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Alex Ward: No Flirting

★★★ – this is a pretty great set from a talented comic, and well worth a look-in if you're up for a bit of stand up

Bubble Show for Adults Only

★★★★½ – this saucy pair will leave no moment for an awkward silence, instead dazzling you with visually striking, and sometimes slightly disturbing visions.

Gluttony

Leather Lungs: Son of a Preacher

★★★½ - An hour of more song, dance, and innuendo than you can shake an oversized dildo at.

Gluttony

Chasing Smoke

★★★ – five emerging artists search for identity amidst more than sixty-thousand years of cultural history, and their own personal stories.

Gluttony

Shit-faced Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

★★★★ – I’m sure Will Shakespeare, who peppered even his loftiest poetry with a heavy dose of dick jokes, would approve.

National Wine Centre

Talofa Papa

★★★★ – Talofa Papa is a warm and welcoming celebration of Samoan language and culture.

National Wine Centre

Umbrella Man

★★★½ – one of those shows that's almost better in retrospect: a love letter to strangeness that invites you to go on your own adventure.

Rhino Room

Zach Watson: The Zachelor

★★★½ – This sort of show isn’t necessarily for everyone, but the Zachelor gets a solid tip of the propeller beanie from me.

Garden of Unearthly Delights

Ben Hart: The Nutshell

★★★★ – Hart is a substantial magician with an eclectic style, an approachable demeanour, and an absolute command of his act.

Royal Croquet Club

Bourgeois & Maurice

★★★★ – Setting their sights on topics like antibiotic-resistant pathogens, separatist British nationalism, and the propensity for old white men to irrecoverably fuck up the world, the duo lightly skewer their targets in their shiny, sequinned onesies.

A Club Adelaide

My Grandmother's M.A.I.D.

★★★ – possesses a unique quality grounded in its heartfelt, simple storytelling that prevails through to a gripping finish.

National Wine Centre

Whiplash

★★★★ - Wizard of Oz meets Innerspace, with a dash of Rick & Morty.

The Bakehouse Theatre

2100: a Space Novelty

★★★★½ – Refreshing and resourceful in its use of facial expressions, voices and languages to tell a multi-layered story, Cut Mustard Theatre delivers a truly heartrending and memorable Fringe offering

Gluttony

Glittergrass

★★★1/2 - Jump on board the Flap Pack's latest all-whooping, all-hollering femme fest

Garden of Unearthly Delights

Fringe Wives Club: Glittery Clittery

★★★★★ – if you missed Glittery Clittery last year, don’t make the same mistake again. This is the Fringe as it should be: fierce, feisty and funny as hell!

Garden of Unearthly Delights

James Hancox: Sports for the Unsporty

★★★ – Sports for the Unsporty is simple, silly fun – not with a whole lot of substance, but it's uncomplicated.

Gluttony

Burlesque Idol

★★★ – spicy enough to make your evening worthwhile, but safe enough to take your nan to for a night to remember.

Holden Street Theatres

The Archive of Educated Hearts

★★★★ – an emotionally arresting reflection on the inter-generational reverberations of cancer, and how kindness, for yourself and for others, can be a coping strategy.

Garden of Unearthly Delights

Worst Little Warehouse in London

★★ – It's not that the musicality was bad... it's just caricature after caricature, with no depth.

National Wine Centre

Adventures of the Improvised Sherlock Holmes

★★★★★ – few performers hold the total mastery and perfect comedic timing of this lot.

La Buvette

So French So Naughty

★★★ – For a soirée out, this is a fun, friendly way to engage with French.

The Griffith Hotel

Cardinal Sins 'Court out!'

★★★★ – a powerful hour exploring the Catholic Church's history of abuse [and] the real people whose lives were impacted.

National Wine Centre

The Wine Science Show

★★½ – Luke Morris delivers a show that has easy to understand science, on-stage experimentation, and a beautifully illustrated history of the Champagne region and the history of Dom Perignon.

Garden of Unearthly Delights

Garry Starr Performs Everything

★★★★ - If you feel you should probably see some theatre this Fringe, but don’t reeaaally want to, see Garry Starr save theatre instead.

National Wine Centre

First Impressions: Fringe at the National Wine Centre

Thursday night was preview night at the Adelaide Wine Centre – a chance to get a taste of some of the excellent showings on offer at the giant wine barrel before the Fringe is