In the pleasant surroundings of the Ukaria Cultural centre this concert opens with the Bach piece ‘Erbarme dich’ – Have mercy my God from the St Matthew’s Passion
This world premiere performance is a charming, accessible, entertaining and cleverly educational show which deserves to be seen, heard and enjoyed by children and their carers for many years to come.
Adopted into a family of beautiful swans, Duckie doesn’t quite belong, and after being tossed out onto the street she has to rely on her strength and perseverance to achieve her bold ambitions of grandeur.
The Red Bastard is back to have you question everything you know about love. Prepare to laugh and contemplate in equal measure as the Red bastard delights the crowd as well delve into your thoughts and expectations. Lets talk about loving and lying.
When the Greek Goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite, lands in 2018 Adelaide, she’s in for a rude shock when she comes up against modern-day beauty standards and the bullying of consumerism.
Rob Ellinger has a pleasing manner and has no trouble establishing rapport with his audience, which is good as he relies on their involvement in most of his tricks.
When you call your drag show “iconic”, not only do you create high expectations in your audience; you also throw down a gauntlet. There’s an implicit challenge. Drag as a genre has a long, proud history;
The Adelaide Theatre Academy brings Audrey II, that most famous of Man-eating plants back to life in their version of 'Little Shop Of Horrors'
Young Australian comedian, Sam Kissajukian, spills the beers on the vices and virtues of his infatuation with alcohol and the messes it can create (other than that of bodily fluids).
American troupe, Sound and Fury, host a night of fun variety with a rotating cast of performers who all take part in this year’s Fringe, and specifically those whose shows are held at Tandanya.
Audiences will eat up this mixed bag of acrobatic and cabaret entertainers in a late-night, adults-only variety performance.
This Hamlet is written by Brett Dean, but contains much of Shakespeare’s well-known text. The libretto is by Matthew Jocelyn and the music is complex. This is a Glyndebourne Festival Opera production, brought to Adelaide for the Festival of Arts.
Canadian Robert Lepage deploys lots of hardware and software to induce a light trance state in his audience, using the nostalgia surrounding space travel events recalled from childhood to speak to the human heart and its ability to love and forgive without understanding why.
Raising the eye-level of audiences at this year’s Adelaide Fringe, Le Aerial sees acrobats traversing the skies in flips and spins that leave a room of gasps in their wake.
Single woman of unknown age, Nikki Britton, brings to this year’s Fringe Romanticide; her comedic tales of love, selfish sex, devastating break ups, and the horrors of single life.
Commissioned by State Theatre Company S.A. to write a work which examines the world of Australian Rules football and the varieties of sexual misconduct found within it, playwright Patricia Cornelius has written an intricate and elegant 6-hander which plays like chamber music.
Those afraid of staring at the naked body beware, as this is sixty minutes of complete, full-frontal nudity combined with the somewhat contrasting, child-like activity of making shapes out of objects; the R-rated version of your childhood finger puppets.
Josh Belperio is a writer, performer and multidisciplinary musical artist, well known in Adelaide. Having survived a serious cycling accident, he has used this terrifying episode to create a cabaret show and share how being near to death has brought about a fresh perspective on life.
OK, so Bassanio’s been killed – unlawfully killed, at that. The Chief Inspector is grilling that loudmouth drunk, Gratiano. Used to be a bit of a bovver-boy in his day; kick you as soon as look at you. Indignant, Gratiano asks the cop, “Do I look like a murderer?”
This is a show like no other that (quite literally) takes the audience on a twisting ride through the streets and alleys of Adelaide in a performance that defies the normality of theatre.