Tickets On Sale For Sydney Fringe Festival's International Theatre And Circus Line-up

Sydney Fringe Festival, New South Wales' largest independent arts festival, today announced the inaugural Archie Rose Touring Hub to present award-winning performances touring from Fringe festivals around the world and the inaugural Legs Hub of circus and physical theatre showcasing Australia's only Indigenous contemporary circus ensemble. The Festival's 2018 Touring Hub will feature nine touring theatre works from five countries and will take place in the Old 505 Theatre, Newtown. In partnership with legendary physical theatre company Legs on The Wall at the Red Box in Lillyfield, the Legs Hub will present shows curated by the company's Artistic Director Joshua Thomson, a pop-up bar, workshops and more.

Sydney Fringe Festival Director and CEO, Kerri Glasscock says: "We're excited to launch Sydney Fringe's inaugural Legs Hub and Archie Rose Touring Hub in 2018, featuring touring theatre and physical acts from Australia and other Fringe Festivals around the world including the United Kingdom, New Zealand and the United States."

Highlights of the 2018 Sydney Fringe Touring Hub include:

-Eggistentialism by Irish artist Joanne Ryan presents the comical quest of one modern woman, in her final fertile years, as she goes on to uncover the ifs, hows and crucial whys of reproducing her genes.

-New Zealand/New York based writer and director, Eleanor Bishop's Jane Doe is a participatory theatre show reflecting on rape culture in our communities. As one performer leads a public reading of a rape trial script, the audience members read as witnesses and lawyers, feeding in live responses via their phones.

-Maggot, by New Zealanders Angela Foughy, Elle Wootton and Freya Finch, is an anarchic sketch show that merges clown, dance and character comedy. The company were winners of the 'Adelaide Fringe Tour Ready Award' and nominated for 'Most Promising Emerging Company' at NZ Fringe 2017.

-The Break Up [We Need to Talk] by New Zealand company Binge Culture lovingly creates and destroys an entire relationship from scratch in five hours with one desperate conversation.

-Blue Island 99 is a one-man performance filled with music, dance, and multi-media that brings unique insight into the Asian LGBT community, performed by Tzu-Chieh Hsueh and directed by Keng Cheng.

-DollyWould by U.K. based Sh!t Theatre had a sell-out run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe and is about Country legend Dolly Parton, cloning, branding, immortality and death.

-Australian 'Period Preacher' Lucy Peach believes it's time we had a new 'Talk' and uses science, stories and songs in her two shows How to Period Like a Unicorn and My Greatest Period Ever to educate and empower women.

The inaugural Archie Rose Touring Hub in 2018, follows the Festival's 2017 International Touring Fund initiative that enabled the community to make tax-deductible donations to the festival to support international works from other Fringe festivals tour to Sydney. As a result, 2018 has seen the touring program grow substantially in size and stature featuring acts from around the world.

Highlights of the 2018 Sydney Fringe Circus Hub include:

-The Women of Chasing Smoke by Casus Circus comes direct from Darwin Festival for a special Sydney Fringe Director's cut version of the show. Chasing Smoke is an evocative and triumphant performance by Australia's only Indigenous contemporary circus ensemble, and winners of the 2017 Green Room Awards for Best Contemporary Circus, that explores the world's oldest living culture told through the artform of contemporary circus.

-Letters To An Unborn Child by Brown Paper Circus, from Sydney's Trapeze School, uses the physical body, text, image, apparatus, and movement to create compelling circus theatre inspired by Karl Ove Knausgaurd's Autumn.

Tickets for the Touring Hub and Legs Hub go on sale Tuesday 17 July 2018.

The full program for the 2018 Sydney Fringe Festival will be announced in August 2018. Please visit https://www.sydneyfringe.com/ for further details and updates.

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