The all-female Melbourne comedy group is back at the Adelaide Fringe with a show for the tired modern-day feminist (Image: Marlie McNamara).
By Marlie McNamara | @marliemcnamara
The sketch trio, Sugar Bits’ loud screeching voices echo through the speakers, directly into your skull at the start of Feminist Trash, making you question what you signed up for.
Feminist Trash has it all.
Mixing crude middle school humour with powerhouse vocals and dramatic costume changes, each sketch draws you further into Sugar Bits’ world until you feel hooked completely.
The performance is showing in a small tent in Gluttony with an intimate atmosphere that makes it feel as though you are back in a year nine drama class.
The immature humour interwoven through heavy topics makes Feminist Trash an easy yet thought-provoking watch.
Through the comedy trio’s musical numbers, the audience is transported into witch trials, urinals, pro-life choirs and the deep hillbilly south.
The result is an hour of reflective comedy that makes you feel okay to be a bad feminist sometimes, because they make light of the impossible standards feminists are set to meet.
Expect “smell my finger” jokes, lots of costumes, heavy eye contact and meaningful reflections on what it means to be a modern-day feminist.
Through the complete idiocy of the Feminist Trash sketches, Sugar Bits poke fun at themselves and the ridiculous world around them.
They pose the question — aren’t we all sometimes trash?
I recommend bringing along a boyfriend, boy friend or your dad for an hour of laughs that will probably start a heated argument in the car on the way home.
Sugar Bits are: FEMINIST TRASH is showing at the Bally in Gluttony for their final show for the 2026 Adelaide Fringe on Sunday, March 22.