Melbourne’s dynamic cultural deviants, the Huxleys, are presenting a grand slam queer takeover of the sporting world this Melbourne Fringe. The Winner Takes it All is for everyone who’s ever felt excluded from sport, or just anyone who wants to live out their sport fantasies in high-camp regalia and be captured in a series of joyous and surreal photographs.
Like many young queer people, the seeds of Garret Huxley’s fraught relationship with sport were sown early in life.
“Sport highlighted my differences and made me an easy target for playground bullying, and so I spent twelve years of my life trying to get out of every sporting activity possible,” explains Huxley. “A teacher once ordered the class to triple-jump into the sandpit. I refused to do it. My inner body temperature felt like 100 degrees because I was in the unwanted spotlight.”
Thankfully, according to Will Huxley “there are no winners and losers in this magical world”.
Both agree that Melbourne Fringe is a lucky dip – you never know what you’re going to get. However, that’s also the special nature of a festival that gives independent artists room to experiment and dream up wild, weird and magical ideas that may not find a place elsewhere.
So, without further ado, the Huxleys present Time Out readers with their favourite choices for Melbourne Fringe 2024.
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