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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 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.

Sebastian Geilings, Yilin Kong and Patrick O'Luanaigh from ADT's 'A Quiet Language'.
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Turning 60 in style: Australian Dance Theatre leaps from the stage to the gallery wall

AD Daniel Riley describes the birth of ADT and an accompanying exhibition documenting the company’s six decades of dance-making.

Irish actor Stephen Rea in Samuel Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape' at Adelaide Festival 2025. The photograph depicts Rea, an older fair-skinned man with an unruly shock of greying hair, hunched over an old reel-to-reel tape deck to which he listens anxiously.
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Theatre review: Krapp’s Last Tape with Stephen Rea, Adelaide Festival 2025

A masterful actor performs Beckett’s masterpiece about the inevitable march of time: an unmissable production.

Sebastian Geilings in Australian Dance Theatre's 'A Quiet Language', Adelaide Festival 2025.
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Dance review: A Quiet Language, Australian Dance Theatre, Adelaide Festival 2025

A complex, compelling production, by turns anguished and joyous, angry and elegiac, honouring six decades of radical dance history.

Stephen Rea in 'Krapp's Last Tape', one of many international productions in the 2025 Adelaide Festival. The lugubrious, lined, character-rich face of Irish actor Stephen Rea, who sits at a table bearing an old-fashioned reel-to-reel tape recorder.
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Adelaide Festival 2025 brings the world to South Australia

An array of international acts join First Nations artists and Australian companies for the 40th Adelaide Festival.

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