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A two-storey structure, with separate rooms. There is a conductor at the front.
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Opera review: Innocence, Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival

A complex and multilayered production about collective guilt and trauma that deployed different languages and singing styles.

Rocío Molina, a dancing wearing a big ruffly pale blue dress. She is lying on the grown with her legs in the air that are covered by the flounces of the dress.
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Dance review: Caída del Cielo (Fallen from Heaven), Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide Festival

Flamenco dance and theatre about the agony and ecstasy of womanhood.

A young man and an older man are staring at blank canvas. Shellshocked.
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Theatre review: Shellshocked, Holden Street Theatres, Adelaide Fringe Festival

The psychological ravages of war laid bare in unexpected ways. 

Women of the Soweto Choir in colourful clothing.
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Performance reviews: Hope and Gluttony, Adelaide Fringe Festival

A choir full of hope and other assorted goodies in this year's Adelaide Fringe.

Irish actor Stephen Rea in Samuel Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape' at Adelaide Festival 2025. The photograph depicts Rea, an older fair-skinned man with an unruly shock of greying hair, hunched over an old reel-to-reel tape deck to which he listens anxiously.
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Theatre review: Krapp’s Last Tape with Stephen Rea, Adelaide Festival 2025

A masterful actor performs Beckett’s masterpiece about the inevitable march of time: an unmissable production.

Sebastian Geilings in Australian Dance Theatre's 'A Quiet Language', Adelaide Festival 2025.
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Dance review: A Quiet Language, Australian Dance Theatre, Adelaide Festival 2025

A complex, compelling production, by turns anguished and joyous, angry and elegiac, honouring six decades of radical dance history.

A young person wearing shorts and short sleeved shirt wearing a face mask is on stage spray painting a green eye on a corrugated iron fence.
Opinions & Analysis

When the 'War of the Worlds' lands in three places at once...

The logistics of staging one festival production in three different locations concurrently is challenging enough. But what happens when you…

Exhibitions

Samstag Museum of Art

Direct, Directed, Directly

Frank. Playful. Philosophical. Through performance, moving image, installation and sound, Australian and international artists explore the limits of language.

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Theatre review: The Christian Brothers, Holden Street Theatres, Adelaide Fringe Festival

A well-executed and chilling account of Catholic education in days gone by.

A man in a cap and a vest over a white shirt. There is mist around him.
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Theatre review: Criminal Outsider, various venues, Adelaide Fringe

Never underestimate the power of a woman.

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