Marshall Lorenzo’s ‘Decadunce’ Puts The Fun In Financial Stupidity
Image: Poster for Marshall Lorenzo's 'Decadunce'. Credits: Sydney Fringe Festival / sydneyfringe.com
Packed with deeply silly bits, increasingly unhinged characters, and a whole lot of financial irresponsibility, ‘Decadunce‘ is nothing short of a fabulously frivolous time.
Kiwi comedian and writer Marshall Lorenzo, with plenty of time spent on the sketch circuit and writing for Drag Race Canada, brings his award winning one-man show to Sydney Fringe Festival 2026 as the closing chapter of his Baby Gorgeous trilogy.
Armed with the perfect name, an all baby blue fit and sixty minutes, Lorenzo takes the absolute piss out of consumerism and convenience in today’s world of ever growing excess in his newest comedy sketch showcase.
Deeply silly yet relatable, Decadunce is a show for all, especially if you have a problematic relationship with Afterpay.
From miserable Harvey Norman employees desperate for eye contact to Europop bangers about Ubering everywhere despite an overdraft account, Lorenzo has the audience cackling nearly non-stop.
It’s nonsense, really, but brilliantly committed nonsense that feels bizzare specifically Sydney-flavoured. Lorenzo is a born entertainer who hits the nail on the head, with comic timing that leaves your gut busting before you can clock the wind-up to the next gag.
His physicality is just as strong, shifting between squinting, wide-eyed, lethargic and chaotic characters with little more than a change in voice, posture or expression.
Whether he’s embodying a twink pledged to Satan in exchange for the perfect body or an Icelandic sleep app, thick vaguely European accent included, even a brief struggle to get the words “ketamine foam” out, Lorenzo is effortless in his performance.
The stripped-back production gives him plenty of room to run riot. Qtopia’s Substation provides an intimate basement setting, with little more than a chair, sparse lighting and cleverly employed sound effects.
The show is also padded with interludes backed by some of the gayest remixes doubling as transitions, with Lorenzo busting moves in the dark between sketches while the audience, as they do with almost all he does, happily eats it up.
At less than an hour, Decadunce doesn’t overstay its welcome. It knows what it is, gets on with it and gets out before the joke wears thin.
With razor sharp takes delivered in the the most ridiculous way, the result is a gem of a sketch show that’ll make you laugh rather than cry at the state of our world, even if just for a while.
For the gays, a group of mates and anyone looking for a fun night out with a glass of wine, plenty of laughs and a few questionable financial decisions, Decadunce is a bloody good time.
Decadunce ran till 19 September at Qtopia as part of Sydney Fringe Festival 2026.
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