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2021 Program 17th - 21st March BUY TIX: stickytickets.com.au/newcastlefringe/events WEBSITE: www.newcastlefringe.com.au #newcastlefringe #bingenewyfringe Photo credit: Alison Laird CONTENTS 2 WELCOME FROM THE DIRECTOR 4 Bang Bang Bandit Variety Show/Daydreamers Playhouse/Clark’s Nerdy Sydney Musical/ Make America Great Again 5 Disenchanted: A Cabaret of Twisted Fairy Tales/ Tom Witcombe: Amoral/ The Hunter Wind Quintet/ Zlatko’s Balkan Cabaret 6 Switch Witchetty’s Almanac of Everything/Do The Hibble Hop/Harry Jun: Erratic/ Jawbone 8 Girls to the Front/Who Let the Dyke Out? /Gaybies/ The Art of Falling in Love by Eddy Rockefeller. 9 Camino Man/WCB: Sigil/Red Orchestra/piss to EME 10 Moth/Nerds & Music/Samson 14 Maynard/Wine Mums: Live Laugh Love/Unplanned We’re Melodies Cabaret 15 OMG WTF/Bang Bang Bandit Variety Show/ The Music of Petty Nicks/The Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood Experience proud to be 17 Fringe pull-out program - Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th March 18 Fringe pull-out program - Friday 19th and Saturday 20th March sponsors of the 19 Fringe pull-out program – Saturday 20th (cont.) and Sunday 21st March 20 Fringe pull-out program – Workshops Newcastle Fringe 22 Fringe For Families @ The Station 23 Free Weekend at the Station 24 Free Weekend at the Station 26 Newcastle Fringe Emerging Film Makers Festival Festival. 28 Circus Box/Pop Poetry 29 Black Starr Cabaret/OMG WTF 30 Mad Bitches Inc./Victor Martinez Parada with Our commitment to our Australian Lily Guerrero communities has been a passion for over 31 Jane Austen: The Good the Bad and the Ugly/Fever 180 years and as owner and operator of 32 Not for the Cultched/Failure to Launch the Newcastle Gas Storage Facility we’re 33 Binge Newy Fringe 36 Dubbo Fringe pleased to continue to support this new edition of the Newcastle Fringe Festival.

agl.com.au/NGSF All rights reserved © 2021 Newcastle Fringe Festival Inc ABN 32 521 923 712 FROM THE ASHES of 2020, where enforced hibernation has kept the artists of Australia behind the curtain, they now show great resilience in returning to appear at the 2021 Newcastle Fringe which is bigger, bolder and brighter than ever before. Port Waratah With an eye to Covid restrictions and a need to be flexible there are great changes afoot. Now presenting more than 100 events throughout 11 venues, Newcastle Fringe will also include film and an emerging filmmakers’ competition, workshops for kids, adults & performers, Binge Newy Fringe and streaming on demand. Coal Services There truly is something in our fringe line-up for everyone – from burlesque to theatre, side spitting comedy to magic, creative cabaret to kids stuff, classical to jazz, the 2021 Newcastle Fringe has it all.

Newcastle Fringe is grateful for the continued support of Port Waratah Coal Services and AGL and for new sponsors the Australia Council, proudly supporting City of Newcastle, Costin Roe Consulting and Hunter and Central Coast Development Corporation. Big thanks also to our in-kind partners Greg Tapp Printing, Scion, Newcastle Live, 2NURFM, Lizottes, Carrington Bowling Club, Watt Space, Event Cinemas, NewywithKids, Franky’s Dumplings and Petersons Wines.

We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Awabakal and Worimi peoples, the Newcastle the traditional custodians of the lands on which our festival occurs.

Special Thanks: Board members who have worked tirelessly to make Newcastle Fringe happen - Erin Cullen, Brooke Twyford, Liane Morris, Rebecca Fitzgibbons, Beau Magloire, Declan Dowling.

from the director Fringe Festival. Our active volunteers, David Young, Michelle Payne, Hannah Indigo, Robyn Bailey, Natalie Mitchell, Monique Ewald. Technical Overseer - Shaun Pollington Website - Jason Upton, Resilient Digital Program Booklet Graphic Design - Sarah Cockroft Streaming - Neale Davy

From all of us, enjoy!

Phillip Aughey Director

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2 Daydreamers playhouse Tom Witcombe: Amoral The amazing team from Newcastle Fire + Flow presents a spectacular stage show, set to ignite the imaginations of YOU - the captive audience! A stand up Combining flow art, movement, VR lighting, rolling comedian with EDM tunes, and accompanied by a live DJ, live razor sharp singing and storytelling, Daydreamers Playhouse will writing and transport you to a realm of otherworldly delights. delivery to match, Disenchanted: A Cabaret Tom’s heavily concentrated of Twisted Fairy Tales material doesn’t waste a second, Why was the wolf in Grandma’s bed? Were with jokes at Goldilocks and Cinderella really that innocent? every turn to keep Bang Bang Bandit variety show How were the three pigs involved in the building the audience industry? Find out in Disenchanted: a cabaret of guessing. Tom’s Yeehaw! The Bang Bang Bandit Show is new in fairy tales for adults. debut Fringe show, town and ready to make y’all cheer for more! Fresh from the Sydney Fringe Festival, a Far Amoral, is a blend South Coast tour and season at Bondi Pavilion, of intelligence, Join us at the Betties Saloon where you’ll be absurdity and roaring with laughter and gazing in wonder ‘Disenchanted’ transports you to a 17th Century Parisian salon where you will meet characters audacity. Come as the bandits take the stage to entertain you. and laugh at the Boasting an assortment of acts by local and who amaze, delight and make you laugh out loud. Audiences have said it’s: ‘Sexy, subversive stuff you probably interstate artists, you’ll be treated to burlesque, shouldn’t have! comedy, drag, circus, vaudeville, song and more. and audacious’, ‘Mesmerising’, ‘Spectacularly This is a variety show like no other. Get your good’ and ‘Full of life, laughs, surprises and boots on and scoot to the hottest show in the heartbreaking reality.’ Not to be missed! THE GAL THE BASE wild - and we mean wild - west. THE BASE FRI 9PM TIX THE BASE TIX SAT 6PM TIX FRI 7:30PM TIX $30 THU 9PM $25 THE BASE $30 SAT 7:30PM $20 THE GRAND SAT 9PM SUN 6PM SUN 7:30PM SAT 9:30PM

Zlatko’s Make America Balkan Great Again Cabaret

“Make America Free your Inner Gypsy! Great Again: Fiery, powerful, gentle, The Musical” is a romantic… Zlatko’s tongue-in-cheek Balkan Cabaret brings tribute to the life you all the captivating and career of music of the Romany Donald Trump and gypsies and Balkan his unexpected and The Hunter Wind Quintet folk songs. Zlatko’s controversial rise to rich baritone voice, accompanied by instruments supremacy as the What is a wind quintet? as diverse as guitar, violin, keyboard, clarinet ‘Leader of the Free Flute + oboe + clarinet + bassoon + the mellow and percussion, recreates the exhilarating and World.’ The story tones of the French horn. moving songs of his homeland. Clark’s Nerdy Sydney Musical is told through pop songs and musical theatre The Hunter Wind Quintet is a group of local This ensemble of talented and vibrant musicians tunes from shows including Les Miserables, musicians with a wide range of national and from the Illawarra entrances audiences with the Clark’s Nerdy Sydney Musical is a one-man Wicked, Chicago, The Greatest Showman and international professional experience, ranging spirit and mystery of this ancient culture, from musical featuring that large city, complete Hamilton. from symphony orchestras to small ensembles, poignant love songs to irresistible dance music. with an original score telling a tender love from classical contemporary through jazz and As they share their love of their Romany roots, story amid nerdy scientific and historic facts. Presented by Wu-Hoo Entertainment, an independent theatre company based in the electric. Together they form a unique ensemble the vibrant intensity of true gypsy blood flows Clark Gormley is a lot of things – engineer, Hunter Valley with a mission to produce that exploits the colourful and rich blend of through their music to transform audiences into musician, writer of copious notes and a brave innovative live entertainment. woodwind instruments with French horn. a passionate gypsy troupe. battler of bombastic butcher birds. He is also Virtuosic riffs showcase melodies and harmonies So step out of life as you know it and free your a regular Fringe favourite. of composers from across the ages. inner gypsy with Zlatko’s Balkan Cabaret! Free ROYAL EXCHANGE THE BASE ADAMSTOWN UNITING your Inner Gypsy! TIX TIX WED 6PM FRI 6PM CHURCH HALL TIX THE BASE $20 THU 6PM $25 ROYAL EXCHANGE TIX THU 7:30PM SAT 6PM FRI 6PM SAT 6PM $20 A$20 ROYAL EXCHANGE C$15 SUN 4:30PM 4 SUN 3PM 05 Switch Do the Witchetty’s Hibble Hop Almanac of Everything Hip hop artist, school teacher and counsellor, Hesh Habibullah, HHHH (The Advertiser) is set to bring HHHHH (Global Media Post) his one man HHHHHHHHHH (9 year old audience member) children’s show Do the Hibble A high-energy fairy tale adventure played on a Hop to the 2021 set of milk-crates, bed sheets, and newspaper Newcastle Fringe! swords, using original music and comedy to question the role empathy plays in decision The show combines hip hop, puppetry, rap, making. Switch has left audiences laughing and storytelling, and dance to take children on a journey singing along from Sydney to Edinburgh. to learn about animals, the alphabet, basic counting, and healthy food options. Switch Witchetty is a court fool who can “switch” into others, allowing a unique Do the Hibble Hop is a hip hop experience for perspective into their story. When the Kingdom children that will have them singing and dancing all needs a leader, Switch is forced to use this the way home and maybe right up until bed time... ability, writing the stories of the people of The sorry parents! Almanac of Everything. Before the two kings Suitable for children between the ages of 2 and 10, tear the kingdom apart, Switch must choose – expect an interactive style of performance. hero or fool. THE CREATIVE TIX ARTS SPACE TIX ROYAL EXCHANGE $20 SAT 1:30PM suitable for ages 5+ SAT 11AM/3PM $20 SUN 1:30PM SUN 11AM/3PM

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Harry Jun: Erratic

Erratic is an hour of energetic stand-up comedy. Join Harry as he leapfrogs sporadically from Jawbone is a provocative, bold, dark comedy about silly observations a man on the edge trying to come to terms with his to times that he place in the world. You will laugh. You will cry. You has been outright will laugh again. And you will cry again. disrespected. Written and performed by Alex Lykos - the creator Harry aims to show you that being erratic isn’t of movies Alex & Eve and Me & My Left Brain, necessarily a bad thing. Australia’s Game: The Musical, It’s War, Better Man, Harry Jun is a keen performer who has made The Negotiating Table, Alex & Eve stage trilogy. his way to nearly every comedy gig in Sydney. “It was a sustained, immersive theatre experience, Sometimes he is even asked to perform at them. with lots of laughs” – The Writer’s Room A 2019 RAW Comedy NSW State Finalist, his comedy has been described as “energetic”, “Lykos was the only person on stage, but we “likeable” and “cheeky”. He hopes that one day watched and heard more than a dozen characters it is described as “funny” or “something that his played by him in a fascinating way that made us parents are proud about. ” laugh and made us cry.” - The Greek Herald

FRANKY'S ROYAL EXCHANGE TIX WED 7PM TIX THU 7:30PM $20 THE GRAND $25 FRI 7:30PM THU 9PM SAT 7:30PM FRI 9:30PM SUN 6PM 6 Who let the dyke out? WCB: Sigil

Lauren Budden never thought anything about those weird feelings she sometimes had around women. She grew up in the 80s as a tom boy, married, had two girls to the front kids, and then?... Who let the dyke Sigil is an exploration of musical spell-casting. out? is a hilarious Walking through a surreal projected landscape, and revealing show Girls to the Front is a showcase of poetry films we go with WCB deep into his psyche to reveal about growing up Camino Man sometimes uncomfortable truths but ultimately by women and gender diverse poets with and growing up live performances and original poetic films. cathartic emotions. again. It’s raw, it’s Camino Man is the heart warming and hilarious tale Honest, sometimes confronting and always WCB has been described internationally as funny, it shows how of one man’s journey of self-recovery by walking compelling, don’t miss your chance to hear the neo-soul, R&B, electronica and trip-hop, when life gives you the Camino del Notre and Camino Finisterre inner voices of these amazing artists. “emotional and soulful”, “with distinct lemons you don’t - old pilgrimage trails across northern Spain. moodiness”, but what draws listeners to his Girls on Key was founded in 2014 and provides just make lemonade Along the way he meets a variety of people who music is a haunting assurance in his song for women and gender diverse poets to – you make inadvertently help him to recover his sense of self, writing that perfectly conveys the emotional CREATE and CONNECT. Activities include margarita shots and his sense of adventure, and his smile. poetry readings, publishing opportunities and get hammered. complexities of the human experience. Steve Wilson is Camino Man. an online bookshop. THE CREATIVE ROYAL EXCHANGE THE CREATIVE THE GRAND ARTS SPACE TIX THU 9PM TIX TIX TIX WED 6PM $20 THE GAL $20 ARTS SPACE THU 7:30PM $25 THU 6PM SUN 4:30PM $20 FRI 7:30PM FRI 6PM FRI 9PM SAT 7:30PM SAT 6PM SAT9PM SUN 6PM The Art of Falling in Love Red Orchestra and piss to EME plus special guests

by Eddy Rockefeller Don’t miss your chance to see two of Newcastle’s most exciting and subversive bands together Eddy Rockefeller was born on the mean streets of a private hospital, crawling her way through society to become the abrasive bogan she is today. Red Orchestra She’s raunchy, irreverent and officially unemployed. Red Orchestra are back! With great songwriting, She used to work electro tech and a northern soul feel, perfected in for herself but got Newcastle in the 1980s. Featuring Chris Cooper fired for sexual on electric guitar and Kaz Davies on vocals, Gaybies harassment. With you will soar into the ethereal, discover new over two decades of melodies, new rhythms and a deep sense of life Hotly political and deeply personal, Dean being a professional through original lyrics that not only reflect our Bryant’s Gaybies is a funny and moving piece attention seeker, human condition, they will get you up dancing or of verbatim theatre that tells the story of Eddy has performed wiggling in your chair. children who have grown up with gay parents. to audiences all over Drawn straight from interviews with children the world including piss to EME aged four to forty, these are authentic accounts Adelaide...I know of family life told with humour, honesty and it’s a weird one to Seminal ‘Indie Punk Poets’ piss to EME stole their wisdom. This show will inspire and inform you mention but she had name from graffiti on the dunny wall at BHP steel on what it’s like to grow up in families that a lot of fun there...also works in Newcastle. Their music is in a genre of were once considered hypothetical and now Newcastle, Sydney... its own; a less-is-more eclectic aesthetic with are controversial. other places... a narrative of punk poetry and twisted humour for commenting on politics, relationships, Presented as a semi-staged reading. Known for her affable social issues and suburban life experiences. nature, Eddy is not Presented by Jopuka Productions Hits including ‘Chook in the Fridge’, ‘Plectrum’, afraid to tell you her Punk Cabaret with piss Red Orchestra and Directed by Joshua Maxwell with Music by to EME and special special guests supported and ‘Pub Brat’ with crowd faves ‘I Hate You’ deep dark secrets, in guests; supported by by piss to EME Quinn Carter. Red Orchestra and ‘Geriatric Stomp’, are as comfy as thongs fact she has to, she THE GRAND DOUBLE BILL THE CREATIVE DOUBLE BILL ARTS SPACE THU 6PM between ya toes in a bindi patch. Suitable for youth audiences + TIX can’t afford therapy. TIX FRI 6PM TIX CARRINGTON $20 FRI 9PM $10 SAT 6PM TIX THE BASE S$10 BOWLING CLUB SAT 9PM S$10 SUN 9PM ROYAL EXCHANGE THU 6PM F25 SUN 4:30PM SUN 4:30PM F25 8 0 99 Nerds & Music

Nerds & Music consists of two cyborgs assembled by some deranged Moth mechanic in his back Sebastian is a terminally unpopular fifteen-year- shed in old suburban kid, with an overactive imagination Newcastle. and an obsession with anime and death. His Nerds & Music will perform several of their original only friend, Claryssa, is an emo Wiccan art-freak quirky songs interspersed with a few hundred of barely one rung higher than Sebastian on the their inspired jokes. Audiences will be rendered social ladder. What starts as just another night dumbstruck by their weirdness, witticisms, drinking down at the cricket nets soon gives wordplay, and alliteration. way to an ecstatic vision that leaves Sebastian Clark Gormley and Wayne Thompson are Nerds unconscious, their friendship left in ruin. & Music. With three albums under their belts and Written by Declan Green countless live gigs (including some with audiences), Presented as part of Jopuka’s Rocket Nerds & Music have perfected the art of dubiously Fuel Program. witty yet always wordy and absurd music.

THE DUNGEON TIX FRI 6PM TIX ROYAL EXCHANGE $20 SAT 6PM $20 SAT 6PM SUN 6PM

Samson

Essie, Beth, Sid and Rabbit are growing up at the arse end of the world. Boredom, decay and violence plague their lives. The accidental death of a friend has torn apart all their assumptions about loyalty, love and life. And when a new kid comes to town with his own secrets and baggage, their fragile equilibrium faces a fresh test. Samson fizzes with truth; it is brutal yet gentle, funny yet sad, young yet old. At its heart is the startling idea that the death of someone important can be the start of something excellent. Julia-Rose Lewis’s Samson, is a big-hearted and darkly beautiful play which offers a window into the world of young Australians today. Presented as part of Jopuka’s Rocket Fuel Program.

THE DUNGE0N TIX FRI 7:30PM $20 SAT 7:30PM SUN 7:30PM

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Our mission is to support artists and to showcase performance and art in all its forms. Workshops offer children, adults and performers the opportunity to develop interests and skills that add to the creative fabric of our society. Marketing for Women’s Improv Performing Artists Presented by Lou Chapman Pamper yourself with Jonathan Llewellyn and discover your Got a fabulous show but wonderfulnesses! Laugh don’t know how to find yourself silly with new your audience or sell it to a friends. Empowering venue? This workshop will women to promote social give you practical take-aways about and political change as an how to market your performing arts event. ensemble. For beginners to professionals. Jonathan Louise is a creative producer draws on 20 years’ experience in marketing for Newcastle Theatre the performing arts for regional, metropolitan Company, Newcastle Fringe and national audiences with no budget to & MicroTheatre. Louise is big budgets. Interactive and responsive to stoked to be ‘on the bus’ for The your questions, dive into digital, get tips for TIX WATT SPACE Road To Tibooburra stage show the traditional, and learn how to apply those A$20 GALLERY drama games to your marketing campaigns. S$18 THU 10:30AM and ‘in the bath’ for Mad Bitches 3pm will be at workshop A second Note: sells out. held if the 1pm workshop -12PM Be ready with your elevator pitch about Inc @ Newcastle Fringe 2021. WATT SPACE your event. TIX $20 GALLERY FRI 1PM ALL ABOARD Transitioning from Theatre to Film – Trash Art Workshop The Hurdles Presented by Trash Pixie Create an amazing upcycled Presented by Alex Lykos artwork to take home. Fun THE STATION Prolific Sydney playwright for all ages. Alex Lykos will breakdown THE LOCKERROOM the process in making his first TIX $6 @THE STATION feature film Me & My Left Brain SAT 11:15AM @thestationnewcastle | newcastlestation.com.au AND 12:45PM which he wrote, directed and starred in. He will discuss how he applied his theatre skills (e.g. working with actors) but was challenged by others (on-set, Kid’s theatre post-production). Don’t miss this TIX THE CREATIVE $10 ARTS SPACE awesome opportunity to hear workshop with Bree SAT 1PM from Alex about his experience. Presented by Bree Cunningham Beginner’s HulaHooping Kid’s Theatre Workshop with Bree is an inclusive and supportive space to help Presented by Hannah Indigo kids develop confidence Hoops in acting skills such as Enjoy 45 min with the expression and movement. amazing Hannah Indigo Guided by Bree’s extensive Hoops as she takes you theatre experience, students through the basics of will learn to develop hulahoop movement. characters, work as a THE LOCKERROOM Suitable for ages 7+ group and mostly TIX $10 @THE STATION importantly, have fun! SAT 10:15AM TIX THE STATION $7 SUN 4:30PM

20 21 FRINGE FOR FAMILIES @ THE STATION ENTERTAINMENT Red Orchestra Lauren Budden

Newcastle Fringe is very excited to be able to offer a weekend of free entertainment suitable for all the family as a highlight of this year’s festival, thanks to the generous support of Hunter and Central Coast Development Corporation and The Station. The weekend features street artists, fringe artists doing teasers & tasters of their fringe shows, markets, food trucks, live music, a cultural marketplace to learn about all the amazing creative arts Newcastle Fire & Flow in Newcastle and the festival closing party and award ceremony with MC & DJ Maynard. As well Performers from Newcastle as all this free stuff, we’ve got a few fun workshops that will appeal to the kids and maybe their Fire & Flow will roam The parents as well. Red Orchestra, original Station to entertain everyone. songwriting with live electric You never know who will turn guitar and great vocal work up. Are there faeries at The Hannah Indigo Hoops will get you dancing or Station? Or are mermaids A fringe favourite, Hannah wiggling, whatever the covid Lauren Budden grew up in real? Come along to find out. Indigo Hoops is one talented may be.. Chris Cooper on the 80s as a tom boy. She Don’t miss Newcastle Fire & weekend PROGRAM local lady who will roam guitar and Kaz Davies on never thought anything about Flow’s fringe performance the crowds, entertaining vocals. These two soar into these those weird feelings she Daydreamer’s Playhouse on both young and old. Don’t music through the ethereal, sometimes had around woman. Saturday at the Gallipoli Club 9AM HOMEGROWN MARKETS OPEN 4PM – 10PM HUNTER ARTS NETWORK ART BAZAAR miss Hannah’s Hoolahoop finding new melodies, new She married, had two kids, Workshop on Sunday! rhythms and a deep sense and then? Lauren will give us a 9.30AM - 11.30AM NEWCASTLE FIRE & FLOW 4PM – 10PM FOOD TRUCKS of life through lyrics, that teaser of her fringe show, Who SAT 9:30AM - 11:30AM SAT 11AM - 2PM 10AM KIDS’ THEATRE WORKSHOP WITH BREE $10PP AGES 7+ 4PM JULIE MCVEY reflect our human condition. let the dyke out? - a hilarious show about growing up and 11AM – 1PM THE WISH DRAGON BY CURIOUS LEGENDS 4.30PM BEGINNER’S HULA HOOPING WITH Don’t miss their shows at HANNAH INDIGO HOOPS $7PP AGES 7+ The Base and the growing up again. See the full 11AM – 2PM HANNAH INDIGO HOOPS 5PM UKASTLE’S UKESTRA Carrington Bowlo. show at The Grand Hotel. 11AM – 2PM LOU CHAPMAN - SPOKEN WORD MADE IN NEWCASTLE PRESENTS, A STREET SHOW 5PM – 10PM FESTIVALINC. HANNAH INDIGO HOOPS, RED ORCHESTRA - GUITAR + VOCAL THE PRETTY AMAZING JONO, SHAUN SWADLING & BRAVISSIMO HOOPS. The Wish Lou Chapman ANNA FORSYTH - POETRY 5.35PM NERDS & MUSIC Dragon is a 9am to 2pm 9am to 4pm to 10pm 4pm to Writer, actor, director and graduate LAUREN BUDDEN - COMEDY 6.10PM BREEZE stunning creation Sunday 21 March Sunday of New York City’s Atlantic Theatre 11AM & 12PM TRASH ART WORKSHOP WITH TRASH PIXIE comprising 3 Saturday 20 March Saturday Company, Lou Chapman knows $6PP ALL AGES 7.10PM VIRAGOS giant puppets, how to entertain a crowd. Louise is 8.10PM MAYNARD & FESTIVAL AWARDS/CLOSING with massive a creative producer for Newcastle paws that Theatre Company, Newcastle Fringe & – please note, times are approximate encompass the MicroTheatre. Louise is stoked to be ‘ audience within *Note – Newcastle Fringe Festival Inc. reserves the right to alter the program if required on the bus’ for The Road To its grasp. Curious Tibooburra stage show and For details of our family friendly workshops at The Station see page 20. Acting, craft & hulahooping - don't miss out! Legends is a ‘in the bath’ for Mad Bitches Inc @ theatre company Newcastle Fringe 2021 not to mention that believes her Women’s Improv workshop. MARKETS Hunter Arts Network The Newcastle Fringe The Wish Dragon by Curious Legends in the inherent Art Bazaar Cultural Marketplace wonder of the world around us, and the importance of sharing this with audiences young and old. Watch as The Wish Dragon comes to life adding to the excitement and beauty of this sunday live and free special day. SAT 11AM - 1PM Julie McVey

Julie is an Australian singer/ Teasers & Tasters songwriter with a folk sound creating songs Food Trucks A small selection of fringe performers will give the audience blending noir/pop, folk/pop Dance of Life Belly Dance a taste and a teaser of their fringe shows. If it’s not too late, and moody ethereal vibes, Artists, designers, jewellers and There will be the usual layered with smoky vocals. As part of the fringe offering at food trucks associated with you might be inspired to go see them perform their full show. Homegrown Markets craft people from the Hunter Teasers & Tasters will take place on Saturday 20/3 between region, together make up the The Station, we have Homegrown Markets on The original Homegrown 11am and 2pm. Hunter Arts Network. Their invited creative arts schools Saturday and on Sunday SUN 4PM market has been a huge hit SAT 11AM - 2PM regular art bazaar kicks off for and practitioners to showcase evening there will be a small with Newy locals. The iconic 2021 with an exciting evening their wares within the market. selection of food trucks so that Newcastle train station is the Find out all the details of we can all enjoy a picnic to live market as part of the Newcastle The Ukastle Ukestra still perfect venue and comes alive drama, dance, art, music music, the street show festival Ukastle Ukestra Fringe Festival. Anna Forsyth is a writer and editor from holds the heart of the on market days. The tracks classes for kids and/or adults. and the closing night party. Anna Forsyth NZ, currently working as an itinerant Ukestra movement in are filled with handmade, SUN 4PM -10PM There may even be some pop- event producer travelling around Newcastle. It has had as eco focused goodness + the up performances! Australia. She is the founder of Girls on many as 40 people come positive vibes are next level! SAT 9AM - 2PM Key, a feminist poetry organisation. Don’t along (crazy!), and very SAT 9AM - 2PM miss Girls to the Front at the CAS on occasionally drops to 17ish Sunday - a showcase of poetry films by (rare). Don’t miss your women and gender diverse poets with chance to see them perform live performance and original poetic films. as one of the highlights of Sunday’s program. SUN 5PM

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www.costinroe.com.au Mad Bitches Inc Victor Martinez Jane Austen: Parada The Good, fever with Lily Guerrero the Bad and Don’t miss two legends of Latin the Ugly together for Newcastle Fringe! Victor Martinez Parada is recognised as one of the world’s finest classical Latin-American avant-garde guitarists. From It is a testament to Jane Austen’s observational Santiago, Chile, the accomplished performer sensibilities, wit and capability with the written and composer has an extensive list of music in word that over two centuries after her death, his repertoire, ranging from classical and South her novels continue to be loved by the masses Visceral. Unworldly. Repelling. Absurd. American folk to avant-garde. By listening to his and brought to the screen. For every beloved The pandemic, brash and bamboozling, has fantasies on pop tunes such as Stevie Wonder’s ‘You interpretation (Colin Firth as Mr Darcy!) or forced us to reconsider many aspects of our lives; Are The Sunshine Of My Life’, Daniel Alomia Roble’s reinterpretation (who doesn’t love Clueless), especially our regard for community. Whether an ‘El Condor Pasa’, Laura Branigan’s ‘Self-Control’ and there is an equally unusual (Pride and Prejudice oligarch or an outlaw, there’s something here for Mad Bitches Inc. is an all female cabaret show with Harold Arlen’s ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’ you and Zombies) or occasionally awful adaptation (a you. Fever will showcase a sci-fi utopian realm a generous helping of wild performance poetry and will understand not only how music has shaped him Mormon Pride & Prejudice?). cutting edge theatre. Curated by Helen Hopcroft, but also how he has shaped music. He is a musician’s within a dystopian society, explored through who once spent a year dressed as Marie Antoinette, Join the Hunter Branch of the Jane Austen performance art, dance, fashion and comedy. musician who plays from the heart. ‘The Chilean Society Australia, as they explore three works Mad Bitches Inc. stars some of the most talented Hendrix’ – Syke On Stage. Sprinkled with apple cider vinegar, rat poison and bunny boilers around: cabaret artist Sophie Cook, inspired by Jane Austen and why they are Good, x-ray vision - what do you get? Fever. Lily Guerrero, a versatile singer and songwriter in the Bad or downright Ugly. actor Lou Chapman, bellydancer Tahira, Christina Join Slayge and the Grotty Gang (Typecast Zero, vibrant Sydney Latin music scene, plays cajon, guitar Presenters: Robberds, Simona Graham, Sally Denmead, Camille Spike Vicious, Dr. Pik & Fynn Feral) as they deliver Adams, Nina Katzmarski, Brooke King and poet Pip and charango. Formerly with the Award-winning Carolyn Cossgrove - Clueless Show Band Salsa Kingz, now a soloist, Lily brings her an epic show where all costumes, props and Sheehan Lowther, with Dusseldorf-based playwright Leanne Garvey - Mansfield Park materials are upcycled and created from curbside and director Fiona Leonard. Audiences will leave folkloric touch to a range of cover Ashley Poole - Pride & Prejudice material and original compositions. ADAMSTOWN UNITING clean-ups. They will show you how good can come wanting to start a revolution! CHURCH HALL ROYAL EXCHANGE TIX ADAMSTOWN UNITING from the ghastly. THE CREATIVE TIX ‘My passion is for the culture and THU 6PM TIX WED 9PM $30 FREE CHURCH HALL TIX ARTS SPACE $30 FRI 9PM life of the song.’ THE GAL SAT 3:30PM $20 THU 7:30PM SUN 7:30PM FRI 6PM FRI 7:30PM SAT 7:30PM

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Newcastle Fringe usually attracts a number of the ground? international artists but with travel restrictions in place, we’ve done the next best thing and invited Robert Edmonds them to stream with us. is a writer/comic performer whose poetry has been If you’ve missed out on seeing one of our live shows or fancy some of these fabulous international published many times and has been nominated for offerings below, then get your friends together and #bingenewyfringe with your own private and won prizes, but Gravity Doesn’t Always Work is fringe fest! his first collection. Single ticket prices listed. FRINGE SIX PASS to view 6 shows highlighted $55 (25% off) Clark Gormley is a writer/singer/comedian who has performed one-man comedy shows and written three Not for the Cultched International: Safe is a stage play that shows a albums worth of songs for Nerds and Music, but his slice of Sister Daisy’s life, a nun poetry collection Not What You Think deserves a trapped in a house on the top A down to earth presentation of original authentic bigger audience. Dalloway by Dyad Productions, UK of a mountain, in the middle of bush poetry and yarns. Funny, sad and a bit Genre: Drama Watch them perform their best work of a lifetime TIX nowhere, during the pandemic era. different. No long and boring bits! Please leave your Rating: All audiences $18 A post-apocalyptic scenario that over 45 fun-filled and story-packed minutes! politically correct hat at the door. Release Year: 2019 corners this young girl of faith who Only $5! is trying to take care of the last David Melville showcases this wonderful artform, From the award-winning people left in her small community. Winner of the Australian Bush Poets Award (ABPA) Plenty of change left over to buy their $10 pocket creators of Orlando, Jane She faces her fears as death and Frank Daniels Award, Tamworth 2020 books!…if they ever succeed in launching them! Eyre: An Autobiography, the end looms increasing doubt of Austen’s Women, The Time the existence of God. “Safe” is the Machine and Christmas story of the pandemic yet the word CARRINGTON ‘virus’ is only said twice in the whole play. TIX THE BASE TIX Gothic… $10 SAT 4:30PM $5 BOWLING CLUB SUN 11AM 1923: The War is over. While The main themes of Safe are the fear of solitude, failure, Clarissa Dalloway prepares abandonment and the importance of community in a world a party in Westminster, where individuals are increasingly isolated. The discovery Septimus Smith is diagnosed that unity is strength. with shell-shock, their memories and dreams magically intertwining with Bad Ass by Tash York (FRINGE SIX PASS) those of 15 other disparate Genre: Cabaret TIX souls. Conjuring the hopes $15 Rating: Mature language and regrets of post-war London, Dyad’s adaptation of Virginia Release year 2018 Woolf’s celebrated map of hearts, minds and memories offers a compellingly feminist response to the aftermath of the First "Whether it’s wielding a bat to World War. Written and directed by Elton Townend Jones. the patriarchy, challenging life’s Performed by Rebecca Vaughan. norms, or just cussing like a sailor, Tash York is on a journey to find As this is being streamed using a virtual reality format, use the her inner Badass. mouse or trackpad on your device to move around the stage, zoom in and out, and get close to the action. Loud, powerful and uncompromising, these are Powered by LIVR Player from LIVR. the powers a true badass does HHHHH‘Intelligently adapted, beautifully performed... possess. But sometimes it’s hard entrancing’ (British Theatre Guide) to find your inner badass when HHHHH’Richly re-imagined, exquisitely evocative' (Edinburgh you’re hungover AF, covered in Guide) chicken nuggets and too anxious to go outside. Star of the award-winning, show Adulting (Bondi Feast 2018), York and her badass band bring you parodied songs, Safe by Federico Maria Giansanti, FMG improvised raps, hilarious true stories and a whole lot of heart. If you’ve ever had a panic attack while having sex, Productions, Rome Italy (FRINGE SIX PASS) have been overly emotional in a children’s film or just think way too much about stationery, then this show is for you. Genre: Drama TIX Release year 2020 $10 “York is a force to be reckoned with. Open about mental health, she uses the power of cabaret, music, and “We're the FMG, an Italian independent theatrical production performance to break the stigma around its discussion.” - company. In August we presented for the first time our latest Weekend Notes play titled Safe during the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival (Salt “The universe doesn’t know it yet, but York really is one of Lake City) and we won two awards: "Best of F.F." and "Audience the best cabaret artists in the business. One worthy of the Choice Award". biggest stages in the world.” - What Did She Think Sold Out Edinburgh Fringe 2018 Adelaide Fringe Best Cabaret Weekly Award 2018 33 Newcastle Fringe shows: Fresh from the Sydney WCB has been described internationally as neo-soul, R&B, Fringe Festival, a electronica and trip-hop, “emotional and soulful”, “with Fever by Slayge and The Grotty Gang Far South Coast TIX distinct moodiness”, but what draws listeners to his music Genre: Performance art TIX Camino Man by Steve Wilson $12 tour and season is a haunting assurance in his song writing that perfectly Rating: Mature language $10 Genre: Theatre (FRINGE SIX PASS) at Bondi Pavilion, conveys the emotional complexities of the Release year: 2021 Rating: Ages 15+ ‘Disenchanted’ human experience. transports you to a Release year: 2021 17th Century Parisian

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