THE ADELAIDE FESTIVAL
Launches
Its 2018 Program
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The 2018 Adelaide Festival program launched on Tuesday 24 October 2017 at the Adelaide Town Hall. It is a festival program rich with Australian and international voices, bold new visions and contemporary theatre classics, as Joint Artistic Directors Neil Armfield AO and Rachel Healy return to the helm for their second Adelaide Festival in 2018.
The Adelaide Festival Board also announced today that it has extended the contract of the Joint Artistic Directors for a further two festivals, with their tenure culminating in 2021.
The stellar program features 48 theatre, music, opera, dance, film and visual arts events alongside Adelaide Writers’ Week and WOMADelaide. The line up includes four world premieres, 14 Australian premieres and 13 events exclusive to Adelaide over 17 days from 2 March to 18 March 2018.
Joint Artistic Directors Rachel Healy and Neil Armfield said: “We are so proud to be Artistic Directors of the greatest arts festival in the country, indeed one of the great festivals of the world. In 2018 we have programmed works of mighty scale and whispering intimacy – all of them fired by an ambition to enthral, challenge, awe and inspire. Works by the finest artists in the world today; works you will remember for the rest of your life. There’s no doubt – Adelaide in March is the place to be.”
Premier Jay Weatherill said: “The 2018 Adelaide Festival program yet again reinforces the Adelaide Festival as the nation’s leading arts festival. Tens of thousands of people will converge on Adelaide to soak up the art, culture, conversations and ideas that the Adelaide Festival presents, alongside WOMADelaide and Adelaide’s Writers’ Week. I congratulate Rachel Healy and Neil Armfield on an inspiring Festival program and look forward to sharing the Festival with as many South Australian’s and Festival visitors as possible.”
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