Global Fringe at Old 505 Theatre

Global Fringe at Old 505 Theatre

In partnership with Sydney Fringe, Global Fringe will be presenting four weeks of local performances across September at Old 505 Theatre, Newtown, and a swag of international works streamed right into your lounge room. 

Global Fringe is presented with the support of Innocent Bystander.

All tickets are online sales only.

All tickets are $40 which includes first drink
 

A Murder Story, Retold

2nd - 5th September

A Murder Story, Retold is the telling and retelling of a suburban murder story performed to Max Richter’s musical re-compositions of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.

A cramped domestic dwelling sets the scene for a revenge killing by fatal poisoning. The story is told three times with a narrative that warps and shifts according to the music chosen for each retelling.

An experiment in form, A Murder Story, Retold investigates how repetition, physical scoring, music and sparse dialogue are interlaced to depict a non-naturalistic narrative. Framed by symphonic music, we magnify the physical nuances and details of the ordinary world and find a sense of majesty in the mundane.

Ninefold’s works are known to be unrelentingly intense, precise and imaginatively rich, illustrative of a signature style honed by a commitment to cultivating a shared language through regular physical performance training. Strong sonic and visual elements are crucial to the group’s aesthetic. These explored alongside physical devising, result in sensorially harmonic shows that envelope audiences with their operatic grandeur.

After a successful development with Brand X’s Flying Nun 2019 residency program, Ninefold is proud to present A Murder Story, Retold to interstate and international audiences for the first time.

  • Director – Shy Magsalin 
  • Performers/Devisers – Erica Josephine Brennan, Gideon Payten-Griffiths, Shane Russon & Shy Magsalin. (For the 2020 Global Fringe program ‘A Murder Story, Retold’ will be performed by Gideon Payten-Griffiths, Shane Russon & Shy Magsalin) 
  • Lighting Designer & Scenographer – Liam O’Keefe 
  • Sound Designer – Melanie Herbert

Trainlord

9th - 12th September

Author Oliver Mol's debut is a true, funny and heartbreaking tale about a 10-month migraine, his recovery in Brisbane and job on the railway when he couldn't do anything else.

Performed to music by Thomas Gray & Liam Ebbs, Seekae and Nils Frahm, amongst others, and to visuals by Kat Chellos, it is a story of hope, laughter, pain, relationships, drugs, failed orgies, mothers, fathers and love.

Part monologue, part performance art and part essay, Train Lord collapses genre and form to create a stunning portrait of pain, creativity and failure. Achingly authentic, funny and poignant, this is a breathtakingly honest study of humanity from one of Australia’s most exciting emerging writers.

Ultimately, this is a story about fucking up and figuring it out and fucking up and finding out you’re not alone.

Oliver performed in the green room after our gig in Barcelona. Wild and special. This asshole made me cry. See this or die.

  • Written & Performed by – Oliver Mol 
  • Score by – Thomas Gray and Liam Ebbs 
  • Video Projection by – Kat Chellos 
  • Cinematograophy & Editing (film) by – Laura Turner

Our Visions Begin With Our Desires – Chapter 2

16th - 19th September

The word on the street is that they are the word on the street. Get ready, because The Real Housewives of Black Birds are back; bigger, badder and more blinged out than ever. Join them as they bring the drama and spill tea at Global Fringe.

Black Birds was created as a response to the lack of representation & misrepresentation of Womxn of Colour in the Australian arts industry. With each project, creatives are invited to collaborate on works that dissect and document the female Black and Brown diasporic experience in Australia through art and performance in a variety of mediums and spaces – both theatrical and non-theatrical. Black Birds prides itself on making work that is intersectional, interdisciplinary and intercultural. We strive to create work that is culturally, financially and physically accessible; work that challenges the norm and starts the conversation.

  • Concept, script & styling by – Ayeesha Ash 
  • Directed by – Gabrielle Dadgostar 
  • Motions graphic design by – Dijana Kumurdian 
  • Film assistant – Georgia Carr 

Queers On The Fringe

23rd - 26th September

How do you make a show when you don't know if there'll be an audience? Well, if there's anything queers and fringe festivals have in common it's being able to adapt, making something outta nothing, turning sawdust into glitter.

Closing out Sydney Fringe’s inaugural festival-in-a-pandemic, local artist Maeve Marsden hosts a mixed bag of artists, writers, comedians and musicians for an experiment in intimate entertainment, ready to deliver story, song and catharsis to an audience of 5, or maybe 50, or 500 strangers tuning in from their lounge rooms…

Charmingly chaotic, with a pocket full of heart, wit and rage, Maeve will draw on her work as a theatre maker, curator of Queerstories, creator of award-winning cabaret and improviser of terrible dad jokes, to offer up the unexpected, equal parts playful, personal and political. Queers on the Fringe celebrates Sydney’s queer underground, which still has some grit despite the flashy corporate vibe for which the city is known. This ain’t Mardi Gras. It’s Fringe. 

  • Curated and Hosted by – Maeve Marsden 
  • Photography – Patrick Boland
     

As part of their Covid Safe Plan the Old 505 Theatre is selling tickets in groups of 1, 2, 3 or 4. This is to enable the theatre to ensure safe social distanced seating while accommodating their maximum reduced capacity. This means if you are attending with friends you will need to book your group together. Simply book the ticket type: 1 seat, 2 seats, 3 seats or 4 seats to  make sure your spot is secured and ready for you when you arrive!

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