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AURA | Adelaide Fringe 2025

Immerse yourself in the electric world of AURA, where sultry burlesque collides with fiery passion, circus artistry, and raw, unapologetic power. Held at Adelaide’s stunning rooftop poolside bar Nineteen Ten during this year’s Adelaide Fringe Festival, AURA is a celebration of the divine feminine and its many varied and diverse forms. Curated by the legendary Lylah Bloom of Lylah Bloom Productions, AURA honours the fierce femmes who challenge norms and break barriers, paving the way for unapologetic self-expression. Night one (Friday 7 March) shone a spotlight on emerging artists on the rise, while night two (Saturday 8 March) showcased established and seasoned professionals from all across Australia. AURA is an invitation to reclaim your own power, to revel in your own sensuality, and to leave feeling inspired and empowered.

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Something Wicked.. A Bewitching Burlesque | Adelaide Fringe 2025

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Dark, seductive, and utterly mesmerising, Something Wicked.. A Bewitching Burlesque is more than just a show for mere mortals; it’s a breathtaking descent into a world where burlesque, fire, and witchcraft collide in a spectacular symphony of passion and power. Produced by Miss Eli Fury of Haus of Fury Productions, this spellbinding spectacle features a cast of solo and troupe performers descendant from the enchanting worlds of burlesque, circus, aerial, and fire arts. From the first spark to the final flame, this bewitching spectacle casts a spell that you won’t want to break, blurring the lines between seduction and sorcery.

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SMUT, The Show | Adelaide Fringe 2025

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After a sold-out 2024 season, SMUT The Show makes its triumphant return to Adelaide Fringe, delivering an ultra-risque, adults-only spectacle perfect for those looking for some daring and debaucherous late-night entertainment. Hosted at Fool's Paradise, this R-rated romp is a bold celebration of the SWER (sex worker) community, weaving together strip-club performances, burlesque, circus, and sideshow in a performance that feels like a deliciously deviant protest.

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The Vintage Showgirl | Adelaide Fringe 2025

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Get ready to shimmy and shake your way through the decades of burlesque history at The Vintage Showgirl: a seductive stroll through time that celebrates a sold-out run at this year’s Adelaide Fringe Festival. Step into a glittering time machine that takes you through the many eras and iterations of burlesque, from the flirty flappers of the Roaring '20s to the bodacious showgirls of the psychedelic '70s. Set amongst the antiquated halls of heritage mansion Ayers House, The Vintage Showgirl is created and hosted by the whimsical Viola Verve of Viola Verve Productions, who has curated a stellar cast of both seasoned burlesque icons and emerging stars. Prepare to be dazzled, darlings: there’s a reason The Vintage Showgirl has sold out both shows, proving that burlesque is forever and the art of the tease never goes out of style.

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The Gin Martini Burlesque Revue | Adelaide Fringe 2025

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This Adelaide Fringe, step right up to The Gin Martini Burlesque Revue, where the Roaring ‘20s are alive and kicking and the prohibition is in full swing, with gin flowing, jazz playing, and flappers frolicking.Hosted in the cozy confines of Prohibition Liquor Co.'s Tasting Room on the southern fringe of Adelaide’s city CBD, this show transports you to the Roaring Twenties: an age of glitz and glamour where the morals were looser, the skirts shorter and the parties bigger than ever.

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Bad Girls of History | Adelaide Fringe 2025

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Ready for a history lesson like no other? Unleash your inner rebel at Bad Girls of History; an electrifying audio-visual live DJ set currently making waves at this year’s Adelaide Fringe Festival. Presented by the unstoppable DJ Carly Gray, this isn’t just another dance party; it’s a fierce celebration of every badass woman past and present who broke the rules, defied expectations, and changed the course of history. Set to a killer playlist featuring modern-day female musical icons, this immersive experience brings together pulsating beats, synchronised visuals, and an infectious energy that’ll have you singing and up on your feet dancing through history like never before.

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DIZNEY Debauched | Adelaide Fringe 2025

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Prepare to be enchanted by an adults-only spectacle that takes your favorite Disney classics and gives them a devilishly wicked makeover! Welcome to Dizney Debauched, where nostalgia meets seduction in a performance as daring as a ride on Space Mountain. Brought to you at this year’s Adelaide Fringe Festival by the mischievous minds at Ardent Artiste Productions, this burlesque extravaganza reimagines all your beloved (or hated) Disney characters in the most debauched and seductive ways possible. Whether it's villains, protagonists, or sidekicks, prepare to be left questioning everything you thought you knew about fairy tales. So, if you think you’ve seen it all in the House of Mouse, get ready for the happily ever after you never saw coming.

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Star Warz Denude | Adelaide Fringe 2025

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, burlesque collided with the Force, unleashing an intergalactic spectacle of sass, spice, and spectacular seduction to create Star Warz Denude. Landing at The Lab at Fool’s Paradise for the opening weekend of the Adelaide Fringe Festival, this tantalising show is a burlesque parody of the Star Wars universe that will have you laughing, blushing, and maybe even rethinking where your allegiance lies. Whether you're a Jedi, a Sith, or somewhere in between, this show takes everyone’s beloved (or hated) Star Wars characters and makes them sexier (or in some cases, sexier) through the art of the tease, creating a spectacle that’s truly out of this world.

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Sleeps Hill Tunnel | Adelaide Fringe 2025

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Nestled in the lush hills of Panorama, an unexpected world of light, history, and art awaits inside Sleeps Hill Tunnel. Returning for the second year in a row at this year’s Adelaide Fringe Festival, this award-winning exhibition invites you to journey through a 377-metre-long historic tunnel that has been transformed into an interactive, immersive experience. From its days as a steam train passage to its time as a mushroom farm, the tunnel now serves as a living canvas for projections, sound, and light, breathing new life into an aspect of Adelaide’s rich history that you may not have known ever existed.

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Catch Jazida

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Lock up your expectations and throw away the key: Catch Jazida is about to steal the show in more ways than one. This burlesque production is a high-stakes performance that commits the perfect crime of entertainment, seamlessly blending theatre, comedy and burlesque to create an interactive, laugh-out-loud adventure that is part detective story, part cabaret, and entirely electrifying.