Haus of Fury will bring burlesque, comedy, circus and cabaret to Sydney Fringe this September, with three distinct shows at The Entertainment Quarter.
As Sydney Fringe settles into the city each September, its stages tend to become places where the ordinary rules of performance loosen. In theatres, halls, bars and temporary spaces, artists move between comedy, circus, music, cabaret and storytelling, often with little concern for the boundaries that usually keep them apart.
At The Entertainment Quarter in Moore Park, that spirit will take a particularly theatrical form in 2026. Haus of Fury Productions will present three shows during the festival, each exploring a different corner of the company's mischievous world.
There will be the comic chaos of Tickle and Tease, a Comedy Cabaret, the darker theatricality of Something Wicked, and the broader atmosphere suggested by Fury's Fun Haus. Together, the productions will form a small constellation within the wider Sydney Fringe program, moving between burlesque, drag, circus, comedy, aerial performance and spectacle.
The setting will add its own character. The Entertainment Quarter sits just beyond the formal centre of Sydney's cultural institutions, occupying the former showground precinct beside Moore Park. By evening, its streets will take on a different rhythm as audiences arrive for Fringe performances, restaurants fill and the lights of the entertainment precinct begin to replace the daylight.
For Haus of Fury, this will be an appropriate place to play with the edges of cabaret and circus.
Haus Of Fury Finds A Home At The Fringe
The appeal of Fringe festivals has always rested partly on their willingness to make room for performances that might sit awkwardly within more conventional theatre seasons.
That makes Sydney Fringe a natural setting for Haus of Fury. Rather than presenting one uniform style, the company will bring together several forms of performance that rely on physicality, humour, costume and a certain willingness to surprise an audience.
The three productions will share an artistic world, but they will not simply repeat the same formula.
Tickle and Tease will lean towards comedy and variety. Something Wicked will move into darker territory, combining burlesque, ritual and circus. Fury's Fun Haus will complete the trio with another expression of the Haus of Fury aesthetic.
The result will be less like a conventional season of plays and more like a series of invitations into different rooms of the same theatrical house.
That distinction matters. Cabaret has always worked through atmosphere as much as narrative. The audience enters not simply to follow a story, but to inhabit a particular mood for an hour or two. Music, lighting, costume, physical movement and the proximity between performers and spectators all become part of the experience.
At Fringe, that relationship can feel especially immediate.
Tickle And Tease Turns Comedy Into Cabaret
From 11 to 26 September, Tickle and Tease, a Comedy Cabaret will occupy The Bunker at Fool's Paradise, within The Entertainment Quarter.
The one-hour production will combine comedy, burlesque, drag and circus in a rotating variety format. Rather than offering the same sequence every night, the show will draw from a changing collection of performers, making each performance its own combination of acts.
There will be aerial work, comedy lip-sync battles, burlesque and deliberately oversized theatrical props. The production will also embrace the unpredictable nature of variety performance, where one act can establish an atmosphere only for the next performer to overturn it.
The concept is particularly suited to late-night cabaret, where comedy can become a form of release. A performer might move from a carefully constructed routine into an unexpected joke, while the audience's response becomes part of the evening's rhythm.
The show will be rated R18+, with content warnings including strobe lighting, haze, sudden loud noises, sexual themes, depictions of sexual acts and nudity.
For audiences unfamiliar with burlesque or circus, the format will offer a useful reminder that these traditions are broader than their most familiar images. Burlesque can be comic, theatrical and deliberately absurd. Circus can be intimate as well as spectacular. Drag can move between character, comedy and performance art within the same piece.
Tickle and Tease will bring those forms into the same room.
Something Wicked Enters The Shadows
A few days later, the mood will change.
Something Wicked will run from 17 to 27 September at The Bunker, where Haus of Fury will turn towards a darker combination of burlesque, circus and ritual.
The production will centre on six witches and a theatrical world of silk, fire, shadows and physical transformation. Its performers will include Porcelain Alice, Gemima Jones, Bella Babydoll, Jordan Adams, Miss Fury, Jtwist and Missy, with the ensemble creating a performance built around circus and cabaret traditions.
Where Tickle and Tease will find much of its energy in comedy and variety, Something Wicked will be concerned with atmosphere.
The imagery will draw on the language of ritual, with the performers gathering around the idea of summoning something lost. Sword swallowing, aerial performance and contortion will become part of that world, alongside burlesque and theatrical movement.
The production will also carry a stronger sense of physical risk. Fire arts and sideshow elements will feature in the performance, and the audience will be warned to expect strobe lighting, haze, sudden loud noises, sexual themes, depictions of sexual acts and nudity. It will be strictly for audiences aged 18 and over.
There is an interesting connection here with the history of circus itself. Much of traditional sideshow performance depended on the audience's fascination with things that appeared impossible, dangerous or outside everyday experience. Contemporary circus often retains that sense of wonder while placing it within more carefully constructed theatrical worlds.
Something Wicked will draw from that tradition while allowing burlesque and circus to occupy the same space.
Fury's Fun Haus And The Wider Fringe World
Alongside the two detailed productions, Haus of Fury will also present Fury's Fun Haus as part of Sydney Fringe.
Its inclusion will broaden the company's presence at the festival, reinforcing the idea that Haus of Fury is not confined to one particular cabaret vocabulary. Instead, its work moves through comedy, circus, burlesque and theatrical spectacle, with each production finding a different balance.
This kind of programming is part of what makes a festival such as Sydney Fringe interesting for audiences. Rather than waiting for a polished touring production to arrive in a conventional theatre, people can move between different artistic worlds within the same festival.
One evening might lead from a comedy performance into live music. Another might involve circus, experimental theatre or cabaret. The city itself becomes part of the program, with audiences travelling between neighbourhoods and venues as much as between performances.
For Haus of Fury, The Entertainment Quarter will provide a useful base. The Bunker, with its more intimate setting, will place the audience relatively close to the action. That proximity is important to physical performance. The movement of an aerialist, the tension before a stunt or the split-second timing of a comic routine can feel different when experienced at close range.
A Different Kind Of Night At The Entertainment Quarter
There is something distinctive about arriving at an entertainment precinct after dark.
During the day, Moore Park is associated with open lawns, sporting grounds and the movement of people through the city. At night, the Entertainment Quarter becomes more self-contained. Restaurants, bars and theatres draw their own crowds, while the surrounding parkland provides a darker edge to the precinct.
During Sydney Fringe, that transition will be part of the experience.
The festival encourages audiences to treat a performance as one part of an evening rather than an isolated appointment. A show can be preceded by dinner, followed by a drink or simply become a reason to spend time somewhere different.
That is particularly relevant to cabaret, which has historically existed somewhere between theatre and nightlife.
The audience does not simply sit quietly in expectation of a curtain rising. The room, the lighting and the atmosphere matter. There is an element of social theatre in the audience itself, with people reacting together to comedy, physical skill and surprise.
Haus of Fury's three productions will sit comfortably within that tradition.
The Physical Language Of Circus
One of the threads connecting the Haus of Fury program will be the body.
Circus communicates without requiring a conventional dramatic explanation. A performer hanging from fabric, balancing in an improbable position or manipulating a prop can create tension before a single word is spoken.
Burlesque works differently but shares some of that physical language. Gesture, costume, timing and deliberate exaggeration allow performers to create characters and stories through movement.
Comedy then provides another layer. A perfectly executed physical sequence can be interrupted by a deliberately ridiculous gesture. A dramatic entrance can become a punchline. The tension between expectation and interruption is one of the oldest tools in live performance.
This will be particularly evident in Tickle and Tease, where comedy and circus will continually collide, but it will also sit beneath the darker theatrical language of Something Wicked.
In both cases, the audience will be asked to watch performers doing things that require considerable control while simultaneously accepting the illusion that everything is effortless.
That illusion is one of circus's enduring pleasures.
Sydney Fringe After Dark
Sydney Fringe will return across the city in September, providing a broad platform for independent artists and unconventional performance.
For audiences, the festival will offer an opportunity to see Sydney from a slightly different angle. Neighbourhoods that might normally be associated with restaurants, shopping, sport or everyday routines will become temporary cultural destinations.
The Haus of Fury program will contribute to that transformation through performance that is unapologetically theatrical.
There will be laughter in Tickle and Tease. There will be darkness and physical danger in Something Wicked. Across the broader Fury's Fun Haus program, the company will continue to explore the flamboyant and unpredictable territory that connects its work.
The three productions will also demonstrate why cabaret remains such a resilient form. It can absorb circus, comedy, music, drag, burlesque and theatrical storytelling without needing to decide which category matters most.
Perhaps that is why it belongs so naturally at Fringe.
Event Details
Haus of Fury at Sydney Fringe 2026
Tickle and Tease, a Comedy Cabaret
11 to 26 September 2026
The Bunker, Fool's Paradise, The Entertainment Quarter
122 Lang Road, Moore Park
Duration: 1 hour
Rating: R18+
Tickets: $35, plus booking fee.
Tickle and Tease official Sydney Fringe page
Something Wicked
17 to 27 September 2026
The Bunker, Fool's Paradise, The Entertainment Quarter
122 Lang Road, Moore Park
Duration: 1 hour
Rating: R18+
Tickets: $45, plus booking fee.
Something Wicked official Sydney Fringe page
Fury's Fun Haus
Sydney Fringe Festival 2026
The Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park
Fury's Fun Haus official Sydney Fringe page
Presented by Haus of Fury Productions.
Haus of Fury
When The Curtain Falls
There is a particular intimacy to leaving a small theatre after a live performance.
Outside, the ordinary city will still be there. Cars will move along Lang Road. People will be making their way towards dinner or home. The lights of the Entertainment Quarter will reflect off pavement and glass.
Inside, however, the audience will have spent an hour in a world constructed almost entirely from bodies, light, music and imagination.
That will be the lasting appeal of Haus of Fury at Sydney Fringe. These productions will not ask audiences to forget that they are watching performers. Instead, they will make the skill, theatricality and unpredictability of live performance the point.
For a few September evenings, Moore Park will become a place where comedy can turn into circus, circus can become ritual and cabaret can take on almost any shape it chooses.
Then the lights will come up, the costumes will disappear backstage, and Sydney will resume its ordinary rhythm outside.
Until the next performance.