by Murdoch Keane & Peter Burman
  • Dates 11 - 15 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room
    • Two divas posing in the illusion of Princess Diana and Queen Consort Head Hoe Camilla Parker Bowles perched seductively over the corpse of Queen Elizabeth II
    Theatre
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    Dougie Baldwin

    One of Melbourne's finest clowns presents an hour of absurd physical comedy.

  • Written and Performed by Dougie Baldwin
  • Dates 11 - 22 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Evatt Room
    • A man in his 20s wearing a white shirt, grey vest and a black tie. He is wearing golden circular glasses and has short brown hair. The photo was taken from a low angle so the background is the blue sky and clouds. He has a care free expression on his face and is jumping in the air with his hands above his head.
    Comedy
    Past Event
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    Virtually a Reality

    A high-energy, immersive comedy show exploring the wacky side of future technologies.

  • Performed by Jackie Hatton
  • Dates 18 - 22 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Square
    • Blonde woman photographed in black and white sitting looking to her right worriedly. There is a glitch of her in the background and robot hands reaching down to her.
    Comedy
    Past Event
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    Dumplings Darling: Love without Borders

    A magical journey of laughter, heartache, hope, and dumplings.

  • Created and Performed by Alisa & Ania
  • Dates 18 - 22 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Square
    • A dumpling in a spoon on a bright yellow background. A red heart above the dumpling.
    Theatre
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    Only Bones – Daniel Nodder

    Cosmic wonder in a wordless universe.

  • Created and Performed by Daniel Nodder
  • Dates 11 - 22 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room
    • A dark background with small spotty stars. Solo performer Daniel is in a white shirt and pant, lit up in cool blue and yellow galactic lighting. Thier body is contorted, one hand reaching upwards, one towards the camera, knees bent, head sunken into the darkness.
    Theatre
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    TO BE FRANK

    A horrifying comedy about a monster thrust into creation and trying its best to discover why.

  • Created and Performed by Michael Hockey
  • Dates 11 - 15 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Old Council Chambers
    • A close up image of a man with a messy black bob and a green suit covering his oversized shoulders. He has wide eyes in an expression of quizzical interest and an open slanted, cheeky grin. The image is edited so that his skin and clothing is green, the background red and his eyes are bright white.
    Theatre
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    Dazza and Keif Reenact the Romeo + Juliet Movie Playing All the Roles

    The Greatest Bromance of All Time.

  • Created and Performed by Danni Ray & Keely Windred
  • Dates 18 - 22 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Solidarity Hall
    • An image of two drag kings, Dazza and Keif kissing and holding each other. Keif is centre left with his eyes closed and is wearing a patterned shirt. Keif has light brown hair, some stubble and a moustache. Dazza is centre right wearing two pairs of sunglasses, one over his eyes and the other above his brow. Dazza has fluorescent yellow hair and a southern cross tattoo on his neck. Above them is a flaming heart that reads,
    Comedy
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    Insomniac Mixtape

    A low light, high volume cabaret for the poorly rested by multi-award winner Telia Nevile.

  • Performed by Telia Nevile
  • Dates 4 Oct - 22 Oct (50 min)
  • Venues Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Old Council Chambers, Digital Fringe
    • Telia Nevile, a person with short, red/brown hair, sits on a bed with one hand on the boom box sitting in front of her, and her face cradled in the other hand. They look directly into the camera. It appears to be night-time.
    Cabaret
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    Soup Friends

    An abstract soup-based comedy.

  • Created by Pummel Squad
  • Dates 04 - 08 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Square
    • A crude acrylic painting, predominantly red and black, of a large face gripping a smaller figure by the head. The brushstrokes are thick and intense, the faces themselves almost indiscernible due to their frenzied composition. The larger figure appears to be jamming an abstract shape, vaguely reminiscent of a spoon, into the other figure's mouth
    Experimental
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    Comedy Clubhouse

    Come hang out in the club house with the comedians' comedians

  • Produced by Bright Side
  • Dates 04 - 08 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Solidarity Hall
    • A collaged image of 6 comedians
    Comedy
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    LOVE/LOVE/LOVE/LOVE/LOVE

    Welcome to Romance: Tessa's POV.

  • Presented by Tessa Redman
  • Dates 04 - 08 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room
    • A young woman looks into the camera with a dead-pan expression, sitting on a chair with aluminium fairy wings attached to her back. Her legs are stretched in front of her and her hands lay casually in her lap. She is wearing underwear, socks, and a singlet with a bra on top.
    Dance & Physical Theatre
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    Impromptunes - Badprov

    Overly crude, overtly lewd or just plain wrong, this is the baddest improv there is. 5 shows only!

  • Presented by Impromptunes
  • Dates 04 - 08 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room
    • A group of performers are seated in front of a red background, next to a grand piano. All are posing in a naughty manner, one is topless with a sign that says
    Comedy
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    Hot Fat Crazy

    A musical comedy love letter to the psych ward, being fat, and a lesson in why that makes you HOT!

  • Written and Performed by Tommy & Eadie
  • Dates 04 - 15 Oct (55 min)
  • Venues Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room, Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room
    • Bright pink background with 2 people in the foreground. A white male presenting present with short curly brown hair stands side on wearing a cropped pink nurse scrubs, dominantly staring down at a white female presenting person in a blue hospital gown with long wavey brown hair who is kneeling below him side on. She is grabbing at a lanyard around his neck and staring up into his eyes. White cartoon doodles are graffitied over the photograph, pertruding out from behind them and surround them, including Devil horns, a Halo, cigarette, anal beads, flame, rock on symbol, breasts, musical notes and a sock puppet.
    Cabaret
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    Wil Greenway: The Ocean After All

    A castaway comedy from a master storyteller.

  • Written and Performed by Wil Greenway
  • Dates 11 - 15 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Corner Store
    • The ocean floor. A sad man in a bright shirt is nursing an umbrella-topped cocktail. Bubbles escape his mouth and rise for the surface.
    Comedy
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    STUD

    This guy stinks!

  • Featuring a Stud
  • Dates 04 - 15 Oct (55 min)
  • Venues Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Evatt Room, Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room
    • A man with brown short hair and facial hair squints and bites his lip in front of an orange brick wall.
    Comedy
    Past Event
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    i am root

    A Ukrainian-Canadian woman's exploration of culture, life, death & Vegemite in the Land Down Under.

  • Created and Performed by Olenka Toroshenko
  • Dates 11 - 15 Oct (70 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Archive Room
    • A woman gleefully holds up a beetroot with its stems and leaves attached. She is wearing all black with a traditional Ukrainian coral necklace. A stuffed kangaroo and a Ukrainian scarf are visible in the background.
    Theatre
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    Sunday School of Hard Knocks

    A humorous, heartfelt discussion of religion and sexuality using gyrating, dildos and anime boys.

  • Written and Performed by Miriam Cheong
  • Dates 18 - 22 Oct (50 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Archive Room
    • A portrait of Miriam against a pink background with orange and yellow circles behind her head. Miriam is a Chinese woman with long black hair and is wearing an off-shoulder black top. She is facing left and looking upward. She is holding a dark red book with the word
    Theatre
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    Not For Children's Programming

    Being an adult is hard, so don't!

  • Created by Samuel Roberts
  • Dates 04 - 08 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Archive Room
    • Man sitting behind a short table in a purple T shirt and denim shorts staring into the camera, smiling. He is holding his hand in the air and standing in front of a white wall. On the table is two ken dolls sitting in the back of a toy truck, a plant, two puzzle toys, a mug, wool and needles, a blue book and a rainbow flag.
    Cabaret
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    Mechorstra

    Experience a mesmerizing fusion of contemporary dance and musical soundscapes.

  • Presented by Scimm. Dance Company
  • Dates 18 - 21 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom
    • Two dancers are posed either side of a double bass. The dancer on the left is leaning back in a white top with a low bun. The dancer on the right is faced forward in a black bra. They have spiked hair and are making a rock and roll gesture with their hand.
    Dance & Physical Theatre
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    Lonely

    A solo theatre show about loneliness and jigsaw puzzles.

  • Written and Performed by Dylan Cole
  • Dates 04 - 08 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room
    • A headshot-photo cut up like a jigsaw puzzle with two pieces missing, in the photo a man looks worryingly at the camera, he is white, mid to late 30s with brown hair and a beard wearing a black t-shirt.
    Theatre
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    Adam McKenzie - Hacked

    Hilarious look at identity theft, online security and why it’s a bad idea to open your computer.

  • Created and Performed by Adam McKenzie
  • Dates 18 - 22 Oct (55 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Evatt Room
    • Adam trapped inside a man who has a computer for a face.
    Comedy
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    JOYRIDE

    A live road movie staged in the front seat of a 1985 Beamer with physical theatre, dance & comedy.

  • Written by Anna Lumb
  • Dates 11 - 22 Oct (45 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Carpark
    • A woman with blonde hair, dressed in a sheer black top and jeans, leans on the front of a car. She is standing with one hand behind her head, the other hanging by her side. It's night time and there is a red mist surrounding her and the car.
    Theatre
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Club Fringe Events

    CLUB FRINGE: Fringe-o-vision

    Europe’s most iconic contest gets the Club Fringe treatment.

  • Presented by Melbourne Fringe
  • Dates 13 Oct (300 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • A mannequin head wearing a blonde wig and heart shaped sunglasses sits amongst bits of fabric and a disco ball. A microphone presses towards its mouth. The microphone has the words
    Parties & Social Events
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    CLUB FRINGE: 3 Minutes to Save the World

    Forget Madonna and JT — it’s Fringe artists who will save the world.

  • Featuring Oozing Future, Imogen Kelly, Karma Dance, Lilium and more!
  • Dates 18 Oct (300 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • A collection of different clocks in a haphazard pile
    Parties & Social Events
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    CLUB FRINGE: Born to Party

    Cake, candles & chaos - your birthday treat!

  • Curated by Scratch Arts and Blanke Pop
  • Dates 19 Oct (240 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • A woman with blue and green hair is wearing a pink leather skirt and a black shirt with trolls printed on the collar. She is smiling brightly whilst looking at another woman who has party hats all over her body and is smearing frosting on her chest. The background is full of lots of blurred colours and the foreground has a tray of food bits for baking.
    Parties & Social Events
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    CLUB FRINGE: The Fringe Formal Vol 2: 1994

    Last year's sold out cult comedy lineup returns!

  • Produced by Hairbrush Comedy x Limbo Comedy
  • Dates 06 Oct (300 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • Four people stand in front of a spangly star backdrop in an awkward
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    CLUB FRINGE: Creatures of the Blak Lagoon

    Join this Murky Mob for a night of freaky frivolities...

  • Created and Performed by The Motherless Collective
  • Dates 04 Oct (300 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • Three hands decorated with long nails, googly eyes and diamonds extend out to one another covered in slime. There is a pink and orange wash over the image with a neon eye in the corner, the Club Fringe logo.
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    CLUB FRINGE: BONEZ

    Calling all queers, goths, punk rockers and emo lovers!

  • Presented by Melbourne Fringe and BONEZ Queer Party
  • Dates 12 Oct (300 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • Drag King wearing black and white performing on stage. Large crowd cheering them on.
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    CLUB FRINGE: A Grand Bazaar

    Experience the lavish golden age of nightclubs across the Middle East.

  • Produced by Habibi Hafla and Mähallä
  • Dates 11 Oct (300 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • MzRizk DJing to a happy crowd of dancing people on a club rooftop.
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    CLUB FRINGE: Awards Ceremony and Closing Night Party

    That’s a wrap baby – but not before we hand out the accolades!

  • Presented by Melbourne Fringe
  • Dates 20 Oct (360 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • A plastic crown lit in pink lighting
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    CLUB FRINGE: POPCHOPS PRESENTS TIMEBOMB

    I just wanna go back...

  • Presented by Melbourne Fringe and Popchops
  • Dates 05 Oct (300 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • Pictured from left to right is Madonna, Britney Spears, Beyonce, Rihanna and Dua Lipa. In the background is an outline of a blurred watch face. There is purple and orange neon hue over the image with the Club Fringe logo, a neon eye, in the bottom-right corner.
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    CLUB FRINGE: Club Worship

    Celebrate Queer Asian Excellence with DJs, live music and drag performances!

  • Produced by Worship Queer Collective
  • Dates 05 Oct (240 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • Worship Queer Collective presents... CLUB WORSHIP MELBOURNE LAUNCH PARTY! CLUB WORSHIP is a new dance party with an all Queer Asian lineup. Dance, drag, DJs and more!
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    CLUB FRINGE: Beers for Queers XL

    Naarm’s favourite queer soiree is taking over Club Fringe with a party to end all parties.

  • Produced by Keely Wins
  • Dates 21 Oct (300 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • A colourful crowd of people, most of them femme-presenting, on a dance floor under a disco ball.
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    CLUB FRINGE: Mx Fringe

    This anti-pageant beauty pageant burns the rule book and embraces the Fringe-tastic.

  • Presented by Melbourne Fringe
  • Dates 06 Oct (300 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • A sillohette of a person stands in front of a neon sign that is pink and purple and says CLUB FRINGE. The person's silhouette has a fuzzy hat and a sharp nail pointing up.
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    CLUB FRINGE: CONNECT

    A dance performance that needs your help to complete.

  • Created and Directed by Maggie Madfox
  • Dates 18 Oct (135 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • TOUCH: connectivity is a participatory dance performance that aims to celebrate the social aspect of the moving bodies. It challenges the common ideas of what a show should be by encouraging organic responses from both dancers and audiences. It is a guided performance, a sensory experience and a dance party.
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    CLUB FRINGE: Klub Kong

    Kween Kong is back at Club Fringe! Category is: UNIQUE!

  • Hosted by Kween Kong
  • Dates 14 Oct (300 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • Kween Kong is posed in front of a pink backdrop. She is wearing patchwork denim pants with 90s style distressing and embelissments. Across her mid section is a fishnet corset, with two hands made out of denim reaching across her chest. She is also wearing fishnet gloves, and her wig is long and plaited. Kween Kong has a casual facial expression, as she pouts and looks off to the side.
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    Fringe Flavours

    We hope you’re hungry, because it’s time for some Fringe snacks!

  • Presented by Melbourne Fringe
  • Dates 04 - 18 Oct (60 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Common Rooms
    • A person dressed as grapes, with multiple purple balloons attached to their body and a short purple bob wig
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    CLUB FRINGE: Rhinestone Whispers

    Deep Soulful Sweats brings structure to the dance floor in a crossfade from hoedown to rave.

  • Presented by Deep Soulful Sweats
  • Dates 12 Oct (180 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • A pair of bejewled nike airs in front of a pale pink backdrop
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    CLUB FRINGE: The Fringe Formal

    Melbourne's best alternative comedians put on an immersive 80s prom night.

  • Presented by Hairbrush Comedy & Limbo
  • Dates 19 Oct (240 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • An AI generated image of three people in 80s formalwear (one in a black dress with long curly hair, one in a suit with two pocket squares, the third in a pink dress with blue neckscarf) in a lounge room. Their faces are distorted and blurred. They each have a yellow crown scribbled over their heads.
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    CLUB FRINGE: Beam Me Up

    An intergalactic extravaganza for your inner alien!

  • Presented by Scratch Arts
  • Dates 07 Oct (360 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • On a background that fades from deep blue to a bold pink colour an astronaut is seen reaching for a floating female figure whose face is obscured by shadows.
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    CLUB FRINGE: Festival Hub Opening Party

    A Fringe-licious party with our friends to celebrate the Festival Hub opening night!

  • Presented by Melbourne Fringe
  • Dates 04 Oct (360 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • Image of people dancing in Fringe's Common Rooms, there is a bright neon sign that says
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    CLUB FRINGE: Artist Knock-Offs

    It’s been a long week... so you deserve to let loose.

  • Presented by Melbourne Fringe
  • Dates 08 - 15 Oct (360 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • A room full of people dancing, they're bathed in a pink light and a DJ console can be seen at the bottom of the image.
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    CLUB FRINGE: Dancefloor Piano Bar with Josh Cake

    From Beatles to Beyoncé, we're cranking up the volume to 11.

  • Produced by Ivka Taylor-Moss
  • Dates 11 Oct (180 min)
  • Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - CLUB FRINGE
    • Josh Cake is sitting behind a piano with a smile on their face. A person is to their left, singing into a microphone and smiling.
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