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2026 Festival 29 Sept-18 Oct

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Nightwalks with Teenagers by Mammalian Diving Reflex


Name: Nightwalks with Teenagers by Mammalian Diving Reflex
Subtitle: Reimagining Werribee city at night through the eyes of young people.
Tags: Interactive,Unusual Location,Gen Z Culture
Vibes: Contemporary,Evocative,Unpredictable
Programs: Curated Program,Passport
Guides: 
Credits:
Presented by Melbourne Fringe & Wyndham City Council
Concept by Mammalian Diving Reflex
Local Producer Betiel Beyin
Description:
Nightwalks with Teenagers is a walking performance created with local youth who plan, design and lead a public walk through the city at night, exploring the urban landscape.


Curated Program

Member Discount

Pushing the comfort zone

Theatre

Site Specific

Immersive

Reimagining Werribee city at night through the eyes of young people.

Contemporary

Evocative

Unpredictable

Speed Dating with Cacti by Mammalian Diving Reflex


Name: Speed Dating with Cacti by Mammalian Diving Reflex
Subtitle: A mind-bending botanic journey through the question of consciousness.
Tags: Interactive,Climate Change,Unusual Location,Science,Religion & Spirituality,Real Stories
Vibes: Contemplative,Exhilarating,Profound
Programs: Curated Program,Passport
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Credits:
Presented by Melbourne Fringe and Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
Commissioned by Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
Created by Mammalian Diving Reflex
Description:
A socially engaged performance starring a bunch of people who, for a number of reasons, are considered experts of the present moment: a cognitive neuroscientist, a dharma teacher, a stand-up comedian, an 88-year old woman with Alzheimers, a young man with a brain injury, a bunch of teens, a few walking meditators and a group of children. They take the audience on a walk and pause for various demonstrations, meditations and experiences.


Experimental

Promenade

A mind-bending botanic journey through the question of consciousness.

Contemplative

Exhilarating

Profound

Sh!t Theatre: Or What's Left Of Us


Name: Sh!t Theatre: Or What's Left Of Us
Subtitle: Folk music & grief collide in this award-winning true crime tale from UK duo Sh!t Theatre
Tags: Queer Culture,True Crime & Cults,Death/Grief,Unusual Location,Horror,Real Stories
Vibes: Beautiful,Profound,Uplifting
Programs: Curated Program,Festival Hub,Passport
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Credits:
Written and Performed by Sh!t Theatre
Outside Eye Ursula Martinez
Produced by Soho Theatre
Description:
A theatre show set at a folk singaround - an informal British tradition of singing together, usually in a pub. The show lasts 60 minutes, there will be live folk music, jokes, a true story about a folk club that got mysteriously fire bombed the week after Sh!t Theatre attended an event there, and revelation of how folk music helped the duo through grief. The show then moves to the local pub where the audience are invited to an optional singaround where they can sing/join in


Festival Hub

New Writing

Comedy

Folk music & grief collide in this award-winning true crime tale from UK duo Sh!t Theatre

Beautiful

Uplifting

First Trimester


Name: First Trimester
Subtitle: Witness queer family-making.
Tags: Gender Diversity,Interactive,Queer Culture
Vibes: Compelling,Heartfelt,Intimate
Programs: Curated Program,Passport
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Presented by Arts House and Melbourne Fringe as part of Passport
Artist Krishna Istha
 
Description:
A durational performance whereby Krishna, the performer is interviewing prospective sperm donors in a one-on-one interview style set-up on stage live in front of an audience.


Community

Durational

Witness queer family-making.

Compelling

Heartfelt

Intimate

instructions


Name: instructions
Subtitle: AI, creativity and capitalism collide as a different unrehearsed actor takes to the stage each day.
Tags: 
Vibes: Contemporary,Heartfelt,Profound
Programs: Curated Program,Festival Hub,Passport
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Credits:
Presented by Melbourne Fringe
Created by SUBJECT OBJECT
Written by Nathan Ellis
Description:
Instructions is a show about generative AI performed by an unrehearsed performer who is different every day and has no idea what they are about to do before they do it. They are given a set of instructions by a screen onstage and over the course of an hour they act into a camera creating a live film


AI, creativity and capitalism collide as a different unrehearsed actor takes to the stage each day.

Mass Effect


Name: Mass Effect
Subtitle: Pushing past the limit! Pumping the theatre full of energy and joy.
Tags: 
Vibes: Exhilarating,Joyful,Vibrant
Programs: Curated Program,Passport,Meat Market
Guides: 
Credits:
Presented by Himherandit Productions, in association with Melbourne Fringe
Directed by Andreas Constantinou
Performed by Aris Papadopoulos, Elise Ludinard, Heli Pippingsköld, Paola Drera, Theo Marion- Wuillemin.
Description:
Five performers fill the stage with relentless motion, their breath and footfalls the only sound. As exhaustion sets in, sweat flies and their physical struggle becomes raw and visible. Just before reaching their limit, 10–20 local volunteers join them, energizing the finale as the first and only music blasts—fueling a final, explosive push. 
NB! The performers undress during the performance and end up dancing completely naked.


Short & Sweet

Dance & Physical Theatre

Meat Market

Pushing past the limit! Pumping the theatre full of energy and joy.

Joyful

Vibrant

두물머리 Dumulmeori (where two rivers meet)


Name: 두물머리 Dumulmeori (where two rivers meet)
Subtitle: An electrifying evening of contemporary dance from Australia and Korea.
Tags: 
Vibes: Compelling,Contemporary,Dynamic
Programs: Curated Program,Passport
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Credits:
Presented by Melbourne Fringe, Dancehouse and Brendan O'Connell
Curated by Brendan O’Connell
Created and Performed by Alisdair Macindoe, Chosul Kim, Haneul Jung, Michelle Heaven
Description:
A program of four solo dance works by artists from Australia and Korea.


An electrifying evening of contemporary dance from Australia and Korea.

Dynamic

Handle With Care by Ontroerend Goed


Name: Handle With Care by Ontroerend Goed
Subtitle: Theatre stripped down to its essence. No actors, no technicians. Just a box. And you.
Tags: Interactive
Vibes: Dynamic,Insightful,Mysterious
Programs: Curated Program,Festival Hub,Passport
Guides: 
Credits:
Concept by Alexander Devriendt, Karolien De Bleser, Samir Veen, Leonore Spee & Charlotte De Bruyne
With Design: Nick Mattan & Edouard Devriendt. English Translation: Samir Veen & Tiffer Hutchings (editor). Voices: Silvio Vovk (HR), Jong Wook Yang (KR), Gina Beuk (DE), Karolien De Bleser, Leonore Spee, Samir Veen, Charlotte De Bruyne, Aurélie Lannoy, and Alexander Devriendt. i.a. Translation: Martine Bom (FR), Aurélie Lannoy (FR), Samir Veen (EN), Tiffer Hutchings (editor EN), Lore Meesters (DE), Hong Zhan (CN), Tai Yin Chang (CN), Mima Simić (HR), Dayoung Jeong (KR), Andrea Romano (IT), i.a.
Presented by Melbourne Fringe
Description:
Essentially an Escape Room contained within a box: audience approach, open, and explore the contents. Individual tasks are assigned, and the participants come together in collective artmaking and community action


Outside the comfort zone

Participatory

Theatre stripped down to its essence. No actors, no technicians. Just a box. And you.

Insightful

Mysterious

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