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This show belongs to the Adelaide Fringe 2026 season. This season is now over.

A man dressed as a Satyr singing into a microphone.
A man dressed as a Satyr playing beer pong.
A man dressed as a Satyr lying on the ground singing into a microphone.
Adelaide Fringe 2026

Cyclops: A Satyr Play

“The Cyclops”, Euripides’ only surviving Satyr Play, is incomplete, half-translatable, and reads like someone trying to remember The Odyssey after downing a whole bottle of ouzo. So that’s exactly what this Satyr is going to do.

A re-telling of a Greek Classic as an interactive, queer, techno-pop fever dream of the night before - karaoke, drunk texts, bar fights and all. It asks the important questions like “What if a goat and a man had a child?” and “How did a goat and a man have a child?”

Every day, people choose between feeding the monster or saving the stranger - but this Satyr refuses to pick. He’s going to make you do it.

Supported by Talk Is Free Theatre (TIFT) - winning BEST THEATRE in ADLFringe 2020 for “Every Brilliant Thing" - Panic Theatre comes from Canada with this musical, interactive, Bootleg Bacchanalia.

Presented by: Panic Theatre and Joanne Hartstone Presents, supported by Talk Is Free Theatre (TIFT)

Talk Is Free Theatre (TIFT) has enjoyed over twenty years of developing and producing theatre in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, and around the world. Our mission, both is to produce a range of cutting edge theatre works such as those that are typically only found in major urban centres, and to connect them with as wide an array of people as possible–especially with new, non-urban audiences. Founded in 2002, our diversity of repertoire has included over 150 immersive experiences, off-centre musicals, reinterpretations of classics, and new works large and small, achieved through a nimble, entrepreneurial operating standard, striving every day to put artists first. 'Joanne Hartstone Presents' is one of the most awarded presenter/curator/producing companies in the Adelaide Fringe.
Theatre and Physical Theatre • Solo Show
Canada • Australian Premiere
 
Fringe Fund Recipient
Reviews
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    This is peak Fringe. Wild. Smart. Profane. Thoughtful. Euripides would probably have approved. After a few drinks. - James Murphy, The Scoop

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    A man with goat legs, a karaoke machine, and the audience – eventually unanimously – deciding his ultimate fate. - Scott, A Thousand Words

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    What makes Cyclops land so strongly, and then begs at your feet for a Panadol, is its refusal to behave like traditional theatre - Markus Hamence, On Your Markus

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Suitability & warnings

Content rating: MA15+
Strobe Lighting
Sexual References: Occasional, Strong
Coarse Language: Occasional, Strong
Smoking
Drug Use

Accessibility

 
Audience members interact from the seated or standing area

Presenter

Presented by: Panic Theatre and Joanne Hartstone Presents, supported by Talk Is Free Theatre (TIFT)

Talk Is Free Theatre (TIFT) has enjoyed over twenty years of developing and producing theatre in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, and around the world. Our mission, both is to produce a range of cutting edge theatre works such as those that are typically only found in major urban centres, and to connect them with as wide an array of people as possible–especially with new, non-urban audiences. Founded in 2002, our diversity of repertoire has included over 150 immersive experiences, off-centre musicals, reinterpretations of classics, and new works large and small, achieved through a nimble, entrepreneurial operating standard, striving every day to put artists first. 'Joanne Hartstone Presents' is one of the most awarded presenter/curator/producing companies in the Adelaide Fringe.