'Adelaide Fringe still has an air of the garage about it,' says last year's ambassador Reuben Kaye, seen here in his 2022 Fringe show 'The Butch is Back'. Photo: Rebekah Ryan

Adelaide Fringe

Adelaide Fringe past, present and future: Ambassadors weigh in on a decade of change

Current and former Adelaide Fringe ambassadors – from across artforms and continents – chronicle the festival’s evolution and agree there’s one essential characteristic that will secure its future for decades to come.

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Adelaide Festival appoints new associate director

Netherlands-based arts leader and creative producer Wouter Van Ransbeek – former co-artistic director of the highly regarded Internationaal Theater Amsterdam – has been appointed associate director for the 2024-26 Adelaide Festivals.

Cabaret Festival

All-star line-up to reunite for 2023 Adelaide Cabaret Festival

The 2023 Adelaide Cabaret Festival will be presented with a “Cabaret Collective” rather than a single artistic director, with Kate Ceberano, David Campbell, Eddie Perfect, Julia Zemiro and Ali McGregor all appearing at the red-carpet Variety Gala.

InReview

Adelaide's cultural tradition to be a force in post-pandemic recovery

While the pandemic has largely shuttered Adelaide’s arts and entertainment industries, it has allowed an opportunity to reflect upon their value and successes and to plan to build upon the city’s cultural reputation during economic recovery, argues Douglas Gautier.

Festivals

Rubbish reviews: following Adelaide's festival waste trail

Adelaide is once again coming alive for festival season, but big crowds mean big waste. We’ve followed the Mad March rubbish trail to find out how much there is, and where it goes.

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Man with the Iron Neck: a story of trauma and hope

Weaving together aerial performance, text and video projections, Man with the Iron Neck seeks to raise awareness of the struggles faced by young Indigenous Australians ­– but it is also a story of hope.

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Manus to bring the realities of Australian immigration policy to shore

Many Australians manage to hold the reality of life in Australia’s offshore detention centres at arm’s length, but Iranian theatre director Nazanin Sahamizadeh will bring it home with force when her play Manus makes its Australian Premiere at the Adelaide Festival.

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Ulster American: a shocking play that asks big questions

Explosive satire Ulster American has been called the most-talked-about – and divisive – show at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe. Raising timely questions in the #metoo era, it is expected to provoke equally fierce debates when it plays in Adelaide.

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Community meets epic theatre in Counting and Cracking

While Adelaide audiences will find the grand scale of new Australian theatre epic Counting and Cracking familiar, its community influence is something few will have seen on stage before.

Gluttony will have two food hubs in Rymill Park this year.

Adelaide Fringe

The art of wining and dining, Fringe-style

A pop-up North Terrace basement bar that’s both elegant and quirky, a laneway dedicated to desserts and an unusual winemaking activation are among the new eating and drinking experiences debuting at Adelaide Fringe.

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Festival review: Grand Finale

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.

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Adelaide Festival smashes previous box office record

With a string of sold-out shows, total ticket sales of more than 72,000 and two days still to go, the 2019 Adelaide Festival’s box office income has outstripped last year’s record result by 31 per cent.

Adelaide Festival

Festival review: Zizanie

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.

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Festival review: Foehn

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.

Adelaide Festival artistic directors Rachel Healy and Neil Armfield in Elder Park, where the free opening concert will be presented. Photo: Tony Lewis / Adelaide Festival

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2019 Adelaide Festival set for another box office record

The 2019 Adelaide Festival is well on track to achieve the highest box-office result in the event’s history, with several shows already selling out ahead of the opening – including acclaimed choreographer and dancer Meryl Tankard’s ballet Two Feet.

Adelaide Fringe

Fringe review: Pussy Riot – Riot Days

Revolutionary slogans and gang-shouted chorus lines light up the screen but it is the true grit of Pussy Riot’s story that really lights the fires at this RCC Fringe performance. ★★★★

Adelaide Fringe

Fringe review: Evangeline

Evangeline’s revolutionary approach to performance and innovative use of movement create an intense theatrical experience like none you’ve ever encountered. ★★★ ½

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Thousands expected at free open-air Symphony for Our World

The Adelaide Festival will open this weekend with National Geographic’s Symphony for Our World, a free outdoor film and live music spectacular which festival joint artistic director Rachel Healy says features moments of soaring majesty, poignancy and everything in between.

Adelaide Fringe

Fringe review: Finale

Finale feels a bit like a jam session with a bunch of mates playing music and egging each other on to perform increasingly exuberant and impressive circus tricks. It just happens that these mates are all exceptionally talented. ★★★★