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

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FRINGE WORLD Festival 2026

Geraldine Quinn - Bastard Joy

Geraldine Quinn ('Spicks and Specks', ‘The Project') returns to Perth with a thrilling electroclash meld of music doco and club night that skewers the vanity project. With over 40 career award-nominations, think what she can do now she's medicated.

A sleeper Melbourne Comedy Festival hit, 'Bastard Joy' is a high-octane original synth-dipped hyperpop cabaret described as "chaotic", "a masterclass in high art ridiculousness" and "a really funny, weird slapper of a show".

Part revisionist history, part gig, part the banginest club you've ever blagged your way into - all glorious Bastard Joy.

“A wild ride for these darkest times led by a performer at the top of her game" - Time Out Melbourne
"More hooks than a fishing tackle shop" - Chortle (UK)
"Hilarious buffoonery" - The Saturday Paper

Presented by: Geraldine Quinn

Geraldine Quinn is an award-winning Melbourne rock cabaret artist. She’s a featured vocalist on Get Krack!n’, and has appeared on The Project, Spicks & Specks, The Weekly and Upper Middle Bogan. Quinn was nominated for both the Golden Gibbo and Most Outstanding Show in 2022 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and is a three-time Golden Gibbo nominee for Best Independent Local Production (won in 2011). In 2025, she swept the Victorian Green Room Awards with wins for Best Cabaret Artiste, Best Cabaret Production, Best Original Songs and Best Writing (Cabaret), and nominations for Musical Direction and Direction.
Cabaret & Variety • Comedy
Victoria • Western Australia Premiere
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Suitability & warnings

Content rating: 18+
Family friendly: No
Loud Noises
Coarse Language: Occasional

Please note

Mild horror (think David Lynch - not 'Saw')

Presenter

Presented by: Geraldine Quinn

Geraldine Quinn is an award-winning Melbourne rock cabaret artist. She’s a featured vocalist on Get Krack!n’, and has appeared on The Project, Spicks & Specks, The Weekly and Upper Middle Bogan. Quinn was nominated for both the Golden Gibbo and Most Outstanding Show in 2022 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and is a three-time Golden Gibbo nominee for Best Independent Local Production (won in 2011). In 2025, she swept the Victorian Green Room Awards with wins for Best Cabaret Artiste, Best Cabaret Production, Best Original Songs and Best Writing (Cabaret), and nominations for Musical Direction and Direction.