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Installation view Yield Strength: 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia with Erica Scott’s work. Image: Gina Fairley.
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Yield Strength: Adelaide Biennial review: grunge rupture and eloquent overlays

Yield Strength: Adelaide Biennial is a bold exhibition that challenges the institution, expectation and materiality in our times.

2charm. Photo: Casey Garnsey.
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Star Scum City review: 2charm’s debut album is an electropop ode to summer

Melbourne’s 2charm delivers a sultry, bold and queered vision of summer love.

The Booster Protocol by pvi collective is a Perth Festival commission. Image: Supplied.
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The Booster Protocol review: playing games with pvi collective at Perth Festival

Participants in The Booster Protocol must complete tasks as they move through a guided tour, but is social justice really…

WA Youth Theatre Company's Scenes from the Climate Era, presented at Perth Festival 2026. Image: Supplied.
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Scenes from the Climate Era review: WA Youth Theatre tackles hope and purpose at Perth Festival

Climate change is a difficult topic to bring to the stage, but the young performers in Scenes from the Climate…

The Art of Storm-Whistling. Photo: Curious Roach Collective.
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The Art of Storm-Whistling: a mythical maritime story at Adelaide Fringe

The Art of Storm-Whistling follows a mythical journey across the seas.

James Rowland: Team Viking. A fair-skinned man with straw-blonde hair and a reddish beard stands thigh deep in the waters of the Thames. He is wearing a plastic Viking helmet with ahistorical horns, a black suit, white business shirt and black tie, and carries a burning torch made of rolled-up paper.
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Team Viking review: a hilarious, heartbreaking and healing masterpiece

The remarkable Team Viking was one of the standouts of the Adelaide Fringe opening weekend.

U>N>I>T>E>D Chunky Move, a dark stage with dramatic smoke effects and white lighting showing a female performer with robotic metallic costuming moving across the stage under a scaffolding set piece.
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U>N>I>T>E>D review: Chunky Move's machine-led experiment missing some magic at Perth Festival

Billed as an exploration of machine mysticism, Chunky Moves' latest dance work is not as transcendental as it could be.

From left, Ben Prendergast, Ngaire Dawn Fair, Emily Goddard and John Leary in Kid Stakes, performed by Red Stitch Actors' Theatre as part of The Doll Trilogy. Photo: Chris Parker.
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The Doll Trilogy review: Red Stitch makes a marathon feel like a sprint

My word, she’ll be right… Ray Lawler’s pioneering The Doll Trilogy still makes for a stimulating day (and night) in…

Neurospicy: The Musical at Adelaide Fringe. A fair-skinned young woman dressed in a red chili costume and smiling at the camera.

Adelaide Fringe reviews: Pinky von Sox and the Novel Stand-Up Experience, and Neurospicy: The Musical

A Fringe first-timer’s engaging exploration of neurodiversity and an improvised storytelling show are among the offerings at this year’s Adelaide…

A Winter's Journey. Image: David Cox.
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Musica Viva’s A Winter’s Journey review: a potent retelling of Schubert’s Winterreise.

In A Winter's Journey, visual art and atmospheric lighting add to a mesmerising musical interpretation.

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