PAST FRINGE PROGRAMS
Take a look back through our past Adelaide Fringe programs - we've had some amazing shows, and we're sure that 2021 will be no different!
Holden Street Theatres' Past Fringe Award Winners
2022
Overall Adelaide Critics' Circle Award - Naomi
Mental Health Awareness Award Presented by mindshare - Naomi
Week 4 BankSA Best Theatre - Naomi
Week 3 BankSA Best Theatre - Venus in Fur by David Ives
Week 3 Adelaide Critics' Circle Award - Naomi
Week 2 BankSA Best Theatre - Afghanistan is Not Funny by Henry Naylor
Week 1 BankSA Best Theatre - Demagogue
Week 1 Adelaide Crtics' Circle Award - Afghanistan is Not Funny by Henry Naylor
2021
Overall Adelaide Critics' Circle Award - DIRT
The Frank Ford Award - DIRT
Mental Health Awareness Award presented by mindshare - The Twins
Week 3 Adelaide Critics Choice Award - That Boy
Week 2 BankSA Best Theatre - That Boy
Week 1 Adelaide Critics Choice Award - DIRT
Week 1 BankSA Best Theatre - DIRT
Week 1 BankSA Best Comedy - MAN-BO
2020
Graham F. Smith Peace Foundation Prize - Kafka's Ape
Overall Bank SA Best Theatre - Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum with Expats
Overall Adelaide Critics' Circle Award - Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum with Expats
Overall Sunday Mail Best Theatre Award - Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum with Expats
Hong Kong Tour Ready Award - The Final Hours Hour
Week 4 Adelaide Critics' Circle Award - Tartuffe
Week 4 Bank SA Best Theatre - The Wild Unfeeling World
Week 3 Adelaide Critics' Circle Award - The Nights by Henry Naylor
Week 3 Bank SA Best Theatre - Kafka's Ape
Week 1 Adelaide Critics' Circle Award - Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum with Expats
2019
Graham F. Smith Peace Foundation Prize - Grounded
Overall Bank SA Best Theatre Award - Eurydice
Overall Adelaide Critics' Circle Award - Games by Henry Naylor
Bank SA Best Emerging Artist Award Week 1 - Table for Two?
Bank SA Best Theatre Award Week 1 - Games by Henry Naylor
Bank SA Best Theatre Award Week 1 - Build a Rocket
Adelaide Critics' Circle Award Week 1 - Extinguished Things
Bank SA Best Theatre Award Week 2 - Eurydice
Adelaide Critics' Circle Award Week 3 - Games by Henry Naylor
Bank SA Best Film, Digital, Interactive, Workshops & Talks - Workshop: Writing a Dramatic Monologue with Molly Taylor
Bank SA Best Theatre Award Week 4 - Bin Laden: The One Man Show
Bank SA Best Theatre Award Week 4 - The Archive of Educated Hearts
Adelaide Critics' Circle Award Week 4 - Grounded
The Advertiser Best Female Solo Performance - Serena Manteghi in Build a Rocket
The Advertiser Life Imitates Art Award - Grounded
2018
Graham F. Smith Peace Foundation Prize - Not Today's Yesterday
Overall Bank SA Best Dance Award - Not Today's Yesterday
Overall Adelaide Critics' Circle Award - Borders by Henry Naylor
Overall Bank SA Best Theatre Award - Flesh & Bone
Adelaide Critics' Circle Award Week 1 - Borders by Henry Naylor
Bank SA Best Theatre Award Week 1 - Flesh & Bone
Adelaide Critics' Circle Award Week 2 - Love Letters to the Public Transport System
Bank SA Best Dance Award Week 2 - Not Today's Yesterday
Adelaide Critics' Circle Award Week 3 - Flesh & Bone
Bank SA Best Dance Week 3 - Pedal / Castles
Bank SA Best Theatre Award Week 3 - That Daring Australian Girl
Bank SA Best Theatre Award Week 4 - John Hinton's Scientrilogy
2017
Adelaide Critics Circle Award - Angel by Henry Naylor
Adelaide Critics Circle Choice Award Wk 1 - Angel by Henry Naylor
Adelaide Fringe Best Theatre Award Wk 3 - Angel by Henry Naylor
Adelaide Fringe Best Theatre Award Wk 1 - Scorch
Adelaide Critics Circle Choice Award Wk 2 - Scorch
Adelaide Fringe Best Theatre Award Wk 2 - Signifying Nothing
Adelaide Fringe Critics Circle Chioce Award Week 3 -Signifying Nothing
Best show in Fringe 2017 - Stories in The Dark
inSPACE Development Award - Stories in The Dark
2016
Adelaide Fringe Best Theatre Award WK2 - Gambler's Guide to Dying
Critics' Circle Choice Award - Commendation - Gambler's Guide to Dying
The Graham F Smith Peace Foundation Award - Labels by Joe Sellman-Leava
Adelaide Fringe Best Theatre Award Wk 1 – Labels by Joe Sellman-Leava
Adelaide Fringe Best Theatre - Echoes
High Commendation - Adelaide Critics Circle Choice Award -Echoes
Adelaide Fringe Best Theatre Award WK1 - Echoes
Bank SA Pick of the Fringe Award WK1 - Echoes
Critics Circle Choice Award WK2 - Echoes
Adelaide Fringe Award - Emerging Artists Wk 3 - Post Dining Experiments
Commendation - Adelaide Fringe Best Interactive Award Wk 3 - Post Dining
Adelaide Fringe Best Theatre Award Wk 3 - The Orchid and the Crow
2015
Winner of the Adelaide Fringe Best Theatre Award Wk1 - Blood at the Root
Winner Underbelly Fringe Award - Cut by Duncan Graham
2014
Minter Ellison 'Fringe & Beyond Award' - A Gaggle of Saints
The Peace Foundation Award - A Special Day (shared)
2013
Adelaide Critics Circle, Best Show in Fringe Award
Adelaide Fringe Best Theatre Award Wk 1 – Glory Dazed
Underbelly Edinburgh Award – Breaker
Adelaide Fringe Best Dance Award for Life in Miniature
Adelaide Fringe Best Theatre Award Wk 4 – Angry Young Man
Adelaide Fringe Best Theatre Award Wk 3 – Breaker and Stuperstition
Adelaide Fringe Best Cabaret Award Wk 3 – Candice McQueen: Nasty!
2012
Adelaide Fringe Best Theatre Performer Award – Wee Andy
Adelaide Advertiser Best Theatre Award – Fleeto and Wee Andy
2011
Advertiser Best Theatre Award – Bound
Nominated Adelaide Fringe Emerging Comedy Award - Rob Beckett.
2010
Advertiser Best Theatre Weekly Award - Heroine for Breakfast.
2009
The Advertiser Fringe Award for Theatre – Scarborough by Fiona Evans (directed by Martha Lott),
Nominated Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Performance Venue,
Nominated Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Performer & Best Solo Show - The Tailor of Inverness – Krawiecz Inverness (Scotland)
2008
Winner of the Adelaide Fringe Best Performing Arts Venue Award
2007
Adelaide Critics Circle Professional Group Award - Holden Street Theatre’s - What I Heard About Iraq and Fringe Programming, What I Heard About Iraq by Simon Levy Directed by Martha Lott (SA)
Advertiser Fringe Award Winner, first Fringe production to be awarded 5 Stars in the Advertiser
2006
Winner Advertiser Fringe Award - Angry Young Man
2004
Winner of Weekly Pick of the Fringe Advertiser award PLUCK (UK)