We’re back with another jam-packed season for Adelaide Fringe 2026!
This year, we have everything from theatre and cabaret, through to film, comedy and exhibitions. We have a crowd favourite returning this year, along with an incredible line-up of shows from 13 incredible companies.
Make sure to throw your support behind these independent acts and grab your tickets!
You can find our Adelaide Fringe season at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).
Accessibility
The Mill’s entrance has a small step into the building. We have a ramp available, please let us know of your access needs when booking tickets and our friendly team will make sure they’re accommodated.
During our season, our entrance will be unlocked. If the door is closed, please ring the doorbell to alert our team.
The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.
Grief isn’t part of the conversation. Especially not as a young person. No one knows what to say, so it’s simply left unsaid.
This premiere work from The CRAM Collective, explores the complex impact of the immediate and lingering effects of grief on young people. Melissa tells the story of the death of her mother, too many lasagnes brought over by neighbours and the continual search for something or someone out in the sky.
My Grandpa Doesn’t Follow Me On Instagram February 19-March 7
They drove from Cornwall to the Scottish Highlands – one grandparent, one grandchild, one unspoken truth.
Multi-award-winning storyteller, Yoz Mensch, weaves a darkly funny and haunting solo show about dingy hotel rooms, dog-eared maps, and the strained intimacy of travel.
Drawn from hundreds of real Instagram Stories posted during the trip, Yoz revisits what they shared with their grandpa – and the secrets they didn’t.
This work explores the natural fibres — once used for healing, weaving, storytelling, dance, painting and crafting. More than resources, these fibres hold story, culture and connection to Country.
Through touch, texture and movement, we follow the gestures of threading, knotting, interweaving and mending, drawing on their strength and care. Dance becomes a bridge between fibre and story, body and Country.
England-2020-Pontefract-Lockdown-2:20AM. A man fights for each breath, determined to make it home to Dot. In his isolated, morphine-fuelled delirium, we witness a frail man reliving his fragmented past: a boxer, a soldier, a boilermaker, a miner—dancing with Lady Luck as he battles to win. Dust is dedicated to the servicemen who fought for their country, the seven men who tragically lost their lives in the 1973 Lofthouse Colliery disaster, and to every miner who lived their life in darkness so we could live in the light.
The different worlds of Claire and Elisabeth collide as they navigate a series of weird and often terrifying events one fateful New Year's Eve in Sydney. Run-away Claire has fled her mother’s fury following the discovery of Claire’s relationship with Duncan, an older family friend. Elisabeth is on the streets to avoid the rage of her drug-addled boyfriend simply because she's taken his dog for a walk. Claire and Elisabeth are changed by the long night and each other. Midnight fireworks light the night sky. Happy new year.
DNA by Dennis Kelly is a gripping, fast-paced thriller about a group of teenagers whose cruel prank spirals into a shocking cover-up. Darkly funny and disturbingly real, the play exposes how peer pressure, fear, and the desperate need to belong can twist morality and silence truth. With sharp dialogue and relentless tension, DNA pulls the audience into a world where loyalty clashes with conscience, and survival means complicity.
A thespian and her keyboard leap out of the closet - it’s a metaphor and a stage direction. Featuring a catchy original score, sparkly doc martens, and too many niche anecdotes to count. Join Phoebe Rodger as she explores the euphoric highs, embarrassing lows, and awkward in-betweens of the lesbian experience. From hilarious cabaret bops, to witty parodies, to power ballads, there is something for everyone in this show! All are welcome. (Including homophobes, I’ll still take your money xx).
Have you ever been stuck on hold, listening to muzak on a loop while a robotic voice keeps telling you that your request is being processed? Yes, you have… and so does the protagonist of unclassifiable, Black Mirror–ish 'The Sensemaker' — until she is gradually pushed beyond her limits.
With razor-sharp humour and unsettling precision, this multi-award-winning solo-show stages a dystopian battle between a woman and an answering machine.
Explore a microscopic universe in this intimate and mesmerising work of nonverbal physical theatre. Join a jelly-like solo performer as they pluck creatures from evolutionary history, pushing, bending and twisting the laws of physics. The ordinary becomes extraordinary and the strange becomes familiar.
It's unclear where they got so many of these metal wonders, or for what purpose. With a fool’s brain, a dancer’s body and a determination reserved only for the truly idiotic, Fumble the Clown presents an unforgettable hour of culinary comedy. Simple, inventive and surprisingly heartfelt, this work brings its audience on a ride through the ridiculous imagination of a spoon-obsessed fool.
An experimental solo about consent and queer intimacy. Explored through a series of escalating invitations for performer and audience.
Naughty, playful, awkward, joyful, and surprisingly tender. A vulnerable act of trust, patience, and curiosity - navigated in real-time. An important conversation that never feels like one.
Say yes, say maybe, say not today. Nothing happens without your say-so. What does happen might surprise you.
One of the best reviewed shows of the Edinburgh Fringe 2025 comes to Adelaide. Middle-aged and newly single, The Cycling Man has spent the salary of a nurse on lycra and he's on the verge of a breakdown. Get to know this absurd and deeply flawed man as he gets to know himself.
Goofy drag king show from award-winning British character comedian Kathy Maniura, BBC New Comedian shortlisted, 2023 and Sketch Off winner, 2020.
Stories That Serve Us is a short documentary film following Amanda as she journeys through trails and community spaces to meet people whose work, art, and voices can teach the world something meaningful.
From cultural collectives to educators and artists, each encounter traces what community means and how people connect, create, and care for one another.
His Mother calls her 30-year-old son her "Ray of sunshine" but beneath this child entertainer's cheerful facade lies a dark secret...
A one-man black comedy, featuring puppetry and upbeat songs. Ray, a children’s entertainer, starts to unravel as he deals with a personal tragedy. Attempting to process his grief, he begins confiding in his puppet, Emmett, who encourages him to tap into his dark side. As his cheerful facade begins to shatter in front of the kiddies, Ray must come to grips with something terrible in his past… Will he be able to keep it together when he embraces the truth?
We’re back with a jam-packed season for Adelaide Fringe 2025!
Expect everything from theatre to spoken word, comedy, music, cabaret, exhibitions and workshops. This year, our intimate black-box theatre, The Breakout, will play host to shows from 13 incredible companies.
Make sure to throw your support behind these acts and grab your tickets!
Accessibility
The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street.
Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team. They will meet you at the accessible entrance to welcome you into the building.
The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.
The God Between Life and Death, Conductor of Souls, Usher of Oblivion, is visiting living souls for the first time through the vessel of a lowly mortal - Poppy! Existential as heck, real Stygian energy, a divine exploration of the meaning human beings bring to their own precious, fleeting existence.
With the support of The Mill, Poppy has enlisted a dream team of local Adelaide theatre-makers, artists and Intense Characters to bring the full production of PSYCHOPOMP screamingly to life. Audiences can expect bodily functions, games, storytelling, all through the eyes of an insensitive, arrogant god and a upsettingly human intermediary.
“Dear Lover”, she begins to speak, unseen, her disembodied consciousness extending an invite into a world of creation. The music plays, each string and key carefully woven as the words are truthfully spoken…”no longer just an incarnation, I am the threads in words that spell out the birth of Nubian Queen”.
Curious? Come and see Praise Mangena in a collaborative project of music, movement and spoken word poetry.
One courier. One impossible delivery. How far will he go to complete his order?
Written & performed by Piers MacKenzie, fresh off his starring role as Daniel Radcliffe in Edinburgh Fringe 2024’s most talked-about show, TERF. This dark comedy, inspired by his time as a Deliveroo cyclist, dives into a fractured mind where reality and imagination collide as the brakes come off.
Strap on your helmets and grip those handlebars tight—this ride is full of sharp twists, sudden turns, and plenty of bumps along the way.
A one-person darkly comedic play about growing up autistic (and not knowing it).
Stumbling into a therapist’s office with a stack of paperwork, (and stories to match) Addy recounts what it was like to grow up in a small town catholic school. Through vignettes from Addy’s life, we come to realise the impact your environment can have on coming to accept who you are. We experience how someone may learn to abandon their childhood curiosity and natural expression in favour of an exterior mask: the polar opposite of the internal world.
Administration welcomes you into a space where we can come together and laugh at some shared experiences.
Get ready for a wild ride this Adelaide Fringe! Cast List: A Theatre Kids Cabaretis here, and it’s bursting with the incredible stories of talented teens in the performing arts scene.
Join us for a night of unforgettable performances by seven young artists from the AK Creative Scholarship Program! This amazing program empowers local youth creatives to explore their talents and produce their own cabaret. You’ll experience a journey filled with laughter, passion, and a sprinkle of teenage drama—think powerful monologues, catchy original songs, and dazzling dance numbers!
Don’t miss your chance to witness the next generation of stars shine bright on stage. Bring your friends and come support our local youth as they share their dreams and challenges in this one-of-a-kind cabaret experience!
Join Part of Things and regional storytellers from Port Lincoln, Mount Gambier and the Riverland for a behind the scenes sharing of new works in development.
This will be the first sharing of work in development through the Part of Fringe x Playwright Pals program developed and presented by Part of Things in collaboration with Adelaide Fringe.
Part of Fringe x Playwright Pals is a three-year strategy to build the skills, confidence, networks, and capacity of regional storytellers to develop, create, and present new original performance work.
A man fights for each breath, determined to make it home to Dot. In his isolated, morphine-fuelled delirium, we witness a frail man reliving his fragmented past: a boxer, a soldier, a boilermaker, a miner—dancing with Lady Luck as he battles to win. But is it fate, or sheer will to survive that determines when we return to dust?
Dust is one man’s unforgettable journey, examining generational trauma, resilience, and survival against the backdrop of post-World War II England. Dust is dedicated to the servicemen who fought for their country, the seven men who tragically lost their lives in the 1973 Lofthouse Colliery disaster, and to every miner who lived their lives in darkness, so we could live in the light. Based on a true story.
Uma Dobia is your game show host for the evening as we spin the wheel, shake our maracas and ding our dong. Spotify playlists collide in Popera with questions such as "Why did Trevor leave? What’s cockrockera? And, who will win the air fryer?". Directed by Bronny Lane, get ready for opera, original pop songs, video and on-stage chaos coated in pop culture. If you love your cabaret dirty with an intellectual twist thrown you will definitely want to play POPERA: Sex, Death & Politics as we stomp on the patriarchy and ageism in a pair of red knee-high sparkly boots.
Get ready to spin the wheel, shake your maracas and ding your dong as Popera delivers the most iconic moments of opera coupled with pop! Spotify playlists collide in this game show shining a lense on entrenched misogyny and ageism.
Just before her 20th birthday, Abby asked the world (Facebook) advice for the decade of her 20s. Flooded with guidance from well-meaning friends, enemies, and that person she forgot to block. It’s time to check the comments and compare where life took her. Did she - Invest in property? Get that rash looked at? Shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die? Let's find out through song and a Facebook deep dive.
Simultaneously, with a new decade unravelling before her, Abby is again seeking guidance - off the internet. So come in person to dish life advice to the best friend you never knew you didn't want. Bring your hopes and dreams for the 30s. Whether they’re behind you, in front of you, or you’re smack bang in the middle… let’s reminisce, plan and discuss the decades behind and before us.
Cherese is just a girl, standing in front of an orange, asking it to make out with her.
Join citric acid daredevil, Cherese Sonkkila, for her debut solo show.
Fruition is a silly smoothie of ridiculous characters, hot dance moves and useless fruit facts. But also asks the serious question: what if all your juiciest dreams came true?
This show is her Fruition. But it is also yours.
Come and get a taste of this zesty, thirst-quenching hour of laughs.
A comical feast of visual music absurdities. Surreal and just plain stupid, it plays with our dark, our light and our overblown ego through theatrical, musical and physical pieces, that draw upon the questions “what unites us and what separates us?”
Collaborating with award winning visual artist extraordinaire Ray Harris, we experiment with illustrations and play with our projections. We dance with the shadow, sing with the dark, absurd ego talk, Patti Smith spark, of musical humour, live visual effects, varied sketches of human aspects, with light and shade and whacked out dismay, of original song, of covered tunes with a cracked view, skewed for you, to peek through. Physical and musical humour at its best.
Hag: a once sacred word, turned into a slur by powerful men of history who disparaged, demonised and burned women at the stake because they had the temerity to be independent. Their knowledge was erased.
In this workshop we reclaim this word and ask ourselves: can we recover a sense of connection to our women ancestors whose voices were silenced? Can we uncover their lost wisdom? This is a remembering. A relearning. You will gain the language and the time to connect to those who informed who you are. You will experience a successful method of dialogue, making, journalling, and embodying to encounter the stories and wisdom of our women ancestors.
We, our conversations, and what we create together, is the art.
