This year’s Adelaide Film Festival will transport audiences from a prison cell in Egypt, to the snow-covered Himalayan mountains, the streets of Mexico and even outer space as it presents more than 100 films from 46 countries.
Australian playwright Kendall Feaver’s award-winning play The Almighty Sometimes is about to be brought to the Adelaide stage for the first time, and actor Emily Liu hopes it will open up some important conversations among audiences.
SA arts & culture news in brief: Another leadership change in SA’s arts sector, State Theatre makes the first announcement of its 2025 season, a stockroom art sale at GAGPROJECTS, happy hour meets the symphony, winning artworks celebrate beauty, and a valuable new youth arts resource.
SA arts & culture news in brief: Adelaide Film Festival’s second reveal, the ‘alternative’ Archibald show comes to town, local poet wins $20,000 literary prize, talent sought for Festival Centre show, SALA’s 2024 winners, and Tarnanthi Art Fair to return online.
Ahead of the Adelaide premiere of his new play about ‘sex, secrecy and second chances’, playwright David Williamson and cast member Ansuya Nathan speak to InReview about comedy, cruises, middle-class foibles and upside-down pineapples.
The end of the journey is nigh for Slingsby, with the award-winning Adelaide theatre company announcing that its current project – scheduled to premiere at the 2026 Adelaide Festival – will be its last.
PHOTO GALLERY: David Dahlenburg’s images capturing the ‘grotesque beauty’ of tailing dams in SA have won the portfolio prize in the 2024 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Competition, while Scott Portelli was named overall winner for a drone image showing two humpback whales bubble-net feeding.