ACTS - THE FOOL FACTORY

Anton the Akkordeonist

Anton Wurzer is a highly accomplished and truly remarkable Piano Akkordeonist, who’s unique and delightful compositions invoke a rich cultural music soundscape that transports you to another time and place. Tickling the ivories since youth, Antons experience is matched by his repertoire in both song and style. His Bavarian decent shines through, with a strong European influence, but he also processes versatility across a broad range of musical genres. He can compose for and play akkordeon, piano and for other ensemble combinations. Anton prefers to play indoors and seated to ensure his best performance. Akkordian to us he is the key to your event!

THE ARTIST

Internationally renowned abstract painter, Headvard Hunch, towers high above arts world with a huge body of work, his monumental stature & enlarged brush over-compensating for his tiny canvas. Forever second guessing, enclosed within the self referential frame of his esoteric, egomaniac & eccentric expressionism, he struggles to emulate his previous peaks. His sportaldislexicartaphobia, artist block and creative blanks leaving the canvas blank. He hopes to rekindle his creative flame through observation of the mundane and by standing on the shoulders of the true creative giants, prodigious finger painting prodigies. A colourful character with the full palette of emotions!

THE Astronomer

This towering amateur astronomer has one eye fixed on the celestial sphere, gazing through a giant telescope perched on his head. His other eye peers on prospect pupils that he hopes might gravitate to him so he can share his worldly astronomical knowledge. This galactic geek presents his prodigious pedigree as hip hyperbolic hyperbole hype, but his nerdy neuroticism’s shine through like a super nova, as he’s lights years from stardom. Despite his lunacy, and out of this world head space, he’s a friendly fellow, a chatty chap that likes to impart universal wisdom. Book him to bend your events space time continuum!

THE BATWING JUMPER

American Air show dare devil and pioneering parachuting stunt man Clem Sohn, is theatrically resurrected, from his 1937 fatal swan song swan dive, which lead to a sudden drop in his appearance availability. His actual famous last words "I feel as safe as you would in your grandmother's kitchen". Carefully re-modelled to replicate the original novel home made wing suit design, featuring expandable articulated bat like wings, leg webbing, an actual vintage parachute and the quintessential magnificent man handle bar moustache, goggles and leather cap. Book the batwing jumper to drop in as your entertainment wingman!

THE Bell boys

This delightful dulcet duo plays a multitude of melodies with 20 chromatic scale tuned musical bells. Each bell can be shook or tinged with a push button, collectively making them a versatile four handed musical instrument. The bell boys in house hospitality is sure to please your guests as their audible aromas permeate through the air waves. They now adorn the same formal jackets as our Tram Conductors act. Their favourite theme song Faulty Towers for babies will leave your ears ringing. If your event entertainment bell tolls, here’s a tip. Book the bell boys by giving them a bell!

THE BIRDS OF PARADISE

These long lashed, plumed bottomed, cuckoo's vapid pecking order squabbles put them in fowl moods. Part Priscilla, part partridge, these big birds of a feather flock together flying south for the summer. Theses bird brains have a golden nest egg that has reached preservation age, which they sometimes confuse with bald man heads. Don't laugh at the ugly duckling, or ask who's the cockerel, or you'll ruffle feathers that will fly. An incredibly vain specimen that loves posing for twitter feed but attacks their selfie reflection. Smile at the birdie!

THE BLUE DWARFS

A pair of dazzling giant mirror clad beings from another dimension physically mirror each other and their audience as they communicate by mimicking gestures. Engineered from ten square metres of laser cut equilateral and golden triangle tessellated shape set acyclic mirrors, in 3 shades of blue. Crowned with geodesic head pieces. Under sun or spot light they radiate coloured shapes like blue humanoid mirror balls! Have a good look at yourself in this stilt act of mirrors. A reflective act, all done with mirrors!

THE bogong MOTHS

A pesky swarm of giant colourful roving stilt walking Bogong Moths make quite the spectacle, with their beautiful flowing silk wings juxtaposed against their paunchy furry bodies. They fluttering in flock formations and rest with wall aestivation. They like exploring nooks and crannies and mischievously wrapping unsuspecting people in their wings. They have been distracted off course from their annual migration path by the illumination of your event. If roasted in floodlights they have a nutty taste! A visual feast!

BOING BOING

What do you get if you combine a custom made 160kg 3 metre 16 granite pad electronic piano, 10 bouncy balls and 2 professional idiots? A complete balls up! BOING BOING is a unique bouncy variety act involving bounce juggling, music and comedy. When a ball is bounced on a granite pad it triggers a pre-programmed sound which can be changed during live performance to create a variety of soundscapes. In this tremendous two-hander the left hand knows what the right hand does, and vice versa and thus this act can also be split into two hand solos. When we are on the ball, then we are on the beat. When we are on the beat, we all have a ball!

THE bookie

An odds-on favourite to keep punters amused on race day the bookie loves a wager and is always a good bet. Brings the whole authentic vintage bookie kit and caboodle including bag, acoustic megaphone, mobile tote board and a full stable of hobby horses that patrons can name then jockey for position down the home straight to a selfie photo finish. Have a field day with the wildcard addition The Fool Factory's stilt jumping jockey jocks. This sharp-tongued charlatan is quick on his feet and is guaranteed to give and receive pay outs. Don’t horse around in a one-horse race. Our inside tip is this bookie is a sure thing!

THE builders

A vibrant union of stilt walking, mallet juggling, colourful comic construction characters. These tall tradies nail juggling tricks and enjoy farcical helmet whacking safety check slapstick manoeuvres. But rest assured they are punctual easy-going blokes and the job will take as long as it takes! Often booked for hardware stores, housing development and construction related events. High clearance, high energy, high skill and high-vis high jinks to raise the roof of any venue! A labour of love! Riveting Entertainment!

the bunny

Looking to metaphysically resurrect some biologically implausible fertility iconography to behaviourally induce peak cocoa mass consumption? Then book this loveable and choc full of fun, fat harey cottontail. This folklore trickster is a real hip hopper. But if he runs rabbit run, this fit bunny will feel a bit funny as he melts into a hot cross chocolate fondue. You get Eggs-actly what you Eggs-pect! The chocoholics choice!

BUSTED

A bust, on a plinth, sits motionless, fixed in immortally, frozen in time, or does it? Did it just move? OMG it’s alive! The expression changes, the pose shifts, it’s looking right at you, it’s sliding towards you. But although in appears to reside somewhere in the Adams family Uncanny valley, for arts shake, it’s a harmless armless bronzed body of art. Created for fun interactive performances for a National Gallery of Australian Rohan exhibition. One patron referred to it hideous, until it moved, much to her surprise and delight! High art that is a cut above! What a bust!

the BUTTERFLY

A huge colourful stilt walking tropical butterfly creates a spectacle as it flutters high above the crowds then enwraps passers by with it’s exquisite patterned silk wings. Created for Brisbane Expo 88 The Fool Factory has taken this very historically significant act under it's wing and continued it's metamorphosis with a new black and pink furry body suit. Can be performed with other garden themed acts like The Pot Plant, Gardener and Shelly the Snail. Create The Butterfly effect at your event!

caesar

A Julius Caesar living statue on a plinth, featuring beautifully crafted decorative armour, brings this frozen in time well known iconic historical figure back to life. This Caesar can break rank from his serious superior deified power poses and deadpan arrogant expression, to flip his personae and become a fun, friendly and playful military conqueror. Created for the National Museum of Australia Rome : City and Empire Exhibition. When in Rome.

Charlie Chaplin

This troublesome tramp and mischievous mute charmed the world of silent film a century ago and in his time was the most prolific persona on the planet. In modern times his trademark funny walkie without talkie, bamboo cane twirl and toothbrush moustache wiggle are instantly recognisable, transcending generations as perhaps the most famous of fools. Experience a bygone era and book this black and white silver screen icon in full 3D technicolor under your city lights!

the chefs

Culinary connoisseurs of fine cuisine will acquire the taste of these bubbling to the brim half-baked foodies, who cook up a circus storm of fun frivolity. Meat the men who love to play with their food, whose favourite flavour is charcoal and whose oven timer is their smoke alarm. These master fools, who’s kitchen juggling knifes rule, are the original wannabe celebrity chefs and can be performed as a trio, duo or if too many cooks spoil the broth, set the table for one. High steak sizzling Entertainment!

CIRCUS FOR DUMMIES

Milo wants to upskill from a ping pong eating laughing Clown to a circus ring circus performer. His puppet friend Mini Milo tells him he needs to get a Circus Certificate by learning unicycling, juggling and diabolo circus tricks in a Circus for Dummies kit and magic instructional book. A bright, fun, energetic and humorous family show which also includes audience volunteer comedy magic, an engaging narrative and a big top full of interactive improvisation. The Fool Factory’s most popular and evolved show and character, which has been extensively performed thousands of times over decades! Certifiably Silly!

CLEOPATRA

Recreate the theatrics of Cleopatra, in her full golden splendour, featuring a stunning gem and stone adorned dress, cape and Egyptian Cobra headpiece. An intellectual scholar, debauched temptress with venomous bitting honour and the Queen of denial, as she believed herself to be the divine embodiment of a Greek goddess. Created for the National Museum of Australia Rome : City and Empire Exhibition and can be performed with a Caesar statue, a roman guard and a live snake. An enchanting antiquity influencer, with an empire of stone tablet followers!

CRANK THE CLOWN

This carney sideshow novelty is an amusement from a bygone time. Simply turn the mechanical crank and out pops a dark and twisted clown that the kids just love to torment. The more crank is cranked to more cranky he becomes until it ends in tears and he retreats back into his box. A class clown from the clown school of hard knocks this perturbed piñata persona is terrifyingly terrific for Halloween, coulrophobia purging therapy and perhaps the most horrific of events, children’s birthday parties. Perfect for playing tips "Your it!". “A nightmarish clown that makes that Pennywise look like Cinderella” (Canberra Times) Wind him up and set him off. He’s a Box of Laughs!

the CRICKETER

Little known 4th Chappell brother Chubs Chappell, has a spring in his step, and will bowl a maiden over with the perfect bouncer. Speaks more spin than he bowls, wider in the waist than on the pitch and loves to tamper with a three ball juggle hat trick. Can easily put on a quick tonne, down at the bowels club, then take it off with diuretics. This charismatic character will break a leg with his leg break and his witty sledging leave you stumped. How is he? A little silly mid off classic catch!

THE DROP BEARS

A pair of gruesome grizzlies generously dropped in from the circus heights of High Wire Entertainment to The Fool Factory family eucalyptus tree. These grim crims give Kenny Koala nocturnal nightmares by panicking picnicking families, stealing their Vegemite sandwiches, then playing gaslighting games on gullible overseas tourist, toying with them that best deterrent is Vegemite under the armpits. They can rove in drop bear hazard zones or be bungee rigged off trees, on shock chords for extra shock value! Book the drop bears to drop in for a free bear hug! Utterly unbearable!

dr unreal

A white vinyl clad transgenic biotechnologist from a utopian/dystopian near future, whose hybrid genetically manipulated mutant multicellular organisms blur the lines of the natural order. Their grotesqueness sure to invoke the uncanny valley response to the displeasure of their gene meddling maker, who has developed a phantom protective paternal connection to his genetically engineered trans-species specimens. Originally performed by splicing visual and performance arts recombinant DNA to promote the NGA’s Hyperreal exhibition featuring “The Offering” by Patricia Piccinini. Intelligentially designed comic genetic material!

the EMU

Flightless fowl Edwina the Emu has flown the coop leaving the incubation and chick care to Old Man Emu. She is an inquisitive and audacious creature, a real sticky beak as she scouts, stalks and forages for your food! She drinks like a horse and pees like a pooch. Two feathers per shaft make a thick coat of feathers and the additional of our Kangaroo character make an ozzie coat of arms. She can't fly, but I'm telling you, she can run the pants off a Kangaroo. An Emusing Bird!

ENDO the stunt clown

This red bull and pedal powered stunt seeking tragic trickster attempts miniature scale nitro circus style stunts on his pegged mini rocker bicycle motor cross, with his ode to joy, five musically tuned bike bells! Learns tricks on the fly by the seat of his pants, so wears the full regalia of body armour for his frequent endo stacks! He cycles through a full bike rack of wheeled machines including heelys, a penny farthing, a six foot unicycle and a unicycle made of six feet! Always leading from the front and capturing his epic fails for his followers, on his skate helmet mounted go-Pro. This Dinky die will take you for a ride. On yer bike!

ERNEST THE ELF

Ernest enthrals with naughty and nice ink stamps administration, Santa’s Workshop wooden mallet juggling and a variety of comical novelty presents including a stuck together falling present tower, matryoshka doll style nested presents with candy canes gifts and a bottomless present. No silent night as he jumps for Christmas joy on jumping stilts in a belled outfit and he also can play jingle bells with 20 tuned musical bells. Can perform roving or stage show Santa’s Gift. The silly seasons favourite fool.

the fasionista

Excessively effervescent and fabulously flamboyant fashionista, Carlo Carzarlus provides chic'ed but caring camp commentary on who is wearing who. He likes to stay ahead of the pack in the field of fashion, eagerly hunting down the latest on on trend elegant ensembles and hideous haute couture faux pas tragics. Paired with a real cameraman shooting actual footage, to create the convincing illusion of the filming of a real fashion show, with the option of post-production editing. Whether your guests have dressed to impress, express or depress Carlo will give them the five seconds of fame they secretly desire. He has a Fashion eye for every girl and guy. He just loves talking through his hatinator darling!

the FLAPPER

Fashionable flouting flapper Francesca Flammini is an out spoken staunch suffragette, liberationist and feminist intent on have fun while breaking the rules of conventional standards of behaviour. She mixes will all walks of life including latest fling underworld mobster Al Lamony who she keeps on tight reign by pulling his strings. What's a dame gotta do! Drinks, smokes and dances her worries away. An lioness of the Roaring Twenties!

the Flying fox

With remarkable bioengineered articulated splayed wings spanning 7 metres and at a height of 2.5 metres our spectacled flying fox hangs at the top of the tree as The Fool Factory’s most spectacular act. Crowned by a stunning head piece with remote controlled animatronic jaw, ears and eyes, this mega pest is anything but blind is a bat. But it doesn’t bat an eye lid when it has a giant delicious walking mango in its sights, but first it must outwit an over-protective Queenslander farmer to get its free lunch. Holly Fruit bats in the belfry Fruit-Batman!

FOOL FACTORY CIRCUS

A skilled and dynamic circus troupe, dressed in matching red and black circus costumes, featuring juggling, diabolo, trick sticks, staff, poi, acrobalance, acrobatics, hula hoop and hat manipulation. With matching red props for day shows and LED props for night shows. Can be booked for roving or shows with up to a dozen performers, although typically booked with 2-4 performers. Can be combined with Milo the Clown and our Ringmaster to create the full big top ensemble experience. Go for the jugular!

FOOL FACTORY CIRCUS (FIRE)

Set the night alight with blazing fire stunts from this ensemble of up to a dozen, flaming hot circus artists. These fireflies make fire fly and are pyro proficient in poi, staff, acro, juggling, hula hoop, fire fans and devil sticks. Add even more fuel to the fire with the combustion of authentic traditional West African influenced, drummer troupe Drumassault, to create an explosive upbeat djembe slapping, fiery circus spectacular. Can include a custom text fire sculpture. This act is always on fire!

FOOL FACTORY CIRCUS (GLOW)

After the sun sets this scintillating circus ensemble sparkles, as they flash around a range of programmable LED lit shimmering circus apparatus, including staff, clubs, balls, poi, hula hoop, diabolo and devil sticks, which can be mounted on a props display wall to create specular light show backdrop. Acrobatics can also be performed over, through and around some of the lit apparatus. Can be performed by up to ten highly skilled local circus artists to a funky electro swing soundtrack. Perfect for evening events or darkened rooms. Illuminating entertaining with glowing reviews!

the fops

This chic clique of affluent aristocratic foolish française fops indulge in depraved debauchery, gateau gluttony, historical haute couture and a gold gilded lavish luxurious lifestyle. Looking at themselves in the Palace of Versailles hall of mirrors as they preen and pose for selfie portraits, while looking down their noses at the impoverished Parisian peasant’s, denying them a fair slice of the cake. Yet in denial that their lives are a façade, as thin as their lead laden face make-up, destined to descend into debacle. Don’t be lose your head and make sure you get a slice of the action. Voilà! Magnifique avant-garde piece de resistance!

the FOX HUNTERS

A pair of giant booted jumping stilt, thoroughbred hobby horse riding, pompous toffy nosed aristocrat, father and son, fox hunters twits are hunting an elusive fox. As Fox hunting has been banned in the mother country these inbreds have travelled to the antipodes to help eradicate the feral pest their forefathers introduced. For the son capture of the fox will gratify his father and hopefully ensure the family estate will be bequeathed to him. Traditional fox sports enthusiasts!

the fruiterer

This Mediterranean marketeer is the supreme spruiker with an full Adam’s apple fruit basket of knowledge. He’ll give you a taste of his larger than life cutting comic caricature and his knife and apple juggling will ensure you get a piece of the action. This gregarious Greek green grocer can be peared with the Fool Factory’s forbidden fruits as he loves to tango with a mango and pip the cherry. An apple a day won’t keep him away!

the GANGSTER

Al Lamony a quintessential twenties kingpin gangster, maintains mob patriarchal power with cut throat juggling knifes as blunt as his demeanour, yet plays second fiddle to femme fatale friend Flapper Francesca Flammini. Disrespect this godfather and you’ll be in for a close shave. Never bring a tommy gun to a knife fight or you will be swimming with the fishes but a fish with his mouth closed never gets caught. Side splitting cutting comedy with a free set of steak knives!

the GARDENER

From little things big things grow and this huge horticulturalist has been eating plenty his own home grown produce. Avid gardener Neville Green is always eager to regale a lifetime of accumulated plant knowledge and trap obliging ears with endearing stories from bygone times. Be careful he doesn’t lead you down the garden path to the fairies in the bottom of his garden. Often attempts to stab garden pest Shelly the Snailwith his giant pitch fork, attend to companion plants The Pot Plantand The Sunflower and double as a farmer with The Fruit Batand The Mango. He insists on wetting the bed every evening. Two green thumbs up!

goliah the giant kangaroo

An ancient Australian animal brought back to life for the Sydney Olympic Games with unique and technologically innovative intelligent design including a stilt performer controlled articulated endoskeleton and a internal glove slider pot microprocessor controlled animatronic head! At 2.7m Procoptodon Goliah was the king of the kangaroos, and at a quarter of tonne, both the natural Pleistocene original and this much lighter theatrical contemporary replica couldn’t skip and was no whopper hopper, but could manage unguligrade bipedal locomotion. What’s that Goliah? Being super-sized means your stuck down an evolutionary dead end mineshaft? Goliah, Goliah, Goliah the Giant Kangaroo!

the GReat australian bite

A hearty cooking show featuring Henrik, a chef recently emigrated from Hungry, who has the half baked idea of opening a new family fun fast food stand, featuring such connoisseur culinary cuisines as hot dogs, egg & bacon rolls and potato chips using flash in the pan circus and magic cooking methods. This start up enterprise entrepreneur has a lot in his plate, balanced on a knife edge and predictably it all boils over. But he comes back for seconds, inspired to combine the remaining raw ingredients to recreate his generational family recipe Potato Frittata and turns up the heat in a triumphant magic smoke machine oven finale and gets his just desserts! A wholesome meal for the whole family!

THE GRIFFINS

The architectural godparents of the nation’s capital, Walter Burley Griffin & Marion Mahony Griffin are theatrically brought back to life as living statues in this historically significant act frozen in time. Far from being stony faced or set in their ways, the Griffins think beyond the monolithic stone age to "architecture that is the logical outgrowth of the environment”. Correspondingly they response jovially to the to their admiring public and are always willing to pose for a still. The Griffin’s rock!

the guru

When the disciple is ready the guru appears and this grandiose guru can lead you on the spiritual superhighway path to astral cloud transcendence. His comic cosmic subtle life force harnesses the spiritual vibrations of the universe through chants, a singing bowl and a melodica, which are captured on an electronic looper, creating an alluring aural aura. Devotees focus their minds eye on a transcendental smiley emoticon bathed in the luminous glory of a mellow yellow set. He effortlessly relinquishes worldly material burdens with a paywave gesture, accepts cash but indoctrinates that change must come from within. Commit yourself to the Guru and he will come to you!

the head shrink

What ever scares the pants off you, Psychotherapist Dr Phillic Phobia, will set you right as rain! With a lifetime of experience treating phobic anxiety disorders, this quack can head shrink a lifetime of woes, as your life flashes before your very eyes. His service includes a range of highly effective and controversial cognitive exposure therapeutic techniques. He can install a full clinic or rove with his mobile Heals on Wheels couch service including his mad minute medicine money back guarantee. Lie back and relax and let this grey genius peer under the bonnet of your grey matter and de-bug your inner psyche. What could go wrong? There is nothing to fear but fear itself!

the hippies

A Daisy chain of stilted hallucinogenic Hippies with giant denim and tie-dye flared suits giving out free group hugs, infectious optimism and protesting for peace! These bohemian beatnik brethren never miss a beat on their psychedelic ukuleles and tambourines, reminiscing with songs from their era. These people are strange and have been drinking the kool-aid while astral tripping in their VW. All they are saying is give organic macrobiotic peas a chance!

the IBISES

A enchanting stilt walking Ibis pair soar high above the crowd creating a sacred spectacle with an elegant combination of mask and stilt dance. But when these bin chickens flock for food they become quite peckish! These tip turkeys elongated biting bills will scab and nab your lunch and hair. Can be performed solo, with a Naturalist, or hit two birds with one stone and book a second ibis to fly south for the winter. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush!

the icans

A pair of mythical Peruvian ancient Ican artefacts, including an anthropomorphised supernatural warrior-god owl and a sacrificial symbolic half-moon bladed Tumi deity, are magically brought to life into the material realm. The dancing feminine warrior owl, in a splendid golden winged dress, rounds up and captures souls to be ritually beheaded by the golden robed Tumi executioner, then interred with dead members of the elite and lead into the afterlife. Don’t lose your head and sacrifice your events entertainment!

the jester

A hysterical highly strung medieval madman that loves to play the fool and the lutelele. He juggles wooden balls and speaks wooden puns, juggles knifes that are sharp is his wit, juggles the apple of your eye, and is the spark to lite the circus flame of your event. With a rich purple and mustard motley attire, with beautiful custom made leather jester boots and more bells than you poke a sceptre at he is Nobody’s fool, but with your regal benevolence, he is all yours and will execute your commands. Draw the joker in the pack!

the jockeys

A trio of big booted stilt jumping jovial jockeys, with thoroughbred hobby horses and colourful harlequin-ese authentic silks and helmets, like to trot about, horse around and pose for photo finishes. Perpetually trying to get ahead by a nose these show ponies are fierce rivals on the track but get off their high horse in the mounting yard. With such big legs to fill they are so hungry they have eaten their horses legs. As punters favourite, odds on this trio, with be the trifecta on your race day!

the jogglers

A team of jogglers jog and juggle in funny formations under the watchful eye of their taskmaster coach who has the tricky task of juggle these trio of trickers and stopping them run rings around him. Performed as a wildcard dorky demonstration sport at the Sydney Olympics this scatterbrained squad juggled a gruelling fun run schedule, but in the long run they threw the race! If you want some amusing athletics running and juggling your events entertainment then book the jogglers!

the KANGAROO

A big brown fluffy, cuddly, friendly kangaroo. What’s not to love? This Big Red poses for photos, shadow boxers, gives kangaroo paw high fours, then lazes back on the ground and chills. Skips on too much jumping as this particular breed can overheat quickly turning him into hopping mad road kill cull. Likes to hang with his Emu friend to form a kangaroo court coat of arms. What’s that skip? Let this flying kangaroo loose in your events top paddock?

the lAWN bowler

Jack Green is a formidable lawn bowels enthusiast and lifetime member of the Cullenundra Bowls Club. After 21 ends he’ll be sure to hook you in at the clubhouse bar, regaling whimsical tales from a bygone era until the early hours. His nitwit witticisms bowling many a curve ball, for Jack rolls with an unconscious bias, often skating on thin ice from both ends of the rink. A fact not lost on his unwavering wise wife Kitty, who remains in play with a strategic long game. When things come to a head, she doesn’t take it out on her hapless hubby, opting to trail the jack rather than ditch it. A crackerjack jackass!

the life savers

Beach life savers from the Lake Burley Griffin Bathers Surf Life Savers Club are on patrol protecting bathing patrons from the dangers of Canberra’s inland sea including the Regatta Point rip, Black Mountain break and the notorious and elusive Griffin Monster, which looks suspiciously like a sharks fin on a remote control car. They insist all recreational pursuits occur between the safety of the flags and distribute free nose zinc sunscreen for all. They are very willing to performed rescues and resuscitations as well as acro-balance to improve their visual reach. Can also adapted for your events local watering hole. A swell act!

the MANGO

This fruity fellow was created as perambulating prey for the Fool Factory’s giant flying fox character. This minimalist mascot rests on the ground like fallen fruit, until suddenly it wiggles, then rises, sprouting a pair of green legs, which it uses to flee to avoid being eaten! People love to hug the Mango perhaps to check if it’s ripe for the picking? Pick the low hanging fruit and add some taste to your events entertainment. Add the Fool Factory’s Pip the Cherry act to make a sweet fruit salad. It’s fruit loop mango madness!

the MARCHING BAND

These off-beat comic klutz’s earnestly attempt to keep step and time with military precision as they dutifully follow the leader to the front line. However predictably they devolve into playing the fool and the drums forever forming funny formations and frequently cannoning into chaos. This buffoon battalion can contain up to ten skilled percussionists and professional idiots, each adorning marvellous matching vintage theatrical solider costumes. These drummer boys and girls are the ideal ensemble to keep your troops in high morale. Super silly season soldiers!

MILO THE CLOWN

A quintessential comical circus clown, with a colourful quality costume. A ridiculous, hilarious, endearing character with bucket loads of improvisational spontaneity. Performs roving and stage shows with juggling, diabolo, unicycling, jumping stilts, magic and with a Mini Milo puppet. The Fool Factory’s most well know, respected and oldest act, a celebrity amongst preschoolers, with extensive experience from thousands of performances. The federal capitals favourite clown for over 25 years!

the MIMES

A pair of comic red and white mimes bring this classic performance art form to life. If a picture says a thousand words and these tight-lipped, tongue-tied troublesome tricksters are never lost for them. These mute meddlers, are the strong and silent type that let their actions do the talking with imaginary illusions, expressive physicalization and non-verbal improvisation and interaction to engage with their audience and each other. They will leave you speechless!

MR T. spoon

Terrance Spoon is an obsessive hoarder of souvenir spoons. With silver spoon in mouth, this silver tailed grey nomad has collected spoons from everywhere man, his Viscount Caravan and wife trailing behind him in a cloud of dust. His favourite spoons are geographically positioned, in their place of origin, on a giant portable map of Australia, each spoon telling its own sugar coated story. This eccentric enthusiast is the president of the Canberra Spoon collectors club and with a glint in his eye, he's hoping the glint of his spoons, will lure fresh fools he can spoon feed his doctrine too. Get your spoonful of spoonerisms dosage from this shinning whit!

MRS CAROL CLAUS

This Claus dynasty, divine diva, delights with angelic arias and string strumming in a beautiful burgundy and fur dress, that perfectly matches her husband’s attire. As her namesake suggests, Carol loves nothing more than leading a full wreath of little carollers in song, her majestic merry smile turning the frown upside down on the grumpiest of grinches. A gentle, unassuming persona who magically transforms her surrounds and strikes a chord where ever she wanders!

MRS CHRISSIE CLAUS

Behind every great Santa Claus is a greater Mrs Claus! Santa’s are a dime a dozen but this musical matriarch is one of a kind. Her presence preceded by permeating Piano Accordion merry melodies, which herald her arrival. She is a delightful character played by skilled and experienced musical and theatrical senior performer. Chrissie is actually her name! Her diverse Christmas carol collection compliments her endearing banter with young and old alike. Her joy to the world the perfect antidote for your silent night!

the NANNY

With a face only a mother could love this happy cross dressing granny knows best as she dispenses pearls of wisdom and necessary nit picking nanny nags to mummy’s boys and girls of all ages. With a handbag of tricks in hand, containing cosmetics, a mint of 5 cent pieces and the obligatory wooden spoon full of sugar, this magnanimous matriarch knows necessity is the mother of invention. Mum’s the word!

the nutcracker circus

A circus interpretation of the nutcracker is brought to life with this colourful, lively and playful duo. Featuring the rhythmic musicality and comic antics of a stilt walking snare drum playing nutcracker toy solider combined with the grace, strength and skill of a handstand contortionist nutcracker toy ballerina. This act can be booked as a duo to rove in procession and perform mini Christmas themed circus shows and can also be booked as solo characters. Booking skilled, authentic and iconic Christmas Entertainment is no longer a hard nut to crack!

the NATURALIST

Zany Zoology Professor from the Royal Imperial College of Natural Sciences, Sir Siegfried Hinklebottom, is on an antipodean expedition to unearth natural mysteries down under. He uses a giant net to trap and examine The Fool Factory’s many flora and fauna acts. Always readily shares his discoveries and imparts his enthusiasm and prodigious scholarly knowledge to the next generation of would be bug catchers. Learns from the net!

Ned Kelly

A stilt walking theatrical interpretation of this larger than life iconic Irish iron outlaw, modelled on the original armour and helmet design. If you’re a Kelly gang sympathiser book this famous folklore fellow to bush range you event and hold up the entertainment, guns blazing in his last stand. The country belongs to him and he’ll go where ever he pleases for he is a widow's son outlawed and must be obeyed. Better Ned than Dead!

O CHRISTMAS TRIO

O Christmas Trio. O Christmas Trio How are thy voices so harmonious? Because Leisa, Janelle and Lauren are experienced and trained singers, who when woven together, form a tight knit A cappella carol choir, who sing both traditional and modern interpretations in beautiful three-part harmony. Their top of the tree sense of rhythm, melody and harmony matched only by their playful sense of humour. The Fool Factory never count down the days until Christmas when we get to hang, on the Christmas tree, with these personable performers. These superb songstresses Christmas light up the room in elegant matching festive attire. Don’t stand under the Christmas Tree with anyone but O Christmas Trio!

the PANIC PATROL

Panic Attack Neutralization Infantry Corps are a convert paramilitary unit assigned to foresee, quarantine and neutralize public pandemonium due to farcical phantom threats of unknown origin. Forever hyper-vigilant, these highly sensitised men and women in black and white, are easily hair triggered. At the slightest whiff of danger they inadvertent whip up a hysterical panicked frenzy while attempting to keep the peace. These hapless hero’s come well equipped to maintain law and order, each with over-sized protective body armour, a headset mic public address system, a multi function siren and a belly button activated blue strobe helmet light. Keep Calm and Don’t Panic!

the PAPARAZZI

These retro glam tabloid journo's endow celebrity status on members of the public and are on the hunt for exclusive celebrity snaps with their comically oversized cameras. They ask probing questions, solicit revealing responses and coax and unravel the most sublime fake news scandalous exposés. Great for reporting at almost any event, perfect for red carpet functions plus they can take real photos. They give everyone five minutes (or seconds) of fame! What a scoop!

PIP THE CHERRY

A cheery cherry that walks and talks then transforms from a humanoid to a fruit by hiding inside itself. This delicious and nutritious theatrical treat is a flavoursome favourite for the young and young at heart. But being a harmless armless cherry isn’t always a bowl of cherries and if you want a piece of him, he’ll bruise easily and he might even get the pips! Don’t be yellow, or green with envy, Pip might be a little tart but soon he’ll be cherry ripe for the picking! Get your bite of the cherry on top before he’s got brown rot! Cheerio!

the pot plant

Herbo-Sapian Botanicus Locomotius Confabulatio Perfectious (or Herb for short) is not your every day garden variety walking talking pot plant. Herb loves his pot and never leaves home without it. A spectacular bioengineered maladaptation, self watered by the tickle down effect and self fertilized mostly through verbal manure. Perpetually in full bloom this botanic beauty is no shrinking violet. Take a leaf out of his book and he might leave.

the PRESENT

The present lies dormant, a chameleon blending with it’s festive surrounds. It shakes, stirs, a comical face emerges, the surprise present come alive, to the shock and delight of passers by. The present suitor then glides mysteriously across the floor to converse with would be recipients. Even through this cheeky character feels boxed in, it tries to live life in the present, despite being terrified it will be regifted on boxing day. A gifted gift!

the press gallery

A pair of twenties print journalists reporting on the politics of the day at the provisional Parliament House. These historical hounds sniff out the scandals, like flies on the wall of the chambers. Following the paper trail, reading between the lines, looking for the red flags and the devil in the democratic detail. They unwind their most sensational scoops loosening up Republicans with drinks from Publicans at the Members bar. They take sharp flashy snaps in sharp flashy suits which completement the written word which is typed then typeset to become the news of the day and the pages of history. The inside story is you’ll be hard pressed to find a more effective government whip!

professor bumblebore

This whacky wizard will spellbind you with manic magic, crystal ball manipulation and the peculiar potion of an quirky iron cast wizard goblet bubbling to the brim with dry ice, coupled with bubbling to the brim with dry wit from this nitwit potty professor. Part magic, part science but mostly ivory tower intelligentsia idiocy this bumbling bore madly muddles his way towards the masterful illusion that his existence serves a utilitarian function. Nine and three quarter stars!

psychodelic circus

A sixties love child spin circus spin off, of The Fool Factory’s Glow Circus and Hippies Acts. These ecstatic tie-dye dopes have LED battery powered glowing rainbow circus gear masquerading as LSD flower powered glowing rainbow auras. They experiment with staff, trick sticks, clubs, balls, hoops and get high on acro-balance, but if tripping they come down with chill pill. These nocturnal narcs are a dusk delight and will light up your night. Cleanse and open your events doors of perception to the greatest show on the astral world!

the real santa

The Real Santa’s beard, and endearing persona are firmly attached. Played by an elderly white bearded gentleman with extensive experience, so perfectly cast, he doesn’t even to act, yet always puts on a great show, keeping the magic of Christmas alive across the generations. For him the festive season lasts all year around and he is referred to as Santa where ever he goes. A cheerful, friendly, jovial character with a personality as big as his waistline. Why settle for Santa’s helper with it turns outs the Real Santa actually exists!

the REFEREES

These long-legged linesmen score a bird brain bird’s eye view as they officiate the action. Crowds boo these purblind bifocal buffoons for calling it how they see it. Throw the ball at them and they’ll throw the rulebook back at you. Backchat and be blindsided by being marched ten then getting another ten in the bin! These whistleblowers love adjudicating foul play, stacking a loaded deck of red and yellow cards, generously taking the extra time to give you the sent off you thoroughly deserve. All up a balls up foul up!

the Ringmaster

At over two metres tall, in a beautiful vintage burgundy equestrian top and tails, Maximus strikes a magnificent stature. This crazy character is the quintessential Ring-master of ceremonies and can perform either solo or with a big top of minions, such as Milo the Clown and the Fool Factory Circus Troupe. With whip cracking witticisms, precisely pronounced and punctuated pontifications and marvellous megaphone mutterings he’ll assure that of all the shows on earth, his is one of them!

the Ringmistress

Larger than life stilt walking ringmistress, Maxine the Magnificent towers over her rag-taggle rabble circus troupe as she whips them and her audience into a bread and circus frenzy as she sends in the clowns. This versatile venus can dictate over the rhubarb rhubarb humdrum with an acoustic megaphone, tap dance and even march to the beat of her own drum. A pontificating pronouncer and marvellous matriarch that makes the most majestic master of ceremonies. Suitable for the stage or street, solo or with the full three ring family or dark cabernet circus experience. Her show must go on!

the ROCKABILLIES

Larger than Life dysfunction dance duo, Long Tall Sal and Big Bad Ted, are non-stop be-bop-a-lula bopping and toe tapping fifties Rock ‘n’ Roll enthusiasts. They stilt dance to rockabilly music, played from a charming custom made portable Wurlitzer jukebox. Sal loves deep south dixie music and deep dixie fried food which goes straight innuendo when she goes way down south. Ted’s influenced by the Teddy Boys in both style and temperament and regularly is brought down by Sal’s swinging handbag. Rock the Joint!

the ROMAN

An authentic and visually stunning Roman Praetorian Guard featuring leather sandals, shoulder armour and legionary balteus, red subarmalis and tunic, brass helmet and muscle cuirass and a silicon sword. The Praetorian Guard were an elite unit of the imperial roman army and served as a small escort force for high-ranking officials. Created for the National Museum of Australia Rome : City and Empire Exhibition and can be performed as a guard for Caesar and Cleopatra characters. Ab's of brass! Gladiatorial Entertainment! Roaming Entertainment!

ROving MUsicians

A range of experienced and talented roving musicians suitable for a variety of events. Including Piano Accordionists, Alto Saxophonists, Violinists and more. They can rove as soloists or harmoniously band together. No stage or amplification needed for these mobile musos of note who can dress dress fancy and some in fancy dress. Not highly strung, but attuned to their surrounds, some are quite interactive and chatty with sharp wit and won’t B-flat.

SANTA

Performed by experienced and professional theatrical comic performers with a top quality suit and sack, authentic yak hair and a beautiful brass bell. We could also perform a good bad Santa but don’t ask Santa for a bad good Santa for Christmas. We a happy to offer silly season silly Santa’s but you’ll have to go call the south pole for festive season festy ones. Our Santa’s can’t fit down the chimney in the race to the bottom to the retired grand-father christmas rate. Our Santa’s are for wise kings bearing Santa’s big belly weight in gold! But he is worth it as he is the gift that keeps on giving. He's a real Christmas Cracker!

SANTA'S GIFT

A circus, magic and musical Christmas Show featuring the excitable Ernest the Elf. Every year Santa gets socks or undies for Christmas, but this year wants Santa’s Gift to be special. He opens every gift under the tree, each containing a comical Christmas surprise. At the 11th hour Ernest releases Santa would prefer the immaterial gift of a delightful 20 tuned jingle bell musical finale! The show includes a charming Christmas set and a snow machine that the kids love playing in after the show. This year Santa will be wrapped with Santa’s gift!

SEALREAL

Exquisite masked aquatic creatures, surreally juxtaposed with 18th century British navy admiral suits. Including a whiskered seal, stubby dolphin and a cheeky toothed fish out of water, guaranteed to bait and hook. The trio can be quite regal often gently strolling, schooling, meeting and greeting. Each mask has an articulated moving jaw for extra theatrical comical effect. Can be booked individually or as the full fisherman's basket. This act is a great catch! Don’t let it be the one that gets away!

SHELLY THE SNAIL

An endangered giant gastropod slides at snails pace, below the human hubbub, sensing it’s surrounds from a snails eye stalk view, munching slow food like a maladapted urbanised garden variety pest. Many are surprised by and drawn to this mighty mollusk, some thinking this hearty hermaphrodite is the real deal, not realising they are being lend down the garden path by a remote control escargot powered animatronic impersonator. Can be performed as a solo snail or companioned with a full garden bed of Fool Factory acts. More exciting than watching grass grow!

snowy the clown

Yolo bro! This silly skiing and snowboarding snow sports sectarian is no snowflake and won’t give you the cold shoulder. Often found high in the Australian Alps, after a quick dump, but avoids yellow snow cones. His snow blindness to his inability leaves him on thin ice and on a slippery slope, as his snow stunts snowball downhill into specy slapstick fails. He is never snow board juggling snowflakes and snowballs and can do a snow stage show. Cool snow man!

snowy'S snowy show

Snowy the Clown wants to do a snow sports show but Mrs Cloud (A remote control snow machine and water pump in disguise) rains on his parade. Snowy tries snow alternatives from his freezer including magic snow, science show, snow flake juggling and puppet snowman making. The show snowballs with Snowy playing Frosty the Snowman by bounce juggling “snow” balls on a giant custom made electric piano. Everyone snow dances then gets snowed under. It’s so chilled it’s cool.

SOLAR FLARE

A cyborg space probe from a dying galaxy surveys the terrain with it’s giant dish face then transmits data into deep space to prepare for a future alien invasion. A beautifully crafted sci-fi costume with 30 metres of micro-processor controlled imbedded bright blue LED side lit optic fibre and an on board sound system including digital delay voice effects, audio wave form noise generator and custom created space themed electronic music. Can be performed with the PANIC Patrol comic convert government security act. It’s from the future but here today

The sports fans

This team of foolish fanatic fans of any code, creed or colour, are the perfect loud addition to help capitalise on your home ground advantage. Perched on articulated stilts and adorning your team’s jerseys, caps and tribal face paint colours, these sporting sectarians will scream and shout while bashing percussive instruments to patron and promote your club’s performance. Over the top in both sound and stature these loutish lunatics will get the home crowd cheering, one way of the other. Always on the ball, this rowdy ramble are in league of their own and alway gives 110% until the final hooter!

The SQUARE BOUNCER

A short and sweet solo stage act, featuring bouncing juggling on four sides of a giant 2 x 2 metre wooden square, to creating nuanced Newtonian ballistic motion patterns. A natural side effect of this pleasurable physics phenomenon is the accompanying syncopated bouncing ball percussive rhythms, which when mic’d through an audio effects device creates synced surreal soundscapes. This act thinks inside the square, by putting on a different spin on bouncing off the wall, proving it’s hip to be square!

suction man

Is it a juggling plumber? Is it a nationalist Hollywood propaganda mouthpiece for the industrial military complex? No it’s Suction Man! Marvel at his questionable super power of harnessing atmospheric forces and love handle blubber to attempt feats of pure heroic idiocy thankfully never seen at a Children’s Birthday Party! This cheeky vigilante adheres plungers to parts his anatomy he probably shouldn’t, however the peer pressure to present his peculiar prowess to fight mainstream mediocrity weighs heavily on his shoulders. Can be performed as a short circus adult cabernet or a full show featuring a plunger throwing act! An act of such poor taste, it truly sucks!

the sunflower

Solaris is a cross pollinating and brown nosing potted sunflower who loves high fronds, foliage peek-a-boo and the birds and the bees but is unsure if they love him or love him not. This self fertilizing floral freak is genetically modified mistake, but you’ll be hard pressed to get any oil from him even though he is going to seed. Sunstroke has made this huge heliotropic helianthus a little potty. A blooming pansy!

the swaggie

This Jolly Swagman and been everywhere man wandering the countryside with his swaggie swagger. This smiling sundower prefers to arrive at beer o'clock where you can find him around the campfire and listen to a lifetime of yarns while the billy boils, wearing billabongs and drinking Coolabah. He'll roll out the swag and turn in early, wondering where the sun went, then it will dawn on him, and at the crack of dawn and he'll whip off in a jiffy, in search of his next free lunch. Even the tucker bag won’t silence this Australia Day lamb!

the tigress

This twisty tigress temptress is a fabulous femme fatale feline circus contortionist. A cat of nine tails, who risks her nine lives performing death-defying stunts. This tigress cannot change its stripes. Watch her righting reflex roar as this acrobatically agile big cat is comfortable landing, and balancing, on any set of claws. Her stunning strength, flexibility, grace, precision and eye of the tigress makes this top cat the lion queen.

the TOOTH FAIRY

Towering on stilts, with a massive hoop dress, this is not your average toothless tiger tooth fairy fluttering away at the bottom of the garden. She is keen to fang it and expedite enamel extraction, using giant comical pliers to get to the root of the most suborn of molars, with an incisive no-frills no-fuss tooth pulling mobile service. No wobbly teeth or wobbly stilts! She wants your pearly whites!

the TOY TROUPERS

Christmas entertainment missing in action, gone AWOL, fallen down like toy soldiers? Then call in reinforcements with up the full octave of identical theatrical toy soldiers in stunning matching vintage theatrical outfits. They can perform comic flash mob marching, statues, drumming or juggling with military precision. Wound up they are stronger than their sum. Pa rum pum pum pum. They march to the beat of a different drum. Pa rum pum pum pum. Trooper troupers!

the TRAM CONDUCTORS

These bumbling buffoons are completely unaware their labour is obsolete as they check tickets in search of fare evaders and administer fair fare fines. With conductor sticks in hand they also attempt to be punny tram conductors, oblivious to the fact they are actually on a Light Rail Vehicle, sometimes even going as fair as self conducting their, or their passengers, musicality. They tower above passengers yet stoop to fit in, generally conducting themselves in a ridiculous manner on public transport.

the TURRELLIANS

A pair of abstract, avant garde glowing beings bop and slide about curiously interacting and engaging with their surrounds. They tower on articulated stilts with a giant 2x2 metre square pyramid lycra costumes which are internally it by performer controlled colour changing LEDS. A bizzare and visually stunning night roving act. Inspired by and created for a James Turrell exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia. Animated Arty Archetypes

the umpires

A long leg legion of unorthodox umpires, put their bodies on the line by marching in procession, dancing in unison and posing for the third umpire. With silly mid off match fixing, deadpan dead balls, devised dismissals and adjudications that spin the laws of the International Cricket Council in the highest court of appeal, these outrageous officials won’t bail out the nightwatchman and let bad light stop play. Never stumped with cutting comedy these Umpires are a catch. Hit your event entertainment for six and book the umpires! Howzat?! Bye. Over and Out.

VEGAS INSTANT WEDDINGS

Hearing wedding bells and wanna get hitched on a whim? Wanna tie the knot and get legally bound? Looking for the icing on your instant wedding cake mix? Dispense tradition, now anyone can instantly wed anything with this kitsch pop up wedding service. Complete with a massive heart shaped floral arch, bride & groom accessories, celebrant, photographer, live musician, freebee wedding rings and a lifetime of regrets. Don’t miss this unique opportunity and vowel to commit to be next in line to catch the bouquet. The only prerequisite is your misconceived lust and paypal password. We promise to bend over backward to guarantee 100% bridezilla consummation satisfaction!

the WHITE BUTTERFLIES

A pair of spectacular stilt walking butteries tower high above the crowds fluttering gracefully along and enwrapping passers with theirhuge flowing wings. They also feature beautifully crafted white heads and bodies creating a simple striking visual effect.Based on the accidentally introduced species Pieris rapaebut known colloquially as White Cabbage Butterflies, these elegant insects enchant and entrance entomologists of all ages. The Butterflies will give you butterflies!

the WHITE rabbit

Follow the white rabbit through the looking glass, but don’t fall behind as this rushing rabbit has a spring in each jumping stilt hop. His harebrained hijinx and ludicrous lunacy will have you grinning like a Cheshire cat. Don’t be hopping mad and put all your eggs in one basket and count your bunnies before they have hatched. And don’t be late for a very important date, like an unbirthday or a rebirthday. Hop to it and book this big bouncy bunny beauty. He’s 24 Carrot Gold!

the ZOMBIES

A blood bonded circus troupe of zany zombies who perform deathitifying tricks of the undead. They always go out on a limb and put their bodies in the line, with jaw dropping and side splitting acrobatics, fire, knife and chainsaw juggling plus any other amusements they care to dig up to unearth. These braindead corpses never corpse on stage and won’t stumble in the face of death, when they break a leg. These malleable monsters can form frighteningly fun flash mobs or feature in a circus spectacular with other creepy characters including Crank the Clown. Horrifically harrowing Halloween humour that the whole family will be dying to get a piece of!