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

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 is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts