Theatre
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.
InReview
SA arts and culture news in brief: free music performances this weekend on North Terrace, nominees named for 2021 SA Screen Awards, new appointments at Slingsby and the ASO, a Guildhouse Symposium for the times, and ‘Gin and Jam’ artist talks.
South Australia has scored 18 nominations in the 2018 Helpmann Awards, with the Adelaide Festival’s sell-out opera Hamlet and Slingsby’s acclaimed children’s show Emil and the Detectives among those shortlisted.
Slingsby artistic director Andy Packer has said that “the best children’s theatre is the best theatre” and this is very true of the company’s latest production, Emil and the Detectives.
Slingsby theatre company returns to the former Dazzeland site this month with a children’s story that broke new ground when it was published in pre-Nazi Germany and continues to enchant young readers and audiences.
Slingsby Theatre co-founder and former Adelaide Fringe CEO Jodi Glass is to become the new executive director and producer of the State Theatre Company of SA.
