Tag Adelaide Fringe 2025
Orpheus
Wright and Grainger never fail to impress with their productions. Orpheus takes the story of Orpheus, turns him into David (well, it is set in modern times after all) and re-tells the story in all its glorious poignancy. This, like…
The Christian Brothers
The Christian Brothers by Ron Blair uses a day in the classroom of one of the Brothers to make comment on the method of education in the 1950s. It’s a bravura piece for a solo actor and needs impeccable timing…
Animal Farm
Adelaide hasn’t seen this production of Animal Farm since Guy Masterson did it about 12 or 13 years ago. We heard that Guy had decided not to carry on with this extremely athletic show, but was handing over to Sam…
Help! I think I’m a Nationalist – Seamas Carey
Presented as a sincere and humorous exploration of Cornish nationalism and finding (and sometimes crossing) the line between local pride and xenophobia, this show transcends its local origins and resonates widely. Using Cornwall and his Cornishness as a blueprint, Seamas…
Helios
We sit in a circle around the centre of the Yurt, which is lit with golden-yellow lamps. It might be firelight or dawn sunlight and listening to Alexander Wright retelling the story of Helios and his sons Phaeton and Atlas;…
Sam Blythe – Method in my Madness (Hamlet)
Was Hamlet mad? Discuss. Prepare to move between several realities. Sam Blythe – a patient in a mental hospital, his treasured possessions in an old, battered trunk. The most precious: a notebook about Hamlet (with a Welsh flag on the…
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