ACROBATICS, circus, cabaret, comedy and plenty of machismo, Aussie boylesque troupe seem to be tailor made for the Brighton Fringe.

The all-male burlesque outfit got their start in the back warehouse space of a bookshop in Brisbane’s West End and have flaunted their way to becoming a worldwide sensation.

Summing up the performance and attitude behind Briefs, founder Fez Faanana says they are “idiot club kids in party mode who can back it up with serious skill”.

The New Zealand born Samoan, raised in Australia, first took to the stage when he was eight as he learned dance.

He is now a character of two halves, one as the mastermind and choreographer behind the show, and the other as the ring master and bearded drag queen Shivannah.

Having appeared at the Brighton Comedy Festival in 2014, the group were testing the waters to make their big fringe debut this year.

“Brighton has always been a place for us to run away from London and chill out,” says Faanana. “We have been coming to Brighton as tourists for years, we love the city and the seaside nature.

“It has a chilled out nature with a very cosmopolitan feel, people are very forward thinking to the presence of queer theatre. We wanted to bring the show back and really make sure we did it right – there are a lot of fierce drag queens and cabaret artists on the block. Every time we come to Brighton we have an amazing time and have just been patiently waiting to come back.”

They are back with something new as Faanana says they aim to have a show which is “constantly changing and evolving” and added they are coming with “another revamp, a facelift, a new cast member, to keep things fresh for audiences for our repeated assault”.

Upon their formation back in Australia the troupe ballooned in popularity, with Fez recalling they were packing out their back room club home to one hundred people, over capacity.

“We started out with a dodgy stage and dodgy lighting in a dodgy little club,” says Fez. “Aside from having a dance it became a stage for people and artists to really let their hair down.

“We grew a bit of a cult following and each time we performed we ended up outgrowing the venue.

“We got to being over capacity and we just let everyone in and it got to the point where we were like: ‘Holy s***, this is a little scary.’”

Described as Cirque de Soleil crashing headlong into RuPaul’s Drag Race, the Briefs boys will also be bringing their sister show, the raunchy late night Club Briefs to new seafront venue Republic.

“Briefs is a risqué late night variety drag burlesque show, while Club Briefs is its mongrel cousin that gets more and more ridiculous,” he says.

With the pair of productions joining the Fringe’s packed cabaret programme which grows every year, Faanana says burlesque and variety is currently riding a wave of reinvigoration.

“It seems to be surfacing as people realise it is something for all ages and all backgrounds,” he says. “Cabaret is not a new thing, we have not reinvented anything, it is all about acknowledging it and trying to put a new spin on it. We did not expect it take off in the way it did. When you get a group of pro artists who have a platform to just let their wigs down and kick their heels off, they will.

“They can get into a side of themselves they were not able to before and just go crazy.”

He goes on: “It can be a voice for the alt world, a place where the freak gets celebrated and they get to show off what they have got.

“Briefs is all about undoing the seatbelts of theatre. People are pleasantly surprised with the drag posse as we also really pride ourselves in the way we craft a sophisticated theatre piece.”

Briefs: £18, 9pm, call 01273 917272

Club Briefs: May 21, 28, June 4, £15, 11pm.