Why is it only kids get to have all the fun with bubbles? Fear not, Bubble Show for Adults Only – the cult theatre hit performed around the globe – is here for Melt Festival! It’s now playing at the West End Electric and runs to 9 November 2025.
The West End End Electric is also the home of hit sensation of a show and Brisbane fave, Blanc De Blanc Encore.
How do you make a bubble show for mature audiences without having families and children lining the front row? After all the term ‘bubble show’ brings up childhood whimsy and play, the perfect show to bring your kids too.
But what if you wanted to make a bubble show for grown ups, something playful, naughty, surreal? Something that leaves a playful party goer howling for more and theatre connoisseur dissecting a depth of meaning as try to resist the urge to cheer along?
Perhaps it’s in a name and as simple as putting the two magic words ‘Adults Only’ in the title. That magic realisation by performance artists and professional bubbleologists Iulia Benze and Kurt Murray led to the creation of Bubble Show for Adults Only. It’s a high energy, visual spectacular that has blown minds and bubbles across the globe from the UK to Australia.
Having won Best Show in Newcastle Fringe, weekly awards for circus and variety in Perth, Adelaide and Sydney Fringe alongside a slew of 5 star reviews and sold out houses, it’s clear people love this show.
Artistic, mind bending, side-splittingly funny and filled with stunning hi-level bubble skills. Bubble Show for Adults Only is an hour of bubbles across nine vignettes, each capturing a different story from hilarious to hedonistic, themed with different styles of bubbles.
Bubbles on bodies, giant bubble tubes executed by 9 inch heels, displays of bubble art executed with hands, bubbles with smoke flying up to the ceiling, twirling carousels, bubble cubes, free standing foam tentacles, giant screens of bubbles shimmering like living art, all executed by two of the most shredded performers you will see this Melt Festival!
Bubble Laboratory (Kurt Murray and Iulia Benze) is a five star reviewed, award-winning theatre company that creates bubble performances for theatre stage, film and TV, having as main focus innovation and theatrical development of the art of bubbles.
Every year Bubble Show for Adults Only travels all over the world – sharing love, fun and joy with bubble artistry alongside their children’s spectacular, Bubble Show in Space. Together, these two shows are presented over 200 times a year.
If you dare to have the time of your life and discover that childlike love of bubbles is still alive and well within you, treat yourself, your friends or significant other one night to Bubble Show for Adults Only.
Bubble Show for Adults Only runs to 9 November at The West End Electric as part of Melt Festival 2025. 125 Boundary Street West End Qld 4101.
TIckets: https://www.melt.org.au/events/bubble-show-for-adults-only/
Website: https://adultbubbleshow.com/
Socials: https://www.instagram.com/bubbleshowforadultsonly/
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SHOW IS RATED: MA
Content warnings: Haze, Coarse Language, Verbal Audience Interaction, Physical Contact with Audience Members, A lot of Bubbles, Sexual Themes.
