Fringe Hub
44 shows, 14 nights, 10 spaces, 4 venues, 1 destination.
A Festival needs a Hive. It needs a buzz generated by a critical mass of shows, creating a precinct, enabling you to see many shows in one evening. So in addition to the hundred-plus venues spread across town, we ensure that the Fringe Hub provides opportunities for artists who engage, excite, pulse and engross you — all in the one locale.
We spend most of the year seeing shows, meeting with artists, discussing ideas, supporting development, getting the right shows in the right spaces, making this happen. Among the 44 shows on offer, you’ll be hard pressed to find two the same.
It's all about supporting new work. And it sure pays off because year after year, our Fringe Hub shows go on to win awards, tour interstate or overseas, inspire new works and kick the cycle offagain. So don’t miss out. Plan your nights, see lots of shows, support new work, have a blast.
Browse the 2011 Fringe Hub program below
A Donkey and a Parrot
NOTE: Second week added! An epic tale of escape, secret plots, swashbuckling adventure, dizzy love, negotiations, potions and humanity. A...
Anne Edmonds in 'My Banjo's Name is Steven'
Accompanied by Amy Bennett
I put a wig on my banjo and I called it Steven. Geez I'm lonely. ‘Still laughing the next day’ **** - The Age Nominee, Best Emerging Comedy,...
Archibald Wheeler Whets the Whistle
Archibald Wheeler knows two things: He dacked Hitler in ‘42, and his son is a muppet. Whets the Whistle is a character-laden, song-fuelled...
Bluey by Phil Spencer
A father, a son, a three foot chimp
Presented by Tin Shed & Tamarama rock Surfers Theatre Company...Phil Spencer's solo show Bluey is a poignant and revealing story of family and...
BULLET: A Superhero Comedy
...and a live-read radio play!
When Bullet, superhero and protector of Settlement City, loses his power to shoot telekinetic bursts of energy, the city is immediately seized by...
Candy B - Australian Booty
At large and curvaceous!
Please note the performance on Friday October 7 has been cancelled but an extra session on Saturday October 8 has been added at 5pm.Candy B knows...
Dr Toby Halligan is not a Doctor
But he'll give it a try...
Toby Halligan has ADD, anxiety, depression and once broke into the Israeli Embassy, naked. But he is not crazy; He's mad as hell. Maybe it's Tony...
Eager to Please
What is domestic bliss? The ideal woman, high heels, flawless hair and a frilly apron? Consider how life may have really been for women in the...
Felicity Ward's (week long, ill-timed) Christmas Special!
Winner - Best Local Act - Time Out Sydney Comedy Festival Awards 2011How good is the The Office’s Christmas Special? How good is The Muppet’s...
Fiona O'Loughlin in Don't Get Me Started
'Such a rich abundance of material, restricting her to an hour is like a quart of comedy in a pint pot' - Herald UKJoin Fiona as she recounts new...
Freefall
Freefall is an exciting exploration of bizarre and everyday fears, human quirks and truths. 'Time and time again we were enthralled…Impressive,...
Heath Franklin vs. Chopper
Who the hell is Heath Franklin? He's been nominated for a Logie and an ARIA, voted an Australian comedy icon and played to over 150,000 people...
I am Super, Man
Michael Connell (Australia’s Got Talent) in a show about being your own hero. ‘...genuinely funny and not in need of bad language or shock...
I Heart Jack
A story told in three parts, by three intriguing characters… I Heart Jack is a surreal escapade through the events of one night - the night...
In Fact, This Crease on Your Trouser is Good, Friend
Presented by The Lost Clog
A Lithuanian a capella performance of folk music drawing on century old themes: harvest, marriage, love, gate crashing owls, talking horses,...
Jimmy Stewart, An Anthropologist From Mars, Analyses Love And Happiness in Humans (And Rabbits)
I'm playing Jimmy Stewart on a quest to understand the human-feeling love. You're the audience playing the planet Earth entirely from a sitting...
Kiss of Death
A new screwball, rom-com, cabaret musical
Life in a footy tipping-obsessed office is disrupted by unrequited passion between co-workers. Help arrives from an unexpected source. Will it...
Knock Off
A blonde, brunette and a japanese guy walk on to a building site, their mission is to construct a contemporary circus show. A story told with a...
LADYBONER
What gives you a ladyboner? Or a man-ladyboner?
Extra show added: Sat 8 Oct 5.15pmIf you're old and Greek, like Lisa's grandmother, you might get a ladyboner through mindgames about doilies. And...
Lawrence Mooney in An Indecisive Bag of Donuts
An indecisive bag of donuts is a day in the life of one man's struggle with procrastination. It's for anyyone who's ever wasted time.'The...
Less than <3 Three, Because I Heart U
The Overdramatic Life of Kyle McConnelly
Kyle, the last ever lone emo, falls in with a crowd of hipsters after his best friend becomes one. All Kyle wants to do is film his Vlogs, listen...
LoveFridge
Mini-whimsy straight from the heart
Savour a capriccio of intimate storytelling in less than ten minutes. Served on a bed of live music and spoken word with a dash of reverse...
Me Pregnant!
Hey, Melbourne, there is a monster in the forest!And by monster I mean person and by forest I mean Fringe Festival!Nick Coyle (One third of Pig...
Miles O'Neil's World Around Us II
For the past five years, Miles has made shows with The Suitcase Royale. Last year he made one on his own after finding a box of super 8 film with...
No Such Thing As Normal
High school, in all its intrigue and apathy, is a microcosm of the convoluted world outside. At school, young people come to realise who they...
Pirate Rhapsody, Mermaid Requiem
A Siren and Sailor. Brought together by chance. Of shipwrecks and blowholes. Their killer romance. Down and dirty award-winning cabaret artist...
Pond
A Grit Theatre Production
There is no current to pull us, we can float in this glitch in time. There is nothing we need that we can't get or make or become. We don't need...
proximate edifice
transpose, pulse, shift
Please note this show runs for 30 minutes, not 40 minutes as was printed in the program.The temporal relationship between the image and the body...
Radio Gaga
5 years of late night Triple J insanity in one amazing hour
Dave Callan hosted the Graveyard Shift on Triple J from 2005-2010. Early on he realised it was something special and started to record the weird...
Room 328
Direct from WTF, Brisbane Powerhouse
Direct from World Theatre Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse. Step in. Take our hand. Shoot Jäger. Throw shit at us and we’ll throw it back. Room...
Ryan Coffey
Live and Stupider
Ryan Coffey (Golden Gibbo Nominee 2011, Raw Comedy National Finalist 2008) takes two kicking humbuckers, some howling vocals and a little loop...
Shane Dundas: Believe
from fall-down to stand-up
World premiere! He's doing a show all by himself, so he'll have to believe in something. As half of the Umbilical Brothers, Shane...
The History Operation
How mad do you want to go? Because I'll come. And keep you safe. I'll be right there spinning moon dust in my mouth if it helps. Why should you go...
The Penny-Toy Man
Presented by The Laudanum Project
'On the streets of Spitalfields the horror has now all but drained away but in 1884, the year of our Lord, the East End of London was, for a week...
The Warren
Supported by White Rabbit Brewery
A refuge from the swarm, something out of the norm, somewhere warm. Come down the rabbit hole and into The Warren, a quieter place for you and...
Things That Give a Hot Feeling
Brought to you by Daily Debutante
A darkly comic play that sees a family scatter ashes in their front yard and asks: can you tell the difference between boys and girls by the way...
This Old City
A variety cabaret of some of Melbourne's best performance artists.Featuring:Man of the Hour Reuben ZalmeStrapping young Zac SalehLyrical Dan...
Ulrike Meinhof Sings
Presented by Turtle Lab
A one woman performance piece where the life and times of the infamous terrorist Ulrike Meinhof (of the Baader-Meinhof group) have been subverted...
Welcome to Thonnet
by Ray Living
Welcome to Thonnet is the latest novel from teenage fiction writer, Ray Living. Unfortunately, getting it into print has been difficult, so Ray...
Who, Me.
Presented by Vicious Fish and MILKE
Doctor Who is about to face his greatest challenge: his number one fan. Rob Lloyd (Fan Number One) is putting The Doctor on trial.* Join Rob as...
World Mix Tape
The movement.
Adam, Khaled and Mo bring you the absurd, musings of three mixed race Aussies taking you around the world. Watch as they allow the innovations and...
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Pirates! Puppets! Adventure!
The most famous pirate in the world, Honoria Whitelace has abandoned the swashbuckling life and spends her days at the bottom of a bottle of rum....
