A POEM AND A MISTAKE Comes to Adelaide Fringe
The show is by Cheri Magid, directed by Michelle Bossy, and performed by Sarah Baskin.
A Poem and a Mistake is coming to Adelaide Fringe. Performances run Mon, 23 Feb - Sun, 08 Mar. The show is by Cheri Magid, directed by Michelle Bossy, and performed by Sarah Baskin.
Following a run at the Edinburgh Fringe, A Poem and A Mistake will make an appearance at the 2026 Adelaide Fringe. A desk, a chair, a microphone and one female body tell a modern-day story of transformation in A Poem and A Mistake.
When Myrrha, a grad student in the classics, confronts her professor over the fifty sexual assaults in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, their combustive exchange sparks a cascade of magical events. What starts as a tale of a timid grad student upends itself and dynamically morphs into an explosive tale of gods, goddesses, boyfriends, girlfriends, tricksters, and fiends, while lighting and sound transport us from a classroom to a mythic field to everywhere in between.
With elegant storytelling and a powerhouse performance featuring 17 characters and 120 transformations between them, A Poem and a Mistake examines what we inherit from the stories passed down to us and cuts to the duality in all of us: aggressor and victim, teacher and student, god and mortal. This powerful and beguiling one-woman play–as literary as it is visceral, as slyly funny as it is moving–is a cathartic experience that stays with audiences for days to come.
Videos
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Log Boy State Theatre Company South Australia (10/01-10/10) |
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Faulty Towers The Dining Experience - Darwin Oaks Elan Darwin (8/20-8/22) |
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Faulty Towers The Dining Experience - Adelaide Adelaide Royal Coach (6/20-6/20) |
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Uncle Vanya - but there’s ASMR soap cutting videos playing in the bottom right corner State Theatre Company South Australia (7/09-7/18) |
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The Heartbreak Choir State Theatre Company South Australia (11/20-12/05) |
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Boogie Wonderland Adelaide Royal Coach (7/10-7/12) |
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Scotch College - Hadestown Thebarton Theatre (8/08-8/09) |
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Scotch College - Hadestown: Teen Edition Thebarton Theatre (8/06-8/06) |
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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR THERRY THEATRE (7/23-8/01) |
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Commentary State Theatre Company South Australia (8/21-9/05) |
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