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THE GARDEN OF UNEARTHLY DELIGHTS
16 FEB TO 19 MAR 2017
Rundle Park, East Terrace, Adelaide
Embargoed until Thursday 1 December
The Garden of Unearthly Delights returns for 2017, with a huge program of over 100 shows across 13 venues, covering live music, circus, visual art, comedy, family, magic, variety and so much more.
The Garden of Unearthly Delights is Australia’s most unique and engaging outdoor performing arts precinct. This
incredible event, with its warm and inviting vintage carnival feel, is admired across the globe and people all over
the world have tried to replicate it but The Garden’s heart remains where it all began, here in South Australia.
More than 750,000 people visit The Garden every season and its popularity continues to grow every year.
The Garden team travel the world year-round to find the very best award-winning shows and the most inventive
and exciting new works to present to our audience. Some of the many highlights of our 2017 program include:
The massive hit production from the acclaimed creative minds behind Madonna's recent Rebel Heart tour and
festival sensations LIMBO, Fear & Delight, and Cantina: Blanc de Blanc.
A festival favourite returns but in a very new form: LIMBO Unhinged will open the door and delve deeper into the
dark world of the award winning show with your favourite characters alongside a host of new surprises.
As always, The Garden hosts some of the most fun shows to get anybody in the party spirit: ‘One of London’s best
nights out’ [Sunday Mirror] returns to rock The Garden for a second year - Massaoke and Jagged Little Singalong
lets you belt out all the Alanis Morrisette you never thought you needed, and why do grown ups get all the fun?
Kid / Dub is the new family party for all the people who loved Hot Dub Time Machine and now want to let their
kids experience the fun.
Every year the family program gets bigger and bolder and 2017 is no exception. So many favourites return including the Amazing Drumming Monkeys, Children are Stinky, Peter Combe and Boomstars & Supercats. Some new
faces will excite and delight including Super Amazing Giant Girl in her acclaimed interactive theatre show about
fitting in and a whole visual arts installation that been added to engage the little ones called Foals.
Protégée of the illustrious Penn & Teller, physicist turned magician Kevin Quantum makes his Adelaide debut with
his show ‘Illuminations’, while Indigenous dance superstars and YouTube sensations Djuki Mala are back with their
unique, infectious, high-energy and always exuberant fusion of traditional Yolngu and contemporary pop culture,
dance and storytelling.
Like Pitch Perfect with Cahoonas, favourite six-man a cappella group The Magnets are back with a hot new lineup of vocal talent and an audacious aca-adventure through music, and direct from sold out shows in London’s
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West End, the USA and around Australia, the hilarious Graeme of Thrones sees avid ‘Thrones’ fan Graeme try to
recreate his favourite fantasy saga on stage.
This year The Garden presents an incredible music lineup featuring ARIA Award winning Adelaide darling Tasha
Coates (The Audreys), Clairy Brown, Vika and Linda, Jo Lawry, Kate Ceberano, Germein Sisters, Ross Wilson, Renee
Geyer, The Black Sorrows, Áine Tyrrell, Ash Grunwald, Ella Hooper, Emma Pask, Katie Noonan & Karin Schaupp,
Leo Sayer, Manu Delago, Mercan Dede, The McClymonts and the hit show Baby Wants Candy where a full cast
and band perform a completely crowd-sourced and improvised musical every night.
Some of the world’s most hilarious comedy superstars are featured on the huge lineup including: Abandoman,
Adrienne Truscott, Best of the Edinburgh Fest, Butt Kapinski, Cal Wilson, Dave Hughes, DRAGAPELLA! Starring The
Kinsey Sicks, Eddie Ifft, Hannah Gadsby, Joel Creasey, Judith Lucy & Denise Scott, Justin Hamilton, Lawrence
Mooney, Lehmo, Luke McGregor, Merrick Watt, Paul Foot, Puppetry of the Penis, Rove McManus, Sam Simmons,
Sammy J, Simon Taylor, Tom Ballard, Tom Gleeson, Tommy Little and Wil Anderson.
Once again The Garden’s cabaret program is bursting with stunning boundary-pushing shows such as the world
premiere of gay superhero Reuben Kaye’s show Success Story, Hans, Willsy and Bob Downe: Triple Treat, Livvy &
Pete: The Songs of Olivia Newton John and Peter Allen, Exposing Edith, GRUMBLE: Sex Clown Saves The World,
Mother’s Ruin: A Cabaret About Gin, and Peter and Bambi Heaven, The Magic Inside.
Tickets to all shows will be on sale via GardenofUnearthlyDelights.com.au on Friday 2 December.
NOTES TO EDITOR:
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The Garden Of Unearthly Delights - 2017 program:
Abandoman: One Shot
Adrienne Truscott's Asking For It: A One-Lady Rape About Comedy Starring Her Pussy and Little Else!
Áine tyrrell
Ali McGregor - Decadence
Amazing Drumming Monkeys - The Garden Show
Ash Grunwald
Baby Wants Candy
Bank SA Free Concert Series
Best of the Edinburgh Fest
Blanc de Blanc
Boomstars & Supercat
Butt Kapinski
Cal Wilson - Things I've Never Said
Charlie Pickering - One Night
Children are Stinky
Clairy Browne
Dave Hughes - Deluded
Demi Lardner - Look What You Made Me Do
Djuki Mala
DRAGAPELLA! Starring The Kinsey Sicks
Eddie Ifft Man Child
Ella Hooper
Emma Pask
EROTIC INTELLIGENCE FOR DUMMIES
EUROWISION
Exposing Edith
foals [art exhibition]
FoRT
Germein Sisters
Glittery Clittery: a conSENSUAL party
Graeme Of Thrones
Grumble Boogie
Grumble: Sex Clown Saves The World
Hannah Gadsby - Nanette
Hans, Willsy and Bob Downe: Triple Treat
Headspace Stand Up for Youth Mental Health
Heath Franklin's Chopper - The Line Up
Ivan Aristeguieta - Juithy
Jagged Little Singalong
Jo Lawry Live at The Spiegeltent
Joel Creasey - Poser
Judith Lucy and Denise Scott - Disappointments
Justin Hamilton - Bunta Boy
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Kate Ceberano
Katie Noonan & Karin Schaupp "Songs of the Latin Skies"
Kevin Quantum – Illuminations
KID / DUB
Lawrence Mooney: Like Literally
Lehmo - The Family Lifeboat
Leo Sayer - The Show Must Go On
LIMBO UNHINGED
Livvy & Pete: The Songs of Olivia Newton John and Peter Allen
Loose Ends
Luke McGregor - Almost Fixed It
Manu Delago
MASSAOKE
Mercan Dede
Merrick Watts - Man Of The Hour
Mojito!
Mother's Ruin: A Cabaret About Gin
Nath Valvo - Not in This House
Notorious Strumpet & Dangerous Girl
Olympia
Paul Foot - 'Tis A Pity She's A Piglet
Peter and Bambi Heaven, The Magic Inside
Peter Combe in Bellyflop in a Pizza
Puppetry of the Penis
Pussy Play Masterclass
Renee Geyer
Reuben Kaye: Success Story
Ross Wilson & The Peaceniks
Rove McManus - That's Me Talking
Russell Morris
Sam Simmons - A-K
Sammy J - Hero Complex
SeaStar Rock
Simon Taylor - Spectacular-ish!
Super Amazing Giant Girl
Taasha Coates
Tessa Waters: Fully Sik
The Black Sorrows
The Garden Sessions
The Magnets: Audocity
The McClymonts - The Endless Tour 2017
The Stand Up Show
Things Of Stone & Wood "The Yearning" Tour
Tom Ballard - Problematic
Tom Gleeson - Cheer Up
Tom Walker - Bee Boo
Tommy Little - Good Talk
Tommy Little & Gossling - Heartbreak & Hilarity
Vika and Linda
Wank Bank Masterclass
Wil Anderson - Critically Wil
Woolly: The Morose Merino
Zach & Viggo: Thunderflop