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CLASSIC PENGUINS starring Garry Starr at Grand Electric

Fresh from 27 sold-out shows at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe – including an added performance at the iconic 1,000-seat McEwan Hall – the brilliantly absurd Garry Starr (alter ego of award-winning performer Damien Warren-Smith) brings his hit show Classic Penguins to Sydney’s Grand Electric from 3 September to 12 October.

 

 

This critically acclaimed show lands with a swag of awards, including:

  • Winner – Most Outstanding Show, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2025
  • Winner – Best Comedy, Adelaide Fringe 2025
  • Winner – Best Comedy, Fringe World 2025
  • Sell-Out Season, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025
  • Nominated – Best Show, Comedians’ Choice Awards 2025
  • Nominated – Best Show, ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2025

Yes, it’s literary chaos, delivered mostly naked (except for a pair of flippers), fuelled by Starr’s signature blend of theatrical madness, fearless parody and jaw-dropping audience participation. With his trademark blend of chaos, clowning and genius, Garry Starr presides over a blissful hour of unbridled theatrical anarchy.

 

Critics have hailed it as one of the most unmissable shows of the decade. The review in The Stage declared:

One of the Fringe shows of the decade. joyously, jaw-droppingly fun, marshalled by Starr with a well-judged mix of transgressive glee and practical care.It’s victory lap at the year’s festival confirms it as one of the fringe shows of the decade.

Garry Starr himself adds:

I ’m so excited to be back in Sydney with this super-charged version of Classic Penguins following a massive London and Edinburgh season! This will be the longest run we’ve ever done in the one venue and I cannot wait to work with the Grand Electric team to make it sillier and more outrageous than ever before.

STRICTLY 18+

Please note: Classic Penguins contains full nudity, and audience participationmay be invited at the discretion of the performer.


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