9 Lives – Sydney Fringe Festival

A chaotic comedy show where a man dies nine ridiculous deaths, haunted by a tiny lizard, in this anarchic pairing of laughter and the macabre
9 Lives is a brand new chaotic solo clown show built around nine ridiculous and seemingly unrelated deaths. Dizzy (award-winning creator of The Giant Balloon Show and 80s Party Gameshow) bounds through a series of absurd scenarios—part magic act, part fitness class, part audience experiment—driven by one important question: can this get any more stupid?

Lurking throughout is Elizabeth: a tiny toy lizard and an unstoppable, deeply unpleasant horror villain. With minimal set and maximum commitment, the show swings between high-energy audience play, mock horror, and moments of truly unnecessary stupidity.

What begins as pure silliness gradually spirals into something stranger. As the deaths stack up and the pattern becomes clear, the show pivots—only to immediately undercut itself with something even more ridiculous.

Absurd, unpredictable, and packed with laughs, 9 Lives is a joyful, anarchic celebration of failure, chaos, and things going very, very wrong—again and again and again.