20 January – 14 February

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

A glamorous woman with blonde finger-wave curls and a jeweled headpiece looks toward the viewer while holding a glowing, antique clockwork orb in one hand. Spirals of golden light swirl upward from the clock, revealing multiple versions of the same woman dressed in different vintage outfits—1920s, 1940s, and other eras—standing among floating historical objects like an old car, Stonehenge, the Eiffel Tower, and a UFO.
Confidently against a starry night backdrop, a woman wearing a flowing, metallic gold gown with a deep neckline. Her hair is styled in an elegant updo adorned with a gold headpiece, and she gazes to the side with a poised, statuesque expression. The soft halo of light around her enhances the glamorous, timeless feel of the image.
Wearing an ornate, light-gold dress with intricate patterns, and gestures animatedly with one arm extended and the other bent as if mid-dance or storytelling a woman with long, wavy blonde hair poses joyfully against a starry night backdrop. A soft halo of light surrounds her, adding to the whimsical, theatrical feel.
FRINGE WORLD Festival 2026

Cabaret Time Machine

Welcome to an evening where you control the clock!

Every night is a new historic era, where no two nights are the same. Could you find yourself in Ancient Rome? Or the Roaring Twenties, or Swinging Sixties? You decide!

Musical improviser Isabella Valette (Green Room award nominee Best Ensemble 2023, Best Cabaret Nominee Melbourne Fringe 2023) and her talented musicians will be spinning songs, stories and theatrical gold on the spot.

Witty one liners, intricate narratives and callbacks weave your suggestions into the fabric of one live, wild and unique experience.

Cabaret Time Machine: Where history meets hilarity, and you hold the remote control to time itself!

"Amazing musical numbers that will leave you clutching your sides with laughter" ★★★★½ Fringefeed, 2024

Presented by: Isabella Valette

Isabella Valette is a multi-talented Melbourne-based performer, creator, and musical improviser. She trained at Andrew Lloyd Webber's Arts Educational Schools London (BA Hons Musical Theatre). Her past one-woman shows include Media Release, Princesstuous, Hi Visabella, and How Far I’ll Go (Best Solo, Hobart Fringe 2020). Her most recent show, 'Cabaret Unscripted' earned nine Judges’ Picks at Melbourne Fringe 2023, a Green Room Award nomination and win. Isabella also presents on ABC 774’s Pundamonium, performs with improv troupes Impromptunes and The Big HOO HAA. Isabella recently created Melbourne Fringe’s 2025 EOFY donor song Modern Day Medici as well as emceeing the Melbourne Fringe program Launch.
Cabaret & Variety • Comedy
Victoria • Western Australia Premiere
 
Previous Award Winner
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Suitability & warnings

Content rating: M
Family friendly: No
Audience Participation: Frequent
Depicts Violence
Coarse Language: Occasional
Sexual References
Drug Use

Please note

As the show is improvised, warnings are precautionary and any sensitive themes will be handled light-heartedly and in a sensitive way.

Presenter

Presented by: Isabella Valette

Isabella Valette is a multi-talented Melbourne-based performer, creator, and musical improviser. She trained at Andrew Lloyd Webber's Arts Educational Schools London (BA Hons Musical Theatre). Her past one-woman shows include Media Release, Princesstuous, Hi Visabella, and How Far I’ll Go (Best Solo, Hobart Fringe 2020). Her most recent show, 'Cabaret Unscripted' earned nine Judges’ Picks at Melbourne Fringe 2023, a Green Room Award nomination and win. Isabella also presents on ABC 774’s Pundamonium, performs with improv troupes Impromptunes and The Big HOO HAA. Isabella recently created Melbourne Fringe’s 2025 EOFY donor song Modern Day Medici as well as emceeing the Melbourne Fringe program Launch.

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