Anne Edmonds is fascinated by people who aren’t plagued by the existential questions of life, people who just get on with it. Edmonds, for her part, listens in on their conversations and turns it into a hilarious, gut busting and surprisingly moving hour of comedy in the award-winning You Know What I’m Like. You get the sense that […]

It’s a wonder that our 28th Prime Minister and everybody’s favourite onion enthusiast ever made it this far. That’s the feeling production team George Glass gives us in Abbott! The Musical as it arrives in Melbourne after a sell-out season at Adelaide Fringe earlier this year. Complete with music performed by a live band, the material has been skilfully rewritten […]

Performed with all the power and the passion of an Oils song, Aussie Mixtape is a highly enjoyable celebration of the Australian music canon. It’s cathartic, first and foremost a vehicle for writer/director/performers Amanda Knights and Kat Rich to air out some classic Australian songs. Quite literally a vehicle, given that the play is set […]

There’s Melbourne, and then there’s Mucky Melbourne. On a 90 minute walking tour through the city’s thriving commercial hub, let the Reverend Grebo show you the latter. The Mucky Melbourne Tour, being led by the Reverend for this year’s Fringe Festival, promises to expose – nay, celebrate – Melbourne’s seedy underbelly. “It’s the pornographic scandalous tour […]

“Don’t walk alone, don’t leave your house,” Melbourne playwright and poet Izzy Roberts-Orr cautions. “But also, don’t stay inside because your partner’s the one most likely to kill you.” It’s these sorts of contradictions, filtering through to women in public, that Roberts-Orr hopes to explore in her latest offering for the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Her […]