Electric Dreams’ Full Dome Experience has a new home at Dom Polski for the duration of this year’s Fringe, with a program of music, nature, storytelling and documentaries all shown on a massive 360-degree dome with full surround sound. The likes of The Dark Side Of The Moon, which combines views of the solar system with the 1973 classic album, returns (and is already sold out most weekends). Ningaloo takes viewers on an immersive deep dive around Australia’s other Great Reef; while Letters From Australia shares the moving stories discovered in a trove of letters sent back to Cornwall from two immigrants back in the 1860s.
But the jewel in the crown is new production The Earth Above, which invites you to pull up a bean bag and immerse yourself in Australia’s early history. Immaculately researched and produced, First Nations community members co-created the four stories that take us to Girraween Lagoon on Larrakia and Wulna Country; Cloggs Cave on GunaiKurnai Country; Lake Mungo on the land of the Barkandji/Paakantyi, Ngiyampaa and Mutthi Mutthi people; and Jiigurru on the Great Barrier Reef, sacred to the Dingaal community. It’s a thought-provoking and contemplative half hour amongst the Adelaide madness; an important reminder that, no matter how much fun we’re having at Fringe, we’re merely visitors on a land that was never ours.
The Earth Above: A Deep Time View Of Australia’s Epic History, Dom Polski, until Sunday 23 March, times vary.