The Adelaide Fringe festival is characterised by large crowds cramming into packed tents to watch performers from across the country and around the world.
Key points:
- Interstate and international artists are still expected to attend next year's Fringe, albeit in smaller numbers
- Grants and creative ticketing options are available
- Memorabilia from the festival's 60-year history has gone on sale
But coronavirus has forced organisers to rethink how to go ahead with next year's festival, in a way that retains the glitz and glamour of the spectacle.
Described by organisers as the "biggest arts festival in the southern hemisphere" and the largest outside Edinburgh, the next Adelaide Fringe will be significantly different from what people are used to.
The last weekend of this year's festival went ahead just before statewide lockdowns came into effect in response to the coronavirus pandemic, which left the 2021 festival in doubt.
Next year, venues will only be filled to 50 per cent capacity, with more performances held outdoors instead of in tents.
Audiences will be able to buy "double your applause" tickets by paying for the empty seat next to them, and many shows will be livestreamed.
"There'll be less tents in the actual park, there will be more outdoor performance spaces."
Performers have another week to register for the festival.
A similar number of local performers as last year have signed up already — more than 600 — but Ms Croall said the coronavirus pandemic was hindering international and interstate entries.
Overall, she expected up to 800 shows, compared to the more than 1,000 from recent years.
"International and interstate shows that are coming from states that have quarantine requirements — that puts a lot of pressure on the shows," Ms Croall said.
"With 50 per cent capacity as the house limit, people have to do very different budgeting, and quarantining does look very hard for them, but there's still a few international acts contacting us and saying they are hoping to come.
"There'll be little nooks. They might do an outdoor mini-amphitheatre under some trees. I think the creativity and the inventiveness have no bounds."
There will not be a Fringe Club but instead a "decentralised" operation across various small venues.
"We thought it wasn't right to run one in competition with the bars," Ms Croall said.
Buyers snap up Fringe memorabilia
Items covering 60 years of Adelaide Fringe history were up for grabs at a "garage sale" held at the festival's Netley warehouse on Saturday.
"We wanted to put all of these items in the hands of the people who need it the most in the year they need it the most," the festival's head of program operations, Jo O'Callaghan, said.
"Not a lot of people are on stages — a lot of venues are shut down — so we went out and we just wanted to boost morale."
The profits from the sale are going back into the Adelaide Fringe, including for grants for artists who have been hit hard by COVID-19.
Including contributions from the State Government, about $500,000 in grants are available.
"There are artists who haven't been on stage since Fringe last year who won't be on stage until Fringe next year and those guys are just so excited to have something to look forward to," Gluttony program director Elena Kirschbaum said.
"There's also a lot of international artists who were trapped here by the pandemic."
The new-look Fringe will run from February 19–March 21.
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2020-10-26 00:48:00Z
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