20 January – 14 February

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This show belongs to the FRINGE WORLD Festival 2026 season. This season is now over.

Two performers in colourful comedic costumes pose against a light blue background. The person on the left wears a headscarf, glasses, floral apron, and holds a wooden spoon and frying pan with an exaggeratedly grumpy expression. The person on the right wears a floppy sunhat, has a long beard, and cheerfully holds a tray piled with shiny red velvet buns and gold yarn, smiling widely.
A Tall Nonbinary performer in a frilled bonnet, teal visor and neon leopard print leotard flexes behind a shorter bearded performer in a matching visor and leotard.
Two performers onstage under pink and blue lighting, one with a bald head, long beard, and makeup, sitting closely in front of another performer wearing glasses, a headscarf, and a flower accessory. Both appear in costume, posing theatrically.
FRINGE WORLD Festival 2026

A Perfectly Normal Show

Picture it: A perfect evening in spring. Nonne and Nonno are toiling away in their beautiful garden. There is an age-old attraction and before you unfolds a beautifully intimate scene of mature love.

Then Meatballs fly as Nonne recounts the good old days. Suddenly you're transported to the 80s. It's sweaty. It's hot. Nonne and Nonno are doing the Richard Simmons Sizzle. You think it's time for a cool-down but things just keep heating up as Nonno returns from the shops with you some of this week's Special Buys!

This is an absurd panto-cabaret that welcomes you with open arms into a Perfectly Normal family.

★★★★★ - "Camp, joyous, ridiculous and so well put together. So normal and hetero and not weird at all (psyc...  *dabs*)" - TASH YORK

Judge's Pick - Best Cabaret Melbourne Fringe 2025

Presented by: Rassputin

Rassputin is a tenacious trans-man and one of the most prolific independent producers in the Melbourne Cabaret Scene. Bursting onto the scene three years ago with 'Rassputin's Wet Posse' shows that have blown boundaries of fringe cabaret in experimental endeavours, and for the past two years he has delighted many sell-out audiences on a weekly basis with Cabaret Ridiculous and Burlesque Bingo. With boundless panache and flair for absurd entertainment as an award winning, world-touring Burlesque performer, he knows how to bring wild grins to every audience he faces whether performing himself or picking out the very best of his Posse Pals to deliver a top-notch show.
Cabaret & Variety • Cabaret
Victoria • Western Australia Premiere
 
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Suitability & warnings

Content rating: 18+
Family friendly: No
Nudity: Mild
Sexual References
Audience Participation: Occasional

Presenter

Presented by: Rassputin

Rassputin is a tenacious trans-man and one of the most prolific independent producers in the Melbourne Cabaret Scene. Bursting onto the scene three years ago with 'Rassputin's Wet Posse' shows that have blown boundaries of fringe cabaret in experimental endeavours, and for the past two years he has delighted many sell-out audiences on a weekly basis with Cabaret Ridiculous and Burlesque Bingo. With boundless panache and flair for absurd entertainment as an award winning, world-touring Burlesque performer, he knows how to bring wild grins to every audience he faces whether performing himself or picking out the very best of his Posse Pals to deliver a top-notch show.