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

Nazi concentration camp tower awash with the words Dark Road indicating the trauma of the holocaust
Adelaide Fringe 2026

Dark Road

Actually Acting Youth Theatre presents Dark Road by Laura Lundgren Smith.

Nazi Germany. Desperate to escape poverty and protect her younger sister Lise, Greta takes a job as a guard at the Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp. The position offers security, purpose—and a brutal awakening. Uneasy at first, Greta learns to suppress her conscience, rising through the ranks as she becomes essential to the machinery of cruelty.

A haunting portrait of complicity and survival, this is the story of two sisters bound by blood, and divided by the choices that define them.

Presented by: Actually Acting Youth Theatre

Actually Acting (est 2008) is a local performing arts school offering weekly classes, school holiday productions and workshops. This is the third time they have presented at Adelaide Fringe, and are thrilled to bring together and challenge their youth theatre actors from across Adelaide. Overseen by award winning director, Alicia Zorković, this dynamic company is dedicated to supporting young people from across Adelaide in a nurturing and safe space.
Theatre and Physical Theatre • Theatre
South Australia
Reviews
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    Dark Road serves as a 50-minute conscience call, reminding us that ‘where there is light, there are shadows - Jude Hines, Stage Whispers

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    Actually Acting and the marvellous cast of the Dark Road should be justly proud of this brilliant production - Rob McKinnon, Glam Adelaide

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Suitability & warnings

Content rating: MA15+
Depicts Violence: Occasional, Mild

Presenter

Presented by: Actually Acting Youth Theatre

Actually Acting (est 2008) is a local performing arts school offering weekly classes, school holiday productions and workshops. This is the third time they have presented at Adelaide Fringe, and are thrilled to bring together and challenge their youth theatre actors from across Adelaide. Overseen by award winning director, Alicia Zorković, this dynamic company is dedicated to supporting young people from across Adelaide in a nurturing and safe space.