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 […]

Off the back of a sell-out season at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, sketch trio Trillcumber bring big laughs to Fringe in Is This Intimacy?, a punchy hour of sketch comedy that shines a light into the shady corners of modern relationships. At a Christmas party on the two-year anniversary of their friendship, mates Hayley Tantau, […]

If you’re still in denial about your missing Hogwarts letter, then Darcy Dann has the show for you. In her Melbourne Fringe Festival debut, Accio Adulthood, Dann tells the tale of how Harry Potter changed her life for the better. Using a combination of song and storytelling, Darcy recalls falling in love with the Harry Potter […]

Statistically, cancer is likely to affect almost all of us in some way, either directly or through someone we know. Luke Ryan’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Chemo, now also a published book, presents a warm and witty perspective of the disease, based on Ryan’s own experiences. Diagnosed with cancer at 11 and again […]

Follow one woman's journey across the brutal Siberian plains of World War Two in Grace Pundyk's new play 'Steppe', exploring the powers of love, evil and the terror that time inflicts.