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Alex Hines is prepared to do the most, even if she has the least. “Shooting for production and I landed in a shipping container!” Hines proclaims early in her show in one of the many makeshift stages at the Fringe. But that’s what makes it Fringe, baby?!?
The location actually adds another layer to the air of desperation permeating her production, what with the song-and-dance and costume changes and props and callbacks and videos in conversation, all scrunched into a much smaller space than her show might require. How far would this Australian be willing to go to execute a fart joke? Would she break the time-space continuum? Would she go against the wishes of her future self, even if future Hines warns that fart joke might butterfly effect the apocalypse?
Don’t worry, though. The world won’t end while you’re spending an hour in a box with Hines, and you may even be glad you took a chance on “a no-name from Brisbane.”
Alex Hines “Putting On A Show” plays at Assembly Roxy during the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe
