Like improv comedy? Like history? Musical theatre? Tried to get tickets to the musical Hamilton overseas, but couldn’t afford that on top of your mortgage? Hamiltunes delivers all that and more. Put six gifted improv comedians on stage, who also are…
Come in, come in. Make yourself cozy. Here’s your name tag. Christian, right? Do you need another cushion? A blankie or a biscuit? Have you finished the mandatory reading? Of course not. Bookcrastinators Anonymous is part book club, part support…
PO PO MO CO present Recreation & Leisure delivers an hour of more than a dozen outrageous, baffling, grotesque, and over-the-top if not impossible to define sketches. The Queer Post-post Modern Comedy (PO PO MO CO) troupe exists to address…
Written by Jamaica Zuanetti and Directed by Rachel Barring, The Melbourne Fringe Festival presents their deeply profound play, Too Ready Mirror. I was immediately pulled in by the poster which was dark, twisted, and had an element of mystery. It…
On a blustery spring evening, in a quiet northern pub, a Melbourne improv troupe took on the Bard for the enjoyment of a Fringe Festival audience. Completely Improvised Shakespeare, performed by the Soothplayers, has been a staple of the Melbourne…
Auckland-based theatre and performance artist Julia Croft created If There’s Not Dancing at the Revolution, I’m Not Coming because she is angry. She calls it a ‘tiny call to arms’. Rather than direct confrontation, Julia performs a series of vignettes…
What is a cruise ship Captain Roland Carter to do, with a ship enshrouded in a deadly, possibly supernatural, fog? How to placate the wealthy patrons before they mutiny in boredom? Can he reconcile career and family, when faced with…
Rama Nicholas has a cult following among the cognoscenti at TPO, and you can add me to the list of adoring fans. Rama returns with her titillating multi-character romance erotica feel-good show The Lucky Ones to Fringe. It is an…
Motherhood: a relationship marked by unconditional love, support, and an undeniable struggle for power. In Big Heart, writer Patricia Cornelius and director Susie Dee explore an odd mother-and-child relationship: that of Australia with the rest of the world. In the…
The Melbourne Fringe Festival (14 September-1 October 2017) is one of the most experimental festivals of the year, and we at The Plus Ones have ruffled through the guide, and conducted extensive research, to bring to you some of the…