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Review by Ana Obradovic Venue: The Jade When: 22 February Cost: $25.00 Deviant Women: Lady Pirates Give No F*cks! image via. Adelaide Fringe Lauren and Alicia, hosts of Adelaide podcast Deviant Women, jubilantly bring their high-energy exploration of women who “challenge the status quo” to the Adelaide Fringe for the second year in a row. This […]

Review by Olivia De Zilva Venue: Drama Llama at The Rhino Room When: 21–23 February Cost: $25 Alex Ward — No Flirting, image via. Adelaide Fringe Alex Ward returns to the Adelaide Fringe with her new and improved stand-up special, No Flirting. Detailing the constant anxieties of the modern condition; Facebook Marketplace transactions, dog-parenting and online flirting, Ward’s […]

Review by Phoebe Christofi Venue: Spare Room at The Garden of Unearthly Delights When: 21 Feb — 17 March Cost: $20–$26 Jack Tucker: Comedy Standup Hour image via. Adelaide Fringe A man stumbles onto the stage, his suit jacket dirty, his white shirt stained, the zipper on his pants undone. His cheeky grin beams as he swaggers towards […]

Review by Zoe Koulakis Venue: Studio 7 at The Garden of Unearthly Delights When: 20 Feb — 17 March Cost: $25-$32 Image courtesy of Ben Hart. “A black butterfly flaps its wings in the middle of the amazon” is a sentence you will become very familiar with if you see Ben Hart: The Nutshell. The show uses the […]

Words by Maxim Buckley ‘Endometriosis (Imponderable)’ courtesy of Ellie Kammer Can you believe it’s almost March already? Just think, some of you received your ATARs in December of last year and only got your uni offers just over a month ago. Potentially you’ve just come back from holidays, or you may have worked over the uni […]

Review by Dylan Rowen Velvet Buzzsaw (Netflix) Dir. Dan Gilroy Jack Gyllenhaal stars in Velvet Buzzsaw (Netflix, 2019). Image via. Pride.com A satire on the increasingly commercialized contemporary art world, art gallery elitism, and pretentious art, Netflix’s new horror-thriller Velvet Buzzsaw unfortunately misses its mark in trying to be — and trying to say — too much at once. […]

Interview by Olivia De Zilva Ben Sorensen & Benjamin Maio Mackay are the #bunnypastards. Image via. B. Maio Mackay We interviewed Benjamin Maio Mackay, of the PREACHRS PODCAST, The Great Detectives 2 and the #bunnypastards, three amazing shows featuring in this year’s Adelaide Fringe lineup. Ben talks to us about his experience in Fringe and how […]

Review by Maxim Buckley Venue: The Piglet at Gluttony When: 19–24th of Feb Cost: $20.00 Image by M. Shafar via Adelaide Fringe. ‘Is this the best start to your day?’ is a line Michael Shafar repeats consistently throughout his show, referring to his friends who run marathons and simply can’t keep it to themselves. Though Michael’s […]

Words by Daniel McLean The Royal Croquet Club at Victoria Square I’m sitting in the Art Gallery Café across the table from the University of Adelaide’s Chief Operating Officer, Bruce Lines. “Hindsight’s a wonderful thing,” Bruce says. “If anything like this happened again, we would do it differently.” Six months earlier, on 28 August 2018, the […]

Image via. Flickr.com Words by Olivia De Zilva Need some extra mood music for that special night with that special someone? Well, you’ve come to the place. Here at On Dit, we’ve got you covered (thank us later, lovers). #10: Truly, Madly, Deeply — Savage Garden (1997, Columbia Records) A golden oldie from way back when, Savage […]