review How's Your Acting Going? The conceit of How's Your Acting Going? is a simple one that I’m sure many in the creative fields can relate to – every Tom, Dick and Harry feels the need to ask
Stephanie Osztreicher Tangled Adulthood There have been many Fringe shows which focus on the theme of 'adulting'. Namely, on what it is to be stuck between study and a promising career, or renting and owning a house,
Tandanya Ass Kombat As theatre, Ass Kombat has high aspirations. It opens by first locating itself within the many-millennia-old tradition of art, before pivoting to ponder on the influence of art on society, particularly with respect
Holden Street Theatres Henry V (Man and Monarch) Remixing Shakespeare isn't anything new, but few productions have done it so boldly as Parrabbola's one-man show of Henry V at Holden Street Theatres, performed by RADA graduate Brett Brown and directed by
Maria Humphreys The Barista Chronicles Come and spend half an hour listening to the rants of an unashamed drug dealer/barista, although it’s basically the same thing. Someone who serves coffee, after all, is one who has
theatre Nuclear Family Decisions can be tough to make. Even choices as arbitrary as what to put on in the morning or what to have for lunch can leave us fretful and dithering. Nuclear Family forces
ADLFringe17 After Dinner The longing for a genuine human connection and the fear exposing yourself to ridicule, embarrassment and rejection, is as relevant now as it was when After Dinner was first performed in 1988. This
Patrick Hercamp Sound & Fury's "Sherlock Holmes" In Fringes past, Sound & Fury have developed a reputation for their whacky parodies, from Hamlet and Juliet to Lord of the Thrones, and this time they’re here to wreak havoc upon
circus Elixir There’s been a zombie breakout in Rymill Park and three muscly studs – sorry, "scientists" – are responsible. The aim of our burly professors was to create an elixir of life, and
circus Fauna To step into Fauna is to step through the looking glass, into an animalistic kingdom that is a strange and sometimes unsettling reflection of the world you came from. Fauna is a captivating
Adina Apartment Hotel Nikola and his Traveling Lux Concordia In the crumbling recesses of the Treasury Tunnel beneath Adelaide, Nikola and his traveling Lux Concordia have materialised on a mission to remind us of our future. After a year spent reading up
ADLFringe17 Blank Tiles Writer and performer Dylan Cole's Blank Tiles is a simultaneously hilarious and moving piece about having everything and then losing it all. His character, Austin Michaels, struggles through his degenerative Alzheimer's to recount
theatre Night Creature No story is sacred. We deform narratives to our own expectations and experiences merely by the act of reading, viewing or listening. Actively adapting a text is perhaps the extension of that automatic
theatre My Name is Saoirse If I may be so bold, I'd like to suggest you do yourself two favours. Number one, buy a ticket to this show. And two, don't read a thing about it. Don't find
ADLFringe17 Paradise Lost Yet from those flames, no light, but rather darkness visible. This short excerpt from the first book of John Milton's Paradise Lost, describing Satan's hellish countenance, is also an apt descriptor for the
ADLFringe17 Half Hour Hamlet Most comedians hate to die on stage. Patrick Hercamp does it about 8 times a show. Shakespeare’s Hamlet traditionally lasts at least three hours, but in the Producers Garden, Hercamp bastardises it
Holden Street Theatres Angel by Henry Naylor The third in Henry Naylor’s Arabian Nightmares trilogy, Angel contributes to the contemporary legend of Rehana, the Angel of Kobane. After losing her home to ISIS in July 2014, law-student Rehana joined
Ryan Good Mustardseed Mustardseed is a bedtime story for adults, in which Ryan Good (Neo-Futurists alumni and star of Cosmonaut) invites a small audience into the intimate loft of the busy Tuxedo Cat. There, they make
theatre Deluge We all know that information overload is our new reality, and we’ve seen its effects on our ability to focus, to be present, and to gain a deeper-than-the-headline understanding of an idea
ADLFringe16 Down Down Lucifer The tale of Lucifer’s fall has had a long history of retelling. The most recent reiteration of this archetypal story, Down Down Lucifer, is a tour de force, which is all the
ADLFringe16 Another Elusive Maybe Last night I took part in the most beautiful and unique experience. Another Elusive Maybe, by Alysha Herrmann and Ryan Morrison. An experimental theatre piece that is basically modern life, amplified. Nine people
Tuxedo Cat Poet Vs Pageant Last time Telia Nevile was here for Fringe she performed a show which was a series of short sketches, in the framing narrative of a pirate radio show, in which she leaned into
dance #Nofilter #Nofilter is an elaborate mixed media production, set in Stepney café My Friend Louis. This production blends theatre, dance, photography, film and live music to create an evocative piece of experimental theatre. #Nofilter
ADLFringe16 Unplotted Potter Unplotted Potter is a fast-paced improv comedy about minor Harry Potter characters performed by Scriptease. On the night, Tandanya Theatre was packed to its capacity of 160 people, and the line of enthusiastic
ADLFringe16 HART A man stands alone beside a chair, inside a ring of white powder. Excerpts from political speeches, radio shock jocks and journalists are played, juxtaposing Rudd's "Sorry" speech with the racist