Fountain Lakes Live is back in Adelaide with another delightful Kath and Kim inspired drag parody play Fountain Lakes: Y2K.

Fountain Lakes: Y2K takes us back to 1999. The impending doom of the Millennium Bug lingers in the background, Kim (Thomas Jaspers) is still weighing up her options with guys, Kath (Art Simone) doesn’t yet have her iconic perm, and Sharon’s (Jemima Handul) early passion of volunteering with the Life Education Vans is in full swing.

When Kim’s impulses to upstage someone else’s party lead her to booking her wedding to Brett (Scott Brennan) on the same night, they’re all left in the rush to the big event and navigating their own chaotic understanding of the love they currently need in their individual lives.

The play is an absolute belter and highly entertaining flash back to the late nineties. It draws from Kath and Kim as the source material but injects the script with dragged up and unique takes on the characters. While labelled as a parody, the play still showed a clear respect for the source. It uses the iconic mannerism and language structures from each character as the foundation, then adding in the edgier aspects of drag comedy and even breaking to the audience for a chance of slipping in extra ad libbed humour.

The performers take on multiple roles to ensure the memorable characters from the original show make an appearance, including the duo Prue and Trude, who have yet to make their big shift into owning their own shop. There were so many standout moments in the comedy from all the performers and it was layered between the script itself, the physicality of overacting, and their comedic expressions.

Being a drag-based show there are also big costumes, playful lighting and sound, and lip syncing as part of the play. There’s a lot of thought visible in the set with as many Kath and Kim and nineties references snuck around the stage, in particular the television show’s kitchen and diamond grille sliding door.

Fountain Lakes: Y2K runs to the end of the 2026 Adelaide Fringe and is a high quality, entertaining production that builds from a classic of Australian comedy.