Adelaide’s drag royalty, Kane Enable, is taking the stage for her second ever Fringe show This Is My Drag Wedding! After a successful debut to the scene in 2024 with This Is My Drag Show, she returns with her new showstopper that combines her fabulous drag with her comedic flair.
Last year’s performance drew from her own life and how she became the drag queen she is today. “It was really fun to challenge myself,” says Kane, “and see how I could put what I would normally put on the stage in a three-to-five-minute show, into an hour-long show.”
After turning her life into a drag show, she began searching for a fresh idea for 2025. “I’d already spoken about everything in my life from birth so I was like, well, what now?” Drawing on a love of weddings and pop culture, Kane decided that she would create her own drag wedding. “I just thought, well, what if I never get married? I might as well put on a show and get paid to do a wedding.”
“I wanted to do something that I already had a love for, an interest in… which sounds insane to say I have an interest in my own wedding, which has no prospects of happening,” she laughs.
Kane began her drag journey in 2019 after frequenting Adelaide’s iconic drag club, Mary’s Poppin. “I used to come to Mary’s all the time. I then became friends with the drag queens, and I thought to myself, why don’t I just give it a go? And the rest is history,” she says. She took to the stage for her first performance to Lady Gaga’s famous cover of Elton John’s ‘Your Song’, a song she still remembers fondly now.
“I just kind of felt like it was something I was always meant to be doing and now I’m doing it.” With the second biggest Fringe in the world right in her backyard, Kane made her way from that first performance of ‘Your Song’ to the Fringe stage.
Audience jokes and heckling is expected, ensuring every night of This Is My Drag Wedding! will have its own unique twist. “It’s kind of fun to leave it up to the audience to take the direction of the show. I give them the bones and then they are going to dictate how this show ends.” The ultimate goal of each show is to find Kane a groom. “We’re going to find a groom. I’m going to find a groom, whether he knows it or not. If you don’t want to be involved with audience participation, just sit in the back,” Kane jokes.
Kane has always fought to prove her talent as a drag queen and was excited to see her comedic gift shine through in last year’s show. She wanted to make sure to leave time in this year’s show to embrace her newly discovered flair for comedy through audience participation. “I think that is the best thing about comedy. Magic happens when you least expect it.”
This Is My Drag Wedding! is a must watch for Muriel’s Wedding fans with Kane rewatching the beloved film to inspire her drag. “Think Muriel’s Wedding through Kane Enable’s lens. Which sounds depressing but I promise it’s not.”
Kane is still letting herself find inspiration in the weeks leading up to opening night but promises lots of laughs, talent, a costume to remember, an 80’s influence and ABBA hits. “This isn’t a wedding, this is a drag wedding.”
This Is My Drag Wedding!, Mary’s Poppin, until 22 March