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Showing posts with label interviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label interviews. Show all posts
Tuesday, 29 September 2026

Hotsy-Totsy is bringing a chaotic children’s party for adults to Melbourne Fringe

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After years of entertaining children at birthday parties, Ava O’Brien and Peggie Barnes decided they deserved a different kind of audience. ...
Monday, 28 September 2026

Callum Le Page turns Le Bug into an unlikely bedtime companion at Melbourne Fringe

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Bed bugs are pretty disgusting tiny creatures. Hiding in your bed, coming out while you're sleeping and feasting on you without so much ...
Sunday, 27 September 2026

Kelly Lim Harris is ready to sing about your Yellow Fever at Melbourne Fringe

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Being told you’d be great in Miss Saigon might come across as a compliment, but for Kelly Lim Harris, it has happened enough times to inspi...
Monday, 21 September 2026

An impossible to-do list puts Rebekah Carton to the test in Everything, Now! at Melbourne Fringe

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How much can one person possibly get done in an hour? In Everything, Now! , the answer is apparently: everything. Created and performed by a...
Sunday, 20 September 2026

Fu@k! I Killed The Director plunges two actors into total chaos at Melbourne Fringe

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What do you do when you kill your director on opening night? If you’re the two actors at the centre of FU@K! I KILLED THE DIRECTOR , apparen...
Friday, 18 September 2026

Creepy Boys are promising absolutely nothing with SLUGS at Melbourne Fringe

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What happens when you make a show about absolutely nothing? According to Creepy Boys, you make SLUGS , an electro-punk concert, play, clown ...
Wednesday, 16 September 2026

When magic turns to horror: Tim Ellis is bringing Darkness Is Coming to Melbourne Fringe

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Darkness Is Coming is a magic show with its roots in horror. Drawing on the French Grand Guignol style of graphic, theatrical horror, award...
Tuesday, 15 September 2026

Elliot Wood is serving up another helping of Mrs Lovett's tasty pies at Melbourne Fringe

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After surviving ovens, questionable culinary practices and, somehow, the Stephen Sondheim estate, Mrs Lovett is back. Elliot Wood’s glorious...
Monday, 14 September 2026

A Completely Improvised Zombie Apocalypse throws Bren Carruthers into mayhem at Melbourne Fringe

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Zombies have never been especially interested in following the rules, and neither has improvisation. Put the two together and you have a the...
Sunday, 13 September 2026

Mass Hysteria brings church ritual into cabaret at Melbourne Fringe

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Jens Radda’s connection to church is more than a starting point for cabaret show  Mass Hysteria . Having grown up attending a Seventh-day Ad...
Monday, 27 July 2026

Celebrating 30 Years of Finucane & Smith at Luna Park

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Hip hip hooray! Finucane & Smith are turning 30, and naturally, they’re celebrating in the only way they know how: with a gloriously unr...
Tuesday, 24 March 2026

Sugar Bits clean up the trash with their feminist chaos | Melbourne International Comedy Festival | The Motley Bauhaus

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Sugar Bits are back with their riotous sketch show, Feminist Trash , and they are ready to wreak hilarious havoc on Melbourne once more. Nic...
Sunday, 22 March 2026

What happened when Rachel Tunaley lost her eldest daughter crown | Melbourne International Comedy Festival | The Motley Spielhaus

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Eldest Daughter Syndrome describes the pressure that often falls on the oldest daughter, who can end up taking on a lot of emotional and pra...
Wednesday, 18 March 2026

Eva Seymour on the comedy of waiting in the wings | Melbourne International Comedy Festival | The Motley Wherehaus

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Eva Seymour’s The Understudy shines a hilarious and unflinching light on the backstage world, as we follow an understudy juggling nerves, e...
Sunday, 15 March 2026

Laughing through sharehouse horrors with Amelia Pawsey | Melbourne International Comedy Festival | Trainscendence

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Amelia Pawsey has spent years immersed in Melbourne’s performing arts community, thriving in ensemble work and collaborating with a range of...
Wednesday, 11 March 2026

Handful of Bugs is turning late-night radio into a playground of chaos | Melbourne International Comedy Festival | Malthouse Theatre

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Handful of Bugs  are back with their latest creation, Hello Mr. Radio! , a wild dive into late-night radio mayhem and surreal comedy. At the...
Tuesday, 10 March 2026

Maitriarchy sees Maitreyi Karanth take the throne of laughter | Melbourne International Comedy Festival | Ballers Clubhouse

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Maitreyi Karanth’s journey to comedy has proven that it’s never too late to chase your passions, make people laugh, and leave a lasting mark...
Monday, 9 March 2026

How a pub joke became a comedy show teaching Auslan for Ben Richardson | Melbourne International Comedy Festival | Wheat, Wine & Whiskey

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What began as a tipsy joke in a pub has evolved into one of Ben Richardson’s most inventive performance yet. Drawing on his life as a CODA -...
Sunday, 8 March 2026

Black Widow: Sex, Bugs & A High Death Toll | Melbourne International Comedy Festival | The Speakeasy Theatre

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In Black Widow : Sex, Bugs & A High Death Toll , Isabel Knight invites audiences back into the web of Arachne, her razor-sharp, silk-s...
Wednesday, 4 March 2026

Jenna Suffern on faking it, finding it and performing it | Melbourne International Comedy Festival | The Motley Wherehaus

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There is a particular kind of delusion required to work in comedy, the sort that tells you to spend money you do not have, back yourself any...