Pulp
Elder Park/Tarntanya Wama, 27 Feb, 8.30pm
Pop royalty Pulp grace us common people with a free opening night concert to kick off the Adelaide Festival in style. Their arch, sultry ballads have never sounded so good.
The Cherry Orchard
LG Arts Center, 27 Feb-1 Mar, various times
Chekhov’s last play, reimagined by acclaimed director Simon Stone as a family power-struggle set in contemporary Seoul.
History of Violence
Dunstan Playhouse, 27 Feb-2 Mar, various times
Visionary theatre director Thomas Ostermeier adapts French writer Édouard Louis’ autobiographical queer novel about an ill-fated encounter.
Mary Said What She Said
Festival Theatre, 6-8 Mar, various times
Acting royalty Isabelle Huppert is Mary Queen of Scots in a solo performance directed and designed by the late Robert Wilson and scored by Ludovico Einaudi.
Whitefella Yella Tree
Space Theatre, 12-15 Mar, various times
A heady romance unexpectedly blossoms between two young men under a lemon tree in this early 19th century period piece from the Griffin Theatre Company.
Gatz
Her Majesty’s Theatre, 13-15 Mar, 2pm
An epic eight-hour restaging of The Great Gatsby, told word for word from inside the office of a small business in the 20th Century where a copy of the book is found.
POV
Space Theatre, 4-8 Mar, various times
Bub, a documentary-obsessed 11-year old, steers the action from behind the camera in this no-two-nights-the-same piece of improvised theatre that tackles family breakdown.
Works and Days
Dunstan Playhouse, 5-8 Mar, various times
Inspired by Hesiod’s work of the same name, eight physical performers plough up the stage as they wordlessly embody the rituals of tradition, transformation and toil.