David Jobling's Saturday Magazine

12/03/2026

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We are Adelaide Fringe, the Biggest Arts Festival in Australia! We were born 66 years ago (although we don't look a day over 25) and for 31 magical days and nights each year we completely take over the beautiful city of Adelaide, South Australia.

11/03/2026

On the show this Saturday I talk with two clown performers from Estonia, Piip & Tuut is their family show at The Lab in Fool's Paradise - they're offering listeners tickets 2 for the price of 1 (details in the comments below ⬇️)

10/03/2026

A chance encounter with members of Haus of Yolo - Established by Eve Gordon in 2009, The Dust Palace is Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading contemporary cirque theatre company. They exist to elevate circus culture and grow multi-generational creative capacity - nurturing new talent, championing best practice, and shaping a bold future for the artform.

Collaborations include Dawn and Midnight with the APO, Heavenly Bodies with AAF, and international tours of Te Tangi a Te Tūī, The Wonderwombs, HAUS of YOLO, and Goblin Market. Large-scale works include Ithaca, Le Cirque Volé, and Human. Recent highlights: HAUS of YOLO at The Cultch Vancouver and Alberta Circus Festival 2024, The Ice Cream Is Melting! at Auckland Live and Hamilton Arts Festival 2024, and Te Tangi a te Tūī at The Cultch 2023, Te Pou Theatre 2024, and an Aoteroa tour in 2025.

10/03/2026

A long weekend well spent supporting WOMADelaide and all it's activities from the volunteer team. Also of course playing many of the attending artists on the show over the past months..

06/03/2026

Mama Does Derby and Skates on Thin Ice

Adelaide Festival / Windmill Theatre Company
Rating: ★★½

In many ways, the face value of the general entertainment ends up distracting from the creators’ intentions. This disconnect between the heavy core themes and the frantic presentation style makes it difficult to pin down exactly which age group the production is aiming for. While it clearly pitches to young women, the subject matter often feels a little too sophisticated for the pre-teens who would be most drawn to the “cartoon” energy, yet the ex*****on lacks the depth required to fully engage an older, more cynical teenage audience.

There is also a notable disconnect in how the show engages its audience. A discrepancy between the digital programme (where the creators celebrate making the show for young women) and the foyer version (which highlights the youth mental health resource Headspace) points to a narrow focus. This was reflected in the reactions of the youth audience itself; while the young women largely enjoyed the “cool” aesthetic, the young men I spoke with found it off-putting. By treating its few male characters as little more than a joke, the production risks suggesting that the struggle for security and mental health is not a universal experience.

Mama Does Derby and Skates on Thin Ice Adelaide Festival / Windmill Theatre CompanyRating: ★★½ Windmill Theatre’s Mama Does Derby, co-created by Clare Watson and Virginia Gay, is an undeniably well…

06/03/2026

A Glass House in Seoul: Chekhov’s Grand Decline Reimagined

Director Simon Stone, celebrated for the architectural brilliance of the contemporary opera Innocence at the 2025 Adelaide Festival, returns with a blistering reimagining of Chekhov’s final masterpiece. This production is particularly significant as a co-commission between the Adelaide Festival and the LG Arts Center Seoul. That the Adelaide Festival has invested in such a brilliantly realised piece of international theatre is a testament to its global standing. By transplanting the action from pre-revolutionary Russia to a contemporary setting, Stone and Dramaturg & Script Translator Danbi Yi prove that Chekhov’s themes remain profoundly universal; the characters land as comfortably in this new cultural context as they ever did in the Russian provinces.

A Glass House in Seoul: Chekhov’s Grand Decline Reimagined

06/03/2026

In Thomas Ostermeier’s unflinching adaptation of Édouard Louis’s History of Violence at the Adelaide Festival (Dunstan Playhouse,) the visceral narrative finds its heartbeat in the relentless, live sonic landscape crafted by Thomas Witte. Performing without interval for two hours, Witte’s ex*****on of Nils Ostendorf’s evocative composition functions as the production’s central nervous system; much like the musicians of Bunraku and Kabuki, the musical presence is as vital as the actors themselves. While the production’s deliberate pace at times felt as though it could have been tightened by thirty minutes, the hypnotic quality of the score ensured that the experience remained consistently absorbing.

A sharp, intellectual, and profoundly sad evening of theatre.

24/02/2026

Sarah & Melody ‎– Sound Of Pacific 1970

Sarah & Melody ‎– Sound Of Pacific 1970Tracks00:00 01. Legend From Ratman02:55 02. Sailorman Jimmy05:55 03. Fujiyama Yei Yei08:40 04. Life Goes On12:35 05. T...

20/02/2026

Today we'll be chatting with guests from the Moho Magic Bar, California Crooners Club, LaRonde and (the) World's Greatest Magician. Plus we're featuring more music from the Womadelaide 2026 line-up. WOMADelaide Adelaide Fringe

20/02/2026

Adelaide Fringe is formally launched!

16/02/2026

Local musician and artist Fokaboy Drc