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Evie (aged 8), Dr Pamela Wall AO, Douglas Gautier AM, CEO and Artistic Director of Adelaide Festival Centre, Leila (15) and Emerson (10) at Adelaide Festival Centre.
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$10 million philanthropic gift will support Adelaide Festival Centre’s arts programming

Dr Pamela Wall AO’s $10 million pledge is the largest performing arts donation ever made in South Australian history.

Trio Da Kali played as part of Chamber Landscapes 2025 'Horizon' and 'Dialogue in Sound' at Adelaide Festival 2025.
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Music reviews: Horizons Chamber Landscapes 2025 and Dialogues in Sound, Adelaide Festival 2025

A concert that offered hope for the world and a rousing musical statement in a gilded Victorian concert hall.

L-R: Soprano Claire de Sévigné and clarinettist Lloyd Van’t Hoff made beautiful music together at Adelaide Festival 2025.
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Music review: Daylight Express, Elder Hall, Adelaide Festival 2025

Six exquisitely fashioned gems as part of a two-week series of lunchtime recitals at Elder Hall, The University of Adelaide.

A man in drag on stage. There is a band behind him.
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Performance reviews: Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Camille O’Sullivan: Loveletter, Adelaide Festival

Two Adelaide Festival shows look to the past, but with varying degrees of success.

A chalk drawing of a figure on the ground. There is someone dressed as a king and a detective overlooking it.
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Performance review: Dropped in It: Crime Scene Improvisation, Adelaide Fringe

An improvised crime scene comedy where one-liners and terrible puns could prove deadlier than any weapon.

A scene from Forced Entertainment's 'Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare' at Adelaide Festival 2025.
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If all the world’s a stage, why can’t the stage be a Shakespearean table top?

Forced Entertainment’s Tim Etchells describes the inspiration for and the development of the company’s ‘Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare’.

A two-storey structure, with separate rooms. There is a conductor at the front.
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Opera review: Innocence, Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival

A complex and multilayered production about collective guilt and trauma that deployed different languages and singing styles.

Rocío Molina, a dancing wearing a big ruffly pale blue dress. She is lying on the grown with her legs in the air that are covered by the flounces of the dress.
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Dance review: Caída del Cielo (Fallen from Heaven), Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide Festival

Flamenco dance and theatre about the agony and ecstasy of womanhood.

A young man and an older man are staring at blank canvas. Shellshocked.
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Theatre review: Shellshocked, Holden Street Theatres, Adelaide Fringe Festival

The psychological ravages of war laid bare in unexpected ways. 

Women of the Soweto Choir in colourful clothing.
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Performance reviews: Hope and Gluttony, Adelaide Fringe Festival

A choir full of hope and other assorted goodies in this year's Adelaide Fringe.

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