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Marg Is All Ears | Cyrus Art Lounge, October 1-17
If you’re looking for something short, charming and unusual, Marg Is All Ears has you covered. Here, you won’t sit in an audience, you’ll spend one-on-one time with Marg. “She asks a series of questions, you have a conversation, she gives you a cup of tea,” says Abrahams. “It’s like a big, warm, gentle hug.”
Apocrypha is on at Darebin Arts Centre, October 11-19.
Speed: The Movie, The Play | Prahran Town Hall car park, October 9-20
This one is exactly what it sounds like. Remember Speed, the movie? Well, now it’s a play and you can watch it, and take part in it, on a bus parked in a town hall car park. Returning after a sold-out season at last year’s festival, this one is quite interactive. “Someone is cast as Sandra Bullock, someone’s cast as Keanu … it’s a rollicking, wild adventure and it’s very silly.”
Gikilangangu Wergaia | Trades Hall Common Rooms, October 2-3
Performed by Alice Skye, James Howard and Michael Julian, Gikilangangu Wergaia is a night of music and stories performed in Wergaia. “It’s a kind of language revitalisation project,” says Abrahams. Ahead of the event, Howard “recorded the stories and sound of Country itself”. With Julian on percussion and Skye on vocals, the ensemble is coming together for two nights only.
Beowulf: Reforged Waterside Forge, October 2-12
It’s exactly what the title promises: Beowulf performed at a functioning forge. In this unusual and site-specific take, actor, poet and Beowulf scholar Felix Nobis performs his translation of the epic poem.
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COOKED: Hot Nights – Ari Angkasa’s Suspicious Fish Federation Square, Oct 3 and 17
At the heart of this year’s Fringe is a series called COOKED, which centres on a public barbecue. “The whole premise of the COOKED program is that it’s the intersection of food and art,” explains Abrahams. Food forms a major theme of this year’s festival because it “brings people together to celebrate difference”. Every hour on the hour from noon a selection of free food is made available, and on different days and evenings performances take place. One of these is Hot Nights – Ari Angkasa’s Suspicious Fish, in which a soap opera is performed in real time. “There’s live music, there’s live performance, and there’s food.”
Melbourne Fringe runs from October 1 to 20.
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