Adelaide Fringe
While playing Trivial Pursuit, a solitary clown leads us through a tumultuous personal story, from attending Clown Farm in Canada to living with a First Nations shaman in California. ★★★★
Adelaide Fringe
Whether the stuff of dreams or nightmares, Somnia 2.022 is a beautifully haunting display of acrobatics with some raunchy cabaret to set the mood. ★★★★
Pairing ancient stories with new technology, the stunning drone-art show Sky Song leaves audiences mesmerised. ★★★★★
There’s no pretence to perfection in Ella at Zardi’s, a truly transportive tribute act that at its heart is what the Fringe is all about. ★★★★
It’s hard to know exactly what’s going to happen when you sit down to a Sam Simmons show, but the comedian is consistent with one thing – peculiarity. ★★★★
You can thank two years of Melbourne lockdowns for yielding the comedy gold Judith Lucy and Denise Scott deliver in their hilarious, Beckett-crossed-with-Flying-High-infused show. ★★★★★
Adelaide Fringe
In Their Footsteps is a vivid tribute to the unsung female heroes of the Vietnam War, interweaving recollections from five actual participants. ★★★★
Adelaide Fringe
Jimeoin LIVE is a muddled, aimless hour of comedy that finds its feet way too late in the piece. ★★
Bart Freebairn shows his comedic mettle on a challengingly quiet Tuesday night by keeping the laughs coming with his drily daft, free-associating batter. Sorry, banter. ★★★★
Through a post-Me Too lens, this play-within-a-play is a feat of provocative theatre that spotlights the harrowing power dynamics of the entertainment industry. ★★★★★
In theory, communication has never been more efficient than it is today; in reality, as Deus Ex Femina’s latest production so profoundly demonstrates, we may, in fact, be saying less than we ever have before. ★★★★★
Patrick Livesey’s finely-tuned embodiment of a cast of real-life characters slowly builds a subtle, complex and deeply affecting narrative of their mum’s life and death. ★★★★
Adelaide Fringe
This new local work is a touching and challenging exploration of life in aged care, and of the experience of living with dementia. ★★★★
Adelaide Fringe
Bust some moves and strut your stuff to beats around the streets of the East End with Oscar Reed, his portable mixing desk and an enthusiastic crew of fellow punters for the perfect antidote to the world’s downers. ★★★★★
Adelaide Fringe
This passion project by local documentarians showcases the extraordinary photography and film-making skills of South Australian explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins. ★★★½
Adelaide Fringe
Who is the perfumed ghost at the old Smokemart across from Porthole Records, and why is the spirit of a Russian sailor only ever spotted on Todd Street between 2am and 3am? Put on your walking shoes to find out. ★★★★
This show is, as the title promises, all about bubbles – and it’s definitely for adults only. ★★½
Promising magic, mischief and mayhem, The Purple Rabbit combines comedy, sleights of hand and a whole lot of smut for an hour of debauchery. ★★★
“Everything here is big and impossible to climb.” Evie Edwards, aspiring Hollywood star, scrambles to the top of the sign famous to all who yearn to see their name in lights. She’s preparing to jump. ★★★★★
John Waters and his band bring to life the essence of Belgian songwriter Jacques Brel with an animated performance that perfectly re-creates the theatricality of the original songs. ★★★★½
Adelaide Fringe
Bringing together four complex characters from the classic stage canon, this original theatre work is weighed down by the treatment of its source material. ★★★
Adelaide Fringe
Like a spider quietly weaving a delicate web, writer and performer Tracy Crisp deftly spins connections back and forth between three narratives using an exploration of memory as the anchoring thread. ★★★★★
Adelaide Fringe
In Nella, writer and performer Julia Mayer weaves a vivid and heartfelt tribute to her nonna, retracing her steps from a young woman leaving Italy, to growing old in Adelaide. ★★★★
Adelaide Fringe
Just as comfortable with operatic arias as he is with modern power ballads, Dr Lane switches confidently between song and spoken word, his love for the music evident in the emotion he brings to this performance. ★★★★
Surrender your senses and lose yourself among the gods of old as you embark on a breathtaking journey into the stars with the visually stunning Adelaide Fringe premiere of Oracle. ★★★★★
Imagine gasp-inducing acrobatics combined with contemporary dance combined with the warm, fuzzy feeling of a hug. There you have I Want to Touch You, the returning Fringe show from Adelaide-based circus giants Gravity & Other Myths. ★★★★
In elegiac, epic splendour, four talented Australian singers pay homage to Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse – the five most distinguished members of the ill-fated 27 Club. ★★★★★
Beauty, An Encore peels back the velvety-red curtains on Lawrence Mooney’s hilarious insights into politicians, beauty and sex. ★★★½
A high-profile comedian visits a war zone in Kabul and it not only transforms him, but also the things he wants to write about. This often comic memoir looks for answers to serious questions. ★★★★★
