This show belongs to the Adelaide Fringe 2025 season. This season is now over.

Brooke smiles at audience in front of multicolored broken glass, with a stuff animal dog in her right hand and a triangle in her left.
Adelaide Fringe 2025

The Brilliance of Broken Glass

New York Comedian/Moth StorySLAM Champion Brooke explores identity, weaving award-winning storytelling, poetic narrative and wry comedy. At your core, are you always what you were?

Sold-out 2024 Edinburgh Fringe, Off-Off Broadway workshops, previous critical acclaim at EdFringe’23 (★★★★ “Sharp comedic timing” The Skinny; ★★★★ “Endearing wit … thoroughly worth seeing” TheatreWeekly; ★★★★ “Intriguing and heartfelt” LondonTheatre1).

Audience: “Brilliant tour de force;” “Comic relief at every turn;” “First class writing and delivery;” “Left feeling inspired;” “Powerful wit, heart and humour;” “A beacon of hope and light;” ”Intricately-woven, propelled with lightspeed smarts;” ”Echoes long beyond the hour;” “Worth a second time;” "Among the strongest, tightest, most engaging writing at Fringe”

Presented by: Brooke Being Brooke / 36 Expressions

Brooke is a comedy writer, performer, producer; an award-winning storyteller (Moth StorySLAM champion), monologist, essayist; a humorist and performance artist; and forever for real pretend running for president. She’s most recently workshopped new writing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (comedy, theatre). Her latest shows completed sold out runs to audience and critical acclaim (★★★★ The Skinny, ★★★★ TheatreWeekly, ★★★★ LondonTheatre1). Hailing from New York, she ideally splits time between New York, Los Angeles, London and a theatre near you. 36Expressions. We create, produce, direct for stage, page and screen. We write long/short form, share true stories, create live shows and multimedia content to open conversation, grounded in belief laughter is the ultimate resilience.
Theatre and Physical Theatre • Storytelling
International • Australian Premiere
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Suitability & warnings

Content rating: MA15+
Family friendly: No
Target audience: High School (15-17) | 18+

Accessibility

 
High audio content

Presenter

Presented by: Brooke Being Brooke / 36 Expressions

Brooke is a comedy writer, performer, producer; an award-winning storyteller (Moth StorySLAM champion), monologist, essayist; a humorist and performance artist; and forever for real pretend running for president. She’s most recently workshopped new writing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (comedy, theatre). Her latest shows completed sold out runs to audience and critical acclaim (★★★★ The Skinny, ★★★★ TheatreWeekly, ★★★★ LondonTheatre1). Hailing from New York, she ideally splits time between New York, Los Angeles, London and a theatre near you. 36Expressions. We create, produce, direct for stage, page and screen. We write long/short form, share true stories, create live shows and multimedia content to open conversation, grounded in belief laughter is the ultimate resilience.