AustLit

'It’s a perfect, balmy night in the outback. A sleep-deprived camper, a cheeky quokka and an emu with a penchant for creating wild inventions, awake to discover that a koala has come down with a stubborn and ear-shatteringly loud case of the hiccups.

'Embark on an epic journey through the night as they frantically eat, sing and invent their way towards a cure before the sun comes up.'

Source: Merrigong Theatre Company.

'How do you grow up in a world that’s anti-ageing?

'When Hans and Gret’s mum arrives home from a radical health retreat with the years literally shaved off her, their lives are thrown into chaos.

'As parents become teenagers again and kids all over their community start disappearing, the pair are led down a seductive forest path that will see them leave everything they know behind. Part teenage fever dream, part dystopian nightmare, Hans and Gret reinvents the classic fairytale for a new generation. This collaboration from South Australia’s internationally lauded Windmill Theatre Company and creative technology innovators Sandpit is a psychological thriller pulsing with danger, betrayal and dread.

'Hans and Gret is an anarchic, edge-of-your-seat world premiere that plunges audiences into a dangerous world of seduction and mind control where nothing is what it seems and immersive audio technology is used to whisper secrets directly into your ear.

'Don’t eat the gingerbread...'

Source: Adelaide Festival.

'How did we get here? Are aliens real? And is it possible to lick your elbow?

'Based on interviews with members of the South Australian community aged between 8-102, Creation Creation is a comedy about life’s biggest mysteries.

'We’ve asked two fearless creators to step onto the stage and attempt to unravel the mysteries of the universe using whatever tools they have at their disposal. Cardboard boxes become battleships and ping pong balls become planets in this hilarious explosion of art, sculpture and puppetry.

'A daring and audacious journey to the very edge of the universe and back again. It’s a wild theatrical experiment for the curious among us.'

Source: Windmill Theatre Company.

'The most daring, dangerous, heart-stopping intergalactic race in the universe is the Sun Run, a lap of the entire solar system and around the sun. Gamma and Olli are the youngest Sun Runners there ever was and they are ready to race.

'Just days before the big race, Olli and Gamma crash land on Mercury – they’ve got to get out of this intergalactic mess and get back to the asteroid belt in time for the Sun Run.

'Plunge headfirst into an immersive space adventure. With a pair of headphones and a mobile device, you become Olli and Gamma, hurtling across the farthest reaches of the galaxy in your own living room. Sun Runners infuses imaginative, physical play with a cinematic score to create a thrilling action-packed experience. Audioplay is technology without the screens.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Chloe and Hassan are under suspicion for stealing money while feeding the class Axolotl. Sent outside to work out who’s responsible, the unlikely pair find they have something in common. Each of them has been forced by their parents to leave their respective homes and face life as the new kid at school.

'As their personal histories are revealed, Chloe hears the incredible first-hand account of a 12-year-old boy who’s travelled alone, thousands of kilometres across land and sea, for a better life.

'Is the discovery of Hassan’s back story enough to save him from Chloe’s desire to protect her position in her new-found friendship group?'

Source: Windmill Theatre.

'A slightly sideways tale about unexpected friendship, finding where you fit and learning to mix it up a little.

'In Mort’s Village everything has its place, every day is the same and everyone likes it that way. Until one morning, crash, boom, bang… down comes Beep.

'What is this annoying interruption to Mort’s breakfast molly melon, who is this noisy robot girl, and how will she find her home?

'With Windmill’s trademark design, gentle storytelling, music and puppetry, Beep tells the story of what happens when someone new comes to town.' (Production summary)

'It is the 22nd century in central Australia. Everyday life is basic in this future world. The post climate change environment demands that skills for living return to the way they were for thousands of years before that fast-paced period of just 10 generations, which resulted in global warming and the near destruction of the planet. Eva and Roam have fallen in love and they face a life and death predicament as they run from an unseen enemy, because of their wrong-skin marriage.'

Source: Adelaide Festival Centre website, www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au (sighted 10/05/2010)