The beginning.
The story.
The gumption.
COMING SOON
Before the sold-out seasons, before Sydney Opera House and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival started calling first, there was a tent, a venue that wasn't ready, and a team who refused to go home.
DOCOFEST is the story of how Parrot Ox began. Told in four chapters, by the people who lived it.
COMING SOON
Chapter 01.
GAFFER TAPE & HOPE
COMING SOON
Chapter 02.
MEETING OF HORIZONS
COMING SOON
Chapter 03.
THE ALCHEMIST
COMING SOON
Chapter 04.
DRAW YOUR OWN LINES
Ten years ago, a group of strangers turned up to adeliaide fringe festival with a show that needed a total blackout and a venue that very much wasn't one.
This is where it started.
Parrot Ox exists in the badlands beyond genre — producing work that makes the impossible feel inevitable. It started with one show, one team, and a willingness to solve the next problem and the next.
Ten years on, the philosophy hasn't changed.
FROM LAUREN“We found our philosophy of doing impossible things at Adelaide fringe. We are back to do another impossible thing 10 years later. A celebration of where it started and our philosophy of bravely doing things. A celebration of a particular chapter."
MASTERCLASSWHY NOW
Ten years ago, Adelaide Fringe is where we worked out who we were.
Not in a strategy meeting. In a tent, with a venue that wasn't quote right, a deadline that wasn't moving, and a team who decided to solve the problem instead of cancelling the show. That's where the philosophy got forged — find the right people, believe in the same impossible thing, and do whatever it takes to get it in front of an audience.
Over a decade on, we're back at Adelaide Fringe, doing more impossible things.
DOCOFEST is our way of marking that. Not a highlight reel of ten years in business — a proper look at the chapter that started it all, told by the people who were actually there.
