Seasons Greetings from everyone here at Weeping Spoon HQ!
The years just seem to go by faster and faster and so it’s easy to feel like you maybe didn’t get much done, but taking a look back, we really did cram a LOT into 2025!

We kicked off with TWO MASSIVE FRINGE WORLD shows in 2025, Producing a killer season of Perish With Great Difficulty followed by our co-production with Ribbit Republic from Canada presenting the Australian debut of AWOL, which sold out shows at The State Theatre Centre, travelled for Bunbury Fringe and even nabbed a Weekly Theatre Award!

In March we made our feature film debut at the WA MADE Film Festival with Christmas Orphans, a film that we helped produce. The film played to a sold-out house, followed by a super fun Q&A. We really look forward to FINALLY bringing everyone else this fun little film in 2026!

May saw the first table read of the Trampoline Feature Film (!) with an incredible cast bringing to life this new adaptation of our hit theatre show of the same name. This was the start of something huge.

The second half of the year focused on developing Trampoline The Movie (!!) with the development, shooting and editing/Post Production of our proof-of-concept trailer! The was a huge learning curve but we’re super happy with the results. Once again, a massive shout to everyone who helped make this happen! Can’t wait to keep chipping away in 2026 and getting this thing made! Stay Tuned!

Our next big theatre work, Shock Jocks went into production in the last few months also. It is one the funniest, darkest and most unhinged pieces of theatre we’ve ever made and I can’t wait for you all to see it Fringe World in Feb 2026 (TICKETS ON SALE NOW BTW!).

It’s been a huge year for us and in 2026, we are celebrating 20 YEARS (!!!) of making art and we can’t wait to take you along for the party!

Thanks for being here. Thanks for playing. Take cares of yourselves and each other. See you at the Fringe Bar.

Xoxo

Shane, Weeping Spoon.

The world debut of our brand new show SHOCKS JOCKS has just been announced for Fringe World 2026 and TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW!

What really happens when Australia’s loudest radio voices go off the air?

Shock Jocks is a biting satire of Australia’s commercial radio industry, a world where toxic personalities are given microphones and audiences, where shock is rewarded with fame, and where accountability is rare.

For over a decade, Marvin Silver and Kelly have ruled the radio airwaves—wildly popular, endlessly controversial, and never afraid to cross the line. But when their on-air antics spark real-world consequences, the cracks in their carefully constructed personas split wide open.

SHOCK JOCKS is a dark comedy that dives into the double lives of commercial radio stars, exposing who they really are when they think no one is listening.

Created by award-winning theatre-makers and actual former radio hosts Shane Adamczak (Base.fm, Vehicle, The Ballad of Frank Allen) and Sarah Reuben (ABC Radio, The Hypotheticals, I’ll Tell You In Person), the show blends lived experience with the twisted humour behind some of Perth’s most acclaimed Fringe hits.

Fringe World 2026

State Theatre Centre of WA – Studio Underground

Feb 11 – 15, 6:30pm (5:30pm Show on Sundays)

TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE for our upcoming MONTREAL FRINGE and OTTAWA FRINGE festival seasons!

After way too many years away, Weeping Spoon are finally returning to Canada for a short-and-sweet festival tour of Montreal and Ottawa with our new award-winning show VEHICLE! Hope to see you all there!

Join two Australian actors trapped in a car traveling through the outback while recapping hilarious tales of misadventure, success and failure from decades of touring. Featuring fringe-favourites Shane Adamczak & Sam Longley in an Award-Winning meta-comedy about perseverance, patience, survival and questionable truck stop snacks.

★★★★✭ – Fringefeed ★★★★– X-Press ★★★★ – Clothesline

It’s hard to believe that TRAMPOLINE, a show which was our flagship touring production for about four years, is now ten years old!

The show about a dreamer who meets the girl of his dreams, was my attempt at a mainstage  rom-com that began it’s life as an bizarre online blog series back in 2012 for BLOODY UNDERATED under the title “Matt’s Dream Journal”.  The idea was then developed into a play during my time as artist-in-residence at Mainline Theatre in Montreal, with the debut reading in May 2013 featuring myself borrowing the incredible talents of Al Lafrance, Alison Louder, Lea Rondot and my Vicious Circles brother-in-arms Patrick Rogers.

The first full production was staged back in Australia in Oct 2013 at The Blue Room Theatre under the direction of Damon Lockwood and featured myself alongside the painfully talented Amanda Woodhams and Ben Russell with our incredible stage manager Louise Wardle. To this team I will be forever grateful for such an incredible creative process and fun season!

As the show toured Fringe Festivals and stages throughout Australia and Canada over the next few years I will always be in debt to all the other creatives who help bring the show’s various incarnations to life including Ella Heatherington, Brendan Ewing, Patrick Hercamp, Richard Maritzer, Stevie Pemberton (who will always be the Janet Weiss to my Brad Major), Vance Gillis, countless technicians and stage managers, and of course St John Cowcher and Whitney Richards who absolutely made those roles their own in our final seasons. I will gladly jump on a plane with a ridiculous amount of excess baggage (including an actual trampoline) with any of you wonderful people any damn time.

To all these people, and the many more who came to see the show, spread the word, wrote a good review, gave us a stupid award or even asked to perform part of the show for your year 12 drama exam, THANK YOU.

TRAMPOLINE is show I still love very much and I hope it will have a life again the in future. Incidentally, it has been adapted into a fucking KILLER screenplay if anyone has funding and wants to chat…
Until then, Happy Anniversary TRAMPOLINE.

Peace, Love and Kenny G,

Shane.

Fringe World Festival is over for another year , and what an eventful one it was!

Our new fringe show VEHICLE just won two Fringe World awards including WA Winner for best Theatre & Performance and then The Martin Sims Award! This means we will now have some amazing support to take this show (ironically) on the road.

THANK YOU to everyone who supported this show especially the amazing team at the State Theatre Centre of Western Australia for programming us, all the amazing FOH and technical staff, all our venue buddies, fringe fam and everyone single person that came out to see the show, reviewed it or posted about it!

We are so incredibly grateful that this show has received such a positive response from it’s debut season. After a few really rough years, it so uplifting to have something like this happen for our Company and it will mean we can keep making weird and wonderful stuff for y’all. Hope to see you all at a Fringe Festival near you soon!

Big big love.

Shane & Sam at Weeping Spoon HQ.

Photo Credit – Jason Matz

Our brand new fringe-baby VEHICLE made it’s debut during the first week of the Fringe World Festival 2023 and we were honestly overwhelmed with the positive response. Between amazing houses, audience response, critics reviews and even a weekly Fringe Award, it seems people have really taken to our new little comedy.

“★★★★ T heir chemistry is through the roof …an indie, off-beat comedy that doesn’t take itself too seriously” – Fourth Wall Media

“A playful and enjoyable showcase of two comic experts. …the perfect fringe show. It’s a chance for two artists to flex their creative muscles, it invites the audience in for an evening that will have them in stitches” – Magazine6000

Huge thanks to everyone that took a chance on us this festival and came out to support the show, it means the world. To everyone outside of Perth, rest assured, the show will be back very soon at a Festival near you. The one’s got legs, long legs.

Massive thanks also to Robert Woods, Esther Longhurst, Tamara Creasy, Rhianna Hall, The Adamczak Family, The Longley Family, Ali Welburn, the amazing staff at State Theatre and The State Of Play team for taking a chance on us.

Keep supporting local, indie theatre.

-Shane

After a few years laying relatively low, we so excited to announce we are coming back in full-force in Fringe World 2023 with our all-new comedy VEHICLE!

Resident Weeping Spoon weirdo Shane Adamczak joins the legendary Sam Longley as co-writers and co-stars of a brand new show about travelling the globe and finding yourself along the way.

Two of Perth’s most famously unknown comedic powerhouses join forces this Fringe to bring you a madcap journey across the globe in the world premiere of VEHICLE.

“(Longley) has superb comic timing” Stage Whispers 

Join Sam and Shane, two old theatre road dogs trapped in a small car on a regional tour of WA as they recap wild and hilarious tales of misadventure, success, failure and utter confusion from decades of touring around the world. Will they learn from their past mistakes or is history destined to repeat itself as they attempt to save the disastrous tour currently unfolding around them?

“Adamczak is a comic writing genius” PerthCulture.com

Featuring fringe-favourites Shane Adamczak and Sam Longley in a new comedy about perseverance, patience, survival and truck stop hotdogs.

FRINGE WORLD 2023

STATE THEATRE OF WA

Rehearsal Room1, JAN 20-23

MORE INFO/TICKETS HERE

It’s been a fairly quiet year here at Weeping Spoon HQ with us mostly being grounded in WA, but we so stoked to finally announce our 2022 Fringe World show!

The award-winning cult sci-fi improv hit returns to FRINGE WORLD Festival for its fourth year and this time our crew are on double duty, playing all the heroes and a whole host of new villains!

Inspired by 1950’s Sci-fi serials, the crew will make up their ongoing epic adventures live on stage aided by the audience’s suggestions. Featuring members of Perth’s own improv-comedy institution The Big Hoo-Haa!

GIRLS SCHOOL FEB 8 – 13, 7:00pm (Super limited capacity! Book early!)

CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS/TO BOOK TICKETS

“An untameable extravaganza filled to the gills with sci-fi nerdiness, comedy, and raw humanity…” ★★★★½ Fringe Feed

Weekly Comedy Award Winner – FRINGE WORLD 2019

Absolutely gutted to have to cancel yet another fringe festival trip due to Covid. The Ballad Of Frank Allen – DARWIN FRINGE 2021. If you haven’t already heard, WA and the NT are both in lockdown making our upcoming Darwin Fringe Festival shows simply impossible. Hopefully we can make it up there sometime soon and bring you all our weird show about a man who lives in a other man’s beard.

In the meantime, stay safe everybody, look out for each other, don’t Bogart all the TP and we’ll do our best to try keep making art happen again no matter how many times it tries to stop us. (FOUR times just in 2021, for anyone counting)

#DarwinFringe#Cancelled#Covid#FringeTheatre#ArtIsWork#Art#PerthArts

Like many indy theatre companies, it’s been a weird year for us, but we are super excited (and fortunate) to be bringing our fringe hit The Ballad Of Frank Allen back a live stage this July! Original cast members Shane Adamczak and St John Cowcher reunite to tell our award-winning comedic tale a bout a tiny man who lives in another man’s beard at this year’s DARWIN FRINGE! Can’t wait to make our NT fringe debut in the beautiful top end!

TICKETS ON SALE NOW! 2 NIGHTS ONLY! DON’T MISS OUT! CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS/MORE INFO