20 January – 14 February

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

Smiling red-haired woman in a red dress laughs while sipping a milkshake at a white table. Handwritten-style text reads “Comma sutra” on the left, with an oversized black comma graphic on the right.
Performer in a bright red dress stands smiling among seated audience members, gesturing mid-conversation in a warmly lit venue with attentive faces turned toward her.
Wide view of a packed cabaret-style venue with red stage lighting. A pianist plays at a grand piano while a singer in a red dress performs centre stage, facing a seated audience under a rig of overhead lights.
FRINGE WORLD Festival 2026

Comma Sutra

Australia's favourite grammatical comedy is back by popular demand after sold out seasons at FRINGE WORLD 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2024 and 2025!

★★★★★ The West Australian, 2017
★★★★★ Theatre People, 2017
★★★★★ The Australia Times, 2017
★★★★★ Gutter Culture, 2019
★★★★★ Pelican Magazine, 2020

Louisa's found true love in the English language, but it's hard being a grammar nerd when people are selling 'potato's' and misusing the word 'literally' at every turn. All she wants is someone who'll snuggle up with her on the couch and seductively whisper puns into her ear. Ideally in multiple languages. Is that too much to ask?

It's nerdy. It's pun-filled. And it might just make you want to learn a language... or at least start erasing those damn stray apostrophes on café blackboards.

Featuring Greg Lavell.

 

**NOTE: If sold out, please check the Arts and Cultural Trust website for tickets.

Presented by: Louisa Fitzhardinge

Louisa Fitzhardinge is an award-nominated comedian with a particular penchant for nerdy humour. She's the two-time winner of Australia's national pun slam, Capital Punishment, as well as the creator and host of her own competition, The Australian O-Pun. A professional improviser since 2009, she is a member of much-loved Melbourne improvised comedy troupes The Big Hoo-Haa!, Impromptunes, Murder Village and Spontaneous Broadway, and has made appearances in many improvised comedy shows, including Dungeon Crawl (PAX), Yourovision, Plonk Family Band, Tod Talks and Questing Time (UK). Her critically acclaimed solo musical comedy, Comma Sutra, has toured internationally and around Australia, enjoying six years of sold out runs at Perth FRINGE WORLD.
Cabaret & Variety • Comedy
Australia
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Suitability & warnings

Content rating: M
Family friendly: No
Coarse Language: Occasional
Audience Participation: Occasional
Sexual References

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Presented by: Louisa Fitzhardinge

Louisa Fitzhardinge is an award-nominated comedian with a particular penchant for nerdy humour. She's the two-time winner of Australia's national pun slam, Capital Punishment, as well as the creator and host of her own competition, The Australian O-Pun. A professional improviser since 2009, she is a member of much-loved Melbourne improvised comedy troupes The Big Hoo-Haa!, Impromptunes, Murder Village and Spontaneous Broadway, and has made appearances in many improvised comedy shows, including Dungeon Crawl (PAX), Yourovision, Plonk Family Band, Tod Talks and Questing Time (UK). Her critically acclaimed solo musical comedy, Comma Sutra, has toured internationally and around Australia, enjoying six years of sold out runs at Perth FRINGE WORLD.

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