“We Can’t Stop Here This Is Bat Country” – Hunter S. Thompson.

Musician, poet, performer, dreamer, comedian and certified student of life – Tomi Gray was once quoted as saying, “I honestly do believe that if more of us dabbled more frequently with psychedelics – we would be in a vastly different boat than what we are now”.

Well, we managed to get ourselves a one-way boarding pass onto this “vastly different boat” as the audience of the Infamous Theatre boarded Tomi’s Gray’s Trip for the very first time on Sunday, 15^th of March 2026.

Whilst it became increasingly difficult throughout the show to discern whether or not Tomi Gray’s Trip was inspired by psychedelics or whether we all had just taken some, showgoers were committed to the journey nonetheless.

Tomi Gray’s Trip takes its audience all the way down the rabbit hole as it courageously navigates the absurdity, honesty and instability of the human condition.

Whilst insanely kooky, trippy and oftentimes downright bizarre, Tomi Gray’s Trip is a giant, larger than life, theatrical art-installation.

It is the kind of performance art that captivates through its ability to provoke-thought as well as offer us an invitation to recognise ourselves inside its chaos.

Whilst some aspects of the performance were a bit clunky and disorderly – this only further fed the shows underpinning subject matter of the (oftentimes messy) exploration of the human experience.

Despite its frenetic storytelling and off-the-wall sense of humour, Tomi Gray’s Trip has a lot of heart and an unwashed ethos of rebellion found at its core.

I think my favourite summary of the night was quoted directly after the show had finished by an audience member sitting behind me who yelled, “I’m not sure what the f—k was going on – but I loved every minute of it!”

Any show that merges visual art, multimedia, music and song as a form of storytelling is bound to offer a point of difference, but it isn’t until you find the poetry in its lyrics, the soul in its songs or the man in its mirror that it truly offers a point of view.

As a fortunate audience member for the show’s one-night-only Adelaide Fringe debut I hope Tomi Gray returns next year to take us all on another weird yet wonderful trip which will hopefully also lead us all the way back to ourselves.

5 Stars