HBG Endorsed Events
Shows are endorsed as they are by people with disabilities, about disabilities or showcase best practice in making the arts accessible to people with disabilities.
Discover the biggest Adelaide Fringe ever
HBG ENDORSED COMEDY
Index of events:
Best Of Adelaide Comedy
Going Ape at the Zoo
E_Move,
ASPIE LIVE! Double Bill
When
the Rain Stops Falling
Ainadamar (Fountain of Tears)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
G
Spectrum Art Exhibition
Water and Flowers Imply…
That’s Not Garbage – Training & Development Workshops
Handle with Care - 2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
South Australia
Local? Yeah we’re Local! SA has some of the funniest comics in Australia! Four of our Best Comedians each night Rocking the Rhino Stage. Check out Rob Hunter, The D, Lewis Gentry, Jason Chong, Fabien Clark, Ben Darsow, Trav Nash and Mujahid. Plus Special Guest Legend Spots each night! Restricted to 18+
| Thurs 21- 23 Feb, 6pm Tues - Sat 26 Feb - 15 Mar, 6pm |
Adult $19, Conc $16, Fringe Benefits $15 | VENUE: Rhino Room Upstairs, 13 Frome St, Adelaide NO WHEELCHAIR ACCESS |
| Book at FringeTIX or call 1300 374 643 | ||
| www.adelaidecomedy.com | ||
South Australia
Four consecutive evenings of stand up comedy at the Adelaide Zoo. Stroll around the Zoo (gates open at 7:30pm) before entertainment kicks off at 8:30pm. Five different comedians each night will entertain for over two hours of non-stop laughs
| Thus 28 Feb – Sat 2 Mar, 8.30pm | Adult $30, Conc $25, Bank SA Customers $25 | VENUE: Adelaide Zoo, Frome Rd, Adelaide  |
| Book at FringeTIX or call 1300 374 643 | ||
HBG ENDORSED THEATRE
South Australia
E_Move,
ASPIE LIVE! Double Bill
An exciting Double Bill by Adelaide’s only Autistic Theatre Company. E_Move explores autistic emotion through movement and dance. ASPIE LIVE! a Rove-esque talk-show exploring the perspectives of those living with Asperger syndrome. A side-splitting deconstruction of popular culture through ASPIE eyes. Only 4 shows - don’t miss out!! PG
| Wed 5 – Fri 7 Mar, 7pm | Adult $18, Conc $14, Group +6 $10 | VENUE: Theatre 1, The Parks Community
Centre, Cowan St, Angle Park |
| Book at FringeTIX or call 1300 374 643 | ||
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HBG ENDORSED THEATRE
World
Premiere:
When
the Rain Stops Falling
by Andrew Bovell
A collaboration with Hossein Valamanesh and Brink Productions
Set against the wonder of the Australian landscape and a dramatically changing climate, When The Rain Stops Falling weaves together four generations of interconnected stories, revealing the patterns of betrayal and abandonment within a family over eighty years, from 1959 to 2039.
Brink Productions joins forces with State Theatre Company of South Australia and Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts, to present an epic and powerful piece of storytelling from one of Australia’s greatest writers and one of its most acclaimed visual artists. It tells a new Australian story about the legacy we inherit from our parents… and the legacy we leave behind for our children.
Writer Andrew Bovell
Director Chris Drummond
Designer Hossein Valamanesh
Composer Quentin Grant
Lighting Designer Niklas Pajanti
Video Design TheimaGen
Producer Kay Jamieson
Cast Paul Blackwell, Michaela Cantwell, Carmel Johnson, Kris
McQuade, Yalin Ozucelik, Anna Lise Phillips, Neil Pigot and Quentin Grant
(musician)
Presented by Brink Productions, State Theatre Company of South Australia and Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts. Supported by Maureen Ritchie and the Pratt Foundation.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts’ New Australian Stories Initiative and Arts SA Major Commissions.
Photo: Jacqui Way/STCSA
| Impaired 4 March, 6.30pm Hearing Impaired 5 March, 1.30pm Previews - 23, 25-27 February 7:30pm Season - 28–29 February, 1, 6–8, 13–15 March, 7.30pm Sunsets 3–5, 10–12 March Matinees 1, 5, 8, 15 March Post Show Discussion 3 March, 6.30pm |
Matinees / Sunsets - Adult $55 Preview / Matinee / Sunset - Friends $50 Preview / Matinee / Sunset - Conc $50 Season - Adult $60 Season - Friends $55 Season - Conc $55 Midweek Matinee - Adult $45 Midweek Matinee - Friends $40 Fringe Benefits to all shows (limited tix available) $25 |
VENUE: Scott Theatre, Kintore Avenue, Adelaide  |
| Book at the Adelaide Festival | ||
An Opera in Three Images
The Spanish Civil War, 1936: one of the 2,137 civilians in Granada murdered by the Fascists was Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain’s revered poet, musician and playwright who dared to speak of freedom.
Ironically, the spot where he was killed was an ancient well named Ainadamar, the ‘Fountain of Tears’. Lorca’s life inspired many artists, among them the brilliant Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov, who created this critically acclaimed opera in his honour.
In this stirring new staging, directed by the legendary Graeme Murphy, and featuring an international cast including Jessica Rivera and Kelley O’Connor. Golijov’s mesmerising score is saturated with Spanish music tantalisingly mingled with the rival Christian, Jewish and Muslim influences of Iberia. Ainadamar relates the story through Margarita Xirgu, the actress who collaborated with Lorca and tried to persuade him to escape with her to Latin America just before his fatal arrest. At the end of her life, she is about to take the stage to perform one of his plays, and finds herself haunted by his memory.
Presented by Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts in association with State Opera of South Australia.
Sung in Spanish with surtitles.
| 29 Feb, 2 & 4 Mar, 7pm | Premium Res $179, Premium Res
- Friends $152, A Res $159, A Res - Friends $135, B Res $129, B Res - Friends $110, B Res - Conc $95, C Res $99, C Res - Friends $85 , C Res - Conc $65 |
VENUE: Scott Theatre, Kintore
Avenue, Adelaide |
| Book at the Adelaide Festival | ||
Australian Premiere
Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin, Germany
The 2006 Festival saw the Australian debut of Germany’s astonishing Schaubühne – one of the world’s great contemporary theatre companies –with Nora, the visceral deconstruction of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.
The company now returns to Australia with director Thomas Ostermeier’s companion production: the great American classic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Like Nora, this Tennessee Williams masterpiece features one of theatre’s most compelling dysfunctional couples, Maggie ‘The Cat’ and Brick.
This searing Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is set in a sleek, modernist cage of mendacity woven around money, family, greed, sex and mortality. Truth eludes the grasp of all except, perhaps, the ever-watchful buzzard in the physical cage hovering above – a startling image and metaphor for our times.
With extraordinary performances and the bold stage aesthetic and imaginative conception for which the Schaubühne is renowned, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof enables Adelaide to more deeply explore its relationship with one of the most lauded theatre ensembles in the Festival’s history.
Performed in German with English surtitles. Presented by Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts in association with the Adelaide Festival Centre.
| 11, 12, 14 Mar, 8pm; 15 Mar, 2pm & 8.30pm; 16 Mar, 5pm |
A Res $99, A Res - Friends $84, B Res $79, B Res - Friends $67, B Res - Conc $59, Fringe Benefits $25 |
VENUE: Her Majesty's Theatre, 58 Grote St, Adelaide |
| Book at the Adelaide Festival | ||
A Dash Arts Production
Presented at Royal Shakespeare Company’s “The Complete Works Festival”
UK/India
by William Shakespeare, directed by Tim Supple
A theatrical event like no other, Tim Supple’s acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is an incredible spectacle combining the skills of actors, dancers, musicians, martial arts experts and street acrobats from across India and Sri Lanka.
Two years in the making, this visually ravishing production, using live music and song, is a playful and sensuous re-imagining of Shakespeare’s best loved comedy.
It caused a sensation in India and a sell-out season at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon followed. Now audiences in Adelaide can experience this breathtaking production performed in English as well as Tamil, Malayalam, Sinhalese, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi and Sanskrit, drawing on theatre traditions both ancient and modern.
A magical, unforgettable “must see”.
Presented with the support of the British Council. Originally commissioned and presented by the British Council
Presented in association with Arts Projects Australia by arrangement with Roger Chapman, Matthew Byam and Act Productions.
| 29 Feb, 1, 7, 8 Mar, 8pm; 1, 8 Mar, 2pm; 2 Mar, 5pm; 4 Mar, 6:30pm (incl pre-performance talk); 5-6 Mar, 7:30pm |
A Res $99, A Res - Friends $84, B Res $79, B Res - Friends $67, B Res - Conc $59, Fringe Benefits $25 |
VENUE: Her Majesty's Theatre, 58 Grote St, Adelaide |
| Book at the Adelaide Festival | ||
World Premiere
In the seven years since ADT’s Artistic Director Garry Stewart premiered his celebrated deconstruction of Swan Lake – Birdbrain – he has become one of Australia’s most highly regarded contemporary choreographers.
For the 2008 Festival Futures program, Stewart presents G, a non-linear re-composition of Giselle.
Dislocating and transcending Giselle’s romantic narrative, G converts the dancers from characters into visceral explorations of hysteria, sex, death, loss and metamorphosis.
Fusing the technical prowess and technique of classical ballet with his explosive and enthralling choreography for G, Garry Stewart has further extended the intensely physical dance for which he and ADT have become internationally renowned and revered.
G has been co-commissioned by The Joyce Theater’s Stephen and Cathy Weinroth Fund for New Work (New York), Southbank Centre (London) and Merrigong Theatre Co. at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre (Wollongong)
This performance may contain nudity.
| 1 & 2, 5–9, 12–16 Mar, 6pm | Adult $27, Friends $22, Conc $22 | VENUE: ADT Studios, 126 Belair Rd, Hawthorn |
| Book at the Adelaide Festival | ||
HBG ENDORSED VISUAL ARTS
South Australia
The 'Spectrum Art Exhibition' is an opportunity for the general public to view art created by a group of young artists from Autism SA. The Opening Night and Exhibition completes a series of artist workshops that have looked into the aspects that are considered in order to organise an exhibition.
| 22 Feb - 14 Mar | HOURS: Mon – Fri 10-4pm + Fri 22 Feb 6.30-9pm + Sun 24 Feb 10am-4pm |
VENUE: Carclew Ballroom, Jeffcott St, North Adelaide |
South Australia
Presented by Boris Dontscheff
Exotic flowers, particularly lilies, as signifiers of purity represented in contexts hinting at water use: issues of sustainability are evoked by representations of flowers (exotic and indigenous). Alternating layers of acrylic and pastel explore formative forces of light and colour to evoke layers of meaning.
| 14 Feb - 15 Mar | HOURS: Mon – Fri 8.30am – 5pm + Thurs 14 Feb 6 – 7.30pm |
VENUE: Lucia’s Spaghetti And Pizza Bar, Adelaide Central Market, Shop 1 & 2 Western Mall (Enter Off Gouger Street) |
South Australia
That's Not Garbage – Training & Development Workshops
Presented by Enviro-mental Pty Ltd
Hands on workshops for Teachers and community educators who want to work creatively, save money and the environment by using recycled materials. Presented by well known creative communicator Kristen Messenger and supported by visual/performance artist Neil Clegg. Check the Fringe website for curriculum linked themes. Materials included in price. All workshops: $50, G$45
| 23 Feb - 15 Mar | HOURS: Sat 23 Feb, 2pm, Mon 25 Feb 1pm, Tue 26 Feb 9.30am, Wed 27 Feb 1pm, Thu 28 Feb 9.30am, Fri 29 Feb 1pm, Sat 8 Mar 2pm, Mon 10 Mar 9.30am, Tue 11 Mar 1pm, Wed 12 Mar 9.30am, Thu 13 Mar 9.30am, Fri 14 Mar 1pm, Sat 15 Mar 2pm |
VENUE: 24 Charles Rd, Beverley |
HBG ENDORSED VISUAL ARTS
South Australia
Handle with Care - 2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
Dadang Christanto
Never Ending Stories, 2008
acrylic paint on used cardboard
150 x 500 x 500 cm
courtesy the artist
2008 is the tenth edition of this major survey of current art practice, featuring recent work by artists from around Australia.
In Handle with Care the 2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art considers aspects of contemporary life that generate disquiet and debate. An undercurrent of anxiety in today’s society is explored in sculpture, photography, video, painting and installations by well-known Australian-born and immigrant artists, and by emerging artists whose work engages in a range of sociopolitical issues.
A sub-theme of the exhibition is the experience of transiting between cultures, of crossing racial, national as well as psychological borders. Collectively, works in the exhibition describe – both in thematic content and material form – the fragile nature of our relationships with the cultural and natural environments in which we live.
Artists exhibiting in Handle with Care include Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Dadang Christanto, Lorraine Connelly-Northey, James Darling and Lesley Forwood, Dennis Del Favero, Janet Laurence, Anthony Mannix, Tom Múller, Dorothy Napangardi, James Newitt, Bronwyn Oliver, Gregory Pryor, Kate Rohde, Sandra Selig, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Hossein Valamanesh, Suzann Victor, Guan Wei, Catherine Woo, Ken Yonetani and a collection of young Australian filmmakers.
Additionally, elements of Handle with Care will explore the work of artists using light as their medium, to complement the Festival’s Speed of Light exhibitions.
For the first time, none of the artists featured have previously shown in the Adelaide Biennial.
Curator Felicity Fenner
This project has been assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Presented by Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts and Art Gallery of South Australia
| 29 Feb - 4 May 15 Mar 2pm, (Auslan interpreted tour) |
HOURS: daily 10am–5pm + 29 Feb, 7-9pm |
VENUE: Art Gallery of SA, North Terrace, Adelaide |
| Book at the Adelaide Festival | ||
