UNSW ADA x Sydney Fringe festival collaboration
For two electrifying weeks, Studio One at UNSW’s Esme Timbery Creative Practice Lab transforms into Sydney's hottest incubator for artistic innovation.
This exciting new partnership between UNSW's School of Arts & Media and Sydney Fringe Festival - TheLab@UNSW - creates a space where UNSW alumni and emerging artists collide. Witness works that blur disciplinary lines, embrace technology, and reimagine what performance can be. Each presentation offers a glimpse into the future of art-making—raw, immediate, and utterly original.
The Lab @ UNSW delivers experiences that will linger in your imagination long after the final bow. Book your tickets now and be part of this extraordinary experience!
The program
Week one
Shamstock
Shammgods
10 - 13 September | 6pm
Lock, stock, and two smoking barrels. But without the lock and the smoking barrels. Enter the exciting world of stock footage libraries as theatrical entrepreneurs Shamgodds mine the dramatic potential of the seemingly pedestrian.
Cosmic Vertigo
Audley Anderson & Imbar Nassi
10 - 13 September | 7:30pm
Leave gravity at the door and abandon brevity as Cosmic Vertigo asks you to free fall through the wormhole with breath and levity. Celestial jesters invite you to jesture (zero g baby): slip, slither, snip, swivel and scream as we dance a dance of tension and discovery and savour a pocket of spacetime together in the cosmic web.
Week two
Still Fall
Ella Watson-Heath
17 - 20 September | 6pm
Blending dance, cameras and green screens, ‘STILL FALL’ unpacks the chaos between our digital and real selves. Visceral, absurd and eerily relatable, this premiere from Ella Watson-Heath and Ashleigh Veitch is unsettlingly of the moment.
The Juliet Cycle
Emma Whitehead
17 - 20 September | 7:30pm
Three performers embody the arc of womanhood in this immersive exploration of Juliet’s psyche. Blending personal memory, raw confession, and the contraceptive pill, ‘Juliet Cycle’ invites audiences into a participatory ritual of self-reckoning.
Jesus of Wollongong
Suma Iyer
17 - 20 September | 9pm
As a teen, Suma played Jesus in the Easter Mass at her Catholic girls’ school. It’s been downhill since. Now, she’s reflecting on God complexes, share houses and spiritual decline. A gloriously funny and oddly touching hour of divine disappointment and revelations.
