Celebrating audacious art made at Cabaret Fringe

Adelaide Cabaret Fringe Festival returns for 2023 with a new Festival Hub designed to bring emerging, regional and established artists together.

19 May 2023 10:00

Richard Watts

Cabaret

The sense of intimacy created between audience and performer at the Adelaide Cabaret Fringe Festival is a central aspect of the art form’s appeal. Photo: Supplied.

‘The magic of cabaret is that connection with the audience, and that cannot be replicated,’ says Simone DiSisto, Assistant Producer of the Adelaide Cabaret Fringe Festival.

‘You cannot have any one show that is the same. It’s all about that interaction between the acts and the audience, and about that moment in time.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts