Fire Gardens light the candles on Festival’s 60th birthday cake
An illuminating installation by a French art collective will transform Adelaide’s Botanic Garden for the final weekend of events in this year’s 60th birthday Festival program.
Festival
Don't miss out on the headlines from Festival. Followed categories will be added to My News.
A flickering, meditative art installation which opens at the Botanic Garden on Thursday night will usher in the final bracket of shows for the Adelaide Festival’s 60th birthday program.
Fire Gardens, by French artistic collective Compagnie Carabosse, has already sold more than 32,000 tickets, with limited session times still available for Thursday and Sunday.
Festival artistic directors Neil Armfield and Rachel Healy said the Botanic Garden would be transformed into a mesmerising “dream space” of shadow and light.
“As Adelaide Festival heads into the final weekend, we’re thrilled to share Fire Gardens with South Australia over four nights,” they said.
“This is a show for the whole family and we encourage everyone to come and join us in the Botanic Garden as we farewell the 2020 Adelaide Festival.”
A new Scottish production of Breaking the Waves, US composer Missy Mazzoli’s opera adaptation of Lars von Trier’s 1996 film, will be at the Festival Theatre on Friday, March 13, and Sunday, March 15.
DV8 Physical Theatre founder Lloyd Newson’s iconic 1995 dance work Enter Achilles is being remounted at the Dunstan Playhouse from Friday, March 13, to Sunday, March 15, while UK violinist Anthony Marwood joins the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra for its weekend Mahler/Ades concerts at Adelaide Town Hall.
Australian actor-director William Zappa’s nine-hour version of The Iliad – Out Loud is at the Scott Theatre on Saturday, March 14, and Sunday, March 15, while Syrian work Aleppo: A Portrait of Absence also continues at the Queens Theatre until March 15.
Book at: adelaidefestival.com.au