Elf Lyons
Swan
Winner Best Comedy Award & Pick of the Fringe 2024 Adelaide Fringe
Winner Best Comedy 2025 Sky Arts Awards
Winner ISH Comedy Award for Best Show 2024 Edinburgh Fringe
Winner Comedians’ Choice Award 2024 Edinburgh Fringe
Winner Mervyn Stutter’s Spirit of the Fringe 2024 Edinburgh Fringe
Nominee Edinburgh Comedy Award 2017
The giraffe-limbed icon and Gaulier-trained harlequin Elf Lyons brings her cult classic, critically acclaimed, one-woman punk reimagining of Swan Lake to Australia.
The show involves ballet, violence, wrestling, nudity, an evil owl, magic, 45 bras and a very loose grasp of the French language.
Other than that, it's a very traditional stand-up comedy show performed by a woman.
‘One of the 50 Funniest Comedians of the 21st Century.’ The Telegraph (UK)
‘Frankly brilliant… praise her genius-and go.’ ★★★★★ The Telegraph (UK)
‘Expert clowning that’s by turns charming, silly, touching and catastrophic.’
★★★★ Sunday Times (UK)
‘This is comedy as enchantment.’ ★★★★ The Scotsman
★★★★★ Broadway Baby (UK)
★★★★★ Starburst
★★★★★ Quintessential Review
★★★★★Three Weeks
★★★★★ Edinburgh Festival Guide
★★★★★ One4Review
★★★★★ The Skinny
★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★ Chortle
★★★★ The List
★★★★ Fest Mag
★★★★ Adelaide Advertiser
★★★★ Evening Standard
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Strictly for audiences 18+
Audience participation
Haze
Language – strong coarse language
Nudity
Strong sexual references
Winner Best Comedy Award & Pick of the Fringe 2024 Adelaide Fringe
Winner Best Comedy 2025 Sky Arts Awards
Winner ISH Comedy Award for Best Show 2024 Edinburgh Fringe
Winner Comedians’ Choice Award 2024 Edinburgh Fringe
Winner Mervyn Stutter’s Spirit of the Fringe 2024 Edinburgh Fringe
Nominee Edinburgh Comedy Award 2017
The giraffe-limbed icon and Gaulier-trained harlequin Elf Lyons brings her cult classic, critically acclaimed, one-woman punk reimagining of Swan Lake to Australia.
The show involves ballet, violence, wrestling, nudity, an evil owl, magic, 45 bras and a very loose grasp of the French language.
Other than that, it's a very traditional stand-up comedy show performed by a woman.
‘One of the 50 Funniest Comedians of the 21st Century.’ The Telegraph (UK)
‘Frankly brilliant… praise her genius-and go.’ ★★★★★ The Telegraph (UK)
‘Expert clowning that’s by turns charming, silly, touching and catastrophic.’
★★★★ Sunday Times (UK)
‘This is comedy as enchantment.’ ★★★★ The Scotsman
★★★★★ Broadway Baby (UK)
★★★★★ Starburst
★★★★★ Quintessential Review
★★★★★Three Weeks
★★★★★ Edinburgh Festival Guide
★★★★★ One4Review
★★★★★ The Skinny
★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★ Chortle
★★★★ The List
★★★★ Fest Mag
★★★★ Adelaide Advertiser
★★★★ Evening Standard
Reviews just in
Strictly for audiences 18+
Audience participation
Haze
Language – strong coarse language
Nudity
Strong sexual references
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