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This show belongs to the Adelaide Fringe 2023 season. This season is now over.

FRANKLY is ducking slightly, arms blocking in front of her face.
Frankly is shown reaching her hands out in front of her face. Her eyes are wide and shocked.
Adelaide Fringe 2023

Scold’s Bridle

Bold, agitating and unmissable, Frankly's award-winning response to her favourite questions is back to ruffle some feathers! 

Told with agency and an inability to be ignored, see Kaurna's chaotic cabaret queen float effortlessly between stand-up, song, and story, as she pieces together how a lifetime of social conditioning led her to be vulnerable to and accepting of male violence.

The resident mess of swearing and oversharing, Frankly's magic lies in her ability to bring all that dare deep into her universe. Be held, through every sensitivity, with sprinklings of silly, in a cabaret like no other. 

- Frank Ford Award Winner 2022 -

★★★★★ "Pushes boundaries" - See Do Eat Review

★★★★ "Storytelling prowess" - Mindshare SA

"Unflinching honesty...talent in spades" - Melbourne Critique

 

 

 

 

 

Presented by: FRANKLY

Meet FRANKLY! A facilitator of fun with a sensitive soul to make you swoon, Kaurna's resident mess of swearing and oversharing can always promise you honesty. I mean, her name quite literally means it! Loved by her audiences for her infectious spirit, quick wit and insatiable drive to connect, FRANKLY has been creating intimate performances for the better part of a decade. Her career highlights include: breaking every family-friendly-content contract she's ever signed, getting tradies to dirty dance on a bar chair and taking out the 2022 Frank Ford Award for her feminist hell-scape, 'Scold's Bridle'. Coming at you like a tweaked-out Regina Spektor, her work is deeply human, risk-takingly honest and celebrates the pits and peaks of existence. 'Best Emerging Artist' (weekly) 2019.
Cabaret • Storytelling
South Australia • Adelaide Fringe Premiere

Suitability & warnings

Content rating: R18+
Family friendly: No
Coarse Language: Frequent, Strong
Depicts Violence: Occasional, Strong
Sexual Assault

Accessibility

 
High audio content

Presenter

Presented by: FRANKLY

Meet FRANKLY! A facilitator of fun with a sensitive soul to make you swoon, Kaurna's resident mess of swearing and oversharing can always promise you honesty. I mean, her name quite literally means it! Loved by her audiences for her infectious spirit, quick wit and insatiable drive to connect, FRANKLY has been creating intimate performances for the better part of a decade. Her career highlights include: breaking every family-friendly-content contract she's ever signed, getting tradies to dirty dance on a bar chair and taking out the 2022 Frank Ford Award for her feminist hell-scape, 'Scold's Bridle'. Coming at you like a tweaked-out Regina Spektor, her work is deeply human, risk-takingly honest and celebrates the pits and peaks of existence. 'Best Emerging Artist' (weekly) 2019.

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