On a yellow textured background, Rob Carlton looks startled while holding a knife out in front of him, one hand raised defensively. The show title appears in bold comic-style lettering. Review graphics show a five-star rating from Perth Happenings and a four-and-a-half-star FringeFeed critics review, along with a Weekly Awards Winner 2026 badge.

by Rob Carlton. On stage in front of red theatre curtains, Rob Carlton gestures expressively while performing. A five-star rating and a quote from Perth Happenings read, “He is the master of connecting with his audience,” alongside a Weekly Awards Winner 2026 badge.

VIRGIN IN A KNIFE FIGHT

Logie-winning The White Lotus actor Rob Carlton returns with a new dramatic comedy: VIRGIN IN A KNIFE FIGHT.

“My show is about the different surprises we get at different times of life. When we’re young it’s the world coming at us that can freak us out. I was 18 years old hitchhiking around Europe when a man came at me with a knife! A few years later it was me that surprised me – with my own bad behaviour. A few years after that a mate went to court and pulled off a heist we still can’t believe. And when I was 50 the shock came from loved ones, the fear came from within and it reminded me how strange and wiggly and wonderful life can be.

VIRGIN IN A KNIFE FIGHT is four true stories with four different moments of reckoning. It’s packed with laughs but gets into the messy stuff that surprises us, making life rich. Once again, it’s just me and a black chair.”

★★★★★ Perth Happenings 2026
★★★★1/2 Fringe Feed Critic 2026Fringe Feed Critic 2026
Weekly Award Winner – Theatre and Performance Perth FRINGE WORLD 2026
★★★★★ GLAM ADELAIDE 2026

You’ve seen Rob Carlton on The White Lotus, Black Snow, North Shore, Boy Swallows Universe, A Moody Christmas, Blue Heelers, All Saints, Water Rats and Home and Away. This show has nothing to do with any of them.

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Theatre and Physical Theatre • Comedy

New South Wales • SA Premiere

: Fri, 13 Feb - Sun, 08 Mar
: 60 min
: M (2 Warnings)
: $25 to $42
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Carlton is a born, extremely gifted and consummate storyteller! He has a power and magic about him that magnetises... - Brian Godfrey, Glam Adelaide
The M-rated one-man show will have adolescents and adults (and virgins and non-virgins) alike laughing and crying as one. - Jacinta Round, The Advertiser
He is the master of connecting with his audience. The laughs, mostly at his own expense, are hilarious. - Jane Pelusey, Perth Happenings
Virgin in a Knife Fight showcases exceptional storytelling, anchored by personal vulnerability and an actor at full power. - Rudyard Connery, Perth Fringe Feed Critics Review
This is brilliant storytelling for anyone who loves a yarn: heartfelt, humorous and, above all, human. - Zoe Griffiths, The List

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Carlton is a born, extremely gifted and consummate storyteller! He has a power and magic about him that magnetises... - Brian Godfrey, Glam Adelaide
The M-rated one-man show will have adolescents and adults (and virgins and non-virgins) alike laughing and crying as one. - Jacinta Round, The Advertiser
He is the master of connecting with his audience. The laughs, mostly at his own expense, are hilarious. - Jane Pelusey, Perth Happenings
Virgin in a Knife Fight showcases exceptional storytelling, anchored by personal vulnerability and an actor at full power. - Rudyard Connery, Perth Fringe Feed Critics Review
This is brilliant storytelling for anyone who loves a yarn: heartfelt, humorous and, above all, human. - Zoe Griffiths, The List

See more on the Fringe Feed

VIRGIN IN A KNIFE FIGHT

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