Event Listings Announced For FRINGE WORLD Festival 2018
By: A.A. Cristi Dec. 15, 2017
After three sell-out seasons, the creators of La Soirée return to Perth with a brand new show. Loose, glorious and irresistibly fun, Club Swizzle is a night of sassy entertainment where the mayhem gets kicked up a notch. The cheekiest souls in showbiz gather on, in and around the bar where legends are made and good times abound. It's a melee of outrageous cabaret, air-defying acrobatics and infectious musical revelry, backed by a band with a repertoire as big as its bar tab. With no stage, no rules and no regrets, there's no place like it. Leave your coat and your hang-ups at the door and book now to join the Club! Tonight, like every night, will be unlike any other.
Enjoy a cocktail before the show! The Club Swizzle bar opens 30 minutes before show time. Remember, "Every night is New Year's Eve at Club Swizzle!"
Djuki Mala presented by Bond Creatives.
The West Australian Spiegeltent at The Pleasure Garden, James St, Northbridge
Sun 28 to Mon 5 Feb @9pm, Sun 4 Feb @2pm
Teatro at The Pleasure Garden, James St, Northbridge
Wed 7 Feb to Sun 25 Feb @6.30pm, Fri 16 & 23 Feb@10.30pm, Sat 17 & 24 Feb @10.30pm, Sun 25 Feb@2pm
(No shows Tues 6, 13 & Mon 19 Feb). Suitable for all ages.
70 minutes
From $41 to $46, Family Packages available
Djuki Mala return to Perth on the back of their 2017 Summer Festival, Sydney Opera House and Edinburgh Fringe sell-out seasons! Unique, infectious, high-energy exuberant, fusing traditional Yolngu, pop culture, dance storytelling to create work that is a marvel of timing, comedy clowning, with a hefty dose of heart soul! If there is one show that is guaranteed to leave you feeling genuinely happy then this is it!
Winner Best Dance Adelaide Fringe 2015 FRINGE WORLD 2017. West Australian Arts Editors Award and Best Dance & Physical Theatre Award 2017.
A Rhapsody in Red featuring the CoverGirls
CABARET/ MUSICAL THEATRE
Presented by The Wicked Stage Productions
Main Room - Connections Nightclub
26-27, 29-31 Jan @ 8:45pm
90 MINS
$27.00 - $30.00
"Hell hath no fury like three women scorned." Fall dangerously in love with The CoverGirls Peggy-Sue, Mary-Jane and Just Betty on their quest for love as they tease, cajole and spank the songs of delicious 60's divas Diana, Tina, Shirley, Aretha and more, before sending them off for a Bex and a good lie down. Coo to 'Baby Love', lick your lips for 'Lollipop', beg for 'Please Mr Postman' and run if you have 'Lipstick on Your Collar'.
Three great voices and characters come together in a sharply choreographed and wonderfully entertaining ensemble. Sarah McNeill,
Livvy & Pete: The Songs of Olivia Newton John and Peter Allen
CABARET/MUSIC
De Parel Spiegeltent - The Pleasure Garden, James St, Northbridge
5-12 FEB @ 5:45PM
70 MINS
Standard $33, Group 6+ $29.00
Helpmann award-winner Michael Griffiths and cabaret darling Amelia Ryan celebrate the songbooks of Aussie icons Olivia Newton-John and Peter Allen. From their humble small-town beginnings to world domination in sequins and jumpsuits, revisit all of their sing-a-long classics from Rio to Tenterfield, all the way to Xanadu and beyond. As camp as maracas and tender as Pete's gift to Livvy 'I Honestly Love You', there promises to be rollerskates, T-Birds, Pink Ladies, 80s jazzercise and an Oscar winning song to boot!
Amelia Ryan: The Breast is Yet to Come
CABARET/COMEDY
WA Premiere
De Parel Spiegeltent, Pleasure Garden, James St, Northbridge
Thurs 8 Feb, Fri 9 Feb, Sat 10 Feb, Sun 11 Feb 2018
7.45pm
Standard Price $30, Groups 6 + $27
It's been a big year for Amelia Ryan (Storm In A D Cup, Lady Liberty). Famous for her dazzling tales of debauchery, she's now found herself domesticated; as a brand new Mum! Her sequinned frocks are spew-rags and her fun-bags are functional. Sigh. Fortunately, she's no stranger to mess, late nights and the occasional vommie...so she's got motherhood in the (nappy) bag. Right?*cue panic. With her signature stamp of heart and hilarity (and her beautiful baby boy backstage), she'll take you from pregnancy to parenthood, and being up the duff to up all night, in this hilarious foray into The Family Way.
Presented by Genrefonix
MUSIC and MUSICALS/ MIXED MEDIA
Fremantle Prison
24 FEB @ 7:00PM , 8.15pm and 9.30pm
Duration: 60mins
Tickets: $20.00
Join experimental music/arts collective "Genrefonix" in the atmospheric Fremantle Prison Theatre for a fictional multimedia show featuring original horror music and immersive soundscapes. All performed live alongside compelling imagery of Fremantle's architecture and its ghosts. See some of WA's most haunted buildings brought to life through emotive tunes, eerie sound effects and imaginative ghost portraits created for the show.
The Ghosts of Fremantle is a visual feast told through story, black humour and haunting soundscapes narrated by WA's most famous bushranger Moondyne Joe, a former inmate as he takes the crowd on a journey through Fremantle's dark past. The original theatre screen used for prisoners will fire up once again, bringing history and imagination to life.
Jessie Gordon has six shows, five at Ellington Jazz club and one show at the Palace Society under MUSIC and MUSICALS
Sassafras: An Evening in Paris
Presented by Jessie Gordon
MUSIC & MUSICALS/ JAZZ
The Ellington Jazz Club
27-31 JAN, 1 FEB @ 7:00PM Nine Performances
55 MINS
2-4 FEB @ 5:30PM · 55 MINS
Standard: $27 Group 6 + $22
Sassafras return to Fringe World with more gypsy jazz! This local Perth band featuring Lachlan Gear, Aaron Deacon, Pete Jeavons, Adrian Galante and Jessie Gordon will have you swaying with delight to their Parisian tunes. Sassafras present a vibrant, acoustic mix of French gypsy, swing and jazz, all performed with the sensational virtuosity and passion so intrinsic to the tradition of this music. This dazzling show will take you on a journey discovering the music, the heart and soul of Paris. With songs from Edith Piaf, Django Reinhardt, Sidney Bechet and many more who lived and loved in Paris in the early 20th Century, Sassafras will charm and enthral you, just like the city herself.
Jessie Gordon is Ruining Your Night
The Ellington Jazz Club
21-25 Feb @ 7.15-8.15pm Five Performances
55 Minutes
Standard $26 Groups 6+ $22
Jessie is an eight time FRINGE WORLD award winner, veteran jazz singer, blues dancer, and expert cheese eater. She is good at what she does. Especially the cheese eating. But in every show there's a critical moment where everything can go horribly wrong. In a more intimate show than she's ever performed before, Jessie shares some personal moments of life getting in the way and music rescuing her soul. From hilarious things audience members yell to songs that have changed her life, this soulful songstress weaves the moments of ruination, embarrassment, fragile egos and broken hearts into a story. Joined by some of Perth's best musicians, Jessie performs her most tortuous, satisfying, heartbreaking jazz and blues songs, along with original tunes written in moments of crisis and salvation.
)Anatomically Incorrect Gentlemen: Dirty Gents
Presented by Jessie Gordon
CABARET/MUSIC
The Ellington Jazz Club
30-31 JAN, 1-3 FEB @ 8:30PM · 55 MINS
Five Performances only
Duration 55 mins
Standard $25 Bar Tickets $20
Libby Hammer and Jessie Gordon are the Anatomically Incorrect Gentlemen. This year they are exploring the magnificently filthy world of dirty music. Join them for a fabulous evening of gender bending comedy and music, with tiny guitars (read: ukuleles), very manly harmonies, and the occasional monologue on the hardships of maintaining manliness while also being women. From spritely ukulele versions of Andrews Sisters tunes to filthy doo-wop songs by the Clovers to pumpin' pop by Grace Jones, the Gents will take you through the Golden Era of Swing all the way to the best of modern pop in their attempt to discover the filthiest pop songs. With voices blended in harmony, these two raffish lads will transport you to a world where gender is a performance and music is a state of mind.
So Fresh: The Fairly Average Dance Party
Presented by Jessie Gordon and Fairly Average Productions
MUSIC & MUSICALS/ CONTEMPORARY
The Ellington Jazz Club
31 JAN, 1-3 FEB @ 10:15PM · 55 MINS
4 FEB @ 8:30PM five Performances
Standard Standing Ticket $20
Winners of the 2017 FRINGE WORLD Music and Musicals Award, The Fairly Average Dance Band are bringing back their favourite night of nostalgia, nonsense, and tunes from the nineties and noughties! After taking home the award, the band took a long, hard look at themselves and decided that after a lifetime of poor decision making, one more bad decision might just make the perfect show. So they're doing it all over again. With mediocre intensity, this band of Perth's most talented musicians will be playing the music of their collective childhood on their second or third instrument of choice, resulting in a wildly ordinary evening of tunes, bad dance moves and other miscellany. Come down for a decidedly mainstream and unexceptional affair! The mediocrity of these productions knows no bounds. A rag-tag bunch of musical mates decided to play music with little integrity and no soul. But a heckload of fun.
Presented by Jessie Gordon
MUSIC & MUSICALS/ JAZZ
The Ellington Jazz Club
21-25 Feb @ 9-10pm
five Performances Only
Duration 55 mins
Standard Price: $26, Group 6+ $22
Jessie Gordon is no stranger to the darker side of jazz. Join her for a thrilling speakeasy adventure at Perth's premiere jazz club. Joined by the brilliant and handsome pianist Chris Foster, Jessie delves into the depths of the dirtiest jazz tunes around. There are more dirty songs about liquid and libations than you can poke a stick at, and Jessie is bringing a big stick. There are songs for the swooning moonshiners, those inclined to wine, those frisky for whisky and some odes to our favourite friends, those tenders of the bar. In the dark, dingy corners and smokey recesses of the Golden Era of Swing, there are songs for all your favourite drinks, there is room for all your dirty deeds and time for you to unwind with a refined beverage. The team at the Ellington are putting together a specially crafted drink for the evening to match the theme, ask for a Filthy Gordon when you arrive!
Jessie Gordon Live Electric Loops
Presented by Jessie Gordon
The Palace Society at Flour Palace
13-18 Feb @ 8pm Six Performances
55 Mins
Standard Tickets $18, Group Tickets $15
Jessie is one of Perth's best known jazz & blues singers. Touring through Europe with her looping station inspired her to combine her swinging vocals with an electronic groove, and this show blends her love of live improvised jazz with her passion for words and meaning. Each show will be new and different, with Jessie taking suggestions from the audience for song ideas and themes for the evening. The night will also feature some reimagined jazz standards and a sprinkling of Jessie's original songs. Join her for a night that will be fiercely ad-libbed, recklessly inspired, and wildly unplanned.
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