MOTORBOAT
WINNER: Best Comedy Overall Award, Adelaide Fringe 2024
WINNER: Weekly Award for Best Comedy, Adelaide Fringe 2024
WINNER: Hollywood Fringe Tour Ready Award, Adelaide Fringe 2024
NOMINEE: Golden Gibbo Award, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2024
Motorboat is Mel McGlensey’s multi-award winning debut clown show. Directed by Sharnema Nougar with game design consultation by Douglas Wilson, MOTORBOAT is a silly, sexy, stupid hour coming to a festival near you! Batten down the hatches, winch the sails and seal your porthole! It's time for the silliest, most outrageous, nautical show ever made where a woman gets onstage and pretends to be a boat for an hour.
Click here for the MOTORBOAT Media Kit.
Here’s what reviewers have had to say about it…
★★★★ “Mel McGlensey’s hour of nautical nonsense is a glorious feat of clowning.” - The Age
★★★★★ “Motorboat is unlike anything I have ever seen or experienced before… This silly, stupid and ridiculously outrageous show is her best one yet. Mel McGlensey is a star.” - LILITHIA REVIEWS
★★★★ “Imagine a female Benny Hill, delightfully titillating while masterfully clowning, and smiling complicity… if you want to know what the Fringe is all about: innovation and pushing the arts to new heights, then make sure you book a ride on this cruise ship, Mel’s Motorboat.” - Clothesline Magazine
★★★★ “Highly recommended“ - Merv Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe (Edinburgh Fringe 2024)
★★★★ “A delightfully bizarre journey… Unabashedly sexual and silly, McGlensey is hilarious from the very first honk of the horn to the final climax… a fresh and fearless brand of physical comedy... MOTORBOAT sweeps you up, spits you out, and leaves you wondering why your face hurts so much.” - The List
“McGlensey is hilarious, over-the-top, and perfectly playful. Every moment presents an opportunity for humour in this work and every interaction with audience members provides plenty of delightful surprises.” - Theatre Travels
“With her Betty Boop voice and a nautical burlesque costume, Mel McGlensey really knows how to dominate a room… Masterfully interactive, inclusive and very cute. Forget about Captain Daddy and the nasty old dock, come swim in the waters of sex positivity.” - British Comedy Guide, Bobby Carroll's Fringe Diary
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MOTORBOAT @ Perth World Fringe 2025
You can catch Mel McGlensey’s MOTORBOAT at Perth Fringe:
Dates 1-16th Feb
Time 9:10pm (60 minutes)
Venue The Pleasure Garden - The Parlour
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MOTORBOAT @ Adelaide Fringe 2025
You can catch Mel McGlensey’s MOTORBOAT at a Adelaide Fringe Festival M
Dates 4-16th March
Time 8:00 pm (60 minutes)
Venue Gluttony - The Bally
More show dates and details to come!
Stay tuned, sailors.