SHARK! is a gloriously chaotic bite of camp theatre that swims circles around expectations. 

Embracing its own ridiculousness and enthusiastically immersing the audience, the show is framed around the making of a low-budget shark film, plunging everyone into a set where enthusiasm far outpaces resources and logic is happily abandoned in favour of spectacle.

What elevates SHARK! is its self-awareness. Beneath the splashy jokes and B-grade chaos sits a clever satire of film tropes, creative egos and the frantic desperation of making art with no money and too many opinions. It delivers a sharply funny reminder of why FRINGE WORLD exists in the first place. Watching characters cling desperately to a project where there doesn’t seem to be a clear formula can feel uncomfortably familiar, particularly for anyone who has ever been involved in creative work.

The cast delivers high-impact performances where every choice creates a fast-moving rhythm, and the constant momentum becomes the show’s greatest strength, pulling the audience along when the narrative veers wildly, delightfully, off expected course.

A subtle but effective thread running through the show is its play on expectations around women in film, mirrored against the cultural fear of sharks as mindless predators. These familiar tropes are set up but not fed into, allowing all characters to be ambitious, flawed and self-directed rather than boxed into spectacle or threat, all without slowing the show’s momentum.

At around 50 minutes, it’s loud, playful and full of personality, making SHARK! one of FRINGE WORLD’s standout highlights and a perfect pick for audiences after something fresh and unapologetically fun.