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Magnus Danger Magnus stars in all-new KABOOM! science show at Perth Fringe Festival.

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Magnus Danger Magnus’ show impresses 10-year-old reviewer

Self-described ‘world’s stupidest genius’ Magnus Danger Magnus took to the stage in the all-new Kaboom! science show at Perth Fringe Festival, and what a spectacle it was!

Clem Chapman

Briefs' Dirty Laundry.

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Fringe favourite boylesque troupe back in Perth with new show

Jessie Stoelwinder

After being starved of live entertainment for most of the year, the line-up of circus, cabaret, comedy, music and theatre on offer in the 2021 Fringe World is here to drag us out of the doldrums.

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Fringe World to deliver feast of fun in 2021

After being starved of live entertainment for most of the year, the line-up of circus, cabaret, comedy, music and theatre on offer in the 2021 Fringe World is here to drag us out of the doldrums.

Jay Hanna

Thomas 'Satan' Brown.

GHOSTS EMERGEPremiumLive theatre in a Perth cemetery on Valentine’s Day?

Genrefonix’s latest ghoulish performance at East Perth Cemetery put a smile on everyone’s face despite the eerie setting among some of our city’s pioneer generation

Michael Burgos fell flat in his one-man show The Eulogy.

Fringe WorldPremiumOne man, six characters, zero laughs

We are gathered here today to remember the life of American comedian Michael Burgos ... who died on stage on Saturday night.

Simon Collins

A Special Day stars Mexican actors Antonio Vega and Ana Graham.

A SPECIAL DAYPremiumFascist backdrop to special human drama

Inspired by Uno Giornata Particolare — the 1977 Italian movie starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni — A Special Day is a kitchen sink drama played out against the backdrop of fascism.

Identical twins Benjamin (Beej) and James Stevenson.

TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONEPremiumStevenson Experience ups musical comedy ante

The Stevenson Experience Takes One to Know One fails to offer anything fresh, instead relying mostly on fat and penis jokes, and expletive laden insults to each other

Former Masterchef contestant Ben Bullock.

PRISON FOOD CLASSAt Least There’ll Be Food a good time-filler

Having spent the past two years travelling halfway across the world on motorbike, you’d expect some curious stories from former Masterchef contestant and homegrown talent Ben Bullock.

Zoe Coombs Marr

TEENAGE TALESPremiumAwkward teenage narrative shows potential

Zoe Coombs Marr has been thinking a lot about teenagers. Not in a weird way.

Joseph Simons as schoolboy Jacob.

DANCE LESSONPremiumClassroom lesson anything but boring

100 Years Of The History Of Dance As Told By One Man In 60 Minutes With An Energetic Group Finale is the perfect chance to brush up on your knowledge of the most influential choreographers.

Chris Henry.

WHITE, STRAIGHT AND SINGLEPremiumComedian delves into difficult topics

Scottish comedian Chris Henry knows he is not a minority, but uses his new show, FLAIR, to shine a light on everyone’s uniqueness.

Your host for the evening Auntie Boo.

VARIETY QUEENCabaret show with a mishmash of performers

Auntie Boo’s Variety Diner is a fun but occasionally uneven show mix of burlesque, acrobatics and comedy.

Fringe World stalwart Louise Fitzhardinge returns to Fringe for the fourth time.

COMMA SUTRAPremiumGrammar nerd returns to Fringe World

For sheer brilliant scripting and a night of delightful amusement, go see Comma Sutra.

Tom Gleeson.

LOGIE GOLDPremiumNo need to Lighten Up with lack of jibes

Tom Gleeson's latest stand up show Lighten Up does not go as hard as you might expect.

Esther Longhurst and Jessica Messenger have been performing new versions of their show Sense and Spontaneity since 2014.

AUSTEN INSPIRED SHOWPremiumClassic author’s tales focal point of Fringe show

Esther Longhurst and Jessica Messenger have been verging on the impossible since 2014 with their show Sense and Spontaneity, where each performance is a new comedy in the style of a Jane Austen story.

Adam Hall and the Velvet Playboys supply “one big Disney jam session”.

DISNEY MAGICPremiumBop, sway and sing along to childhood nostalgia

I have never been able to sit still during an Adam Hall and the Velvet Playboys show and this year’s Fringe World offering The Music of Disney is no exception.

360 ALLSTARS

STREET CIRCUSStreet-inspired circus flips genre on its head

Cast aside all your visions of a circus before watching the 360 ALLSTARS. There are no clowns, flying trapeze artists or juggling acts.

YUCK Circus performs at the Woodside Pleasure Gardens until February 16.

YUCK CIRCUSPremiumAll-female circus troupe makes Fringe World return

Don’t fix what ain’t broke seems to be the mantra of the YUCK Circus troupe.

False advertising or a vaccine for the virus? The billboard outside the Miners Arms Hotel, Northampton.

Inside CoverPremiumWA pub offers $5 Coronas as ‘virus vaccine’

Miners Arms Hotel in Northampton is committed to seeing the playful side of this potential pandemic, advertising a “virus vaccine” that looks and tastes suspiciously like a famous Mexican beer.

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Nat Damena.

KEEP IT CLEANPremiumComedy show keeps it clean

Clean Comedy session a feel-good mix of contrasting comedic styles.

Chris Henry.

KIDS COMEDY PICKPremiumFart jokes avoided at kid’s comedy show

The three comedians at the Best of Edinburgh Kids Comedy act show that stand-up comedy for children has come a long way from fart jokes.

Comedian Akmal Saleh.

COMEDY HIT AND MISSPremiumGala great way to see variety of comedians in one night

Stand-up comedy can be hit and miss – and the Sunset Veranda Comedy Gala is a good representation of that.

Simone Craddock

100 YEARS OF BLUESPremiumShow fails in promise of a schooling from Deep South

Like a conversation with Grandma in her later years – she means well but where the hell was she going with it all? – the musical journey promised at 100 Years of Crazy Blues left me hanging.

Sirqus Alfon.

TRIO EMBRACE TECHPremiumWii will rock you at the digital circus

Call it tech-cabaret, digital circus or an 8-bit variety hour. Whatever it is, Sirqus Alfon moves clowning out of tents and into the age of Instagram.