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February 20, 2026

Adelaide Fringe – The Soaking of Vera Shrimp

Vera Shrimp announces that there’s going to be bits about science and bits about her. The combination is both fascinating and heartbreaking.

Murray Bramwell

You might say Vera Shrimp is a weather whisperer. She studies rainfall and its precipitation cycles and is a trove of information. She is fourteen and lives in Northern England, perhaps in Newcastle. She also has a special gift:

“I can feel the rain, the colours, the sensation, the words inside each drop when they land …

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February 19, 2026

Adelaide Fringe – The Debate Holden Street Theatres

Fearing her daughter won’t make captain of the school debating team an overzealous mother turns to drastic tactics to win the argument.

Murray Bramwell

Is there anything Martha Lott doesn’t do ? As well as hosting an outstanding range of Fringe shows at her Holden Street Theatres (check out the excellent Bob Marley, How Reggae Changed the World and Eat the Rich ) she has written, and features in, her own new play, The Debate.

It is a sharp and …

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January 24, 2026

Interview : Peter Sellars : Adelaide Festival.

Peter Sellars makes Adelaide Festival return: ‘I hope I am coming back as an old friend’

Nearly a quarter century since his own tenure as Adelaide Festival artistic director was controversially cut short, Peter Sellars reflects on his onetime home and the timely body of work he is bringing to the 2026 festival.

Murray Bramwell

It has been 24 years since I last spoke to Peter Sellars and, at that time, both he and the Adelaide Festival were facing considerable …

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December 22, 2025

The Best of 2025

Filed under: 2025,Archive,Current

As I look over my year’s attendances, again I saw less of the festivals – the Cabaret Festival, Fringe Festival and OzAsia in particular. With several notable exceptions, State Theatre Company South Australia had a less impressive year than in 2024.

The second-tier independents also remained quiet. Brink produced a work under the State Theatre umbrella but new projects still remain in the pipeline. We again lament the demise of RUMPUS and the defunding of the excellent Slingsby remains a …

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October 01, 1988

Eminence Greasy

Murray Bramwell talks to Doug Thomas about The Greasy Pop Empire.

Doug Thomas is about to move into the middle-sized big time. He hopes. After eight years his independent record label, Greasy Pop

(which has released nearly fifty catalogue items – more than 70,000 singles, albums and cassettes – to the perimeters of the known world) has signed a pressing, promotion and distribution deal with Festival Records. The idea is to get that company’s considerable promotional resources behind two Adelaide …

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