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Prehysterical
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Prehysterical

Event Date: 08/10/2022, 01:00 pm

An action packed hour of incredible circus by multi-award winning artists

This show rocks! A hilarious circus show for children and parents of all ages following three foolish Neanderthals as they struggle to survive the harsh natural world.

Avoiding predators, navigating harsh environments and learning to work together are all explored with marvellous circus skills and hilarious slapstick comedy. With truly incredible circus and tongue-in-cheek humour for the adults, PreHysterical is something everyone will enjoy.

Winner of Best Children's Weekly Award - Fringe World 2020

Winner of Best Children's Weekly Award - Adelaide Fringe 2022

Winner of Best Children's Weekly Award - Adelaide Fringe 2020
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Location:
Testing Grounds, Market Sq, Queen Victoria Market,
Melbourne Victoria,3000
Location:
Testing Grounds, Market Sq, Queen Victoria Market,
Melbourne Victoria,3000
Sonder
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Sonder

Event Date: 07/10/2022, 06:00 pm

We are dancers with Down syndrome. We have vivid & complex stories to tell. Watch. Listen. Realise.
Performed by: the emotion21 dancers

Directed by: Tristan Sinclair

Dramaturg: Jamie Haliday

Sonder is the realisation that each passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. How well do you know someone with Down syndrome? Have you underestimated what we can do?

We are dancers with Down syndrome and we eagerly invite you to get to know us, and to discover what we can do!

SONDER is a bombastic dance show that challenges long-held ideas and values around what it means to have a disability. We will help you see the person, not just the label of our disability. It is a joyous, unexpected and entertaining dance performance co-created and entirely performed by a magnificent cast of 24 dancers with Down syndrome.

We invite you to journey with us as we share some of our unique experiences of living in this world; we hope that by sharing it will help us become more accepted as artists. You will leave with a full heart and an enlightened mind.
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Location:
North Magdalen Laundry, Sacred Heart Building, Abbotsford Convent, 1 St Heliers St,
Abbotsford Victoria,3067
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North Magdalen Laundry, Sacred Heart Building, Abbotsford Convent, 1 St Heliers St,
Abbotsford Victoria,3067
CIRCUS The Show
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CIRCUS The Show

Event Date: 08/10/2022, 03:00 pm

Melbourne Fringe Festival 2022
Roll up! Roll up! Prepare to enter a world of whimsy, wonder and amazement where your imagination will soar like never before, in this completely re-imagined family circus spectacular! Sure to astound and amaze the entire family, CIRCUS is the latest trailblazer in children’s entertainment - featuring world-class illusions, tumbling acrobats, highly skilled jugglers, breath-taking and elegant aerialists, an endearing clown with his GIGANTIC 6ft balloon, and enough side-splitting comedy to send any grown man running for the toilet!

WINNER – Best Children’s Event, Adelaide Fringe Weeklies 2021

Following a sell-out debut season at the 2021 Adelaide Fringe, overwhelming demand for tickets at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in 2021 and 2022 - which saw the entire 16 performance season sell-out in two days, PLUS ground-breaking seasons at famed theatres across the country - Showmen Productions’ CIRCUS is headed to this year's Fringe with their BIGGEST SHOW YET and it is not to be missed Melbourne!

Headed by the incomparable Ringmaster, prepare to tumble down the rabbit hole in this jam-packed 60-minute spectacle that will be remembered long after you leave the theatre! Bring the whole family along - see you at the CIRCUS!
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Location:
Runaway Festival Park - The Vault, Queen Victoria Market,
Melbourne Victoria,3000
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Runaway Festival Park - The Vault, Queen Victoria Market,
Melbourne Victoria,3000
Impromptunes 10th Birthday Band-nanza!
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Impromptunes 10th Birthday Band-nanza!

Event Date: 07/10/2022, 07:45 pm

A completely improvised musical - with a band! A festival favourite celebrating its 10th year.
Impromptunes is celebrating its 10th Birthday!

To toast their decade of improvising musicals, they're creating a brand new musical every night, but this time, with a BAND!

Not content with dialogue, songs, music and dances all made up on the spot, these incredibly talented improvisers are joining forces with a three-piece band to bring in their tenth year with a bang!

You suggest a title, and seconds later the performers and band jump into action, creating an hilarious musical right in front of your eyes.

Now a weekly Best-Comedy nominated podcast, Impromptunes has performed sell-out shows in festivals throughout Australia and in Edinburgh Fringe.

Don't miss out on your chance to see Australia's funniest musical improvisers in their biggest show to date. With over 300 brand-new musicals to their name, you're in good (jazz) hands!
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Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom, Cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts,
Carlton Victoria,3053
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Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom, Cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts,
Carlton Victoria,3053
Impromptunes 10th Birthday Band-nanza!
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Impromptunes 10th Birthday Band-nanza!

Event Date: 08/10/2022, 07:45 pm

A completely improvised musical - with a band! A festival favourite celebrating its 10th year.
Impromptunes is celebrating its 10th Birthday!

To toast their decade of improvising musicals, they're creating a brand new musical every night, but this time, with a BAND!

Not content with dialogue, songs, music and dances all made up on the spot, these incredibly talented improvisers are joining forces with a three-piece band to bring in their tenth year with a bang!

You suggest a title, and seconds later the performers and band jump into action, creating an hilarious musical right in front of your eyes.

Now a weekly Best-Comedy nominated podcast, Impromptunes has performed sell-out shows in festivals throughout Australia and in Edinburgh Fringe.

Don't miss out on your chance to see Australia's funniest musical improvisers in their biggest show to date. With over 300 brand-new musicals to their name, you're in good (jazz) hands!
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Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom, Cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts,
Carlton Victoria,3053
Location:
Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom, Cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts,
Carlton Victoria,3053
Impromptunes 10th Birthday Band-nanza! Last Day
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Impromptunes 10th Birthday Band-nanza!

Event Date: 09/10/2022, 06:45 pm

A completely improvised musical - with a band! A festival favourite celebrating its 10th year.
Impromptunes is celebrating its 10th Birthday!

To toast their decade of improvising musicals, they're creating a brand new musical every night, but this time, with a BAND!

Not content with dialogue, songs, music and dances all made up on the spot, these incredibly talented improvisers are joining forces with a three-piece band to bring in their tenth year with a bang!

You suggest a title, and seconds later the performers and band jump into action, creating an hilarious musical right in front of your eyes.

Now a weekly Best-Comedy nominated podcast, Impromptunes has performed sell-out shows in festivals throughout Australia and in Edinburgh Fringe.

Don't miss out on your chance to see Australia's funniest musical improvisers in their biggest show to date. With over 300 brand-new musicals to their name, you're in good (jazz) hands!
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Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom, Cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts,
Carlton Victoria,3053
Location:
Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom, Cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts,
Carlton Victoria,3053
Kieran Bullocks IKEA WARS
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Kieran Bullocks IKEA WARS

Event Date: 07/10/2022, 07:30 pm

Two performers, hundreds of different screws, one winner!
After three years of Kieran Bullock building IKEA furniture on stage and talking to audiences across Australia, he's now turning the keys to the kingdom to YOU! And by "YOU" he means a selection of Melbourne's finest performers.

Bullock will turn host, referee and chaos-maker, pitting two contestants against each other in a battle royale for the ages! Two people trying to build a piece of IKEA furniture against the clock, and each other. But if you think it's going to be a straight race, think again. There'll be added challenges, forfeits, and hurdles aplenty, but at the end of each night one contestant will reign supreme as the champion of Sweden*!

*title not officially recognised by the government of Sweden.

Get your allen keys out of the drawer, and your stretchy pants and game faces on. Let's get ready to rumble!
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Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Fishbowl, Cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts,
Carlton Victoria,3053
Location:
Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Fishbowl, Cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts,
Carlton Victoria,3053
Kieran Bullocks IKEA WARS
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Kieran Bullocks IKEA WARS

Event Date: 08/10/2022, 07:30 pm

Two performers, hundreds of different screws, one winner!
After three years of Kieran Bullock building IKEA furniture on stage and talking to audiences across Australia, he's now turning the keys to the kingdom to YOU! And by "YOU" he means a selection of Melbourne's finest performers.

Bullock will turn host, referee and chaos-maker, pitting two contestants against each other in a battle royale for the ages! Two people trying to build a piece of IKEA furniture against the clock, and each other. But if you think it's going to be a straight race, think again. There'll be added challenges, forfeits, and hurdles aplenty, but at the end of each night one contestant will reign supreme as the champion of Sweden*!

*title not officially recognised by the government of Sweden.

Get your allen keys out of the drawer, and your stretchy pants and game faces on. Let's get ready to rumble!
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Location:
Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Fishbowl, Cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts,
Carlton Victoria,3053
Location:
Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Fishbowl, Cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts,
Carlton Victoria,3053
Kieran Bullocks IKEA WARS
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Kieran Bullocks IKEA WARS

Event Date: 09/10/2022, 07:30 pm

Two performers, hundreds of different screws, one winner!
After three years of Kieran Bullock building IKEA furniture on stage and talking to audiences across Australia, he's now turning the keys to the kingdom to YOU! And by "YOU" he means a selection of Melbourne's finest performers.

Bullock will turn host, referee and chaos-maker, pitting two contestants against each other in a battle royale for the ages! Two people trying to build a piece of IKEA furniture against the clock, and each other. But if you think it's going to be a straight race, think again. There'll be added challenges, forfeits, and hurdles aplenty, but at the end of each night one contestant will reign supreme as the champion of Sweden*!

*title not officially recognised by the government of Sweden.

Get your allen keys out of the drawer, and your stretchy pants and game faces on. Let's get ready to rumble!
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Location:
Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Fishbowl, Cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts,
Carlton Victoria,3053
Location:
Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Fishbowl, Cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts,
Carlton Victoria,3053
Short And Sweet Week 3 Last Day
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Short And Sweet Week 3

Event Date: 07/10/2022, 07:30 pm

Week One – with 8 short plays
Short+Sweet has spread the popular 10-minute format in theatre, dance, cabaret & comedy across Australia and the globe – with festivals now as far afield as Hollywood, India, Malaysia, Dubai and NZ.

Week One (named for stage and screen actor Nicole da Silva) opens on Friday 16 September with 8 terrific plays – among them Carole Dance’s The Travel Writer, Unreasonable Situations by Lindsey Brown and Joseph Atkins’ Red Yellow Blue.
Veteran of dozens of Short+Sweet festivals Dance’s play – which she directs herself – stars her daughter-in-law Julia Dance
as a travel writer struggling to enter ‘normal’ life after months in the jungle.
A playful monologue which captures the deep emotions in us all … and the urge to escape!

Red Yellow Blue is by the late Joseph Atkins – an outrageously funny, prodigiously talented, complex and complicated young man who died aged 27
leaving behind a sheaf of terrific film and stage scripts, this piece he penned for Short+Sweet among them.
His mother, celebrated Australian dancer, choreographer and actor Sheree da Costa directs the piece
which stars Kate Jirelle and Aiden McKenzie as a couple in a car, the morning after after a ‘messy’ night.
Aiden did his AFTT graduation showreel scene with Joseph Atkins. Kate also appears in week three, directing her own play “To Those I Left Behind”.

Unreasonable Situations by Lindsey Brown, directed by Tui Clark, stars Short+Sweet 'legend' and former primaballerina Olga Tamara and Nicole Robinson
in a black comedy about a woman who goes out of her way to avoid confronting her philandering husband.

Other Week 1 plays include Audience Participation by Andrew Thompson, Vee Malnar’s Road Rage, Something Blue by Rae Welch directed by Hao Nguyen,
Ana Fenner’s Next Step (Amelia Gilday dir), Sarah Quartly’s The Kitchen Sink and Charlotte’s Room by Mike Sams, directed by Peter Morrissey-Smith.
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Location:
Tom Mann Theatre Theatre, 136 Chalmers St,,
Surry Hills New South Wales,2010
Location:
Tom Mann Theatre Theatre, 136 Chalmers St,,
Surry Hills New South Wales,2010
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