Fiona Scarlett hates ‘love’. Useless, nasty little emotion. Downright dangerous if you ask Romeo or Juliet. The world is in love with being in love but it’s time for a reckoning and Small Acts of Love is your perfect weapon. Arm yourself with anti-love stories that will toughen your hide and leave you jaded and bitter before…

Betty Grumble is a thing hard to describe. In the most beautiful sense of the term, this character is an abomination, and an insult to all that is “right” and “proper” with the world. Dirty, sexual and perverse, she grabs you by your respective genitalia and pulls you into the most spectacular car crash of…

The Exotic Lives of Lola Montez  is written by Jackie Smith and directed by Moira Finucane. It is a superbly spirited  show performed with relentless gutso by the exceptionally talented Caroline Lee along with her gorgeous songbird sidekick, Clare St Clare. The show is a stunning portrayal of a fabulous life lead by the one…

Introduced by a hypnotic and rhythmic score, each of the three dancers enter the performance with longing gazes into mirrors and into the faces of the audience. It’s a curious and impressive use of device. It is easy to conjure images of Shakespeare’s three witches that meet on heathen ground in Macbeth. Following scenes in…

  Louisa Wall takes her audience on a rollicking journey through the eyes of a millennial with her personal brand of “I don’t like cabaret” cabaret in It’s Not Me, It’s Lou. Addressing issues from marriage equality and homelessness to the woes of hospitality workers and Instagram, Wall tackles the “millennial problem” head-on, all while dressed in…

The enthralling glamour of burlesque, circus and cabaret has the power to conceal the notion that somewhere beneath the sequins, tassels and plump ruby-red pout, an actual person exists. Seen & Heard, directed and created by burlesque artist Becky Lou, provides a platform for some of Melbourne’s most vibrant performers to share their stories in…

The undeniably talented Impromptunes are back at Fringe with their latest improvisation show, Hamiltunes. Taking a suggested historical figure from the audience and a few shouted ‘facts’ about this figure – although any fact-checking at this stage is strictly ignored – the cast improvise a musical about this person’s life in the style of hip…

“This dilapidated old caravan might be full of musty carpet and faded dreams, but for years, a mother and daughter have called it home.”  Malthouse Theatre this Melbourne Festival will be home to the latest work written by four of Australia’s most important and contemporary theatre makers: Patricia Cornelius, Angus Gerini, Wayne Macaule and Melissa Reeves. Caravan presents the story…