Comedy, Cabaret & Variety and Kids:
· We have SUPER HOT DEBUTS from Chortle Student award Winner KWAME ASANTE and the Richard Gadd’s director STOPH DEMETRIOU
· There will be wonderful new hours from FRINGE FAVORITES; including a brand new hour of masterful storytelling from SARAH KENDALL; an exciting twist in format for THE DARK ROOM FOR KIDS an unexpected kids version of the terrifying live interactive game show. We have a fantastic new show fromBRENDON BURNS AND CRAIG QUARTERMAINE, another freewheeling masterpiece solo show from JOHN ROBERTSON and BABA BRINKMAN brings Free Fringe Favourite Off The Top back to the Festival.
· German punk-pop rockers OTTO & ASTRID (DIE ROTEN PUNKTE) present Eurosmash! and we’re excited to see a new show from the much loved ballsy New Yorker ABIGOLIAH SCHAMAUN
· Everyone’s favourite foolhardy foot-high puppets BORIS & SERGEY return with a confusingly named One Man Extravaganza, YIANNI AGISILAOU brings the show that was recently nominated for Best Comedy at the Perth Fringe 2017 whilst STUART BLACK takes us on a dark journey to the depths of his mind.
· Making his return to Fringe after 34 years away, is Richard Sparks – writer of Rowan Atkinson’s Schoolmaster Sketch and lead writer on Not the Nine O’clock News – bringing his new piece of comedy writing MARGARITA DREAMS. And hotfooting it over to Pleasance with the might of the Showstoppers producer’s behind them, comes the hottest new ticket in Improv comedy MURDER SHE DIDN’T WRITE
· UP AND COMING ACTS including the charming and Irish CONOR DRUM and the Irish and charmingDANNY O’BRIEN we see the best in character comedy from MADDY ANHOLT and ex political journalistFRANCESCO DE CARLO helps us all leave our comfort zones.
· Over in the CABARET & VARIETY section JOJO BELLINI charms us all with her saucy signing, and Korean magical maestros SNAP! return after a total sell out 2016
Theatre, Cabaret & Variety and Physical Theatre and Dance:
· LOSERS invite audiences to grab a voting handset, meet four dangerously desperate contestants and decide their formidable fates. It’s the most nail-biting TV game-show of the decade. With a very dark twist.
· Fringe First winning Canadian rapper Baba Brinkman asks the hard questions in RAP GUIDE TO CONSCIOUSNESS – what is it like to be a baby? We might have to take LSD to find out. How about an octopus?
· Following the notable success of No Child which debuted at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2010, Nilaja Sun returns to The Fringe with her new one-woman show, PIKE ST.
· Matthew Floyd Jones, (Mannish from Frisky and Mannish) brings his one man show RICHARD CARPENTER IS CLOSE TO YOU – a parody-tribute to the less talked about half of The Carpenters.
· Fresh from huge success at the Adelaide Fringe, BLANK TILES tells the story of World Scrabble Champion, Austin Michaels used to know over 200,000 words. Now Alzheimer’s disease is eating away at his memory.
· CATHERINE AND ANITA is a beautifully bleak comedy. Told over the course of decades this is a story about heartbreak, mental illness, and ultimately how those in need so often slip through life’s cracks.
· LISTS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD is a show composed entirely of crowd-sourced lists, from all kinds of people in all kinds of places – including the audience as they queue up to take their seats.
· THE MAN ON THE MOOR Written and performed by Max Dickins of last year’s critical smash-hit The Trunk, this one-man play looks at how people come to disappear and the impact on those they leave behind.
· EGGSISTENTIALISM is a comedic, autobiographical journey charting the odyssey that writer/performer Joanne Ryan embarked upon while trying to decide in her final fertile years whether or not to have a child.
· Following its Fringe sell out in 2016, SNAP! returns to the Festival. This enormously entertaining magic show boasts a cast of Korea’s greatest illusion artists in an enchanting, engaging and hilarious show.
· And from gigantic drums to small percussion instruments TAGO – KOREAN DRUM II performances are a masterful display of thrilling percussion and precisely choreographed movement.