Rob Carlton
Virgin in a Knife Fight
Winner Theatre & Performance Weekly Award 2026 Perth FRINGE WORLD
Logie-winning The White Lotus actor Rob Carlton returns with a new dramatic comedy: VIRGIN IN A KNIFE FIGHT.
My show is about the different surprises we get at different times of life. When we’re young it’s the world coming at us that can freak us out. I was 18 years old hitchhiking around Europe when a man came at me with a knife! A few years later it was me that surprised me – with my own bad behaviour. A few years after that a mate went to court and pulled off a heist we still can’t believe. And when I was 50 the shock came from loved ones, the fear came from within and it reminded me how strange and wiggly and wonderful life can be.
VIRGIN IN A KNIFE FIGHT is four true stories with four different moments of reckoning. It’s packed with laughs but gets into the messy stuff that surprises us, making life rich. Once again, it’s just me and a black chair.
'Carlton is a born, extremely gifted and consummate storyteller! He has a power and magic about him that magnetises! ★★★★★' Glam Adelaide
★★★★★ Perth Happenings
★★★★½ Fringefeed
★★★★ The List
You’ve seen Rob Carlton on The White Lotus, Black Snow, North Shore, Boy Swallows Universe, A Moody Christmas, Blue Heelers, All Saints, Water Rats and Home and Away. This show has nothing to do with any of them.
Suitable for audiences 15+
Language – occasional coarse language
Low Visual
Winner Theatre & Performance Weekly Award 2026 Perth FRINGE WORLD
Logie-winning The White Lotus actor Rob Carlton returns with a new dramatic comedy: VIRGIN IN A KNIFE FIGHT.
My show is about the different surprises we get at different times of life. When we’re young it’s the world coming at us that can freak us out. I was 18 years old hitchhiking around Europe when a man came at me with a knife! A few years later it was me that surprised me – with my own bad behaviour. A few years after that a mate went to court and pulled off a heist we still can’t believe. And when I was 50 the shock came from loved ones, the fear came from within and it reminded me how strange and wiggly and wonderful life can be.
VIRGIN IN A KNIFE FIGHT is four true stories with four different moments of reckoning. It’s packed with laughs but gets into the messy stuff that surprises us, making life rich. Once again, it’s just me and a black chair.
'Carlton is a born, extremely gifted and consummate storyteller! He has a power and magic about him that magnetises! ★★★★★' Glam Adelaide
★★★★★ Perth Happenings
★★★★½ Fringefeed
★★★★ The List
You’ve seen Rob Carlton on The White Lotus, Black Snow, North Shore, Boy Swallows Universe, A Moody Christmas, Blue Heelers, All Saints, Water Rats and Home and Away. This show has nothing to do with any of them.
Suitable for audiences 15+
Language – occasional coarse language
Low Visual
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