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Adelaide Fringe is in full swing and Episode Six dives deep into joyful chaos, physical theatre and urgent storytelling.

🎭 …Earnest? (Say It Again, Sorry?)
What happens when the lead actor doesn’t show up and the audience becomes the cast? Josh and Rhys unpack how Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest transforms into an interactive experiment in identity, ego and theatrical bravery. By the final bows, there are no professional actors left, only audience heroes.

🤍 Joylyn Secunda & Marcel Cole — Partners in Mime
From The Routine to Smile: The Story of Charlie Chaplin, two physical theatre artists share how they met at Fringe, fell in love, and built wordless worlds of movement, magic and mischief. We explore clowning, ballet, silence, and why physical comedy still cuts deeper than dialogue.

🩰 Amy Raitman — PleaseDon’tCatchMeWhenIFall
A daring contemporary dance work bringing together performers three decades apart in age. Amy reflects on risk, improvisation, agency, and why young women’s perspectives remain urgent on stage.

🔥 Open Room Theatre — Ripe
A late-night Sydney story of two 18-year-olds navigating power, ownership and danger on New Year’s Eve. The cast discuss why these themes remain painfully current and why we so often centre powerful men instead of the girls.

Plus: Fringe highlights from Gluttony Gala, Slingsby at the Botanic Gardens, Ladyboys of Bangkok, Celestial Gardens, and more.

From audience-led theatre to mime romance to generational dance, this episode is a reminder that live performance is unpredictable, intimate and electric.

🎧 Recorded on Kaurna land.
🎭 Adelaide Fringe 2026.
📍 The Arts Garden on 3D Radio.