EVITA
Based on the events surrounding the rise to power of Eva Peron, EVITA is a sung-through musical documenting the rise to the Presidency of Argentina of her husband, Juan Peron, because of a revolution organized by Eva. Be...
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Melbourne Fringe: Love/Hate Actually
The varied subplots of the 2003 film Love Actually build towards Christmas resolutions, causing it to become a staple of Yuletide viewing. Whilst Amy Currie (in Christmas sweater) likes the Rom-Com, long-time friend Nata...
Melbourne Fringe: Cockroach
There has never been a better time for a show to take centre stage and challenge the status quo. We meet C just after her transformation. She is battered and beaten down, she is at her lowest but she discovers that there...
Melbourne Fringe: Pablo Francisco’s Australianator Tour
Possibly because I’m not a YouTube junkie, I first heard about comedian Pablo Francisco in the 2018 Melbourne Fringe guide. The blurb there promised “a stand-up show that more resembles an hour-long comedic jazz riff.” T...
Melbourne Fringe: A Rose among Horns
Cindy looks after her widower Dad in a small town. Dad’s started to worry about Cindy’s disinterest in men, and gives some young tradies at work the OK to pursue his “Princess”. A sheltered flower now needing to navigate...
Melbourne Fringe: Foreign Woman
How to honour the memory of your resilient migrant grandmother? You could condense her story into key events and sing songs about her. Don’t be sceptical – the “comedy cabaret” Foreign Woman, written and performed ...
Melbourne Fringe: Alone Outside
Founded in 2012, Lab Kelpie have steadily built up an exceptional catalogue of new Australian writing. Productions such as the charismatic psychopathy of A Prudent Man, or the tender-love-story-in-the-face-of-mass-extinc...
Melbourne Fringe: Hell’s Canyon
A brilliant and slick work of theatre from a tremendously talented writer. Hell’s Canyon catches your attention right from the get go. The actors instantly know where they are and effortlessly bring the audience into the...
