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2021 Program
17th - 21st March
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WEBSITE: www.newcastlefringe.com.au
#newcastlefringe #bingenewyfringe
Photo credit: Alison Laird
CONTENTS
2 WELCOME FROM THE DIRECTOR
4 Bang Bang Bandit Variety Show/Daydreamers
Playhouse/Clark’s Nerdy Sydney Musical/
Make America Great Again
5 Disenchanted: A Cabaret of Twisted Fairy Tales/
Tom Witcombe: Amoral/ The Hunter Wind Quintet/
Zlatko’s Balkan Cabaret
6 Switch Witchetty’s Almanac of Everything/Do The
Hibble Hop/Harry Jun: Erratic/ Jawbone
8 Girls to the Front/Who Let the Dyke Out? /Gaybies/
The Art of Falling in Love by Eddy Rockefeller.
9 Camino Man/WCB: Sigil/Red Orchestra/piss to EME
We’re
10 Moth/Nerds & Music/Samson
14 Maynard/Wine Mums: Live Laugh Love/Unplanned
Melodies Cabaret
proud to be
15 OMG WTF/Bang Bang Bandit Variety Show/
The Music of Petty Nicks/The Nancy Sinatra &
Lee Hazlewood Experience
17 Fringe pull-out program - Wednesday 17th and
sponsors of the
Thursday 18th March
18 Fringe pull-out program - Friday 19th and Saturday
20th March
Newcastle Fringe
19 Fringe pull-out program – Saturday 20th (cont.) and
Sunday 21st March
20 Fringe pull-out program – Workshops
22 Fringe For Families @ The Station
Festival.
23 Free Weekend at the Station
24 Free Weekend at the Station
26 Newcastle Fringe Emerging Film Makers Festival
28 Circus Box/Pop Poetry
29 Black Starr Cabaret/OMG WTF
30 Mad Bitches Inc./Victor Martinez Parada with
Our commitment to our Australian Lily Guerrero
communities has been a passion for over 31 Jane Austen: The Good the Bad and the Ugly/Fever
180 years and as owner and operator of 32 Not for the Cultched/Failure to Launch
33 Binge Newy Fringe
the Newcastle Gas Storage Facility we’re 36 Dubbo Fringe
pleased to continue to support this new
edition of the Newcastle Fringe Festival.
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FROM THE ASHES of 2020, where enforced hibernation has kept
Port Waratah
from the director the artists of Australia behind the curtain, they now show great resilience in
returning to appear at the 2021 Newcastle Fringe which is bigger, bolder and
brighter than ever before.
Coal Services
With an eye to Covid restrictions and a need to be flexible there are great
changes afoot. Now presenting more than 100 events throughout 11 venues,
Newcastle Fringe will also include film and an emerging filmmakers’
competition, workshops for kids, adults & performers, Binge Newy Fringe
and streaming on demand.
proudly supporting
There truly is something in our fringe line-up for everyone – from burlesque
to theatre, side spitting comedy to magic, creative cabaret to kids stuff,
classical to jazz, the 2021 Newcastle Fringe has it all.
Newcastle Fringe is grateful for the continued support of Port Waratah
Coal Services and AGL and for new sponsors the Australia Council,
City of Newcastle, Costin Roe Consulting and Hunter and Central Coast
the Newcastle
Development Corporation. Big thanks also to our in-kind partners Greg
Tapp Printing, Scion, Newcastle Live, 2NURFM, Lizottes, Carrington Bowling
Club, Watt Space, Event Cinemas, NewywithKids, Franky’s Dumplings and
Petersons Wines.
We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Awabakal and Worimi peoples,
Fringe Festival.
the traditional custodians of the lands on which our festival occurs.
Special Thanks:
Board members who have worked tirelessly to make Newcastle Fringe
happen - Erin Cullen, Brooke Twyford, Liane Morris, Rebecca Fitzgibbons,
Beau Magloire, Declan Dowling.
Our active volunteers, David Young, Michelle Payne, Hannah Indigo, Robyn
Bailey, Natalie Mitchell, Monique Ewald.
Technical Overseer - Shaun Pollington
Website - Jason Upton, Resilient Digital
Program Booklet Graphic Design - Sarah Cockroft
Streaming - Neale Davy
From all of us, enjoy!
Phillip Aughey
Director
pwcs.com.au (02) 4907 2280
(24-hr Community Enquiries Line)
2
Daydreamers playhouse Tom Witcombe:
The amazing team from Newcastle Fire + Flow
Amoral
presents a spectacular stage show, set to ignite the
imaginations of YOU - the captive audience! A stand up
Combining flow art, movement, VR lighting, rolling comedian with
EDM tunes, and accompanied by a live DJ, live razor sharp
singing and storytelling, Daydreamers Playhouse will writing and
transport you to a realm of otherworldly delights. delivery to match,
Disenchanted: A Cabaret Tom’s heavily
concentrated
of Twisted Fairy Tales material doesn’t
waste a second,
Why was the wolf in Grandma’s bed? Were with jokes at
Goldilocks and Cinderella really that innocent? every turn to keep
Bang Bang Bandit variety show How were the three pigs involved in the building
industry? Find out in Disenchanted: a cabaret of
the audience
guessing. Tom’s
Yeehaw! The Bang Bang Bandit Show is new in fairy tales for adults. debut Fringe show,
town and ready to make y’all cheer for more! Fresh from the Sydney Fringe Festival, a Far Amoral, is a blend
South Coast tour and season at Bondi Pavilion, of intelligence,
Join us at the Betties Saloon where you’ll be absurdity and
roaring with laughter and gazing in wonder ‘Disenchanted’ transports you to a 17th Century
Parisian salon where you will meet characters audacity. Come
as the bandits take the stage to entertain you. and laugh at the
Boasting an assortment of acts by local and who amaze, delight and make you laugh out
loud. Audiences have said it’s: ‘Sexy, subversive stuff you probably
interstate artists, you’ll be treated to burlesque, shouldn’t have!
comedy, drag, circus, vaudeville, song and more. and audacious’, ‘Mesmerising’, ‘Spectacularly
This is a variety show like no other. Get your good’ and ‘Full of life, laughs, surprises and
boots on and scoot to the hottest show in the heartbreaking reality.’ Not to be missed!
wild - and we mean wild - west. THE GAL THE BASE
THE BASE THE BASE
TIX TIX SAT 6PM TIX FRI 7:30PM TIX FRI 9PM
$30 THU 9PM $25 THE BASE $30 SAT 7:30PM $20 THE GRAND
SAT 9PM SUN 6PM SUN 7:30PM SAT 9:30PM
Zlatko’s
Make America Balkan
Great Again Cabaret
“Make America Free your Inner Gypsy!
Great Again: Fiery, powerful, gentle,
The Musical” is a romantic… Zlatko’s
tongue-in-cheek Balkan Cabaret brings
tribute to the life you all the captivating
and career of music of the Romany
Donald Trump and
his unexpected and The Hunter Wind Quintet gypsies and Balkan
folk songs. Zlatko’s
controversial rise to rich baritone voice, accompanied by instruments
supremacy as the What is a wind quintet? as diverse as guitar, violin, keyboard, clarinet
‘Leader of the Free Flute + oboe + clarinet + bassoon + the mellow and percussion, recreates the exhilarating and
World.’ The story tones of the French horn. moving songs of his homeland.
Clark’s Nerdy Sydney Musical is told through pop songs and musical theatre The Hunter Wind Quintet is a group of local This ensemble of talented and vibrant musicians
tunes from shows including Les Miserables, musicians with a wide range of national and from the Illawarra entrances audiences with the
Clark’s Nerdy Sydney Musical is a one-man Wicked, Chicago, The Greatest Showman and international professional experience, ranging spirit and mystery of this ancient culture, from
musical featuring that large city, complete Hamilton. from symphony orchestras to small ensembles, poignant love songs to irresistible dance music.
with an original score telling a tender love from classical contemporary through jazz and As they share their love of their Romany roots,
story amid nerdy scientific and historic facts. Presented by Wu-Hoo Entertainment, an
independent theatre company based in the electric. Together they form a unique ensemble the vibrant intensity of true gypsy blood flows
Clark Gormley is a lot of things – engineer, Hunter Valley with a mission to produce that exploits the colourful and rich blend of through their music to transform audiences into
musician, writer of copious notes and a brave innovative live entertainment. woodwind instruments with French horn. a passionate gypsy troupe.
battler of bombastic butcher birds. He is also Virtuosic riffs showcase melodies and harmonies So step out of life as you know it and free your
a regular Fringe favourite. of composers from across the ages. inner gypsy with Zlatko’s Balkan Cabaret! Free
ROYAL EXCHANGE THE BASE ADAMSTOWN UNITING your Inner Gypsy!
TIX WED 6PM TIX FRI 6PM CHURCH HALL
$20 THU 6PM $25 ROYAL EXCHANGE TIX TIX THE BASE
A$20 SAT 6PM
FRI 6PM SAT 6PM $20 THU 7:30PM C$15 SUN 4:30PM
ROYAL EXCHANGE
SUN 3PM
4 05
Switch Do the
Witchetty’s Hibble Hop
Almanac of
Everything
Hip hop artist,
school teacher
and counsellor,
Hesh Habibullah,
HHHH (The Advertiser) is set to bring
HHHHH (Global Media Post) his one man
HHHHHHHHHH (9 year old audience member) children’s show
Do the Hibble
A high-energy fairy tale adventure played on a Hop to the 2021
set of milk-crates, bed sheets, and newspaper Newcastle Fringe!
swords, using original music and comedy to
question the role empathy plays in decision The show combines hip hop, puppetry, rap,
making. Switch has left audiences laughing and storytelling, and dance to take children on a journey
singing along from Sydney to Edinburgh. to learn about animals, the alphabet, basic counting,
and healthy food options.
Switch Witchetty is a court fool who can
“switch” into others, allowing a unique Do the Hibble Hop is a hip hop experience for
perspective into their story. When the Kingdom children that will have them singing and dancing all
needs a leader, Switch is forced to use this the way home and maybe right up until bed time...
ability, writing the stories of the people of The sorry parents!
Almanac of Everything. Before the two kings Suitable for children between the ages of 2 and 10,
tear the kingdom apart, Switch must choose – expect an interactive style of performance.
hero or fool.
THE CREATIVE
TIX ARTS SPACE TIX ROYAL EXCHANGE
suitable for ages 5+ $20 SAT 11AM/3PM
SUN 11AM/3PM
$20 SAT 1:30PM
SUN 1:30PM
Jawbone
Harry Jun:
Erratic
Erratic is an hour of
energetic stand-up
comedy. Join Harry
as he leapfrogs
sporadically from
Jawbone is a provocative, bold, dark comedy about
silly observations
a man on the edge trying to come to terms with his
to times that he
place in the world. You will laugh. You will cry. You
has been outright
will laugh again. And you will cry again.
disrespected.
Written and performed by Alex Lykos - the creator
Harry aims to show you that being erratic isn’t
of movies Alex & Eve and Me & My Left Brain,
necessarily a bad thing.
Australia’s Game: The Musical, It’s War, Better Man,
Harry Jun is a keen performer who has made The Negotiating Table, Alex & Eve stage trilogy.
his way to nearly every comedy gig in Sydney.
“It was a sustained, immersive theatre experience,
Sometimes he is even asked to perform at them.
with lots of laughs” – The Writer’s Room
A 2019 RAW Comedy NSW State Finalist, his
comedy has been described as “energetic”, “Lykos was the only person on stage, but we
“likeable” and “cheeky”. He hopes that one day watched and heard more than a dozen characters
it is described as “funny” or “something that his played by him in a fascinating way that made us
parents are proud about. ” laugh and made us cry.” - The Greek Herald
FRANKY'S ROYAL EXCHANGE
TIX WED 7PM TIX THU 7:30PM
$20 THE GRAND $25 FRI 7:30PM
SAT 7:30PM
THU 9PM
FRI 9:30PM SUN 6PM
6
Who let the dyke out? WCB: Sigil
Lauren Budden
never thought
anything about
those weird feelings
she sometimes had
around women.
She grew up in the
80s as a tom boy,
married, had two
girls to the front kids, and then?...
Who let the dyke Sigil is an exploration of musical spell-casting.
out? is a hilarious Walking through a surreal projected landscape,
and revealing show we go with WCB deep into his psyche to reveal
Girls to the Front is a showcase of poetry films
by women and gender diverse poets with
about growing up
and growing up
Camino Man sometimes uncomfortable truths but ultimately
live performances and original poetic films. cathartic emotions.
again. It’s raw, it’s Camino Man is the heart warming and hilarious tale
Honest, sometimes confronting and always funny, it shows how WCB has been described internationally as
of one man’s journey of self-recovery by walking
compelling, don’t miss your chance to hear the when life gives you neo-soul, R&B, electronica and trip-hop,
the Camino del Notre and Camino Finisterre
inner voices of these amazing artists. lemons you don’t “emotional and soulful”, “with distinct
- old pilgrimage trails across northern Spain.
Girls on Key was founded in 2014 and provides just make lemonade moodiness”, but what draws listeners to his
Along the way he meets a variety of people who
for women and gender diverse poets to – you make music is a haunting assurance in his song
inadvertently help him to recover his sense of self,
CREATE and CONNECT. Activities include margarita shots and writing that perfectly conveys the emotional
his sense of adventure, and his smile.
poetry readings, publishing opportunities and get hammered. complexities of the human experience.
Steve Wilson is Camino Man.
an online bookshop. THE CREATIVE ROYAL EXCHANGE
THE CREATIVE THE GRAND ARTS SPACE TIX THU 9PM
TIX TIX THU 7:30PM TIX WED 6PM $20 THE GAL
$20 ARTS SPACE
SUN 4:30PM $20 FRI 7:30PM $25 THU 6PM
FRI 6PM FRI 9PM
SAT 7:30PM SAT 6PM SAT9PM
SUN 6PM
The Art of Falling in Love Red Orchestra and piss to EME plus special guests
by Eddy Rockefeller Don’t miss your chance to see two of Newcastle’s
most exciting and subversive bands together
Eddy Rockefeller was born on the mean streets
of a private hospital, crawling her way through
society to become the abrasive bogan she is today. Red Orchestra
She’s raunchy, irreverent and officially unemployed. Red Orchestra are back! With great songwriting,
She used to work electro tech and a northern soul feel, perfected in
for herself but got Newcastle in the 1980s. Featuring Chris Cooper
fired for sexual on electric guitar and Kaz Davies on vocals,
Gaybies harassment. With you will soar into the ethereal, discover new
over two decades of melodies, new rhythms and a deep sense of life
Hotly political and deeply personal, Dean being a professional through original lyrics that not only reflect our
Bryant’s Gaybies is a funny and moving piece attention seeker, human condition, they will get you up dancing or
of verbatim theatre that tells the story of Eddy has performed wiggling in your chair.
children who have grown up with gay parents. to audiences all over
Drawn straight from interviews with children
aged four to forty, these are authentic accounts
the world including
Adelaide...I know
piss to EME
of family life told with humour, honesty and it’s a weird one to Seminal ‘Indie Punk Poets’ piss to EME stole their
wisdom. This show will inspire and inform you mention but she had name from graffiti on the dunny wall at BHP steel
on what it’s like to grow up in families that a lot of fun there...also works in Newcastle. Their music is in a genre of
were once considered hypothetical and now Newcastle, Sydney... its own; a less-is-more eclectic aesthetic with
are controversial. other places... a narrative of punk poetry and twisted humour
Presented as a semi-staged reading. for commenting on politics, relationships,
Known for her affable
social issues and suburban life experiences.
Presented by Jopuka Productions nature, Eddy is not
Hits including ‘Chook in the Fridge’, ‘Plectrum’,
afraid to tell you her Punk Cabaret with piss Red Orchestra and
Directed by Joshua Maxwell with Music by to EME and special special guests supported and ‘Pub Brat’ with crowd faves ‘I Hate You’
deep dark secrets, in guests; supported by by piss to EME
Quinn Carter. Red Orchestra and ‘Geriatric Stomp’, are as comfy as thongs
THE CREATIVE fact she has to, she THE GRAND DOUBLE BILL
DOUBLE BILL between ya toes in a bindi patch.
Suitable for youth audiences + TIX ARTS SPACE can’t afford therapy. TIX THU 6PM
FRI 6PM TIX CARRINGTON
$20 FRI 9PM $10 SAT 6PM TIX THE BASE S$10 BOWLING CLUB
SAT 9PM S$10 F25
SUN 9PM ROYAL EXCHANGE THU 6PM SUN 4:30PM
F25
SUN 4:30PM
8 09
9
Nerds
& Music
Nerds
& Music
consists
of two
cyborgs
assembled
by some
deranged
Moth mechanic
in his back
Sebastian is a terminally unpopular fifteen-year- shed in
old suburban kid, with an overactive imagination Newcastle.
and an obsession with anime and death. His Nerds & Music will perform several of their original
only friend, Claryssa, is an emo Wiccan art-freak quirky songs interspersed with a few hundred of
barely one rung higher than Sebastian on the their inspired jokes. Audiences will be rendered
social ladder. What starts as just another night dumbstruck by their weirdness, witticisms,
drinking down at the cricket nets soon gives wordplay, and alliteration.
way to an ecstatic vision that leaves Sebastian Clark Gormley and Wayne Thompson are Nerds
unconscious, their friendship left in ruin. & Music. With three albums under their belts and
Written by Declan Green countless live gigs (including some with audiences),
Presented as part of Jopuka’s Rocket Nerds & Music have perfected the art of dubiously
Fuel Program. witty yet always wordy and absurd music.
THE DUNGEON
TIX FRI 6PM TIX ROYAL EXCHANGE
$20 SAT 6PM $20 SAT 6PM
SUN 6PM
Samson
Essie, Beth, Sid and Rabbit are growing up at
the arse end of the world. Boredom, decay and
violence plague their lives. The accidental
death of a friend has torn apart all their
assumptions about loyalty, love and life. And
when a new kid comes to town with his own
secrets and baggage, their fragile equilibrium
faces a fresh test. Samson fizzes with truth; it
is brutal yet gentle, funny yet sad, young yet
old. At its heart is the startling idea that the
death of someone important can be the start of
something excellent.
Julia-Rose Lewis’s
Samson, is a
big-hearted and
darkly beautiful
play which offers
a window into the
world of young
Australians today.
Presented as part
of Jopuka’s Rocket
Fuel Program.
THE DUNGE0N
TIX FRI 7:30PM
$20 SAT 7:30PM
SUN 7:30PM
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Fringe @ Lizottes Wine Mums: Live. Laugh. Love. & Unplanned Melodies Cabaret OMG WTF & The
Bang Bang
Fringe @ Lizottes
Cheaper than Join a night of saucy Debaucherous!
therapy and much
funnier, Live. Love.
fun with Unplanned Glorious! Bandit
Laugh. is
Melodies Cabaret.
After sell-out
Awkwardly
arousing! OMG Variety
guaranteed to have
you in stitches.
crowds at the
Australian Improv
WTF. The title
says it all.
Show
The recent empty- Festival, Sydney’s A heady mix of
nesters Jan and premier musical burlesque, circus, Yeehaw! The
Marie have too improv troupe drag, sideshow and Bang Bang
much time on is bringing their magic, this show is Bandit Show
their hands and infectious energy, so hot it will leave is new in town
no one to listen to hilarity, silliness and you gasping…for and ready to
their unsolicited sheer brilliance to more! It is THE make y’all
criticism. If you Newcastle. place for weird and cheer for more!
have love, sex or relationship problems, they Be amazed as an entirely original musical is wonderful variety acts to be excessively loud and Join us at Lizottes Saloon where you’ll be
are here to help. Pop a couple of ice cubes in a composed before your very ears. You will proud. With a stellar line-up featuring the talents of roaring with laughter and gazing in wonder
pinot, put the telly on mute and get ready for have never-before-heard songs stuck in your nine local and out of town performers, OMG WTF as the bandits take the stage to entertain you.
their pearls of wisdom. head, leaving you humming all the way home. is the definition of bang for your buck (with some Boasting an assortment of acts by local and
A great show for anyone who is a mum, Suggestions from the audience are used to bonus brazen booty). interstate artists, you’ll be treated to burlesque,
knows a mum, wants to be a mum or under create larger than life characters and raucous, comedy, drag, circus, vaudeville, song and more.
“OMG WTF is a platform for variety artists to
no circumstances wants to turn into their melodic, lyrical and silly musical stories at This is a variety show like no other. Get your
display their art that might not be seen in your
own mum. the drop of a hat. boots on and scoot to Lizottes for the hottest
average cabaret show. It’s time to get weird.
“I saw these peeps recently and they were SO Expect the unexpected.” – Hannah Indigo, show in the wild - and we mean wild - west.
“sore from laughter” results...Clever, funny,
slightly (beautiful) mad and very inventive from GOOD! Do ya self a favour if you’re in Sydney, Producer & Performer.
before the onstage start to the final post show I’ve booked already”- Annabel Crabb
bows”- Chuck Moore Reviews DOUBLE BILL DOUBLE BILL
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Opera Hunter and Lake Macquarie City Council
The Music of
Petty & Nicks & The Nancy Sinatra & Lee
Hazlewood Experience
present
THE NEW MEL BROOKS MUSICAL Bathurst based singer Sophie Nancy Sinatra’s career was going nowhere
Jones (Smith & Jones) has when she was introduced to writer/producer
teamed up with Sydney based Lee Hazlewood. He played her “These Boots
producer/singer-songwriter Are Made for Walking” - and a star was born.
YOUNG
Michael Carpenter, and the For duets, Nancy would have no other
rhythm section of Charlie than gravelly baritone Lee, forming one
Lee and Russell Crawford, to of pop’s oddest yet finest ‘beauty and the
present a show of the best of beast’ combos. A string of hits followed,
Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty. from a genre variously dubbed “saccharine
FRANKENSTEIN
Covering an incredible range underground” and “cowboy psychedelia”.
of bona fide hit territory, The Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazlewood
including Nicks’ solo career Experience explores the duets, plus gems
as well as her Fleetwood from their solo careers (Summer Wine, You
Mac classics, plus Petty’s
Lake Mac Theatre, Warners Bay work as a solo artist, with
Only Live Twice, the trippy Some Velvet
Morning) and more.
FRI, SAT 19, 20 & 26, 27 MARCH The Heartbreakers and with With well-known actor Zoe Carides as Nancy
the Travelling Wilburys, this and Scott Holmes as Lee, together with
SUN 21, 28 MARCH 2021 promises to be a memorable the Nancy Boys they re-imagine the Sixties
show of incredible songs by
Book by Mel Brooks and Music and Lyrics by
two distinct voices.
through the eyes of iconic Nancy & Lee.
Thomas Meehan Mel Brooks
Original Direction and Choreography by Susan Stroman
Licensed exclusively by Music Theatre International (Australasia).
DOUBLE BILL
All performance materials supplied by Hal Leonard Australia. TIX LIZOTTES
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6PM CAMINO MAN THE CREATIVE ARTS SPACE
Wednesday
17th March
CLARK’S NERDY SYDNEY MUSICAL ROYAL EXCHANGE
7PM HARRY JUN: ERRATIC FRANKY'S
9PM MAD BITCHES INC ROYAL EXCHANGE
3PM FILM FESTIVAL EVENT CINEMAS KOTARA
6PM WINE MUMS & UNPLANNED MELODIES LIZOTTES
CABARET WITH MC MAYNARD
CAMINO MAN THE CREATIVE ARTS SPACE
Thursday 18th March
CLARK’S NERDY SYDNEY MUSICAL ROYAL EXCHANGE
PISS TO EME PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS; THE BASE
WITH RED ORCHESTRA’
ART OF FALLING IN LOVE THE GRAND
VICTOR MARTINEZ PARADA ADAMSTOWN UNITING
WITH LILIAN GUERRERO CHURCH HALL
7:30PM FEVER THE CREATIVE ARTS SPACE
JAWBONE ROYAL EXCHANGE
WHO LET THE DYKE OUT THE GRAND
HUNTER WIND QUINTET ADAMSTOWN UNITING
CHURCH HALL
9PM WCB: SIGIL ROYAL EXCHANGE
BANG BANG BANDIT VARIETY SHOW THE BASE
HARRY JUN: ERRATIC THE GRAND
103.7
GOOD TIMES
GREAT MUSIC 17OMG WTF AND THE BANG BANG 7:30PM FEVER THE CREATIVE ARTS SPACE
6PM BANDIT VARIETY SHOW LIZOTTES
WITH MCMAYNARD JAWBONE ROYAL EXCHANGE
CAMINO MAN THE CREATIVE ARTS SPACE
Saturday Continued
DISENCHANTED THE BASE
CLARK’S NERDY SYDNEY MUSICAL ROYAL EXCHANGE
WHO LET THE DYKE OUT THE GRAND
20th March
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN THE BASE
BLACK STARR CABARET THE GAL
ART OF FALLING IN LOVE THE GRAND
SAMSON THE DUNGEON
VICTOR MARTINEZ PARADA WITH THE GAL
LILY GUERRERO 8:30PM POP POETRY THE GRAND
Friday 19th March
MOTH THE DUNGEON
9PM GAYBIES THE CREATIVE ARTS SPACE
7:30PM FEVER THE CREATIVE ARTS SPACE
OMG WTF ROYAL EXCHANGE
JAWBONE ROYAL EXCHANGE
BANG BANG BANDIT VARIETY SHOW THE BASE
DISENCHANTED THE BASE
WCB: SIGIL THE GAL
WHO LET THE DYKE OUT THE GRAND
9:30PM AMORAL THE GRAND
BLACK STARR CABARET THE GAL
SAMSON THE DUNGEON
8:30PM POP POETRY THE GRAND
9PM GAYBIES THE CREATIVE ARTS SPACE
MAD BITCHES INC ROYAL EXCHANGE
11AM SWITCH WITCHETTY’S THE CREATIVE ARTS SPACE
AMORAL THE BASE
FAILURE TO LAUNCH CARRINGTON BOWLING CLUB
WCB: SIGIL THE GAL
1:30PM DO THE HIBBLE HOP ROYAL EXCHANGE
9:30PM HARRY JUN: ERRATIC THE GRAND
3PM SWITCH WITCHETTY’S THE CREATIVE ARTS SPACE
HUNTER WIND QUINTET ROYAL EXCHANGE
11AM SWITCH WITCHETTY’S THE CREATIVE ARTS SPACE CIRCUS BOX CARRINGTON BOWLING CLUB
Sunday 21st March
1:30PM DO THE HIBBLE HOP ROYAL EXCHANGE 4:30PM GIRLS TO THE FRONT THE CREATIVE ARTS SPACE
3PM SWITCH WITCHETTY’S THE CREATIVE ARTS SPACE ART OF FALLING LOVE ROYAL EXCHANGE
Saturday 20th March
JANE AUSTEN: ADAMSTOWN UNITING ZLATKO'S BALKAN CABARET THE BASE
3:30PM GOOD, BAD & THE UGLY’ CHURCH HALL RED ORCHESTRA PLUS SPECIAL CARRINGTON BOWLING CLUB
GUESTS; WITH PISS TO EME’
4:30PM NOT FOR THE CULTCHED THE BASE
6PM CAMINO MAN THE CREATIVE ARTS SPACE
CIRCUS BOX CARRINGTON BOWLING CLUB
JAWBONE ROYAL EXCHANGE
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN ROYAL EXCHANGE
DAYDREAMER’S PLAYHOUSE THE BASE
THE MUSIC OF PETTY NICKS AND
6PM THE NANCY SINATRA & LIZOTTES
LEE HAZLEWOOD EXPERIENCE MOTH THE DUNGEON
CAMINO MAN THE CREATIVE ARTS SPACE 7:30PM MAD BITCHES INC ROYAL EXCHANGE
NERDS & MUSIC ROYAL EXCHANGE DISENCHANTED THE BASE
ZLATKO’S BALKAN CABARET THE BASE SAMSON THE DUNGEON
ART OF FALLING IN LOVE THE GRAND 9PM GAYBIES THE CREATIVE ARTS SPACE
DAYDREAMER’S PLAYHOUSE THE GAL BLACK STARR CABARET ROYAL EXCHANGE
MOTH THE DUNGEON
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18 19Creative Arts Workshops for Kids, Adults & Professionals
Newcastle Fringe is very pleased to be able to add workshops to our programming in 2021. Our mission
is to support artists and to showcase performance and art in all its forms. Workshops offer children,
adults and performers the opportunity to develop interests and skills that add to the creative fabric of
our society.
Women’s Improv Marketing for
Performing Artists
Note: A second workshop at 3pm will be
Presented by Lou Chapman
Pamper yourself with Jonathan Llewellyn
held if the 1pm workshop sells out.
and discover your Got a fabulous show but
wonderfulnesses! Laugh don’t know how to find
yourself silly with new your audience or sell it to a
friends. Empowering venue? This workshop will
women to promote social give you practical take-aways about
and political change as an how to market your performing arts event.
ensemble.
ALL ABOARD
For beginners to professionals. Jonathan
Louise is a creative producer draws on 20 years’ experience in marketing
for Newcastle Theatre the performing arts for regional, metropolitan
Company, Newcastle Fringe and national audiences with no budget to
& MicroTheatre. Louise is big budgets. Interactive and responsive to
stoked to be ‘on the bus’ for The your questions, dive into digital, get tips for
TIX WATT SPACE Road To Tibooburra stage show the traditional, and learn how to apply those
A$20 GALLERY and ‘in the bath’ for Mad Bitches drama games to your marketing campaigns.
S$18 THU 10:30AM
-12PM
Inc @ Newcastle Fringe 2021. Be ready with your elevator pitch about
THE STATION
your event. TIX WATT SPACE
$20 GALLERY
FRI 1PM
Transitioning from
Theatre to Film – Trash Art Workshop
The Hurdles Presented by Trash Pixie
Create an amazing upcycled
Presented by Alex Lykos
artwork to take home. Fun
Prolific Sydney playwright for all ages.
Alex Lykos will breakdown
the process in making his first THE LOCKERROOM
TIX @THE STATION
feature film Me & My Left Brain $6 SAT 11:15AM
AND 12:45PM
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which he wrote, directed and
starred in. He will discuss how
he applied his theatre skills (e.g.
working with actors) but was
challenged by others (on-set,
post-production). Don’t miss this
Kid’s theatre
TIX THE CREATIVE
$10 ARTS SPACE
SAT 1PM
awesome opportunity to hear
from Alex about his experience.
workshop with Bree
Presented by
Bree Cunningham
Beginner’s HulaHooping Kid’s Theatre Workshop
with Bree is an inclusive and
supportive space to help
Presented by Hannah Indigo
kids develop confidence
Hoops
in acting skills such as
Enjoy 45 min with the expression and movement.
amazing Hannah Indigo Guided by Bree’s extensive
Hoops as she takes you theatre experience, students
through the basics of will learn to develop
hulahoop movement. characters, work as a
Suitable for ages 7+ group and mostly TIX THE LOCKERROOM
$10 @THE STATION
importantly, have fun! SAT 10:15AM
TIX THE STATION
$7 SUN 4:30PM
20 21FRINGE FOR FAMILIES @ THE STATION ENTERTAINMENT Red Orchestra Lauren Budden
Newcastle Fringe is very excited to be able to offer a weekend of free entertainment suitable for all
the family as a highlight of this year’s festival, thanks to the generous support of Hunter and Central
Coast Development Corporation and The Station.
The weekend features street artists, fringe artists doing teasers & tasters of their fringe shows,
markets, food trucks, live music, a cultural marketplace to learn about all the amazing creative arts Newcastle Fire & Flow
in Newcastle and the festival closing party and award ceremony with MC & DJ Maynard. As well
Performers from Newcastle
as all this free stuff, we’ve got a few fun workshops that will appeal to the kids and maybe their Fire & Flow will roam The
parents as well. Red Orchestra, original
Station to entertain everyone. songwriting with live electric
You never know who will turn guitar and great vocal work
up. Are there faeries at The Hannah Indigo Hoops will get you dancing or
Station? Or are mermaids
weekend PROGRAM
A fringe favourite, Hannah wiggling, whatever the covid Lauren Budden grew up in
real? Come along to find out. may be.. Chris Cooper on the 80s as a tom boy. She
Indigo Hoops is one talented
Don’t miss Newcastle Fire & guitar and Kaz Davies on never thought anything about
local lady who will roam
Flow’s fringe performance vocals. These two soar into these those weird feelings she
the crowds, entertaining
Daydreamer’s Playhouse on music through the ethereal, sometimes had around woman.
both young and old. Don’t
Saturday at the Gallipoli Club finding new melodies, new She married, had two kids,
9AM HOMEGROWN MARKETS OPEN 4PM – 10PM HUNTER ARTS NETWORK ART BAZAAR miss Hannah’s Hoolahoop
Workshop on Sunday! rhythms and a deep sense and then? Lauren will give us a
9.30AM - 11.30AM NEWCASTLE FIRE & FLOW 4PM – 10PM FOOD TRUCKS teaser of her fringe show, Who
of life through lyrics, that
Saturday 20 March
Sunday 21 March
SAT 9:30AM - 11:30AM SAT 11AM - 2PM
10AM KIDS’ THEATRE WORKSHOP WITH BREE $10PP AGES 7+ 4PM JULIE MCVEY reflect our human condition. let the dyke out? - a hilarious
4pm to 10pm BEGINNER’S HULA HOOPING WITH Don’t miss their shows at show about growing up and
9am to 2pm
11AM – 1PM THE WISH DRAGON BY CURIOUS LEGENDS 4.30PM
HANNAH INDIGO HOOPS $7PP AGES 7+ The Base and the growing up again. See the full
11AM – 2PM HANNAH INDIGO HOOPS 5PM UKASTLE’S UKESTRA Carrington Bowlo. show at The Grand Hotel.
11AM – 2PM LOU CHAPMAN - SPOKEN WORD MADE IN NEWCASTLE PRESENTS, A STREET SHOW
5PM – 10PM FESTIVALINC. HANNAH INDIGO HOOPS,
RED ORCHESTRA - GUITAR + VOCAL THE PRETTY AMAZING JONO, SHAUN SWADLING
& BRAVISSIMO HOOPS. The Wish
ANNA FORSYTH - POETRY 5.35PM NERDS & MUSIC Dragon is a
Lou Chapman
Writer, actor, director and graduate
LAUREN BUDDEN - COMEDY 6.10PM BREEZE stunning creation
of New York City’s Atlantic Theatre
11AM & 12PM TRASH ART WORKSHOP WITH TRASH PIXIE comprising 3
$6PP ALL AGES 7.10PM VIRAGOS Company, Lou Chapman knows
giant puppets,
how to entertain a crowd. Louise is
8.10PM MAYNARD & FESTIVAL AWARDS/CLOSING with massive
a creative producer for Newcastle
paws that
– please note, times are approximate Theatre Company, Newcastle Fringe &
encompass the
MicroTheatre. Louise is stoked to be ‘
*Note – Newcastle Fringe Festival Inc. reserves the right to alter the program if required audience within
on the bus’ for The Road To
its grasp. Curious
Tibooburra stage show and
For details of our family friendly workshops at The Station see page 20. Acting, craft & hulahooping - don't miss out! Legends is a
‘in the bath’ for Mad Bitches Inc @
theatre company
Newcastle Fringe 2021 not to mention
that believes
her Women’s Improv workshop.
MARKETS Hunter Arts Network The Newcastle Fringe The Wish Dragon by Curious Legends in the inherent
Art Bazaar Cultural Marketplace wonder of the world around us, and the importance of sharing
this with audiences young and old. Watch as The Wish Dragon
comes to life adding to the excitement and beauty of this sunday live and free
special day. SAT 11AM - 1PM
Julie McVey
Julie is an Australian singer/
Teasers & Tasters songwriter with
a folk sound creating songs
Dance of Life Belly Dance
Food Trucks A small selection of fringe performers will give the audience blending noir/pop, folk/pop
and moody ethereal vibes,
There will be the usual a taste and a teaser of their fringe shows. If it’s not too late,
Artists, designers, jewellers and you might be inspired to go see them perform their full show. layered with smoky vocals.
Homegrown Markets craft people from the Hunter As part of the fringe offering at food trucks associated with
Teasers & Tasters will take place on Saturday 20/3 between
region, together make up the The Station, we have Homegrown Markets on
The original Homegrown invited creative arts schools Saturday and on Sunday 11am and 2pm.
Hunter Arts Network. Their SUN 4PM
market has been a huge hit and practitioners to showcase evening there will be a small SAT 11AM - 2PM
regular art bazaar kicks off for
with Newy locals. The iconic their wares within the market. selection of food trucks so that
2021 with an exciting evening
Newcastle train station is the Find out all the details of we can all enjoy a picnic to live
market as part of the Newcastle
perfect venue and comes alive drama, dance, art, music music, the street show festival Ukastle Ukestra The Ukastle Ukestra still
on market days. The tracks
Fringe Festival.
classes for kids and/or adults. and the closing night party. Anna Forsyth Anna Forsyth is a writer and editor from
NZ, currently working as an itinerant
holds the heart of the
SUN 4PM -10PM Ukestra movement in
are filled with handmade, There may even be some pop- event producer travelling around Newcastle. It has had as
eco focused goodness + the up performances! Australia. She is the founder of Girls on many as 40 people come
positive vibes are next level!
SAT 9AM - 2PM
Key, a feminist poetry organisation. Don’t along (crazy!), and very
SAT 9AM - 2PM miss Girls to the Front at the CAS on occasionally drops to 17ish
Sunday - a showcase of poetry films by (rare). Don’t miss your
women and gender diverse poets with chance to see them perform
live performance and original poetic films. as one of the highlights of
Sunday’s program. SUN 5PM
22 23sunday live and free continued
A Street Show Festival Viragos
UON’s 2020 Bandcomp
winners, Viragos are a funk-
pop five-piece band based
in Newcastle. Led by a trio of
female vocals, keys and
guitar, India, Bree and Rana bring their skills together to
create a powerful performance on stage. SUN 7:10PM
Made in Newcastle presents, A Street Show Festival including
Hannah Indigo Hoops, The Pretty Amazing Jono, Shaun
Swadling & Bravissimo Hoops. A different performance every
hour on the hour.
SUN 5PM, 6PM,7PM, 8PM, 9PM
Nerds & Music
Nerds & Music is made Breeze
up in equal parts by
Clark Gormley and Breeze is Newcastle’s premier Maynard
Wayne Thompson. They Jazz trio, supplying classic MC & retro grooves by
have been performing tunes with cabaret style. Will Newcastle’s own quirky son
their original brand of Grahame on keys, Anthony and Newcastle Fringe favourite,
quirky songs since 2008. Frampton on double bass Maynard. Includes the Festival
Audiences are regularly and fringe favourite Matt Closing Party & Awards
rendered dumbstruck MacFarlane on vocals. Ceremony – find out who won
by their weirdness,
the Best Show, the People’s
witticisms, wordplay, and SUN 6:10PM Choice and more before the
alliteration.
Newcastle Fringe finishes for
SUN 5:35PM
another year. SUN 8:10PM
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noahsonthebeach.com.auNewcastle Fringe Emerging A Lion Returns (Rated M) Me & My Left Brain (Rated M)
SCREENING AT THE REGAL
Film Makers Festival
What happens when
you are in love with
someone, you don't
know how they feel
about you, you have
a job interview in
Newcastle Fringe proudly supports all forms of the morning...and
independent art-making, and in 2021 we turn to film you cannot sleep?
with the inaugural Newcastle Fringe Emerging Film The conventional
Makers Festival hosted by Event Cinemas Kotara. romantic-comedy
Don’t miss your chance to see the weirdest, quirkiest is flipped on
and Fringiest of short films on Thursday 18 March: its head as our
Jamal has just returned to Australia after spending 18 months protagonist argues
• 3 pm - Heat 1: Live Action!
in Syria. No-one knows what he did or who he was with. He's with a physical
• 4.15 pm - Heat 1: Animation! back in the country and wants to see his terminally ill mother, representation of his
• 5.30 pm Heat 2: Live Action! however has to deal with his strong minded older brother inner-critic. From
Omar, his wife Heidi and their young son, but most importantly award-winning
• 6.30 pm - Judging and Awards his unforgiving father. But why has Jamal really come back? writer/director Alex
All short films included (animated or live action) are of Is he a militant with a cause or an easily led pawn in a bigger Lykos (Alex & Eve), starring Rachael Beck (Hey Dad) and Mal
less than 15 minutes length, produced at anytime and global picture? A story about redemption, forgiveness and the Kennard (Catching Milat), with an all-jazz score by award-
anywhere in the world. consequences of your actions on loved ones. winning composer Cezary Skubiszewski (Red Dog,
The lucky first prize winners will win a 1-2-1 AACTA Awards – nominated for Best Indie Film The Sapphires, Two Hands), Me & My Left Brain is an
Screenwriting workshop with Serhat Caradee (director intelligent comedy about love, career choices and the
HHHH Sandra Hall, The Sydney Morning Herald paralysing effect of over-thinking.
of A Lion Returns). First and second prize winners will
be invited to have their film featured in Binge Newy Screening at 7pm followed by a Q&A with TIX “for anyone who has ever experienced that late-night self-
A$20
Fringe. Director Serhat Caradee and Producer Liz Burton S$15
doubt that blossoms into insomnia and anxiety, Me and My
Shorts festival pass $15 adult / $10 student Left Brain will be immediately relatable.” – Film Ink
Ultimate pass (Shorts + ALR) $35 adult / $25 student
Screening Saturday at 3:30pm followed by TIX
A$10
a Q&A with Writer/Director Alex Lykos S$8Pop Poetry
The lights dim, a
spotlight arises and
bathed in its warm
glow a solitary figure
with a booming voice
utters the immortal
words that once OMG WTF
captured the hearts of
a generation...baby hit Debaucherous! Glorious! Awkwardly arousing!
me one more time. OMG WTF. The title says it all.
We’ll make you hear A heady mix of burlesque, circus, drag, sideshow
songs in a way you’ve and magic, this show is so hot it will leave you
never heard them
before and maybe
Black Starr Cabaret gasping…for more! It is THE place for weird and
wonderful variety acts to be excessively loud and
never want to again. At night the misfits come! proud. With a stellar line-up featuring the talents
Pop lyrics in the mouths of comedians, what could of nine local and out of town performers, OMG
Welcome to temptation at Black Starr Cabaret, a
Circus Box go wrong?
“To sleep perchance to dream” Shakespeare
modern day vaudeville, in which we thrill and thrall
you with cabaret, burlesque, circus and a lashing of
WTF is the definition of bang for your buck (with
some bonus brazen booty).
magic. “OMG WTF is a platform for variety artists to
Circus Box is street theatre and highlights three “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to
display their art that might not be seen in your
original virtuoso acts in the traditional circus yield” Tennyson After a quiet 2020, the misfits are itching to take
average cabaret show. It’s time to get weird.
ring. The outdoor performance celebrates “Poetry schmoetry” A rhyming legend. the stage once again to mesmerise and beguile
Expect the unexpected.” – Hannah Indigo,
underwater acrobatics, ephemeral puppetry and you. We will tease, we will tantalise and leave you
Join local comedians for a night of dramatic Producer & Performer.
death-defying fire hoop diving. wanting more. For the glamour, for the love and
readings and entertaining pop poetry. everything in between.
TIX CARRINGTON THE GAL TIX ROYAL EXCHANGE
A$15 BOWLING CLUB TIX THE GRAND TIX FRI 7:30PM $30 SAT 9PM
C$5 SAT 4:30PM $10 FRI 8:30PM
SAT 8:30PM $25 SAT 7:30PM
SUN 3PM ROYAL EXCHANGE
SUN 9PM
The
The Traveller Exhibition
Exhibition by Sue Atkinson
“My creative experiences have enriched
my life, strengthened me and have taught
me that the purpose of my art is to
bring beauty and colour into the world.”
The Showroom, The Owens Collective, Every
Fri - Sun in March (except 12-14), 11am-4pm,
F: @theowenscollective
www.stickytickets.com.au/
Newcastlefringe/events
www.costinroe.com.auMad Bitches Inc Victor Martinez Jane Austen:
Parada The Good, fever
with Lily Guerrero the Bad and
Don’t miss two legends of Latin the Ugly
together for Newcastle Fringe!
Victor Martinez Parada is
recognised as one of the world’s finest classical
Latin-American avant-garde guitarists. From It is a testament to Jane Austen’s observational
Santiago, Chile, the accomplished performer sensibilities, wit and capability with the written
and composer has an extensive list of music in word that over two centuries after her death,
his repertoire, ranging from classical and South her novels continue to be loved by the masses Visceral. Unworldly. Repelling. Absurd.
American folk to avant-garde. By listening to his and brought to the screen. For every beloved
fantasies on pop tunes such as Stevie Wonder’s ‘You The pandemic, brash and bamboozling, has
interpretation (Colin Firth as Mr Darcy!) or
Are The Sunshine Of My Life’, Daniel Alomia Roble’s forced us to reconsider many aspects of our lives;
reinterpretation (who doesn’t love Clueless),
‘El Condor Pasa’, Laura Branigan’s ‘Self-Control’ and especially our regard for community. Whether an
there is an equally unusual (Pride and Prejudice
Mad Bitches Inc. is an all female cabaret show with Harold Arlen’s ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’ you oligarch or an outlaw, there’s something here for
and Zombies) or occasionally awful adaptation (a
a generous helping of wild performance poetry and will understand not only how music has shaped him you. Fever will showcase a sci-fi utopian realm
Mormon Pride & Prejudice?).
cutting edge theatre. Curated by Helen Hopcroft, but also how he has shaped music. He is a musician’s within a dystopian society, explored through
who once spent a year dressed as Marie Antoinette, Join the Hunter Branch of the Jane Austen performance art, dance, fashion and comedy.
musician who plays from the heart. ‘The Chilean Society Australia, as they explore three works
Mad Bitches Inc. stars some of the most talented Hendrix’ – Syke On Stage. Sprinkled with apple cider vinegar, rat poison and
bunny boilers around: cabaret artist Sophie Cook, inspired by Jane Austen and why they are Good, x-ray vision - what do you get? Fever.
actor Lou Chapman, bellydancer Tahira, Christina Lily Guerrero, a versatile singer and songwriter in the Bad or downright Ugly.
vibrant Sydney Latin music scene, plays cajon, guitar Join Slayge and the Grotty Gang (Typecast Zero,
Robberds, Simona Graham, Sally Denmead, Camille Presenters:
and charango. Formerly with the Award-winning Spike Vicious, Dr. Pik & Fynn Feral) as they deliver
Adams, Nina Katzmarski, Brooke King and poet Pip Carolyn Cossgrove - Clueless an epic show where all costumes, props and
Sheehan Lowther, with Dusseldorf-based playwright Show Band Salsa Kingz, now a soloist, Lily brings her Leanne Garvey - Mansfield Park
folkloric touch to a range of cover materials are upcycled and created from curbside
and director Fiona Leonard. Audiences will leave Ashley Poole - Pride & Prejudice clean-ups. They will show you how good can come
wanting to start a revolution! material and original compositions. ADAMSTOWN UNITING
CHURCH HALL from the ghastly. THE CREATIVE
ROYAL EXCHANGE ‘My passion is for the culture and TIX TIX ADAMSTOWN UNITING
TIX WED 9PM $30 THU 6PM FREE CHURCH HALL TIX ARTS SPACE
$30 FRI 9PM life of the song.’ THE GAL SAT 3:30PM $20 THU 7:30PM
SUN 7:30PM FRI 6PM FRI 7:30PM
SAT 7:30PM
Young People's Theatre Newcastle Inc
2021 Production of
ASW GALLERY
40 ANNIE ST WICKHAM
OPEN – FRI, SAT, SUN
11am to 4pm or by appointment
E: asw.artspace@hotmail.com
30 M: 0431853600 YPT.ORG.AUfailure Binge Newy Fringe :
to launch
They perform
funny songs and
witty and award-
ON-DEMAND STREAMING
Newcastle Fringe is pleased to present Binge Newy Fringe to online audiences for a limited time
winning poetry but after the festival from 12:01am Monday 22 March to 11:59pm Sunday 28 March 2021.
can they actually We are showcasing a mix of artists who are performing live during Newcastle Fringe and some
get their books off special productions from around the world. Newcastle Fringe usually attracts a number of
the ground? international artists but with travel restrictions in place, we’ve done the next best thing and invited
Robert Edmonds them to stream with us.
is a writer/comic performer whose poetry has been If you’ve missed out on seeing one of our live shows or fancy some of these fabulous international
published many times and has been nominated for offerings below, then get your friends together and #bingenewyfringe with your own private
and won prizes, but Gravity Doesn’t Always Work is fringe fest!
his first collection. Single ticket prices listed. FRINGE SIX PASS to view 6 shows highlighted $55 (25% off)
Clark Gormley is a writer/singer/comedian who has
Not for the Cultched performed one-man comedy shows and written three
albums worth of songs for Nerds and Music, but his International: Safe is a stage play that shows a
slice of Sister Daisy’s life, a nun
A down to earth presentation of original authentic
poetry collection Not What You Think deserves a
bigger audience. Dalloway by Dyad Productions, UK trapped in a house on the top
of a mountain, in the middle of
bush poetry and yarns. Funny, sad and a bit Genre: Drama TIX nowhere, during the pandemic era.
Watch them perform their best work of a lifetime Rating: All audiences $18
different. No long and boring bits! Please leave your A post-apocalyptic scenario that
over 45 fun-filled and story-packed minutes! Release Year: 2019 corners this young girl of faith who
politically correct hat at the door.
Only $5! is trying to take care of the last
David Melville showcases this wonderful artform, From the award-winning people left in her small community.
Winner of the Australian Bush Poets Award (ABPA) Plenty of change left over to buy their $10 pocket creators of Orlando, Jane She faces her fears as death and
Frank Daniels Award, Tamworth 2020 books!…if they ever succeed in launching them! Eyre: An Autobiography, the end looms increasing doubt of
Austen’s Women, The Time the existence of God. “Safe” is the
Machine and Christmas story of the pandemic yet the word
TIX THE BASE CARRINGTON Gothic… ‘virus’ is only said twice in the whole play.
TIX BOWLING CLUB
$10 SAT 4:30PM $5 The main themes of Safe are the fear of solitude, failure,
SUN 11AM 1923: The War is over. While
Clarissa Dalloway prepares abandonment and the importance of community in a world
a party in Westminster, where individuals are increasingly isolated. The discovery
Septimus Smith is diagnosed that unity is strength.
with shell-shock, their
memories and dreams
magically intertwining with
those of 15 other disparate
Bad Ass by Tash York (FRINGE SIX PASS)
Genre: Cabaret TIX
souls. Conjuring the hopes $15
Rating: Mature language
and regrets of post-war London, Dyad’s adaptation of Virginia Release year 2018
Woolf’s celebrated map of hearts, minds and memories offers
a compellingly feminist response to the aftermath of the First "Whether it’s wielding a bat to
World War. Written and directed by Elton Townend Jones. the patriarchy, challenging life’s
Performed by Rebecca Vaughan. norms, or just cussing like a sailor,
Tash York is on a journey to find
As this is being streamed using a virtual reality format, use the
her inner Badass.
mouse or trackpad on your device to move around the stage,
zoom in and out, and get close to the action. Loud, powerful and
uncompromising, these are
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the powers a true badass does
HHHHH‘Intelligently adapted, beautifully performed... possess. But sometimes it’s hard
entrancing’ (British Theatre Guide) to find your inner badass when
HHHHH’Richly re-imagined, exquisitely evocative' (Edinburgh you’re hungover AF, covered in
Guide) chicken nuggets and too anxious to go outside.
Star of the award-winning, show Adulting (Bondi Feast
2018), York and her badass band bring you parodied songs,
Safe by Federico Maria Giansanti, FMG improvised raps, hilarious true stories and a whole lot of
heart. If you’ve ever had a panic attack while having sex,
Productions, Rome Italy (FRINGE SIX PASS) have been overly emotional in a children’s film or just think
way too much about stationery, then this show is for you.
Genre: Drama TIX
$10 “York is a force to be reckoned with. Open about mental
Release year 2020
health, she uses the power of cabaret, music, and
“We're the FMG, an Italian independent theatrical production performance to break the stigma around its discussion.” -
company. In August we presented for the first time our latest Weekend Notes
play titled Safe during the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival (Salt “The universe doesn’t know it yet, but York really is one of
Lake City) and we won two awards: "Best of F.F." and "Audience the best cabaret artists in the business. One worthy of the
Choice Award". biggest stages in the world.” - What Did She Think
Sold Out Edinburgh Fringe 2018
Adelaide Fringe Best Cabaret Weekly Award 2018
33Newcastle Fringe shows: Fresh from the Sydney
Fringe Festival, a
WCB has been described internationally as neo-soul, R&B,
electronica and trip-hop, “emotional and soulful”, “with Fever by Slayge and The Grotty Gang
Far South Coast Genre: Performance art
Camino Man by Steve Wilson TIX
$12 tour and season
at Bondi Pavilion,
distinct moodiness”, but what draws listeners to his music
is a haunting assurance in his song writing that perfectly Rating: Mature language
TIX
$10
Genre: Theatre (FRINGE SIX PASS) conveys the emotional complexities of the Release year: 2021
‘Disenchanted’ human experience.
Rating: Ages 15+
transports you to a
Release year: 2021 17th Century Parisian
salon where you will meet characters who amaze, delight
and make you laugh out loud. Audiences have said it’s:
‘Sexy, subversive and audacious’, ‘Mesmerising’,
Mad Bitches Inc. (FRINGE SIX PASS) TIX
$10
Genre: Cabaret/theatre
‘Spectacularly good’ and ‘Full of life, laughs, surprises and Rating: Adult themes
hearbreaking reality.’ Not to be missed!
Release year: 2021
Writer/Performer: Eliane Morel
Musical Director and Sound Designer: Daryl Wallis Mad Bitches
Videographer: Simon Dikkenberg Inc. is a
Make-Up Artist: Mimi Worssam female-
Camino Man is the heart warming and hilarious tale of one Visual Artist: Merran Hughes centric
man's journey of self-recovery by walking the Camino del Video Editor: Hayden Rodgers cabaret
show with Visceral. Unworldly. Repelling. Absurd.
Notre and Camino Finisterre - old pilgrimage trails across
a generous
northern Spain. Along the way he meets a variety of people
who inadvertently help him to recover his sense of self, his WCB by Sigil (FRINGE SIX PASS) TIX
$12 helping
of wild
The pandemic, brash and bamboozling, has forced us
to reconsider many aspects of our lives; especially our
sense of adventure, and his smile. Genre: Music regard for community. Whether an oligarch or an outlaw,
performance there’s something here for you. Fever will showcase a sci-fi
Rating: Adult themes
poetry and utopian realm within a dystopian society, explored through
Disenchanted: A Cabaret of TIX
$15
Release year: 2021
Sigil is an exploration cutting-edge
theatre.
performance art, dance, fashion and comedy. Sprinkled with
Twisted Fairytales (FRINGE SIX PASS) of musical spell- apple cider vinegar, rat poison and x-ray vision - what do
casting. Walking you get? Fever.
Curated by Helen Hopcroft, who once spent a year dressed
Genre: Cabaret through a surreal
as Marie Antoinette, Mad Bitches Inc. stars some of the most Join Slayge and the Grotty Gang (Typecast Zero, Spike
Rating: Ages 15+ projected landscape, Vicious, Dr. Pik & Fynn Feral) as they deliver an epic show
talented bunny boilers around. Clap like a manic seal for
we go with WCB where all costumes, props and materials are upcycled and
Release Year: 2020 cabaret artist Sophie Cook; actor Lou Chapman; bellydancer
deep into his psyche created from curb side clean-ups. They will show you how
Tahira; performers Christina Robberds, Simona Graham,
Why was the wolf in Grandma’s bed? Were Goldilocks and to reveal sometimes good can come from the ghastly.
Sally Denmead, Brooke King and Camille Adams; artist Nina
Cinderella really that innocent? How were the three pigs uncomfortable
Katzmarski and poet Pip Sheehan Lowther, with Dusseldorf-
involved in the building industry? Find out in ‘Disenchanted: a truths but ultimately
based playwright and director Fiona Leonard. Audiences will
cabaret of fairy tales for adults’. cathartic emotions.
leave wanting to start a revolution.
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