Australia’s digital destination for live performance, Black Box Live, is now broadcasting shows from Adelaide’s Bakehouse Theatre via the Edinburgh Festival Fringe straight into audiences’ homes. Scroll down for full details of the five, carefully selected productions. Time to get booking!
Black Box Live’s 2021 Edinburgh Fringe line-up, presented online as part of the festival’s ground-breaking online programme by Adelaide Fringe stalwarts Hartstone-Kitney Productions, comprises five lauded Australian shows:
It’s a mix of theatre, dance, cabaret and variety, and physical theatre, including two UK premieres and one world premiere, as well as the return of the multi-award-winning, internationally acclaimed one-woman show The Girl Who Jumped Off The Hollywood Sign.
All of the performances have been filmed live using three state-of-the-art cameras, binaural microphones and integrated “switching” technology, producing a slick and seamless, immersive viewing experience.
Black Box Live at the Edinburgh Fringe
An aspiring actress, Evie Edwards, clutches the sides of the Hollywood sign. Looking out over the lights of Los Angeles and the movie studios that produced her nightmare, she charts a path through Hollywood’s forgotten histories to decide her fate. She has only ever wanted one thing: to be a STAR. A solo-play with music about the quest for fame, including songs composed for Hollywood’s greatest stars – Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Jean Harlow and more…
Inspired by forgotten histories from the Golden Age of Hollywood, The Girl Who Jumped Off The Hollywood Sign won the inaugural ‘Made In Adelaide’ award, as well as the Holden Street Theatres award in the 2017 Adelaide Fringe. The production then travelled to the Hollywood Fringe where it also picked up a host of awards, nominations and media accolades.
WINNER of the Holden Street Theatre Award – Adelaide Fringe 2017
WINNER of the Producers’ Encore Award – Hollywood Fringe 2017
WINNER of the TVolution Platinum Medal – Hollywood Fringe 2017
WINNER of Combined Artist & Fringe Management ‘Pick Of The Fringe’ – Hollywood Fringe 2017
WINNER of Better Lemon’s Critics Choice Awards – Hollywood Fringe 2017
WINNER of the TVolution Best Solo Show (Female) Award – Hollywood Fringe 2017
A national emergency is declared. Civil liberties are restricted. Theatres and nightclubs – intellectual, artistic havens – are closing. A chanteuse takes to a smoky stage in musical defiance.
A postmodern cabaret for a world on fire, inspired by the Weimar Kabarett tradition. Made during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, The Reichstag is Burning is the newest solo “tour-de-force” by Australian theatrical entrepreneurs Joanne Hartstone and Tom Kitney.
This one-woman show offers a transportative trip to old-world Europe through sultry musical numbers, exceptional technical design and a storyline that follows the purge on culture that heralded the rise of Nazi Germany.
WINNER: 2021 Adelaide Critic’s Circle Award
WINNER: 2021 John Chataway Award for Innovation
WINNER: 2020 Frank Ford Award
‘A fitting ode to the artist who keeps on singing truth even as the world burns’ – Adelaide Theatre Guide
Combining dance, clowning, some bagpipes, a cheeky life-sized egg and a pulsating 80s soundtrack, EGG questions all things fertility and motherhood in a powerful exploration of how we make (and live with) the big decisions in life.
Erin Fowler is an Australian artist working across the dance, physical theatre, music and film industries. She creates and presents deeply feminine, audience-driven, socially-minded work that blends together an eclectic mix of contemporary dance, theatre, music, clowning and martial arts. Issues of femininity and the environment are common themes of her work.
★★★★★ ‘Heartfelt and unexpectedly, frequently funny…packed with physical dance, and some unforgettable visuals’ – Chuck Moore Reviews
A ‘runaway’ 5-star success at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Still Alive (And Kicking) is Gill Hicks’ first foray into live theatre since the life-changing events of 7/7, July 2005, which wreaked havoc and devastation in London and left Gill permanently disabled, losing both legs.
This award-winning one-hour intimate narrative performance includes large-format visual projections of evocative images and art created by Gill, who punctuates her insights with soaring vocals, accompanied by acclaimed South Australian musicians Julian Ferraretto and Dylan Paul. This soliloquy is warm yet pointed; facing death gave Gill a new appreciation for what it means to have life.
Still Alive (And Kicking) is an ode to survival.
WINNER Major Award, Edinburgh Fringe Award, Adelaide Fringe 2021
WINNER Weekly Award, Pick of the Fringe, Adelaide Fringe 2021
★★★★★ ‘A calling to all of us to relish the mundane as much as the magnificent’ – The Adelaide Show
Imagining a system where things are kept suspended and in movement by each element’s own gravitational fields and contending forces, the dancers and their stories form the locus, generating their own rhythms and luminosity.
Following sold-out seasons at Adelaide Festival and Adelaide Fringe earlier in the year, award-winning choreographer, director and creative entrepreneur Lewis Major presents the world premiere of his new work Spaces Between Us alongside excerpts of his celebrated dance piece Satori in a special co-production with Black Box Live.
