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An Evening with Dame Granny Smith

Ripe from a sold-out Edinburgh Fringe season, the world's most celebrated apple, Dame Smith, returns for an intimate on-stage interview with master ventriloquist David Salter.

Winner of the inaugural Adelaide Fringe Overall Best Variety Award in 2025, Dame Smith (not to be confused with her tarty cousin Maggie!) is witty and larger than life, if perhaps a little senile in her old age. From her vaudeville debut at age five to her breakthrough role in Disney’s Snow White, Smith will take you on an incredible journey through her storied life and multi-decade career, all told with her trademark candour and wit.

A love letter to the grand dames of the golden age and a roast of showbiz lore, reminding you to cherish the older people in your life before they reach their best-before date.

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Variety • Puppetry
South Australia
 
Fri, 20 Feb - Sun, 22 Mar
 
60 min
 
The Crawford Room at The Courtyard of Curiosities at the State Library
 
PG (2 Warnings)
 
$25 to $32
 
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Reviews

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    For a finely crafted piece of cabaret, An Evening With Dame Granny Smith is an absolute must see this Fringe. - GLAM Adelaide

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    A lovely, lovely show! Sweet but with plenty bite, old but still sassy, hilarity and bittersweet poignancy. - Bruce on the Fringe

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    One of the funniest shows I've seen for years... his ventriloquism is next level. - Alan Davies (Comedian)

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    I never imagined you could get so much joy from a single apple. I was in tears from laughing. - One4Review

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    You know a ventriloquist has honed their craft when the audience starts watching the puppet and not the performer. - Such Cliche

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Reviews & Fringe Feed Reacts

  •   1
  •   2
  •   11
  •   2
  •          

    For a finely crafted piece of cabaret, An Evening With Dame Granny Smith is an absolute must see this Fringe. - GLAM Adelaide

  •          

    A lovely, lovely show! Sweet but with plenty bite, old but still sassy, hilarity and bittersweet poignancy. - Bruce on the Fringe

  •          

    One of the funniest shows I've seen for years... his ventriloquism is next level. - Alan Davies (Comedian)

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    I never imagined you could get so much joy from a single apple. I was in tears from laughing. - One4Review

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    You know a ventriloquist has honed their craft when the audience starts watching the puppet and not the performer. - Such Cliche

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