ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENTRE’S 2108 SEASON
Adelaide Festival Centre also presents four of its own world class festivals in 2018, beginning in January with the Adelaide French Festival, a parfait weekend of music, fashion, food and wine. Winter will be brightened by June’s awardwinning Adelaide Cabaret Festival.
Adelaide Festival Centre has raised the curtain on its 2018 season, which will include six major musicals, 17 world premieres and 26 Adelaide premieres and Adelaide Guitar Festival in August will exclusives. be headlined by affable legend Tommy Emmanuel, while OzAsia Festival will be back with enticing contemporary culture Adelaide Festival Centre CEO and Artistic later in the year. Director Douglas Gautier says, “2018 is our biggest season yet – we are so delighted to Roof tiler turned comedy favourite Carl work with so many talented South Australian Barron will bring the Festival Theatre and national performing arts companies as house down with Drinking With A Fork, we reopen the Festival Theatre with a packed while maestro Ben Folds invites aerial song program. requests in his Paper Aeroplane Request Tour in February. “2017 has been an important and challenging year for Adelaide Festival Centre and we A special Chinese New Year Concert from appreciate the patience and support of our Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and patrons and community throughout the international guests will celebrate the Year redevelopment. All around us, Adelaide of the Dog, while the ASO’s George Michael: Riverbank is in the midst of transformation Listen to Your Heart pays tribute to the much and the precinct is really coming alive. loved - and missed - singer, songwriter and pop legend. In a fresh look at another “We are grateful to the Government Of South popular music icon, the innovative orchestral Australia for their immense and ongoing arrangements that made George Martin the support, and our loyal audiences, partners, fifth Beatle are explored in All You Need Is sponsors, and home companies who are so Love. important to our success.” The redeveloped Festival Centre’s new entrance, foyers and northern promenade, featuring a star-studded Walk Of Fame and new dining and drinking venues will be open for Richard O’Brien’s electrifying Rocky Horror Show and there’s plenty more sass when Club Swizzle hits town from 12 December.
Adelaide Festival Centre’s Christmas Proms will get everyone in the festive mood, and New Year’s Eve revellers will be spoilt for choice with packages available for both The Rocky Horror Show and Club Swizzle. The major musical offerings of 2018 include Green Day’s American Idiot, The Wizard of Oz, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Mamma Mia! and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.
Kate Ceberano and Doug Parkinson lead a stellar cast in The Studio: 54 Reasons To Party, before the ASO joins forces with State Opera of South Australia to bring exquisite Korean singer Sumi Jo with dashing Argentine born Jose Carbo in Mad For Love. State Opera returns later in the year under the masterful direction of Graeme Murphy and featuring Greta Bradman’s jewel-like vocals in The Merry Widow. Jazz heavyweights Vince Jones and Paul Grabowsky combine their unique talents for Provenance, based on their 2016 ARIAwinning album, and thrilling in every key are international pianists Simon Trpceski, Paul Lewis and Piers Lane as part of Morgans International Piano Series. The Zephyr Quartet return with their acclaimed and
transcendent journey of light and sound, Between Light. Brink Productions bring acclaimed Australian actress Helen Morse to the stage to perform the dramatic text of Alice Oswald’s Memorial, re-telling Homer’s Iliad set to a new score by Golden Globe nominated composer Jocelyn Pook, while State Theatre Company South Australia’s ensemble bring sparkling new life to Jane Austen’s classic Sense and Sensibility. The middle of the year will shake up the foundations with the world premiere of Alison Currie’s Concrete Impermanence, Australian Dance Theatre’s ritualistic The Beginning Of Nature featuring Kaurna language vocals, an exhilarating physical retelling of the Fates from Greek Mythology in The Spinners, and The Australian Ballet’s opulent reawakening of The Sleeping Beauty. Two distinct Australian landscapes and cities are home to Aboriginal performers/ choreographers Henrietta Baird and Ngioka Bunda-Heath, who contemplate the complexities of a transplanted life in Spirit Festival’s Divercity. The program for innovative and experimental works of the future, Adelaide Festival Centre’s inSPACE, presents the next wave of South Australian talent with new works from artists including Tim Overton, Ellen Steele, Finegan Kruckemeyer, Daisy Brown, Tobiah Booth-Remmers and Daniel Evans. Adelaide Festival Centre is home to community groups from diverse backgrounds, and will host a colourful variety of events and performances in World Of Cultures, including the return of Amazing India featuring dancers from Kalalaya School Of Indian Performing Arts and the launch of In Our Own Voices, a powerful new book about Middle-Eastern settlement in SA in a joyous concert of music, songs, dance, poetry and stories. A new year of curated exhibitions will feature new works by international and home-grown digital media artists, exhibited through the year on multimedia screens in the renewed Festival Theatre foyer and Northern Promenade. The exhibition Telling Our Story will focus on Adelaide Festival Centre from its beginnings to today, with Kaurna people past and present and the Adelaide Festival Centre’s architects, founders and designers.
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