Slingsby Theatre Company’s 2026 production to be its last

The South Australian company will wind up in its 20th year with a final, ambitious work.
Peering inside the set design for the final Slingsby production, 'A Concise Compendium of Wonder'. In the photo, a man peers through a small doorway into the interior of the model.

Adelaide theatre company Slingsby has announced its effective closure in 2026, the company’s 20th year of operation.

Slingsby will premiere its current project in development, A Concise Compendium of Wonder, at the 2026 Adelaide Festival (and also hopes to subsequently tour the work both nationally and internationally), after which the company will cease making new work.

The company’s precise end point is not definitive, Slingsby’s Artistic Director and CEO Andy Packer tells ArtsHub, ‘but the fact that we won’t be making any more work after this is really, definitely, the beginning of winding up the company’.

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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 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