South Australia has scored 18 nominations in the 2018 Helpmann Awards, with the Adelaide Festival’s sell-out opera Hamlet and Slingsby’s acclaimed children’s show Emil and the Detectives among those shortlisted.
Adelaide Festival’s sold-out headline show Saul scooped up six awards at last night’s Helpmann Awards ceremony, including best opera and best direction of an opera for former festival director Barrie Kosky.
Dancer Kimball Wong and singer Michael Griffiths were among the South Australian winners at last night’s 2016 Helpmann Awards, which were dominated by Tim Minchin’s ‘Matilda the Musical’.
Adelaide-based theatre company Slingsby, recently dealt a blow with the loss of its ongoing federal funding, has scored a Helpmann Award nomination for its acclaimed show ‘The Young King’.