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YEP Session Dates 9 Mar - 11 Mar
Sometimes the little stories mean just as much as the big ones. Two young women discover a suitcase of letters and photographs. Each artefact unravels another tale about inspirational Australian women who preserve through isolation and loneliness. First performed at the Come Alive Festival National Museum of Australia Canberra.
THEATRE (ACT)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Reception - Year 12
Q&A and Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 4 Mar - 12 Mar
What does it take to commit the perfect murder? A locked room, arcane clues, an eccentric detective, and a lifetime of experience. In this Comedy-Thriller the last great English murder-mystery novelists, incensed by the demise of their genre decide to revive interest in their style of murder...by committing one themselves!
THEATRE (SA)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Please note: this event contains mild depictions of violence
Suitable for: Year 10-12
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 25 Feb - 2 Mar
African Souls Ghanaian musicians, led by Bortier Okoe, look at how rhythm is part of life, exploring Ghanaian rituals (pounding food, carrying a baby, balancing water). Experience luscious vocal harmonies, stimulating rhythms, dynamic dances. Be moved, uplifted, inspired and take away some African culture and a smile on your face.
MUSIC-WORLD MUSIC (SA/GHA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Reception - Year 12
Q&A and Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 26 Feb - 6 Mar
A solo performance. In the world of Alice's clown, tampons are delicious, a spotlight is a nuisance, and metro tickets are the transport vessels for tiny people. Join Alice on her whimsical journey into the little things with whom we share our world. Come prepared to be surprised.
THEATRE (NSW)
Suitable for: Year 3-12
Performance can be adapted to audience age group
Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 18 Feb - 28 Feb
Andreea shares tales from her life: working with Martin Luther King, and on the original Star Trek. Her runaway slave ancestor, Watts Riot, and hair wars. Grab your chance for plenty of laughs and a few tears. This charismatic, engaging 70 year old storyteller won't be around forever. Q&A
THEATRE (NSW)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 10-12
Q&A avaliable
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 3 Mar - 10 Mar
'FAST PACED & OFF THE WALL' Award winning Mind Reader, Anthony Laye... "Knows what you're thinking" Fun and engaging, this elegant and dynamically produced show pulls you to the edge of your seat, then slaps you in the subconscious. "If mind reading is possible it must look like this".
CABARET-THEATRE (NSW)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Suitable for: Year 10-12
Additional daytime sessions & Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 19 Feb - 25 Feb
Salem and Kent are sunburnt and sick, struggling with "la turista". Sam Shepard's first two-act play takes the audience on a bizarre journey through Mexico and America as Kent struggles with his health and mental wellbeing. Come along as applekam returns to the Fringe with Sam Shepard's 'La Turista'.
THEATRE (SA)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Please note: This event contains mild depictions of violence, mild adult themes and mild coarse language
Suitable for: Year 10-12
Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 20 Feb - 13 Mar
This is four talented sisters from Tehran reviving traditional Iranian puppetry. The Bald Hero is the colourful legend of greedy hero Pahlevan and naughty servant Mobarek fighting monsters and ghosts to win the hand of an Indian Princess. Accompanied by traditional Persian music, it is an absolute cultural delight. (In English)
PUPPETRY (IRAN)
Age Suitability: Family Friendly
Suitable for: Year 3 - 12
Teachers Notes and Q&A available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
New Sessions bookings only
A gorgeous family show about how to live bravely in a big world - told using acrobatics, clowning and a whole lot of cardboard boxes! "One of the most beautiful pieces of family theatre I have seen" MICF review. Winners 'Best Family Show' Melbourne Fringe 2009 and 2010!
CIRCUS (VIC)
Age Suitability: Family Friendly
Suitable for: Reception - Year 12
Q&A and Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 21 Feb - 26 Feb
Jessica has just moved in and has fallen in love with her handsome ten year old neighbour. The problem is he's convinced he's an astronaut and is building a rocket ship on his front lawn. He's also a bit of an a**hole. Can love survive an intergalactic separation?
THEATRE (NSW)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Suitable for: Year 11-12
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 2 Mar - 10 Mar
Paul has a shocking secret. At home he is a loving husband and father. At work he administers the Cut. In a deeply divided society, Paul struggles with his conscience in this new play about the choices we all face in the shadows between good and evil, progress and tradition.
THEATRE (NSW/SA)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Please note: this event contains frequent coarse language
Suitable for: Year 10-12
Teachers Notes available, Q&A subject to group size
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 2 Mar - 10 Mar
A tale of our desires and the sad faces they can create. Don't get me wrong this is a rad awesome comedy show. Bart Freebairn is a wonderful performer. Don't miss out. "...a joy to watch" The Age **** " ...turns ordinary tales into wonderful adventures" Adelaide Advertiser ****
COMEDY (VIC)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Please note: this event contains mild coarse language and adult themes
Suitable for: Year 10-12
Q&A and Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 19 Feb - 6 Mar
A spellbinding show to transcend you to exotic cabarets of Cairo & beyond. Nayima Hassan & cast will dazzle you with glittering solos & enchanting troupe dances. This colourful kaleidoscope celebrates magnificent dances of Arabia with glimpses of Bollywood glamour. From Belly to Delhi, Cairo to Calcutta, Viva World Dance!
DANCE-WORLD DANCE (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Reception - Year 12
Q&A available by negotiation
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 15 Feb - 2 Mar
Siren and Sailor, brought together by chance. A shipwreck and blowhole, their killer romance. Down and dirty award-winning cabaret artist Tommy Bradson retells Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Little Mermaid'. "Raw, gritty, littered with expletives and pulsating with a soundtrack intended to shock."(The Pun). The Advertiser **** Adelaide Theatre Guide *****
CABARET
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Please note: This event contains adult themes
Suitable for: Year 11-12
Q&A available (in-school visit)
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 19 Feb - 20 Feb
Six players create Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' with a flurry of swords, physical characterisations, blood, mud, bare feet and live music. Body in Space presents a minimalist tragedy that brings Shakespeare's words to life as never before. "A visibly breathtaking show. It felt almost invasive to watch." Nelson Mail
THEATRE (NZ)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Please note: this event contains sexual references and strong depictions of violence
Suitable for: Year 10-12
Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 16 Feb - 27 Feb
Ghosts = Scary.
Sharks = Scary.
Ghost Sharks = Sh*t your pants.
Introducing the comedy/horror monsterbaby of 'JAWS' and 'League of Gentlemen.' Funnymen Mark Trenwith and Scott John team with wordsmith Caleb Lewis (Death in Bowengabbie) to tell a classic 'fish out of water tale' about fish out of water.
COMEDY (NSW / SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Please note: this event contains mild depictions of violence
Suitable for: Year 8-12
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 23 Feb - 3 Mar
Skip Miller doesn't take pretty pictures. A celebrated frontline photojournalist, he's spent years documenting the war zones of Africa and the faces of the dispossessed. Just like the people he photographs, he's caught between two worlds, searching for a sense of belonging and place... and the next best shot.
THEATRE (SA)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Please note: this event contains occasional coarse language
Suitable for: Year 10-12
Q&A available after 23 Feb & 3 Mar performances.
Teachers Notes available.
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 11 Feb - 13 Mar
Welcome to a swamp like no other. Bickering toads, overbearing fairies and a rather gentle swamp monster. Using shadow puppetry, acclaimed Canadian performer Jeff Achtem debuts an inventive new show about life in a swamp. "Something really exceptional" The Advertiser, "Inventive and quirky, a bizarre talent" ***** Fest Mag.
PUPPETRY (CAN)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 3 - 12
Also offering in-school puppet workshops
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 3 Mar - 5 Mar
British Music Hall songs with a good dollop of comedy. Something musical, something lyrical, something witty, something ever so pun-ishingly English! **** Kryztoff, "Fringe Festival Pick" Sydney Morning Herald, "loads of comedy & will leave you wanting more" GlamAdelaide, "Don't miss this show" DBmagazine, Sold-Out 2010 Adelaide Fringe.
CABARET (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 3-12
Q&A and Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 19 Feb - 5 Mar
Multi-award winng perormed and author Cal Williams Jr brings his internationally acclaimed book 'The Guitar Toolbox' to life in an interactive and exciting guitar workshop. Learn the secrets of lead and rhythm guitar and take part in an instant group jam.
MUSIC (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 5-12
Q&A and Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 9 Mar - 12 Mar
Local Adelaide comics Angus Hodge (Green Faces National Finalist) and Chris Knight (Green Faces SA State Finalist) are on a quest to create one good joke, until a portal in space and time complicates things. Using stand-up, sketches and hilarious storytelling, will they succeed or will they end time itself?
COMEDY (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Please note: This event contains mild coarse language and mild depictions of violence
Suitable for: Year 8-12
Q&A available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 18 Feb - 13 Mar
Back for their third Adelaide Fringe, the award winning - Voice of Transition - presents a new venue and show. 'No Strings Attached' showcases this versatile vocal ensemble. While performing Jazz, Broadway, Rock and everything in between, you will be captivated as they move through original arrangements with harmonic ease and passion.
MUSIC (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 8-12
Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 24 Feb - 26 Feb
An imaginative transformation of a child's bedroom that lives and breathes when the lights go out. Using puppetry, percussion and playfulness we conquer Kat's fears of the dark by making friends with her once scary bedroom furniture. Join Kat's journey of magical heartfelt moments to a fear free slumber!
THEATRE - PHYSICAL THEATRE (SA)
Age Suitability: Family Friendly (FF)
Suitable for: Reception - Year 4
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 8 Mar - 12 Mar
This Fringe, meet the house sitters. They're young... they're in love... they're killing time. And people. In association with applekam Theatre Company, Writer and Director Alberto Di Troia's debut piece is one not to be missed.
THEATRE - PERFORMANCE ART (SA)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Please note: This event contains coarse language, sexual references and mild depictions of violence
Suitable for: Year 10-12
Teachers Notes & in-school Q&A available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 22 Feb - 25 Feb
Join the 'zanni' on a mission to solve a festa doomed! When news breaks that Isabella can't marry her love Flavio, some simple-minded servants decide to help...but they can't do it alone! A very audience interactive Commedia dell'Arte performance showcasing the original form of this highly physical and comical craft!
THEATRE - PHYSICAL THEATRE (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Reception - Year 7
Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 22 Feb - 5 Feb
Join the 'zanni' on a mission to solve a festa doomed! When news breaks that Isabella can't marry her love Flavio, some simple-minded servants decide to help...but they can't do it alone! A very audience interactive Commedia dell'Arte performance showcasing the original form of this highly physical and comical craft!
THEATRE - PHYSICAL THEATRE (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 7 - 12
Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 11 Mar - 11 Mar
A funny and moving journey into the soul of creativity, starring AFI-nominee Elaine Hudson. Playfully juxtaposing modern gizmos and period finery, video and daguerreotypes, and music from classical to grunge, I Am Not Emily Dickinson is about the joyful, frightening, and magical act of being yourself.
THEATRE (NSW)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
Q&A and Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 27 Feb - 27 Feb
Clarinet virtuoso Mark Walton brings to the Fringe a revealing exposé of home truths and family secrets about the king of the woodwind family: the clarinet! This highly respected, charismatic, popular figure in the Australian and NZ musical scene will present to you, quirky, highly enjoyable and educational family entertainment.
MUSIC (SA/VIC)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 5 - 12
Q&A available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 28 Feb - 4 Mar
Can you cook chicken with explosives? You don't have to be a Master Chef to be a Food Dude. A show for anyone who's cooked chops in a toaster. "Hilarious... Stunning... Just don't book him for a catering gig" THE AGE. "Quite possibly the funniest man in the world!" HYPOACTIVE.
COMEDY (VIC)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Please note: This event contains coarse language and sexual references
Suitable for: Year 9 - 12
Q&A sessions subject to availability
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 3 Mar - 13 Mar
A hopelessly unhinged, fiendishly absurd man-child, Dr. Professor Neal Portenza goes to hilarious physical & grammatical extremes to achieve relatively straightforward tasks, being the only man ever to be shot by a fish in a barrel on stage. "Another dastardly trick!" - Groggy Squirrel. "...no ordinary performance." - Buzzcuts. www.1985.com.au
COMEDY (VIC)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitabile for: Year 5 - 12
Q&A available (in-school)
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 28 Feb - 28 Feb
Follow the surprising journey of a magic hat as it flies through your imagination changing dullardry into delight. See Mem Fox's lyrical text told and retold through shadow puppetry, song and movement by three blundering wizards. "IT ROCKS!" (Tom, age 5). "I HAD THE BEST TIME EVER!!!" (Matilda, age 7).
THEATRE (NSW/VIC)
Age Suitability: Family Friendly
Suitable for: Reception - Year 2
Q&A available on 28 Feb
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 11 Mar - 13 Mar
Exit the world you know...again. Re-enter a fully immersive Steampunk universe-of-yesteryear. A brand new show full of top hats, diabolical plots, derring-do, corsets and stiff-upper-lips. Join the crew of the intrepid Olympia for a steam powered, moustache curling adventure! Dressing the part essential. Visit www.adelaidesteampunk.info for inspiration & character pre-registration.
THEATRE-PHYSICAL THEATRE (SA)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Suitable for: Year 10-12
Q&A's and Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 9 Mar - 11 Mar
An exhilarating fusion of text, imagery and sound, Also a Mirror is a poetic exploration of the loss of memory. A bittersweet and hypnotic interweaving of souls, retreating behind the tangled veil of the past. This exciting new work is performed by an ensemble of Adelaide's finest young actors.
THEATRE - CROSS ARTFORM (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 8 - 12
Q&A and Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 21 Feb - 10Mar
An animated and interactive 3D tour of the solar system. Enjoy the ride as we visit the planets, from scorching Mercury to planetary outcast, Pluto. Join us on this interactive journey of discovery through the solar system and experience the infinite beauty of space in this 3D spectacular!
FILM&VIDEO (SA)
Age Suitability: Family Friendly
Suitable for: Reception - Year 7
Q&A and Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 18 Feb - 11 Mar
Language is a tool that is used to separate people with disabilities from "normal" society, and to negatively characterise their experiences as being different and separate. A series of work that challenges society's perception of people with disabilities and challenge the wide spread use of "disabalist" language.
VISUAL ART - PHOTOGRAPHY (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Please note: This event contains adult themes
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
Q&A available with artist
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 28 Feb - 4 Mar
Harry lives for procedure. How will he cope when Mr Herbert, screeching tyres and an overly positive personal coach intervene? "You can't do that, that's not how you use LEGO." A quirky, physical and comedic performance twisting Harry inside out. "Girod captivates the audience, an excellent night out." Australian Stage.
THEATRE (WA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 11 - 12
Q&A after daytime sessions, Teachers Notes and a workshop available.
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 23 Feb - 26 Feb
Could texting have saved Romeo and Juliet? @shakespeare.com Shakespeare and technology collide! The result - a dramatic and hilarious expose of modern communication using the most famous of the bard's themes, plots and characters. The NDU collective uses all the techniques of modern performance practice in this amazing devised performance!
THEATRE - PHYSICAL THEATRE (WA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 8 - 12
Q&A after daytime sessions availability
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 19 Feb - 13 Mar
This incredible 19-year-old is an Adelaide-based award winning singer/songwriter, whose acoustic/pop music draws on her experiences in the Kalahari, and Nepal as World Vision's 2010 Youth Ambassador. With 3 sold out Fringe shows in 2010, Georgia, together with her talented sisters, Clara and Ella, are bound to impress in 2011.
MUSIC (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Reception - Year 12
Q&A sessions possible (subject to availability)
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 21-Feb 25-Feb
Winner of Best Kids' Show@ Melbourne Comedy Festival with their side splitting comedy, awesome acrobatics, juggling, slapstick and music mayhem. After sell-out shows in Melbourne, Sydney & Edinburgh, don't miss this hilarious physical comedy show for kids all ages, especially 0-8s! "High on energy, smiles, skill and laughter." - ThreeWeeks UK.
CIRCUS
Age Suitability: Family Friendly
Suitable for: Reception - Year 2
Q&A after daytime sessions (subject to availability)
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 23 Feb - 2 Mar
Join the adventure as we take you on a musical journey to explore the world around us. Learn about what lives under the sea and the different plants that grow in your garden plot. Giggly Kids invites families and especially people aged 2 to 8 to explore and have fun.
MUSIC-CROSS ARTFORM (SA)
Age Suitability: Family Friendly
Suitable for: Reception - Year 2
Q&A sessions possible
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 26 Feb - 27 Feb
This award-winning Irish/Iranian comedian debuts in Australia with a hilarious, new family show. Stand up, stories including 'The Amazing Adventures of Towel Man' and 'Sinbad The Fat Cat' and dancing! "Instantly Loveable, wonderfully unique" Metro Magazine Big Hearted Show *****LIST Children in stitches*****FESTIVAL MAGAZINE
COMEDY (UK)
Age Suitability: Family Friendly
Suitable for: Reception - Year 7
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 18 Feb - 27 Feb
9 PERFORMANCES ONLY! One of the most globally successful shows of the decade. The Führer's bunker, Berlin 1945. Hitler settles into pre-suicidal contemplation. But actor Pip Utton has an astounding sting for his tale. Utterly provocative. Totally necessary. Everyone should experience it. Challenging theatre at its best. Director: Guy Masterson.
THEATRE (UK)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Please note: This event contains depictions of violence and adult themes
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
Q&A sessions possible (min group size 15). This presenter is also offering a workshop program.
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 26-Feb 27-Feb
2 SHOWS ONLY! Masterson's raucous 2008 hit is back, tackling the UK-US "special relationship". A screwball hybrid of twisted thinking. Caustic, black, sharp, clever, hyper-articulate, inspired! "As refreshing as a cold shower!" ***** (Edinburghguide.com) **** "Strap yourself in as it's a full-throttle ride! Physically vibrant theatre ... Turbo-charged history" (Advertiser)
THEATRE (UK)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 8 - 12
Q&A sessions possible (min group size 15). This presenter is also offering a workshop program.
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 26 Feb - 27 Feb
2 SHOWS ONLY! 2008's sell-out returns. Hermann Goering, Hitler's #2, Luftwaffe creator, Death Camps instigator, stood tall at the Nuremberg Trials. His defence was astounding; logically brilliant but morally indefensible. In a "Blitzkrieg of a performance!" (Edinburghguide) Ross Gurney-Randall (Mussolini) delivers a powerful, acute anatomy of fascism. Writer-Director: Guy Masterson
THEATRE (UK)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Please note: This event contains adult themes.
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
Q&A sessions possible (min group size 15). This presenter is also offering a workshop program.
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 18 Feb - 13 Mar
Elizabeth I: Queen at 25, political phoenix, famously unmarried and the most educated woman of her Age!! but who was the woman beneath the crown? In Elizabeth's own words, performer Rebecca Vaughan and director Guy Masterson (Austen's Women) explore the Queen's struggle to reconcile womanhood's desires with sovereignty's duties.
THEATRE (UK)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 8 - 12
Q&A sessions possible (min group size 15). This presenter is also offering a workshop program.
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 18 Feb - 13 Mar
1920's Italy is on the brink of bankruptcy and divided by disastrous war. Parliament stinks and no-one knows what to do. Sound familiar? But Benito Mussolini - the devout socialist who invented Fascism - has the answers... Writer-performer Ross Gurney-Randall (Follow Me, Goering's Defence) is violently funny and dangerously worrying.
THEATRE (UK)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Please note: This event contains adult themes
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
Q&A sessions possible (min group size 15). This presenter is also offering a workshop program.
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 5 Mar - 13 Mar
2009'S SMASH HIT RETURNS FOR 4 SHOWS ONLY! A struggling student begs her professor for help... she gets something very different. David Mamet's brilliantly divisive, volcanic masterpiece with internationally acclaimed duo Guy Masterson (Under Milk Wood) and Adelaide-born, Joanne Hartstone. **** "Masterson and Hartstone excel!" (Advertiser). "An absolute must-see!" (TimesUK).
THEATRE (UK)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
Q&A sessions possible (min group size 15). This presenter is also offering a workshop program.
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 18 Feb - 13 Mar
1928. D. H. Lawrence is a very ill man fulminating against the dying of the light. Brilliantly devised from Lawrence's early writings and the reminiscences of his family, friends and contemporaries. A vivid portrait of a complex, vibrant son and romantic lover. A deliriously literate masterpiece. Directed by Guy Masterson.
THEATRE (UK)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 8 - 12
Q&A sessions possible (min group size 15). This presenter is also offering a workshop program.
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 20 Feb - 27 Feb
7 SHOWS ONLY! GUY MASTERSON'S NEW SHOW. The tragic, funny and often unbelievable life of fiction's most famous Jew, Shylock... Villain? Victim? ... or something even more intriguing? Celebrating Shakespeare's richness, this dazzling, moving, witty journey brings Shylock to life, history to the forefront and magic to the stage.
THEATRE (UK)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 8 - 12
Q&A sessions possible (min group size 15). This presenter is also offering a workshop program.
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 18 Feb - 13 Mar
Amnesty Award nominee Richard Fry (Bully) returns to Adelaide with a brilliant new play about drink driving, disability and 'Right Said Fred'. Based on Fry's own friendship with a young man living with a head injury, SMILER is a heartbreaking and uplifting spasticated love story. ***** "Exceptional...Razor Sharp!" (ThreeWeeks)
THEATRE (UK)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Please note: This event contains coarse language and adult themes
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
Q&A sessions possible (min group size 15). This presenter is also offering a workshop program
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 18 Feb - 13 Mar
Darkly comic, quirky, seductive: From Luke Rhinehart's cult book, 'The Dice Man' - a psychiatrist abandons every decision to the dice. Underplayed menace and delicate humour. "Novel and intriguing." (The Guardian), "Excellent comic theatre!" (Scotsman) "Adapted brilliantly." (Luke Rhinehart). Gavin Robertson (12 Angry Men, Thunderbirds FAB) & Nicholas Collett.
THEATRE (UK)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Please note: This event contains occasional depictions of violence
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
Q&A sessions possible (min group size 15). This presenter is also offering a workshop program
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 2 Mar - 10 Mar
5 Exciting new workshops/masterclasses for all performers and theatre lovers - lead by renowned international CIT artists.
THEATRE (UK)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 8 - 12
Q&A sessions possible (min group size 15)
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
2 March:
BIOGRAPHICAL THEATRE – HOW TO GO FROM HISTORY PAGE TO STAGE
3 March:
VOCAL TECHNIQUE, ACCENTS AND DIALOGUE
4 March:
MIME – LANGUAGE OF THE BODY
9 March:
PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE FOR ACTORS
10 March:
HOW TO PRODUCE AN EDINBURGH FRINGE SHOW
YEP Session Dates 23 Feb - 4 Mar
Can she juggle plums? Or hula-hoop with fruit? Now you can find out. The Very Circusy Caterpillar is a story inspired by Eric Carle's classic book. Come and watch in awe as the caterpillar reveals her circusy side.
CIRCUS (VIC)
Age Suitability: Family Friendly
Suitable for: Reception - Year 2
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 24 Feb - 26 Feb
The phrase "strap yourselves in" has never been used so literally! Blurring the lines between performance and roadtrip, Here Comes the Son is a magical experience, a campfire, a Coca-Cola commercial from the sixties and most notably, an acoustic guitar, contained within a van that speeds into the surreal.
THEATRE (VIC)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Please note: This event contains occasional coarse language
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
Q&A sessions possible
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 11 Mar - 13 Mar
The littlest travelling circus is throwing big tricks in this magical cabaret! A toy box full of spellbinding acrobatics, juggling, hulahoops and more, this wind-up carnival is about to take off! Let Le Petit Circus pack you up with them as they journey to the heart of the circus ring!
CIRCUS (VIC)
Age Suitability: Family Friendly
Suitable for: Reception - Year 7
Q&A sessions possible
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 11 Mar - 13 Mar
There's mystery at the Circus! Connie Contortion, the Magician's assistant, has vanished, leaving the performers in an uproar! Where has she vanished to, and who could have done it? Can Mr E. Solver, the world's greatest detective unravel this most mysterious mystery? A hilariously silly and fantastically funny kids' show!
CIRCUS (VIC)
Age Suitability: Family Friendly
Suitable for: Year 3 - 7
Q&A sessions possible
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 11 Mar - 13 Mar
Rosie Nose is on an adventure. With a suitcase of full of treasures and tricks she is determined to create a world of magical proportions. Combining puppetry, mime and more than a little wonder, this is a truly enchanting show for both the young and the young at heart.
CIRCUS (VIC)
Age Suitability: Family Friendly
Suitable for: Reception - Year 7
Q&A sessions possible
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 11 Mar - 13 Mar
Skilled up, toned up and growing up! Australia's premier youth-run circus comes of age in this high-energy circus extravaganza! Tumbling, table-sliding, juggling and more! In response to a world of great expectations, this dynamic troupe talks back! Winner: 'Best Circus Show' (2009/2006), 'Best Family Show' (2006), Melbourne Fringe Festival.
CIRCUS (VIC)
Age Suitability: Family Friendly
Suitable for: Reception - Year 8
Q&A sessions possible
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 11 Mar - 13 Mar
37 plays, over 100 characters, 3 actors, in 50 minutes: Shakespeare never had it so easy! Join Rough&Tumble Theatre for an outrageous comedy covering the trials, tragedies and tongue-in-cheek misadventures from the most celebrated playwright in Western literature. An irreverent, lively caper, direct from a sell-out and extended Melbourne season!
THEATRE (VIC)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
Q&A's and Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 11 Mar - 13 Mar
Love, lust and a firm, reliable chair. Whatever the object of your affection, Full-Skirted Productions has your secret obsession covered. In a performance that's a mixture of stand-up comedy, dramatic monologue and absurdity, this two-woman show will make you think twice about that age-old theme - lurve!
THEATRE (VIC)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Please note: This event contains adult themes and mild sexual references
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
Q&A's and Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 24 Feb - 26 Feb
Just a Little Music is an extravaganza of songs from many popular musicals such as The King & I, Carousel, Cats, Oklahoma and the show has many Rock N Roll numbers. Hosted by Dame Delilah Davies, the hostess with the mostest. A show which is fun fun fun!
CABARET-MUSIC (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Reception - Year 12
Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 21 Feb - 3 Mar
Threatened by bankruptcy, fishing trawler THE VIOLET's crew are forced to battle each other's egos, their 'lives' and a relentless storm. Risk life or go home with nothing? Salted with sea and tears, passionately told, dynamically performed. Storytelling at its best. Delightful and Powerful. WINNER Holden Street Theatres Edinburgh Award.
THEATRE (UK)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 8 - 12
Teachers Notes available, Q&A's possible 21-24 Feb & 1-3 Mar.
Also offering a workshop based on this production.
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 21 Feb - 3 Mar
Paris 1945. Christiane waits to be reunited with her English fiancé. A tender, comic portrayal of one woman's experience of love and war from 'best solo performance' (Stage Awards 2010). FINALIST Holden Street Theatres Edinburgh Award 2009 & 2010. Comic theatre at its most moving and inspiring. www.carolinehorton.net
THEATRE (UK)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 8 - 12
Teachers Notes available, Q&A's possible 21-24 Feb & 1-3 Mar
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 21 Feb - 7 Mar
Experience THE-BEST-OF-THE-FEST-IMPROVISORS competing in the red-raw, full-contact "smack-down" that is TheatreSports(TM). In this high energy fusion of theatre and stand-up-comedy, national/international teams sing, dance, mime, whatever it takes to earn audience scores and avoid the Hanging Judge's elimination horn. The victors perform their Fringe show in-a-minute. SOLD OUT SINCE 2004.
COMEDY (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 3 - 12
Q&A's possible after 27 Feb session and Teachers Notes available. Also offering workshops in Theatre Sports and Improvisation.
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 24 Feb - 5 Mar
A dance comedy about consumerism, conformation and ties. Developed for audience engagement, Jade takes you on a journey of late-night advertising and our love of 'things'. Features a short work by Jay Mullan. "Wow! My imagination was ushered through a city of inspiration". "Bloody hell, this was good." - Festival Freak.
DANCE-CONTEMPORARY (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 3 - 12
Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 7 Mar - 13 Mar
Snow White is growing more beautiful every day and the 'wicked' Queen has become jealous. In this inter-active play, children will enjoy role-playing as they are invited onto the stage to become characters, including THE COOL DUDES... who love to rap. An educational and interactive stage play for age 3-10.
THEATRE (QLD)
Age Suitability: Family Friendly
Suitable for: Reception - Year 4
Cast Meet & Greet, Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 17 Feb - 26 Feb
"heartbreakingly beautiful"- ASO 24 hours. 8 stories. 1 city. Surrounded by a visual world of graphic novel and street expression, a lone storyteller riffs on a day in the metropolitan playground. 8 personal perspectives, delivered in DefJam style, telling of the unique experience of living as one in many millions.
THEATRE-CROSS ARTFORM (NSW)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
Teachers Notes available. Also offering workshops in creating theatre, slam poetry and audio-visual elements in theatre.
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 23 Feb - 25 Feb
Informed by the stories of the Ngarrindjeri people, Min Min will ask audiences to see into the relationship Aboriginal people have with country, exploring the ways Aboriginal perspectives offer explanations to events that differ from those of the mainstream.
DANCE-CONTEMPORARY (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 3 - 12
Q&A's possible (min group size 50)
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 15 Feb - 10 Mar
Good ol' award-winning comic, David Quirk's new show is about the dreams he's had, the sins he's committed and the stories that haven't happened, but he'll tell anyway. What becomes of a boy who once ate wombat? "Radical, dark and hilariously appalling." The Scotsman. "Blunt, brazen and brilliant" The Age.
COMEDY (VIC)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
Q&A's and workshops possible (subject to negotiation)
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 15 Feb - 10 Mar
After kicking arse all over the country, Felicity Ward (Spicks & Specks, Thank God You're Here) is back with a brand new, standup show: Honestly. There are jokes and stories about chimps and toddlers. Any questions? **** The Scotsman "This is one of the funniest shows I've seen this year."
COMEDY (VIC)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
Q&A's and workshops possible (subject to negotiation)
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 15 Feb - 10 Mar
The winners of Best Show at the 2010 Melbourne Comedy Festival return with a brand new comedy extravaganza! Join everyone's favourite skinny man and purple puppet as they sing, joke and swear their way through domestic misadventures at Ricketts Lane. As seen on Good News Week. "Fiendishly talented" - Scotsman, Edinburgh
COMDEY (VIC)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
Q&A's and workshops possible (subject to negotiation)
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 15 Feb - 10 Mar
Smart Casual have taken a year off show biz. Year off options? 1. Be do-gooder suck-ups and volunteer in a third world country (yucky!) 2. Join an old sea captain for an adventure around the world. (shweet) They picked option two, and they're back to tell us about it.
COMEDY (NSW)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Please note: This event contains mild coarse language
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
Q&A's and workshops possible
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
New session bookings only (18, 24 Feb & 3-9 Mar)
Australia's Leading Female Ventriloquist, Lindi Jane presents, Snap's Kakadu Club for ages 3-100! Featuring, Snap Crocodilous the cheeky crocodile and his kakadu mates. Lindi Jane is Children's Ambassador for Kidney Health Australia and won best original show in Dubai 2009! Don't miss clever ventriloquism, singing, educational themes, dance and comedy.
PUPPETRY
Age Suitability: Family Friendly
Suitable for: Reception - Year 7
Q&A's possible (subject to negotiation)
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 20 Feb - 6 Mar
Jazz + World Grooves + Fun = Marmalade Circus. "What I wasn't prepared for was the whimsical humour and showmanship & the enthusiasm and virtuosity with which they played was infectious, and without having heard any of the material before this was the best night out I've had for quite a while." RIPITUP, 2010.
MUSIC (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 3 - 12
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
3 Mar
Mr Snot-Bottom is HERE! A hysterical kids comedian with stinky gags, gross tricks and deeeeeesgusting puppets! Plus every child gets a balloon animal!! Ideal for 5-10 year olds. Starring comedian Mark Trenwith! 40 minute show + balloon making time! And the show is above an ice cream shop!! YEAHH!!
COMEDY (SA)
Age Suitability: Family Friendly
Suitable for: Reception - Year 4
Teachers Notes available.
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 11 Feb - 23 Feb
"Best of Fest"-Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Orlando Fringes. Trekking deep into Africa, a man demands an Epiphany. Any Epiphany at all. Hilarious, heartbreaking, & true. "A tour de force."-Orlando Sentinel. Seven 5-star reviews in North America. "OMFG funny!"-Star Phoenix. "Very close to perfect."-Toronto Eye Weekly. "A must-see!"-Vancouver Sun.
COMEDY (USA)
Suitable for: Year 8 - 12
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
27 Feb
After a successful 2010 Fringe season, the all-female drumming group Matsuri Taiko are back with a new show. 'Urban Soundscapes' combines experiences of modern city culture from both Japan and Australia. Matsuri Taiko combines multimedia with the performance, presenting their experiences of Japan and of Japanese culture within Australia.
MUSIC-WORLD MUSIC (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Reception - Year 12
Teachers Notes available.
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 26 Feb - 8 Mar
Kiwi artist Yael Gezentsvey takes on multi-cultural characters in this solo show, a comedic drama set in green New Zealand and red USSR before the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, following a colorful bunch of immigrants as they are forced to question whether freedom and control over one's destiny are only illusions.
THEATRE (SA/ NZ)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 8 - 12
Teachers Notes available.
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 20 Feb - 22 Feb
"Spectroscope - (noun) an optical instrument which separates light into its component colours." Described as "a ballet of light", this solo devised piece is a study into authenticity; the technology of 'self': the screen that is created to both display and disguise. An exploration of theatre beyond body and words.
THEATRE-CROSS ART FORM (VIC)
Age Suitability: not specified
Suitable for: Reception - Year 12
Q&A and Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 21 Feb - 26 Feb
One day in garbage city, Fin falls with a splat. Floss tumbleweeds flutter by, bandaid butterflies stick to themselves, tin can towers loom. Fin is a curious clown with a harebrained heart. Things get gooey in this bittersweet puppet show that will have you on the edge of your teat.
PUPPETRY (VIC)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Suitable for: Year 9 - 12
Q&A sessions (21 & 26 Feb) & Teachers Notes available. Also offering workshops.
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 23 Feb - 4 Mar
A 29 and a half minute, time bending, old-fashioned adventure with intrepid explorers Professor Gorski and Miss Ellaneous
Miss Ellaneous and Professor Gorski bring their madcap old-fashioned adventure to the Adelaide Fringe. Featuring acts of dexterity (juggling), hula hoops, clowning and a giant inflatable globe. "Better than grown men dressed as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (Rebecca, mother of Ben, age 6).
CIRCUS (VIC)
Age Suitability: Family Friendly
Suitable for: Reception - Year 8
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 15 Feb - 27 Feb
Two strangers are thrown together. One has an accent. One can't hear well. Why are they being detained? Followed by Q&A with the performers. Critics say: "Beautiful and heart-wrenching." "Convincingly played." "Equal parts wit and drama." "A tribute to the humanity of its creators." "Relevant and timely."
THEATRE (SA)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Please note: This event contains coarse language
Suitable for: Year 8 - 12 (refer to YEP Coordinator)
Q&A and Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 12 Feb - 13 Mar
The true story of the three little pigs. A side-splitting parody of the classic story but this time...from the eyes of the Wolf. What really happened when three rotund porkers moved into the neighbourhood and started building real estate? A visual treat, delightful soundtrack. Will delight both children and adults.
PUPPETRY
Age Suitability: Family Friendly
Suitable for: Year 3 - 9
Q&A sessions by negotiation
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 12 Feb - 13 Mar
Punch and Judy shows presented in the authentic traditional 'seaside-style' by Australia's leading Punch-Professors. See the irrepressible Mr Punch, Judy, Policeman, Crocodile and all the crazy gang getting up to their usual mischief in the same way they've done for centuries ! Top-notch slapstick fun for kids, families and adults.
PUPPETRY
Age Suitability: Family Friendly
Suitable for: Year 3 - 12
Q&A sessions & workshops available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 19 Feb - 7 Feb
Everybody starts somewhere, and most misfits bloom into their own strange and exotic flower in the hothouse of high school. For Poet Laureate Telia Nevile it was a time of pitfalls and peaks, secret poetry and public scorn. 2010 Golden Gibbo Nominee. 2010 MICF Best Newcomer Nominee. **** The Age.
COMEDY (VIC)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Suitable for: Year 11 - 12
Q&A sessions possible
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 22 Feb - 12 Mar
Welcome to Woomera. It has a rocket park in the centre of town. It has a military test range the size of England. And now it has you. A new play about being young in the middle of weapons-grade nowhere. Developed in South Australia by UK playwright Emily Steel.
THEATRE (SA/UK)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Suitable for: Year 9 - 12
Q&A, Teachers Notes and workshops available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 21 Feb - 23 Feb
A man is perched on a bicycle with a birdcage on his head. An alarm clock rings. A bird sings... A mousetrap triggers a rickety contraption. A hammer swings, a tray flies out and four eggs drop...
Free 10 min demonstrations: 19, 21-23 Feb at 11am,1pm,3pm and 20 Feb 11am,1pm.
Bookings: www.riaus.org.au/adelaidefringe
VISUAL ART-INSTALLATION GENERAL (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 5 - 12
Q&A sessions possible with 3pm sessions
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 19 Feb - 3 Mar
He's back! After a sneak peek last Fringe, Ross Daniels returns for a full run of his acclaimed showpiece THE TRANSPOSED MAN. See what happens when too many characters take over the body of one man. His observational and mimicry skills are superb& 4 stars. - The Age. Remarkable! - Glam Adelaide.
COMEDY (VIC)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
Teachers Notes and Q&A sessions subject to availability
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 25 Feb - 26 Feb
RA - Created by new media artists Sacred Resonance, is a 60 minute live electro-cosmic soundscape performance and unique immersive full dome visual experience that takes one through the portal our sun 'RA' to open our mind into the greater cosmosphere. Experience the unique synergistic patterns of the cosmoscape.
VISUAL ART-TICKETED (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 3 - 12
Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 11 Feb - 6 Mar
The Max & Dagger Show has more danger & laughs than you can shake a rattlesnake at. Jack Dagger is the world champion knife thrower. Max, armed with a Ukulele. is the target of the flying blades. Comedy, songs and a deadly finale not to be believed!
COMEDY - PHYSICAL THEATRE (USA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Reception - Year 12
Q&A sessions subject to availability
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 18 Feb - 6 Mar
WINNER: Best Comedy, Melbourne Fringe 2010. Combining dance, clowning & music, Vachel Spirason (Vigilantelope) stars in this acclaimed physical comedy. "A triumph of exceptional acting, direction and production." - 5 STARS - RHUM. "Reminiscent of a young Rowan Atkinson...A must-see for those seeking something different." - 4.5 STARS - The Age.
COMEDY (VIC)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Please note: This event contains mild sexual references and coarse language
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
Q&A sessions possible (for an additional fee) & Teachers Notes
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 28 Feb - 4 Mar
In this delightful storytelling performance Mr Badger tells his own version of Kenneth Grahame's much-loved book about Mole, Ratty and Mr Toad. Celebrating the joys of nature and friendship, this intimate performance entertains youngsters and satisfies devotees. Suits ages 5-10 and adult, a classic story re-told with humour and flair.
THEATRE (SA)
Age Suitability: Family Friendly
Suitable for: Reception - Year 4
Q&A and Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 21 Feb - 8 Mar
Direct from the Edinburgh Fringe, Straylight Australia presents twenty of Shakespeare's most exciting women, from twelve plays, in just sixty minutes! Thrilling scenes full of danger and passion are introduced with witty charm by the Bard himself. "Acted with power and precision" (Scotsman). "Lively, humorous and... very energetic" (Edinburgh Spotlight).
THEATRE (NSW)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
Q&A sessions & Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 1-Mar 6-Mar
Two delicious puppet shows from New Zealand both with a big Italian flavour. Featuring an entree show by the famous comic puppet Pulchinello (Italy's Punch) followed by a main marionette course of 'Pasta Arabiatta', where Chef Edmund Snail gets his strings all in a twist in the kitchen. Buon Appetito!
PUPPETRY (NZ)
Age Suitability: Family Friendly
Suitable for: Reception - Year 7
Teachers Notes and Q&A sessions available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 22 Feb - 10 Mar
ADELAIDE FRINGE AWARD - WINNER (Melbourne Fringe '10). Upon invitation, two of the most strangely sociable strangers present an unfounded fable, in the calm of your abode, to you and your guests. "A rare treat" The Age. For more information on how to host go to www.adelaidefringe.com.au.
THEATRE (VIC)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
Q&A sessions available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 12 Feb - 6 Mar
The graduation exhibition of Tafe SA's Advanced Diploma of Commercial Photography. Nineteen emerging photographers in their first exhibition showing photos ranging from fashion, advertising, travel and sport. The opening night includes the graduation presentation to students and the awarding of student of the year. All work is offered for sale.
VISUAL ART-PHOTOGRAPHY (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 9 - 12
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 23 Feb - 11 Mar
Ever wondered what it's really like to be a superhero? Or a supervillain? How about a superhero who has lost his powers? Or the husband of a supervillain? "Miller and Moore Presents..." explores the lives of four individuals and their superpowered struggles in daily life. Action! Romance! Comedy! Lycra!
THEATRE (SA)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Please note: This event contains sexual references, coarse language, adult themes and depictions of violence
Suitable for: Year 9 - 12
Q&A sessions available 11 Mar
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 25 Feb - 27 Feb
A brand new production of Oscar Wilde's seminal work. When Jack meets the girl of his dreams he discovers that to marry he must produce some parents, a resource that he has unfortunately been denied. What happens when British stiff-upper-lippedness meets the in-law from hell? A classic comedy of errors.
THEATRE (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 5 - 12
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 19 Feb - 6 Mar
Fringe favourites, The Amazing Drumming Monkeys, return with their new show 'Love The Planet'. Aimed at young children, the show features The Monkeys drumming, dancing, doing tricks and sending beautiful messages. Reviewers say: "Beating Hi - 5 hands down" - Advertiser. "The next Wiggles" - T. Times. Famous around Australia, don't miss them!
PUPPETRY
Age Suitability: Family Friendly
Suitable for: Reception - Year 7
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 14 Feb - 17 Feb
A lone sweeper in an empty theatre creates a world of his own imagining. He conjures a man and a woman, who rebelliously take on a life of their own. In this allegorical struggle convergent realities dissect human frailty with vicious delight.
THEATRE (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 22 Feb - 10 Mar
Acapella excellence at its best... This show brings new songs from Britney to Queen as well as Barbershop standards.
MUSIC-ACOUSTIC (SA)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Suitable for: Year 8 - 12
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 8 Mar - 13 Mar
My Global Experience is a mixed media exhibition by students in the University of South Australia's Global Experience program. Documenting their experiences living, studying and travelling in diverse countries and cultures, and reflecting on the notion of place.
VISUAL ART-MIXED MEDIA (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 5 - 12
Q&A session available 8-11 Mar
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
11 Mar
Fresh from their international debut collaboration to rave reviews at MusicFest Vancouver, two of Australia's finest musical acts come together in a stunning blend of vocal and didgeridoo virtuosity.
MUSIC (NSW/QLD)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 5 - 12
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 3 Mar - 6 Mar
A darkly satirical look at the machinations and manipulations of two office workers who will risk everything to climb the corporate ladder. The Lost Rung employ their trademark brand of highly physical, acrobatic theatre to create this energetic, poignant and sometimes violent work.
THEATRE-PHYSICAL THEATRE (VIC)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Please note: This event contains coarse language
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
Q&A sessions & Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 6 Mar - 6 Mar
The Company's talented young dancers will take you on a "puzzling" journey through stories, fairytales and dreams. A dramatic range of classical, modern, and contemporary dance pieces, selected from favourite past performances, are woven together with a silver thread.
DANCE-CLASSICAL (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Reception - Year 7
Q&A sessions available after 3:45pm session
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 5 Mar - 11 Mar
WITH GUESTS AMANDA LOVELOCK AND CHARISE ALTMANN
Beethoven's 6th Symphony, the 'Pastorale', in a rarely heard 2 piano arrangement headlines the program. 'Firestorm', a multimedia performance for 2 pianos and 2 clarinets by local composer Thomas Saunders will also feature. From one half of the team that brought you 'The Planets' and 'Symphonic Rhapsody' from Fringe 2009/10.
MUSIC-CLASSICAL (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 5 - 12
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 8 Mar - 12 Mar
This one-hour reading of selected poems from William Barnes's second collection of 'Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect' brings these masterpieces to life, in their original nineteenth-century pronunciation, with all their merriment, their pathos, and their poignancy. (Proceeds to Alzheimer's Australia and the Barr Smith Library.)
WRITING/LIT/POETRY-READING (SA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 5 - 12
Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 4 Mar - 11 Mar
SUPPORTED BY VITALSTATISTIX THEATRE COMPANY
When five children disappear from a small town the world of the dead begins to impact on the world of the living. An intricate, visionary solo show with a dark comic sensibility. "*****Extraordinary must-see piece of theatre...the writing is out of this world." - The Adelaide Advertiser (previous work)
THEATRE-CROSS ARTFORM (NSW)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Please note: This event contains adult themes
Suitable for: Year 10-12
Q&A Sessions available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 17, 19-20, 23-27 Feb
The human side of circus. No fanfare or sequins, just the extraordinary skill and passion of two carnies on a life-long adventure through the trials and tribulations of life and relationships, how they fall, land and survive. “ Funny, flexible, very impressive” Advertiser “Turning the circus tradition upsidedown” Irish Times
CIRCUS (IRE)
Age Suitability: General
Suitable for: Year 5 - 12
Q&A Sessions available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 28 Feb - 1 Mar
Perth-based Unkempt Dance joins Adelaide's own emerging talent Erin Fowler in a flurry of teabags, tools and tablecloths. Quirky and engaging, with a flare for the unusual, this program of physical, theatrical dance is sure to please. The kettle's boiling, the house is spotless, do pop in.
DANCE (SA/WA)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 5 - 12
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 17 Feb - 1 Mar
Dreams are like children, follow them too long, people get suspicious. It's about following your dreams. It's about not following the rules. It's about not believing everything you see on tv. It's about an hour. "Controversial, witty, hip, topical and silly. He made me laugh so hard it hurt." BBC
COMEDY (UK)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
Q&A Sessions available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 3 Mar - 13 Mar
What happens if the girl you think is "The One" turns out not to be? Come see the encore season of Zack's one-man Rock'n'Roll Cabaret about love, loss, heartbreak, movin' on and growing bad ginger beards. "Hilarious but heart-wrenching" - 5AA Radio Adelaide "Laugh? I nearly Died" -The West Australian.
COMEDY (WA)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Please note: This event contains mild coarse language and adult themes
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
Q&A Sessions available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 14 Feb - 6 Mar
To compete in this real-life treasure hunt: form teams of 1 to 6, solve online puzzles and interact at live events. Runs Feb 14 to Mar 13; regular web access is required. See website for all details and to register. By the makers of 2008 sell-out: 'Death By Chocolate'.
EVENT (VIC)
Age Suitability: General (GA)
Suitable for: Year 3 - 12
Q&A Sessions available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 20 Feb & 6 Mar
WizzMix is a colourful & energetic show for children of all ages and families. Incorporating action dancing, sing-a-longs, Puppetry & Ventriloquism, featuring Adelaide's latest and most popular arrival 'Ganda The Panda' a costumed life-size character that the kids love and adore.
PUPPETRY (SA)
Age Suitability: Family Friendly
Suitable for: Reception - Year 12
Q&A Sessions & Teachers Notes available
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
YEP Session Dates 20 Feb - 3 Mar
Or does it? ... Let Mark explain how your grasp of grammar can affect your chance of romance. A comedy show for all those who have broken up with someone because of a misused apostrophe. "Witty, vibrant and delightfully demented" - Independent. "Funny, quick off-the-mark, and thoroughly entertaining" - The Age.
COMEDY (UK)
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (PG 15+)
Suitable for: Year 10 - 12
YEP Booking Details: 08 8100 2011 or yep@adelaidefringe.com.au or adelaidefringe.com.au/YEP
Growing Out Your Fringe - The Fringe Vault
A little about us
In early January we launch the Adelaide Fringe 2011 Guide and the YEP Guide which is a list of performances, events and workshops that are suitable for a school-aged audience and have discount tickets.
The YEP Coordinator can tailor an Adelaide Fringe experience for schools & youth groups:
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Advice on age suitable activities & events
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Teacher’s resources and Q&A sessions with artists
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Workshops with local and international artists
Contact details
Address
PO Box 3242, Rundle Mall, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone
08 8100 2000
Fax
08 8100 2020
Check out our website
Adelaide Fringe 2011 YEP
105 Hindley St,
Adelaide, 5000
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