If you’re one of those people who takes a glance at the offerings in this year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival and just throws up your hands at the artsy overload, perhaps the answer is to just pick one location and focus your attention there? For the city’s southsiders, an obvious option is the So Soiree pop-up.
Returning as part of the city-wide Fringe Festival, the So Soiree Fringe Garden is a veritable charcuterie board of cabaret, comedy, circus and more in and around the Ukiyo Circus tent in Grattan Gardens, Prahran. Over the 10-day duration of the event, there will be circus from Casus Creations (Apricity), Martine Howard and Katie Cawthorne (Full Disclosure) and YUCK Circus (NAUGHTIES); cabaret from A Slightly Isolated Dog (Jekyll and Hyde); and drag for days, spearheaded by the perennially popular Dolly Diamond (hosting a Rather Large Variety Hour), and also including Leather Lungs: Shut Up and Sing! and Granny Bingo.
