InReview
South Australia has scored 25 nominations in the 2019 Helpmann Awards, including six for the Adelaide Festival centrepiece The Magic Flute and three for shows presented by the Adelaide Cabaret Festival.
Adelaide Festival
If ever the world needed a mirror to reflect back the complex and troubled state of humanity in our dystopian world, it is now. With the wild and ecstatic physical poetry of Grand Finale, Hofesh Shechter Company delivers to powerful effect.
Imaginative, exhilarating, life-affirming and a little zany, Zizanie is the result of an exciting collaboration between choreographer Meryl Tankard and Adelaide’s Restless Dance Theatre.
Equipped only with sticky tape, scissors, a circle of fans and a pile of plastic bags, performer Silvano Nogueira and the team from France’s Compagnie Non Nova conjure an enchanting ballet out of plastic waste.
Ulster American gives Adelaide audiences a rare pre-West End chance to see a brilliant and shocking satirical play with actors at the height of their form.
With less than a week left to indulge in the Mad March festival smorgasbord, here are some Adelaide Festival highlights still to come – from gigs on the Palais to provocative theatre – and our picks from the Fringe music, comedy, theatre and circus line-up.
