Holden Street Theatres Presents THE TERRIBLE INFANTS

Martha Lott of Holden Street Theatres will umbrella thirty nine productions from around Australia, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Russia and the USA including a number of Australian and South Australian premieres at this year's Adelaide Fringe. She will present comedy, music, film and theatre across ten venues at three main locations: The Adelaide Town Hall, Holden Street Theatres at Hindmarsh and Thebarton Theatre.

UK-born theatre will lead Martha’s charge in Holden Streets’ Hindmarsh program this Fringe.

It's Roald Dahl meets Tim Burton in THE TERRIBLE INFANTS by UK’s Les Enfant Terribles Theatre Company a family friendly work of puppetry, live music, performance, storytelling and physicality blended into a highly sensory theatrical feast with narration by Dame Judi Dench. Meet such characters as Tumb, the boys who eats his mum; Thingummyboy, with a face even his mother forgets; Little Linena the material girl; Manky Mingus and Little Tilly with her terrible tail. The Terrible Infants’ Australian premiere season plays from 21 Feb- 18 March in The Arch at Holden Street.

www.lesenfantsterribles.co.uk

THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES … by means of natural selection or the survival of (R)evolutionary theories in the face of scientific and ecclesiastical objections; being a musical comedy about Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882) has enjoyed sell-out success in Europe. Set in 1858 Charles Darwin is slaving away at his latest book, a treatise on the reproductive organs of barnacle. The Australian premiere of The Origin of Species plays from 22 Feb – 18 March in The Studio at Holden Street.

When his friend is stabbed, a young lad falls in with a gang. The terrible revenge he takes brings disaster on himself and the victim’s family. Inspired by The Iliad and Glasgow’s ‘knife culture’, FLEETO, by Paddy Cunneen, is a hard hitting contemporary Scottish re-invention of the classic Greek tragic form, performed in a rich, flexible Shakespearian style verse. Fleeto’s Australian premiere season plays from 22 Feb – 18 March in The Studio at Holden Street.

In WEE ANDY, also by Paddy Cunneen it’s another day, another tragic knife attack and another life shattered. Here audience witness the fallout for those left picking up the pieces – the surgeon who stiches up the victim and the mother who tries to protect him – and Wee Andy who tries to imagine a different life. Wee Andy (Australian premiere) plays from 21 Feb – 17 March in The Studio at Holden Street.

HIS GHOSTLY HEART is a new play by UK writer Ben Schiffer (lead writer on the BAFTA Award winning TV series Skins) to be directed by Martha Lott for its Australian premiere season at The Manse, Holden Street from 22 Feb – 18 March. The play, a two hander set entirely in the dark, allows the audience to eavesdrop on an intimate and unnerving moment between lovers and to become the walls … breathing reactions as the twists unfold.

Other Holden Street Fringe attractions comprise: Be Your Age (The Studio 22 Feb – 3 March) The Royal Adelaide University Old Footlighters Club (sell-outs at the ‘06, ‘08 and ‘10 Fringe) and back for the last time … again! And no politician or institution is safe; Funny Business – There’s a Galah in the Town Hall (Adelaide Town Hall Auditorium 9, 10 March) comedians from across the Fringe program and the world gather in the name of silliness.

Then in alphabetical order…

Aladdin and his Magic iPod (25 Feb – 3 March The Arch) Aladdin trades his lamp for an iPod; Angels Eyes (9-11 March The Studio) the premiere of a new work by Melbourne Dance Theatre; Autobahn (14- 18 March David Spence Room Adelaide Town Hall) a series five vignettes that take place with in the confines of a car; Back of the Bus (24 Feb – 11 March Adelaide Town Hall - pick up point) physical comedy and dance on a bus ride through the streets of Adelaide; Bon Iver (6 March Thebarton Theatre); Craig Annis is a Knob Jockey (24 Feb – 3 March David Spence Room) a variety hour of stand-up, song and abundant stupidity; Drowning in Veronica Lake (2- 11 March The Studio) 40 years after her death Veronica is still trapped between Paramount and Purgatory; Echoes (16 March Meeting Hall Adelaide Town Hall) SA’s Pink Floyd Concept Band; Frank Woodley (24 Feb Thebarton Theatre) funny man Frank performs Bemusement Park; Hudsie Herman (2-5 March Meeting Hall Adelaide Town Hall) presents his damn funny melancholy songs; Judith Lucy (24 Feb Thebarton Theatre) performs Nothing Fancy … just gags about everything; Lahara (1-18 March Meeting Hall Adelaide Town Hall) lives loops of World/Funk/Dub music presented in an electronic visual environment; Legacy of the Tiger Mother (4-10 March David Spence Room) east meets west in this funny and moving story of tough love Asian style; Light Relief (24 Feb – 18 March Meeting Hall Adelaide Town Hall) fast moving comedy sketches, stand-up, news, sport and song with some special guests; Lords of Luxury (29 Feb – 17 March Prince Alfred Room Adelaide Town Hall) demented sketch comedy from Nova;s Matt Sarceni and Dan Debuf with JJJ’s Paul Verhoeven and Luke Ryan; Luke Escombe-Chronic (24-26 Feb Prince Alfred Room Adelaide Town Hall) comedy musicianship, with Luke Escombe MC and pimp; Nostalgia for Reality (24 Feb – 18 March David Spence Room) from Russia a funny and touching journey in the world of theatre holiday and dreams; Opening Night Party (24 Feb Adelaide Town Hall); One Flesh (4-11 March)…;Reflections of the Unseen (15-17 March…; Road Movie (25 Feb – 3 March)…; Rough Trade (25-28 Feb The Studio) savagery the commodified body and identity intertwine, in the name of Reality Entertainment; Ross Noble (9-13 March Thebarton Theatre) Ross performs his new show Nonsensory Overload; Squidboy (24 Feb -18 March The Arch) physical comedy about the power of a squids imagination; Trailer Park Boys (18 March Thebarton Theatre) Australian premiere tour based on the Canadian cult hit TV show; Triptych (24 Feb – 18 March The Box) a new dance film by Emma Taylor; The Farce of Sodom (28 Feb – 17 March The Arch) Sodom must burn but before it does comedians and burlesque artists will breathe life into the city; The Magic Hat (25 -Feb 4 March The Studio) Mem Fox’s text told through puppetry, song and movement; Two Points of Reality (10, 11 March The Studio) reality depicted through the eyes of a person with dementia; What if we Ran the World? (27 Feb and 10,11 March The Studio) Australian and overseas children give their answers; Wispa and the Golden Dragon (24 Feb- 18 March The Studio) a magical tale about Wispa the flying unicorn and a child fairy princess; Wyrd … with Grace (13-15 March The Studio) a collaboration of contemporary dance, visual art and music;

Tickets for all Holden Street productions are available from FringeTIX
1300Fringe (374 643) www.adelaidefringe.com.au

www.holdenstreettheatres.com

To post a comment, you must register and login.