At the height of its popularity, in that halcyon pre-COVID world, Perth's Fringe World festival drew performers from all over the world and attracted total audiences well in excess of half a million people.
However, for the past two years, the festival — still the third-biggest fringe event in the world — has been held in the shadow of a pandemic, and has had to scale back accordingly.
With West Australian border closures in both 2021 and 2022, Fringe World was forced to rely on local talent and local audiences to stay afloat.
