Don Jordan from the Mel’Bones Trombone Quartet is embarking on a new show at Fringe this year with One Show to Rule Them All. The musical show consists of poems and songs from Tolkien’s trilogy The Lord of the Rings sung by Robert Dora and Samantha Frazer, accompanied by Don Jordan’s Windjammer Brass Ensemble. The […]

It’s the performance equivalent of attempting to solve a rubix cube blindfolded – an hour-long wholly improvised Shakespeare play, complete with Shakespearean language and themes. But miraculously, mind-bogglingly, delightfully, it’s one that Melbourne troupe Soothplayers pull off. In their debut run for Melbourne Fringe, there’s no sense that the nascent improv troupe are struggling to […]

Coffee is a pervasive element of modern Melbourne culture and has the potential to be an interesting theme for a circus show. Love, Loss and Lattes is a respectable debut solo performance by pole dancer and aerialist ‘Missy’, but it lacks characterisation and vitality. Missy opens the show sitting at a desk with a mug […]

Melbourne collective Blank Canvas Theatre develop a realistically side-splitting documentary in front of your eyes in 'True Fiction'.

Opening night of Strong Female Character was undeniably rough around the edges but also overwhelmingly genuine. Rowena Hutson tells the story of her life and sexuality with charming, reckless bravery, and the audience is taken through her struggle of loving Indiana Jones and Wolverines while developing into a proud feminist. Her years of experience in comedy and […]