Sonkkila’s Fruition has found a fitting home at the Mill’s Breakout, a small venue that’s home to weirdly wonderful, experimental and straight-up bizarre talent.

The zesty one-woman show comprised of vignettes that spoke to a broader theme of eating an orange however you like, judgement be damned.

Sonkkila shows her comedic comfort zone can look different, from a warm-up Woolies – sorry, supermarket – attendant doing stand-up to extremely confident dancing.

Audiences should be warned there is consistent participation throughout the show: you could be called upon to hold space for Sonkkila, don a pair of flippers, or even juice an orange. As a reviewer who normally shrivels up and avoids eye contact with performers in these elements of a show, Sonkkila’s encouraging crowd work and non-threatening invitations made me unfurl.

While most scenes follow a theme of creating a joyous fruit salad, the crowd is kept on our toes with the most nonsensical of jellyfish love stories weaved in (which prompted me to google ‘is there a Jellyfish fruit’ immediately after exiting the theatre).

Some sombre moments don’t quite achieve what they set out to, as Sonkkila tries to deepen the mood in a show that’s otherwise driven by a fierce, joyful, and at times borderline pornographic love of fruit.But not all things are that deep, and even within the more disjointed scenes are moments of magic.

Sonkkila is wholeheartedly unembarrassed in Fruition, and has created a whacky show that gets at the heart of the Adelaide Fringe. It will leave you laughing, and wondering ‘what the hell did I just watch’ — like all good Fringe is supposed to.

Fruition is at the Mill’s Breakout Theatre until Saturday, March 8

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