The Sydney Fringe Festival has unveiled its chock-a-block 2017 programme filled with over 300 productions throughout September.
During the festival you'll be able to catch glimpses of theatre, physical theatre and circus, music, comedy, visual art, film, cabaret, musical theatre, dance and spoken word.
On top of the already announced highlights come a stampede of choices to satisfy your fringe cravings, including the musical stylings of 'Billie McCarthy Takes Up Space', the large-scale theatrical piece 'The Nose' at the HPG Festival Hub, award winning NZ dance work 'Fabricate', the electric odyssey Puntilla/Matti and 'Eternal Summer', a theatrical re- imagining of contemporary Australian song cycles.
Silent Theatre
'Cirque Africa', the biggest-selling show at the 2017 Adelaide Fringe featuring 15 performers from six African countries backed by a live African band, will take over the Big Top in Sydney Park. Visual arts highlights include a Wig Exhibition in Broadway Shopping Centre by hairdresser and wig extraordinaire Shaun McGrath, and the return of the Stencil Art Prize, the world’s largest stencil event.
Film festivals will also feature at this year’s Fringe with Cinewest presenting a series of mini film festivals in the historic Newington Armoury in Homebush and the entire Stockholm Fringe film program will be transported to Sydney and screened in a giant warehouse for the first Stockholm Sydney Artist Exchange.
Heaps Gay
This year’s festival includes two huge music events. The Global Rhythms music festival returns for its fifth year, filling Glebe’s Bicentennial with a family friendly kaleidoscope of sound, food and art featuring a line-up of performances from San Lazaro, ALPHAMAMA, King Tide and The Strides with Afro Moses (Homage to Fela Kuti) along with more to be announced. Lah Lah’s Big Live Band and the Sydney Youth Orchestra join together for a special collaboration, performing in the Sydney Town Hall to close the festival.
