TOURING HUB

Erskineville

PRESENTED

In Collaboration With 7am

Bringing smash hit shows from the international Fringe circuit to Sydney, Touring Hub returns for its eighth year. It is the best place to check out what’s going on around Australia and across the globe.

The 2023 program features award-winning productions from the USA, New Zealand, Poland, the UK and all across Australia. With three shows a night, a courtyard bar and one of the best vibes around, we recommend you settle in and make a night of it. Expect laugh out loud comedy, mind bending experiences, jaw-dropping theatre, and moments you won’t forget in a hurry.

Monsters Of The American Cinema Usa

Award-winning drama of a widowed, gay, Black man and his straight white, teen stepson bonding over 'creature features'. “...Stunning...sharply written...”— Vanguard Culture

WINNER — San Diego International Fringe Festival Artist Pick 2019

WINNER — Young-Howze Theatre Journal Stage Writing of the Year 2023

DANCE 19—23

LOVE/LOVE/LOVE/

LOVE/LOVE

NZ

Tessa Redman introduces herself to Eora with a blatant, conversational dance about the glory, madness and intensity of what it means to fall hopelessly into romance. Welcome to Love: Tessa’s POV.

“Redman utterly abandons herself in hilarious, breathtaking fashion.” — Theatre Review NZ

“A high octane and purposeful performance.”

— Stuff NZ

WINNER — SYNZ Tour Ready Award, NZ Fringe 2023

THEATRE 12—16 SEP

The Mother Poland

An absurd solo piece adapted from an advocate of the ‘Theatre of Pure Form’. The portrait of grotesquely black exploration of the relationship between mother and son with the vampires lurking within flesh and blood relations. Performed in Polish with English subtitles.

“The artistic activity of Jolanta Juszkiewicz is uncompromising. She tirelessly examines the delicate matter stretched between man and history, fate of an individual and collective one.” — Mateusz Kanabrodzki

THEATRE 12—16 SEP

JON BENNETT’S PLAYING WITH MEN

AUSTRALIA VIA USA

Fringe favourite Jon Bennett was once a great junior footballer until he started playing with men. REAL men.

“A tour de force who will make you laugh–to tears.

” — Otakuno Culture

“Side-splittingly funny and scathingly self-critical, it’s a valuable work that probes at toxic masculinity and the culture of machismo.” — CVTV

My Cult And I

Colin Ebsworth was raised in a cult and his parents were matched in a mass wedding. This is the story of his life, family, and cult that brought it together.

“Refreshing, real, comical, raw, cathartic and captivating”  — Fourth Wall Media, 2022

“Hilarious and harrowing”— The West 2022

THEATRE 19—23 SEP OOL UK

Max, of multi-award winning Second Body, is about to perform the perfect show. It will answer all your questions. At long last you'll be happy. The question is — when will it begin?

Combining live music, storytelling and theatre this new piece examines the origins of life.

WORLD PREMIERE

Accessible, inclusive and all round marvellous

CRIPS & CREEPS

COMEDY

An inclusive comedy showcase that celebrates difference.

AN EVENING OF FILMS WITH EMILY DASH

FILM

A collection of short films curated by queer, disabled artist and advocate Emily Dash.

The Reckoning

THEATRE

This poetic theatre piece performed in Auslan questions who gets to tell, who gets heard and who gets silenced.

Death In The Pantheon

THEATRE

A murder mystery/comedy set amongst the Greek gods.

Sydney Fringe Presents