You’re invited. Truly.
Green Room Award–winning cabaret artist Miss Friby takes over a Footscray church and turns it into an immersive performance spectacle — lights, rhinestones, bar, and release.
The world’s a heavy place. This is what happens next.
Expect bold, physical performance: dance, comedy, chaos and precision, delivered by an expert cabaret artist at the top of her game.
It’s clever. It’s unpredictable. It’s a little bit dangerous.
But mostly — it’s for you.
Because we all have beasts.
DRESS CODE: INSTINCTS
Come heavy. Leave different.
SHOW DATES
JUNE 4 - 21
THURSDAY - SATURDAY 7:30PM
SUNDAYS 6:30PM
at the
BLUESTONE CHURCH ARTSPACE
8A HYDE STREET, FOOTSCRAY
TICKETS 25-35
ABOUT...
Miss Friby is a Footscray-based cabaret menace known for building bold, genre-blurring live experiences that sit somewhere between theatre, gig, and beautifully controlled chaos. Her work pairs high-end design, choreography, and original sound with a sharp satirical edge — glamorous on the surface, with something slightly unravelling underneath.
Her latest creation, Beasts of Burden, has been developed through a Room to Create residency supported by Maribyrnong City Council. Given two weeks in the space, Miss Friby has turned the venue into a bespoke pop-up theatrical world — not just staging a show, but building one that seeps into the room itself. Every element has been shaped in situ, designed to feel immediate, unstable, and impossible to replicate anywhere else.
Drawing on her love of live music, soundscapes, and movement, Beasts of Burden blends cabaret, physical theatre, and absurdist ritual into a slick, off-kilter experience. With an extravagant lighting design and a team of collaborators behind the scenes, the work balances precision with just enough chaos to keep things interesting.
At its heart, the show asks a simple question: what are you carrying, and do you even know anymore? Set inside a party that slowly slips its own logic, Beasts of Burden invites audiences to sit inside the weight — not to fix it, but to recognise it. Expect something strange, visually striking, a little bit confronting, and oddly cathartic.
A long-time Footscray local, Miss Friby has built a reputation through female-led music events, immersive cabaret, and community-rooted creative work. This residency marks a chance to develop something ambitious on home ground — with her community, and for it.