Ladies and gentlemen! Girls and boys! Step right up to South Bank’s Cultural Forecourt and discover what exists beyond The Carnival’s Edge during Brisbane Festival 2009! Delve into an outstanding programme of divine comedy, sneaky sideshow,...

A twisted all male revue!  A shiny new speakeasy performance night with an all male rag tag team of varying makes and models from the fiercely camp to the fearfully masculine.     

Robot/Lion Tour 2009 Die Roten Punkte (the utterly dysfunctional pairing of German siblings Otto and Astrid Rot) became an instant household name in Europe after topping the charts in Germany and Poland.  Straight from triumphs in Edinburgh and...

Side-splitting giggles and magnificent circus tricks!  A hysterically silly, but completely captivating proper, comedy show for children and anyone crazy for top laughs without the rude bits! Playing host to a spectacular collection of outstanding...

It’s a head-on collision between smokin’ and  swingin’ Latin sounds and virtuosic expert-tease when 9-piece Miguel meet a quartet of La La Parlour vixens in this collaborative combustion of live music, circus and burlesque. Following...

On the Flipside!, developed and devised by the young circus performers, is an entertaining and humorous look at the upside down, backside up and inside out way of life. The performers aged between eleven and eighteen years demonstrate what you can do...

Magic Roustabout, lounge wizard and snake-oil seller Paul Zenon proudly presents a superb selection of short and sweet sensations: freaks, geeks and ne’er-do-wells celebrating a multitude of sins!  

Mind-boggling, baffling – and utterly compelling.  Maverick showman Philip Escoffey challenges what you believe to be true.  What interests Philip is not whether people can read minds or not (as luck would have it, it seems he can),...

Fresh from a sell-out season at the Edinburgh Fringe, Triple J’s Sam Simmons and star of The Urban Monkey with Murray Foote, joins The Carnival’s Edge for three nights only! Sam Simmons is the multi award-winning maestro of suburban absurdism. ...

On a chair piled high with junk, a surreal universe awaits. From Montreal, Canada comes a hilarious fusion of shadow puppetry and physical theatre. In each scene, the audience is invited behind the visual trickery, to witness the making of the shadow...

A story of liars, card cheats and love cunningly told by multi-award winning stand-up comedian Lawrence Leung “Choose your own Adventure” ABC TV. Part expose, part confession, a devilishly witty show-and-tell about swindles, hitting the...

Wordlessly conjuring the heart-rending poignancy of Buster Keaton, he mingles it with mischief and a piercing wit that leaves the audience enraptured.  Mime with noise, stand-up with no talking – drama with no acting. This show speaks for...

An elite collection of sideshow artists from around the world who come together to celebrate all that is great in sideshow achievement and push their bodies to the limits with unique twists on traditional stunts. Starring The Space Cowboy, Tigerlil...

Provocative and subversive cabaret/theatre from London. Black humour. Not suitable for the faint hearted or children. ‘Clever, anarchic, quirky and wildly funny’ Thames Festival (UK) ‘The high art of madness to perfection’ La...

Indulge your curiousity and come face to face with the beautiful, the grotesque and the unimaginable.  

Each song a story and each story a song. One of Brisbane’s best kept secrets, Timothy Carroll  has found the time in the last 12 months  to support iconic Australian acts such as Darren Hanlon, Paul Dempsey, Tom Cooney, Ben Salter and...