Lucy Fox’s Melbourne Fringe show discusses her cult past

This Coburg comedian followed God to England when she was a teenager and became wrapped up in a cult. In her Melbourne Fringe show, she sings and dances her way through how that led to her interest in the placebo effect.

Lucy Fox is opening up about her past on stage. Picture: Ellen Smith

A life that has included time spent in a cult, touring Australia as a musician and hitchhiking Europe will be laid bare on stage by a Coburg performer.

Lucy Fox said she was determined to explore how the placebo effect has impacted her eventful life in her cabaret Melbourne Fringe show.

Lucy Fox (right) with Laura Trenerry and Ell Sachs as The Travelling Sisters. Picture: David Geraghty

Fox was a teenager when she thought God had told her to move to England, where she became entwined in a Christian sect that led to her spending hours a day praying and facing the prospect of a pastor deciding on who she should marry.

She said she had lived believing God was in constant communication with her, a religious form of a placebo forcing her to act on intuition.

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“You sort to think God’s really moving me to talk to that person over there, it’s like you fully went on your gut instinct about anything,” she said.

“It’s just this idea where I found it hard to know the difference between what’s real and what’s not when you’re living your life thinking you’re in full communication with God.

“I feel like I can never fully believe in something so much ever again.”

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A member of the comedy trio The Travelling Sisters, Placebo will be Fox’s first solo show.

“(Working alone has been) cathartic and it’s scary and fun, it’s been a pretty good process and it’s nice to do something that’s really personal,” she said.

“I just feel like I’ve got stories to tell, maybe I’ll never tell them again and sometimes you have a burning desire to do something.”

Placebo will show from September 21 to 29.