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Adelaide’s Finest: Adelaide Fringe Recap 2026

The Fresher team went out to experience some of the plethora of shows on offer during this month of madness. Here’s what we saw, and what we have to say

Fresher Magazine

Elaine Goh

An Interregnum of Divine Flesh and Machinery

Elaine Goh

This editorial imagines one possible reality as we glimpse at the monsters disguised among men – of Big Tech and capital’s relentless expansion. Set against a speculative landscape where flesh, nature, and machine coexist, these images mirror the uneasy coexistence between humanity and its own creations.

Elaine Goh

Chloe Nicole Crispin

A Night of Burlesque with Evana De Lune

Chloe Nicole Crispin

Truly a spectacle to behold, with a ferociously sexy array of unique performers. This show seduces you into an escape from the current climate of the world it invites you into a different dimension where glitz, glamour and seductive wit are at the forefront.

Chloe Nicole Crispin

Notes on Caressa

Chloe Nicole Crispin

Will, Jade and Katalina encompass South Australian “tarot-rock” band Caressa who embrace the grit of ‘70s rock with a uniquely youthful and contemporary twist.

Chloe Nicole Crispin

Alexa Balog

Ignore Your Colour Palette, Embrace Your Inner Mystical Gothic Witch

Alexa Balog

Seasonal colour analysis fails to miss something integral about colour in fashion: colour should be expressive not just flattering.

Alexa Balog

Amber Lomax

The Grandeur of Sensuality: A Love Affair Between Artistry & Seduction

Amber Lomax

“Where desire meets design”

From the radiant design of Kira Bayliss clothing and the Adelaide Ballet Company, Casanova and His Mistress brings you the seductive and elusive stories of Casanova and his alluring exploits.

Amber Lomax

Strike a Pose with Diversity Hire and Lexxi

Amber Lomax

Meet two new (but already iconic) Adelaide Drag artists; Lexxi and Diversity Hire.

Amber Lomax

Rameen Sheraz

The Breakfast Club: How Teen Archetypes Revolutionised Colour in Styling

Rameen Sheraz

When ‘The Breakfast Club’ premiered in 1985, it didn’t just define a generation, it defined the way teenagers expressed themselves through clothes and, crucially, colour.

Rameen Sheraz

Kate Strutton

Oversaturated: Colour and Overconsumption in the Market

Kate Strutton

While desperately searching for halloween costume ideas, I stumbled across a video suggesting ‘overconsumption costumes’, where you dressed as extreme versions of recent trends. Adorn yourself in a million Labubus with terrifying red eyes; become a real office siren with fangs and webbed hands; or drench yourself in every item of butter yellow under the sun.

Kate Strutton

Chloe Nicole Crispin

Issue 4

Form of Freedom: Badland Caravan

Chloe Nicole Crispin

Issue 4

Their sound and style ritually sycnhronised, invoking the presence of a roll of film left in the sun to slowly warp and simultaneously glisten. The hypnotic and strangely intimate enigma of Badland Caravan is best encapsulated by frontman Adam Higgs himself as “an alchemical transmutation of energy”.

Chloe Nicole Crispin

Issue 4

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