Louise Adler says listening to writers talk about their craft is 'at once an intimate and a deeply social experience'.

Festivals

Publishing 'titan' Louise Adler to take over the reins at Writers’ Week

Prominent Australian publishing figure Louise Adler has been appointed as the next director of Adelaide Writers’ Week, taking over from outgoing director Jo Dyer to helm the 2023-25 events.

Adelaide Festival

Adelaide Festival reveals 'feisty and defiant' 2022 line-up

Adelaide Festival has unveiled a 2022 program featuring Australian and international artists in more than 70 events, including a free opening night acrobatics and music ‘extravaganza’ at the Oval, Patricia Piccinini’s soaring Skywhales, a major dance work performed by 38 dancers from 14 African nations, and an oratorio about the 1972 murder of law lecturer George Duncan.

Adelaide Festival

Festival review: A German Life

Robyn Nevin gives a mesmerising performance as a woman looking back on an extraordinary life that saw her working in Joseph Goebbels’ Ministry of Propaganda in Nazi Germany.

Adelaide Festival

Fangirls: A ‘Trojan horse’ tribute to teenage girls

Writer and composer Yve Blake believes pop idols, and the legions of young fans who love them, have been maligned and belittled for too long. With her musical Fangirls, Blake hopes to leave even the most hardened non-Belieber with no choice but to Stan.

Adelaide Festival

The boy who talked to dogs and triumphed over shadows

The story of Martin McKenna’s early life in Ireland goes to some dark places but it is the indomitable spirit of the boy who grew up to become known as the “dreadlocked dog man” that captivated Adelaide theatre-maker Andy Packer.