The Platonic Human Centipede
WINNER Critic’s Choice 2024 Perth Fringe
WINNER Best Original Songs 2023 Green Room Awards
WINNER Best Cabaret Weekly Award 2022 Adelaide Fringe
NOM. Golden Gibbo 2022 MICF
Mel & Sam are back in Adelaide with their newest, critically acclaimed, high energy, queer, musical comedy madness about the beauty (and horrors) of codependency. Join this multi-award-winning duo in this side-splitting, synth-soaring selection of songs and sketches championing the one thing they love most – the unsung duos of the modern world!
★★★★★ “Has to be seen to be believed. Mel & Sam prove yet again why they’re leading the charge of next-gen comics” Time Out
★★★★★ “A chart-topping parody pop duo in the making.” The Age
★★★★★ “Screamingly funny.” Adelaide Advertiser
★★★★★ “As mad as they are brilliant” In Daily
Presented by: Mel & Sam
Mel & Sam are an award-winning, queer, Gen-Z musical comedy duo from Naarm, known together for their high octane, brilliantly chaotic and somewhat-unhinged musical comedy sketch shows which feature entirely original tracks and scores.
Their body of work includes ‘No Hat, No Play! The Cabaret’, ‘Shit-Wrecked!’, ‘High Pony’ and most recently ‘The Platonic Human Centipede’. The girls also have a podcast called ‘Ratbag with Mel & Sam’.
The girls are known for their spiky attitude, for their ability to speak to and to truly represent a ‘Gen Z’ or ‘youth’ voice, for bridging the gap between theatre kids and people-who-would-rather-die-than-be-called-a-theatre-kid and often also for their fierce representation of queer joy in all their work.