What are the sounds of the city of Newport? ‘Port Vibrations is a sound installation created by the participants of Youth Art Collective’s ‘Newport Sound Explorers’ programme. Take a moment to slip on some headphones and be immersed in the sounds created and recorded with and in response to the city’s evolving soundscapes. This project has been supported and funded by Ty Cerdd.

Join Public Theatre and Past Port Tours for an immersive Walking Tour like no other across the City Centre, as we explore the history of some of Newport’s most iconic buildings and listen to their stories…how they remember it!

Noise is confronted with having to deal with two complex areas of life for a neurodiverse person; change and social connection. Minimalistically surreal in it's approach, it has been described as a blend of Fleabag and The Sandman series.

Darkly funny, painfully relatable, and full of heart, it lays bare the chaos of juggling ageing parents, kids, grandkids and work — while quietly falling apart in the middle. Come laugh, cry, and feel seen.
Trigger warning: some bad language and scenes which might upset.

One part swimming down childhood memory lane and one part nerdy info-dumping about sex-switching fish, Kobudai asks the question on everyone's minds 'if fish can do it... why can't i?'

This show is a theatrical drag performance including songs, stories and glamour, set in a surrealist world of supernatural beings, magic and mystery. Includes themes of death, demons and blurring the lines between fantasy and reality.

Introducing Creative Curations Artist in residence 2026! This show will develop in the two weeks leading up to the Fringe.

The two-headed calf will be dead by morning, what will he do with his one starry starry night to live?

In this sexy and divinely stupid adventure, the doomed two-headed-calf is portrayed by two inseparable she/they clown dykes. Complete with opera, a shaky bicycle ride, a medley of cow sex-capades, and an enraged Aphrodite (what’s this about a masc-shortage?) - this freak of nature’s romp around Le Pub is sure to be something.

You are invited to vote for your local candidate DAME ZIONESS FLAGSHAGGER whose witty charm and weaponized nonsense will draw you into your ultimate complicity.
Expect, misinformation, misdirection, party tricks and uncomfortable laughter!"

Show your support to people whose voices need to be heard. Join in sharing awareness, craft resistance and solidarity in unity with the people in Iran protesting for their human rights and freedom.
If you have any wool, fabric you would like to donate to Azadi, we would be very grateful of any kind donations.
Raising funds for ‘Center for Human Rights in Iran.’
#FreeIran #ProtestPomPom

Jenna Kearns is a disabled Welsh singer-songwriter from South Wales. Writing and performing since her teens, her music is rooted in lived experience, exploring mental health, medical trauma, and chronic illness. Supported by BBC Horizons projects her recent singles ‘I Wasn’t Ready’ and ‘My World Don’t Look Like Yours’ introduce her forthcoming EP.

His stripped-back live show highlights emotive vocals, honest lyrics and warm melodies, offering Newport Fringe audiences an intimate, heartfelt performance. Previous local performances include Countdown to Christmas 2025, Newport Music Trail and Newport Food Festival.

Mamadou brings the rhythms of the kora, djembe and bala, joined by a playful Baffoon and his talking drum. With decades of theatre, clowning and street performance experience, this dynamic duo weave music, humour and spontaneous storytelling into an unforgettable live performance full of surprise, connection and delight.

A cautionary tale where two sisters are tempted by a magical pear drum and discover the dangers of being naughty. The piece will blend uncanny handcrafted puppetry with a storybook, and a gothic aesthetic.

Introducing Creative Curations Artist in residence 2026! This show will develop in the two weeks leading up to the Fringe.

It's the year 1997 and two young people haven't a care in the world aside from whether or not their Giga Pets will work after Y2K and what to do until the streetlights come on.

Dawns Dawns Dawns brings you 90's nostalgia wrapped in a huge hopscotch board and high energy dance moves to excite and captivate!

Join Public Theatre and Past Port Tours for an immersive Walking Tour like no other across the City Centre, as we explore the history of some of Newport’s most iconic buildings and listen to their stories…how they remember it!

Introducing Creative Curations Artist in residence 2026! This show will develop in the two weeks leading up to the Fringe.

Drawing the Tether (wt) is a two-person performance piece by Nora Ireland and Ruby (Ru) LeStrange. The two invite you to join them for an intimate sharing of their work of the unusual circus discipline they call Skull Suspension - suspending themselves by their hair and mouth.

Join them as they dance on the edges of their own boundaries and offer a unique perspective on collective resilience with care, tenderness and play.

She is here looking for a co-star, so B. ready to play and get movie-ing.

Slow dance or disco vibes, whip out your most iconic moves!

Two new works created by unexpected opera makers telling new and relevant stories.

“Like living in a movie whilst watching a movie”

Discover opera like never before: bold animation, music, story and striking street-art. Projected onto The Place, listened to on silent disco headphones, showing after dark and free of charge.

Averting gays is a clown exploration of shyness, secrecy and visibility.

This show is for the bookworms, the tonguetied, the sweaty palmed and the last ones up at karaoke.

Sputnik’s solo ukulele shows are a surreal/vaudeville experience…audience
participation is encouraged!

The pursuit of pleasure calls, you are invited.
A space to be our best selves in our final hour.

Audience participation and loud noises sought.

A new and exciting creative adventure between Newport’s Das Clarks and Freiburg’s Cargo Theatre that will make your toes tap and your heart sing. After the end how shall we begin again?

Introducing Creative Curations Artist in residence 2026! This show will develop in the two weeks leading up to the Fringe.

On a faraway planet made completely of trash, a peculiar creature wades through the remnants of humanity. This is no ordinary trash heap, but a graveyard for wasted time, wasted space, and wasted potential.
When you shove away those nasty old memories and bag up your ratty clothes, where do they really go?
Wasted is presented by Jean, a shape-shifting alien drag thing who has performed at venues across London and NYC, including the National Theatre, Slipper Room, EartH Hackney, The Divine, Clapham Grand, Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club and Dalston Superstore. Since their drag birth in March 2024, they won Top of the Slops Season 4, was a finalist in Europe’s biggest drag king competition, Man Up! and has been featured in Up After Dark, LMAOnaise, and named Love Queers Top 100 of 2025

Find the crew and help them offer their catch of the day to the mighty Sea Cods. Through shanties, rituals and slippery mischief, join in sending their prized fish on a journey into the next life. A walkabout performance in Newport City Centre.

Get your eye in, you’re going to be drawing. Get comfortable, you’re going to be drawn. Looking/Not Looking is an invitation to the life room and then the other little room just beyond that.

A creative collaboration in movement and art making that weaves its way through Belle Vue Park and into Plot 4 – ending with a feast from Plot 4 community members in curry, cake and more!

+ Communal curry cooking event with Venkat

This performance raises awareness on stimming and what this might look like on a every day basis, using movement and vocals to tell the story.

It looks back over a life well-lived and ponders what might come next. It is a celebration of elderhood, the crone and the Wise Woman

Exploring the difficulties of an adolescent with mental health difficulties and the struggles she endures dealing with them and their impact upon her life. It is a harrowing account from the fringes of modern life.

David and Kate (ex lovers) have to got on a journey avoiding dangerous London to find David’s mum. On the way there find a small cottage in the middle of the country side, and in that cottage they find a baby, helpless and lonley. An obstacle, a love rival.

Introducing Creative Curations Artist in residence 2026! This show will develop in the two weeks leading up to the Fringe.

This project aims to bring a pleasing terror to the people of Newport by seeking out the ghost stories lurking in the dark corners of the city.
Through a series of workshops and conversations, Playwright Owen Thomas will help to turn these dark tales into monologues. The completed pieces will be curated into an evening at ‘The Murenger’ Pub where two skilled actors will bring these haunting tales to life.

If you have a Newport ghost story that you would like to share then please email theghostsofnewport@gmail.com