Adelaide Fringe

Looking for an Adelaide Fringe show? Here’s the fantastic shows that won the Week 1 Fringe Awards 2026

Here’s the winners of the week 1 Adelaide Fringe awards!

Pictured: Inferno

Have you been looking through the Adelaide Fringe guide and finding it overwhelming to pick a show? I totally feel your pain! It’s always helpful to find some recommendations to make choosing a show easier.

To help with this, Adelaide Fringe awards the best shows each week. The Awards celebrate the diverse and wonderful shows presented throughout the festival season. The weekly awards are announced every week of the festival, and the overall awards are presented at a special in-person ceremony at the end. 

Here are the week 1 winners!

Best of Cabaret, supported by The List
Millicent Sarre is Too Tired To Smash (Patriarchy)
My Precious! The Cabaret
Blues and Burlesque

Best of Circus
La Ronde
You & I
YUCK Circus: Naughties

Best of Comedy, supported by Adelaide Comedy
Ivan Aristeguieta: READY TO MAMBO
Charlie Mulliner: Love Hunt
Nikki Britton: Not To Be Dramatic

Best of Community Events, supported by Health Partners
VICTORIA LANE: Glimmer

Best of Dance, supported by TAFE SA
Fibres
New Romantics

Best of Eat & Drink, supported by ICHM
Sip & Spill: Katie Spain’s Not Your Normal Wine Conversations

Best of Film & Digital, supported by KWP+ Partners
Ningaloo (Immersive Worlds)
The Great Kimberley Wilderness with Luke Hemsworth (Immersive Worlds)

Best of Interactive
The Score: The Smartphone Orchestra (Immersive Worlds)

Best of Kids & Family
Tiny Doctors: Happy Labs
Sea Star Rock, Rock the Wild
Trash Test Dummies Circus

Best of Magic
Josh Staley: Deception by Design
Hypnotist Matt Hale: FUNBELIEVABLE! 90s Rewind
Charlie Caper: The Future

Best of Music, supported by Musicorp & Studio 19
A History of Bob Dylan’s Blues

Best of Music, supported by Musicorp & Studio 20
Living in the ’70s by The 60 Four

Best of Music, supported by Musicorp & Studio 21
Blak Country

Best of Theatre & Physical Theatre, supported by TAFE SA
James Rowland: Team Viking
Wright&Grainger’s EURYDICE
Eva Seymour as ‘The Understudy’

Best of Variety
INFERNO

Best of Visual Arts & Design, supported by Visualcom
Gabi Cirocco: Studies of Presence

Best of Workshops & Talks
Khyké Earrings

Emerging Artist
Teasing Myths
Adi Parmar: Sunny Boy
Pick of the Week
The Shamrocks

Spirit of the Fringe
Britt Plummer

Cultural Diversity Award, supported by Australian Refugee Association
Keep In Touch

Adelaide Critics Circle Award
Bob Marley: How Reggae Changed The World

Best of Street, supported by Dolphin Creative
Heromacro – Tickets

Guildhouse Award, supported by Guildhouse
Not without each other

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