Performance Lineup
A space for the weird, wonderful, and everything in between.
Kick back at the Riverside stage and be entertained, wowed and left with an achy belly from laughing. This is where we celebrate all things creative and performance art.
Scroll/tap on Performances to discover more. Timings for each show will be released in the week leading into the festival and feature in the festival program.
DO YOU LIKE GOOD SHIT? Well this is GREAT shit! GAGGY is a collection of BIG SLAY Drag Performers that are about to make your Strawberry Fields THE HOUSE DOWN BOOTS. Get ready for a night of ~YAS~ WORK *CLAP* *CLAP* SQUEAL, as you watch 5 GORGALINA drag divas leave it all on the Strawberry Fields Stage.
In The Flesh is a decadent life drawing experience designed to ignite your creative fire and release you from normality. Be prepared to be immersed in a fictional world of costume, sound, lighting and performance used to playfully nudge one to question the fabric of life through emotional experiences. We thrive on the edge, exploring ideas that are cheeky, evocative and conceptual, creating a banquet of food for thought, a bit of heat in your seat and a smile on your dial.
‘The Melbourne Outrageous Theatre House is an artist-led collective drawing from contemporary dance, circus, and physical theatre to create unique performance experiences for music festivals and events.
We like to get deep. We like to get weird.
We like living, breathing art.
Our creations are tailored specifically for those who are keen to experience something bold, new, positively disruptive… and definitely a little outrageous!’
POV: you’ve ordered South Australian based art collective The Bait Fridge off of the completely trustworthy and credible website Temu. However, your order arrives, the curtain raises, and it appears you did not in fact receive The Bait Fridge, but instead get A Tackle Box; a collective of artists and spacetime cowpeople (*the Western kind) from various disciplines and cosmic realms coming together for their OFFICIAL DEBUT and possibly LAST EVER performance viewable ONLY at the Strawberry Fields Riverside Stage for TWO HOURS of eclectic madness climaxing into something very climactic that is yet to be confirmed but will be completely spontaneous, epic and climactic.
Welcome aboard Chocolate & Cream Airlines, where we’re proud to offer you a first class ticket to a ride you’ll never forget. Trippin’—an experience that’ll take you higher than any frequent flyer mile ever could. Buckle up and prepare for takeoff as you board our Air-Shaft, where the in-flight entertainment is World Class. We’ve got Sydney’s finest pole dancers, burlesque bombshells, circus freaks, drag divas, and vocal powerhouses all ready to give you a performance that’ll have you ascending to new heights.
It’s going to be a bumpy ride—but trust us when we say it’ll be the best kind of turbulence. Our cabin crew is on hand to satisfy all of your needs, and a few of your naughtier cravings. You’ll be in the safe hands of the Chocolate & Cream Cabin Crew; Ruby De Rouge, Full Cream Kitty and Bandit, plus your co-captains Cyrus & Cupid. What do we offer? Well, let’s just say this is a one of a kind trip that’s not available on any other airline. So, join us, Chocolate & Cream Events, and let’s get reach new altitudes together—because when it comes to getting high, we’re the experts.
Sexy, queer and chaotically camp, these drag clowns have pitched their tents and are ready to serve glitter, honks, heels and heat. Spotting shimmers in the chaos of life, they’ve crafted something messy, horny and hilarious for your enjoyment.
George Orwell's Strawberry Farm is Fully Charged's ridiculous take on Orwell's allegory for the Russian Revolution and the rise of Stalinism. Initially, the stupid big strawberries overthrow their human farmer, Beff Jezos, aiming for equality and dessert for breakfast. However, the big dumb sexy Albion strawberries, led by Napoleon, seize power, establishing a silly totalitarian regime as dumb and oppressive as the humans they replaced.
Exploring the magical interplay between luminous hues and the wonder of shifting forms, our iridescent performers will bring a vibrant burst of energy to Strawberry’s atmosphere with aerial circus, hula hoops, fire and more.
Iridescent
SCRUM features a diverse lineup of performance artists ready to bring highly skilled, particularly absurd, undeniably sexy, carnival carnage to the stage.
Showcasing a range of specialty circus acts such as bounce juggling, hula hooping, acrobatics, drag, hand balancing and more, these artists are here to scratch that hard to find, slightly humiliating but oh so satisfying itch. Come get caught in the scrum.
SCRUM
Australia's premium BBQ Punk Band, The Burnt Sausages are inspired by The Bread Kennedys, The Sauce Pistols and Black Snag to perform for you a dirty paper plate of supercharged sauce songs, tear jerking onion odes and synthy sizzle celebrations. The Sausages have slid across greasy stages at music festivals, art museums, street parties and BBQs all over the country. They've supported Regurgitator, TISM's Damian Cowell, Private Function, Peter Combe, Darren Hanlon and recently closed the show on ABC TV's 'Spicks and Specks'. A one of a kind art/music/sausage sizzle explosion - you haven't seen it all until you've seen The Burnt Sausages.
Sit back, relax, and allow your mind to explode.
Award winning cabaret darlings, Miss Friby & Meg Hickey are bringing hitting dance, bold harmony and unyielding character to the Strawberry Fields cabaret stage. It'll get weird, it'll be funny, you might look to your mates for a moral compass at 2.7 points throughout the show, then there's the *piranhas. It's a show about the facts of life, they're bringing the razzle dazzle folks, and you're invited.
*Biting social satire may take place of piranhas, due to veganism.
A punk and pastiche variety show featuring the loosest units in burlesque, drag and comedy. Prepare to roar with laughter, clutch your pearls and maybe cross your legs to hide that confusion boner. Finger Licking madness!
Golden Scissor Puppets (GSP) is a queer-led experimental performance collective founded in 2018 by artists and organisers from climate justice backgrounds. Known for their surreal, handmade aesthetic and mythic apocalyptic narratives, GSP creates immersive works that move between raves, clubs, warehouses and festivals across Victoria and New South Wales.
Step into Kiki's Kinky Closet - A decadent collision of cabaret, kink, and raw charisma, this variety show teases the senses with playful power dynamics, sultry performances, and unapologetic sensuality. From burlesque to bondage, comedy to kink artistry, each act invites you deeper into a world where boundaries blur, pleasure reigns, and nothing is off-limits!
Seanchoíche (pronounced, Shanna-Key-Ha) is a storytelling platform that runs storytelling events in different cities across the world, and holds storytelling spaces at different music festivals across the world from Glastonbury in the UK, to All Together Now in Ireland and now Strawberry Fields here in Australia. Come listen to ordinary people share their extraordinary stories revolving around the same theme. The perfect way to unwind at the festival and connect with strangers and those you love before we get dancing.
An apparatus extravaganza bringing you pole, aerials and flow! Join us again for a moonlight experience by The Faerialist and her fabulous team of aerial aficionados this year focusing on the theme “Get Mental”.
Timothy Christopher Ryan is an award-winning performer who mixes comedy, interactive theatre, circus, and chaos. Known for Moist and Creative Juices, they’ve dazzled and delighted audiences across Australia. They’re also the mischief-maker behind Scratch Arts and Q-Lit, championing queer stories with heart, humour, and a bunch of joy.
Join the hilarity as these old icons of drag bingo bring their signature sass to Strawberry Fields! And nan just can't wait to putt her balls out for you.
Edith Vale and Maureen McGillicuddy have been hosting Granny Bingo for over ten years - it's a hilariously inappropriate game of bingo where bingo is the last thing on anyone’s minds!
These foul-mouthed nanas will have you falling over with laughter, unless their hips give out, then they may just beat you to the floor.
Amphi is a Naarm/Melbourne-based performance duo made up of Azita and Billy, whose collaborative practice spans sound, movement, and installation. With roots in dance, visual art, and electronic music, their work blurs the boundaries between dance floor, gallery, and gathering space.
For this performance ‘Learning to move with The Land again’, Amphi presents a hybrid piece that combines curated sonic landscapes, spoken word, installation, and contemporary dance to explore our collective relationship with nature and the environment. The work moves through themes of grief, heartbreak, and loss, confronting what has been done to the natural world, while gesturing toward care, connection, and what is still possible.
Azita (she/her), a dancer, choreographer and DJ, brings a rich movement vocabulary shaped by years of training in both classical and street styles. Her performance history spans Disneyland LA, Moomba Festival, and more recent experimental works for initiatives like (nexus) by MaggZ and Luna Blessings at Sub Club.
Billy (he/him), an installation artist and DJ, contributes a spatial and sculptural sensitivity, grounding the piece in physical texture and atmosphere.
Together, Amphi builds immersive, emotionally resonant spaces, part ritual, part rave, that ask us not just to listen or watch, but to feel, remember, and respond.
Show Us Ya Tips, a performance night that brings the queer, sex worker and local communities together. Sex and body positive - we want to liberate your mind of stigma and connect you to eros, queer elevation and dance floor transcendence. Raising money for SWer led organisations, these events create space for connection between the queer and sex worker communities, celebrating joy, resistance, and inclusivity on and off the dance floor.
Steph is a voice over artist, actor, performer and radio presenter. She broadcasts across Triple R and ABC radio in regular fills and segments. Steph has written, produced and performed in three comedy sketch/cabaret shows at the Melbourne Fringe and Melbourne International Comedy Festivals. She is also a cast member of an ongoing monthly sketch show at The Improv Conspiracy and works as a Second AD on the ABC and with Working Dog productions.