A Friendly Beast

A Friendly Beast AFB is a creative company who Project and Venue manage, create and perform theatre, pop up and roving entertainment. Led by Thomas Pidd

1/3 - I finished 2025 broken.Mentally and physically.I’ve never experienced that consistent level of pain and depression...
24/04/2026

1/3 - I finished 2025 broken.
Mentally and physically.
I’ve never experienced that consistent level of pain and depression at the same time.
2026 has been good. I found the right support, I changed some things, Ive worked my fu***ng arse off.

My summer is finally done - It’s almost May.
I did some cool s**t this summer. Worked with a lot of great humans. But I’m happy it’s done.
Huge projects, huge wins, huge lessons.

And I’ll probably do a lot of it again next year. Hopefully with less pain and a clearer head.
Thanks everyone.

1. If it fits…
2. The drugs do work (a portion of the daily dosage)
3. Fukt plug
4. Ben the human MRI
5. Squirmy road trips
6. Kiss and Tele (handler)
7. Love at first site dog
8. Date night with a clown (.detto). So much joy
9. A walk in the cake. Park. Picnic.
10. Need I say more
11. Squeal
12. I w**d a little bit…
13. Flapping
14. Can I arch you when this job is finished?
15. Shiny and wet. So much shiny and wet. Too much
16. Our queen and saviour…
17. Country bumpkins
18. What in the studio ghibli…
19. Can lift. Again.
20. You should see the other guy.

24/03/2026

I’m sure I’ve actually seen this before… but it really landed on me today…
It’s just bloody smart. Lift up the display, grab the new unit off the shelf.
The person who thought of this better have been given then afternoon off and not have to pay for a sausage for at least a year.

Yo! I found this good It’s called a holiday, or a break. It’s real good for your brain and body! Totally worth not work...
18/03/2026

Yo! I found this good
It’s called a holiday, or a break. It’s real good for your brain and body! Totally worth not working yourself ragged to try it out.
Also take someone you fu***ng with you and it’ll be even better!

Been doing things/nothing/thinking: Nov - Deccreek Festival BuildMaybe I partially own a bus now…Toe beansCertified Even...
07/01/2026

Been doing things/nothing/thinking: Nov - Dec
creek Festival Build
Maybe I partially own a bus now…
Toe beans
Certified Event Safety Officer (kill me now)
- Naarm CBD, check it out
Unsend Festival Build
Turnstile .melbourne
Under the pump, might not make it out.
Reflecting, moving, trying to be a little better.

Three more nights of Two more night of COMPLETE CHAOS Last chances to see SO many shows… take a chance, have some fun…...
17/10/2025

Three more nights of
Two more night of COMPLETE CHAOS

Last chances to see SO many shows… take a chance, have some fun… revel in the chaos…

Favourites for this week:
Last chance to see be fu***ng fabulous
Last few chances to see be even more chaotic and joyful than I am!
See pour out her heart and rock your socks

Final slide for everything else I’m DESPERATE to see before fringe finishes (and yeah there is so much more I won’t have time for)

16/10/2025

3 nights down, 3 left to go.
No marketing here - lots of tickets left for all nights. Come and check out this incredible beast of a show I’m poured my blood sweat and tears into.

Follow all the usual avenues for ticket links - or buy one from the venue.

Also go check out
And show Queen Machine

Plus so much other stuff at fringe.

10/10/2025

4 sleeps until previews!
4 sleeps until 7 shows of Complete Chaos
At the for

9:40pm every night.
This show is all of me, it’s adhd, it’s chaos in all its best forms.
This is a celebration… but only if I can actually stay on track.

Tickets available from Melbourne Fringe or the venue on the night (pending capacity)

Huge thanks to for doing the initial edit on this one.

“Allow yourself to be vulnerable”This is something that is often talked about in the arts, and in life, and DEFINITELY f...
03/10/2025

“Allow yourself to be vulnerable”

This is something that is often talked about in the arts, and in life, and DEFINITELY for “men”.

Someone recently said to me that this show, Complete Chaos, is 60 mins of me. Fully, unedited, unapologetically.
It’s probably the most honest I’ve been both on and off stage in my life.

But don’t let that make you think it’s not balls to the wall fun, stupid and entertaining.
I promise you it’s both!!

This show is me finally getting something out of my system that has been bottled up for a long time. If I’m being really w***y I’d say it’s a reintroduction of me to the world.

You want vulnerable.
Come fu***ng get it.
Wrapped up in absolute joyful chaos.

Complete Chaos
13th-19th October 9:40pm

Apart of
Tickets via link in bio.
📸 Tom Noble Creative

A series of images from a photo shoot with back in July.Actually can’t thank Tom enough for their generosity and willin...
28/09/2025

A series of images from a photo shoot with back in July.
Actually can’t thank Tom enough for their generosity and willingness to try a bunch of things, some that worked and some that made us go “f**k, this could be cool, but we need to prepare better next time”
Until next time 🥰

Poster design by yours truly.
An idea that I thought I’d never achieve by myself - but sometimes you just have to trust your gut and spend an entire night working out how Canvas works.

October 13-19 - 9:40pm

As a part of
Links in all the usual places - or scan the QR code.

Have you heard the word about about the bi…Actually first offtickets for the season ofCOMPLETE CHAOSAs well as every o...
09/09/2025

Have you heard the word about about the bi…

Actually first off
tickets for the season of
COMPLETE CHAOS
As well as every other show
Are on sale until tonight! Midnight.

and - Oh well then my cat actually deleted it by standing in the keyboard, and somehow there isn’t a backup - oh but we did have two sold out shows at Darwin Fringe, so something worked…

Stock up little gremlins. It’s going to be ONE of the tickets available this year at !
😮😮😮😮 *crowd gasps* “one 👏🏼of👏🏼them👏🏼”

25% of tickets, but you get 25% more chaos when you forget you bought the tickets this early and get an email the day before reminding you of the show and then you have to change those plans you’ll make, disappointing that friend again who you always bail on because you forgot to write this event in that diary you’ve used half a dozen times…

Umm, right.

I forgot what I was talking about.
Check the links. That’ll probably help.

… bird and the spider.

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