Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

With a Friday night party in Rundle Street which brought early rain and an estimated forty thousand revelers, artists, organizers, supporters, and variously innocent bystanders, the Fringe has begun. It is on for one and all – with the weekend Clipsal fans also joining the throng and plenty of Ford and Holden regalia visible on the streets, queuing for shows, and sampling the wares in the Garden of Unearthly Delights.

The response to the Fringe is …

2008
February 27

Adelaide Fringe 08

Playing Burton
Performed by Josh Richards
The Arch, Holden Street Theatres, Hindmarsh
Tickets $19.50 – $ 24.90
Until March 16

The Smile Off Your Face
Ontroerend Goed
The Jelly Belly, Fringe Factory Theatre, Elizabeth St
Tickets $12 – $15
Until March 16

La Clique
The Masonic Centre, 254 North Terrace
Tickets $40- $50
Until March 16
Bookings at FringeTix Ph1300 374643.

Now an annual fixture the Adelaide Fringe comes back sooner – and literally …

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 …