The Courtyard at Migration Museum

03/04/2024

We’d like to say a MASSIVE THANK YOU to everyone that helped make this Adelaide Fringe Festival season a success and the best year yet at The Courtyard of Curiosities at The Migration Museum! 💖

We’d like to start with our sponsors and funding bodies -
AEDA - City of Adelaide
Adelaide Fringe Arts Unlimited Novatech
Visualcom SA .au

Without your support we couldn’t make this venue dream a reality.

To the Migration Museum for allowing us to take over your spaces and courtyard for 5 weeks and make something magical together! THANK YOU!

Our STELLAR venue team!

Front of House:
Ryan, Annie and Hari

+ the amazing team of Adelaide Fringe Volunteers!

Technical Team:
Stephen, Kobe and Seraph

Van Bar:
Jill, Pete, Ginny and staff


Our Food Vendors:
Adelaide’s Famous Proffertjes
Two Fat Blokes Pizza
Hay There Coffee

And Andy who assisted us with bump in/bump out.

Our brilliant programmed artists many of which travelled great distances to present their work with us, shared their stories, hearts and humour and created such a beautiful artist community. 💓

Thank you to all the audiences that came to see shows this Fringe, supporting artists and local business. We love you!

Nick & Britt xx
(Producers & Programming)

02/04/2024

And the Best Theatre and Physical Theatre Award at the Adelaide Fringe goes to… 🥁🥁🥁

‘Orpheus’! 🌟

After winning the Weekly Best Theatre Award in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2024. Wright and Grainger take out the overall award in 2024! Big congratulations to Alex, Phil and team!

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02/04/2024

And the Best Comedy Award at the Adelaide Fringe also goes to… 🥁🥁🥁

‘MOTORBOAT’! 🌟

The second award to Mel McGlensey and team! Congratulations!

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02/04/2024

And the Best Comedy Award at the Adelaide Fringe goes to… 🥁🥁🥁

‘Elf Lyons - Raven’! 🌟

Big congratulations to Elf Lyons and team!

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02/04/2024

Another big congratulations goes to ‘The End of Winter’ which won the Sustainability Award at the Adelaide Fringe Awards presented by .au ! 🌟

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02/04/2024

Melissa McGlensey won not only one but two awards at the Adelaide Fringe Awards for her show ‘MOTORBOAT’ the first is the Hollywood Fringe Festival Tour Ready Award giving the show the opportunity to tour to ! 🌟

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02/04/2024

Big congratulations to ‘Fool’s Paradise’ which won the NZ Fringe Festival Wellington Tour Ready Award at the Adelaide Fringe Awards giving the show the opportunity to tour to in 2025! 🌟

Presented by .theatre

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02/04/2024

Big congratulations to ‘PLENTY OF FISH IN THE SEA’ which won the House of Oz Purse Prize at the Adelaide Fringe Awards giving the show the opportunity to tour to .official ! 🌟

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02/04/2024

We can’t believe it’s been two weeks since we bumped out of the Migration Museum, we had such a brilliant year. We’d like to take a moment to celebrate our award-winners at the Adelaide Fringe Awards Ceremony on 17th March. 🏆

Our first venue winner was -

‘Blood of the Lamb’ won the Adelaide Critics Circle Award 🌟

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17/03/2024

Final day of 2024! 💫

15/03/2024

Our lovely Front of House person Annie has captured the courtyard so magically in her gorgeous drawing.

We are a small team over here at The Courtyard of Curiosities, it’s been a really big month and we are so thankful to all the audiences that have come to see shows, and return again and again. WE LOVE YOU.

If you haven’t come to visit us yet, then you have three more opportunities until we close, or you have to wait until next February!

Tonight - open from 5.00pm and shows from 6.10pm until 10.40pm (bar open until midnight)

Tomorrow - open from 1.00pm and shows from 1.40pm until 11.00pm (bar open until midnight)

Sunday - open from 1.00pm and shows from 2.00pm until 11.00pm (bar open until 11.00pm)

15/03/2024

Tomorrow you can come to The Courtyard of Curiosities and see shows from 1.40pm. 💫

Start off your day with Blood of the Lamb, grab a snack from , a pizza from and dessert from with drinks from 🍹

You can see back to back shows or take breaks in between. Our programming is designed so that you can see multiple shows in an afternoon/evening!

We’ve got family shows 👩‍👧- I’m a Raindrop, Get me Outta Here & Jeromaia Detto: When I Grow Up

Theatre 🎭 - Blood of the Lamb, Fool’s Paradise, Confessions of a Boba Liberalist, An Evenjng with Jk and Helios

Comedy 😂 - Katrina the Real Wog Wife, Troll, Elf Lyons: Raven, Josh Glanc: Collections 2024, The Burton Brothers: 1925 and The Naughty Cabaret

Cabaret 🎀- Galah Galah and Paulina Lenoir: Puella Eterna

Interactive 👋- both Werewolves and Escape Room: Prison Break are sold out.

15/03/2024

Four more chances to see this brilliant show!

A searing drama about bureaucratic chaos in a post-Roe America. After her transcontinental flight is diverted to Dallas, Nessa inexplicably finds herself trapped in a room with a woman who will decide her future. Can Nessa escape this Kafkaesque world of legal precedents and constantly changing l...

14/03/2024

Four more award -winners at the venue! 🏆

Big congrats to:
🌟 Elf Lyons: Raven
🌟 Escape Room: Prison Break
🌟 Blood of the Lamb
🌟 Galah Galah

Book in fast! 💨

14/03/2024

We are giving you a head start on tomorrow’s program so you can book your tickets now!

Get in quick a lot of Award-winners and critically acclaimed acts! 🎟️ 🏃🏻‍♀️

13/03/2024

Epic lineup again at The Courtyard of Curiosities, don’t miss out, book your tickets now!🌟

13/03/2024

Oh My God! You’re officially invited to the one year vow renewal of "Katrina The Real Wog Wife of Brisbane cause that’s where she lives."

From Brisbane to Adelaide, the ‘whos who’ of Adelaide will be treated to a theatrical spectacle of standup comedy, cabaret and couture designs.

The self proclaimed satirical queen of TikTok, will have you laughing out loud as she pokes fun at popular reality stars, whilst claiming her space as a young unorthodox Greek woman growing up in Brisbane. 🇬🇷

Expect drinks, drama and debauchery and don’t forget to come dressed to impress in your best animal print. This is the first solo work for actor/comedian Bianca Zouppas. In collaboration with a killer creative team including iconic Brisbane company Polytoxic and Peter Wood.

6.30pm until Sunday 17th March in The Yurt

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13/03/2024

Only 5 days left to catch this epic lineup! 💫

13/03/2024

Don’t miss An Evening With JK by at 8:20pm & 2:20pm (Sat) this week!

AUSLAN interpreted session this Friday 15th at 8.20pm

Staged as an intense and high stakes interview between an author with controversial views, and an empowered young trans interviewer - we’ll have two interpreters on stage to back and forth the dialogue.

A must see for book lovers, feminists, and women of all ages and opinions - this confronting new play faces the “trans debate” head on, and asks if we really can separate the art from the author.

Supported by the Adelaide Fringe fund

12/03/2024

It’s the final week of Fringe!

Don’t miss out on this week’s lineup!

Some new acts joining us this week are:

🌟 Katrina the Real Wog Wife
🌟 An Evening with JK
🌟 Paulina Lenoir: Puella Eterna
🌟 The Burton Brothers: 1925

11/03/2024

GIVEAWAY TIME 🎟🎫 Josh Glanc is giving away a double pass to his show Collections 2024!

Comment below with your favourite "Glanc" character, song or sketch to enter, and then come along and see the show at 9:10pm every night this week at The Gallery in The Courtyard.

"About as close to a perfect hour of Fringe as you’ll find" ★★★★★ - The West Australian. 

JOSH GLANC: COLLECTIONS 2024
9.10pm The Gallery

07/03/2024

6.10pm every night except Monday until the end of the festival.

Breaking news! 🎉

Our 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ show, Blood Of The Lamb, is a Week 3 Adelaide Fringe Award Winner! 🏆

Congratulations to the cast and crew of this incredible show.

Blood Of The Lamb is on at the The Courtyard at Migration Museum until the 17th March, so don't miss out - grab your tickets while you still can! 🎟

https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/blood-of-the-lamb-af2024

Joanne Hartstone Adelaide Fringe

07/03/2024

We have another three Weekly Award winners at the venue this week! All in the Best of Theatre & Physical Theatre category!

🌟 Blood of the Lamb
🌟 Blacklisted
🌟 Orpheus

Blacklisted and Orpheus have finished their seasons and Blood of the Lamb is playing until the end of the festival.

Big congrats to all the winners! 👏

07/03/2024

Tonight’s line up 💫

06/03/2024

Last opportunity to see Neil Frost’s The Door today at 5.20pm!

Inspired by vintage photos taken in front of The Door, Neil Frost brings to life long lost characters as he reanimates childhood costumes. The past unravels, and we make our final goodbyes. A nostalgic and heartfelt comedy about living with grandparents in 1980’s Suburban Britain.

06/03/2024

Oooh yeah that lineup is 🔥

This program this week only!

Ticket link in bio 🎟️

06/03/2024

Britt Plummer’s award-winning hit show has two more shows so if you’ve missed out on tickets previously book now!

If you missed it, or even want to come again - FOOL’S PARADISE season has been extended!

Two more shows:

Sat 9th March at 3.30pm

Sat 16th March at 2.00pm

The Courtyard at Migration Museum
Adelaide Fringe

🏆 Weekly ‘Best Theatre’ Award Fringe World Festival 2024

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★★★★ Fest Mag
★★★★ Edinburgh Festivals Magazine
★★★★ Fringe Feed Perth
★★★★ Perth Happenings
★★★★ Glam Adelaide
★★★★ EVENTalaide

"Clowning brilliance” - InReview

03/03/2024

Last opportunity to see a bunch of shows today!

🌟 PSYCHOPOMP
🌟 A Solo Commedia Dell’Arte Show
🌟 FURIOZO: Man Looking for Trouble
🌟 The End of Winter
🌟 Call Girls
🌟 Plenty of Fish in the Sea
🌟 Orpheus (sold out)
🌟 Hannah Camilleri: Lolly Bag
🌟 Blacklisted
🌟 CON 2077
🌟 The Sun and the Hermit

📸 Poppy Mee in PSYCHOPOMP, photo by Jamie Hornsby

03/03/2024

Last day of this epic program! Many of these brilliant shows are finishing their shows with us today!

Don’t miss out! Book those tickets! 🎟️ 🏃‍♂️ 💨