Gig Guide
25th Year of the Rhino Room Late Show
Cameron James – ‘Broken Records’
MICF Best Show Nominee, SCF Director’s Choice Winner, and Bad Boy of Musical Comedy* (*self proclaimed), Cameron James is back with his biggest rock n roll show yet.
Join Cam as he digs through the record crate of his life, pinballing from hilariously true stories, to cutting cultural commentary, to full blown pop songs.
Broken Records is a musical comedy show about what it means to be alive right f***ing here, right f***ing now.
As seen on The Gala, Spicks & Specks, Guy Mont-Spelling Bee, Bump & more.
Bron Lewis – ‘Who’s Talking?!’
Ever wanted to know what your high school teacher actually thought of you? Or whether she believed your excuses? Or what she wanted to say to the Year 8 boy who refused to leave the class? Well, you’re going to want to see this show.
Before Bron Lewis was one of Australia’s most promising new comedians, she was a high school teacher for almost a decade. It was an era where she both nurtured young hearts, encouraged kids to be brilliant, but she also made some lifelong enemies. You’ll hear more about them this show than the nerds. Bron became a teacher because she hates learning – she would rather saw off her own legs then learn a new card game. Bron raises the question: what happens when someone tries to avoid learning at all costs? They teach. Sit down, and get ready to learn.
Ray O’Leary – ‘Laughter? I Hardly Know Her!’ SOLD OUT.
Ray O’Leary (Taskmaster, Have You Been Paying Attention?) pulled a man from a wrecked car and as the man lay dying, he used his last ounce of strength to ask Ray (Best Show Nominee at the 2024 Melbourne International Comedy Festival) to tell his children that he loved them. And Ray (sold out tours to Melbourne, Edinburgh and more) will get round to it but first he has to do this comedy show.
Wil Anderson – Whatchu Talkin’ ‘Bout Wil?
In 2025 Wil Anderson is bringing his completely improvised shows to comedy clubs and festivals around the country. Every night will be a completely different show, made for- and with- the people in the room only. Never to be recorded. Never to be repeated.
Witness one of the fastest comedic minds of his generation for a unique, never to be repeated Festival experience in the intimate surroundings of Adelaide’s favourite Comedy Club – Rhino Room.
BOOK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. WILL SELL OUT TOO QUICKLY.
“Lightning in a bottle.” ★★★★½ The Sydney Morning Herald, 2022
“Wil Anderson is a master at finding humanity in the strangest things.” ★★★★ Time Out, 2022
Han Arbuthnott: They/Hehe
Trans dude Han Arbuthnott (they/he) has a brand new show! And boy is it gonna be fun.
His last one was all about growing up, and navigating the world as a freshly handsome heartthrob. This one is about other things, like family, dogs, and discovering an ancestor from the 1400s who murdered a sheriff and cooked him into a soup. Woah!
But also still the handsome thing.
Directed by Kirsty Webeck.
“Brilliant, bonkers and off-the-wall stand-up.” Artshub
Maren May reads between no lines.
Do you ever find yourself leaving a social situation feeling like you missed a brief everyone else got? Do you lie awake at night remembering that odd thing you said five years ago at your best mate’s birthday party? Are you ever lost in your own head trying to find the right words to say, after the wrong ones already came out of your mouth?
This show is for you.
Following last year’s debut show ‘Maren May is German’, exploring her European heritage, Maren dives into her inability to read between the lines and the many social situations where she definitely didn’t quite get it right.
DISCLAIMER: Giggles likely. Advice highly unlikely.
★★★★ “A crack up… even in her more serious stories, there is a delightful slice of silliness.” Fringefeed, 2024
Directed by Claire Hooper
Greg Fleet: Exile on Fleet Street
Fleet takes us on a mind bending journey that explores the things we need and the things we think we need. From heroin to mobile phones to plastic surgery. What is addiction?
“★★★★★. Subtle Succinct Surreal” The Scotsman
”Hilarious. Deserves to be massive” The Independent (UK)
Greg Sullivan is The Oldest Newcomer
Are you a former child prodigy, or a late bloomer? Greg Sullivan is and was both.
Born two weeks late, hip surgery age ten, pro comic at nineteen, virgin until twenty four, Greg has always been ahead of the game and late to the party. If you’ve ever struggled to start doing something you want to do, or stop doing something you shouldn’t do, Greg knows how you feel. After thirty years as a professional comedian working on stage around the world, in film TV and radio he is doing his first ever Adelaide Fringe Show.
Will he win Best Newcomer? Almost certainly not. Will he lose money? Probably
Is it worth doing anyway? Yes! Because you should never stop starting and it’s never too late to start stopping.