Brisbane Fringe Festival 2015

Overview

When a festival includes a Beyonce dance session, a workshop on printmaking with pasta machines and a heaven and hell themed ball among its lineup, you know it's not your usual kind of event. And when that festival has the word "fringe" in its title, you don't want it to be.

In fact, the strange and sublime is what the Brisbane Fringe Festival is all about in its fourth year — and the offbeat and anarchic too. Given that their program includes a curves and claws burlesque show, a mimed love story and hypothetical murals as well, it seems they know what they're doing.

Of course, celebrating weird and wonderful art — be it music, comedy, theatre, writing, poetry, circus, cabaret, visual art or creative workshops — is only one part of the Brisbane Fringe Festival equation. Being surprised and entertained is a given; however the event's real aim is to showcase the full extent of Brisbane's diverse and cutting edge artistic community to new audiences. Now, that truly is a festival like no other.