​Get ready for our biggest and most electrifying Adelaide Fringe season yet!
In 2026, Goodwood Theatre & Studios bursts to life with 33 incredible companies from across Australia and around the world, delivering 222 performances across five unforgettable weeks. From world-class theatre and bold new voices to high-energy sports-theatre crossovers, immersive experiences, family favourites and late-night discoveries, this year’s program is packed with passion, imagination and unmissable artistry.
With the Australian premiere of our headlining act CADEL: Lungs on Legs, the launch of our brand-new free outdoor activation VICTORIA LANE: Glimmer, and a vibrant mix of comedy, dance, music theatre, physical theatre, visual art and more, GTS is the place to be for Fringe 2026.
Dive in, explore, and experience the magic, there truly is something here for everyone.
Goodwood Theatre & Studios
VICTORIA LANE: Glimmer
19 February to 22 March at 6-9pm
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Step into 'Glimmer' an immersive laneway experience of shifting light, sound, and surprise. Projection, ambient soundscapes, and interactive art transform VICTORIA LANE into a multi-sensory gateway for Adelaide Fringe 2026.
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Free, inclusive, and ever-evolving, Glimmer invites everyone to slow down, look closer, and discover where light finds you.
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Award-winning Adelaide Fringe venue, Goodwood Theatre & Studios ★★★★★ "Coming to this theatre regularly will make you feel like part of a family. Simi and Chris, the owners, do a remarkable job of building relationships within the local community, especially other small businesses" - Daniel G. Taylor
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Hart Street Art
PRISM
19 February to 22 March at 6-9pm
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Step into PRISM, an immersive art experience by Aggie Stav, creator of Hart Street Art.
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Through mirrored surfaces and installations, you're invited to see, feel, and play with reflection itself. Shifting with your movement, what you see depends on where you stand. Drift through glowing portals of colour, pause in moments of stillness, and discover the beauty that glimmers just beneath the surface.
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Emerging artist John Ioannou, known for photographing raw human emotion and the pulse of real life, joins Aggie, bringing a dynamic visual layer. Together, they create a dialogue between artist, audience, and image: a reflection of the world as it moves, glows, and changes.
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PRISM is set to be a celebration of perspective, presence, and the art of seeing differently.​
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Adelaide Fringe 2026
CADEL: Lungs on Legs
19 February to 21 March
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From down under to the top of the podium — experience the riveting true story of Cadel Evans, the first and only Australian to win the Tour de France.
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Fresh from a sold-out, award-winning season at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe, Connor Delves delivers a powerhouse solo performance that puts audiences in the cycling saddle. Pedalling live on the bike Evans rode to victory. Delves fuses grit, storytelling and heart-pounding energy in a breathtaking theatrical ride. A high-octane tribute to endurance, ambition and the spirit of Australian sport.
​​★★★★★ "Connor Delves is magnificent and brings Cadel Evans to life in a gruelling physical performance." Theatre Weekly
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★★★★★ "Triumphant" The Recs
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Perhaps Theatre
the worst of us.
19 February to 8 March at 7pm
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a kid says something he cannot undo.
a mother holds onto something that might not be true.
a man holds a garden hoe, about to do the hardest thing he has ever had to. woven from anonymous confessions of the worst things people have ever done, ‘the worst of us.’ explores the messiness of being human, the ways we fail one another, and how we can begin to forgive ourselves.
one storyteller. three stories.
an eruption of music, spoken word, and hope.
from the creators of ‘prometheus.’, ‘all the stars.’ & ‘heartbeat.': WINNER Adelaide Fringe 2025 Weekly Award
★★★★★ Fringefeed 2023
★★★★★ Fringefeed 2024
★★★★ Fringefeed 2025
“Aster’s script is a thing of beauty.” - The List
“Staggeringly brave.” - Perth Theatre Reviews
“The most authentic and honest performance I’ve seen this season." - Fringefeed
Lauren Hance
HOLY O
19 February to 1 March at 7.30pm
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Vera wants to be a nun, but can’t let go of her past, or her vibrators. When her prayers become a little too… rapturous... Vera’s world is flipped upside down. Vera turns to her audience of “saints,” who help her make the biggest decisions of her life. This solo immersive drama-comedy blends fiction with dozens of real women’s stories - and asks, “What happens when faith, doubt, and pleasure collide?”
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★★★★★ "A deeply moving experience without an ounce of pretense" DC Theater Arts
★★★★1/2 "Humor and pathos" Stages of Minnesota
★★★★ "You’ll never find a more appealing and hilarious nun-to-be" Edmonton Journal
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“She has mastered the art of conversational, immersive theater" Rochester CITY Magazine
WINNER Best of Fringe (DC Theater Arts) 2023
WINNER Golden Lanyard Award (Minnesota Fringe) 2024
Alix Kuijpers, Isobel Stolinski & Caroline De Wan
New Romantics
19 to 22 February at 8pm
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Join us for a series of short works featuring emerging artist works and world premieres, all proudly South Australian made and based.
Featuring:
Starry Eyed by Alix Kuijpers and Isobel Stolinski (SA)
Interlocked by Sarah Wilson with Amelia Walmsley and Poppy Anthoney (SA)
A MOMENT OF (Redacted) by Ella Molloy with Georgia Riggs (SA)
The Great Thinning by Sophie Hollingworth in collaboration with Tayla Hoadley (SA)
Presented by Alix Kuijpers, Isobel Stolinski and Caroline De Wan, this season has been curated with the hopes to platform work in South Australia that otherwise would not have the opportunity to be seen by audiences, and who are heading towards presentation with our community.
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Perhaps Theatre
play.
19 February to 8 March at 8.30pm
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part theatre, part game, ‘play.’ is a show about play… for grownups.
armed with a book of stories, a box of games, and a spark too bright to smother, robbie is looking for someone to play with.
‘play.’ weaves play into performance to share the stories of the games we once played, and the ones we still do. bursting with energy, award-winning director and performer robbie fieldwick creates a playground to delight, connect, and reignite the spark of play.
from the creators of ‘prometheus.’, ‘all the stars.’ & ‘heartbeat.': WINNER Adelaide Fringe 2025 Weekly Award
★★★★★ Fringefeed 2023
★★★★★ Fringefeed 2024
★★★★ Fringefeed 2025
“Aster’s script is a thing of beauty.” - The List
“Staggeringly brave.” - Perth Theatre Reviews
“The most authentic and honest performance I’ve seen this season." - Fringefeed
Actually Acting Youth Theatre
Dark Road
20 February to 1 March (3 shows only)
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Actually Acting Youth Theatre presents Dark Road by Laura Lundgren Smith.
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Nazi Germany. Desperate to escape poverty and protect her younger sister Lise, Greta takes a job as a guard at the Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp. The position offers security, purpose—and a brutal awakening. Uneasy at first, Greta learns to suppress her conscience, rising through the ranks as she becomes essential to the machinery of cruelty.
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A haunting portrait of complicity and survival, this is the story of two sisters bound by blood, and divided by the choices that define them.
Suitable ages 15+ due to graphic content and mature themes
Dani Greaves
Me Inside of Me
20, 27 & 28 February at 6:30pm
(3 shows only)
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​"Poignant, beautiful performance and her voice is crystalline" - Stage Whispers
​"Commanding voice and presence" - The Clothesline
​"Jaw-dropping entertainment" - Weekend Notes
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Dani Greaves makes her Adelaide Fringe debut with a candid biographical cabaret. Through a musical theatre lens, using personal anecdotes, she explores life’s formative experiences, relationships, and the challenges of motherhood, culminating with confronting her inner critic and a shift towards self-acceptance.
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As an acclaimed stage performer, Dani's honesty and strong vocal artistry anchor the show. Supported by a dynamic live band featuring the talented Daniel Brunner on keys and Dylan Rufus on guitar. Experience a show that's honest, hopeful, and hilariously human.
Lucia Mallardi
The SoccerActress
20 February to 1 March at 9pm
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A fierce solo drama-comedy show blending autobiographical storytelling, character comedy and freestyle soccer. It is poetic, conceptual, physical and emotionally raw. Lucia explores her journey as a woman torn between soccer stadiums, street performances and theatre stages. The show breaks stereotypes, spins the ball and the narrative, and reclaims space.
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Best Actress Nominee, DarkChat, Edfringe 2025
★★★★★ “A unique story of courage and determination.” Raccordo sullo sguardo, Edfringe 2025
★★★★ “A charming fusion of comedy, drama, storytelling and movement.” Broadway Baby, Edfringe 2025
★★★★ “The story is enhanced by Lucia’s impeccable skills as a soccer juggler that guide us through what feels like a road movie touching several European countries.” Fringe Review, Edfringe 2025
Joylyn Secunda
The Routine
20 February to 15 March at 2.30pm + School Show Times
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Death of a Salesman meets Mr. Bean... A lonely office worker squeezes through a portal in their bathroom mirror and goes on a quest for the meaning of life in this surreal physical comedy. The mundane becomes extraordinary as each vignette and dance takes you deeper into a whimsical world of illusion.
The Routine will leave you in stitches and remind you of the magic within.
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★★★★★ “Secunda doesn’t just put on a show, they pull you into a world where routines are poetry and the mundane is pure magic." — The LIST UK
★★★★★ “To watch Joylyn Secunda in action is to breathe the same air as an utter master.” — Edmonton Journal
“An overall rollicking good time.” — Broadway World
“If Jim Carrey is the male rubberface, Secunda might just be the female equivalent.” — Forget the Box
Tracy Crisp
Who Killed Gough Whitlam?
21 February to 15 March at 3pm & 6:30pm
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The stitch and b**ch group is back, and a message has dropped in the group chat: Gough Whitlam, the Bichon Frisé is kidnapped! As the clues unravel, so do their relationships, and their unlikely investigation reveals more than just who took the dog.
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Welcome to The Stitch and B**ch Mysteries, a brand-new comedy series from award-winning storyteller Tracy Crisp, winner of the Spirit of the Fringe, Artform Shaker, and Frank Ford Awards.
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Written and performed by Tracy Crisp. Directed by Maggie McGinty
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"Storytelling relies on two things Tracy Crisp has nailed: entertainment and believability." InDaily
Culture Media Theatre
The Dressing Room
21 & 22 February at 4pm
(2 shows only)
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After a successful premiere in Melbourne, we are coming to South Australia during the Lunar New Year!
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An interdisciplinary physical theatre integrates elements of dance, acrobatics, martial arts and Chinese traditional theatre (Cantonese Opera and King Opera, recognised as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009 and 2010 by UNESCO respectively).
With the cross-dressing tradition from Chinese traditional theatre, we reflect the diversity of genders and cultures that flourish nowadays. Come and celebrate the Lunar New Year with us!
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Originally created in the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.
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April Albert
KAPITALISM IS YOUR FRIEND!
21 February to 7 March at 6pm & 9pm
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Franzi has been asleep since 1989. She fell into a coma in East Berlin and has woken to a world where the Wall has fallen and capitalism has thrown one hell of a party. Can she navigate this brave new world?
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From international performer April Albert, KAPITALISM IS YOUR FRIEND! is a rollicking dark comedy where political systems, the patriarchy, and David Hasselhoff collide.
Dancing may be required.
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"An unashamedly feminist look at what women have gained and lost over the past 30 years" Keith Gow,
Theatre First
“You can’t take your eyes off her” The Age
"Raw...inspiring. Go see it” Australian Arts Review
"Immersive and very funny" The Funny Tonne - Melbourne International Comedy Festival
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Zoe Oh Gee & Lily Mitchell
Oh, Am I?
25 to 27 February at 7pm
(3 shows only)
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Fabulously awkward. Accidentally profound. Deliberately hilarious.
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Oh, Am I? is a 1hr split bill show between, Lily Mitchell and Zoe Oh Gee.
They explore the moments when you question your identity or someone else does it for you.
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It's honest, awkward, joyful, and full of hilarious anecdotes about real life including love, disability, prejudice, perception and the quiet triumph of claiming spaces you weren't invited into.
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Melody Rachel
TOO MUCH
25 to 27 February at 8.30pm
(3 shows only)
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Expect emotional whiplash and way too much honesty in this movement-driven stand-up comedy experiment that blurs the lines between confession, chaotic rant, and TED Talk meltdown.
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Think: over-sharing meets over-dancing meets over-feeling, wrapped up in a messy, existential reckoning with what it means to be “too much” in a world that prefers less.
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Ballet Rogue
Beyond Ballet Gala
1 to 15 March at 1pm & 8pm
(3 shows only)
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After a successful sold-out debut for 'Bloom Ballet Gala' at Adelaide Fringe 2025, Ballet Rogue is back with a bigger season!
'Beyond Ballet Gala' is a cultivated, diverse and unique multi-bill gala performance featuring original and adapted ballet works exploring the concept of what takes ballet 'beyond' it's classical boundaries. Each piece is created and shaped independently by local choreographers and classically trained dancers from all over South Australia.
Don't miss out!
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★★★★ by Glam Adelaide 2025 Fringe
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Lost Theatre Co.
What To Do When You Kill
Your Co-Star
4 to 7 March at 6pm
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A financially and creatively bankrupt acting troupes' production of 'Werewolf Romeo and Vampire Juliet' goes horribly wrong when their Romeo dies three acts early.
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In order to save themselves from jail, or worse, being exiled from the theatre, the troupe must lie, scheme, and "yes, and" their way into the cover up of the century.
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Dead Darling Theatre
B*TCH BOXER
4 to 7 March at 1pm & 7.30pm
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Raw. Fierce. Unstoppable.
Chloe is a boxer training for the Olympics while grieving the sudden loss of her dad. Fast-paced and physical, this one-woman show is about rage, love, grief, and fighting to take up space in a world that keeps knocking you back. Sweat, storytelling and guts collide in a battle with ambition and expectation.
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★★★★★ “The protagonist Shardae Santos – articulate, strong, captivating.” 2025 Glam Adelaide (Gull)
★★★★★ “Director Hannah Smith has stepped off the edge of the diving board into free fall with this courageous production.” 2025 Glam Adelaide (First Love is The Revolution)
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The debut production from South Australia’s Dead Darling Theatre. Fresh, fearless and unapologetically feminist, this is theatre that doesn’t pull its punches.
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Steps & Holes Theatre
PILGRIM (A pilgrim in search
of a bull named Carlo)
6 to 8 March at 3pm & 8pm
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WORLD PREMIERE
Following the footprints of the elusive bull (in the Zen tradition of the Ten Ox-herding pictures), an accidental pilgrim embarks on a journey to recover her lost faith in love, or perhaps faith itself. As she wanders deeper into the birthplace of the Western foundational stories, she is guided by an unseen hand back to her own spiritual origin, to retrieve something she'd exiled long ago.
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Performed by Kate Walder, with original music and striking visual imagery from award-winning composer Max Lyandvert and designer Michael Hankin, this solo clown-based work takes us on a timeless quest through Rome, Athens and Jerusalem - the great cities of myth, reason and revelation that may just save us yet.​
Aimee Raitman
PleaseDon'tCatchMeWhenIFall.
7 to 15 March (various times)
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Following a sold-out, debut season at Melbourne Fringe, Aimee Raitman, "emerging talent of Melbourne's dance scene," brings together an unlikely collaboration of bodies and minds.
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A 50 year old Italian migrant with decades of performance experience, a queer gestalt psychotherapist who discovered dance late in life, and a local performance artist "skilfully play between states of tenderness and performative dramaticism, carrying the audience through a dazzling display." - Alex Thomas
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This work is for anyone like Aimee's Nana, who "doesn't really get contemporary dance," and for Aimee's ex-boyfriend, who said she "probably takes too many risks."
There may be a trampoline involved.
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"Raitman isn't afraid to push the boundaries." Farrago Magazine.
Me 'N Me Mates
Australian Songs & Yarns
8 March at 7.30pm
(one night only)
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Me 'N Me Mates Australian songs & yarns - since 2011 this group has toured far and wide to festivals and venues from Darwin to Tamworth, Canberra to Coobowie.
G- rated, family friendly. A unique combination of songs bot old and new in the country/folk traditions of Australia combined with spoken word enactments of bush poems including those by Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson and many others.
The group also performs regularly at corporate functions and conferences, clubs, pubs, retirement villages, schools, community centres or wherever people gather.
Deus Ex Femina
The Damage Is Done
11 to 15 March at 7.30pm
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When a devastating secret about her sister shatters the family equilibrium, Isadora seizes the moment to tell her own truth—certain nothing could be worse. She’s wrong.
‘The Damage is Done’ is a taut, high-voltage solo about queerness, sisterhood and the fault lines running through an Italian-Australian home.
Fiercely intimate, unsentimental and darkly funny, it lays bare loyalty, shame and love—what survives, how we transform, and what love lasts once The Damage is Done.
From award-winning company Deus Ex Femina (Adelaide Fringe Award winners 2022 & 2024).
★★★★★ InReview
★★★★★ Glam Adelaide
★★★★½ The Clothesline
Dead Darling Theatre
unmothered
11 to 14 March at 8pm
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A lyrical, memory-driven song cycle that traces three generations of women through love, silence, and inherited trauma. Told in three acts across the daughter’s life, the “unforgettable modern musical” (The Scoop) moves fluidly through live music to blur reality with recollection.
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From the award-winning team behind 'Bimbo' (Holden Street Theatres Award 2023) comes a new work of bold feminist theatre.
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“Unmothered bridges generational female perspectives through tenderness, honesty, and beautifully crafted storytelling.” The Scoop
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Created by a powerhouse team of South Australian artists, 'unmothered' examines the complexities of maternal love: the longing to be nurtured, the fear of repeating harm, and the struggle to break cycles of silence.
Lindi Jane
Jobless
11 to 15 March at 8.30pm
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A Ventriloquists struggle living in a share house with Puppets.
Lindi Jane presents this unique Comedy performance featuring her incomparable characters.
Topical humour, original classic songs and some audience participation.
1 hour ages 15+
Jasmine Story
SMOKO
12 to 21 March at 7pm
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Set in the surreal, slightly grotesque and hilarious world of an outback landfill, SMOKO follows Beccy, a landfill worker whose life is an uneasy dance between high-vis glamour and free-flowing filth. With a hapless dating history and a gnawing sense of internal emptiness, Beccy descends into the depths of the dump and into herself to explore what happens when we begin to feel like the disposable items that have infiltrated our modern lives.
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SMOKO by Jasmine Story explores self worth in a world of rapid consumption, with a necessary touch of outback queer dating. SMOKO questions how our modern relationships with objects can influence how we treat each other.
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Expect laughs and experimental puppetry, and exploration of the ways marketing can intentionally impact our self esteem.
Tracy Crisp
Where to From Here?
17 to 19 March at 6pm
(3 shows only)
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She's on the trip of a lifetime: middle-aged, menopausal and forgotten to buy her onward ticket. Sitting in the station cafeteria drinking over-brewed tea and eating stale croissants, a stranger asks her, 'Do I know you?' This simple question will change the course of her life forever. Profound and moving, this is a story told with wit, wisdom and out-loud laughter.
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A return season of this acclaimed show. Sold out in 2023 and 2025, and was a weekly theatre award winner in 2025. Brought to you by Tracy Crisp winner of Spirit of the Fringe, Artform Shaker and Frank Ford Awards.
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Written and performed by Tracy Crisp. Directed by Maggie McGinty
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"Storytelling relies on two things Tracy Crisp has nailed: entertainment and believability." ★★★★ InDaily
★★★★★ GlamAdelaide
★★★★ 1/2 Stage Whispers
Marie Thérèse
Shuhada
17 to 19 March at 7pm
(3 shows only)
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In 1992, Shuhada (Sinéad O’Connor) set her mother’s portrait of the Pope ablaze on Saturday Night Live — shattering her pop career and igniting her legacy as a fearless social activist.
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In 1997, MT (Marie Thérèse) set off across Ireland on her green steed, cycling through the rocky landscapes of abandoned faith, ancestral hunger, and intergenerational rage - half expecting to bump into Sinead amongst her many long-lost cousins.
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In this 60-minute musical deep dive, MT (MarieTréès) sings her way home — unearthing lost languages, reminiscing upon her travels, revisiting Sinéad’s genre-defying journey - from Irish trad, to pop, to punk, to rap, to reggae … to imagine - what might Shuhada Sadaqat have sung next?
Stuart Campbell
Wee Stu's Stunted Growth
- A Tragicomic Triptych in Three Gear Changes
17 to 21 March at 8.30pm
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World Premiere. A tragicomic triptych in three gear changes. Three short shows for less than the cost of two cheap drinks at The Gardens or Gluttony. 1) WeeStu Is Not A MAMIL, midlife crisis meets the tour de farce. 2) The Lederhosen Chronicles, childhood trauma meets PTSD. 3) The Braveheart Sonnets, Braveheart slaughters The Bard.
A tragicomic journey through the highs, lows and existential crises of one small man, one modest leap for theatre.
Warning possible coarse language (WeeStu comes from Scotland!), partial nudity, references to wartime trauma, PTSD, cycling, Lederhosen and frequent use of iambic pentameter!
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A truly unforgettable experience . You won't leave empty handed!
Directed by Ross Vosvotekas
Liv Tennet
For You To Know and
Me To Find Out
18 to 21 March at 7.30pm
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Winner of "Best in Fringe" and "Adelaide Fringe Tour Ready Award" at NZ Fringe Festival 2025, nominated for "Best in Dance" at Sydney Fringe Festival 2025 and described as a "masterclass in expressive movement and humour" (Theatreview) seasoned performer Liv Tennet (800 Words, Kiri and Lou, Double Parked) brings her solo show to Adelaide for the first time.
With a soundtrack as eclectic as her toddler's palate, and displaying a wide range of dance genres, Liv draws on her own experience of simultaneously trying to keep a small human alive, whilst also keeping her own artistic identity alive. This show will have you crying one moment and laughing the next as we get a glimpse of the joyous, maddening, exhausting and ultimately fortifying experience of being a "cool mom".
Hot Sauce Burlesque
Hotties
18 March at 8pm
(one show only)
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For one night only, the Hot Sauce Hotties will entertain you with their special brand of heat. Direct from solo development at Hot Sauce Burlesque, budding burlesque stars will grace the stage at Goodwood Theatre & Studios in an array of feathers, sparkles and sass. The 'Hotties' have been working hard to launch their solos and they are SPICY! A mix of traditional/neo/comedy burlesque and cabaret - hosted by Lyra la Belle with special guests from the Fringe, this is a mid-week treat not to miss. SOLD OUT 2019-2025.
★★★★★"Hotties is an inclusive and riotous celebration of all things burlesque and more, embodying everything that is slick, sexy cabaret." Upside Adelaide
Hot Sauce Burlesque
Hot Pop & Glam Rock Revue
20 & 21 March at 8pm
(two shows only)
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It's the ultimate burlesque showdown!
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Be prepared for a sizzling showcase as our Hot Sauce Burlesque students ignite the stage for two nights only! This is a battle of the genres - when the infectious beats of Pop music collide with the bangers of Glam Rock. Our talented students will tease, tantalise, and triumph in this unforgettable revue, proving once and for all which music genre reigns supreme in the art of the striptease.
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This show boasts acts and routines constructed and coordinated by Adelaide's best in the biz.
Alix Kuijpers
Astral Ghost Orchid
21 March at 10am & 1pm
(two workshops only)
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If we look deep within ourselves, we know deep down what we are, we know that the roots of our passions and desires stem from inconsequential decisions that give nothing, yet everything to the universe around us. Our organism is imploding, and it is time for a expansion of our universe, and what our queer ephemerality means to us.
This is the ethos that leads the driving force of this new work as an expounding of queer choreography, sound design and technological-based performance.
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Join award winning choreographer Alix Kuijpers for this development showing, artist talk and workshop session where they will be divulging the beginning stages of this work from its inception at the B12: Research or Die! Festival in Berlin, Germany.
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"Kuijpers is obviously a deep thinker" - Stage Whispers