600 Seconds – MENAGERIE

short works, big ideas

Our short works program, 600 Seconds, returns bigger than ever! Expanding into five distinct programs: Moves, Makes, Montage, Music, and Menagerie, this year’s program bursts with bold ideas, fresh talent, and creative energy to warm your winter nights.

For something strange, silly, and surreal, the creatures of the night emerge from the darkness to grip you with thrilling and powerful performance art. The queen themselves Ginava (Blake Anderson) will mentor 5 creatives, bringing new perspectives on what performance could and should be.

AFTERMATH by Izzy Leclezio
Both grotesque and uplifting, this experimental drag performance is a metamorphosis through pain, trauma and queer rage to emerge as a powerful, non-binary authentic self.
Team: Izzy Leclezio, Annika Moses and Estelle Brown

Bear My Thick Accent by Leonardo De Paula
Bear My Thick Accent, tells the story of a love affair in between two guys from different backgrounds, navigating the worlds of dating apps, sex fantasies and faceless profiles.
Team: Leonardo De Paula and Contra Tapscott

DEATH TO VENUS by Dollar Dazzler
Dollar engages an unlikely foe for justice in the war on their body hair, revealing the absurdity and toll it exacts on themself.

she, the beast by Ella Peeters
Descend into a strange, surreal world where two people unravel their relationship to queerness through monstrous transformation, burlesque and queer fabulism.
Team: Ella Peeters and Rachel Abehla

Tops the Musical by Riley Erikka
A comedic, musical exploration of the intersection between WLW dating dynamics and gender nonconformity. AM I STILL A LESBIAN IF I DON’T LIKE LESBIAN PORN?!.
Team: Riley Erikka, Prince Attwood and Mary Carter

About Mentor

Blake Anderson (Ginava) is most known for their shapeshifting costume work, spoken word lip-syncing abilities and their directing/producing work at the FRINGE WORLD Festival Ginava (Blake Anderson) is a drag artist from perth with a plethora of skills awards and accolades to their name aross a career spanning 13 years. Ginava prides themselves on being a multi – hyphenated artists, with a passion for directing, producing, choreography, costume design/making, sound design/editing, writing and acting. Ginava’s most recent 2024 accolades include making their off-Broadway debut with their solo theatre show “Split Lip” and winning the best cabaret award at Adelaide Fringe with their Cabaret show “Messy Friends”