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This show belongs to the Adelaide Fringe 2024 season. This season is now over.

SA & NT What's on 4 Kids "Best Kids Live Show" award winning play of 'Bettongs & Buddies' starring Rufous, a young Bettong, male actor Curtis Shipley, and other Australian bush animals like a Quoll, Gigi Pinwill. Join young bettong, Rufous, a wannabe violinist, on his hilarious journey through the bush where he encounters other native animals who teach him, and the audience, what it means to be a critical member of his ecosystem. Each new animal friend Rufous meets on his adventure gives him a gift which, when put together at the end of the show, forms one very special surprise that will strike a chord!
SA & NT What's on 4 Kids "Best Kids Live Show" award winning play of 'Bettongs & Buddies' starring Rufous, a young Bettong, male actor Curtis Shipley, and other Australian bush animals like a Quoll, Gigi Pinwill. Join young bettong, Rufous, a wannabe violinist, on his hilarious journey through the bush where he encounters other native animals who teach him, and the audience, what it means to be a critical member of his ecosystem. Each new animal friend Rufous meets on his adventure gives him a gift which, when put together at the end of the show, forms one very special surprise that will strike a chord!
SA & NT What's on 4 Kids "Best Kids Live Show" award winning play of 'Bettongs & Buddies' starring Rufous, a young Bettong, male actor Curtis Shipley, and other Australian bush animals like a Quoll, Gigi Pinwill. Join young bettong, Rufous, a wannabe violinist, on his hilarious journey through the bush where he encounters other native animals who teach him, and the audience, what it means to be a critical member of his ecosystem. Each new animal friend Rufous meets on his adventure gives him a gift which, when put together at the end of the show, forms one very special surprise that will strike a chord!

Bettongs & Buddies

Kids and Family • Theatre
South Australia

Join Rufous the Bettong, a wannabe violinist, on his hilarious journey through the bush where he encounters other native animals who teach him, and the audience, what it means to be a critical member of his ecosystem. Each new animal buddy Rufous meets on his adventure gives him a gift which, when put together at the end of the show, forms one very special surprise that will strike a chord!
 
Combining live music with story and song, 'Bettongs & Buddies' will leave you laughing, cheering, and inspired to protect our Indigenous wildlife. Stick around after the show for a pat, a photo, and even a hold of live native animals and find out more about these pawsome creatures.
 
"State's Best Live Kids Show." SA and NT What's on 4 Kids 2023 Award.

Production Company: DunnART Productions
Producers: Gigi Pinwill, Stefanie Roeske
Writer /Director:  Gigi Pinwill
Assistant Director: Andrea da Silva Rabelo
Actors: Curtis Shipley, Melanie Munt
Violinist: Sally Armstrong
Costumes: Sheri McCoy
Stage Manager: Stefanie Roeske and Andrea da Silva Rabelo

Presented by: DunnART Productions

What's on 4 Kids 'State's Kids Activity Industry Leader 2023', DunnART is the first and only company to exclusively focus on developing innovative and creative wildlife education! We are a collective of environmentally-focused creative artists, who draw from professional practices in theatre for young audiences, digital art, illustration, music, improvisation, and wildlife biology. We aim to get kids excited about their natural environments, learn how to be good stewards for sustainability, and increase environmental literacy. We offer kids' theatre, workshops and parties with new VR programs coming soon! We are dynamic and experimental in presentation, accessible to a wide variety of learning styles, and leave young audiences asking for more! Wildly fast-growing since 2021!

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Bettongs & Buddies

Interactive kids theatre featuring Rufous Bettong following his dream to become a violinist.

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Sat, 09 Mar

2:00pm - 2:50pm

Le Cascadeur at The Garden of Unearthly Delights  

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Venue details

Rundle Park / Kadlitpina, Cnr East Tce & Rundle Rd, Adelaide, Kaurna

 
Outdoor venue with step-free mobility aid access and an accessible bathroom – may have poor quality path or an incline.
 
Venue is 18+ and minors may attend during specific days or times (Minors may enjoy The Garden until midnight (or until 1:00am if accompanied by a guardian AND they are seeing a show that starts prior to midnight and finishes before 1:00am). At no time can minors enter The Garden after midnight or remain in The Garden after 1:00am. On busy nights The Garden may refuse entry to minors, accompanied or otherwise, arriving from 11:00pm so that we are able to meet the conditions of our limited licence (i.e. ensure minors are off site by midnight). The Garden is a licensed premises which may not always be suitable for unaccompanied minors. The Garden reserves the right to refuse entry to unaccompanied minors during these times. To avoid disappointment please make sure you consider this when planning your visit.)
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