The Adelaide Fringe kicks of this weekend for the 2025 season. Here’s a list of all the Fringe shows featuring Flinders staff, students and alumni – trust us, there’s something for everyone!
If you know of shows that involve Flinders staff, student or alumni, please let us know at communications@flinders.edu.au.
A Flinders University Museum of Art exhibition in partnership with Unbound Collective — Ali Gumillya Baker (Mirning), Faye Rosas Blanch (Mbararam, Yidinyji), Natalie Harkin (Narungga), and Simone Ulalka Tur (Yankunytjatjara). This landmark exhibition celebrates 10 years of critical and creative work by the nationally acclaimed Unbound Collective, a group of First Nations women based on Kaurna Yarta whose shared praxis represents a rupturing and reimagining of colonial institutions, and radical endeavour to shape the world anew.
Soveriegn Acts | Love Praxis runs from Monday 17 February to Friday 21 March. Purchase your tickets here.
An Incomplete Encyclopedia of Hugs
Senior Lecturer in Drama Dr Sarah Peters is remounting her popular An Incomplete Encyclopedia of Hugs for a short second season.
Directed by alumni Eliza Lovell (BA (Drama) (Hons) ’94), Encyclopedia of Hugs blends spoken word poetry with round-the-kitchen-table style storytelling, Juno journeys through her personal hug repertoire, weaving tales of loss and love as she figures out what to do with this one glorious life. One hug at a time.
Running from Wednesday 19 February to Sunday 23 February at the Little Reid Theatre at Goodwood Theatre and Studios, get your tickets here.
Grad Kurt Murray is back with a more adult show in Adult Bubble Show, where High Level Bubble Artistry meets comedy Performance Art. Shredded physiques and the most extraordinary bubbles you have ever seen. See bubble cubes, spinning carousels, giant tubes, filled with gas and set on fire on bodies, shadow bubble erotica, foam falling like snow, bubbles executed with only legs, bubbles that dance on hands and a million bubble finale cascading onto the audience. A fringe cult hit since 2017 selling out shows across the globe from Australia to Ireland.
Head to The May Wirth at Gluttony from Thursday 20 February to Sunday 23 March to check out the show – but grab your tickets here so you don’t miss out!
Flinders graduate Jasmine Warland (BCreatArts(Drama) ’21, BCreatArts(Hons) ’22) is co-producing In Motion, which blurs the lines of circus, dance and theatre. Follow a story of grief and self-discovery to explore the ups, downs and at times absurdity of rebuilding ourselves after loss. In an exploration of the unpredictability of feelings and our expectations of them, Virago Circus’ new work pushes the boundaries of circus and physical theatre, presenting the complicated process of grieving embodied through a series of movement acts in a show where live art meets life.
In Motion will be held at Ukiyo at Gluttony from Friday 21 February to Wednesday 26 February. For more information and to purchase your tickets here.
Controlled Environment Biorepository Coordinator Dylan McCullough will play bass in Extra Curricular: Mark 2, a sequel to the sold out, smash hit Extra Curricular. With in jokes for anyone who has worked in the education sector, Mark 2 has checked the front office suggestion box and created the course content you want covered.
Playing at Prompt Creative Centre from Friday 21 Febraury to Sunday 2 March, grab your tickets here.
Stories from strangers, the estranged, strange happenings, home truths. Every night, Emma Beech (BA(Hons) ’01) will be making the show with you – the stories she tells, how she tells them, in what order and what way. Expect humour and pathos. Come, revel in the unknown of each moment, the liveness of live theatre.
Running from Friday 21 February to Sunday 2 March, you can grab your tickets here.
Alumni Danilo Laganin (BCreatArts(Drama) ’19) stars in Lights Out, an adventure into a world of imagination, game, and song – because the fun begins when the lights go out … just don’t tell mum and dad!
With shows at The Lark at Gluttony from Saturday 22 February to Monday 10 March, make sure you get yourself some tickets here.
Kidstock: an interactive mini-music festival for families
Dylan McCullough is back on bass in Kidstock, a pint-sized music-fest that’ll entertain kids and their families with original songs, cheeky covers, physical comedy and relatable stories. From pub classics to club bangers, Kidstock is a fun and accessible, live music show.
Check it out in The Lark at Gluttony from Saturday 22 February to Saturday 15 March. Grab your tickets here.
Join Chris Bond (BA ’13, BCreatArts(Hons) ’16) and a cast of professional Aussie performers for four incredible nights of tabletop roleplaying at The Lost Dice, Adelaide’s beloved board game cafe. Role to Cast LIVE brings the Ennie award-winning tabletop roleplaying podcast to the stage with each member of the cast taking the storyteller’s seat for one night to weave an original story set in a world of their choosing and where the roll of the dice decides between triumph and disaster. The crew’s unrivalled storytelling will be enhanced by professional lighting, sound and production for a fully immersive experience that is utterly unique.
Playing in The Throne Room at The Lost Dice from Saturday 22 February to Saturday 22 March, you can grab your tickets here.
From the madcap creators of Oscar-Winning Improv and Letters to the Editor comes a BRAND-NEW, completely improvised cinematic spectacle!
These masters of improv, including Eden Trebilco (BCreatArts ’08, MTeach(Sec) ’11) having dazzled audiences at Edinburgh Fringe, Perth FringeWorld, and Melbourne International Comedy Festival, will mash up two of YOUR FAVOURITE MOVIES in a night of wild, unpredictable fun!
Hosted in The Bally at Gluttony with shows from Saturday 22 Feb to Sunday 23 March, grab your tickets here.
Bubble Show in Space (kids show)
Have you ever been in a room with a Million Bubbles?
Join Drama graduate Kurt Murray (BCreatArts ’07) and embark on a soap-tastic adventure to the intergalactic wonder that is bubbles in space! See a bubble like a rocket that launches 10 metres into the air, clear bubbles filled with smoke, bubbles that join into each other and separate, shadow bubble puppetry, fire bubbles, a bubble fire tornado, Aliens that could inside bubbles(children from the audience), bubbles that spin like a carousel, giant bubble tubes that arch through the sky and bubbles so big that several people could fit inside! The show finishes in a million bubble party that fills the room in a celebration of bubbles.
Showing at The Moa at Gluttony from Saturday 22 February to Sunday 23 March, make sure to grab your tickets here.
Future Science Talks: Comedy Edition
Research Fellow Dr Jack Manners stars in Australia’s favourite science comedy show, where a new group of local scientists have partnered with comedians to infuse humour into their scientific talks.
At each show, you’ll be hearing a series of short talks from Adelaide’s best, brightest and and emerging science professionals.
Find the show in The Balcony Room at The Griffins Hotel from Sunday 23 February to Thursday 6 March. Grab your tickets here.
Future Science Talks: Comedy Edition received five-stars in a review by Glam Adelaide.
What Binds Us? (The Next Chapter)
Another show from alumni Delia Olam, What Binds Us? invites audiences to throw out everything you know about love. Throw out dowries, culture, money, race but save room for…? Join us for this inter-cultural wedding where two families try to re-invent marriage & culture.
Running from Sunday 23 February to Sunday 16 March, grab your tickets here.
Bachelor of Performance Honours directing student Hannah Smith is back in the directing chair for Dance Nation, a chaotic and transformative dive into the experience of adolescence.
Written by Clare Barron, and performed by third year Bachelor of Performance Acting students, Dance Nation follows a group of middle schoolers on a competitive dance team striving for national glory. Beneath the surface of sequins and routines lies a raw, visceral exploration of identity, ambition, and the messy reality of growing up.
Held in the Flinders Drama Centre Dance Studio, Dance Nation will run from Monday 24 February to Saturday 1 March. Flinders staff and students can get 50% off tickets using the code DRAMA25. Get your tickets here.
A Choral Kaleidoscope – Music from Around the World
Executive Officer Melinda Pike and academic Associate Professor Kenneth Pope will perform with Lumina Vocal Ensemble in a A Choral Kaleidoscope – Music from Around the World.
From the shimmering gold of the African plains to the icy blue of Scandinavia’s hinterland, and the vibrant vocal colours of Bulgaria and Latin America, to the profound red of the Australian outback. Let Lumina take you on a journey through time and place to hear some of the world’s most fascinating choral music.
Peforming at the Institute Hall at Gawler Civic Centre on Saturday 1 March and at St John’s Anglican Church on Sunday 2 March and Wednesday 5 March, you can grab your tickets here.
Gull – or – The Most Lamentable Comedy Called Love
Directed by Drama Centre Manager and Lecturer, Dr Christopher Hurrell, featuring the first Honours students in the new Bachelor of Performance, the play by Australia’s pre-eminent multi-award-winning “trans-queen” playwright & personality, Glace Chase, is “a tongue-in-cheek Restoration Romp of bastardized history”. An updated version of Shakespeare’s cross-gendered comedies, Gull features a provocative twist for today’s feminist and queer sensibilities.
Gull runs from Saturday 1 March to Sunday 9 March. Flinders staff and students can get 50% off tickets using the code DRAMA25. Get your tickets here.
Honours Dance graduate Kate Burgess (BCreatArts(Dance) ’22, BCreatArts(Hons) ’23) is returning to the Fringe after winning Best Emerging Artist of 2024. Her new solo comedic, solo dance theatre show, Full Time Ex-Lover, follows Kate on a Kate on a rollercoaster journey through a series of unfortunate events after she uncovers evidence she isn’t the only woman in her partner’s life. This story unfolds through contemporary dance and a touch of burlesque, as she navigates the highs and lows of love, betrayal, and the complexities of modern dating.
Running from Monday 3 March to Friday 7 March in The Back Room at trap. cocktail bar, be sure to grab your tickets here.
Kate is also co-producing Send in the CLOWNS! by Owen Gray.
Written by Rita Kalnejais, directed by our first Bachelor of Performance Honours directing student, Hannah Smith, and featuring Honours Acting students, First Love is a darkly comic retelling of Romeo and Juliet.
In this play the star-crossed lovers don’t come from different houses, but different species. This daring, unconventional love story explores identity, desire, and the raw thrill of youth, inviting audiences to experience love’s wild, unsettling edge.
First Love will run at the Barbra Hardy Garden at Holden Street Theatres from Tuesday 4 March to Sunday 9 March. Flinders staff and students can get 50% off tickets using the code DRAMA25. Tickets are available here.
From alumni Danielle Lim (BCreatArts(Drama) ’21, BCreatArts(Hons) ‘22) comes The Good Decisions Project, a new multi-disciplinary theatre project exploring the varying states of our mental health, the intricacies of our thought processes in decision-making, and what defines a ‘good decision’. Through three interconnecting storylines, this experimental play offers a fresh perspective of how our daily choices, no matter how big or small, can shape the trajectory of our lives. There is significance in celebrating our mundane achievements, as perhaps they are the ones that ground us the most when we need.
Interweaving live performance, film and visual art, we reflect and ponder: What do we choose to remember? How do we choose to move forward? In our rapid-paced and ever-changing world, there is never a shortage of decisions.
The show will run from Tuesday 4 March to Saturday 15 March, and you can grab your tickets here.
Multi-disciplinary trans queen Glace Chase, Flinders Drama Centre playwright-in-residence, performs this one night only staged reading of her newest play, Glace’s Big Things. Join Glace on this solo trans traveller’s alarming outback road trip as she takes on Covid lockdowns in search of the Big Croc and the Big Meat Ant, by way of the (many) Big Tradies in High-Vis. This is an unhinged storytelling standup of a nightlife glamazon battling the Aussie outback and its inhabitants, from the writer of the award-winning Triple X.
Performing for one night only on Thursday 6 March at the Queens Theatre, Playhouse Lane, make sure to grab your tickets here.
Be moved by Adelaide’s newest dance creators and performers in Rip, Drag & Ruminate, an ensemble of work by students from Flinders’ Bachelor in Creative Arts (DANCE).
Witness short, fresh pieces by artists with innovative styles and original stories to tell. Featuring an exceptional line-up of talent by final-year dance students, both choreographing and performing in each other’s works.
Rip, Drag & Ruminate will run on Thursday 6 and Friday 7 March. Purchase your tickets here.
Press Play: interactive concert for kids
Staff members Alice Orchard and Amy Wyatt present Press Play, an accessible and sensory-friendly interactive live music concert for kids aged 0-7, with music performed live on stage by Alice and friends. Join in with singing, dancing, movement and fun!
With shows on Sunday 9 and Sunday 16 March, be sure to grab your tickets here. Use the code ‘PRESSPLAY16’ to get $16 tickets.
Swedish Death Cleaning vs. EVERYTHING (the shed.)
Award-winning cabaret performer, musician, theatre maker and Flinders alumni Delia Olam (BCreatArts(Hons) ’09) brings a modern gothic tale of grief, tenderness, and myth-making after loss in Swedish Death Cleaning vs. EVERYTHING.
Grab your tickets here for the show, which runs from Tuesday 11 March to Sunday 23 March.
The Backyarders’ 5th Birthday Extravaganza with The Red Earth Blues Band
Dylan McCullough’s folk/punk band is celebrating it’s 5th Birthday in style, with a one-off show supported by The Red Earth Blues Band. The musical equivalent of a sausage on bread at your local hardware store, The Backyarders’ high-energy folk/punk meets Fallen Sunrise’s laid back groove to produce one very special party as Aussie as Vegemite!
This show is on for one night only – Thursday 13 March – at the Tin Shed at The Wheatsheaf Hotel. Grab your tickets here.
BA (Women’s and Gender Studies/Drama) student Mackenzie Richardson is the stage writer for Margret. Nearly-graduated high-school student Margret is met with a life-changing discovery; despite never having had heterosexual sex, she finds herself pregnant. This mystery and miracle trials her bonds with family and friends, puts her faith to the test, and forces her onto a profound journey of self-discovery while on the cusp of her adolescence. ‘Margret, You’re A Virgin!’ weaves a tale of bewildering surprises and deep introspection, exploring the sacred and the secular, the seen and unseen, and begs the question: What do you believe?
With shows on Thursday 13, Friday 14 and Saturday 15 March, make sure you grab your tickets here.
House Club Classics – The Revolution
From Flinders alumni Teresa de Gennaro (BA (Drama) ’00, BA(Hons) ’01) comes House Club Classics, a dynamic, live music and multimedia celebration of house music’s journey from Chicago, to the world during the late 80’s, and 90’s. Blending storytelling, immersive visuals, and authentic beats, we create an atmosphere where the audience isn’t just watching, but feeling the music. With live drums, vocals, bass, synths, and samples, we bring classic house and dance anthems to life in a way that’s fresh and unpredictable.
Grab your tickets for the show on Friday 14 March or Saturday 15 March here.
Adelaide comedian Steve Sheehan (BA(Hons)’93) wonders if his brand of humour would make a cruise ship laugh. Holidaymakers feedback welcome. Preferably after the show.
Grab your tickets for the performances on Thursday 20 March and Saturday 22 March here.
Alumni Joanne Hartstone (BCreatArts ’05, BCreatArts(Hons) ’06) is one of South Australia’s most celebrated Fringe artists and producers—participating since 2006. She has curated an international program of theatre, comedy, music, and kids & family shows. These shows have her stamp of approval, and there is something here for everyone!
Find out more here.
Welcome to the Cave! A mindfulness retreat to take you away from all your problems. Relax in our spa, get a massage with our therapists . . . and play some competitive games??? Step into the serene chaos of a “cave” that promises enlightenment but delivers existential confusion. The twist: your spiritual guides are not what they seem, and the retreat’s celebrity guests are not quite human…
The brainchild of HDR student Nicol Cabe, Welcome to the Cave is sold out.