Murray Bramwell previews some of the 2008 program

There is something almost inexplicably exponential about the Adelaide Fringe. It just keeps getting bigger. From its modest beginnings 48 years ago, it has continued – like its Edinburgh namesake – to play doppelganger and frisky sibling to the main Festival. And, as in Edinburgh, it has expanded so greatly that it dwarfs the Festival itself – in size at least, if not in substance. The relationship between Festival and Fringe, once …

2007

March 29
Adelaide

Adelaide Fringe 07
Mutzenball
by Little Black Box
Fringe Factory
Until March 31`
Tickets: $ 20. Bookings at Fringetix. Ph.8418 8666

B File
by Deborah Levy
Stone/Castro Company
Holden Street Theatre
March 26

Ross Noble – Fizzy Logic
Royalty Theatre until March 31
Tickets: $ 40. Bookings at Fringetix. Ph.8418 8666
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
April 5 – 21. Ticketmaster 1300 660 013

Mark Watson
Nova Cinema 2 until March 31
Tickets: $29. Bookings at Fringetix. …

2007
Adelaide Fringe 07
Ends March 31.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

With the Fringe in its final week, Artistic Director Christie Anthoney can be well pleased. The festival met its hundred thousand ticket sales target by the mid-way point and has kept powering on. The Garden of Unearthly Delights has proven popular with venues offering everything from carny shows, the late night So Co Cargo club and a program of musicians at the excellent Bosco Theater. Elsewhere, the grunge Fringe …

2007

What I Heard About Iraq
By Simon Levy
Holden Street Theatres’ Directors’ Choice 07

George Orwell’s Animal Farm
Adapted by Guy Masterson
Performed by Gary Shelford

Fern Hill and Other Dylan Thomas
Performed by Guy Masterson

Holden Street Theatres
Until March 31

Tom Crean –Antarctic Explorer
Written and performed by Aidan Dooley
Bakehouse Theatre until March 23

Murray Bramwell

Holden Street is again one of the strongholds of Fringe theatre this year and the manager of the complex, Martha …

2007
March 15

Adelaide
Theatre
Adelaide Fringe 07

Fern Hill and Other Dylan Thomas
Performed by Guy Masterson
Tickets $20 -25.

What I Heard About Iraq
By Simon Levy
Holden Street Theatres’ Directors’ Choice 07

Holden Street Theatres, Hindmarsh
Tickets $17 -23.
Until March 31

Tom Crean –Antarctic Explorer
Written and performed by Aidan Dooley
Bakehouse Theatre until March 23
Tickets$20 – $22.

Rubeville
The Black Lung Theatre
until March 24
Kissy Kissy
The Black Lung Theatre
145 Hindley Street…

2006
Murray Bramwell

Whenever the Fringe is talked about – big statistics are sure to follow. In 2006 there are 4000 artists, 1400 technicians, 500 acts and 6000 performances. That is a lot of action – and in the Darwinian struggle for audiences some already will have come to grief at the box office.

In theatre, where more than a hundred items are listed, Adelaide is seeing a quantum increase in activity and, already, a great deal that is engaging …

2006
Murray Bramwell

In the profusion of the Fringe program has been a music program variously including Dave Graney, Shooglenifty, Monique Brumby and others, but the standout has to be Richard Thompson at the Norwood Concert Hall. From his days in Fairport Convention and through his distinguished solo career, Thompson has long been the guitarists’ guitarist and the composers’ composer. His show is a mix of songs ancient and modern – the plaintive Crazy Man Michael, the high revving 1952 …

Murray Bramwell

The Bogus Woman
By Kay Adshead
Leicester Haymarket Theatre
February 26. Tickets $8 – $20
Fringe Tix 8418 8666. Until March 10

4.48 Psychosis
By Sarah Kane
Brink Productions
Queen’s Theatre, Adelaide
February 26, Tickets $18 – $24
Fringe Tix 8418 8666. Until March 12

Absence and Presence
Devised by Andrew Dawson
Queen’s Theatre, Adelaide
February 26. Tickets $18.50 – $26.50
Fringe Tix 8418 8666. Until March 4

Pluck
Queen’s Theatre, Adelaide
February 26. Tickets $16 – $20.…

Murray Bramwell previews the 2006 Adelaide Fringe program.

It is hard to know just which part of the word “fringe’ still applies to the now enormous Adelaide Fringe. The name comes from the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, which Adelaide so closely rivals and resembles and the idea is that the Fringe showcases the more radical, marginal and, shall we say, edgy artists and performances.

That is still a bit true, but also significantly not. The Adelaide Festival has never been …

2004
Murray Bramwell

The Return
Theatre Company Nottle
Eclipse, FringeHUB,level four, Adelaide University.
Bookings FringeTIX (08) 8100 2004. Tickets $ 20 – $ 25.
Until 13 March.

Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down
Aquarius Productions
Cinema, FringeHUB, Adelaide University.
Bookings FringeTIX (08) 8100 2004. Tickets $ 15 -18.
Until 14 March.

X Ray
by Chris Tugwell
Directed by Geoff Crowhurst.
Mongrel Productions
AIT Arts (Acting Studio) 39 Light Square
Bookings FringeTIX (08) 8100 2004. Tickets $ 15 – $ 23.…