Adelaide Cabaret Fringe appoints board, new Gluttony hub at Masonic Lodge on North Terrace
The Adelaide Cabaret Fringe will go ahead despite last month’s closure of major venue La Boheme, with the formation of a new board to run the event and a new North Terrace city hub at Gluttony in Masonic Lodge.
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The Adelaide Cabaret Fringe will go ahead despite last month’s closure of major venue La Boheme, with the formation of a new board to run the event and a new North Terrace city hub at Masonic Lodge.
For the first time, popular parklands hub Gluttony will operate outside of its usual February-March slot in the Adelaide Fringe.
Gluttony will present cabaret acts – which include comedy duo Petty Bitches, Isaac Lomman’s Hypnosis Live and Michelle Pearson’s Just Desserts — in the Masonic Lodge’s basement room and bar on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights for the next month.
The 14 acts at Gluttony will be joined by another 11 shows at other venues including Union Hall on Grote St and Nexus Arts in the city, and the Parks Theatre at Angle Park, from June 1 to 29.
Gluttony program director Elena Kirschbaum said Cabaret Fringe founder and La Boheme co-owner Paul Boylon contacted them earlier this year.
“The last thing that he wanted was for Cabaret Fringe to fall in a heap if La Boheme did unfortunately have to close,’’ she said.
“So he invited us to get involved and become the unofficial hub … and to keep that alive for all the people who’ve been working on it for so long.”
“We wanted to get behind that as a local Adelaide festival which is very much grassroots and community run and led.”
The new board will be chaired by Festival of Ideas founder Greg Mackie and include his fellow former Arts SA chief Alex Reid, Mr Boylon and his graphic designer brother Adam, ArtFuel and I-Nex Corporation’s Mark De Raad, BPPR’s Belinda Petersen and accountant Lauren Thiel.
The Cabaret Fringe, which is in its 12th year, will continue to be an open-access event with rolling registrations, which means artists can add their shows to the program at any time.
“We celebrate the old, the new, the borrowed and the blue – and we welcome all audiences,” Paul Boylon said.
Program, registration and ticket details at cabaretfringefestival.com
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