20 January – 14 February

This show belongs to the Fringe2025 season. This season is now over.

The Platonic Human Centipede

WINNER Critic’s Choice Award 2024 Perth Fringe World
WINNER Best Cabaret Weekly Award 2022 Adelaide Fringe
NOMINEE Golden Gibbo 2022 MICF

Mel & Sam are back on Perth shores with their newest, hottest, critically acclaimed, high energy, queer, musical comedy madness about the beauty (and horrors) of codependency. Join this multi-award-winning duo in this side-splitting, synth-soaring selection of songs and sketches championing the one thing they love most – the unsung duos of the modern world! 

“Has to be seen to be believed. Mel & Sam prove yet again why they’re leading the charge of next-gen comics” ★★★★★ Time Out
“A chart-topping parody pop duo in the making.” ★★★★★ The Age
“Screamingly funny.” ★★★★★ Adelaide Advertiser
“The future of Australian comedy.” ★★★★ Herald Sun

Presented by: Mel & Sam

Mel & Sam are an award-winning, queer, Gen-Z musical comedy duo from Naarm, known together for their high octane, brilliantly chaotic and somewhat-unhinged musical comedy sketch shows which feature entirely original tracks and scores. Their body of work includes ‘No Hat, No Play! The Cabaret’, ‘Shit-Wrecked!’, ‘High Pony’ and most recently ‘The Platonic Human Centipede’. The girls also have a podcast called ‘Ratbag with Mel & Sam’. The girls are known for their spiky attitude, for their ability to speak to and to truly represent a ‘Gen Z’ or ‘youth’ voice, for bridging the gap between theatre kids and people-who-would-rathr-die-than-be-called-a-theatre-kid and often also for their fierce representation of queer joy in all their work.
Cabaret & Variety • Comedy
Victoria • Western Australia Premiere