Sophie Shad and Tessie Orange-Turner in Games by Henry Naylor.

Adelaide Fringe

Fringe review: Games by Henry Naylor

It is 1936 Berlin and two female German-Jewish athletes train feverishly for the chance to win gold at the ‘Nazi Olympics’ in Henry Naylor’s powerful new play. ★★★★

Adelaide Fringe

Fringe review: Build a Rocket

Audience members will need to strap themselves in to keep up with Serena Manteghi’s powerhouse performance in this award-winning play about a feisty teenager who finds herself pregnant and alone in a seaside town. ★★★★

Adelaide Fringe

Playwright challenges the rise of the extreme right

Playwright Henry Naylor says his new play Games, showing at this year’s Adelaide Fringe, is a timely reminder of how right-wing populism can go very wrong.

Festivals

Holden Street dishes up a queer theatre feast

A UK play looking at the challenges of dementia through the eyes of a gay couple is one of a series of candid, contemporary productions being presented at Holden Street Theatres during this month’s Feast Festival.

Adelaide Fringe

Fringe review: Borders by Henry Naylor

British playwright Henry Naylor’s new political play Borders shifts between poetry, humour and nail-biting action to smash through our mental borders, writes Alison Flett. ★★★★ ½