Melbourne Fringe Festival
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Location 
Festival Hub: Trades Hall
54 Victoria St
Carlton 3053
Price and bookings
From free to $50
Accessibility
All accessibility information is self-reported by the listing owner. It has not been verified by the City of Melbourne.
Part of Melbourne Fringe Festival
Sh!t Theatre: Or What's Left of Us
Folk music and grief collide in this award-winning true crime tale.
Geraldine Quinn: Bastard Joy
A brand new electroclash club cabaret from the high priestess of underground music comedy.
Power Move: Request Fest
You bring the vibe, Fringe brings the volume – where the people of Melbourne run the playlist.
Power Move: Prance Battles
Lace up your party sneakers and prepare for a fabulous dance-off like no other.
Loserland
Drag meets disaster in this comedy about losers, love fails, and one barista’s fight to get ahead
Caught In Between
An Asian-Australian performer explores the possibility of existing within two worlds at once.
The Worm
Tackling the horrors of modern dating and crushing anxiety – all while being haunted by a giant worm
Beast Feast
A fairytale gone feral, a grotesque and gory show for anyone who's ever been told to calm down.
Unwoman (The Protest)
A durational artwork celebrating the multitude of experiences around birth, fertility and pregnancy.
Not Without Right: Shakespeare's Secrets
Shakespeare and his Muse battle to prove that he is the true author of the Complete Works.
A Monty Python Cabaret Singalong Circus
Join the hilarious fun as Dr H revives the great satirical songs from the Monty Python era.
CareFactorNullius: The tRoo Story Cabaret
Katie Coles plays two public servants, two roos and two instruments.
Power Move: Killer or Filler - Home DJ Takeover
Move your body, power the party. Not a pro? Not a problem.
Abracad*ckhead
Award-winning magician LJ's must-see show, combining comedy, magic and life’s twists.
Who Wants to be a Citizen?
From civil war to citizenship – a bold, funny immigrant story by one of Australia’s rising comics.
Barney Pollock: King of the Pigs
Expertly crafted solo character carnage from the Thank God You're Here comedian.
What Doesn't Kill You
This award-winning comedy show arrives in Melbourne after selling out Edinburgh Fringe.
Adore Händel’s Cautionary Tales
Brings beloved standards and new works to life with wit, drama and 18th-century glam.
Poems of a Transsexual Nature
A new play on the reckless escapades of a transmasc with a god complex.
Mafia The Game: The Show
The hit roleplaying game comes to life as Fringe's funniest bullsh*t their way to win.
Blak Sovereignty
Natisha Tabua creates works at the convergence of traditional practice and contemporary techniques.
Murder in the Graveyard: An Improvised Whodunnit
Bring out your dead! Melbourne's award-winning improvised whodunnit returns in time for Halloween.
Tomas Clifford Got Stood Up
The award-winning musical-cabaret lands in Melbourne/Naarm, and not without some stories to tell.
Comedy Roulette
Enjoy top comedians and big laughs in a stand-up comedy show with a spontaneous spin.
A Perfectly Normal Show
Drawing back the curtain on the private life of a 'perfectly normal' heterosexual couple.
Mother and Baby
An unconventional, amphibious and gender capsizing puppet show on a lake in Carlton Gardens.
Loud Jazz Will Fix Me
Singer, actor and silly guy Dylan McBurney shows burnout is more fun with a jazz underscore.
The Wedding
A queer, absurd, character sketch show about love, and all the things that get in its way.
Gold Star Bisexual
This is the story of trying to fit in, figure out who you are and getting the world to believe it.
Requiem
Réquiem is a dance-theatre work that unravels the nexus between grief, memory and mythology.
Club Fringe: HRTthrob I Want it That Way
You’ve been to the protests, now come to the party. HRTthrob is the trans boy band of your dreams.
Queer Enough?
Two friends create a queer nightclub in this whirlwind hour of drag, burlesque, comedy and more.
Birds of Paradise: A Story of Songs for the Spaces Between
The award-winning voice of Milly Moon in a new collection of dark and dreamy musical stories.
Power Move: Groove is in the Heart
Your middle of the day invitation to shake off the stress, drop the grind and dance like it's 1990.
The Square
A fun, live, participation event hosted by young people to map and celebrate human truth.
Bella Noonan: You Should See the Other Guy
A debut show of provocative stand-up comedy that laughs in the face of adversity.
Sign Up Now
A satirical telling of a day in the lives of two charismatic sales people working outside a shop.
ABBA: The Singalonga Cabaret
Get it on with the greatest ABBA piano cabaret tribute singalong show ever.
The Lady Will Have
Bold solo debut from playwright, poet and comedian, Dana Mitchell. Stand up, satire, sketch, wigs.
Silently Screaming
Silently Screaming is a powerful one-woman show about a girl's journey to adulthood.
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Burlesque Lounge
Melbourne's sparkling burlesque dinner show experience right in the heart of the city