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This show belongs to the Adelaide Fringe 2026 season. This season is now over.

Max lies in bed wearing a pink corset and propping their head up with their hand. They look off wistfully into the distance. Their pink silk pillows are visible, and around them are empty pill packets scattered artistically.
Max, wearing pink theatrical makeup and with their long brown straight hair swept behind their shoulders stares down the barrel of the camera with a poignant expression. The shot is blurred so that a ghost-like echo of their face sweeps across the image.
Max sits in bed against a set of pink silk pillows wearing a pink corset and theatrical pink makeup. They are reading a bright pink and yellow book with the title “How to Endo” visible.
Adelaide Fringe 2026

SICK-STEEN

★★★★★ “A celebration of disability” - Louise Pascale, Mindshare

Returning to Adelaide Fringe 2026 after an award-winning debut season, Max Ray is once again ready to take up space and share their story with the world. With original content to make you both laugh and cry, Max will take you on a journey exploring their lived experience with chronic illness and disability.

Max will create a space where disabled folk of all ages feel safe and are able to feel seen, heard, understood, and celebrated. With a heart-wrenching original score, and accompanied by musicians Millicent Sarre & Sebastian Alexander, this is a bittersweet love letter to the realities of being 16 and sick.

With new content and new diagnoses, this season will be ‘sicker’ than the last. Literally.

Presented by: Max Ray

Max Ray is an emerging cabaret artist determined to make their mark in the Arts Industry. With lived experience of disability, femininity and queerness, Max offers a unique perspective to their audiences, while ensuring to always be aware of and acknowledge their privilege. Max has been a part of Class of Cabaret in the 2023 Adelaide Cabaret Festival and Hive Inspire Inc's Chrysalis program in Adelaide Fringe 2024. They are enthusiastic and eager to further develop their skills as a performing artist at Adelaide Fringe 2026.
Cabaret • Disability Led
South Australia
 
Previous Award Winner
 
d/Deaf and/or Lived Experience of Disability Shows

Suitability & warnings

Content rating: M
Target audience: Middle School (12-14) | High School (15-17)
Coarse Language: Occasional, Mild
Sexual References: Occasional, Mild
Mental Health

Accessibility

 
High audio content
 
Audience members interact from the seated or standing area

Presenter

Presented by: Max Ray

Max Ray is an emerging cabaret artist determined to make their mark in the Arts Industry. With lived experience of disability, femininity and queerness, Max offers a unique perspective to their audiences, while ensuring to always be aware of and acknowledge their privilege. Max has been a part of Class of Cabaret in the 2023 Adelaide Cabaret Festival and Hive Inspire Inc's Chrysalis program in Adelaide Fringe 2024. They are enthusiastic and eager to further develop their skills as a performing artist at Adelaide Fringe 2026.

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