ENTER
ANOTHER
WORLD.
Adelaide Festival invites us beyond the familiar. Theatreflections helps you choose where to begin.
Bluebeard's Castle ↗
Oedipus ↗
DIPTYCH: The Missing Door and The Lost Room ↗
THEATRE · OPERA · DANCE · MUSIC · IDEAS
Go for the art.
Leave with a question.
There’s a difference between knowing what’s on and knowing what might move you. Across 17 days, Adelaide Festival brings together performances, conversations and visual worlds that challenge how we understand ourselves and each other.
This is a guide to the experience rather than a ranking of quality. Start with a production, an idea or an art form. Follow what makes you curious.
SIX DOORS
INTO THE FESTIVAL.
Not the only things worth seeing. Six places to begin exploring the programme.
01Oedipus
A family and a political career confront a truth neither can outrun.
VIEW FESTIVAL EVENT ↗02Bluebeard's Castle
Seven doors, one marriage and an inward journey through secrecy and desire.
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03K.
Kafka’s accusation without explanation becomes a stark meditation on power.
VIEW FESTIVAL EVENT ↗04DIPTYCH: The Missing Door and The Lost Room
Peeping Tom blends theatre and dance into an unsettling physical world.
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0513 & 14
TAO Dance Theater places movement itself at the centre of discovery.
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06Valentina
Caroline Guiela Nguyen brings human connection and its fragility into focus.
VIEW FESTIVAL EVENT ↗DON’T KNOW
WHERE TO START?
Begin with an idea. Each question reveals the events in this year’s programme that respond to it.
THE
PROGRAMME.
Explore the full announced Festival programme, including individual Writers’ Week conversations. Choose an art form or follow your curiosity.
Oedipus
Created by Robert Icke / After Sophocles / Sydney Theatre Company & Adelaide Festival
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Al Bunduqiyya – The Lost Concerto
Giovanni Sollima | Federico Guglielmo | il Pomo d'Oro
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Bluebeard's Castle
Béla Bartók / Romeo Castellucci
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13 & 14
TAO Dance Theater
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K.
Franz Kafka / Berliner Ensemble / Barrie Kosky
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The Complete Philip Glass Piano Etudes
Pomegranate Arts
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Ólafur Arnalds
Falling Apart Together
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DIPTYCH: The Missing Door and The Lost Room
Peeping Tom
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Bach Organ Concertos
il Pomo d'Oro | Cameron Carpenter
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The Brotherhood
Created by Carolina Bianchi and Cara De Cavalo
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Timeless
Latvian Voices
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Valentina
Caroline Guiela Nguyen
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Taverna Miresia
Created by Mario Banushi
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Grace Cummings
Presents Bloodhorse!
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Moon and Stars
Latvian Voices with Adelaide Chamber Singers
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Tim Hecker
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Burnout Paradise
Pony Cam
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Eucalyptus
Composed by Jonathan Mills / Libretto by Meredith Oakes / After the novel by Murray Bail
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Galaxia
Dancenorth Australia
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Ngulmiya
Featuring Pau Figueres
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Sacred Chord
Latvian Voices
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The Rave and the Nightingale
Melbourne Chamber Orchestra + Australian String Quartet
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ShadowSide
Created by Larissa McGowan / Produced by Insite Arts
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The Dark Matter of Usulal
Created and performed by Margaret J Harvey / Presented by State Theatre Company South Australia in Association with Adelaide Festival
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Adelaide Writers' Week
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Giovanni Sollima
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GLASSWORKS+
Anton Batagov
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First Light
Ensemble Lumen
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It’s All Going Very Well…
Directed by Tilda Cobham-Hervey
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AF Talks
Hosted by Tom Wright
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Kumarangk: Sisterhood
Country Arts SA
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Artists' Week 2027
Presented by Adelaide Festival & Samstag Museum of Art
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Solitude
Khaled Sabsabi
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Cockaigne: The Land of Plenty
Sam Leach / ILA | Immersive Light and Art
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Tactile World: Dark Forest
Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE)
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within: dhuwi-bray ngaya / I have spirit
Juanita McLauchlan
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Floating Worlds: Prints from Osaka & Kyoto
Art Gallery of South Australia
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The Guildhouse Collections Project – 60 Year Archive
Nat Penney
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Ned, Giambattista & a Few Dogs
Mark Thompson
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WOMADelaide
The World's Festival
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Marc Bouchkov and Aura Go
Schubert, Bach and Beethoven
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Angela Hewitt
Scarlatti, Bach and Chopin
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AFX
Adelaide Festival Exchange
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CODA
Festival Bar
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I Can't Tell You But I Will
Magda Szubanski
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Remembering Virginia
Amy Wallace, Natasha Mitchell, Jane Caro, Fiona Dorman, Clare Wright
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Art and Life
Dave Eggers, Trent Dalton
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Yesteryear
Caro Claire Burke
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An Evening with Min Jin Lee
Min Jin Lee, Michael Williams
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Even the Good Girls Will Cry
Melissa Auf der Maur
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The Internet is Responsible
Sarah Kanowski, Richard Fidler
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Egrets, While War
Tishani Doshi
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A Midlife Reckoning
Myf Warhurst
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Between the Lines
Randa Abdel-Fattah, Leïla Slimani
VIEW EVENT ↗No matches in this collection.
Try another art form or clear your search.
THE WORD
IS ALIVE.
Adelaide Writers’ Week brings another collection of ideas to the city. The programme guide names these sessions even though the official What’s On page currently groups them under one listing.
These are named in the official 2027 programme guide. Individual times and booking details have not yet been published; check Adelaide Festival for the final Writers’ Week schedule.
READ THE OFFICIAL 2027 PROGRAMME GUIDE ↗