Fest Adelaide 2020 Issue 1

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20–26 February

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Inside: Andrew Hansen Adam Page Kerith Manderson-Galvin Circolombia Michael van der Aa Friendly Feminism for the Mild Mannered Moon Duo

Director George Sully Editor-in-Chief Rosamund West Co-editors Laura Desmond & Ben Venables Artworker Phoebe Willison Cover photography Ben King Digital manager Alexander Smail Sales and events executives Ollie Marshall & Sarah Norris

Writing Team Justin Boden, Lauren Butterworth, Alexis BuxtonCollins, Emma Heidenreich, Justin McArthur, Kylie Maslen, Ash Palmer, Esther Rivers, Edwina Sleigh Radge Media Commercial director Sandy Park General manager Laurie Presswood

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Contents King of Clowns

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Comedy legend Frank Woodley is in a reflective mood

Comedy 25 Men with Coconuts The award-winners return to Adelaide

Theatre 28 S-27 by Sarah Grochala

Love and Sax

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Adam Page talks about all the ways to make music

A play documenting prison dissent

33 Friendly Feminism for the Mild Mannered An intersectional exploration

Acéléré to the top

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An Evening with George Kapiniaris Morphettville Racecourse, 1 Mar, $30 Surviving the Circus Gluttony - Rymill Park, 3–8 Mar, $19–$25 UnPlotted Potter Black Box Theatre, 25 Feb–1 Mar, $25 Catherine McClintock: Please and Thank Yous Rhino Room, 10–14 Mar, $18–$22 Simon Caine: Every Room Becomes a Panic Room When You Overthink Enough Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20–23 Feb, $20–$25 I See Dead People Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $18–$20 Best of The Fringe Comedy Superstars Flinders University, Bedford Park, 14 Mar, $35 Chris Henry: FLAIR The Howling Owl, 25 Feb–14 Mar, not 1 Mar, 2 Mar, 8 Mar, 9 Mar, $15–$25 Greek Myth for Mortals The Jade, 20 Feb, 21 Feb, 23 Feb, $25 Deadly Funny Institute Theatre - Port Augusta, 23 Feb, FREE Jason Pestell: Kmart’s The Greatest Shop Man The Howling Owl, 20–22 Feb, $25 Clone-a-patra Star Theatres, 12–15 Mar, $27 DON’T SHOOT! I’m a vegan The Jade, 1 Mar, 10 Mar, $20

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King of the Clowns

With a career spanning over two decades, Frank Woodley is one of the most prolific comedians Australia has produced. He talks gender balance in the comedy scene with Fest’s editor Laura Desmond

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he majority of televised comedy on Australian screens has always featured men. Even the iconic Kath & Kim relied on male characters with preceding reputations. It’s only been in the recent world of online co-creation culture that femme gems such as The Katering Show were born.

Australian televised comedy doesn’t get much more iconic than The Adventures of Lano and Woodley. Gloriously funny and quick-witted, Frank Woodley brings his new solo show *@#!KING CLOWN to the Garden of Unearthly Delights. In it, Woodley tells the tale of a trip to France gone awry.

“The title relates to the fact it’s a story of me going to Marseilles,” he says. “I thought I was going to be giving a physical comedy workshop, but it got derailed and I ended up doing a workshop with a psychotic clown master, but I’ve fictionalised it all – I haven’t let reality constrain the storytelling.”

As both a solo performer and an ensemble member, Woodley is deserving of his success. There is an interesting fact of having benefited from a systemic, gender-biased media scene.

When asked about his perceived head start, Woodley acknowledges Mabel Normand. A silent film actress, screenwriter and producer, Normand worked alongside Charlie Chaplin and Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle. “Female comedians have always been there but it has been male-dominated industry without a doubt,” he says. “Whilst I absolutely have no question whether or not women are as funny as men – no question at all for me – but there is something about the fact that…” Woodley trails.

“I was talking to a friend who is a drama teacher in high school and he said in his experience, the majority of girls, when they were doing drama, wanted to explore serious emotions on stage. Genuine emotion and going deeper emotionally into feelings of empathy – but the majority of the boys wouldn’t touch genuine empathic emotion with a barge pole...

They were all about having fun and getting laughs and it all being about the comedy. Is that cultural or is there something about boys and girls?”

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In comparison, girls often don’t need to hide their emotions behind a farcical wall of jokes. “There is something where girls have a capacity, or are culturally encouraged, or perhaps culturally allowed, to explore those serious emotions,” says Woodley. Perhaps the suggestion here is that comedy isn’t disallowing females any more than dramatic expressions are not as welcoming for males. This suggestion is not removed from the idea of toxic masculinity – the cultural masculine norms which govern social behaviours – which creates a space within the comedy industry that supports males and restricts females.

“There’s something I’ve noticed and I find really disturbing,” says Woodley. “I try not to get too hooked in, but I have a habit. When I watch comedi-

ans on YouTube, I’ll read the comments that people have said and it’s shocking how many male people will make negative comments to female comedians.”

A difference between online culture and live performance has made itself clear. “Nowadays, when a girl gets up, the audience doesn’t have any negative reactions based on the fact it’s a woman,” says Woodley. “There’s a really weird – in the online comments – a really horrible anti-female comic scene that I find extremely distasteful and moronic.”

We are not close to seeing any semblance of gender equality in the mainstream comedy industry, despite the odd exception. “I saw a recent QI episode hosted by Sandi Toksvig,” says Woodley, “and in this particular episode there was one team of two women, and a team of Alan Davies and one woman.

It was really quite obvious that it was the case. It was clearly something that doesn’t happen often,” Woodley says. “It was a good show – sometimes those kinds of lineup shows can be a bit hit and miss – but that one was a really good one.

“When I noticed that [there was only one male] I thought yeah, we’ve got a long way to go,” he says.

“The fact I’m noticing that as peculiar means we still have a long way to go.”

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The Garden of Unearthly Delights 8:15pm, 14 Feb – 1 Mar, not 17 Feb, 24 Feb $29 – $42

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“ It’s a little more complicated than simply the fact that women have not been invited into the comedy industry, I think there are some other factors at play”

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and often being the butt of the joke. At the time, with male comedians dominating the screens, this was to be expected and was almost encouraged.

“There is a thing,” says Woodley. “If you watch shows like The Footy Show and things like that, that are very male atmosphere, there’s lots of hanging shit on each other, but it’s camaraderie. They’re getting laughs, teasing, stirring and that’s a big part of male bonding.

“One way of looking at [the male-dominated industry] is that it’s very simple – you just go ‘it’s something that has needed to change’. But it’s a little more complicated than simply the fact that women have not been invited into the comedy industry, I think there are some other factors at play,” he says.

There are gendered patterns in culture and not all are healthy. “Very few boys are expressing their actual feelings for each other,” Woodley acknowledges. “They’re just mucking around.” In this way, boys do seem like a natural fit for comedy. A reluctance to express emotions may turn feelings into punchlines, creating comedy.

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The self-confessed “good one” from legendary comedy group The Chaser, Andrew Hansen talks about going solo

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nown for his outrageous hair and stunts, Andrew Hansen is breaking away from The Chaser to ‘give the people what they want’. “I’m the only member of the team with any talent so I’m going to utilise it,” he says. “In this show you get to see the good one.”

The original Chaser crew was a group of white men who met at school and university – not exactly the epitome of diversity. “It’s quite weird looking at the old Chaser show because it’s very strange to see an all-male show,” he says. “But at that time it wasn’t weird because there were so many all-male comedy groups.”

Is it more natural for men to get into comedy?

“I think it’s because [comedy groups] are so often formed with friends mucking around together.”

He adds: “It’s a very guy thing to get with your guy friends and amuse each other... The idea of a network hiring an all-male group is crazy and it should have struck us and I’m embarrassed to look back on it now, but it never hit us at the time,” he says. “That’s why the last few Chaser iterations have much bigger casts, which were properly diverse.

“I’m afraid to say that in my new solo show, I am the only cast member, and as always, the role went to a straight white male.”

So what can we expect from his first solo endeavour? “There will be a bunch of new songs of course and new sketches – I’ve always done all the characters,” he says. “But it’s also going to be a trip down memory lane. Can I call [the songs] classics?

Golden oldies?”

It’s a timely theme – going solo. “The ultimate solo career is Earth, and its solo career isn’t doing too well,” he says. “I’ve done some digging to find

positive facts about our future and put those into the show. We are doing stuff and we do have a future even if we are going alone.

“It’s a show about people who strike out on their own like Harry and Meghan for instance. People talk about traditional jobs going out in the gig economy and now even princes and princesses need to go freelance.” ✏︎ Laura Desmond SHOW: VENUE: TIME: TICKETS:

Andrew Hansen - Solo Show The Garden of Unearthly Delights 8:15pm, 14 Feb – 1 Mar, not 17, 24 Feb $25 – $36

Love and Sax

Fest’s editor Laura Desmond meets Adam Page

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t my first Fringe show 12 years ago, I saw Adam Page stick a saxophone mouthpiece on a carrot and play it like a rudimentary clarinet.

It was perhaps not the most ridiculous thing he did on stage that night.

Page works with looping pedals and creates improvised jams live on stage. Incorporating audience voices (including mine at that first show) with his various instruments, his infectious energy was, and continues to be, inspiring. “It’s awesome for me when other people are inspired by what I do,” says Page. “It’s me being completely honest and just having a hell of a good time and that’s my thing.

“For me it’s vital, but it’s so easy,” he says. “Seeing other people following some other artistic pathway because of seeing me and other people like me just makes me so happy.”

Page grew up in the south east of the state surrounded by music. “I remember making a drum kit out of ice cream buckets,” he says. Then his training got a bit more serious. “I played drums, then recorder and clarinet, and then moved onto saxophone with a few other bits and pieces along the way.” It’s this sheer musicianship and range of instruments that makes Page so versatile and fresh.

In high school, he performed in the first ever Generations of Jazz Festival in his hometown of

Mount Gambier. “I think there were nine bands from around the country,” he says. “Now there are 160 bands and 150 choirs. There were 5,500 participants this year.” It was at his first Generations of Jazz Festival that he was truly inspired to become a jazz saxophonist.

“I watched these people who were only a couple of years older than me playing incredibly sophisticated music,” he says. “I was a budding saxophone player thinking, ‘This is what I want to do,’ and I can see the moment in my mind’s eye of catching this guy play.”

From jazz, Page found improvisation. “As soon as I realised that improvisation was a thing and decided that’s what I wanted to do,” he says. “I learnt the D blues scale and felt like I was invincible.” After high school, Page studied at Adelaide University’s Conservatorium of Music, graduating with an honours degree in jazz performance. “I’d go to uni and learn heaps of stuff, but I got totally schooled going out and seeing these amazing people and thinking – now that’s what I want to do!”

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“ I learnt the D blues scale and felt like I was invincible” After a stint on a cruise ship, Page began fooling around with the idea of going solo. “I had this looping pedal and I remember just improvising at home, making noises, probably fart noises, into it and my housemate at the time was like, ‘you should do a gig.’” A timely suggestion – as it was the lead up for Adelaide Fringe.

“I didn’t prepare anything, I just thought, I’ll take a few instruments, looping pedal, see what happens.”

This year, 15 years after that first Fringe performance, Page is performing three shows including a foray into composing. 4 Saxophones and a Beat Machine is well out of Page’s comfort zone and is a challenge. “I’m usually just off-the-cuff and in the moment and so to be reading music and trying

to create that same feeling of spontaneity is really hard,” he says. “I’m loving the challenge though, and I know it’s something that I’ll just get better and better at, because I’m going to continue doing this sort of thing.”

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Adam Page - SOLO The Wheatsheaf Hotel 7pm, 25–26 Feb $20 Adam Page - For Kids... and their Adults The Wheatsheaf Hotel 2pm, 29 Feb $15 Adam Page - 4 Saxophones and a Beat Machine The Wheatsheaf Hotel 9pm, 27–29 Feb $20

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Being Dead (Don Quixote) Kerith Manderson-Galvin chats about following literature’s first hero

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iguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote is often hailed as the first modern novel and is the defining piece of literature from the Spanish Golden Age. It’s a tale that blurs fantasy with reality and told through the eyes of our titular ‘hero’.

Artist and writer Kerith Manderson-Galvin is adapting the novel for the Fringe. They were enthralled by Quixote’s ability to make space for himself and create an alternate reality. “I really romanticised the idea of Don Quixote as someone who is building a world where he gets to be the hero despite how anyone else sees him and despite his failings at being a hero,” says Manderson-Galvin.

They found parallels with their own journey in the modern world.

“There’s a connection between that and the queer identity and the feminine identity for me – it’s like a queer person always being on their edge and failing to participate properly with reality. That’s what’s beautiful for me. Imagine a world now where a queer person gets to be a hero,” they say.

Within Being Dead (Don Quixote), MandersonGalvin creates their dream world. “Essentially, I’m trying to build another world,” they say. “I want it to be soft and beautiful! It’s fragile, it’s full of feelings and it’s always changing. Instead of me or Don Quixote trying to fit and succeed in the world we have, I’m creating a world that fits me.

“Instead of me ‘coming out’ and me participating in ‘normal’ life – I’m inviting the audience into this reality and inviting them to imagine different ways of living and being heroic.”

Manderson-Galvin has experienced issues with their queer and feminine identity and being misrecognised. Social divisions of masculine versus feminine or queer versus straight have informed the exploration of femininity within the work.

“I’m trying to find a way to fit into softness and into weakness and I hope an audience can come into that space with me, which is also what I hope with my identity,” they say. “I think softness is a really beautiful thing. My experience and my queer identity is a very strong line in the work, and is really strongly connected with Don Quixote and his misrecognition with the rest of the world and his experience of it.”

“If I could say anything about my identity and the show to a potential audience I would say a quote from Cervantes: ‘Thou hast seen nothing yet.’” ✏︎

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Acéléré to the Top Felicity Simpson talks about how Circolombia changes lives and their new show Acéléré

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Despite her croaky sore throat, Felicity Simpson is effusive and animated over the phone, as we speak between Adelaide and Bogota, Colombia. I’ve just asked her: “Why circus?”

“We don’t have to talk, we don’t have to fart around,” she says. “It’s low-to-high brow now. Above all it’s this incredible mixture: you can have these amazing acrobats flying everywhere taking up all the space, or you can have this singular moment of one person on a suspended tightrope right up high. There are different kinds of pacing you can play with – you can have such fun. And that can delve the public into much stronger emotions and radical changes.”

Simpson is the founder, director and creative producer of Circolombia, a South American circus company bringing festival firecracker Acéléré to the Adelaide Fringe. What makes the company so interesting – and important – is its sister institution Circo Para Todos (‘circus for all’), which is not only Colombia’s national circus school, but also the world’s first professional circus school for disadvantaged youth. It has a 100% success rate of graduates obtaining professional work many of whom transfer directly to Circolombia.

She tells me 25 of them have now bought their own houses. I ask if there’s something unique about circus to make it so effective at transforming the lives of kids from disadvantaged backgrounds.

“It’s really simple,” she explains. “It’s the balance between achievability and challenge. That makes it really appetising and exciting. Plus, with circus, you can’t do it half-heartedly... You’re either really into it and you get excited, and you try and get to the other side of your wire walk, or you fall, and you don’t grab the trapeze with two hands.”

She elaborates: “Originally the school was for people that really didn’t have an academic background – hyperactive people like me and Hector Fabio when we first started it. I was crap at school!

I couldn’t sit down in a classroom. I still can’t sit down, walking now with you on the telephone.”

She’s quick to stress that the students aren’t “off the streets”; there is a casting process and community workshops. And since becoming national in 2006, the school has agreed criteria with the Ministry of Culture and Ministry of National Education (no more than 25% of its enrolments can be from economic backgrounds other than disadvantaged).

There is another facet to the circus discipline: that of a community, or family, that inevitably grows within and between troupes. Simpson agrees.

“With our type of circus, everybody is irreplaceable. It really is like a family member. We don’t ‘step into roles’, the show is built around that person’s competences, that persona, who that person is. So if I change an artist, that show changes form. Whereas in theatre, you can change who is gonna do Hamlet, or with dancers fitting into a choreography. They can be really nasty, as razorblades in shoes, because the competition is so different. But with circus we have that security of being a family.”

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Simpson remarks on the cultural differences between South America’s fiery, soulful energy – something channelled with gusto in Acéléré – and other countries around the world. “Often in Europe there’s almost a recession of the soul,” she posits – and not without apology.

“ With our type of circus, everybody is irreplaceable” “But at the same time our artists do really well outside,” she clarifies, “but not knowing how to place themselves: ‘Are we first world, are we third world, what are we? And what are we as artists?’ And so Acéléré is that whole question of running forward and you’re not quite sure if you’re going to jump off a cliff or not!”

That said, she is keen to be back in Adelaide.

“We’ve been dying to return because Australians are the best public on the earth!”

The show itself, she assures, is a relentless display of passion and verve, mixing jaw-dropping

stunts and high-energy Latin American music. I tell her I’ve seen the promo video, which she is quick to dismiss. “I don’t think the video does us justice, to tell you the truth – you’ve got to see it live. We’re not a video, you’ve gotta be there, ‘cause it’s a circus concert. You’ve gotta bring your ears out.”

Simpson is also intent on highlighting the cast’s “very strong individual and collective charisma, coupled with an authenticity of the artists, which gives a genuineness that’s rare in contemporary circus.

There’s no soul sucked away – they’re there. They’re there and they’re themselves” The troupe will be landing in Adelaide a week before the show opens. Will that be enough time to prepare?

“That’s the amazing thing about Colombians, they are ever-ready,” she attests. “They’ve got more batteries than Duracell.” ✏︎ George Sully

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PHAT CAB CLUB Fresh-faced and fierce, PHAT CAB CLUB showcase the best young circus talent

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roduced and directed by sibling power-duo Anna and Joe Fisher, PHAT CAB CLUB has already picked up a number of awards in its short period of existence, including Best Circus at Perth Fringe World in 2019.

So what sets these young guns apart?

“We have such a focus of quality and attention to detail,” Joe Fisher says. “We’ve also created a general atmosphere of pop culture and hip hop, using tracks that most shows wouldn’t even think to use.”

Fisher and his crew are unashamedly using the music that they enjoy and want to hear, which entices a new age of circus audience members. “In circus, hip hop is kind of overlooked and not seen as a legitimate choice,” he says. “Circus often has this family focus or an aim on general entertainment, but it’s so interesting when you take hip hop and apply that to something different.”

The MotherFishers, as Anna and Joe are known, have also worked to find the top performers in each discipline, so their standards are high. “All of us are really invested in the circus art form and using our skills and knowledge to create a show which is as purely entertaining as possible... Each of our performers is the best in the country in their discipline.”

Fisher himself is an Australia’s Got Talent semi-finalist and works with Odette Robbins and Jordan Twartz in the show to push modern juggling to its limits. Recent National Institute for Circus Arts graduate Emily Chilvers is a top aerialist. “She has such a unique style,” says Fisher. “She’s defined herself with her picturesque movements and her hand work.”

And rather than allowing the audience to feel highs and lows, the show has been created to get the energy up and keep it there. “We’ve worked to create a show which is both defining and integrating for each performer,” says Fisher. “There are a lot of duo

and trio scenes amongst the solo acts which keeps the energy up the entire show.”

Their ferocity on stage, paired with an energetic soundtrack and their obvious ambition, makes for an inspirational work. “Younger people can appreciate our hard work,” Fisher says. “We hope that we can inspire younger audiences and give the message that if there’s something you enjoy and there’s a vacuum for it, with hard work and a bit of luck you can fill that space.” ✏︎ Laura Desmond

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n his virtual reality piece, Eight, composer and designer Michel van der Aa has the lofty ambition of capturing our lives, in all their constant renewal and colour. His protagonist? You. “It is predominantly a very individual journey that I want the audience to take,” says van der Aa “and there is one key voice that takes you through that.” This key voice is that of Kate Miller-Heidke, whose mezzo-soprano is set to a backdrop of Nederlands Kamerkoor, the chamber choir conducted by Boudewijn Jansen.

The piece takes you through the life of a 3D film projection of a woman, who features in the piece at three different stages of her life: birth, midlife and old age. “You can almost help to trigger one of her memories by touching the virtual walls, these elastic walls act almost like a uterus, they give birth to her life… You are a protagonist; you basically trigger the

next step in the storyline. Sometimes her memories are good, sometimes they are bad.”

Van der Aa has been labelled a pioneer and Eight certainly shows you why. It is one of the first classical pieces to be paired entirely to virtual reality. “I wanted the audience not to be limited, I wanted them to walk through an actual real life space,” says van der Aa. “We are surrounded by visual culture. It would feel incredibly artificial for me not to reflect that in my work, it is part of our modern language. Part of our DNA. It is one of the most important tools in my toolbox because it is a language that people understand.” ✏︎ Emma Heidenreich

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We remark that this is especially timely given the overwhelming saturation of climate crisis coverage in the media. “It’s how lots of people feel about climate change because they find it so huge,” Heyraud agrees. “That’s what really we wanted to explore with Dimanche, this décalage – the gap – between the extremely urgent besoin d’agir – the need to act – and the fact that we’re continuing our day-to-day life.”

But how do you talk about the urgency of the situation without it becoming depressing doom-mongering?

“It was a very difficult balance,” she says. “We didn’t want to fall into something that was moralisateur – moralistic – but we didn’t want to not say what we really are afraid of or what we think is happening. We also always use a lot of humour in our shows, so we wanted that to exist also.”

Heyraud asserts that the ultimate takeaway is one of hope. “It’s the solidarity and the tenderness between the team of reporters and the family,” she says. “Despite the chaos of the ecological collapse, there is humanity between them. That is more important.” ✏︎ George Sully VENUE: TIME: TICKETS:

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ow do you spend your Sundays? Reading the paper, having a nice coffee, maybe doing some housework? Would you continue doing this while a fire rages outside, threatening your house, to the point where it might collapse?

It’s an absurd question, and one that hits a little too close to home for many in Australia. But taken as a metaphor for the climate crisis – or more specifically, stupefied inaction in the face of it – it’s pretty close to the premise of Dimanche, a Belgian production at this year’s Adelaide Festival.

Dimanche actually contains two parallel stories.

The first depicts a trio of reporters documenting wildlife in the Arctic tundra – “a way for us to show climate change in a more universal way,” explains Sandrine Heyraud, of Chaliwaté Compagnie. Performed as a self-contained 25 minute show (titled Backup) at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe, this segment uses a masterful combination of puppetry, set design and gestural theatre to tell its story.

The second story is essentially that scenario above (‘dimanche’ means ‘Sunday’). “We wanted to explore the intimate family day-to-day routine and how climate change changes their normal life,” Heyraud says. “We wanted to show how they try to maintain, in a very absurd way, their quotidien, their day-to-day routine.”

Heyraud, along with company co-founder Sicaire Durieux, specialises in visual and physical theatre – it’s fellow Belgian Julie Tenret, of Focus Company, who brings the puppetry expertise.

The use of these representative forms, rooted in reality, makes for a compelling vehicle for contemporary concerns. “We wanted to talk about climate change, but in a poetic way,” she says. “Well – not a poetic way, I mean it’s not a documentary show.

We dream more with images and with visual things.”

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What inspired you to create a Rock, Paper, Scissors-themed charity event?

We attend the Adelaide Fringe every year and had often dreamt of participating. But we don’t have any special skills, so we joked about doing a ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’ tournament.

When it came time to formulate the show, we kept coming back to the fact that this was about having fun. It just made sense to us that it should be for charity, rather than to turn a profit.

Ultimately, ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’ is a little silly to run a serious tournament around. A charity championship seemed ideal for getting people involved and keeping the competition light and friendly.

How many years have you been running it? What was the winning charity last year?

This is our second year, and it’s still evolving – this year is bigger and better than 2019, with an improved tournament system that will streamline the event, and lots of attractions besides the competition itself. We’ve also included a wooden spoon tournament bracket, to find the Most Unluckiest RPS Contender 2020.

Last year’s charity (selected by the winner) was the Hutt St Centre, a not-for-profit organisation that helps people facing homelessness. They provide over 40,000 meals yearly and offer support services to over 2,000 people in need.

Each of the event’s volunteers selects a charity that is close to their hearts, and the winner is given the option to select from them.

How competitive does it get? What tends to be the best strategy?

It’s a fun and friendly competition, based on random chance, and in the name of charity – so it gets very

competitive. For instance, last year we had a dance off for a last chance wildcard entry, which got... intense. So just being skilled in hand-to-hand combat (both kinds) may not get contenders over the line.

There are three main strategies for competitive RPS: Psych Outs: tactics to influence an opponents’ throw (e.g. telling your opponent what they will play).

Gambits: predetermined sequences of ‘throws’ that competitors use to avoid Psych Outs, like the ‘Fist Full o’ Dollars’: one rock and two papers in a row.

And for only the most daring contenders, Chaos Theory: throwing hands at random to confuse and confound opponents (and even yourself). Only for true connoisseurs of the sport – it takes the greatest will power to not be influenced by Gambits and Psych Outs.

Being purists of the sport, we acknowledge only the Holy Trinity. Leave your Spocks, lizards and bombs at home, guys! Yubitsume awaits the foolhardy.

Why should people come along?

We think this event represents the essence of Adelaide Fringe: people coming together for fun, a bit of adventure and all for a good cause. Anyone interested in this event should walk away with a smile on their face, and hopefully a trophy for their pool-room. ✏︎ Justin McArthur

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Steven Tuckey and Nathan Vines share their inspiration and strategies for their Rock, Paper, Scissors charity tournament

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Ash Palmer

We had some ice cream with Amanda Palmer’s son Ash (aged four) and saw Petit Circus, Brass Monkeys and rode the Ferris wheel in the Garden. Here’s his take on the shows, distractions permitting

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Interviewed on the Ferris wheel in The Garden of Unearthly Delights

Did you like the show?

Yes! What were those three people doing?

They were making food. They were making circus food!

YEUGH! Did you like the man playing the ukulele after he realised he didn’t have his violin?

But his violin got eaten by the dwarves! (A very creative interpretation - this does not happen in the show - Ed.) What about when he played the ukulele upside down? (nods, clearly interested by the Ferris wheel) What was your favourite part of the show?

Making pizza!

Would you tell your friends about the show?

Yes! Did you like the hula-hooper?

Uh-huh! What was she?

A hula-hooper! (entranced by the wheel) We’re doing it so many times!

If you told someone about the show what would you say? (still fixated on the wheel) We’ve already been this way!

Would you say it was a good circus show?

Where are we going to?

We’re going around and around!

But where are we going to? I wanna see what’s at the top of the sky.

Anything else you want to say about the show?

There was a ukulele-er, a pizza-er, and a hula-hooper.

Did you have fun?

(Silence – fully distracted.)

Okay, well do you like the Ferris wheel?

Yeah!

Five stars for the Ferris wheel?

(Counting everyone in the carriage) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5!

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Two cheeky circus clowns realise their dreams of being in a brass marching band.

Interviewed outside The Factory in The Garden of Unearthly Delights

I wanna get some jelly candy.

Did you like the show?

Yes! What did you like the most?

Being sick!

You were sick? Oh, the mojo! (This makes sense in the show - trust us. - Ed.) What else did you like? Did you like the trombone? (singing his own tune, a bit like a trumpet) Did you like it when she was sad?

Yeah.

Did you like it when he was sad?

Uh-huh.

Did you like lying down on the floor during the show?

(Sugar crash - Ed.) Uh-huh!

What was under the seats when you were looking?

It was dark and creepy! What was in the deep part?

Was it the mojo?

Yes! ✏︎ George Sully Amanda Palmer’s run in Adelaide has concluded, but her tour continues in Australia and New Zealand see amandapalmer.net for details

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Take 5 Circolombia: Acéléré “A lively immersion of urban dance, concert performance and contemporary circus” Friendly Feminism for the Mild Mannered “A commanding balance between uplifting others and acknowledging setbacks which is incredibly endearing” Josephine “A reminder of blatant and oppressive prejudices that continue to manifest differently in contemporary contexts” Mavericks, Madness and a Murder Most Foul “An excellent way to discover some of Adelaide’s most intriguing stories” YUMMY UNLEASHED “A celebration of all that is queer, weird, femme and beautiful”

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rare constellation in Fest Magazine, where a top-rating denotes a wonderous A show challenging the boundaries of an artform. It’s likely to be the highlight of the critic’s year. special show at the top of its genre, which is brilliant in both execution and A form. It’s an active recommendation from us to secure a ticket if you can.

I n an age where star ratings have become ubiquitous in all aspects of life, the three-star review has become undervalued. In Fest Magazine it means good to very good.

I n a word: flawed. Flawed in a way that detracts from the overall value and enjoyment of the experience. The rating encompasses a wide range: from a good premise which may not have quite worked out to a show which is inherently dull and unremarkable. eople always remember ‘hatchet jobs’ but one star reviews are uncommon – noP one seeks out a bad show. A show assigned this rating has plunged our critic from a search for enlightenment to utter despair.

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Back for their second Adelaide Fringe, Edinburgh’s Men With Coconuts give a crash course in comedy improv. Their long time

working together is obvious: at times they seem able to telepathically communicate with one another.

The show itself is broken into three distinct sections. The first quick skit, the emotional rollercoaster, sees an uncomfortable interaction between a teacher and a student, which also fits in a quick-witted line regarding abuse of power. Accompanied by Colin Bramwell on piano, the shifts between hungry and horny, sad and excited and everything in between are a joy.

The lion’s share of the show is a mini-musical. Tonight, being Valentine’s Day, the winning title is Dragon’s Valentine. What follows is a 20 minute piece which reads like a cross between a Tolkien adaption and a Disney film.

Impressively, the final musical number is built into a three part harmony with layered voices. The final skit – watching two 600-yearold dinosaurs discuss love – could have done with a quicker cut-off and slowed down a troupe whose energy is so palpable and entertaining. ✏︎ Laura Desmond

The message of this show is an important one, which is that conspiracy theorists have done a just-good-enough job of hiding their rampant antisemitism behind the fig leaf of anti-Zionism.

Consequently, they’ve been able to operate with near impunity, with

rank-and-file adherents on both the left and right sides of politics. And, anti-racist activists have been too slow (or too unwilling) to catch on to this. Conspiracy Theory is heavy on its content, but it comes with a polished delivery in an accessible format. ✏︎ Justin Boden

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Marlon Solomon is a Jewish man living in the UK, a country that didn’t mean that much to him until he started to encounter Holocaust denial and blood libel accusations in his everyday life. This started him down the path into the dark world of conspiracy theories to investigate why these deeply racist notions are resurging in popularity.

Solomon goes into the storied history of anti-Zionist conspiracy theories, from the fabricated Protocols of Zion to modern allegations of a lizard world order.

The spoken-word presentation is crammed with information, but Solomon is an endearing host who keeps it light and entertaining with hairdresser skits, anti-Zionist rap, and Facebook-comment karaoke.

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Clive Palmer (Nic Conway) is in the ABC studios for a softball interview with Leigh Sales (Lisa Harper Campbell) over a hearty breakfast, à la Annabelle Crabb’s

Kitchen Cabinet. But shortly after cutting the interview short, Palmer receives an unexpected call from the Governor General – there was a mishap with the vote count and it’s going to change everything.

Full English Breakfast is a generous offering. There’s a healthy serve of eyebrow-raising facts about Palmer himself and his political career – it’s clear the cast did a great deal of research when writing this show. There’s a side-order of worthy musical numbers to round out the palate and grant the show some broader comedic appeal. And there are plenty of wink-and-nod references to political scandals

that add spice to the dish.

However, parts of the show are a little under baked. Conway’s Palmer is studied but a little too bombastic to betray the magnate’s impish self-awareness. Harper Campbell’s impersonation of Jacquie Lambie is outrageously funny and dead on the mark, but her Sales is a little too flappable.

And while the fat jokes aren’t mean-spirited, the show is overly dependent on them for its punchlines. Yet this doesn’t take away the entertainment value overall or that it’ll have political pundits in stitches. ✏︎ Justin Boden

intolerance. He details at length the inherent risk of buttered popcorn and brioche buns and their potential scatological consequences. This obsession with bodily functions, and how they can go awry, dominates Desmarais’ set and places his brand of humour solidly in the

comedy-after-dark category.

But it also undermines the sentimentality of his storytelling.

While his material consistently lands, the ‘fuck boi who found truest love’ narrative doesn’t quite resonate in the midst of all the penis jokes. ✏︎ Justin Boden

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Evan Desmarais, hailing from Toronto but currently based in Manchester, has returned once again to the Adelaide Fringe to serve up his brand of gross-out, pseudo-enlightened, adults-only humour.

Desmarais’ strength is his crowd work. In the modest Squeaker venue, he is able to immediately get the small crowd on side. He has a seemingly preternatural ability to sense how comfortable his punters are, and gently coax them into the show. And he keeps the energy high, eliciting peals of laughter with his roster of jokes on reiki retreats, awkward threesomes and male baldness.

The title of the show refers to Desmarais’ favourite foods – all of which he now can’t eat because of his recently-diagnosed lactose

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In With Two Dots, Zöe Sitas brings a relentless charm and high energy to standup. With great physicality they take the audience on a journey of her life to date: from South Africa to Australia, her Cypriot background and love of haloumi, coming out as queer and non-binary, and also living with endometriosis. As Sitas says, “If you’re not laughing you’re learning”. This is a show that offers plenty of both: an hour of generosity from Sitas to their audience.

They share vulnerable experiences with honesty and humour but are careful to ensure the audience is never lost or uncomfortable. Sitas cuts through the tension in the room and puts everyone at ease. With Two Dots is Sitas’ debut at Adelaide Fringe after successful runs at Sydney Fringe Comedy Festival and as a Raw Comedy

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joke lands – but sometimes it’s that lack of polish which gives their work energy and vulnerability. ✏︎ Kylie Maslen

cover territory including gender, sexuality, family and dogs.

She has become a regular face as a standup at festivals across Australia, as well as guest spots on Triple J’s Good Az Friday and Tom Ballard’s Tonightly; by day she is a writer on The Project. All of this experience has seen her become more assured on stage – both in her delivery as well as her ability to naturally banter back and forth without losing her way, always showing care towards her audience.

In a small dark room (where Rhino Room used to store the booze until two days ago, we’re told) Ward creates a warm atmosphere.

While she admits several times that the show is in its early days, Sorry For Before is filled with sharp one-liners and relatable observations that help to smooth over the bumps and lack of segues. She may still be finding her feet with this show, but Ward is building an admirable foundation for a long career. ✏︎ Kylie Maslen

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Inspired by the horrific atrocities committed in Cambodia’s S-21 prison, Feet First Collective’s S-27 by Sarah Grochala has you in the brutal depths of a tyrannical regime before you’ve found a seat in the theatre.

Guards aggressively ‘process’ each audience member before herding everyone into a dark rectangular room. May (Gabriella Munro), a young photographer, is charged with taking photos of dissenters,

rebelling against the organisation, as they are directed towards a door, and their impending doom.

What ensues is a tour-de-force about the adaptability of human beings within an authoritarian dictatorship and the consequences of those adaptations. It’s a play that asks: just how far would you go to save yourself? Would you abandon a baby, kill your sister, sell your body?

The answers to these questions, and the complexities of the sacrifices being made, are shown through gut-wrenching vignettes throughout. These snippets are

broken up by musical interludes with choreographed, repetitive body movements, allowing you further into these atrocities.

At times, the dialogue leans towards cliché, but this doesn’t detract from an incredible performance from the entire cast. Lauren Beeton and Sally Clune give are particularly transfixing performances that delve into sheer fear, hopelessness and the intoxication of power. S-27 is a full submersion into a disturbing reality that leans a little too closely into our own. ✏︎ Edwina Sleigh

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It’s no easy feat telling the tale of Josephine Baker – a superstar, immortalised as one of the greatest entertainers of the 20th century; a French resistance agent; and a civil rights activist who captivated the entire globe. But Tymisha Harris’ homage to the French icon is breathtaking.

Harris glides in glittery gowns across the stage moving from theatre to cabaret and diving into burlesque. Her journey begins with

being blindsided. The acting from this small cast is sensational. Bold, unique, and full of sly gags, this is theatre at its best.

For those who can’t keep pace with Lochhead’s Scottish dialect and slang there’s English surtitles.

But this is a special show that can take linguistic confusion and spin it into absolute charm – turning the theatre’s inner-arches into sounding boards for an entertaining take on an uproarious comedic-melodrama. ✏︎ Esther Rivers

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Holden Street’s converted church finds its match with the baritone delivery and rhyming couplets of Liz Lochhead’s adaptation of Tartuffe. Originally set in 17th century France, this rendition of Molière’s story of a scheming house guest is set entirely in a 1940s living room in Scotland.

Tartuffe (played by Andy Clark) has ingratiated himself with Orgon (Harry Clark). But the tricksters’ devious gold-digging soon puts him at odds with Orgon’s beautiful young wife (Nicola Ward), who – with bonnie housemaid Dorrine (Joyce Falconer) – attempts dissuade her foolish husband from

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the early life of a Josephine from St Louis, Missouri, who is scouted by a French man and moves to the streets of Paris where fame and fortune await.

There’s a subtle undercurrent of the abhorrent racism Josephine was subjected to throughout her career. She thrived in spite of these hardships and Harris is magnetic in portraying both this sadness and her omnipotence as a sex icon.

Despite being set in the early-mid 1900s, this critically acclaimed off-Broadway biographical musical is disconcertingly relevant now. It’s a reminder of blatant and oppressive prejudices that continue to manifest differently in contemporary contexts. But mostly, it’s a reminder of the success of a woman who defied all odds to conquer the world. ✏︎ Edwina Sleigh

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The second part of ‘a trilogy of myths’ performed by the Flanagan Collective, EURYDICE is a modern take on the original Greek mythological tale of the same name.

ORPHEUS, then EURYDICE and finally THE GODS, THE GODS, THE GODS, make up the trilogy of myths all playing at the Black Box and Open Air Theatre’s in the Botanic Gardens at Adelaide Fringe.

In this tale Eurydice is Leni, a modern, strong, determined fiveyear-old choosing to wear her Superman uniform to school. As she grows and her story weaves within the original tale, we this time see the story told from Leni’s point of view, rather than the long-standing perspective of Orpheus.

This is a beautifully written and performed hour of original song woven through poetic rhyme. With enigmatic and loving storytelling, this show lands softly upon you as the sun sets over the rose garden in the Botanic Park. Droplets of humour permeate the seriousness of tragic love, as do well-known songs from the likes of Bruce Springsteen and Cyndi Lauper. The lyrical beauty has you hanging on every word, laughing along with Leni and standing tall right beside her as she finds her way. ✏︎ Esther Rivers

space around us quickly becomes an internal separation. Atop a small staircase, Foxstone orders us to line up along the footpath in order of value of assets. We’re asked to keep this line as we move further down and then split into property owners and non-property owners.

This is where it gets interesting.

Without clearly or directly asking for anyone’s worth, Foxstone casts such a rift between the two groups of people that we can’t help but see each other differently.

These physical divisions Foxstone has created echo the social divisions between us which were previously unnoted. We study each other through lenses Foxstone has given us, all with an air of looking to help us into the lucrative market.

Foxstone shifts the focus onto ourselves and highlights the insane nature of the property game with her bright and vibrant character and forces such a horrifically real question of social status and value. ✏︎ Laura Desmond

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Frankie Foxstone is a powerhouse of a woman with a sharp business dress cinched at the waist and ridiculously overset at the shoulders and hips. The cliché hyperbole of the female form is set with a hard hat and a belted speaker just at her crotch.

We don hi-vis vests ourselves and set off into the East End. At every stop, Foxstone finds higher ground – a constant reminder of her status. Her conversation topics come naturally to her – the development getaway at Cannes (“You look like you’ve been, Andrew”), her father’s booming redevelopment on the adjacent block and the countless business partners she’s gained around the world.

What begins as a look at the

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Two men stand on a slim stage beneath the open sky, tucked amongst the foliage of the International Rose Garden. One nurses a much-loved leather notebook, the other cradles a guitar enamoured with familiarity. It is in many ways the perfect place to take in a mod-

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We know the world is ending and we know there is a blatant disregard for effecting ACTUAL change. MKA Theatre are aiming to bring it about through their gig theatre show COLD WAR. In one sense this is a straight-shooting show with no metaphors – there’s plenty of discussion between the two on stage about the thousands of scientific papers about climate change and how many ways the world in dying.

In equal measure, the dialogue is rich with metaphorical descriptions of various forms of death.

Sections of dialogue are intercut with short, fast, loud punk rock songs and audience members are invited to come on stage anytime music is playing. With a small crowd and no-one bold enough in

ernised tale of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus.

Except our Orpheus isn’t the son of king Thrace Oeagrus and the muse Calliope – he is Dave: a single, 30-year-old man slogging out a dreary and lonesome life in the backstreets of Northern England.

Dave’s destiny shifts inside a dingy karaoke bar where he falls for Eurydice, a tree nymph. Tragedy soon follows and so too does a heroic descent into the depths of Hades’ Underworld.

This death-defying love story is exuded into the open air through spoken word by the ever-so-talented Alexander Wright, who is flanked by soulful renditions

of Bruce Springsteen by Phil Grainger. The pair have worked together since they were 14 and their symbiotic relationship is something to behold.

Wright is witty, charming and earnest in his retelling of this tale.

The over-romanticisation of love can be a little nauseating and the constant references to butterflies, rainbows and a gleaming world of colour are a little too trite. But overall, the show’s ability to capture the intensity and magnitude of newfound love is unrivalled. This is a performance that can transcend time – a near perfect simulation for faded, lost or forgotten love. ✏︎ Edwina Sleigh

the front row, the music intersections fall flat, rather than proving the intended inclusive space for everyone to release some anger (as frontman Tobias Manderson-Galvin does so well).

For a script that is so dense with references, information and important observation, it’s rushed through leaving interesting facts

underappreciated by the audience.

Paired with minor tech glitches, the bulk of the work is left understood.

MKA Theatre have a salient point to make, but currently the message is being rendered inaccessible in the dense dialogue and non-translating gig interludes. ✏︎ Laura Desmond

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Friendly Feminism for the Mild Mannered HHHHH VENUE: TIME: TICKETS:

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Millicent Sarre is bubbly, charismatic and has the voice of a Disney princess. With her full band behind her, she cracks into original songs which outline feminist stereo-

types, discuss sexual assault and consent, and give practical tips on how to be a better ally to those less privileged than you.

The songs are catchy (including an enthusiastically-consented singa-long) but they also explore pertinent issues based on Sarre’s own life experience. Interspersed are small monologues which discuss the importance of allyship, cultural paradigm shifts and the hypocrisy in victim blaming – “If we can teach girls what to plan for, why can’t we teach boys not to be predators?”

What’s interesting about Sarre’s approach is how accessible and inclusive it is. She so clearly identifies and checks her own privileges in the show, and acknowledges her vulnerability, without downplaying her own lived experience. She strikes a commanding balance between uplifting others and acknowledging her setbacks which is incredibly endearing.

Sarre has presented an intensive Feminism-101 cabaret with heart, genuine experience and an emotional rallying cry. / Laura Desmond

After Hours Cabaret Club – LOCK IN HHHHH HHHH VENUE: TIME:

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Gluttony at Rymill Park 10:40pm, various dates between 14 Feb and 14 Mar $35

For those who don’t know, the After Hours Cabaret Club – LOCK IN is named for its propensity to shock,

YUMMY UNLEASHED HHHHH HHHH VENUE:

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The Garden of Unearthly Delights 9:30pm, various dates between 14 Feb and 15 Mar $30 – $39.50

Welcome to Valerie Hex’s “cultural orgy” – an hour of high camp, avant-garde cabaret, burlesque and performance art pleasure. Including some of Melbourne’s most celebrated drag and burlesque performers, YUMMY UNLEASHED is a celebration of all that is queer,

disturb, and get loose. It’s like a night in a pub or club where parties rage and friendships are forged, even if deep in the morning hours everybody laughs to realise they don’t know each other’s names.

Hosted by the hilarious Tash York, the night is a selection of the most titillating, daring and – as York says – “what the fuuuuuu–” performers from the Fringe circuit.

Without giving too much away, there’s burlesque, there’s ropes, there’s theft and there’s some serious WTF moments. This is

not a show for the faint-hearted, however the packed-out, late-night performance is serious fun and a fantastic way to end your night with a bang.

Perhaps the show isn’t for your grandparents, but who knows?

York and her friends have a way of bringing people out of their seats and out of themselves. There’s no better way to do Fringe than by having the absolute pants shocked off you. You’ve been warned. ✏︎ Esther Rivers

weird, femme and beautiful.

The ensemble, including Hex (James Welsby), Benjamin Hancock, Hannie Helsden, Zelia Rose and Jandruze, are as strong individually as they are apart. Helsdon is a delight with a tongue-in-cheek sensuality that fronts her acrobatics, particularly her impressive hula routine.

Rose shines as the hair-whipping, fire-breathing burlesque queen, her Miss Burlesque Australia title strongly on show. Cheeky in all the best ways, Jandruze has a keen eye for the absurd and unconventional (and has some curious lunch-lady skills). Benjamin Hancock’s rendition of Marylin Manson’s ‘Beautiful

People’ is as creepy and uncanny as it is striking. Hex, who also directs and produces, is a charismatic and conscientious host, keeping the sold-out audience in the palm of their hand.

The costumes are as arresting as the performers: body length glitter boots, Maleficent-esque masseuse wear, commanding power-shoulders, hammer pants and leather.

Touching on the importance of inclusivity, gender-fluidity, and with some thought-provoking performance art about climate change (it’s hilarious – don’t worry), YUMMY UNLEASHED is a show with surprising heart. ✏︎ Lauren Butterworth

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Circolombia ‘Acéléré’ HHHHH HHHH VENUE: TIME:

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Circolombia presents Acéléré, a lively immersion of urban dance, concert performance and contemporary circus in an event which illuminates and celebrates Colombian

culture. With obvious chemistry on display, the troupe weave together a series of vignettes into a compelling showcase of ropework, swing trapeze, teeterboard and acrobatics.

Acéléré is elevated by some clever choices in costume, lighting and choreography. The performers are dressed in muted urban wear, mostly greys with the occasional red accents, which subverts audience expectations about Colombian dress. This allows the physical performances to take centre stage.

This refreshingly understated

approach is complemented by the intimacy of the venue and simplicity of the staging.

A highlight is a circular frame routine, which mixes a whimsical narrative of a mirror-bound lover from another realm with an original and physically impressive feat of balance. Despite some looseness in the routine, it is a touching and memorable set-piece. However, if there is a larger narrative thread which ties the acts together, it is lost in translation. But there is more than enough here to surprise and enthral. ✏︎ Justin Boden

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When Moon Duo take the stage, several things are immediately apparent. The duo is a trio for tonight with the addition of a drummer.

And, there will not be a lot of audience interaction.

All three musicians are cocooned in a thin screen that surrounds the stage. Within minutes they’ve locked into a hypnotic groove. The drummer’s propulsive motorik

rhythm is a constant, and around it eddies of psych guitar lines and stabs of synth surge and crash.

The trucker-capped guitarist Ripley Johnson is almost immobile, and he and keyboard player Sanae Yamada are barely visible among swirling patterns and flurries projected onto the surrounding screens. This visual element nullifies the effect of the tall crowd.

It allows the mind to wander as the music explores a comfortable thread of easy listening psych.

Placing a projector directly behind the drummer’s hands is a smart move, making it possible to keep the beat with both eye and ear.

The band is mostly visible as negative space on the screens;

their performance marked by restraint. There’s no talking between songs and no wasted notes.

Alan Vega’s musical influence is strong. But while he was a born showman, Moon Duo’s cover of Jukebox Babe strips out any of the wild rockabilly elements. Even better are the originals that rid themselves of a hook in favour of minimalist industrial synth-psych.

The insistent beat slips from the foreground and buries into the subconscious. These seemingly unrealised ideas continue to appear, forming and reforming themselves in fluid patterns before coalescing into an inevitable, orgiastic climax.

a little dry, the Dollar Bin Darlings can soon ditch the notes and lose themselves in the performance the way they would on the dancefloor.

Early Disco culture was among the first widely visible expressions of queer culture. The trio embraces the movement as it embraces them.

They call it “a party as political stance” and want to reclaim the music that celebrates pleasure and diversity from the tacky overmar-

keted behemoth that disco became.

As queer icons became less visible in disco, so did people of colour.

This is, at heart, a celebration.

So as the lecture concludes we’re invited to turn the theatre into a Disco with a capital D. Forget hyper-exclusive scenes like Studio 54 – this party is all about radical inclusivity, and that’s something that’s easy to embrace.

✏ Alexis Buxton-Collins

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The Dollar Bin Darlings love Disco.

And they want you to love it too.

First they need to explain the difference between Disco – a radically inclusive social movement – and disco: a mainstreamed, corporatised version of the music that removes people of colour and relies on broad stereotypes.

Tired of requests to play ABBA and the Bee Gees, they’re here to teach Australian audiences about the history of Disco. This is at heart a lecture about the social and musical evolution of the subculture.

It’s a fascinating journey that’s filled with anecdotes, asides and several hilarious rants. It’s also a very new show. While at times it’s

✏ Alexis Buxton-Collins

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‘ Mavericks, Madness and Murder Most Foul!’

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As the sun sets beneath an overcast sky, a crowd of about 30 gathers by the old cottage at the front of West Terrace Cemetery.

With old gums looming over the paths there’s already an aura of gloom and mystery before our guide emerges in a long black cape, lantern in hand.

Over 140,000 souls rest in this ground – some 50,000 in unmarked graves. As we weave between the old headstones, many of them sunken with time, the atmosphere truly sets in.

At each stop, our narrator guides us through stories of murderers and mistresses, drunkards and dalliances. Actors in period costume

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Behind one door is a corridor that looks like an abandoned psych ward. Behind another is a staircase to nowhere with ominous banging coming from beneath. A third reveals a dark chamber that smells of mildew. Throughout, relics of past

wait on headstones or emerge from between the trees, and lights coordinate in blues, greens and reds to set the scene. With just the right mix of creepy and camp, it makes the hairs on your neck stand up as fast as it makes you laugh.

The West Terrace Cemetery offers a stunning backdrop from which to learn fascinating local

history, from Colonel Light’s salacious love life, to the queer history of Premier Kingston’s illegitimate son. And, of course, one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in the world: our very own Somerton Man. For locals and visitors alike, this is an excellent way to discover some of Adelaide’s most intriguing stories. ✏ Lauren Butterworth

lives are strewn across the floor as if they were abandoned hurriedly.

Some rooms have themes that are immediately obvious while others require more exploration, but each one poses a question.

At its best 1000 Doors is a chance to ponder these mysteries and get lost in flights of imagination.

Unfortunately, the sheer number of people being herded through means that any such musings are frequently broken in on.

The first part of this labyrinthine installation is largely linear, and as I ponder the stories that each chamber holds I find myself constantly interrupted by other groups

who enter at 30 second intervals.

Instead of a sense of discovery and wonder, the overwhelming feeling is of being rushed. It’s like watching a horror movie next to someone intent on having a loud conversation during the most suspenseful scenes.

1000 Doors is skilfully designed with dozens of connected rooms and corridors that make the most of the 400 square metre footprint. But to get the most out of the experience, it’s probably best to go after dark and choose a weeknight when it’s less crowded so you can more fully engage with it. ✏ Alexis Buxton-Collins

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13:00 Adelaide Comedy Gala Arkaba Hotel, 1 Mar, $50 Nothing But Dad Jokes: The First Sequel The Joinery on Franklin, 1 Mar, $20

14:00 HarleQueen The Mill, 7 Mar, $28 VR Comedy: The Best of the Bendigo Comedy Festival BASEM3NT Studios, 22 Feb, $27.50 Tough Boys Arkaba Hotel, 23 Feb, $30

14:45 LARRIKIN LAUGHS with ME ‘N ME MATES Murray Bridge Town Hall, 1 Mar, $25

15:00 Sean Quinn - Cognitive Behavioural Terrorist Gluttony - Rymill Park, 29 Feb, 1 Mar, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, $23 Ashes: A Comedy Showdown Belgian Beer Cafe ‘Oostende’, 29 Feb, 1 Mar, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, 14 Mar, $30 UnPlotted Potter Black Box Theatre, 29 Feb–1 Mar, $25

A collection of dad jokes no one asked to hear.

Bunnik Tours ballroom, 23 Feb, $28

15:15 VR Comedy: The Best of the Bendigo Comedy Festival BASEM3NT Studios, 22 Feb, $27.50 Stephen K Amos Talk Show Arts Theatre, 8 Mar, $25

15:30 Cherry Farrow Comedy Hypnosis Sparkke at The Whitmore, 22 Feb, 23 Feb, 29 Feb, 1 Mar, $25 Nothing But Dad Jokes: The First Sequel The Joinery on Franklin, 8 Mar, 14 Mar, $20 Mind Blowing Magic The Jade, 28 Feb, 1 Mar, $25 16th Theatresports(TM) Clash of the Titans The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 23 Feb, 1 Mar, 8 Mar, $35

15:45 Scotland!

Stirling Fringe, 22–23 Feb, $28

16:00 Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard’s Tale various venues, 22 Feb, 29 Feb, 1 Mar, 14 Mar, 15 Mar, $27 The Four Fringemen various venues, 1 Mar, 8 Mar, 15 Mar, $30

Simon Caine: Every Room Becomes a Panic Room When You Overthink Enough Gluttony - Rymill Park, 29 Feb–1 Mar, $20 A Show For Belinda Schmidt Marion Hotel, 23 Feb, $20 Marion Hotel Sunday Sessions Marion Hotel, 1 Mar, 8 Mar, $30 MICKEY D FOR PM (*FOUR) Gluttony - Rymill Park, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $25

16:30 Daniel Connell Cheers Big Ears Gluttony - Rymill Park, 14–15 Mar, $24 The Smithergreens BASEM3NT Studios, 22 Feb, $23 Surviving the Circus Gluttony - Rymill Park, 7–8 Mar, $25 Andrew Silverwood: Call Me Janice Gluttony - Rymill Park, 22 Feb, 23 Feb, 29 Feb, 1 Mar, $20 Kel Balnaves Righto Murray Bridge Town Hall, 1 Mar, $18 Family Friendly Comedy Hour Flinders University, Bedford Park, 14 Mar, $20

17:00 Best in Fringe Comedy and Chat... with Vladimir McTavish Gluttony - Rymill Park, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $20 Stephen K Amos Talk Show Arts Theatre, 14 Mar, $25

Arj Barker Comes Clean Arts Theatre, 23 Feb, 1 Mar, 8 Mar, $38 Australia: A Whinging Poms Guide Belgian Beer Cafe ‘Oostende’, Various dates from 21 Feb to 15 Mar, $25 Jimmy McGhie - BA (Hons) The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 22 Feb, 29 Feb, 7 Mar, 14 Mar, $29 LARRIKIN LAUGHS with ME ‘N ME MATES Goodwood Institute Theatre, 8 Mar, $25 Best of the Edinburgh Fest The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 23 Feb, 1 Mar, 8 Mar, 15 Mar, $26

17:15 Nik Coppin The Griffins Hotel, 23 Feb, 1 Mar, $10

17:30 VR Comedy: The Best of the Bendigo Comedy Festival various venues, 20 Feb–1 Mar, $27.50 Boats and Bogans various venues, 6–8 Mar, $18 A Full English Breakfast with Clive Palmer Ayers House Events, 29 Feb, $28 Bonanza of Comedy: Festival Line-Up The Historian Hotel, 22 Feb, 29 Feb, 7 Mar, 14 Mar, $20 Innuendo Everywhere: Becky Blake and Steve Davis do it The Duke of Brunswick, 23 Feb, 1 Mar, $25

James Veitch Tentative The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 13–15 Mar, $31–$33.50 Keep The Change The Hindley, 6–7 Mar, $20 DAVE HUGHES RIDICULOUS The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 29 Feb, $45 The Hilary Duff Film Re-Enactment Festival Ayers House Events, 7 Mar, 14 Mar, $25

17:45 Men With Coconuts Rhino Room, 20–29 Feb, not 23, 24, $16–$25 The Smithergreens BASEM3NT Studios, 22 Feb, $23

18:00 HarleQueen The Mill, 3–8 Mar, $23–$28 Daniel Connell Cheers Big Ears Gluttony - Rymill Park, 9–15 Mar, $18–$24 Chris Franklin in an Evening with Chris Franklin Rhino Room, 20–22 Feb, $28 Doggie in the Window The Jade, 24–27 Feb, $15–$20 Fringe of the Fringe Comedy Hilton Hotel, 21 Feb, 6 Mar, $10 PLASTICA FANTASTICA The Mill, 26 Feb, 29 Feb, $20 Benson’s Brexit (tbc) Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $15–$25

Your hour-by-hour guide to Comedy at Adelaide’s festivals

An Evening with George Kapiniaris Morphettville Racecourse, 1 Mar, $30 Surviving the Circus Gluttony - Rymill Park, 3–8 Mar, $19–$25 UnPlotted Potter Black Box Theatre, 25 Feb–1 Mar, $25 Catherine McClintock: Please and Thank Yous Rhino Room, 10–14 Mar, $18–$22 Simon Caine: Every Room Becomes a Panic Room When You Overthink Enough Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20–23 Feb, $20–$25 I See Dead People Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $18–$20 Best of The Fringe Comedy Superstars Flinders University, Bedford Park, 14 Mar, $35 Chris Henry: FLAIR The Howling Owl, 25 Feb–14 Mar, not 1 Mar, 2 Mar, 8 Mar, 9 Mar, $15–$25 Greek Myth for Mortals The Jade, 20 Feb, 21 Feb, 23 Feb, $25 Deadly Funny Institute Theatre - Port Augusta, 23 Feb, FREE Jason Pestell: Kmart’s The Greatest Shop Man The Howling Owl, 20–22 Feb, $25 Clone-a-patra Star Theatres, 12–15 Mar, $27 DON’T SHOOT! I’m a vegan The Jade, 1 Mar, 10 Mar, $20

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THE OFFICIAL GLUTTONY VARIETY SHOWCASE - Best of CIRCUS, MAGIC, COMEDY Gluttony - Rymill Park, 5–15 Mar, not 10, 11, $25–$30 Nick O’Connell - Those Who Can, Those Who Can’t Rhino Room, 3–7 Mar, $15–$20 Liam Withnail: Homecoming Gluttony - Rymill Park, 3–15 Mar, $10–$25 With Two Dots Rhino Room, 20–29 Feb, not 23, 24, $15–$25 Amazing Adventures of Her Majesty at 90+ The Warehouse Theatre, 24 Feb–8 Mar, not 29 Feb, 7 Mar, $10–$14 Completely Improvised Shakespeare Gluttony - Rymill Park, 25 Feb–1 Mar, $22–$30 The Fax Machine Goes Corporate Hotel Royal, 6–15 Mar, not 9, $25 Lucy & Me The Mill, 25 Feb, 27 Feb, 28 Feb, $20 Men With Coconuts Stirling Fringe, 23 Feb, 1 Mar, $28 Tiramisu Rhino Room, 25 Feb–14 Mar, not 1 Mar, 2 Mar, 8 Mar, 9 Mar, $20–$28

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Best Of Fringe: Early Show Belgian Beer Cafe ‘Oostende’, 20 Feb–15 Mar, $15–$20 Adelaide Comedy’s Next Generation 2020 Rhino Room, 20–29 Feb, not 23, 24, $20 Transgressive The Griffins Hotel, 3–15 Mar, not 9, $20–$25

18:30 Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard’s Tale various venues, Various dates from 20 Feb to 15 Mar, $27 Australian Open Mic Challenge Final Ayers House Events, 28 Feb, $20 A Full English Breakfast with Clive Palmer Ayers House Events, 7 Mar, $28 Blake Everett deb(u)t Ayers House Events, 12–14 Mar, $20 The Hilary Duff Film Re-Enactment Festival Ayers House Events, 4 Mar, 5 Mar, 6 Mar, 11 Mar, $15–$25

18:45 The Final Hours Hour Holden Street Theatres, 3–15 Mar, not 8, 9, $15–$28 Best of Adelaide Fringe: The International Comedy Show The Historian Hotel, Various dates from 20 Feb to 14 Mar, $20–$25

19:00 PETER HELLIAR LOOPY The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 12–15 Mar, $39–$45

AdeLoL Stories The Crown and Sceptre Hotel, 5–7 Mar, $20 Kevin Kropinyeri Goes Talkabout Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $20–$30 The Kagools: Cirque du Kagool The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 2 Mar, $24–$30 Lawrence Mooney: Beauty Royalty Theatre, 13–15 Mar, $49 5th Maestro Improvised National Games The Duke of Brunswick, 21 Feb, 22 Feb, 28 Feb, 29 Feb, $25 WIL ANDERSON WIL-INFORMED The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 3–15 Mar, not 9, $35–$48 Masterpiece Improv The Duke of Brunswick, 20 Feb, 27 Feb, 5 Mar, 12 Mar, $20 JUSTIN HAMILTON - JOHN TILT ANIMUS IN TIME IS THE FIRE Rhino Room, 20–22 Feb, $27–$29 Unexpected Inheritance The Duke of Brunswick, 6–8 Mar, $18 A NIGHT AT THE WOPERA Rhino Room, 8 Mar, $35 Steph Tisdell “Baby Beryl” The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–1 Mar, $20–$30 Persian of Interest The Griffins Hotel, 3–15 Mar, not 9, $17–$25 Anna Nicholson: Get Happy Hotel Richmond, 22 Feb–5 Mar, not 27 Feb, 28 Feb, $18–$22

Leigh Qurban - Crate Expectations Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $17–$23 Eddie Ifft - Dr. Google The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 24 Feb–8 Mar, $27.90–$35 Stand Up at Little Bang Little Bang Brewing Company, 26 Feb, 4 Mar, 11 Mar, FREE Jimeoin - Ramble On! The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 5–15 Mar, not 9, $37–$45 Stephen K Amos Everyman Arts Theatre, 29 Feb–14 Mar, not 2 Mar, 7 Mar, 9 Mar, $35–$45 A collection of dad jokes no one asked to hear.

Bunnik Tours ballroom, 28 Feb, $28 Scotland!

The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, 29 Feb, $20–$32 Corporate Social Irresponsibility The Hindley, 5–9 Mar, $12–$15 FRIEND (The One With Gunther) The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $26–$33 Sammy J - Symphony in J Minor The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 12–13 Mar, $42 Tim Ferguson - A Fast Life On Wheels The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20–23 Feb, $34.90 Cabaret Consultations The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20–23 Feb, $39

The Four Fringemen Salisbury RSL SUBBRANCH, 5 Mar, $30 Lloyd Langford - My Name Is Lloyd The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 2–15 Mar, not 11, $22–$32 TOMMY LITTLE - I’LL SEE MYSELF OUT The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20–29 Feb, not 23, 24, $29–$39 Michael Shafar Getting Better Gluttony - Rymill Park, 3–15 Mar, $15–$27 Effie in Love Me Tinder The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 29 Feb, $45 Backfired The Griffins Hotel, 25 Feb–1 Mar, $12–$20 Graduate Performance Astor Hotel, 14 Mar, $20 Nick Cody & Luke Heggie - Future Classics Rhino Room, 25 Feb–7 Mar, not 1 Mar, 2 Mar, $20–$28 Tough Boys Arkaba Hotel, 22–23 Feb, $30 An Evening of Stand Up Comedy With Anthony Tomic and Chris Marlton The Griffins Hotel, 20–22 Feb, $20

19:10 Andrew Silverwood: Call Me Janice Gluttony - Rymill Park, 26 Feb, $20 Marcus Ryan - Walk This Qué Gluttony - Rymill Park, 9–15 Mar, $20–$25

19:15 Carla Wills & Urvi Majumdar: Sass Attack Rhino Room, 20–22 Feb, $25 Greg Byron #StandUpPoet Treasury 1860, 20–23 Feb, $25 Baz McCulloch: Surfacing Now! Rhino Room, 3–7 Mar, $10–$20 Rocking The Boat with Rick Sextant Rhino Room, 10–15 Mar, $15–$20 Nicholas Huntley’s Hommus Sapien Rhino Room, 25–29 Feb, $15–$20 Aaaaaaaargh! It’s the Best of Fringe Comedy from the UK The Griffins Hotel, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 26 Feb, 2 Mar, 4 Mar, 9 Mar, 11 Mar, $15–$25 Joshua Warrior Comedy Show Rhino Room, 25–29 Feb, $15–$23 Amy Hetherington and Danielle Andrews: Dynamic Duo Rhino Room, 20–22 Feb, $22 Marcel Blanch- de Wilt: Pancakes Rhino Room, 10–14 Mar, $15–$21 2020 Greek Comedian of The Year The Howling Owl, 25 Feb–14 Mar, not 1 Mar, 2 Mar, 8 Mar, 9 Mar, $15–$25 Jeff Green: Wombat Combat and other Mistakes The Howling Owl, 20–22 Feb, $25.50–$34.90 Jacob Jackman From Bad To Worse Rhino Room, 3–7 Mar, $10–$20

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19:20 Andy Saunders The Black Gluttony - Masonic Lodge, 25 Feb–1 Mar, $28–$32 Gusset Grippers Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20–23 Feb, $28 Joel Ozborn - The Madman & Me Gluttony - Masonic Lodge, 3–15 Mar, not 9, $25–$32

19:30 Star Crossed Clowns Star Theatres, 9–15 Mar, $25 Alex Williamson: Oi Mate!

Arkaba Hotel, 21 Feb, 13 Mar, $34.90 A NIGHT AT THE WOPERA Rhino Room, 3–13 Mar, not 7, 8, 9, $23–$39 DAVE THORNTON – LIVE Stirling Fringe at Stirling Community Theatre, 22 Feb, $35 The Best Of The Historian Hotel, Various dates from 2 Mar to 11 Mar, $23 A Bookish Comedy Show Cafe Outside The Square, 2–4 Mar, $24 Aborigi-LOL: The Return Murray Bridge Town Hall, 28 Feb, $25 2 Cats Drove Into The Cuckoo’s Nest The Historian Hotel, 24–26 Feb, $25 Stood Up! Ayers House Events, Various dates from 4 Mar to 14 Mar, $25 The Four Fringemen Sourc’d Aldinga, 10 Mar, $30

Grassroots Variety Challenge: Final Ayers House Events, 7 Mar, $17 Home Boys Log On Star Theatres, Various dates from 20 Feb to 29 Feb, $15–$20 Nick Cody & Luke Heggie - Future Classics Stirling Fringe, 1 Mar, $28 Lehmo: younger than Brad Pitt Rhino Room, 20–22 Feb, $24.90–$34.90 Dreamgun: Film Reads Stirling Fringe, 29 Feb, $28 Becky Lucas - My neck, my back Rhino Room, 25–29 Feb, $20–$28 The Adelaide International Comedy Gala Thebarton Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 6 Mar, $20 Absolutely Irish The Griffins Hotel, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, 26 Feb, $15–$25 Lindsay Webb “Relentlessly Correct” Belgian Beer Cafe ‘Oostende’, 20 Feb–12 Mar, not 21 Feb, 22 Feb, 28 Feb, 29 Feb, 6 Mar, 7 Mar, $15–$30 Adeladies - Best of the Fringe’s Funny Women The Griffins Hotel, 3–15 Mar, not 4, 9, 11, $15–$25

19:45 This Show Is Our Baby But You Are Its Parents various venues, 20–21 Feb, $20 (Please) Validate Me

by Benjamin Maio Mackay various venues, 10–14 Mar, $20–$25

Boats and Bogans various venues, 27 Feb–1 Mar, $18 Abandoman - The Road to Coachella The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, 9 Mar, $30–$38 Instant Gay Icon various venues, 22–23 Feb, $15

19:50 The Eulogy Gluttony - Masonic Lodge, 3–8 Mar, $24–$30

20:00 3 Imports Shangri-La Nightclub, 27–29 Feb, $15 The Four Fringemen various venues, Various dates from 20 Feb to 13 Mar, $30 All The Best From Edinburgh... To Adelaide The Historian Hotel, Various dates from 20 Feb to 14 Mar, $20–$25 Cherry Farrow Comedy Hypnosis Sparkke at The Whitmore, 26–28 Feb, $25 Granny Flaps - Show Us Your Best Bits! various venues, 21 Feb, 25 Feb, 29 Feb, 6 Mar, $18–$28 The Anti Expert’s Guide To Everything Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20–23 Feb, $30 Adelaide Fringe Comedy Gala: Bringing The Best of The Fringe To Marion Marion Cultural Centre, 21 Feb, 6 Mar, $33 Best of the Adelaide Fringe Comedy - The Fringe comes to Port Noarlunga Arts Centre Port Noarlunga, 7 Mar, $30

Matt Byrne’s Vegans Norwood Concert Hall, Various dates from 20 Feb to 14 Mar, $28 Best of The Fringe Comedy Superstars Flinders University, Bedford Park, 14 Mar, $35 Ben & Charlie’s Variety Hour (45 minutes) House of Spaghetti, 28 Feb, 7 Mar, $15 An Evening With Fiona O’Loughlin Gluttony - Rymill Park, 3–15 Mar, not 9, $28–$35 Arj Barker Comes Clean Arts Theatre, Various dates from 20 Feb to 27 Feb, $35–$45 Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard’s Tale Marion Cultural Centre, 9 Mar, $27 Akmal - Open for Renovations Encore Performance Gluttony - Rymill Park, 25 Feb–1 Mar, $30–$39 FRIEND (The One With Gunther) The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 3–15 Mar, not 9, $26–$33 Amazing Adventures of Her Majesty at 90+ The Warehouse Theatre, 29 Feb, 7 Mar, $14 The Fax Machine Goes Corporate Hotel Royal, 10 Mar, $20 Nick Capper: Tuxedo Traveller Gluttony - Rymill Park, 3–8 Mar, $15–$20 Kel Balnaves Righto Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $15–$25

Apocalypse Comedy Club featuring Mick Neven Gluttony - Rymill Park, 10–15 Mar, $15–$20 Jonathan Pie - The Fake News Tour Royalty Theatre, 24 Feb, $69.90 Joshua Warrior Comedy Show The British Hotel Port Adelaide, 22 Feb, $23 tim&TIM!’s FrEaKy fRiDaY! House of Spaghetti, 6 Mar, $15 A Night in at the House of Spaghetti House of Spaghetti, 21 Feb, $15

20:10 The Stevenson Experience: Stranger Twins Gluttony - Rymill Park, 3–15 Mar, not 7, 9, $20–$30

20:15 Andrew Hansen Solo Show The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $28–$36 Nurse Georgie Carroll: Off The Charts The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, 9 Mar, $25–$35 PETER HELLIAR LOOPY The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 5–8 Mar, $35–$45 TOD Talks Scots Church Adelaide, 20 Feb, 21 Feb, 22 Feb, 26 Feb, 27 Feb, $20 Nick Schuller & Taylor Coughtrie Logical Progression The Griffins Hotel, 20–22 Feb, FREE

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DILRUK JAYASINHA - VICTORIOUS LION The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $24–$32 SAM TAUNTON ROOSTER The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 3–15 Mar, not 9, $22–$30 CLAIRE HOOPER BISCUITS The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20–23 Feb, $29–$34 CAL WILSON - OPEN BOOK The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 9–15 Mar, $28–$38 Nick O’Connell - Those Who Can, Those Who Can’t The Griffins Hotel, 25–29 Feb, $15–$20 Amos Gill: Ruins Rhino Room, 20 Feb–13 Mar, not 23 Feb, 24 Feb, 27 Feb, 1 Mar, 2 Mar, 8 Mar, 9 Mar, $20–$34.90 ZOË COOMBS MARR - AGONY! MISERY! The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 2–8 Mar, $24–$32 Best of the Edinburgh Fest The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, 9 Mar, $28.50–$35 TOM BALLARD ENOUGH The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 3–15 Mar, not 9, $25–$35 FRANK WOODLEY *@#!KING CLOWN The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $29–$42 Jimmy McGhie - BA (Hons) The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, 9 Mar, $26–$34.90

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Joel Creasey Messy Bitch The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 9–15 Mar, $28–$40 NATH VALVO CHATTY CATHY The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 2–15 Mar, not 9, $25–$35 NIKKI BRITTON ONE SMALL STEP The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 24 Feb–1 Mar, $24–$32 DAVE HUGHES RIDICULOUS The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 20 Feb to 29 Feb, $37–$45 TOMMY LITTLE - I’LL SEE MYSELF OUT The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 22 Feb, $39 BRETT BLAKE - GO HARD OR GO HOME The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $24–$29

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Thomas Green: Yeah, nah!

Gluttony - Rymill Park, 3–15 Mar, not 9, $15–$25 Tom Skelton: 2020 Visions (What if I hadn’t gone blind?)

The Griffins Hotel, Various dates from 7 Mar to 14 Mar, $15–$20 Love Hurts Gluttony - Rymill Park, 25 Feb–1 Mar, $20–$25 Ange Lavoipierre: Zealot Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20–23 Feb, $25

20:30 All Around the World: The International Comedy Show The Griffins Hotel, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 26 Feb, 2 Mar, 4 Mar, 9 Mar, 11 Mar, $15–$25 Peter Berner – Compassion Pie Rhino Room, 25–29 Feb, $25 Welcome to Japan Hotel Richmond, 20 Feb–5 Mar, not 21 Feb, 27 Feb, 28 Feb, 29 Feb, $15–$24 Adelaide Fringe Comedy Show Case The Vines Golf Club of Reynella, 7 Mar, 14 Mar, $30 Billy D’Arcy Anxiously Arrogant Rhino Room, 10–14 Mar, $18–$22 Stood Up! Ayers House Events, 26 Feb, $25 Effing Robots : How I Taught the AI to Stop Worrying and Love Humans The Duke of Brunswick, 20–23 Feb, $20 Sean Conway 100% Rhino Room, 3–7 Mar, $7–$15 A Full English Breakfast with Clive Palmer Ayers House Events, 20 Feb, 21 Feb, 22 Feb, 14 Mar, $25–$28 Granny Flaps - Show Us Your Best Bits!

Chiton Rocks Surf Life Saving Club, 13 Mar, $26 Innuendo Everywhere: Becky Blake and Steve Davis do it The Duke of Brunswick, 20 Feb, 21 Feb, 27 Feb, 28 Feb, $25 Anna Nicholson: Get Happy Hotel Richmond, 27 Feb, $22

Battery Operated Boyfriend The Duke of Brunswick, 25 Feb–1 Mar, $15–$20 DON’T SHOOT! I’m a vegan The Jade, 23 Feb, 2 Mar, $20 Jon Brooks: Selfies From Chernobyl Rhino Room, 20–22 Feb, $25 Talk Dirty, Stay Classy Ayers House Events, 20 Feb, 27 Feb, 5 Mar, 12 Mar, $25 The Four Fringemen Mount Compass Tavern, 14 Mar, $30 Arj Barker Comes Clean Arts Theatre, 28 Feb–14 Mar, not 1 Mar, 2 Mar, 8 Mar, 9 Mar, $35–$45 A Class Act Hotel Richmond, 11–12 Mar, $20 Mind Blowing Magic The Jade, 27 Feb, $25 Giggles Comedy Rhino Room, 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $10 BEN KOCHAN THROWS A STOOL AT THE AUDIENCE Rhino Room, 3–14 Mar, not 8, 9, $20–$25 Marty Sheargold Royalty Theatre, 13–15 Mar, $49 The Marvellous Snake Boy Ayers House Events, 26 Feb–13 Mar, not 1 Mar, 2 Mar, 3 Mar, 8 Mar, 9 Mar, 10 Mar, $20 Deadly Funny Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, 21 Feb, FREE Aborigi-LOL: The Return Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, 4–8 Mar, $20–$25

Alex Ward: Sorry For Before Rhino Room, 20–22 Feb, $23 Gene Louis presents Jokes Rhino Room, 25–29 Feb, $10–$15

20:40 Impromptunes - The Completely Improvised Musical Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $25–$30 TAHIR - Pick of the Comedians. 6 stars Gluttony - Rymill Park, 3–15 Mar, not 9, $30–$39 Completely Improvised Potter Gluttony - Rymill Park, 25 Feb–1 Mar, $22–$30

20:45 Zack Adams: Love Songs For Future Girl Rhino Room, 10–14 Mar, $15–$23 Best Of British Belgian Beer Cafe ‘Oostende’, 20 Feb–14 Mar, $15–$25 michael hing dressed as a lobster for a portion of the evening Rhino Room, 3–7 Mar, $25–$29 Eric in Tinkerland The Griffins Hotel, 5–7 Mar, $14–$20 Cornish Comedians Showcase The Griffins Hotel, 12–15 Mar, $20 Eh Canadian Comedy Dream!

The Griffins Hotel, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $15–$20 You’re a Good Man, Dr Pirate Rhino Room, 20–22 Feb, $30

21:00 MICKEY D FOR PM (*FOUR) Stirling Fringe, 22 Feb, $25 SUNS of FRED - The Greatest Showmen & Another Guy Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $20–$25 PLASTICA FANTASTICA The Mill, 25 Feb, 27 Feb, $15–$20 John Spillane: Irish Comedian of the Millenium various venues, 20 Feb–8 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $12–$22 The WTF?! Show The Mill, 21 Feb, 22 Feb, 28 Feb, 29 Feb, $24.95 Eddie Ray - Leader of the Resistance The Mill, 4–7 Mar, $20–$25 Memo Fukin White City FC, 8 Mar, $40 Dreamgun: Film Reads Stirling Fringe, 1 Mar, $28 ADELAIDE’S MOST WANTED! Gluttony - Rymill Park, 3–15 Mar, not 9, $18–$23 The Four Fringemen Gaza Sports and Community Club, 27 Feb, $30 Shad and Pete Save the World (maybe) Ancient World, 20 Feb, 27 Feb, $15 Jess McKenzie Swingin’ With My Eyes Closed!

Cafe Outside The Square, 28–29 Feb, $22 Late Night Comedy Astor Hotel, Various dates from 21 Feb to 14 Mar, $20 Lucy & Me The Mill, 26 Feb, $20

“There’s a Bit in That” The Big Slapple at the Adelaide Convention Centre, 6 Mar, $23

21:10 Bella Green is Charging For It Gluttony - Masonic Lodge, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $20–$25 Elizabeth Davie Apex Predator Gluttony - Masonic Lodge, 3–15 Mar, not 9, $20–$26

21:15 TOM WALKER IS TIM WALTER The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 3–15 Mar, not 9, $24–$30 Shaggers The Historian Hotel, Various dates from 20 Feb to 14 Mar, $20–$25

21:30 TOM GLEESON LIGHTEN UP The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 23 Feb, 24 Feb, 2 Mar, 9 Mar, $35–$45 Puppetry of the Penis Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, 9 Mar, $33–$44 Aaron Chen – Mr Cigarette The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20–23 Feb, $30 Bald Man Sings Rihanna The Griffins Hotel, 21 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $10–$20 Shit- Faced Shakespeare: Hamlet Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, 9 Mar, $25–$34.90

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George Glass Proves The Existence of God RCC, 7 Mar, $15 JUSTIN HAMILTON… AND HAMMO WAS HIS NAME-O! Rhino Room, 3–7 Mar, $25–$29 Thomas Green: Yeah, nah!

Stirling Fringe, 27 Feb, $25 Gordon Southern: That Boy Needs Therapy Rhino Room, 20–22 Feb, $26 Aboriginal Comedy Allstars The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–1 Mar, $35–$42 Read The Room Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $18–$23 SAM SIMMONS - FUNT The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 9–15 Mar, $30–$42 Simon Taylor is a Super Funny Boy The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 26 Feb, 4 Mar, 11 Mar, $22–$32 Heath Franklin’s Chopper - The Silencer The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $30–$39.95 Rosie Waterland: Kid Chameleon Rhino Room, 25–29 Feb, $39.90 Kieran Bullock Builds IKEA Furniture and Talks To The Audience Ayers House Events, Various dates from 4 Mar to 14 Mar, $23 Dreamgun: Film Reads The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 2–15 Mar, $22–$32

tim&TIM!’s FrEaKy fRiDaY! House of Spaghetti, 29 Feb, 7 Mar, $15 Nazeem Hussain Hussain That?

The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 24 Feb–1 Mar, $24–$30 Larry Dean - Fudnut The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 2–15 Mar, not 11, $25–$34 A Night in at the House of Spaghetti House of Spaghetti, 22 Feb, 28 Feb, $15 David Quirk - Astonishing Obscurity The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 25 Feb–1 Mar, $20–$30 Tough Boys Arkaba Hotel, 22 Feb, $30

21:45 3 is a crowd (so bring 2 friends) Rhino Room, 10–14 Mar, $10 Best of Adelaide Fringe: The Late Show The Griffins Hotel, Various dates from 21 Feb to 14 Mar, $25 James Bustar Caught in the Act The Howling Owl, 3–14 Mar, not 8, 9, $15–$25 Jordon Best: Miss Red Rhino Room, 20–22 Feb, $15 Amos Gill: Ruins Arkaba Hotel, 13 Mar, $34.90 Shark Heist Rhino Room, 10–14 Mar, $17–$25 All Growed Up Rhino Room, 20–22 Feb, $15 James Donald Forbes McCann: Devil’s Advocate The Howling Owl, 20–29 Feb, not 23, 24, $18–$27.50

Oliver Coleman: The Prawning Rhino Room, 25–29 Feb, $20–$25 Geoff Stone - Almost Rhino Room, 25–29 Feb, $20

22:00 AJ Holmes: Yeah, But Not Right Now Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $22–$27 Welcome to Japan Hotel Richmond, 29 Feb, $24 Be Loved And Live Well Hotel Richmond, 20 Feb, 22 Feb, 23 Feb, 24 Feb, $15 Dirty Tattooed Circus Bastards The Prison Years Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, 26 Feb, $17–$25 Improvised Director’s Cut Rhino Room, 20–22 Feb, $22–$25 Adelaide Fringe Comedy Show Case The Griffins Hotel, Various dates from 21 Feb to 14 Mar, $25 Evan Desmarais: Pizza & Ice Cream Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, 9 Mar, $17–$23 Aidan Jones - Taco Gluttony - Rymill Park, 3–14 Mar, not 4, 8, 9, 11, $19–$25 Aborigi-LOL: The Return Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, 11–15 Mar, $25 The Highlight Reel Hotel Richmond, 11 Mar, 12 Mar, 14 Mar, $20

22:20 TAHIR - Pick of the Comedians. 6 stars Gluttony - Rymill Park, 8 Mar, $35

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Blake Everett deb(u)t Ayers House Events, 21 Feb, 22 Feb, 28 Feb, 29 Feb, $20 Welcome to Japan Hotel Richmond, 21 Feb, 28 Feb, $15–$24 All Up Late - The Historian Late Show The Historian Hotel, 6 Mar, 7 Mar, 13 Mar, 14 Mar, $20 Alcohol is good for you The Historian Hotel, 21 Feb, 22 Feb, 28 Feb, 29 Feb, $21 Pupperotica: The Greatest Tits So Far Gluttony - Masonic Lodge, 21–22 Feb, $20 The Hilary Duff Film Re-Enactment Festival Ayers House Events, 6 Mar, 7 Mar, 13 Mar, 14 Mar, $25 The Highlight Reel Hotel Richmond, 13 Mar, $20

The Great British Hate Off Gluttony - Rymill Park, 6 Mar, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, 13 Mar, 14 Mar, $25

22:40 WTF- Best of the Best Tell the Worst of the Fest Gluttony - Rymill Park, 21–22 Feb, $20 Stand Up - Smack Down Gluttony - Rymill Park, Various dates from 28 Feb to 14 Mar, $17–$20

22:45 Demi Lardner & Tom Walker: We Mustn’t Rhino Room, 12–14 Mar, $25–$28 Rhino’s Tuesday Night Flyer Rhino Room, 25 Feb, 3 Mar, $15 Best of the Edinburgh Fest The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 21 Feb to 14 Mar, $26

22:55 Andrew Silverwood’s [Late Night] Panel Show Gluttony - Rymill Park, Various dates from 21 Feb to 14 Mar, $25

23:00 THE STAND UP SHOW The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 21 Feb to 14 Mar, $25 Rhino Room Late Show Rhino Room, Various dates from 21 Feb to 14 Mar, $30

23:15 Heath Franklin’s Chopper - The Line Up The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 21 Feb, 28 Feb, $30

23:20 TAHIR - Pick of the Comedians. 6 stars Gluttony - Rymill Park, 7 Mar, 14 Mar, $39 The Great British Hate Off Gluttony - Rymill Park, 21 Feb, 22 Feb, 28 Feb, 29 Feb, $25

23:30 PHATCAVE Gluttony - Rymill Park, Various dates from 21 Feb to 14 Mar, $27

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Alex Williamson: Oi Mate!

Arkaba Hotel, 21 Feb, $34.90 Blake Everett deb(u)t Ayers House Events, 26–27 Feb, $20 Ivan Aristeguieta - Piñata The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 2–15 Mar, not 9, $25–$36 AJ Holmes: Yeah, But Not Right Now Gluttony - Rymill Park, 3–15 Mar, not 9, $25–$30 Talk Dirty, Stay Classy Ayers House Events, 6 Mar, 7 Mar, 13 Mar, 14 Mar, $25 Stood Up! Ayers House Events, 20 Feb, $25 SINGLE Gluttony - Rymill Park, 3–8 Mar, $19–$25 LEWIS GARNHAM - THE WORST TRAIN I’VE EVER BUILT The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 3–15 Mar, not 9, $20–$25 Doggie in the Window Ayers House Events, 21 Feb, 22 Feb, 28 Feb, 29 Feb, $15–$20 Two Little Dickheads: KAPOW! Gluttony - Rymill Park, 10–15 Mar, $20–$25 Ben & Charlie’s Variety Hour (45 minutes) House of Spaghetti, 6 Mar, $15 Nina Oyama Is ‘Doing Me’ Right Now The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $22–$28 Christian Elderfield: Happy Pom The Griffins Hotel, 3–15 Mar, not 9, $10–$12

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Atomic - The New Rock Musical Nexus Arts, 11–12 Mar, $18 Stepping Out The Parks Theatres, 10 Mar, $20

10:30 Fear (Not) The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 13 Mar, $28 ATLANTIS UNTOLD GU Film House Glenelg, 3–4 Mar, $20

11:00 The Witching Hour Forge Theatre, 5 Mar, FREE Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl In Hitler’s Germany Marion Cultural Centre, 24 Feb, $33 Mouthpiece Odeon Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 10 Mar, 12 Mar, $30 Dimanche Space Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 3 Mar, 5 Mar, $20 The Iliad - Out Loud Scott Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 14–15 Mar, $20 Aleppo. A Portrait of Absence Queen’s Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 12 Mar, 14 Mar, $25 Princessez Marion Cultural Centre, 12 Mar, $22 Dance Nation Scott Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 27–28 Feb, $39 No.33 nthspace Adelaide, 20 Feb, 22 Feb, 23 Feb, $28 Peter Pan Norwood Concert Hall, 7 Mar, $25 A Thousand Cranes Adelaide City Parkland 18, 29 Feb–1 Mar, $15

The Loneliest Woman Star Theatres, 28 Feb, 6 Mar, $19.50–$24.50

11:30 The Doctor Dunstan Playhouse [Adelaide Festival], 5 Mar, $45

12:00 Aleppo. A Portrait of Absence Queen’s Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 12 Mar, 14 Mar, $25 Post-Mortem Holden Street Theatres, 22–23 Feb, $25 Children of an Idle Brain Bakehouse Theatre, 2–7 Mar, $10–$25 Tartuffe Holden Street Theatres, 14–15 Mar, $28

12:15 No.33 nthspace Adelaide, 20 Feb, 22 Feb, 23 Feb, $28

12:30 Atomic - The New Rock Musical Nexus Arts, 11–12 Mar, $18 Dimanche Space Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 7 Mar, $20 The Nights by Henry Naylor Holden Street Theatres, 22–23 Feb, $28 Tartuffe Holden Street Theatres, 7 Mar, $28 The King Holden Street Theatres, 29 Feb–1 Mar, $25

13:00 I Hate Shakespeare!

Salisbury Institute, 27 Feb, FREE The Doctor Dunstan Playhouse [Adelaide Festival], 7 Mar, $45

Mouthpiece Odeon Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 14 Mar, $30 Dimanche Space Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 29 Feb, $20 Fear (Not) The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 13–15 Mar, $28 Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl In Hitler’s Germany various venues, 20 Feb, 27 Feb, 28 Feb, $33 Aleppo. A Portrait of Absence Queen’s Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 12 Mar, 14 Mar, $25 I Forgot to Register for Adelaide Fringe!

The Parks Theatres, 29 Feb, $10 Faulty Towers The Dining Experience Stamford Plaza Adelaide, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $85 I’ll Tell You This For Nothing - My Mother The War Hero Black Box Theatre, 22 Feb, $28 A Midsummer Livestream Bakehouse Theatre, 2–7 Mar, $15–$25

13:30 Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum With Expats Holden Street Theatres, 22–23 Feb, $28 Atomic - The New Rock Musical Nexus Arts, 14 Mar, $18 No.33 nthspace Adelaide, 20 Feb, 22 Feb, 23 Feb, $28 Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl In Hitler’s Germany Largs Bay RSL, 29 Feb, $33 The King Holden Street Theatres, 14–15 Mar, $25

14:00 Inner Journey State Library of South Australia, 23 Feb, 1 Mar, 8 Mar, 15 Mar, FREE Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum With Expats Holden Street Theatres, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, 14 Mar, 15 Mar, $20–$28 On the Couch with Tammy Anderson Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, 15 Mar, $20 The Doctor Dunstan Playhouse [Adelaide Festival], 29 Feb–1 Mar, $45 Cold Blood Ridley Centre, Adelaide Showgrounds [Adelaide Festival], 7–8 Mar, $30 Mouthpiece Odeon Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 8–9 Mar, $30 Grounded Holden Street Theatres, 23 Feb, $28 Princessez Marion Cultural Centre, 15 Mar, $22 CRUSH THE MUSICAL Brighton Performing Arts Centre, 22 Feb, $30 Aleppo. A Portrait of Absence Queen’s Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 15 Mar, $25 I Forgot to Register for Adelaide Fringe!

The Parks Theatres, 29 Feb, $10 Dance Nation Scott Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 29 Feb, 7 Mar, $39 Stepping Out The Parks Theatres, 4 Mar, 5 Mar, 7 Mar, 11 Mar, $12–$20 The Daly River Girl Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, 1 Mar, $20 Fracture RUMPUS, 7 Mar, $20 Ragnarøkkr Holden Street Theatres, 1 Mar, $28

I Don’t Wanna Play House Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, 13 Mar, $20 Moof’s Adventures The Mill, 1 Mar, 15 Mar, $22 Adelaide Short Play Festival Fulham Community Centre, 22 Feb, 23 Feb, 29 Feb, $25 A Thousand Cranes Adelaide City Parkland 18, 29 Feb–1 Mar, $15 Craigslist Allstars Main Theatre, AC Arts [Adelaide Festival], 1 Mar, $15 Kafka’s Ape Holden Street Theatres, 29 Feb, $25 Evolution Pilgrim Uniting Church [Adelaide Festival], 20–21 Feb, $30 Beautiful - The Carole King Musical Star Theatres, 29 Feb, $44 Only Human RUMPUS, 29 Feb, $30 Wellness: A Social Justice Play The Mill, 23 Feb, $15 The Nights by Henry Naylor Holden Street Theatres, 29 Feb, 1 Mar, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, $28

14:30 Les Darcy - The Musical: UNSUNG HERO Stirling Fringe, 26 Feb, $29 The Girl Who Jumped Off The Hollywood Sign Black Box Theatre, 22–23 Feb, $30 Josephine Stirling Fringe, 27 Feb, $30 I’ll Tell You This For Nothing - My Mother The War Hero Stirling Fringe, 25 Feb, $28

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Peter Pan Norwood Concert Hall, 8 Mar, $25 ATLANTIS UNTOLD Mitcham Cinemas, 22–23 Feb, $20

15:00 FLIGHT The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $25 SÉANCE The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $20 Dimanche Space Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 1 Mar, $20 COMA The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $25 Cock Cock…Who’s There?

Main Theatre, AC Arts [Adelaide Festival], 29 Feb, $20 Aleppo. A Portrait of Absence Queen’s Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 15 Mar, $25 I Forgot to Register for Adelaide Fringe!

The Parks Theatres, 29 Feb, $10 The Nights by Henry Naylor Holden Street Theatres, 14–15 Mar, $28

15:15 Peter Pan Norwood Concert Hall, 7 Mar, $25

15:30 Abattoir Noir The Mill, 1 Mar, $20 The Iliad - Out Loud Scott Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 14–15 Mar, $20 Dead Gorgeous: A True Crime Clown Show RUMPUS, 7 Mar, 14 Mar, $25

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Boys Taste Better with Nutella The Mill, 23 Feb, $23 Queer House Rules!

RUMPUS, 29 Feb, $25 UnderLyingSkins The Mill, 8 Mar, $18

16:00 FLIGHT The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $25 SÉANCE The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $20 How To Drink Wine Like A Wanker Treasury 1860, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, 14 Mar, 15 Mar, $25 The Doctor Dunstan Playhouse [Adelaide Festival], 8 Mar, $45 COMA The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $25 Aleppo. A Portrait of Absence Queen’s Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 15 Mar, $25 A Thousand Cranes Adelaide City Parkland 18, 29 Feb–1 Mar, $15

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Writer / 20 세기작가 Black Box Theatre, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, 9 Mar, 14 Mar, 15 Mar, $28 Attenborough and his Animals Stirling Fringe, 27 Feb, $25 Ragnarøkkr Holden Street Theatres, 22 Feb, 23 Feb, 29 Feb, $28

16:45 Peter Goers in Best We Forget Holden Street Theatres, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $20

17:00 FLIGHT The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $25 SÉANCE The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $20 MEDEA AND JASON - A MINI MUSICAL WITH LOUCAS LOIZOU Hilton Hotel, 13–15 Mar, $25 Marvel at my Desperate Throne!

The Parks Theatres, 22 Feb, $20 COMA The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $25 Cock Cock…Who’s There?

Main Theatre, AC Arts [Adelaide Festival], 1 Mar, $20 Dead Gorgeous: A True Crime Clown Show RUMPUS, 8 Mar, 15 Mar, $25 Frankie Foxstone A.K.A. The Profit: Walking Tour The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $20 Eleanor’s Story: Life After War Gluttony - Masonic Lodge, 22 Feb, 1 Mar, $33 Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl In Hitler’s Germany Gluttony - Masonic Lodge, 23 Feb, 29 Feb, $33 Evolution Pilgrim Uniting Church [Adelaide Festival], 20–21 Feb, $30 The Loneliest Woman Star Theatres, 29 Feb, 1 Mar, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, $24.50 Only Human RUMPUS, 1 Mar, $30

Translation Goodwood Studio, 6 Mar, $20

17:20 The Tempest Gluttony - Rymill Park, 3–15 Mar, $19.50–$27.50

17:30 The Wild Unfeeling World Stirling Fringe, 1 Mar, $25

18:00 Cassie and the Lights RCC, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, 9 Mar, $20–$26 ‘For Both Resting and Breeding’ by Adam Meisner The Bus Stop, 26–29 Feb, $28 Gratiano Bakehouse Theatre, 4 Mar, 9 Mar, 13 Mar, $25 FLIGHT The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $25 SÉANCE The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $20 The Doctor Dunstan Playhouse [Adelaide Festival], 3 Mar, 4 Mar, 5 Mar, 7 Mar, $45 LEAVING THE NEST The Griffins Hotel, 21–23 Feb, $20 Breaking the Waves Festival Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 15 Mar, $40 Mouthpiece Odeon Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 7–8 Mar, $30 COMA The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $25

The Ballad of Mulan Bakehouse Theatre, 3 Mar, 7 Mar, 12 Mar, $15–$25 Rich Bitch - A Parody of Law Of Attraction Gurus The Griffins Hotel, 3–15 Mar, not 9, $10–$20 Dimanche Space Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 28–29 Feb, $20 Spitfire Solo Bakehouse Theatre, 24 Feb–7 Mar, not 1 Mar, $18–$26 The Daughters of Róisín The Mill, 13–14 Mar, $26 I, AmDram Treasury 1860, 5–15 Mar, not 9, $18–$25 ME The Garage International @ Adelaide Town Hall, 11–13 Mar, $28 HOMER’S ODYSSEY - A MINI MUSICAL WITH LOUCAS LOIZOU The British Hotel Port Adelaide, 21 Feb, $25 Train Lord Bakehouse Theatre, 24–29 Feb, $15–$20 The Book Of Faz Astor Hotel, 25–29 Feb, $20 Boys Taste Better with Nutella The Mill, 21 Feb, $23 Mengele The Garage International @ Adelaide Town Hall, 3–7 Mar, $23–$29 I’ll Tell You This For Nothing - My Mother The War Hero Black Box Theatre, 20–23 Feb, $28 Gone Girls Holden Street Theatres, 10–14 Mar, $22–$27 Stepping Out The Parks Theatres, 6 Mar, $20 Post-Mortem Holden Street Theatres, 20–23 Feb, $25 Moby Dick Bakehouse Theatre, 2 Mar, 6 Mar, 11 Mar, $25

The Devil Made Me Do It Bakehouse Theatre, 20–22 Feb, $30 Worm Star Theatres, 20–22 Feb, $30 Moof’s Adventures The Mill, 20 Feb, 22 Feb, 23 Feb, $13–$22 MEDEA AND JASON - A MINI MUSICAL WITH LOUCAS LOIZOU The British Hotel Port Adelaide, 22 Feb, $25 TABOO Treasury 1860, 20 Feb–4 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $18–$25 Girl Shut Your Mouth Bakehouse Theatre, 10–14 Mar, $23–$28 Kafka’s Ape Holden Street Theatres, 25 Feb–8 Mar, not 2 Mar, $18–$25 Craigslist Allstars Main Theatre, AC Arts [Adelaide Festival], 3 Mar, $15 A Butterfly Effect Bakehouse Theatre, 20–22 Feb, $29 Dietrich: Natural Duty Black Box Theatre, 3–15 Mar, $23–$30 Renfield: In the Shadow of the Vampire Bakehouse Theatre, 5 Mar, 10 Mar, 14 Mar, $15–$25 UnderLyingSkins The Mill, 15 Mar, $20

18:10 EURYDICE Open Air Theatre, 25 Feb–11 Mar, not 2 Mar, 3 Mar, 4 Mar, 5 Mar, 6 Mar, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, 9 Mar, $22–$28 ORPHEUS Open Air Theatre, Various dates from 20 Feb to 5 Mar, $22–$28

18:15 ‘Tales of an Urban Indian’ by Darrell Dennis The Bus Stop, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $22–$28

18:20 SÉANCE The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $20 Far Far Away The Garage International @ Pilgrim Uniting Church, 3 Mar, 4 Mar, 6 Mar, 7 Mar, $18–$23 Promise and Promiscuity: A New Musical by Jane Austen and Penny Ashton Gluttony - Masonic Lodge, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $23–$28

18:25 Bleach various venues, 5 Mar, $28

18:30 Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster RCC, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, 9 Mar, $25–$35 FLIGHT The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $25 Broadway Sessions - Miscast Norwood Hotel, 23 Feb, $22 COMA The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $25 Mouthpiece Odeon Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 14 Mar, $30 Grounded Holden Street Theatres, 20–23 Feb, $28

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18:45 Josh Mensch: Abomination Holden Street Theatres, 28 Feb–1 Mar, $13–$16 Attenborough and his Animals The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 2–15 Mar, not 9, $25–$30 Thunderstruck The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 2–15 Mar, $20–$30

18:50 Gobby Gluttony - Rymill Park, 3–15 Mar, $22–$28

19:00 FLIGHT The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $25 I Hate Shakespeare!

Salisbury Institute, 27 Feb, $20 SÉANCE The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $20 The Doctor Dunstan Playhouse [Adelaide Festival], 28 Feb, 29 Feb, 6 Mar, $45 Schapelle, Schapelle The Parks Theatres, 12–15 Mar, $32 Cold Blood Ridley Centre, Adelaide Showgrounds [Adelaide Festival], 6–7 Mar, $30 Mouthpiece Odeon Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 6 Mar, 12 Mar, $30 COMA The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $25 Our Solar System Holden Street Theatres, 28 Feb–14 Mar, not 2 Mar, 9 Mar, $20–$25 Dead Gorgeous: A True Crime Clown Show RUMPUS, 4 Mar, 5 Mar, 11 Mar, 12 Mar, $17–$25

The Hipster- A musical for people who don’t like musicals Little Bang Brewing Company, Various dates from 8 Mar to 17 Mar, $35 Frankie Foxstone A.K.A. The Profit: Walking Tour The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 20 Feb to 15 Mar, $20 Snapshots from Home The Parks Theatres, 23 Feb, 27 Feb, 28 Feb, $20 Faulty Towers The Dining Experience Stamford Plaza Adelaide, 21 Feb–15 Mar, not 26 Feb, 4 Mar, 11 Mar, $85–$110 The Good Word Spoken MixedCreative, 6 Mar, $5 Fracture RUMPUS, 6–7 Mar, $23 Eleanor’s Story: Life After War The Parks Theatres, 20 Feb, $33 Your Best American Girl Woodville Town Hall, 20 Feb, 22 Feb, 25 Feb, 26 Feb, 27 Feb, $12–$20 Adelaide Short Play Festival Fulham Community Centre, 21 Feb, 22 Feb, 28 Feb, 29 Feb, $25 Table for Two? Holden Street Theatres, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, 9 Mar, $17–$20 Floral Peroxide Nexus Arts, 25 Feb, 11 Mar, $30 Bordertown St Aloysius College, 26–29 Feb, $25 Dirty People Hotel Richmond, 20 Feb, 27 Feb, $20–$27 Rich Bitch - A Parody of Law Of Attraction Gurus BASEM3NT Studios, 22 Feb, $10

Passengers RCC, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, 9 Mar, $20–$35 Les Darcy - The Musical: UNSUNG HERO Stirling Fringe at Stirling Community Theatre, 23 Feb, $29 Open Heart The Duke of Brunswick, 3–4 Mar, $25–$32 Translation Ancient World, 22 Feb, 29 Feb, $20 CAN ART STOP A BULLET: William Kelly’s Big Picture Mercury Cinema, 5 Mar, $25

19:15 I, AmDram Treasury 1860, 3–4 Mar, $18

19:20 SÉANCE The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $20

19:25 Josephine Black Box Theatre, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $23–$30

19:30 Being Dead (Don Quixote) RCC, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, 9 Mar, $18–$33 An Evening with the Vegetarian Librarian Bakehouse Theatre, 20–29 Feb, not 23, $20–$28 The Witching Hour Forge Theatre, 5–6 Mar, $10 Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum With Expats Holden Street Theatres, 25 Feb–8 Mar, not 2 Mar, 3 Mar, $20–$28

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FLIGHT The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $25 The Mark Drama various venues, 29 Feb, 1 Mar, 3 Mar, $8 Marvelous Mechanical Musical Maiden Ayers House Events, Various dates from 20 Feb to 29 Feb, $28 Imposter Cafe Outside The Square, 7 Mar, $25 Cold Blood Ridley Centre, Adelaide Showgrounds [Adelaide Festival], 5 Mar, $30 Audio Book - LIVE MixedCreative, 28 Feb, 7 Mar, 13 Mar, $20 The Daughters of Róisín Bakehouse Theatre, 20–22 Feb, $26 COMA The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $25 Aleppo. A Portrait of Absence Queen’s Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 11–14 Mar, $25 CRUSH THE MUSICAL Brighton Performing Arts Centre, 21–22 Feb, $30 Autoeulogy The Mill, 25 Feb, 26 Feb, 3 Mar, 4 Mar, 5 Mar, $20 Zombie Zoo Bakehouse Theatre, 9–14 Mar, $15–$25 Don’t Hate The Player Star Theatres, 6–8 Mar, $30 Gone Girls Holden Street Theatres, 3 Mar, $15 Mengele The Garage International @ Adelaide Town Hall, 25 Feb–13 Mar, not 1 Mar, 2 Mar, 3 Mar, 4 Mar, 5 Mar, 6 Mar, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, $23–$29

Voices Of Joan The Mill, 6–8 Mar, $20–$25 The Daly River Girl Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, 29 Feb–1 Mar, $20 Ragnarøkkr Holden Street Theatres, 20–23 Feb, $28 Moof’s Adventures The Mill, Various dates from 27 Feb to 15 Mar, $22 Peter Pan Norwood Concert Hall, 6–8 Mar, $25 Enterprise Black Box Theatre, 3–15 Mar, $22–$30 Kafka’s Ape Holden Street Theatres, 10–14 Mar, $20–$25 The Terminator Star Theatres, 23 Feb, 25 Feb, 1 Mar, $23–$27 Beautiful - The Carole King Musical Star Theatres, 20–29 Feb, not 23, 24, $44 The Will To Be Bakehouse Theatre, 2–7 Mar, $24–$27 UnderLyingSkins The Mill, 10–12 Mar, $18–$20 BOND - AN UNAUTHORISED PARODY! Bakehouse Theatre, 24 Feb–7 Mar, not 1 Mar, $19–$26 The Ides of March Bakehouse Theatre, 9–14 Mar, $20–$27 Wellness: A Social Justice Play The Mill, 20–23 Feb, $25 Shane Warne: The Musical The Parks Theatres, 20–21 Feb, $35 The Loneliest Woman Star Theatres, 4–5 Mar, $24.50 Peach Cobbler The Living Room, 21 Feb, 12 Mar, 13 Mar, $15

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Fleurieu Films at the Fringe various venues, 20 Feb, 26 Feb, $10 Dimanche Space Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 3–6 Mar, $20 Aleppo. A Portrait of Absence Queen’s Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 11–14 Mar, $25 Dance Nation Scott Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 24 Feb, 26 Feb, 27 Feb, $39 Bleach various venues, 6–7 Mar, $28 Marvelous Mechanical Musical Maiden Ayers House Events, 4–6 Mar, $28 Snapshots from Home The Parks Theatres, 22 Feb, $20 The People’s Festival: 60 years of Adelaide Fringe Mercury Cinema, 10 Mar, $8 Queer House Rules!

RUMPUS, 1 Mar, $25 Gone Girls Holden Street Theatres, 15 Mar, $27 No.33 nthspace Adelaide, 20–23 Feb, $28 Fracture RUMPUS, 8 Mar, $23 Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl In Hitler’s Germany various venues, 25 Feb, 27 Feb, $30–$33 ATLANTIS UNTOLD Mitcham Cinemas, 26 Feb, $20 Tartuffe Holden Street Theatres, 25 Feb–8 Mar, not 2 Mar, $20–$28 Only Human RUMPUS, 26–29 Feb, $20–$30 Enterprise Stirling Fringe, 28 Feb, $28 The King Holden Street Theatres, 10–14 Mar, $15–$25

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19:40 EURYDICE Open Air Theatre, Various dates from 20 Feb to 5 Mar, $22–$28

19:45 Dr Selflove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Thighs various venues, 3–7 Mar, $15–$18 No.33 nthspace Adelaide, 20–23 Feb, $28 ORPHEUS Open Air Theatre, 25 Feb–11 Mar, not 2 Mar, 3 Mar, 4 Mar, 5 Mar, 6 Mar, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, 9 Mar, $22–$28 ‘Every Brilliant Thing’

by Duncan Macmillan The Bus Stop, 20–21 Feb, $28

19:50 Safety Banana Gluttony - Masonic Lodge, 10–15 Mar, $20–$25 It all sparks joy Gluttony - Masonic Lodge, 20–23 Feb, $28

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SÉANCE The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $20 Gobby Stirling Fringe, 27 Feb, $28 FLIGHT The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $25 The Doctor Dunstan Playhouse [Adelaide Festival], 27 Feb, $45 Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl In Hitler’s Germany Marion Cultural Centre, 24 Feb, $33 Breaking the Waves Festival Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 13 Mar, $40

Mouthpiece Odeon Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 10 Mar, $30 COMA The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $25 Cock Cock…Who’s There?

Main Theatre, AC Arts [Adelaide Festival], 2–3 Mar, $20 The Iliad - Out Loud Scott Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 14–15 Mar, $20 Dance Nation Scott Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 21 Feb–7 Mar, not 23 Feb, 24 Feb, 26 Feb, 27 Feb, 1 Mar, $39 THE ITCH RUMPUS, 1 Mar, 8 Mar, 15 Mar, $10 Queer House Rules!

RUMPUS, 26–29 Feb, $25 The Daughters of Róisín HAT’s Courthouse Cultural Centre Auburn, 7 Mar, $30 Kafka’s Ape Holden Street Theatres, 15 Mar, $25 The Nights by Henry Naylor Holden Street Theatres, Various dates from 20 Feb to 14 Mar, $20–$28 Pinter at the Pub Kings Head Hotel, Various dates from 3 Mar to 12 Mar, $15–$20 The King Holden Street Theatres, 25 Feb–1 Mar, $15–$25 Laurie Anderson - All The Things I Lost In The Flood RCC, 14–15 Mar, $55

20:15 The Wild Side RCC, 28 Feb–15 Mar, not 2 Mar, 9 Mar, $25–$35 Josh Mensch: Abomination Holden Street Theatres, 3–15 Mar, not 9, $13–$16

I Don’t Wanna Play House Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, 13–14 Mar, $20 Far Far Away The Garage International @ Adelaide Town Hall, 1 Mar, 8 Mar, $18–$23 The Runner Up The Parks Theatres, 22 Feb, $30

20:20 SÉANCE The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $20

20:30 FLIGHT The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $25 Forbidden Broadway The Parks Theatres, 26–28 Feb, $25 Mouthpiece Odeon Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 13 Mar, $30 COMA The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $25 Dead Gorgeous: A True Crime Clown Show RUMPUS, 6 Mar, 7 Mar, 13 Mar, 14 Mar, $25 Aleppo. A Portrait of Absence Queen’s Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 11–14 Mar, $25 Fracture RUMPUS, 4–5 Mar, $23 The Wild Unfeeling World Holden Street Theatres, 3–14 Mar, not 9, $19–$25 Dirty People Hotel Richmond, 29 Feb, $27 Open Heart The Duke of Brunswick, 5–7 Mar, $32

20:40 Happily Ever Poofter Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $18–$28

21:00 FLIGHT The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $25 SÉANCE The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $20 Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum With Expats Holden Street Theatres, Various dates from 20 Feb to 14 Mar, $28 Outside Light MixedCreative, 21 Feb, $15 Imposter Cafe Outside The Square, 5 Mar, 12 Mar, 14 Mar, $20–$25 The Punter’s Siren Bakehouse Theatre, 2–14 Mar, not 8, $18–$27 COMA The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $25 COLD WAR RCC, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, 9 Mar, $18–$33 Nikola and I Dream Well, Various dates from 20 Feb to 17 Mar, $10–$20 Train Lord Bakehouse Theatre, 20–22 Feb, $20 Unbinding Medea Nexus Arts, 20 Feb, $30 No Coming Back Bakehouse Theatre, 24 Feb–7 Mar, not 1 Mar, $15–$25 Boys Taste Better with Nutella The Mill, 20 Feb, $23 Shell Shock The Garage International @ Adelaide Town Hall, 20 Feb, $28

Don’t Hate The Player Star Theatres, 5 Mar, $25 Horrendous Bakehouse Theatre, 20–22 Feb, $20 No.33 nthspace Adelaide, 21–22 Feb, $28 Far Far Away The Garage International @ Adelaide Town Hall, 9–10 Mar, $18–$23 Numinous Asylum Holden Street Theatres, 10 Mar, $25 A SPECIAL DAY Black Box Theatre, 25 Feb–15 Mar, not 2 Mar, $25–$28 The Terminator Star Theatres, Various dates from 20 Feb to 29 Feb, $27 The Will To Be Bakehouse Theatre, 24–29 Feb, $24–$27 Dirty People Hotel Richmond, 21 Feb, 28 Feb, $27

21:15 Gone Girls Holden Street Theatres, 4–8 Mar, $27 Ragnarøkkr Holden Street Theatres, 25 Feb–1 Mar, $20–$28

21:20 THE GODS, THE GODS, THE GODS Black Box Theatre, 20–23 Feb, $28

21:30 Grounded Holden Street Theatres, 3–8 Mar, $20–$28 Cock Cock…Who’s There?

Main Theatre, AC Arts [Adelaide Festival], 28–29 Feb, $20 Tartuffe Holden Street Theatres, Various dates from 20 Feb to 14 Mar, $20–$28 The Nights by Henry Naylor Holden Street Theatres, 25 Feb–1 Mar, $20–$28

21:40 Mullygrubs Treasury 1860, 7–15 Mar, not 9, $18–$25

22:00 FLIGHT The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 21 Feb to 14 Mar, $25 SÉANCE The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 21 Feb to 14 Mar, $20 COMA The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 21 Feb to 14 Mar, $25 Unbinding Medea Nexus Arts, 21–22 Feb, $30

22:30 THE GODS, THE GODS, THE GODS Black Box Theatre, Various dates from 28 Feb to 14 Mar, $28 Safety Banana Gluttony - Masonic Lodge, 6–7 Mar, $20 Abattoir Noir The Mill, 25–29 Feb, $15–$25 Boys Taste Better with Nutella The Mill, 22 Feb, $23 UnderLyingSkins The Mill, 14 Mar, $20

23:00 FLIGHT The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 21 Feb to 14 Mar, $25 SÉANCE The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 21 Feb to 14 Mar, $20 COMA The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 21 Feb to 14 Mar, $25

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CLG and ASMS present STEMTacular Australian Science and Mathematics School, 29 Feb, $20

Monski Mouse’s Baby Cabaret The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 22 Feb, 7 Mar, 14 Mar, $17 Bubba-Licious Gluttony - Rymill Park, 22 Feb, 23 Feb, 29 Feb, 1 Mar, $15 Amazing Drumming Monkeys The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $18 Ordinary Ed Bakehouse Theatre, 2–7 Mar, $10–$15 Monski Mouse’s Baby Disco Dance Hall The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 23 Feb, 1 Mar, 8 Mar, 9 Mar, 15 Mar, $17 What’s in the Box? Marion Cultural Centre, 1 Mar, $13 The Circus Firemen Gluttony - Rymill Park, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $20 The Bureau Of Untold Stories various venues, 29 Feb–15 Mar, not 2 Mar, 3 Mar, 4 Mar, 5 Mar, 9 Mar, 10 Mar, 11 Mar, 12 Mar, $20 MR BADGER tells the story of The Wind in the Willows Carrick Hill, 23 Feb, 8 Mar, 15 Mar, $15 Once Upon a Circus CircoBats, 14 Mar, $15 A Princess Party Morphettville Racecourse, 22 Feb, 27 Feb, $10 Do the Hibble Hop Glenunga Hub, 1 Mar, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, $12 Science Vs Magic Marion Cultural Centre, 22–23 Feb, $15

10:00 Foals The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, FREE Teeny Tiny Stevies The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 29 Feb, $33

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Opera Mouse The Jade, 1 Mar, $20 Inamojo - Children’s Wellbeing Workshops Singing Gazebo Clarendon, 22 Feb, 29 Feb, $26 Toddler Bop The Parks Theatres, 26 Feb, 4 Mar, $12 Once Upon a Circus CircoBats, 12–13 Mar, $15 MR BADGER tells the story of The Wind in the Willows Carrick Hill, 22 Feb, 7 Mar, 14 Mar, $15 Juggling vs Magic Marion Cultural Centre, 7–8 Mar, $12 Do the Hibble Hop various venues, 29 Feb, 3 Mar, 4 Mar, $0–$12 When the Mirror Bird Sings Marion Cultural Centre, 27–29 Feb, $15 Multicultural Storytime Hutt Street Library, 3 Mar, FREE Buzzy and Bumbles’ Bee School Carrick Hill, 22 Feb, 29 Feb, $15

Wilbur the Optical Whale The Big Slapple at the Adelaide Convention Centre, 25 Feb–4 Mar, not 2 Mar, $12–$20 The Alphabet of Awesome Science Gluttony - Rymill Park, 10–11 Mar, FREE Multicultural Storytime Parks Library, 23 Feb, FREE The Artist Main Theatre, AC Arts [Adelaide Festival], 11 Mar, 13 Mar, $20 Switch Witchetty’s Almanac of Everything Holden Street Theatres, Various dates from 7 Mar to 15 Mar, $19–$20

11:15 Bubble Show with Dr Bubble and Milkshake Gluttony - Rymill Park, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $19

11:30 Brass Monkeys The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $24 ‘80s Baby: A Kids Disco Stirling Fringe, 29 Feb–1 Mar, $20 Do the Hibble Hop Glenunga Hub, 29 Feb, $12 GAME ON 2.0 Stirling Fringe, 22–23 Feb, $20

11:45 MR BADGER tells the story of The Wind in the Willows Carrick Hill, 22 Feb, 7 Mar, 14 Mar, $15

12:00 Bubba-Licious Gluttony - Rymill Park, 22 Feb, 23 Feb, 29 Feb, 1 Mar, $15 Opera Mouse The Jade, 23 Feb, $20 Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo RCC, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $20 This Show is NOT Rubbish!

Stirling Fringe at Stirling Community Theatre, 23 Feb, $20 Talking Dogs Stirling Fringe at Stirling Community Theatre, 22 Feb, $28 The Artist Main Theatre, AC Arts [Adelaide Festival], 14 Mar, $20 Petit Circus Murray Bridge Town Hall, 29 Feb, $26

12:30 Don’t Mess With the Dummies The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $25 The African Elephant Of My Heart: Dance Extravaganza Holden Street Theatres, Various dates from 29 Feb to 15 Mar, $20 Big Tops & Tiny Tots Circus Show Gluttony - Rymill Park, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $19

12:45 Grossed Out Game Show Gluttony - Rymill Park, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, 9 Mar, 14 Mar, 15 Mar, $20

Good is the New Bad Gluttony - Rymill Park, 22 Feb, 23 Feb, 29 Feb, 1 Mar, $20

The Beach Party Woodville Town Hall, 14 Mar, $16 Kids’ Director’s Cut Stirling Fringe, 29 Feb–1 Mar, $20

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Monski Mouse’s Baby Cabaret The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 29 Feb, $17 Petit Circus Stirling Fringe, 22 Feb, $20 Balloonatics Belgian Beer Cafe ‘Oostende’, Various dates from 29 Feb to 15 Mar, $20 What’s in the Box? Marion Cultural Centre, 23 Feb, 8 Mar, $13 What’s My Unicorn Name?

The Parks Theatres, 22 Feb, $16 The Fairy Wonderland Show Gluttony - Rymill Park, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $25 Once Upon a Circus CircoBats, 12–13 Mar, $15 The Bureau Of Untold Stories Marion Cultural Centre, 2 Mar, 9 Mar, 16 Mar, $20 When the Mirror Bird Sings Marion Cultural Centre, 27–29 Feb, $15 Mr Snot bottom’s Horrible, Terrible, Really, Really, Bad, Bad, Show The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 8 Mar, $22 Boomstars 4Kids: ‘Shake It Up’ Concert Marion Cultural Centre, 7 Mar, $18 The Alphabet of Awesome Science Gluttony - Rymill Park, 10–11 Mar, FREE

Science Magic Gluttony - Rymill Park, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $16

13:30 Juggling vs Magic HAT’s Courthouse Cultural Centre Auburn, 22 Feb, $12 CLG and ASMS present STEMTacular Australian Science and Mathematics School, 29 Feb, $20

14:00 Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo RCC, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $20 Peter Combe in Brush Your Hair with a Toothbrush!!

The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, 9 Mar, 14 Mar, 15 Mar, $26 Amazing Drumming Monkeys The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $18 ‘Aladdin and the Genie of Unlimited Wishes’ Star Theatres, 14–15 Mar, $20 This Show is NOT Rubbish!

Stirling Fringe at Stirling Community Theatre, 22 Feb, $20 Jack & Jill and the Beanstalk - An Environmental Tale Mount Barker Waldorf Living Arts Centre, 1 Mar, $28

14:15 The Alphabet of Awesome Science Gluttony - Rymill Park, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, 9 Mar, 14 Mar, 15 Mar, $17–$20

14:30 SCARY STORIES FOR BRAVE KIDS (in the dark & light) Goodwood Institute Theatre, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $15 Mr Snot bottom’s Horrible, Terrible, Really, Really, Bad, Bad, Show The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 7 Mar, 9 Mar, 14 Mar, 15 Mar, $18–$22 A Dinosaur Safari Burnside Community Centre, 1 Mar, $20 MR SNOT BOTTOM’S STINKY SILLY SHOW AT STIRLING FRINGE Stirling Fringe, 29 Feb–1 Mar, $20

14:45 Mickster’s Magic Gadgets Gluttony - Rymill Park, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, 9 Mar, 14 Mar, 15 Mar, $15–$25 Circus SONAS Family Show Gluttony - Rymill Park, 22 Feb, 23 Feb, 29 Feb, 1 Mar, $18

15:00 Do the Hibble Hop Glenunga Hub, 1 Mar, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, $12 Tony Roberts: I’m a Magician Get Me Out of Here The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $20 Juggling vs Magic various venues, 22 Feb, 29 Feb, $12 Captain Cat and the Adventures of the Golden Litter Tray Once & Again Book Cafe, 23 Feb, $10

15:15 The Stevenson Experience Sing Silly Songs for Kids Flinders University, Bedford Park, 14 Mar, $18 A Dinosaur Safari Burnside Community Centre, 22 Feb, 7 Mar, 14 Mar, $20

15:30 Peter Combe in Brush Your Hair with a Toothbrush!!

The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, 14 Mar, 15 Mar, $26 Do the Hibble Hop Glenunga Hub, 22 Feb, $12

Petit Circus Gluttony - Rymill Park, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $26

15:45 Splash Test Dummies Stirling Fringe at Stirling Community Theatre, 22–23 Feb, $20 The Greatest Magic Show Gluttony - Rymill Park, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $25

16:00 SCARY STORIES FOR BRAVE KIDS (in the dark & light) Goodwood Institute Theatre, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $15 Big Tops & Tiny Tots Circus Show Stirling Fringe, 29 Feb–1 Mar, $20 Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo RCC, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $20 ‘Aladdin and the Genie of Unlimited Wishes’ Star Theatres, 14–15 Mar, $20 Ann-Droid-The Wonderful Adventures of a Robot Girl The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 11–15 Mar, $20 Cosmo the Clown Comedy Magic Show Ayers House Events, 22 Feb, 29 Feb, 7 Mar, 14 Mar, $15 Children are Stinky The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 28 Feb–1 Mar, $20–$24

Best of Adelaide Fringe: Kids and Family Selection The Historian Hotel, 22 Feb, 29 Feb, 7 Mar, 14 Mar, $18 ‘Enchantments’ by Pierre Ulric Gluttony - Rymill Park, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, 9 Mar, 14 Mar, 15 Mar, $23

16:15 Amazing Drumming Monkeys The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $18 Absolutely Bestest Kids Show to Ever Happen...

SERIOUSLY! Gluttony - Rymill Park, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $18

16:30 Mickster’s Magic Gadgets Stirling Fringe, 28 Feb, $20 Stuart Reid’s Fantastic Flatulence The Griffins Hotel, 22 Feb, 23 Feb, 29 Feb, 1 Mar, $20 Do the Hibble Hop Glenunga Hub, 28 Feb, 6 Mar, $12 The African Elephant Of My Heart: Dance Extravaganza Holden Street Theatres, 6 Mar, $20 The Gagliardis Stirling Fringe, 26 Feb, $20 Kids’ Director’s Cut Stirling Fringe, 28 Feb, $20 Switch Witchetty’s Almanac of Everything Holden Street Theatres, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, 14 Mar, $19

17:00 Foals The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–13 Mar, not 22 Feb, 23 Feb, 29 Feb, 1 Mar, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, 9 Mar, FREE Prehysterical Gluttony - Rymill Park, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $25 The Artist Main Theatre, AC Arts [Adelaide Festival], 9 Mar, $20

17:30 Hollywood Plaza Festival Hollywood Plaza Shopping Centre, 20 Feb, FREE Brass Monkeys The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 25 Feb, 26 Feb, 2 Mar, 3 Mar, 4 Mar, 10 Mar, 11 Mar, $24 Talking Dogs Stirling Fringe at Stirling Community Theatre, 23 Feb, $28

18:00 THE SCIENTIFIC BUBBLE SHOW Stirling Fringe, 22 Feb, 29 Feb, $20 Les Dudes - Stories in the City Stirling Fringe, 22–23 Feb, $20 The Artist Main Theatre, AC Arts [Adelaide Festival], 10 Mar, 14 Mar, $20

18:15 Splash Test Dummies The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 25 Feb, $27.50

Don’t Mess With the Dummies The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 25 Feb, 2 Mar, 3 Mar, 9 Mar, 10 Mar, $25

19:00 Jack & Jill and the Beanstalk - An Environmental Tale Mount Barker Waldorf Living Arts Centre, 22 Feb, $28 Once Upon a Circus CircoBats, 13–14 Mar, $15 The Artist Main Theatre, AC Arts [Adelaide Festival], 12–13 Mar, $20

19:30 The Artist Main Theatre, AC Arts [Adelaide Festival], 11 Mar, $20

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Once Upon a Circus CircoBats, 14 Mar, $15 The Gagliardis Stirling Fringe at Stirling Community Theatre, 23 Feb, $20 BEST OF KIDS FRINGE Gluttony - Rymill Park, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, $19 Adam Page - For Kids... and their Adults The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 29 Feb, $15 THE SCIENTIFIC BUBBLE SHOW Brighton Performing Arts Centre, 7 Mar, $18

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George Glass’ Happily Ever After Party Rhino Room, 22 Feb, $10

10:00 Daytime Sing A-Long The Parks Theatres, 21 Feb, 28 Feb, 6 Mar, $12

11:00 An Austen Affair Urrbrae House, 5 Mar, $28 A Wandering Minstrel - Keith Potger Marion Cultural Centre, 10 Mar, $20 Dogapalooza Orphanage Park, 15 Mar, $18 150 Psalms Abandonment Adelaide Hebrew Congregation [Adelaide Festival], 1 Mar, $30 Open Mic with Greg Coombes Lake Albert Caravan Park, 7 Mar, FREE Buŋgul Gurrumul’s Mother’s Buŋgul Gurrumul’s Grandmother’s Buŋgul Gurrumul’s Manikay Thebarton Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 3 Mar, $35

11:30 Roomful of Teeth (Composer & Citizen: Chamber Landscapes) Ukaria Cultural Centre [Adelaide Festival], 7 Mar, $47 The Female Voice (Composer & Citizen: Chamber Landscapes) Ukaria Cultural Centre [Adelaide Festival], 8 Mar, $47

Hidden Secrets (Composer & Citizen: Chamber Landscapes) Ukaria Cultural Centre [Adelaide Festival], 9 Mar, $47

12:00 Star-Gate - Full Dome Visual-Sound Bath Adelaide Planetarium, 22 Feb, $33 150 Psalms - A Mirror for Today’s Society St Peter’s Cathedral [Adelaide Festival], 29 Feb, $30

12:45 BESSIE * BILLIE * DINAH ~ Empress, Lady & Queen of the Blues Murray Bridge Town Hall, 1 Mar, $33

13:00 Heartbeat of Japan Brighton Performing Arts Centre, 8 Mar, $35 An Andrews Sisters Tribute Norwood Concert Hall, 23 Feb, $45 Lunchtime recitals St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral [Adelaide Festival], 4 Mar, 11 Mar, FREE Weimarian Revolution: Stories from the Shadows of 1920s Berlin The Jade, 15 Mar, $22.50 Eolia The Jade, 8 Mar, $20 150 Psalms Leadership Pilgrim Uniting Church [Adelaide Festival], 2 Mar, $30 150 Psalms - Power and Oppression Pilgrim Uniting Church [Adelaide Festival], 3 Mar, $30

13:30 The Real Housewives Choir Black Box Theatre, 1 Mar, $35

14:00 A New Gilbert and Sullivan Concert various venues, 29 Feb, 8 Mar, $28 “TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE!” various venues, 1 Mar, 8 Mar, $28 An Austen Affair Urrbrae House, 15 Mar, $28 A Class of Brass – Flying High Burnside Ballroom, 1 Mar, $20 Satisfaction play the Hits of The Rolling Stones The Kentish Hotel, 1 Mar, $30 1960 Rock ‘n’ Rollin Jukebox Journey– Celebrating the 60th Fringe Anniversary various venues, 1 Mar, 8 Mar, $23 Star-Gate - Full Dome Visual-Sound Bath Adelaide Planetarium, 22 Feb, $33 Feelin’ Groovy - The Songs of Simon & Garfunkel Arkaba Hotel, 15 Mar, $30 The Revolution ‘Drive that Funky Soul’ Nexus Arts, 29 Feb, $25 An Andrews Sisters Tribute Norwood Concert Hall, 22 Feb, $45 Diamond in Unley Fullarton Park Community Centre, 6 Mar, FREE Two Different Paths Nexus Arts, 1 Mar, $40 Weimarian Revolution: Stories from the Shadows of 1920s Berlin Sinclair’s Gully Winery, 7 Mar, 14 Mar, $22.50

All That Matters.

Fly Bird Fly Studio, 29 Feb–1 Mar, $20 The Georgia Horgan Show Cafe Outside The Square, 29 Feb–1 Mar, $20 Jungle Jams Karkoo Nursery, Various dates from 22 Feb to 15 Mar, FREE AN AFTERNOON OF WINE, WOMAN AND SONG Sinclair’s Gully Winery, 8 Mar, 9 Mar, 15 Mar, $22.50 Roll Over Beethoven (dig those rhythm and blues) The Kentish Hotel, 23 Feb, $20 150 Psalms Gratitude Adelaide Hebrew Congregation [Adelaide Festival], 1 Mar, $30 Anime ‘n’ Chill Nexus Arts, 23 Feb, $25 The Ironing Maidens - A Soap Opera Nexus Arts, 22 Feb, $30 Classic Harmony Hits Victor Harbor Town Hall, 29 Feb, $27 Acoustic Country And Other Classics Sinclair’s Gully Winery, 23 Feb, 1 Mar, $19.50

14:20 Groove Terminator and the Soweto Gospel Choir’s History of House Gluttony - Rymill Park, 14 Mar, $35

14:30 The Garden Sessions The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 22 Feb, 29 Feb, 7 Mar, 14 Mar, FREE Broadway to Hollywood Hungarian Club of SA, 1 Mar, 15 Mar, $23

A Tribute to Nina Simone - A Single Woman The Jade, 23 Feb, $30 Absolute Brass Burnside Ballroom, 23 Feb, $25 BESSIE * BILLIE * DINAH ~ Empress, Lady & Queen of the Blues Stirling Fringe, 28 Feb, $33 Stand Together - A Celebration of Friendship Adelaide Festival Centre, 22 Feb, $22 Two Of Us Gluttony - Rymill Park, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, 9 Mar, 14 Mar, $27 Composer & Citizen 1 (Composer & Citizen: Chamber Landscapes) Ukaria Cultural Centre [Adelaide Festival], 7 Mar, $47 Composer & Citizen 2 (Composer & Citizen: Chamber Landscapes) Ukaria Cultural Centre [Adelaide Festival], 8 Mar, $47 Composer & Citizen 3 (Composer & Citizen: Chamber Landscapes) Ukaria Cultural Centre [Adelaide Festival], 9 Mar, $47 Footloose and Fancy Goodwood Institute Theatre, 29 Feb, $28

14:45 Hugh Sheridan Unplugged Gluttony - Rymill Park, 14 Mar, $52 Jukebox Chorus - The Ultimate Australian Playlist Gluttony - Rymill Park, 8 Mar, 9 Mar, 15 Mar, $49.50

15:00 Hugh Sheridan Unplugged Gluttony - Rymill Park, 1 Mar, $52

España El Vito the Spirit of Spain & Tango - Piano and Guitar Concert Scots Church Adelaide, 14–15 Mar, $33 Scotland in Australia The Anne Jolly Hall, 29 Feb, $18 Pianist Tim Barton various venues, 8 Mar, 15 Mar, $22 The Carpenters Songbook Regal Theatre, 23 Feb, 1 Mar, $45 The 60 Four Norwood Concert Hall, 15 Mar, $55.95 A History of Early Blues Part 1 The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 23 Feb, 1 Mar, $25 Kacey Stephensen Port Adelaide Visitor Information Centre Courtyard, 8 Mar, $20 Irish Concert Songs of Luke Kelly & The Dubliners with Dave Clark Singing Gazebo Clarendon, 23 Feb, 1 Mar, $25 You’ve Got a Friend - Stories of Carole King’s Tapestry Urrbrae House, 8 Mar, $45 The Honey Bees Morphettville Racecourse, 23 Feb, $35 A Medieval and Renaissance Showcase Barr Smith Library, 29 Feb, $30 Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows Star Theatres, 23 Feb, 1 Mar, $30 150 Psalms - Trust St Peter’s Cathedral [Adelaide Festival], 29 Feb, $30 The Furball Express Pure Swamp Blues The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 15 Mar, $20 Mahler / Adès Adelaide Town Hall [Adelaide Festival], 15 Mar, $35

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Californian Legends Regal Theatre, 8 Mar, 15 Mar, $45

15:20 Tribute to MTV Unplugged with Louise Adams Gluttony - Rymill Park, 1 Mar, $30 The Magnets - 90s Rewind Gluttony - Rymill Park, 22 Feb, 29 Feb, 7 Mar, 9 Mar, 14 Mar, $35

15:30 We’ll Meet Again: Vera Lynn, the Forces’ Sweetheart The Jade, 20–21 Feb, $25 Ingenue: Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland and the Golden Age of Hollywood The Jade, 24 Feb, 26 Feb, 27 Feb, 6 Mar, $29 Marvellous Music at Mary Mags St Mary Magdalene’s Anglican Church, 23 Feb, 1 Mar, 8 Mar, $23 Piaf and Brel: The Impossible Concert The Jade, 3–5 Mar, $20–$29 Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers The Garage International @ Adelaide Town Hall, 23 Feb, $35 A TRIBUTE TO THE SHADOWS - THE SHADOWCASTERS (Ft: DION ERMEN) The Jade, 8 Mar, $24

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Mitchell River The Anne Jolly Hall, 6–8 Mar, $19 From Paris with Love Nexus Arts, 23 Feb, $30 Sufi Music Highway Nexus Arts, 29 Feb–1 Mar, $25 A Norah Jones Tribute Saint John’s Anglican Church, 1 Mar, $30

MC ME - Guilt, Fame, Love.

Nexus Arts, 14 Mar, $30 The Stag Balcony Bar The Stag Public House, 22 Feb, 29 Feb, 7 Mar, 14 Mar, FREE An Oriental Flair & San Ureshi Nexus Arts, 22 Feb, $28 Ukulele Death Squad: The Squad Father Regal Theatre, 22 Feb, 14 Mar, $25 ELECTRIC DELTA: Blues Hits Big Town The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 8 Mar, $25 27 G&Ts @ The Prohibition Prohibition Distillery, 1 Mar, $30 Plant Based Disgrace Brompton Hotel, 14 Mar, $33

16:20 The Choir of Man Gluttony - Rymill Park, Various dates from 29 Feb to 15 Mar, $45

16:30 Hugh Sheridan Unplugged Gluttony - Rymill Park, 29 Feb, $52 Sax to the Max Clayton Wesley Uniting Church - The Spire Community, 1 Mar, 8 Mar, 15 Mar, $15 Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers The Garage International @ Adelaide Town Hall, 22 Feb, 1 Mar, 8 Mar, $35

16:40 Jukebox Chorus - The Ultimate Australian Playlist Gluttony - Rymill Park, 7 Mar, 14 Mar, $49.50

16:45 Koto Music Concert “SOU MA TOU” The Garage International @ Adelaide Town Hall, 29 Feb, $28

17:00 Shades of Bublé: A Three-Man Tribute to Michael Bublé The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 22 Feb, $40 Star-Gate - Full Dome Visual-Sound Bath Adelaide Planetarium, 22 Feb, $33 An Andrews Sisters Tribute Norwood Concert Hall, 23 Feb, $45 The Sound Ceremony Gluttony - Masonic Lodge, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, 14 Mar, 15 Mar, $26 Mission Songs Project

by Jessie Lloyd Institute Theatre - Port Augusta, 22 Feb, FREE Pink Floyd Orchestral Masterpieces by Eclipse Deviation Road Winery, 29 Feb, $48 #PopJazz Treasury 1860, 15 Mar, $25 150 Psalms Powerlessness Adelaide Hebrew Congregation [Adelaide Festival], 1 Mar, $30 Siobhan Stagg in Recital (Composer & Citizen: Chamber Landscapes) Ukaria Cultural Centre [Adelaide Festival], 7 Mar, $47 One Among Many (Composer & Citizen: Chamber Landscapes) Ukaria Cultural Centre [Adelaide Festival], 8 Mar, $47 Requiem Festival Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 1 Mar, $60

The Beatles and Beyond Burnside Ballroom, 7 Mar, $20

17:30 Paris, LA, Rio! Ayers House Events, 22 Feb, $28 A History of Early Blues Part 2 The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 23 Feb, 1 Mar, $25 From Paris with Love Stirling Fringe at Stirling Community Theatre, 22 Feb, $30 Ceberano + Co. The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 15 Mar, $60

17:45 Koto Music Concert “SOU MA TOU” The Garage International @ Adelaide Town Hall, 27–28 Feb, $28

18:00 Happy Sad - Songs of Tim Buckley The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 27–29 Feb, $25 2020 Twilight Sessions Prospect Memorial Gardens, 21 Feb, 28 Feb, FREE Lenka The Mill, 10 Mar, $33 The Cameramen take over the Left Barrel Left Barrel Brewing, 7 Mar, $15 Sweet As Swing: Aussie Classics Re-Imagined Nexus Arts, 7 Mar, 13 Mar, $30 Kuko Nexus Arts, 14 Mar, $15 Music With Motion: End Game Marion Cultural Centre, 1 Mar, $20 From Paris with Love Saint John’s Anglican Church, 1 Mar, $30

Stories From Various Areas Octeine Coffee, 22–23 Feb, $20 The Deer Johns: COMA EP Launch Norwood Hotel, 15 Mar, $18 MC ME - Guilt, Fame, Love.

Nexus Arts, 15 Mar, $30 We’ll Meet Again: Vera Lynn, the Forces’ Sweetheart The Jade, 28 Feb, $25 Ingenue: Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland and the Golden Age of Hollywood The Jade, 2–5 Mar, $20–$29 The Mixed Bag Boomers On The Beach, 22 Feb, 29 Feb, $18 Weimarian Revolution: Stories from the Shadows of 1920s Berlin The Jade, 11–12 Mar, $22.50 The Music of Disney feat Adam Hall and the Velvet Playboys The Jade, 6 Mar, 8 Mar, $30 Eolia The Jade, 15 Mar, $20 Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers The Garage International @ Adelaide Town Hall, 20 Feb, 25 Feb, 26 Feb, 9 Mar, 10 Mar, $30–$35 The Paul Simon Experience Gluttony - Masonic Lodge, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $35–$45 A TRIBUTE TO THE SHADOWS - THE SHADOWCASTERS (Ft: DION ERMEN) The Jade, 13 Mar, $24 A New Gilbert and Sullivan Concert Walkerville Town Hall, 6 Mar, $28

The Finns Tribute Band- Celebrating the songs of Tim & Neil Finn LION ARTS FACTORY, 13 Mar, $25 The Carole King & James Taylor Story Gluttony - Masonic Lodge, 3–15 Mar, not 9, $35–$45 150 Psalms - Safety St Peter’s Cathedral [Adelaide Festival], 29 Feb, $30 Words and Music for Iris Flinders St Baptist Church, 13 Mar, $20 The Furball Express Pure Swamp Blues The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 15 Mar, $20 Anime ‘n’ Chill Nexus Arts, 21–22 Feb, $25 Sun Songs The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 5–6 Mar, $25 Requiem Festival Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 4 Mar, $60 The Ironing Maidens - A Soap Opera Nexus Arts, 28–29 Feb, $30

18:10 Back to Black: The Music of Amy Winehouse Gluttony - Rymill Park, 3–15 Mar, $35–$45 Amity Dry: Highway Superstar Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $30–$35

18:20 Rebel Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, 10 Mar, $28–$39

18:30 Soweto Gospel Choir Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, $29–$42

18:40 Massaoke Musicals Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20–23 Feb, $30–$35

18:45 And I Can Cook Too...

Two Treasury 1860, 25 Feb, $20

19:00 Fascinating Fifties Hilton Hotel, 22 Feb, 7 Mar, $25 JOHN SMITH IN CONCERT The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 11 Mar, $30 The Nashville Story Regal Theatre, 21 Feb, 28 Feb, $45 Midnite Kiss presents ‘Bittersweet Delirium’ Hotel Richmond, 7–8 Mar, $20 “TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE!” Burnside City Uniting Church, 28 Feb, $28 Singalong to the Songs of Scotland Arkaba Hotel, 27 Feb, $29 A Norah Jones Tribute Nexus Arts, 4 Mar, $30 From Paris with Love Nexus Arts, 12 Mar, $30 Shades of Bublé: A Three-Man Tribute to Michael Bublé The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 20–23 Feb, $40–$45

Music With Motion: End Game Woodville Town Hall, 28–29 Feb, $20 The Honey Bees Victor Harbor Town Hall, 21 Feb, $35 Scotland in Australia Carclew, 21 Feb, $18 Mambo Italiano B. Social Restaurant, 14 Mar, $59 Rock Orchestra By The River Par 3 North Adelaide Golf Course, 14 Mar, $35 Get Back: 75 Minutes of Beatles Murray Bridge Town Hall, 1 Mar, $20 Star-Gate - Full Dome Visual-Sound Bath Adelaide Planetarium, 20–23 Feb, $33 Ballads By Candlelight St Peter’s Cathedral [Adelaide Festival], 14 Mar, $37 Diana Rouvas The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 4 Mar, $52.50 The Black Sorrows The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 5 Mar, $52 Five Foot Gaga: The Lady Gaga Experience The Parks Theatres, 21 Feb, $30 MC ME - Guilt, Fame, Love.

Nexus Arts, 3 Mar, $20 Things Of Stone And Wood The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 14 Mar, $45 Dream Boat - Party on the Popeye The Popeye Boat, Various dates from 21 Feb to 13 Mar, $20 Heartbeat of Japan Brighton Performing Arts Centre, 7 Mar, $35 Lou’s Shack Rodeo Show Sourc’d Aldinga, 25 Feb, $20

Carl Christensen Once & Again Book Cafe, 1 Mar, FREE COPACABANA & ALL THAT SAMBA - Juliana Areias and Marvio Ciribelli Band The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 3 Mar, $35 Mi Cuba Nexus Arts, 26–27 Feb, $30 The Real Housewives Choir The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 6 Mar, $35 Ceberano + Co. The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 15 Mar, $60 Country Halls Tour - A Night with Fanny Lumsden The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 8 Mar, $25 The Guitar Music of South America and Spain Nexus Arts, 5 Mar, $25 All That Matters.

Fly Bird Fly Studio, 29 Feb, $20 Pianist Tim Barton various venues, 7 Mar, 14 Mar, $22 Bakers Daughter aka Alyce Platt The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 1 Mar, $35 SPIRAL Presents: Metalworks The Joinery on Franklin, 7 Mar, $15 Renee Geyer The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 28 Feb, $50 The Southern Pop Express + TRex Oz + CouZins Ink Astor Hotel, 8 Mar, $25 Tex Perkins & Matt Walker The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 27 Feb, $55

Buŋgul Gurrumul’s Mother’s Buŋgul Gurrumul’s Grandmother’s Buŋgul Gurrumul’s Manikay Thebarton Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 2 Mar, $35 Audrey in the Sky with Diamonds Latvian Hall, 22 Feb, 29 Feb, $30 Adam Page - SOLO The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 25–26 Feb, $20 The Baker Suite and friends celebrate the songs of John Baker Woodville Town Hall, 5 Mar, $30 Eves in Autumn St Mary’s College, 5 Mar, $15 The East Pointers ‘Yours to Break’ Tour The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 10 Mar, $35 Come to Brazil Nexus Arts, 20 Feb, $30 Choosing Sides with Special Guests Marion Cultural Centre, 22 Feb, $10

19:15 Linda Ronstadt Song Book and Van Morrison Show Norwood Hotel, 21 Feb, $35 Lennon Live Morphettville Racecourse, 28 Feb, $28

19:20 BANDALUZIA FLAMENCO Gluttony - Rymill Park, 10–15 Mar, $23–$32

19:30 THE WHEATSHEAF UKULELE COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: LIGHTS, CAMERA, UKULELE! The Wheatsheaf Hotel, Various dates from 20 Feb to 14 Mar, $25

An Austen Affair Urrbrae House, 13 Mar, $28 The Real Housewives Choir Arkaba Hotel, 4 Mar, $35 España El Vito the Spirit of Spain & Tango - Piano and Guitar Concert Scots Church Adelaide, 13 Mar, $33 The Collectables tribute show to Cat Stevens Boomers On The Beach, 6 Mar, 13 Mar, $20 80 years of Frank Läther play the music of Frank Zappa Norwood Hotel, 27 Feb, $30 Mike, Dave and Dave do Tarantino Rhino Room, 7 Mar, 14 Mar, $18 Carl Christensen Cafe Outside The Square, 21 Feb, FREE Martini Hour The Lion, 27–28 Feb, $42 Musical Moments Morphettville Racecourse, 20 Feb, 25 Feb, 27 Feb, $30 Turn Up Your Radio Rock Arena The Alley, 6 Mar, 7 Mar, 13 Mar, 14 Mar, 15 Mar, $39.50 An Andrews Sisters Tribute Norwood Concert Hall, 21 Feb, $45 The 60 Four various venues, 29 Feb, 1 Mar, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, 14 Mar, $40–$55.95 Alaska String Band Down under Church of the Trinity, 15 Mar, $30 Weimarian Revolution: Stories from the Shadows of 1920s Berlin Sinclair’s Gully Winery, 13 Mar, $22.50 Strike A# Chord The Duke of Brunswick, 20 Feb, $20

The Georgia Horgan Show Cafe Outside The Square, 5–6 Mar, $20 Ukulele Death Squad: The Squad Father Regal Theatre, 22 Feb, 14 Mar, $25 DISCO INFERNO 70’s & 80’s FANCY DRESS at NORWOOD LIVE Norwood Hotel, 29 Feb, 14 Mar, $23 Acoustic Tull The Duke of Brunswick, 27 Feb, $23 Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers The Garage International @ Adelaide Town Hall, 3–7 Mar, $30–$35 Garrick Ohlsson Adelaide Town Hall [Adelaide Festival], 2 Mar, $40 Mahler / Adès Adelaide Town Hall [Adelaide Festival], 14 Mar, $35 ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER AND OTHER CLASSIC FAVOURITES Sinclair’s Gully Winery, 6–8 Mar, $29.50 FULL TILT JANIS Janis Joplin Tribute Show Arkaba Hotel, 5 Mar, $23 Evenings at Treasury 1860 Treasury 1860, 20 Feb, 27 Feb, 5 Mar, FREE 27 G&Ts @ The Prohibition Prohibition Distillery, 1 Mar, $30 Hidden Secrets (Composer & Citizen: Chamber Landscapes) Ukaria Cultural Centre [Adelaide Festival], 6 Mar, $47 Pianist Tim Barton Red Door Utopia community centre, 13 Mar, $22 The Rezonators Live at The Kentish The Kentish Hotel, 22 Feb, $30

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Tim Rogers: Liquid Nights In Bohemia Heights The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 25–26 Feb, $55 From Paris with Love Stirling Fringe, 27 Feb, $30 Sing Australia: Songs of Australia Cleland Wildlife Park, 1 Mar, 6 Mar, $15 HIT ZE ROAD JACQUES The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 7 Mar, $25

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Requiem Festival Theatre [Adelaide Festival], 28 Feb, 3 Mar, $60 Footloose and Fancy Goodwood Institute Theatre, 28 Feb, $28 DIVA AT DUSK Sinclair’s Gully Winery, 21 Feb, 29 Feb, 14 Mar, $29.50 The Other Side Carclew, 7 Mar, $15

19:40 THE GREAT AMPONG BAND The Garage International @ Pilgrim Uniting Church, 6–7 Mar, $25

19:45 Plant Based Disgrace Brompton Hotel, 11–14 Mar, $33

19:50 The Magnets - 90s Rewind Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, 9 Mar, $30–$45

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Shakerfaker: The Ultimate Oasis Tribute LION ARTS FACTORY, 7 Mar, $25 The Clashing Pumpkins LION ARTS FACTORY, 28 Feb, $27 Along Comes Mary Let The Sunshine In St Joseph’s Brighton Parish Activity Centre, 28–29 Feb, $32 ‘A Lady Sings The Blues’ Schnithouse Norwood Pty Ltd - Club 134 and all that Jazz, 20 Feb, 23 Feb, $40 Nathan May - Lost In The Dream Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, 22 Feb, $25

Just One Look-The songs and sounds of Linda Rondstadt Marion Cultural Centre, 14 Mar, $32.50 A Night in Paris Marion Cultural Centre, 2 Mar, $32 STEREOLAB RCC, 5 Mar, $55 Adelaide Aurals House of Spaghetti, 22 Feb, 29 Feb, $22 Sweet Bad Lizzy - The Best of The Sweet-Bad Company Thin Lizzy plus more Brit Rock!

Marion Cultural Centre, 7 Mar, $33 The Big 60s Show Arkaba Hotel, 28 Feb, $28 Songbird: Bella Cother sings Fleetwood Mac Morphettville Racecourse, 23 Feb, $30 ELTON SHOW - Your Song Regal Theatre, 29 Feb, $40 HELLO - Erin Jae’s Tribute to ADELE Morphettville Racecourse, 22 Feb, $35 Alaska String Band Down under HAT’s Courthouse Cultural Centre Auburn, 14 Mar, $30 Aghaani Zamaan (Traditional Arabic Songs) Nexus Arts, 14 Mar, $25 UKE SPRINGSTEEN grace emily hotel, 25 Feb, 3 Mar, 10 Mar, $15 Mi Cuba Stirling Fringe, 28 Feb, $30 Far Beyond Nexus Arts, 29 Feb–1 Mar, $25 ORANGES AND LENNONS Goodwood Institute Theatre, 23 Feb, $33 Stories From Various Areas Octeine Coffee, 22–23 Feb, $20

Radiohead - A Tribute grace emily hotel, 28 Feb, 6 Mar, $25 Sufi Music Highway HAT’s Courthouse Cultural Centre Auburn, 28 Feb, $25 Pianist Tim Barton The Jade, 12 Mar, $22 Welcome to the Nightmare - A tribute to Alice Cooper Marion Cultural Centre, 27 Feb, $35 Morpheus Back to the 70’s The Highway, 22 Feb, $30 Tusk!FM a Tribute to the music of Fleetwood Mac The Police Club, 21 Feb, 6 Mar, $30 Night Fever - The Ultimate Bee Gees Tribute Arkaba Hotel, 6 Mar, $35 An Andrews Sisters Tribute Norwood Concert Hall, 22 Feb, $45 ‘The Three Crooners’ a Tribute to THE RAT PACK Marion Cultural Centre, 29 Feb, $30 Satisfaction play the Hits of The Rolling Stones Norwood Hotel, 6 Mar, $30 NOLA Live NOLA Adelaide, 20 Feb, 27 Feb, 5 Mar, 12 Mar, FREE The Real Housewives Choir Marion Cultural Centre, 5 Mar, $35 Jukebox Chorus - The Ultimate Australian Playlist Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20 Feb–14 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, 9 Mar, $35–$49.50 The Yorke Band LIVE Nexus Arts, 21 Feb, $15 Elton John - He’s Still Standing The Highway, 28–29 Feb, $35

RETRO OVERLOAD - LIVE! LION ARTS FACTORY, 21–22 Feb, $35 On My Skin Halls of Wesley Uniting Church, Kent Town, 3–5 Mar, $30 Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians RCC, 13 Mar, $40 1965 Masters Apprentices McCracken Country Club, 14 Mar, $35 Cat, Neil and Captain Fantastic Goodwood Institute Theatre, 27 Feb, 29 Feb, $25–$28 Hot 6 - Hot Jazz from New Orleans The Jade, 8 Mar, $30 Echoes of Pink Floyd Presents: The Very Best of Pink Floyd LION ARTS FACTORY, 29 Feb, $40 Unplugged - The Acoustic Sessions Marion Cultural Centre, 12 Mar, $22 Ashley Hribar plays Dr Caligari: musical rebirth of a silent film legend Mercury Cinema, 26–28 Feb, $30 Graham Howle “Man with a story” HAT’s Courthouse Cultural Centre Auburn, 13 Mar, $28 Singalong to the Songs of Ireland Marion Cultural Centre, 13 Mar, $29 150 Psalms Suffering St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral [Adelaide Festival], 1 Mar, $30 150 Psalms - Path of Life St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral [Adelaide Festival], 2 Mar, $30 NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN + TROPICAL F*CK STORM RCC, 28–29 Feb, $45

150 Psalms Celebration of Life Adelaide Town Hall [Adelaide Festival], 3 Mar, $35 BESSIE * BILLIE * DINAH ~ Empress, Lady & Queen of the Blues Treasury 1860, 29 Feb, 14 Mar, $33 The Sound of History: Beethoven, Napoleon and Revolution Adelaide Town Hall [Adelaide Festival], 7 Mar, $35 Aretha - RESPECT The Gov, 12 Mar, $38 The New Pornographers The Workshop, Adelaide Festival Centre [Adelaide Festival], 1 Mar, $59 Tribute to MTV Unplugged with Louise Adams Robe Institute, 28 Feb, $30 Furnapalooza Furnace and the Fundamentals Adelaide Entertainment Centre, 29 Feb, $39.50 Mike, Dave and Dave do Tarantino The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 4 Mar, 11 Mar, $18 The Ironing Maidens - A Soap Opera Nexus Arts, 23 Feb, $30 An Evening of Tom Waits Songs The Gov, 8 Mar, $45 Under The Influences Stirling Fringe, 25 Feb, $25

20:15 Disco Conversion Therapy RCC, 20–23 Feb, $35

20:30 FACE TO FACE - The ELTON & BILLY Experience Bridgeway Hotel, 14 Mar, $45

Caledonian Castaways The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 5–6 Mar, $25 90’s to NOW The Crown and Sceptre Hotel, 27–29 Feb, $20 T.REX vs David Bowie various venues, 20 Feb, 25 Feb, 4 Mar, 11 Mar, $15–$25 Plant Based Disgrace Hotel Richmond, 7–8 Mar, $33 Vintage Vulture presents experimental music & art Vintage Vulture, 20 Feb, $15 Chunky Custard’s Countdown V MTV Classics Arkaba Hotel, 7 Mar, $28 The Merindas Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, 12 Mar, $25 The Choir of Man Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20 Feb–15 Mar, not 24 Feb, 2 Mar, 9 Mar, $35–$58 You’ve Got a Friend - Stories of Carole King’s Tapestry Urrbrae House, 7 Mar, $45 Piaf and Brel: The Impossible Concert The Jade, 24 Feb, $29 A TRIBUTE TO THE SHADOWS - THE SHADOWCASTERS (Ft: DION ERMEN) The Jade, 20 Feb, 26 Feb, 3 Mar, 10 Mar, $17–$24 Boogie On Down To SOUL TRAIN Arkaba Hotel, 29 Feb, $40 John Brewster of The Angels plays Bob Dylan Goodwood Institute Theatre, 20 Feb, $35 Kate Tempest LION ARTS FACTORY [Adelaide Festival], 27 Feb, $47

20:40 The Dolly Parton Story Gluttony - Masonic Lodge, 3–15 Mar, not 9, $30–$45

20:45 The Music of John Mellencamp!

The Garage International @ Adelaide Town Hall, 23 Feb, $20 JUST FLOYD - The Australian Pink Floyd Tribute Clovercrest Hotel, 22 Feb, $33

20:50 Simply The Best: The Music of Tina Turner Gluttony - Rymill Park, 3–15 Mar, not 9, $35–$45 The Aretha Franklin Songbook Gluttony - Rymill Park, 20 Feb–1 Mar, not 24 Feb, $35–$45

21:00 Never Been To Me Cafe Outside The Square, 6 Mar, 13 Mar, $25 Midnite Kiss presents ‘Bittersweet Delirium’ Hotel Richmond, 6 Mar, $20 Karen J White: My Tribute to Kirsty MacColl The Garage International @ Adelaide Town Hall, 3–7 Mar, $20–$25

‘A Lady Sings The Blues’ Schnithouse Norwood Pty Ltd - Club 134 and all that Jazz, 21–22 Feb, $40 Finger Bun “Time Warp Back to the 80’s” Norwood Hotel, 22 Feb, $25 Lenka The Mill, 10 Mar, $33 BLOW Vintage Vulture, 28 Feb, $25 Adam Page - 4 Saxophones and a Beat Machine The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 27–29 Feb, $20 Bono Vs Bolan Clovercrest Hotel, 7 Mar, $25 The Music of John Mellencamp!

Tonsley Hotel, 22 Feb, $20 That 90’s Show Slumber Party!

Norwood Hotel, 13 Mar, $25 T.REX vs David Bowie Tonsley Hotel, 29 Feb, $25 Welcome to the Nightmare - A tribute to Alice Cooper Clovercrest Hotel, 21 Feb, $33 Star-Gate - Full Dome Visual-Sound Bath Adelaide Planetarium, 20–23 Feb, $33 EMERALD (The Australian Gary Moore Tribute) plus FREECO (A tribute to Free and Bad Company) Clovercrest Hotel, 6 Mar, $18 Whole Lotta Zepp Adelaide: Led Zeppelin II Tonsley Hotel, 14 Mar, $23 Radio Americana Norwood Hotel, 28 Feb, $23 RCC CULT RCC, Various dates from 21 Feb to 14 Mar, $100

Bon Jovi Forever Port Lincoln Hotel, 8 Mar, $35 UTOPIA RCC, Various dates from 21 Feb to 14 Mar, $20 The Georgia Horgan Show Cafe Outside The Square, 7 Mar, $20 Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers The Garage International @ Adelaide Town Hall, Various dates from 27 Feb to 13 Mar, $35 Nirvana: MTV Unplugged in New York Tribute Arkaba Hotel, 14 Mar, $28 The Rock Doctors ‘Prescribing Happiness’ Henley SLSC, 14 Mar, $20 Zooma Zooma Nexus Arts, 3 Mar, 10 Mar, $40 150 Psalms - Justice St Peter’s Cathedral [Adelaide Festival], 29 Feb, $30 THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: Live at the Grace Emily Hotel grace emily hotel, 21 Feb, 29 Feb, $15 HIT ZE ROAD JACQUES The Wheatsheaf Hotel, 7 Mar, $25 The Monster The Mill, 11–14 Mar, $30 Kevin Morby The Workshop, Adelaide Festival Centre [Adelaide Festival], 4 Mar, $39 Weyes Blood The Workshop, Adelaide Festival Centre [Adelaide Festival], 5 Mar, $49 Vince Jones & The Heavy Hitters The Workshop, Adelaide Festival Centre [Adelaide Festival], 7 Mar, $69

E^ST The Workshop, Adelaide Festival Centre [Adelaide Festival], 8 Mar, $39 Lisa Gerrard & Paul Grabowsky The Workshop, Adelaide Festival Centre [Adelaide Festival], 13 Mar, $69 The Ironing Maidens - A Soap Opera Nexus Arts, 25–26 Feb, $25–$30 Come to Brazil Nexus Arts, 27 Feb, 5 Mar, $30

21:30 Tokyo Jet Daze: A Japanese Punk Weekender RCC, 28–29 Feb, $35 Truckload of Sky - The Lost Songs of David McComb RCC, 12 Mar, $35 Paris, LA, Rio! Ayers House Events, 28–29 Feb, $28 Adelaide Aurals House of Spaghetti, 21 Feb, $22 Indiago Murray Bridge Town Hall, 28 Feb, $15 Ross Wilson - Boppin’ With The Boss The Gov, 29 Feb, $55 ONE WILD NIGHT - THE AUSTRALIAN BON JOVI TRIBUTE SHOW Arkaba Hotel, 8 Mar, $24 Nineties vs Noughties Murray Bridge Town Hall, 29 Feb, $13 Richard Clapton - Live at the Gov The Gov, 28 Feb, $59.95 Carl Christensen Ayers House Events, 27 Feb, FREE Amyl and The Sniffers RCC, 5 Mar, $35 Lydia Lunch Retrovirus RCC, 27 Feb, $45

Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers The Garage International @ Adelaide Town Hall, 21 Feb, $35 The Necks RCC, 21 Feb, $35

22:00 The Dolly Parton Story Gluttony - Masonic Lodge, 21 Feb, 22 Feb, 28 Feb, 29 Feb, $45 Joep Beving The Workshop, Adelaide Festival Centre [Adelaide Festival], 12 Mar, $49 Didirri The Workshop, Adelaide Festival Centre [Adelaide Festival], 14 Mar, $39

22:10 Up Late with The Boys Club Gluttony - Masonic Lodge, 8 Mar, 13 Mar, 14 Mar, FREE

22:20 Groove Terminator and the Soweto Gospel Choir’s History of House Gluttony - Rymill Park, 22 Feb, 29 Feb, 7 Mar, 8 Mar, 14 Mar, $35–$45 HELLO - Erin Jae’s Tribute to ADELE Gluttony - Rymill Park, 13 Mar, $35

22:30 Plant Based Disgrace Hotel Richmond, 6 Mar, $33 Rumours - The Fleetwood Mac Show Gluttony - Rymill Park, 6 Mar, $35 Tiggy Vivacious MADDOLLS VICE BAR, 6–7 Mar, $20 The Parov Stelar Band The Workshop, Adelaide Festival Centre [Adelaide Festival], 28 Feb, $79

Mad Max and The Shaolin Afronauts The Workshop, Adelaide Festival Centre [Adelaide Festival], 29 Feb–1 Mar, $39 Robin Fox The Workshop, Adelaide Festival Centre [Adelaide Festival], 6 Mar, $39

22:45 Hottest 100 Dance Party Gluttony - Rymill Park, Various dates from 21 Feb to 14 Mar, $30

23:00 Hugh Sheridan Unplugged Gluttony - Rymill Park, 28 Feb, 29 Feb, 13 Mar, 14 Mar, $52 FIFA - The Biggest Banger LION ARTS FACTORY, 29 Feb, $20 Massaoke Mixtape Vol. 2 The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Various dates from 21 Feb to 14 Mar, $28–$30 Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater - The Biggest Banger LION ARTS FACTORY, 14 Mar, $20

23:30 Science Fiction Double Feature - The Rocky Horror Tribute Show Capri Theatre, 13 Mar, $28

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Clare Bowditch The Workshop, Adelaide Festival Centre [Adelaide Festival], 11 Mar, $49 ICOSA Sound Bath Flour Shed, 29 Feb–2 Mar, $33 Kinda Groovy The Jade, 5 Mar, $30 Hitsville USA - The Motown Story The Gov, 7 Mar, $40

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AJ Holmes We steal AJ Holmes aways from the city for a day CASE FILE Destination d’Arenberg Wines for a Blending Bench experience Playlist

Highroad – Sir Woman

Can’t Hold Me – Emily King

Claudia Lewis – M83

Hardly Ever Rains – Theo Katzman

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Holmes is not a stranger to Australia, having performed in Melbourne and Sydney in The Book of Mormon over a number of years. This is Holmes’ first trip to Adelaide and in celebration, we travelled down to the d’Arenberg Cube for a Blending Bench experience.

The Cube itself is an architect’s dream and a builder’s nightmare. Inside, a fever dream of art and interactive display cases fills the warren-like ground floor in the Alternate Realities Museum. We lose quite a few minutes in the 360 degree viewing room watching hypnotic cats fade into grinning gnomes.

Then we are able to start the real fun – the Blending Bench experience. Situated on the top level of the Cube, we sit up to a scientific worksheet, three base wines and a glass of what we are attempting to replicate. As soon as we sit down, our host James recognises Holmes from The Book of Mormon in Melbourne.

We start by understanding each base wine – tasting notes and perfume – before doing some quick maths to begin blending our ideal wine. Using glass pipettes and good old fashioned suction, we measure our three bases into our first blend. Not a bad start, but we agree we can improve.

By the time we get to our fourth and final blend, we have a good feeling about our prowess and

convince James to have a taste. We do some more percentage conversions and translate our favourite blend into a bottle to take home. The final step is to name her. After a slight argument, we settle on “Sex Tape or Tinder Bio?” We spend some time tasting from their selection of wines, before wandering through the Salvador Dali Exhibition featuring sculptures from the most famous surrealist.

Thank you to Heidi Setschnoy, James and the team at d’Arenberg for hosting us ✏︎ Laura Desmond VENUE: TIME: TICKETS:

Gluttony times vary, 14 Feb – 15 Mar, not 17, 24 Feb, 2, 9 Mar $22 – $30