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2024 Season
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The Children
2 Feb — 17 Feb 2024
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival CentreThe South Australian premiere of Lucy Kirkwood’s acclaimed West End and Broadway success. A trio of celebrated Australian actors – Tina Bursill, Genevieve Mooy and Terence Crawford – star in this provocative production grappling with seismic questions about humanity, morality and future of the planet. -
Blue
23 Feb — 16 Mar 2024
Scott Theatre, University of AdelaideA breathtaking deep dive into the beauty, comedy, joy, and sadness of growing up, from Logie Award-winner and Kamilaroi man Thomas Weatherall and starring Wiradjuri man Callan Purcell, presented as part of the Adelaide Festival. -
Symphonie of the Bicycle
14 May — 25 May 2024
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival CentreState EducateAn absurdly hysterical yet ultimately moving portrait of the quest for glory and heroism, in this illuminating story of an aspiring cyclist told in tandem with the true story of two-time Tour de France champion, Gino Bartali. -
Candide
23 May — 25 May 2024
Her Majesty's TheatreIn a grand collaboration with State Opera South Australia along with Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein’s comic musical masterpiece arrives in concert form at Her Majesty’s Theatre for an extremely limited season of glittery madness and mayhem. -
The Questions
26 Jul — 17 Aug 2024
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival CentreWorld PremiereFrom iconoclastic Australian playwright, columnist and author Van Badham comes this world premiere edgy rom-com musical exploring the longest first date ever during a lockdown. -
Julia
16 Aug — 31 Aug 2024
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival CentreJoanna Murray-Smith’s intimate portrait on the life and legacy of Australia’s first female prime minister (and South Australia’s own) Julia Gillard, starring the prolific Justine Clarke. -
The Puzzle
20 Sep — 12 Oct 2024
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival CentreWorld PremiereThis riotous new comedy taking place on a “lifestyle cruise” is a bitingly funny and cheeky new work from the pen of one of Australia’s most prolific playwrights, David Williamson. -
Jack Maggs
15 Nov — 30 Nov 2024
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival CentreWorld PremierePeter Carey’s best-selling and Miles Franklin Award-winning “reworking” of Charles Dickens’ canonical novel Great Expectations, Jack Maggs comes alive on stage in a sweeping new adaptation by South Australian playwright Samuel Adamson. -
Starweaver
25 Jun — 6 Jul 2024
The Void, Flinders University Drama CentreStatesideCrafted with a cutting-edge blend of CGI and gaming technology, Starweaver promises to be an urgent and unforgettable science-fiction epic. -
Shore Break
3 Sep — 7 Sep 2024
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival CentreStatesideShore Break tells the story of a man brought up in an emotionally illiterate, culturally bereft world. Bumping through childhood and adolescence into adulthood, he is consumed by awkwardness, confusion, anger and an inability to connect.