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21/03/2026

Here's how to find the ‘fringe’ of the Fringe so you can game-ify your season.

Last week’s magical artists at ‘RATTLE & REVERIE: A Late Night Yurt Rump’ at The Courtyard of Curiosities for Adelaide F...
21/03/2026

Last week’s magical artists at ‘RATTLE & REVERIE: A Late Night Yurt Rump’ at The Courtyard of Curiosities for Adelaide Fringe! 🌙✨

Rattle & Reverie is a fever dream of cabaret, comedy and drama: a collision of rhythm, revelation and late-night abandon. Beneath the lattice glow, a rogue ensemble conjures laughter, longing and something beautifully unhinged.

A little bit raucous. A little bit tender. A revel for the curious.

Big thank you to all the artists on last week’s line-up:
Natalia Sledz (PUSS PUSS), Ozzy Algar (Speed Queen), Elf Lyons (Woman on the Edge), Jack Brett (bed bug / Feast of Words), Jackson Peele (When There Was Forever), Kirsty Mann (Co**se) and Erin & Tess Fowler (KIN). Hosted by Britt Plummer (Fool’s Paradise) with tech by Roshan Conn. And also the big beautiful generous audience! It was a pretty special evening xx

Go see all their shows!

Don’t miss the final show this Sunday 22nd March at 9.45pm the closing party! Tickets are still available! Check out post for the line-up!

Photos by the incredible Jennifer Forward- Hayter

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THE FINAL RATTLE & REVERIE: A Late-Night Yurt Rump - The Closing Party 🌙✨One last late-night descent into the Yurt…A fev...
19/03/2026

THE FINAL RATTLE & REVERIE: A Late-Night Yurt Rump - The Closing Party 🌙✨

One last late-night descent into the Yurt…

A fever dream of cabaret, comedy and beautifully unhinged brilliance - where Fringe favourites collide in one last, raucous, tender celebration.

The closing night magic.

🏆 Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award Winner – Best of Variety

Hosted by Britt Plummer

With a stacked, surprise-filled lineup of absolute legends.

✨Nick Phillips
✨Vidya Rajan & Mel McGlensey: GREG
✨Sophie Power: CVNT
✨Wright & Grainger
✨Elf Lyons: Woman on the Edge
✨Jack Brett: Bed Bug
✨Charlie Mulliner: Love Hunt
✨Amen: Naughty Cabaret

9:45pm - The Yurt
Sunday 22 March

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So thrilled for Coco who has won an Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award ‘Best of Interactive’ for ‘Coco’s Art History Comedy Ar...
19/03/2026

So thrilled for Coco who has won an Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award ‘Best of Interactive’ for ‘Coco’s Art History Comedy Art Tours of Art Gallery of South Australia’!

First time these tours have taken place in Australia and at .adelaide and they all sold out, we added more and they sold out as well!

Expect sharp storytelling, playful humour, and a cheeky fresh take on the Gallery’s most intriguing treasures.
From timeless works to contemporary creations, Coco blends curious facts, light scandal, and joyful wit in a warm, welcoming, queer-friendly atmosphere. With light adult themes, big smiles, and a sparkling new way of seeing history, this is a tour you won’t want to miss.

Although, you may have missed out on these tours. You can still catch Coco’s comedy show at 8pm in the Yurt .courtyard.of.curiosities

It’s been a joy to produce these tours! .timetart 💖

✨Designing Immersive Worlds Workshop with Casey Jay Andrews of PunchdrunkDesigning Immersive Worlds explores the design ...
14/03/2026

✨Designing Immersive Worlds Workshop with Casey Jay Andrews of Punchdrunk

Designing Immersive Worlds explores the design principles behind narrative-driven environments.

Led by Punchdrunk designer Casey Jay Andrews, this workshop unpacks her creative process behind projects including Punchdrunk’s “Viola’s Room”, Francesca Moody’s Edinburgh Fringe venue “Shedinburgh”, and other large-scale immersive installations.

From working with a source text to designing site-sympathetically across a variety of scales, you will explore how layout, material, and detail construct story through environment. Through case studies and practical exercises, the session challenges traditional approaches to design, while offering artistic insights and methods that can be applied directly to your own work.

This workshop is for creatives at any stage of their career — you don’t need to be a designer. Directors, writers, performers, and other creative practitioners will gain a deeper understanding of how environments shape narrative and audience experience, and explore approaches that can be applied across disciplines to enrich their own creative practice.
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Participants will gain:

- Creative research and development approaches from professional immersive theatre practice, applicable across disciplines

- Practical tools to translate design principles into participants’ own creative projects

- Insight into how environment, layout, material, and design detail shape narrative and audience experience

- Case studies and exercises exploring immersive storytelling principles

- Strategies for working with source material and designing site-sympathetically

Dates/Times:

Friday 20th March 10.00am - 1.00pm
Doors open at 9.45am

Cost: $75.00 (+ Humanitix Booking Fee)
Concession: $50.00 (including Fringe Artists)

Where:
State Library of South Australia
North Terrace, Adelaide SA

Accessibility:
This workshop will be mostly seated, with some discussion based collaborative group work. Visual material will be described for participants with sight differences.

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Image of ‘Viola’s Room’, Punchdrunk

FOOL’S PARADISE – A LITTLE HISTORY 🩷What began as a playful romance between two clowns during the Adelaide Fringe Festiv...
13/03/2026

FOOL’S PARADISE – A LITTLE HISTORY 🩷

What began as a playful romance between two clowns during the Adelaide Fringe Festival — we met outside the Exeter, danced on a Monday night in the Garden with chai lattes in tow — one Swedish, one Australian — became a love story that somehow travelled the world.

Fool’s Paradise was created during the strange suspended time of the pandemic, born from long-distance romance, letters, video calls, and the absurd hope that love could survive closed borders. Two working-class artists navigating finances, visas, bureaucracy, and the intensity of being in close quarters during a global shutdown.

Without giving anything away, what followed was a show made from very simple things: household objects, disco, puppetry, and two ridiculous hearts trying to make sense of the world.

Since then the show has travelled across festivals, won awards, evolved with every season, and been shared with audiences in intimate rooms full of laughter, tenderness, and chaos.

Tomorrow at 5pm marks the second-last Adelaide performance of Fool’s Paradise, with the final ever performance on Saturday 21 March.

A goodbye to this little show that carried so much of my life inside it — so much of my heart. Directed by one of my best friends, Jess Clough-MacRae, and with enormous help from a love past — Paul. Disco ball and wedding dress costume by Chelsea Farquhar. Produced by Richard Jordan Productions in association with Pleasance across multiple seasons, with so many dear friends assisting as puppeteers and technicians along the way. This final season with the brilliant Roshan Conn.

Two last dances in the Yurt. ✨

Use code JAJADINGDONG for a considerable discount if you’re feeling the end-of-festival pinch.

Photos from this season by 👌

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Sunday 15 March 🌙✨This Sunday we’ve got a brand new line-up for RATTLE & REVERIE: A Late-Night Yurt Rump.After dark, the...
13/03/2026

Sunday 15 March 🌙✨

This Sunday we’ve got a brand new line-up for RATTLE & REVERIE: A Late-Night Yurt Rump.

After dark, the Yurt hums with restless hearts.

Rattle & Reverie is a fever dream of cabaret, comedy and drama — a collision of rhythm, revelation and late-night abandon. Beneath the lattice glow, a rogue ensemble conjures laughter, longing and something beautifully unhinged.

A little raucous. A little tender. A revel for the curious.

Featuring a rotating cast of Fringe favourites leading the rumpus into the night.

🏆 Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award Winner – Best of Variety

✨ Natalia Sledz (PUSS PUSS)
✨ Erin Fowler, Tess Fowler & Jessica Bigg (KIN) .fowler.movement
✨ Kirsty Mann (Co**se)
✨ Jackson Peele (When There Was Forever) .peele
✨ Ozzy Algar (Speed Queen)
✨ Jack Brett (bed bug)
✨ Elf Lyons (The Woman on the Edge)

Hosted by Britt Plummer (Fool’s Paradise)
Tech by Roshan Conn

9:45pm — Yurt
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✨Advanced 2 Day Workshop for Experienced Performers with Elf LyonsA sensory laboratory for artists ready to stretch. Thi...
12/03/2026

✨Advanced 2 Day Workshop for Experienced Performers with Elf Lyons

A sensory laboratory for artists ready to stretch. This workshop explores how the senses can radically shift the clown and bouffon’s world. Designed to deepen physical awareness, presence, and complicité. Focus on mime, bouffon and clowning when making multi-disciplinary work. 

Taught by award winning comedian and theatre-maker

Elf Lyons is an award-winning performer - working in the realms of comedy, clowning, bouffon, stand-up, verbatim theatre and live art. With over ten years of experience working as a professional comic, Elf spends her months touring internationally with her solo shows and directing and teaching artists of all creative disciplines around the world. She loves making work that stretches the relationship between comedy, theatre and performance art.

ONE OF THE 50 FUNNIEST COMEDIANS OF THE 21st CENTURY - THE TELEGRAPH
 
WINNER - BEST COMEDY - SKY ARTS AWARDS 2025

WINNER - PICK OF THE WEEK - ADELAIDE FRINGE FESTIVAL - 2025

WINNER - BEST SHOW - (ISH) EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARDS - EDINBURGH FRINGE
 
WINNER - BEST SHOW - COMEDIANS CHOICE AWARD - EDINBURGH FRINGE
 
WINNER - MERVYN STUTTER’S SPIRIT OF THE FRINGE AWARD - EDINBURGH FRINGE
 
WINNER - BEST SHOW - REYKJAVIK FRINGE 2024
 
WINNER - BEST COMEDY - ADELAIDE FRINGE 2024

Requirements:
This workshop is aimed at experienced performers looking to up-skill. The workshop is physical but all exercises can be adapted around the needs of the students.
Workshop participants must be over 18 years of age.

Dates/Times:
Saturday 14th March: 10.00am - 2.00pm
Sunday 15th March: 10.00am - 2.00pm

Where: State Library of South Australia

Cost: $200

Booking link in bio - only a handful places left!

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Whether you’re an art aficionado or just after a bloody good laugh, Coco’s Comedy Highlights Tour is a must-...
12/03/2026

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Whether you’re an art aficionado or just after a bloody good laugh, Coco’s Comedy Highlights Tour is a must-see. It’s clever, silly, and utterly unforgettable." -

Last tickets for the extra added tours!

Coco’s Art History Comedy Highlights Tour at the Art Gallery of South Australia
Various times .adelaide timetart .theatre .courtyard.of.curiosities

Only 2 more shows of multi-award-winning FOOL’S PARADISE: A Comedy of Cross-Continental Courting, Clowns and Catastrophe...
11/03/2026

Only 2 more shows of multi-award-winning FOOL’S PARADISE: A Comedy of Cross-Continental Courting, Clowns and Catastrophes

Britt Plummer’s bittersweet long-distance love story is a “delectable and thought-provoking” ★★★★ (Edinburgh Festivals Magazine), heartbreakingly hilarious show that fuses storytelling, puppetry and clowning into a modern-day rom-com.

★★★★ “An exuberantly executed hour.” — The List
★★★★ “May do for hand sanitisers what Ghost did for pottery.” — EventAdelaide
★★★★ ½ “A brilliant clown. Plummer’s physical comedy is impeccable.” — Guy in the Foyer
“A virtuoso at delivering focus, expressive physicality and nuanced acting.” — Theatre Travels
“Clowning brilliance.” — InReview

Winner: Adelaide Fringe Awards 2023 & 2024, Brighton Fringe & Pebble Trust International Award
Nominee: The List Edinburgh Festival Award & Overall Best Theatre, FRINGE WORLD

LAST CHANCES ADELAIDE!
5pm Saturday 14th March
5pm Saturday 21st March
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xx Booking link in comments

Photo by Jennifer Forward-Hayter

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Join artist Casey Jay Andrews for a weekly life and portrait drawing session throughout the Adelaide Fringe, designed fo...
11/03/2026

Join artist Casey Jay Andrews for a weekly life and portrait drawing session throughout the Adelaide Fringe, designed for all levels.

This friendly, welcoming group provides a relaxed environment to explore drawing from life, develop technical skills, and connect with fellow creatives. Each session includes a mix of quick gesture sketches and longer poses to develop detail and observation, offering a supportive space to build confidence, share techniques, and connect with other artists in a welcoming creative setting.

Whether you are looking to improve your technical ability, if it’s your first time, or simply enjoy drawing in good company, this group offers a welcoming place to make art and connect with the Adelaide Fringe creative community.

Participants will gain:

✨Practical skill development in life and portrait drawing for all levels
✨Opportunities to practice from live models in a structured setting
✨A supportive creative environment to share ideas and observe others’ approaches

What to bring:

Some paper and drawing materials will be provided, but it is recommended to bring: a sketchbook and personal drawing materials if you have them (pencils, charcoal, pens, or preferred media), and an eraser. Optional: drawing board if desired.

Requirements:

This workshop is aimed at artists of all levels — beginners, hobbyists, and experienced practitioners — who wish to practice life and portrait drawing in a welcoming, professional environment. The group is ideal for anyone seeking to refine skills, explore technique, and connect with other artists in a supportive creative space

Workshop participants must be over 18 years of age.

Dates/Times:

Wednesday 11th March 2 - 3.30pm
Wednesday 18th March 2 - 3.30pm

Cost: Pay What You Can - 5 x different prices:

$35.00 per sessioon (+ booking fee)
$25.00 per session (+ booking fee)
$15.00 per session (+ booking fee)
$5.00 per session (+ booking fee)
$0.00 per session

Where:
The Gallery
Migration Museum
82 Kintore Avenue, Adelaide SA
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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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