Seven shots ring out in the silence of Victoria’s rolling Barrabool Hills. As the final recoil echoes through the paddocks, a revered sheep-breeding dynasty comes to a bloody and inglorious end.

Almost three decades later, from the bucolic majesty and snobbery of the Western District, to the bleak and loveless underworld of orphanages, stables, homeless shelters and gay beats, the web of secrets and lies that led to this bizarre and seemingly motiveless murder spree are finally unravelled.

When writer Sergio arrives in Ljubljana to give a lecture on Narcissus, the first thing he does is get on an app and look for someone to have sex with.

A few hours later, Sergio spots a dark brown stain on the floor. It's a blood stain. And then, he discovers another.

And another. And another.

Season: Melbourne

Bubo is a proud, strong and stoic gorilla. The pride of the Zoo. Its main attraction. Visitors come in waves to gaze upon his majesty and mystic.

But when a series of chilling events tarnish his unblemished reputation, drastic measures must be used to win back the public’s favour.

Season: Melbourne

Alan is on the hunt to find the last greater mouse-eared bat living in Britain, but a tender romance with Josh, the charming young runaway he meets in an abandoned railway tunnel, begins to divert him from his mission. As their relationship develops, these two damaged men might fix one another. If only a little.

Season: Melbourne

Image: Cameron Grant

Face to face with someone they fear, that they loathe, that they even lust for - confronted with these feelings without being able to escape. What conversations are they forced to have? What concessions will they be forced to make and when the hell will someone fix this damn elevator?

Season: Melbourne

Image: Cameron Grant

Frankie is desperate to be understood, accepted, loved. But the LGBTQ alphabet soup has got Michael’s head spinning. Why's it gotta be so complicated? Why can't they understand? Why can't things go back to the way they always were?

Season: Melbourne

Image: Cameron Grant

Dan works at one of the UK's most successful and infamous gay saunas. A place where men from all walks of life come to relax, socialise and most importantly... fuck.

Pulsing with frenetic energy and laced with sexual tension; Sauna Boy is guaranteed to touch you in more ways than one.

Welcome to West End Sauna...

Season: Melbourne, Perth & Adelaide

*Fringe World Perth 2024 Weekly Award Winner*

Image: Dan Ireland-Reeves

Mark is new and too scared to make friends. Darren is out-of-control and too scary to make friends. The two need each other but neither of them would ever admit it.

Worlds apart, but more similar than they realise, the pair form a complex and manipulative relationship that leads them blindly into a dangerous experiment that alters the course of both their lives.

“This play is a love story gone dark. And it’s done so powerfully compellingly that it will leave you contemplating its complexities.” Australian Arts Review

*Judges Pick - Melbourne Fringe Festival 2023*

Season: Melbourne

Image Cameron Grant

Alice and Michael met six years ago. Three years later their daughter Lily was born. Now, in a Yorkshire meadow, just past midnight, they're having an argument. Because Alice is cold, she's tired, and Michael won't stop telling her that she died twelve hours ago.

“The structure of the plot demanded skilful and astute direction and dramaturgy. Gavin Roach’s expertise shone through in the performance. “ ArtsHub

Season: Melbourne

Image: Cameron Grant

In a town of ten thousand people, what parade do we get?

Halloween. A small town in the west of Ireland. There's a party to get to, and Mikey and Casey have everything they need... Booze. Cash. Drugs. Each other.

The only problem is they're stuck. Stuck on a roof. Stuck together. And as they wait for the Guards to stop circling the house, they find out there are some truths you just can't climb down from.

“The play compelled you to consider the remarkable chasm between two types of people – those who choose to leave their troubled lives behind and move to seek out better, more genial surroundings, and those who stay on in the old world to fight the same old battles and persevere in the face of ever-familiar prejudices, restrictions, troubles and challenges.” ArtsHub

*Judges Pick - Melbourne Fringe Festival 2023*

Season: Melbourne

Image Cameron Grant

On the Death Strip of the Berlin Wall in 1962, from gunshot to final breath, an adolescent Peter Fechter hears the lives of family, friends, and strangers unfolding in the city around him – dozens of voices converging in the moment of his death and illuminating his decision to risk it all for love.

“It serves as a reminder that political absolutism is always a brittle lie and, more painfully, that progress has always come at a heavy human cost. Amidst the parties and pageantry of Pride season, this central truth must always be given a sacral space. This piece does exactly that.” - Australian Arts Review

Season: Melbourne

Image: Cameron Grant

The ripe sweat of men in spaghetti-strap singlets have blurred your senses. That’s not a heart attack, it’s just your heart rate perfectly synced to the deafening house music.

More than just a story about gaining the strength to crush a watermelon between your thighs, reacquaint yourself with self-love, as you laugh, cry and maybe vomit, while being personally victimised by an elliptical trainer.

“More than just a story about gaining the strength to crush a watermelon between your thighs, Ryan Henry has created a new Australian work that will reacquaint audiences with self-love. “ Limelight.

Season: Melbourne

Image: Cameron Grant

A lonely university student from rural Ireland, James deflects the events of a dark night, with stories of his astrology obsessed friend, his performatively woke flatmate, and a new overpriced mindfulness app he’s just discovered.

“Marcus Bateson’s Outlier is a tender and hopeful piece exploring a young man’s efforts to find himself and intimacy against the backdrop of a transactional gay sexual milieu and those who take unfair advantage of it.” - Australian Arts Review

Season: Melbourne

Image: Cameron Grant

Based on true events, A Southern Fairytale artfully illuminates the challenges facing a young, gay Christian growing up in the Deep South. As we accompany the protagonist through multiple journeys into and out of the closet, the audience emotionally connects with the very real impacts of conversion therapy, excommunication, and a father who believes that a demon has possessed his son.

“Expertly performed by Ty Autry, A Southern Fairytale tells the story of Alex – a young gay man and his youth growing up in the South, USA. We all know the stereotypes, but Autry rips off the lid of conservative Christian life and how going against the grain is more than taboo.” - The Fourth Wall

*Fringe World Perth 2023 Weekly Award Winner*

Season: Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Adelaide.

Pig and Runt are two 17-year-olds who share everything: birthday, language, worldview - and that moment when pop songs and life-changing orgasms flash by and last forever.

season: Melbourne

Image: Cameron Grant

If you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, does it make any more sense to judge a book by its author?

A reclusive children’s writer becomes wildly successful. Her books are treasured across the country. Her public are desperate to know just who is behind the stories. But as a troubling narrative begins to unfold and her constantly irrational excuses, readers begin to ask, what is she so afraid of?

Season: Melbourne

Image: Cameron Grant

A warts-and-all work by queer British playwright, Charlie Josephine, examines the DNA of a fractured father/daughter relationship fuelled by chronic depression, addiction, and social shame.

Needle-sharp, physically articulated, opera-fkn-radically punctuated with moments of movement that feel something like a Sarah Kane met up with Carol Churchill for a doof with the DJ from hell, with “tracks” so buckled, we can’t look away - till the crash.

Season: Melbourne

Image: Cameron Grant

Two women wash up on a distant shore following a violent boating accident. Dazed, they look for a path home. But this unfamiliar land is not what it seems - and though they may be together, they have never been further apart.

Unflinchingly honest and tenderly lyrical, Meet Me at Dawn is a modern fable, exploring the triumphs of everyday love.

Season: Adelaide

Image: Ali Choudhry

17 year old Callum is proud to be shy and he thinks you should be too, because what this noisy, crazy world needs right now is a bit more self-restraint. The Shy Manifesto is a bittersweet coming-of-age comedy drama about a shy boy who is fed up of constantly being told to come out of his shell. Tonight he is to address an audience of radical shy comrades and incite the meek to finally rise up and inherit the earth.

Season: Melbourne and Sydney.

Image: Ali Choudhry

Encompassing a world that is sometimes real, sometimes imagined - Stephen Laughton's Run explores what it means to love, to lose, to rebel and how to grieve. A deeply personal story about first love and infatuation that expands to interrogate the difficult intersection of religion and queerness.

“Ben Stuart’s performance as Yonni was simply outstanding. His endurance was limitless, and the diversity of emotion he expertly portrayed was astonishing as he took us on a journey of love, laughter frustration, and grief. “ - Theatre Travels

*Adelaide Fringe 2023 Weekly Award Winner*

Season: Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Adelaide.

Image: Cameron Grant

With a plastic compass and Dad’s ashes at her side, Rory sets off in the footsteps of all the dead beardy explorers before her, to get Dad to the North Pole. Before Mum finds out they’ve gone.

A Hundred Words for Snow by Tatty Hennessy is about being an explorer in a melting world. It’s a coming of age story. With polar bears.

“Eddie Pattison performs Rory like it was written for them.” - Australian Pride Network

Season: Melbourne and Sydney

Locked in his bathroom during a tragic third date, Willy asks: are you a Top or a Bottom?

Join Willy for a queer coming-of-age remix, as he questions if ‘bottom’ in the bedroom means ‘bottom’ in life – and whether Beyoncé can help put his love on top.

This is for anyone who hates making the first move. Anyone who thinks they are unlovable. Anyone that’s ever tried to be someone they’re not.

Season: Melbourne and Sydney.

Image: Ali Choudhry

One-night stands are awkward. One-night stands with animals are more awkward. And when you're as desperate to please as Bobby, things get awkward as f*ck. He's just a guy with too much love to give, and a burning desire to give it to consensual adult mammals.

Season: Perth and Melbourne.

Image: Ali Choudhry

Adam is the remarkable true story of a young trans man having to make that choice. From Egypt to Scotland, it charts Adam’s fight across borders and genders to find a place to call home.

Season: Melbourne

In 1988 more than one hundred arrests were made at Salamanca Market when the Tasmanian Gay Law Reform Group defied a ban on a stall that featured petitions to decriminalise sexual activity between consenting adult males in private. The arrests lit the spark for a campaign to change a law in Tasmania that was the most draconian in the Western world in terms of its penalty and, by the time of its repeal, the last of its kind in Australia.

Season: Melbourne

Six 20 year-olds meet in the bathroom across several different house parties. Secrets are shared, drugs are taken, horoscopes are read & hook-ups occur. A bold must see script akin to popular TV shows such as Skins & Sex Education that explores toxic masculinity, drug & alcohol use, consent & suicide, through the lens of those it effects most.

Season: Perth

Do you remember the panic attack you had the first, and only, time you fisted someone? Gavin does. And it was hilarious.

Having tackled bullying and body image, language, and love, acclaimed queer artist Gavin Roach has caved into demand and is finally offering up a more “happy” and “fun” show. This surely will not end well.

“Roach’s skill as a storyteller is exhibited in full in this solo show. The writing is clever, witty, and bounces sharply from moment to moment, allowing us to witness the intricacies of Roach’s struggle with alcohol abuse and anxiety as part of a greater web of his life up until now. Roach brings this writing to life with absolute ease, balancing delightful moments of comedy amongst darker truths.” - Theatre Travels

Season: Melbourne & Sydney

Image: Ali Choudhry

Sure, we have marriage, but some of us still can’t take a piss without getting harassed.

‘Transgression’ is the premiere show by human rights advocate, Jacob Thomas, that explores the lived experience of being gender diverse after Australia passed marriage equality.

Be sinful. Break the rules. Be authentic. And if you can’t freely take a piss then take the piss freely out of those who hurt you.

Season: Melbourne

Kane is one of the world’s biggest movie stars. And his body double is every bit as important, sharing more than just looks with his famous counterpart. But just how intertwined are their lives?

Season: Melbourne.

Image: Ali Choudhry

It’s his birthday. It’s George’s birthday. Well was. Yesterday, it was his birthday. 42. He’s 42 years old. And god does he feel it. His wife keeps him young though, Peggy, and the girls. His girls. He’s got two little girls. Little ratbags more like. But he loves them. Can’t imagine a life without them.

But tonight, on his birthday, he will come face to face with the brutal hand of fate and confront the unknown that we all fear…death.

Season: Melbourne.

Image: Helen Rofe