The Lost Dice is excited to announce that we will be an official Adelaide Fringe Venue in 2024! We have a diverse lineup of 13 different acts and 103 shows, ensuring that there's something for everyone including families. From Comedy to Dungeons & Dragons, Art, Magic, and Role-Playing, Fringe at The Lost Dice has it all.
Role To Cast LIVE
Comedy • Theatre and Physical Theatre
Dates 24th Feb 2nd, 9th and 16th March
Join four professional Aussie performers for four incredible nights of tabletop roleplaying at The Lost Dice, Adelaide's beloved board game cafe. Role to Cast LIVE brings the Ennie award-winning tabletop roleplaying podcast to the stage with each member of the cast taking the storyteller's seat for one night to weave an original story set in a world of their choosing and where the roll of the dice decides between triumph and disaster. The crew's unrivalled storytelling will be enhanced by professional lighting, sound and production for a fully immersive experience that is utterly unique.
Grab a bite and a drink from the Lost Dice kitchen and bar as you settle in for an evening of tabletop action, drama and hilarity.
Visit roletocast.squarespace.com/live for more details on each show.
Genre: Theatre and Physical Theatre •Rating: M • Family Friendly: No
TARTAN TABLETOP IN A DUNGEONS & DRAGONS COMEDY: THE NEVER-ENDING QUEST
Genre: Comedy
Dates: Fri, 01 Mar - Sat, 16 Mar
A quest that began at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023, and completed a SOLD OUT RUN, makes its Australian Premiere – the popular Dungeons & Dragons podcast team lands at the fringe with the Never-Ending Quest – improvised comedy at the roll of a dice, expect teamwork, nerdy jokes and guest star comedians playing Noblin the Goblin. Don't worry about the plot, we don't! Expect laughs, adventure and random acts of sorcery from the Tartan Tabletop gang of misfit adventurers – produced by Off Fest-nominated Future Artists.
Book early to join the adventure! ★★★★★
Rating: PG • Family Friendly: Yes
Andrew Portelli - Real Talk
Genre: Comedy
Dates: Wed, 13 Mar - Sat, 16 Mar
After sold-out shows at comedy festivals around Australia, don't miss Andrew Portelli's critically-acclaimed, award-winning new show 'Real Talk'. Come see why this glasses-wearing Aussie’s take-no-prisoners stand-up and sonic-speed crowd work have made him one of the most in-demand live comedians in Australia.
★★★★ “impressive belly laughs” The Age
"An ocean of raw talent and an innate sense for big laughs." Pedestrian.tv
“we were in hysterics” Milk Bar Mag
Rating: M • Family Friendly: No
Best Of Fringe Magic
Genre: Magic
Dates: Sat, 17 Feb - Sat, 16 Mar
Experience the BEST close-up magic of the Adelaide Fringe 2024 hosted by the award-winning Magician Sam King. Witness the festival's finest close-up magicians perform mind-blowing tricks in an intimate setting. Enjoy the mesmerizing fusion of comedy and magic unfolding right before your eyes. Book your tickets before they vanish!
Rating: PG, Family Friendly: No
Hypnos
Genre: Magic
Dates: Sat, 24 Feb - Sun, 17 Mar
Experience a unique fusion of hypnosis and magic. Every mystery takes you deeper and deeper into a profoundly enjoyable trance state. Each moment in hypnosis makes the magic more incredible. Be entertained. Be captivated. Be entranced.
Rating: MA15+, Family Friendly: No
Booze & the Bard: The Shakespearean Drinking Game
Genre: Theatre and Physical Theatre
Dates Season ended & it was a blast
Last Chance This Weekend
Following sell-out seasons of 'Macbeth, the Scotch Play' and 'Twelfth Pint (or What You Spill)', the brilliant minds at Booze & the Bard are back with their theatrical drinking games!
Five actors perform a 75-minute, improvised retelling of one of Shakespeare's classic plays, with a twist - one of their troupe is drunk.
★★★★½ "The show is hilarious, a little bit rude, and has a whole lot of heart. I'm sure it would be just as the Bard intended." Fringefeed, 2021
Our new comedy, complete with mistaken identity, boozy banter, and one sadistic spinning wheel!
★★★★½ "Shakespeare’s Hamlet as it should be: dramatic, interactive, and full of drunken chaos." On The Record, 2023
Rating: MA15+ Family Friendly: No
Misadventures From A Lap Around Australia
Genre: Comedy
Dates : Season ended Thanks Tom great show
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to stop being a grown up for a bit? Why the gap year is reserved for those fresh out of high school, wasted on those yet to be afflicted by the mundane horrors of middle management and health insurance?
Tom W Clarke can relate. So in 2023, he and his wife packed up their life in Melbourne and their four-year-old and jammed into a campervan for a year of adventure and silliness.
An extraordinary lap around Australia ensued. Out on the road and out of their depth, they laughed through some wild moments: a gang of mafioso emus, a campground of Russian invaders, and a breakdown on the edge of the world.
This show is for the wanderers, the adventurers, the closet nudists, the nature-lovers and the child inside each of us that just wants to play.
Genre: Comedy Rating: M Family Friendly: No
Sam King: Tricks and MORE Stuff
Genre: Comedy
Dates: Fri, 16 Feb - Sun, 17 Mar
Are you a fan of magic, comedy, and becoming part of the act? If so, you're in for a treat with 'Tricks and MORE Stuff,' the latest creation from Sam King, the magician and comedian known for his unique brand of absurdity. This intimate, 30-seat show is your chance to experience the magic and hilarity up close.
Sam King, the recipient of the prestigious "Best Magic" award in 2022 and the coveted "One to Watch" award at the Adelaide Fringe 2024, stands out as one of the most talented and original performers in the world of magic. Secure your tickets now and discover firsthand why he's the talk of the town!
Rating: PG • Family Friendly: No
Working Class Magician
Genre: Magic
Season OVER was a lot of fun
With over a decade of wizarding experience, LJ is coming to the Adelaide Fringe Festival with a show that's nothing short of magical mayhem! In Working Class Magician, LJ masterfully blurs the line between the ordinary and the extraordinary, turning mundane objects into sources of amazement. From office supplies to your own belongings, no item is safe from his mystical mischief.
You'll witness some of his signature acts, reimagined with a fresh twist, as well as brand new, never-before-seen routines that will leave you in stitches. Don't miss Australia’s own Working Class Magician, grab your tickets now, 3 shows only!
★★★★★ “Absolutely amazing show and atmosphere, highly recommend for anyone who is interested in magic and comedy. ” - James F
Rating: PG, Family Friendly: Yes
One for the Kids
Adventures!
Genre: Kids and Family
A great show for the kids
Dates: Every Sunday Afternoon 2:30pm
From the creator of Science Magic comes a comedy roleplaying show where the audience partakes in an adventure themselves. Three lucky adventurers will embark on a randomly generated quest with goblins, wizards and maybe a dragon or two. Will they sneak past the enemy? Or dive into battle? You decide! Spinning wheels, rolling dice, audience voting! Every show is different in this action-packed choose your own adventure type game. A fun, family-friendly, fantasy show. Weapons and wits at the ready. The adventure is about to begin.
Rating: PG, Family Friendly: Yes
Am Kalyesubula Amos
Genre: Visual Arts and Design
Dates: During Fringe
Unfortunatly Amos, could not get a visa to come to Australia, so the show has been cancelled. A great shame.
Secrets Not Worth Knowing
Genre: Magic
Dates: Season Over - Mind Bending Stuff
Enjoy a night of thrilling, contemporary magic presented by debut Fringe artists Clement Kwok and Aby Thomas.
Rating: Gen • Family Friendly: No
The Magic Eye with Stuart Lightbody
Genre: Magic
Dates: Fri, 23 Feb - Sun, 17 Mar
Is the hand really faster than the eye? South African Magic Champion Stuart Lightbody shares his mind-blowing visual magic that must be seen to be believed. It’s pure close-up magic in an intimate venue. From the winner of the Creative Award (Prague Fringe Festival, 2014), the Theatre Award (FRINGE WORLD Festival, 2018), and the Spirit of the Fringe Ovation Award (South African National Arts Festival, 2019)
“You find yourself, if only for a moment, believing in magic." Cape Times
"A flow and tumble of Marvels" The Times
"Lightbody elevates this art to new levels" Cape Argus
"An awestruck sense that what you have seen has to be magic” Adelaide Advertiser
Rating: PG, Family Friendly: Yes
Experience the BEST close-up magic of the Adelaide Fringe 2024 hosted by the award-winning Magician Sam King. Witness the festival's finest close-up magicians perform mind-blowing tricks in an intimate setting. Enjoy the mesmerizing fusion of comedy and magic unfolding right before your eyes. Book your tickets before they vanish!