Adelaide Festival Unveils 2015 Program

Boasting a range of musical, theatre, dance and visual art shows from Friday 27 February until Sunday 15 March, the Adelaide Festival’s 30th program includes 22 premieres and 26 exclusive events.

Another solid music line-up sees Scottish instrumental rock luminaries Mogwai, UK post-rock electronic outfit 65daysofstatic, Japanese art metal 10-piece Vampillia, and the first ever Australian appearance from UK post-punk rockers The Pop Group, as well as the return of Unsound Adelaide, which is set to showcase some of the best electronic and experimental music in the world.

American burlesque star Julie Atlas returns to the country with UK’s best know disabled performer Mat Fraser and highly sort after UK director Phelim McDermott for an adult retelling of the classic Beauty And The Beast tale, with tackles disability and sexuality in a playful yet forceful way.

Here's what the 2015 Adelaide Festival has to offer:

Music

Danny Elfman’s Music From The Films of Tim Burton

Tommy

Fela! The Concert

Gavin Bryars In Residence

Unsound Adelaide Feat. Model 500, Hieroglyphic Being, Vatican Shadow and more

Blow The Bloody Doors Off!!

Terry Edwards

Richard Thompson Electric Trio

Mogwai

65daysofstatic

The Pop Group

Vampillia

Abdullah Ibrahim

The Experiment

Australian String Quartet Perform Remember Tomorrow

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Perform House Of Dreams

Chamber Singers Peform Passio

Theatre

Azimut

Riverrun

Nufonia Must Fall

Kid Koala’s Nufonia Must Fall

Beauty And The Beast

The Cardinals

La Merda

SmallWaR

Jack & The Beanstalk

Dylan Thomas – Return Journey

Black Diggers

Beckett Triptych

Dance

Violet Kid

Ten Duets On A Theme Of Rescue

Indigo Rose

Orbo Novo

Visual Art

Blinc feat. Laszlo Zsolt Bordos Casa Magica, Joel Cockrill, Wendy Dawson, Dawn Of Man and more

Bill Viola

Kira Perov

David Sefton