****1/2 (four and a half stars) from The Adelaide Theatre Guide.   - "This is what the Fringe is about" - Fran Edwards.

"This play.....tells the real story of what was going on behind the scenes between Hamlet, his good mate Horatio, and....Ophelia. Lots of hanky panky seems to be the answer......." Cameron England - The Advertiser

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IN THE BAKEHOUSE STUDIO THEATRE

Is our gender a "cage" that blinkers our experience of the world and each other?

How do we align the discursions of academia with the politics of today?

Have the examinations of the human condition offered by artists across all genres and all ages (from Greek tragedies through to our modern soap operas) resulted in any real changes to the way we structure our lives?

Renegade Productions examines these questions through a multi-disiplinary performance of drama, song, sound and movement.

IN THE BAKEHOUSE STUDIO THEATRE.

Renegade Productions is proud to present its latest opus "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus", adapted from the novel by Mary Shelley.

The play Melbourne found too hot to handle and banned - Bill Henson and His Children: A short play about why Kevin Rudd should have studied art.

The Bill Henson saga meets sideshow alley as the art scandal of 2008 comes alive under the Big Top (well almost).  Be warned, you will be offended!

This production of Bill Henson and His Children features all but one of the original cast of the People's Choice Award winning play from Short and Sweet 2009.

BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!  This show has now turned into a double billing! Two shows for the price of one!

"WAITING FOR MAMDOUGH" 

**** (4 stars out of 5) from The Advertiser

"Habib......conveys a level of cathartic vulnerability which makes this piece of theatrical sharing a very rare and intimate experience". - Samela Harris

In the early hours of 2 October 2001, Mamdouh Habib and two young German men were taken off a bus travelling between Quetta and Karachi by Pakistani ssecurity officers. It was shortly after 9/11 and only days befor the United States attacked Afganistan. A few unlucky ones were then 'rendered' to a third-party country to be further interrogated and tortured, where they either disappeared into a web of secret prisons or were sent to Guantanomo Bay. This is what happened to Mamdouh Habib.

Waiting for Mamdouh is a short but moving performance piece about Mamdouh Habib who is caught up in the post-September 11 turmoil and detained in Guantanamo Bay and his wife Maha who is left in Australia with her four children uncertain of his fate. Featuring Mamdouh Habib, through a set of monologues, Mamdouh and Maha tell their own stories, of their anguish and their triumphs in a time when nothing is predictable or certain.

Performances March 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 at 6.30pm in the Main Stage.

BOOKINGS: Through the Fringe office on 1300 FRINGE or www.adelaidefringe.com.au

FREE TIX NIGHTS: Mon March 8, Tues 9th, Wed 10th, Thurs 11th - bookings for Free Tix available only through the Bakehouse

MEDIA BOOKINGS FOR MARCH 8 & 9 - BOOK ON-LINE here by choosing "media" from the drop down ticket menu

From the novel by Sir Terry Pratchett.

We all know that man cannot survive on bread alone - unless of course he is Lord Havelock Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork. 

Vetinari usually dines on bread and water followed by the oil that makes the city of Ankh-Morpork run smoothly.

In this year of the Pensive Hare, people were getting bored, and the oil was wearing a bit thin.  It was threatening to spread out of control via the vicious street game of foot-the-ball that people were turning to for their amusement. A game that they believed was more exciting than beating other people over the head with big weapons.

Football - like diplomacy and marriage. Short periods of fighting followed by long periods of negotiation.

"We play and are played and the best we can hope for is to do it with style" - Lord Havelock Vetinari

Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!