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Theatre reviews of some of the things I see (often published elsewhere) https://www.disruptingstages.com/

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Skank Sinatra: The Name on Everybody’s Lips - Adelaide Fringe 2026 Skank Sinatra: The Name on Everybody’s LipsPresented by Jens Rada and Theatre TravelsThe Lark, Adelaide FringeSome performers sing cabaret; Jens Rada’s Skank Sinatra devours it whole.Directed by Carly...

In Skank Sinatra, Jens Rada has created one of the most compelling cabaret personas currently emerging on Australian stages.

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12.03.2026 02:18 👍 34 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
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In Adelaide??? Please come see us....
The river knows. The town forgets. Two girls decide.
EDEN — Adelaide Fringe,
Courtyard of Curiosities, 17–23 March 🌿
Siren Theatre Co / Kate Gaul / Karrine Kanaan & Lara Lightfoot
adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/eden

11.03.2026 00:06 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Look at the State of the Carpet - Old Fitz Look at the State of the Carpet – Old Fitz TheatreCreated by Stephanie Hart and Lenny Ann LowPeeling back the onion on life with grit, wonder and perhaps a cup of tea, Look At The State Of The Carpet,...

The anarchic spirit of devised performance - messy, unpredictable and gloriously human -still has teeth. GO SEE THIS!!

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11.03.2026 00:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Brand New Dress - Mardi Gras 2026 Brand New DressThe Loading DockAt Qtopia Sydney, Andy Freeborn’s “Brand New Dress” arrives as both confessional and quest narrative: a cabaret tracing their non-binary journey through a fantasy landsc...

Epic, intimate and vocally astonishing, Andy Freeborn’s "Brand New Dress" turns queer self-discovery into high musical myth. A major talent in the making.

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23.02.2026 10:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Performers - Mardi Gras 2026 The PerformersThe Loading Dock In the small black box that is The Loading Dock Theatre, cabaret duo Dolly Diamond and Skank Sinatra arrive like seasoned vaudevillians who have seen every backstage cor...

"The Performers" This time around, Dolly and Skank understand that the audience is not there for perfection; they are there for presence. And presence they deliver in abundance.

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22.02.2026 19:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Es & Flo - Old Fitz Theatre Es & FlowThe Old Fitz TheatreAt this year’s Mardi Gras season, the Old Fitz Theatre continues its welcome habit of programming intimate queer storytelling. Jennifer Lunn’s Es & Flo sits squarely in th...

The play’s central idea - that memory is both sanctuary and distortion - feels particularly resonant in queer history, where personal testimony often substitutes for institutional record.

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16.02.2026 21:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Possession - Mardi Gras 2026 PossessionThe Substation Another astute and gorgeously calibrated piece of programming from The Substation, Possession arrives like a flare in the dark: an operatic salon that is intimate in scale yet...

Ruth Strutt commands the space with fearless precision - vocally sumptuous, dramatically exacting, and utterly magnetic from first stillness to final blaze.

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14.02.2026 07:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Selene - Mardi Gras 2026 SeleneThe SubstationFrom the internationally award-winning team behind ORPHEUS and sibling to the acclaimed HELIOS, comes SELENE - unmistakably a work from the fertile imagination of Wright & Grainger...

Megan Drury makes the cosmic feel intimate and the intimate feel epic. 🌕✨SELENE is luminous, fierce and utterly magnetic. A myth reborn for our bodies and our time.

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14.02.2026 07:05 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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They Will Be Kings - Mardi Gras 2026 They Will Be KingsThe Loading Dock Werewolf’s remount of They Will Be Kings at The Loading Dock arrives not as a simple reprise of its 2025 premiere, but as a work that has deepened, tightened and fou...

“They Will Be Kings" is a fierce, funny and deeply felt celebration of drag kings - claiming masculinity, lineage and power on defiantly queer terms. GO SEE IT!!!

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12.02.2026 23:35 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Perfect Arrangement - New Theatre Perfect ArrangementThe New Theatre “Perfect Arrangement”, written by Topher Payne in 2014 and set in 1950s America, is a play that looks backwards in order to ask contemporary questions. This producti...

Patrick Kennedy approaches this quieter, more mannered play with care, allowing its tensions to accumulate rather than explode. "Perfect Arrangement" NEW THEATRE

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09.02.2026 20:48 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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⚡LUMO FLASH SALE IS ON AT ADELAIDE FRINGE⚡
$5 off tickets to hundreds of incredible shows, brought to you by our friends at Lumo Energy who cover the difference so artists get their fair share while you save!

Grab yours before they’re gone!

BOOK NOW - adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/ed...

28.01.2026 19:25 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Turandot - Sydney Opera House TurandotSydney Opera House Opera Australia’s new production of Turandot arrives with the kind of visual ambition and vocal firepower audiences hope for from Puccini’s final, extravagant opera - and, w...

A thrilling "Turandot" lifted by director Ann Yee’s fresh choreographic vision and a gold-plated Calaf from Young Woo Kim — opera that dares to soar.

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28.01.2026 18:56 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Lacrima - Sydney Festival LacrimaRos Packer Theatre Lacrima arrives at Sydney Festival as a true festival work of scale: expansive, technically complex, politically alert, and emotionally devastating. It is theatre that unders...

Behind the beauty of ceremony is pressure, exhaustion and damage. "Lacrima" is bold, sophisticated theatre that refuses to look away from the human cost of spectacle.

Sydney Festival

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22.01.2026 22:11 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Dean, Don't Dance - Old Fitz Theatre Dean, Don’t DanceOld Fitz Theatre At Old Fitz Theatre, Dean, Don’t Dance! presents itself as a hybrid of solo musical, autobiographical monologue, and access-led performance experiment. Written and pe...

"Dean, Don’t Dance!" insists on being seen not as exception or inspiration, but as part of the ecology of contemporary performance

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20.01.2026 20:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Split Ends - Qtopia Sydney Split EndsThe Loading Dock Split Ends is a confessional monologue inspired by the performer’s own journey through OCD, coercive control, and the abuse of power. Split Ends arrives in Sydney with an im...

"Split Ends" asks important questions about control and attachment, but says them too often. A compelling strand that could benefit from a cleaner cut.

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20.01.2026 20:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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WAKE - Sydney Festival WAKECarriageworks“WAKE” arrived at the Sydney Festival with a thumping soundtrack, international credentials, and an appealing premise: a contemporary reimagining of the Irish wake as a communal ritua...

In a festival context that champions ambitious international work, WAKE is undercooked as theatre. A powerful communal ritual instead registers as an enthusiastic but unfocused showcase. Celebration alone is not enough; even joy benefits from structure.
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18.01.2026 22:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Big Mouth Strikes Again - Sydney Festival Big Mouth Strikes Again (The Smiths Show)Wharf 1 “Big Mouth” is not so much a Sydney theatre show as it is a temporary relocation. For ninety breathless minutes, Salty Brine whisks the audience somewh...

Big Mouth: Salty Brine’s Glorious, Genre-Shattering Sydney Takeover weaving Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, personal confession and reimagined Smiths songs into a commanding, wildly original piece of music theatre.

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14.01.2026 21:00 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Rothar - Sydney Opera House RotharSydney Opera House Child’s play in the very best sense, “Rothar” is an imaginative bicycle adventure from Ireland that proves wonder can be built from simplicity, ingenuity, and trust in young a...

“Rothar” is a celebration of imagination, collaboration, and the sheer pleasure of play. Come on a bicycle ride through the imagination - and rediscover how thrilling it can be to see the world anew.

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14.01.2026 04:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Post-Orientalist Express - Sydney Festival Post-Orientalist ExpressRos Packer TheatreWatching “Post-Orientalist Express”, I kept returning to the question of why this work was chosen to open the festival. It is a bold decision. Not because the...

“Post-Orientalist Express” Rather than easing audiences into Sydney Festival's terrain for 2026, it announces itself through excess, density and refusal, asking spectators to submit to its terms from the outset.

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11.01.2026 06:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Duck Pond - Sydney Opera House Duck PondSydney Opera House Circa’s “Duck Pond”, currently playing at the Sydney Opera House, is a playful and occasionally uneven reimagining of familiar stories, brought to life by a young ensemble ...

Circa's "Duck Pond" - beneath the feathers, fairy tales and formal beauty lies the raw, communal thrill that circus does better than almost any other artform.....

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11.01.2026 06:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Eden 'Eden' is a coming-of-age story about identity, transformation, and the quiet violence of becoming. One summer, Kit and Dan’s lives balance between past and possibility—where desire, guilt, and the ac...

A friendship on the edge of change.
EDEN awaits.
🎟️ BOOK NOW → adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/ed...

07.01.2026 23:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My Cousin Frank is a knockout. Rhoda Roberts AO delivers a searing, uplifting tribute to Australia’s first Aboriginal Olympian. A 75-minute masterclass in truth-telling, grace and fire.
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11.12.2025 04:39 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Love this work - NOT TO BE MISSED!!!

27.11.2025 18:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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26.11.2025 20:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"Cowbois" at the Seymour Centre is already setting hearts (and yes, the underpants) on fire.
Every ticket is $40. Bring your pals, your nanna, your favourite troublemaker.

25.11.2025 22:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Atlantis - KXT First performed at KXT in 2016, Paul Gilchrist’s Atlantis resurfaces with its philosophical pulse intact, reminding us that theatre can be both a thinking space and a playground. Billed as a micro-nua...

Paul Gilchrist's "Atlantis" doesn’t give us answers so much as a gentle provocation: maybe the truth isn’t a fixed point at all, but a lens we’re free to adjust. The play lingers with a soft afterglow, urging us to choose our stories with care and courage.

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11.11.2025 09:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Edit - 25A Belvoir The Edit25A BelvoirWatching The Edit brought to mind Lauren Berlant’s notion of “cruel optimism” — the idea that something you desire can become the very thing that prevents your flourishing. It’s an ...

"The Edit" stands out for its polish, intelligence, & provocation. It dissects the ethics of entertainment with empathy and rigour — reminding us that while viewers can choose what to watch, the participants inside the frame often have far less control.
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14.10.2025 23:59 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Everything I Know About This Water Bottle - Old Fitz Everything I Know About This Water BottleOld FitzChildren born in Australia today inherit a world of extraordinary access—electricity, healthcare, and the internet. Yet they also inherit species extin...

Clever, playful and quietly provocative, "Everything I Know About This Water Bottle" finds poetry in the debris of human progress.

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09.10.2025 23:01 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Cowbois | 2025 Seymour Season Experience a rollicking queer Western like nothing you've seen before with Cowbois by Charlie Josephine. Book now.

COWBOIS - by Charlie Josephine is a western with everything you’d expect, but our lone cowboy is a gender outlaw who fights the patriarchy and inspires a queer revolution. Tickets $40 - www.seymourcentre.com/event/cowbois/

27.09.2025 03:17 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0