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Collective effort programs 23rd Adelaide Cabaret Festival

Why settle for just one Artistic Director when you can have nine?

27 Mar 2023 15:11

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

Sarah-Louise Young will perform ‘An Evening Without Kate Bush’ at this year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Photo: Steve Ullathorne.

To honour the Adelaide Festival Centre turning 50 in 2023, each of the Centre’s in-house festivals – including OzAsia, DreamBIG and Adelaide Guitar Festival – are doing something a little special this year.

In the case of Adelaide Cabaret Festival, a composite program reflecting the individual tastes of nine former artistic directors has been created – with several of the directors in question claiming their own moment in the spotlight.

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Richard Watts

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 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts