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Cabaret Festival
Not so much a night at the theatre as a fabulous party with your funniest friends, A Slightly Isolated Dog’s hilarious take on the lascivious antics of Don Juan is the most fun you’ll ever have in a room full of strangers.
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Adelaide Festival
An ear-splitting explosion. A shuddering light. A plunge into darkness. From the outset, Wudjang: Not the Past grabs us by our neatly-pressed collars and hurls us into the dark chasm of Australia’s colonial legacy.
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The Pina Bausch Foundation, École des Sables and Sadler’s Wells do the impossible, transcending phenomenally high expectations to bring together old and new in two deeply immersive works of gut-wrenching beauty and genius.
Slingsby’s charming, handcrafted production uses personal stories from the lives of the performers to highlight the connection between humans and trees. ★★★½
Imagine gasp-inducing acrobatics combined with contemporary dance combined with the warm, fuzzy feeling of a hug. There you have I Want to Touch You, the returning Fringe show from Adelaide-based circus giants Gravity & Other Myths. ★★★★
The Australian Ballet, in collaboration with Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet, combines old-world charm with state-of-the-art technology in a truly exceptional production of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.
Tony-Award-winning performer and 2021 Adelaide Cabaret Festival artistic director Alan Cumming ended the festival on a high note with his own personal celebration of life and all its glitter.
