Helpmann Award-nominated writer Ash Flanders’ Commentary is a sharp, provocative play that interrogates the ethics of artmaking, accountability, and memory in an era of public reckoning. The story centres on Nick, played by Gyton Grantley (Underbelly, House Husbands), a once-promising filmmaker turned university lecturer, whose controversial debut feature Low is being resurrected for a retrospective screening at the local International Film Festival. The film, co-created with his former best friend Hamish (now disgraced and presumed dead), is dogged by allegations of abuse and exploitation linked to its production and content. As Nick prepares a director’s commentary and public appearance, the past begins to resurface through a chorus of women — his student and lover Gen, his wife Mish, former muse Saskia, and a teenage girl named Frankie. Frankie’s re-emergence catalyses a chain of revelations, betrayals, and reckonings that culminate in Nick’s fall from professional and personal grace. The play’s narrative cleverly mirrors the fragmented form of a DVD commentary track — non-linear, reflexive, full of contradiction, omission, and performance.
Trophy Boys (3/17/26-4/2/26)
RBG: Of Many, One (4/10/26-5/2/26)
The Importance of Being Earnest (5/8/26-5/30/26)
ART (5/20/26-5/24/26)
Uncle Vanya - but there’s ASMR soap cutting videos playing in the bottom right corner (7/9/26-7/18/26)
LOGAN ST (7/24/26-8/8/26)
State Theatre Company South Australia is at Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, South Australia.
Eureka Day (11/12/21-11/27/21)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (9/24/21-10/9/21)
Hibernation (8/13/21-8/28/21)
The 7 Stages of Grieving (7/28/21-8/7/21)
Euphoria (5/6/21-5/15/21)
The Gospel According to Paul (4/19/21-5/1/21)
The Boy Who Talked to Dogs (2/25/21-3/14/21)
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A Promenade of Shorts: Season 3
Goodwood Theatre & Studios (1/15 - 1/24) NEW COMEDY NEW PLAY AUSTRALIA - ADELAIDE PREMIERE | |
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CVNT
The Gallery at The Courtyard of Curiosities at the Migration Museum (2/19 - 3/1) | |
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The Heartbreak Choir
State Theatre Company South Australia (11/20 - 12/5) | |
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Faulty Towers The Dining Experience - AFF 2026
The Terrace Hotel Adelaide (2/20 - 3/22) | |
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Uncle Vanya - but there’s ASMR soap cutting videos playing in the bottom right corner
State Theatre Company South Australia (7/9 - 7/18) | |
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The Pole Shebang
Fool's Paradise (2/18 - 3/1) | |
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Trophy Boys
State Theatre Company South Australia (3/17 - 4/2) | |
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RBG: Of Many, One
State Theatre Company South Australia (4/10 - 5/2) | |
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