Next up on our journey through the wonderful world of Gothenburg Fringe, we bring you six very different shows showcasing the brilliant variety within our Scandinavian and worldwide array of artists at this year’s festival, taking place on 28 August until 6 September.
Ticket sales are now well underway and for the first time, we’re selling Festival Passes, bundles of 3, 6 and 10-show passes at brilliant discounts. There is limited availability, so get your hands on them here and take a chance on some of the shows listed below.
Throughout June and July, we’ll be giving you an insight into all of the shows coming your way at this year’s festival. With artists from 28 countries performing shows across the city in a plethora of genres, we’re thrilled with this year’s lineup with you. Here’s Artist reveal #5 of 10!
Jessica Barton: Dirty Work
by Jessica Barton (Australia)
Mary Floppins has cracked the sh*ts. Wipe the wee from the toilet seat and pick up your dirty undies, because The Perfect Nanny is back to teach all you little boys – and girls – a thing or two about running a prim and proper household. Hailed “a rising star and quadruple threat” (The Spy In The Stalls) and returning from a completely sold-out Edinburgh Fringe run in 2025, Jessica Barton combines a spoonful of song, dance, clowning and deep-cleaning to present a skanky and empowering comedy debut.
Winner: Best Newcomer Award (Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2025)
Winner: Take A Chance On Adelaide Award (Adelaide Fringe 2025)
Winner: Audience Award (Taipei International Comedy Festival 2025)
Nominee: Best Newcomer Award (ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2025)
Nominee: Best Clowning & Alternative Act (Chortle Awards 2026)
Who will love this show?
Audiences ready to enjoy a triple-threat Clown, combining her professional Musical Theatre degree with her professional training from L’Ecole Philippe Gaulier to deliver highly professional comedy, professionally.
Sick talking, ghost stalking
by Kat Staub (Denmark)
SICK TALKING, GHOST STALKING invites the audience into a poetic, humorous, and paranormal performance about illness, grief, kink, and tenderness.
In a both flamboyant and intimate manner, performer Kat Staub moves through hypnotic sequences and campy vignettes, encountering naughty children, angry men, and utopian mothers. Balancing between care and violence, she explores the erotic potential of playing with society’s ghosts and presents a hybrid performance collage that blends traditions of queer subculture with intergenerational questions of chronic suffering.
Who will love this show?
The work has an anti-elitist vision that emphasizes creating accessibility for a diverse audience in terms of gender, race, and class. Furthermore, there is a focus on creating openness in the communication of the performance, creating space for an audience unfamiliar with performance art.
Transform Your Noise into Art
by Kill the Info Noise (Sweden)
“Transform Your Noise into Art” is a participatory performance by Kill the Info Noise Art Group exploring information overload, digital anxiety, and collective transformation.
Through writing, recorded voices, sound, symbolic objects and audience participation, visitors are invited to transform personal and collective information noise into a shared artistic experience.
Conceptually developed by Maria Dutton, the performance is created in collaboration with Cecilia Månfagre and features original sound material by Manon Briau.
Who will love this show?
This work is created for adult audiences interested in contemporary performance, live art, and participatory practices. It is aimed at viewers who are curious about how information overload, sound, and systemic pressure affect everyday life, the body, and emotional experience. No prior knowledge is required.
DRIVING THE DOUBTS AWAY – AN INFO COMEDY
by Olof Olsson (Denmark)
WHEN OLOF APPLIES to art school, he’s so sure to fail – that he’s not even nervous. So the jury gets confused, and he gets in. But he still has no idea if he’s got it in him to be an artist.
BUT FINALLY, AT A COMEDY open mic night, at a McDonald’s – called ‘Mac and Jokes’ – Olof finds a way … to drive his doubts away.
AN INFO COMEDY is 40% information, 30% comedy, 20% autobiography, and 10% melodrama.
DRIVING THE DOUBTS AWAY is an info comedy about how jokes work, why people hate performance art, and about a urinal that’s been voted the most influential art work of the 20th century.
AND IT’S ABOUT THE DREAM of being an artist, and how to survive when doubt is killing you.
Who will love this show?
IF YOU EVER WANTED to create something, but had an inner voice that said “no” – this is the show for you.
Helicops 1: Find Your Wings!
by Stolen Table Collective (England/Scotland)
From the trio who brought you Bot Brothers (‘Chaotic… anarchic energy’ ★★★★★ The Crumb) and Pasta Piñata (Not a show… a cult’ ★★★★ BingeFringe), meet Helicops – an elite underground force of anthropomorphic helicopters who take on the cases too extreme for normal human police officers to handle.
Veteran Helicop detective Rotary is one hour from retirement when his partner is mysteriously killed… He must train up a new recruit, avenge his partner’s murder, and learn the meaning of modern-day masculinity. A surreal, high-energy, comedy-noir detective drama (with songs).
Who will love this show?
Comedy fans, cinemaphiles, musically theatre enthusiasts, boys who have a dream
Why English?
Vibhinna Ramdev (India)
Dance and theatre storytelling show. Indian woman questions her life in the post-colonial era. English unknowingly forced on her, leaves her with an identity crisis.
Ever questioned your identity? Come! Maybe you’ll find some answers.
Inspired by personal experiences and interactions.
Interactive set with beautiful fabrics.
Powerful, Engaging and Great comic timing.
Draws you in and leaves you feeling warm and wholesome.
You are invited – to life!
World Premiere – Edinburgh Fringe 2023
Australian Premiere – Adelaide Fringe 2025
GRANT RECIPIENT – Adelaide Fringe Fund 2025 and 2026
★★★★★ – Binge Fringe
★★★★☆ – Glam Adelaide
★★★★ – Weekend Notes
★★★★ – Gareth Vile
Who will love this show?
People who may also be in search of self identity in a diverse environment and those who speak different languages, but have had to adapt to speaking English. People interested in other cultures, world politics, colonised past.
