
Sydney Fringe Festival: The Cardinal Rules
27 March 2026 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm AEST

Thoroughly relatable humour, staggering humanity…and pushy Aunties from the ancestral plane!
Engulfed by nostalgia, a woman stands at the funeral of a primary school friend that she hasn’t seen in years. As she remembers her 90’s childhood in a close-knit suburban Catholic community, she questions how their lives diverged. When two Aunties from the ancestral plane rupture her sheltered reality, she is forced to re-evaluate her understanding of everything she thought she knew.
An unlikely coming of (middle) age story about facing the uncomfortable realities of the past and living in the present.
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