Adelaide festival
Adelaide Writers’ Week: rare moments of empathy and nuance found amid a storm of controversy
After a contentious lead-up, this year’s literary festival was packed with audiences ready to speak their minds, but also willing to listen
Sian Cain
11, Mar, 2023 @7:00 PM
A Little Life review – four hours of brutality and misery, but what for?
Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide festival
Ivo van Hove’s adaptation of the popular and controversial novel, about one man’s traumatic past and his refusal to be helped, is an endurance test
Ivo van Hove’s adaptation of the popular and controversial novel, about one man’s traumatic past and his refusal to be helped, is an endurance test
Sian Cain
05, Mar, 2023 @2:00 PM
Unchanged melody: the all-boys choir that survived 700 years of conflict
The Escolania de Montserrat rarely leaves its Catalan mountain monastery, where it performs 365 days a year – but now it is in Australia
Kelly Burke
02, Mar, 2023 @2:00 PM
‘An extraordinary act of courage’: the Aboriginal activist who protested against Nazi Germany
A new song cycle from Lior, Nigel Westlake and Dr Lou Bennett pays tribute to Yorta Yorta elder William Cooper and his 1938 march
Walter Marsh
01, Mar, 2023 @2:00 PM
‘How do you grow up in an anti-ageing world?’: Hansel and Gretel gets a dystopic, hi-tech update
Using bone conduction headphones to sow seeds of mistrust in the audience, Adelaide festival’s Hans & Gret has its creators on their toes
Steve Dow
28, Feb, 2023 @2:00 PM
‘Nobody can go back – we all face jail’: the dissident theatre company opening Adelaide festival
Belarus Free Theatre currently face years in prison if they return home. Now living in exile, they’re bringing their show Dogs of Europe to Australia
Kelly Burke
26, Feb, 2023 @2:00 PM
Adelaide Writers’ Week withdrawals ‘sad’ and ‘unfortunate’, director Louise Adler says
Adler defends ‘courageous spaces to air opposing views’ as major sponsor and three Ukrainian writers pull out over comments from other invited authors
Henry Belot
24, Feb, 2023 @2:00 PM
A Little Life: four-hour adaptation of divisive queer novel heading to Adelaide festival
Ivo van Hove’s play will make its Australian debut in Adelaide in 2023, and be performed in Dutch with subtitles
Kelly Burke
09, Nov, 2022 @4:07 AM
Andy Warhol’s star-studded photographs: ‘You find out much more about him as a person’
A major exhibition of Warhol’s photography will open next year in Australia – a country the artist ‘couldn’t quite comprehend’
Kelly Burke
29, Sep, 2022 @5:30 PM
Adelaide festival to stage Verdi’s Requiem with a cast of hundreds – and a star choreographer
After Covid thwarted two attempts to bring out Christian Spuck’s acclaimed Messa da Requiem, the festival has finally announced it as next year’s centrepiece
Kelly Burke
16, Aug, 2022 @5:30 PM
Roger Chapman obituary
Other lives: Touring director at the National for 16 years who took the very best of British theatre around the globe
Carole Woddis
22, Jun, 2022 @5:19 PM
Womadelaide’s unforgettable moments: ‘They didn’t know what to expect’
From an all-star train ride across the Nullarbor to an unexpected cricket plague, this year’s festival marks 30 years of border-defying music and art
Walter Marsh
12, Mar, 2022 @7:00 PM
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