Acts to watch out for

This Irish troupe won Best Dance Act at this year’s Adelaide Fringe for Anybody Waitin’, a funny show about waiting for something to happen.

Adelaide Fringe 2012 Best abaret Act winners Bernadette Byrne and Victor Victoria captivate and titillate with risque original songs and character comedy.

The outrageous all-male circus presents a contortion of vaudeville, burlesque, dance and acrobatics and is led by the love child of the Ringmaster and Bearded Lady.

English solo performer Lucy Hopkins won this year’s Prague Fringe Creative Award for her show about ego, starring a medley of characters and performed using only a scarf.

From the creators of 2012 hit Miskien comes a South African political thriller set in a world where Animal Farm meets Reservoir Dogs.

The drag queen with the opera-trained baritone voice steps out from La Soiree to his ride from Radiohead to Shirley Bassey.

The eye-popping New York burlesque duo present trapeze, striptease, acrobatics and many compromising banana-bending situations.

OTHER FRINGE DWELLERS...

Edinburgh Fringe and Adelaide Fringe hits Comic Strip present a night of stand-up and striptease from burlesque guests and the some of the funniest comedians from the Fringe.

London’s Mahwaff Theatre Company presents Ben Woolf’s Edinburgh Fringe and West End hit comic play about a brilliant Eastern European who looks for work and a new life in London.

Award-winning Irish actor and writer Pat Kinevane’s play is the story of a homeless man, Tino McGoldrig, who once had splendid things before losing his mind.

London-based musical comedy duo Frisky and Mannish return to Perth with their latest show Extra-Curricular Activities.

Circus and physical theatre producers Strut and Fret revive silent movie-era slapstick through the elegant acrobatics and buffoonery of Tom Flanagan.