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

Demagogue - The statue of a lordly man sitting on a chair with a severed head on a red background

Demagogue

Theatre and Physical Theatre • New Writing
South Australia

Safari Street Creative's fast-paced & unflinching social satire returns for a strictly limited season.

In a university Dean's office, a modern power couple are summoned to discuss their daughter's punishment for an act of petty vandalism on school property. But when that act is alluded to instead be a case of political activism, the pair are forced to question their beliefs, their role as parents, and in a world stripped of value, what revolt can really signify? 

★★★★★ "Maintains Safari Street’s reputation for producing outstanding original work” - The Advertiser
★★★★★ "An immaculate piece of first-class theatre" - Stage Whispers
★★★★ "Like watching the best debates of West Wing powered by Hollywood-dosed quantities of cocaine" - Adelaide Show Podcast
2022 Weekly Award Winner Best Theatre

Presented by: Safari Street Creative

Reviews & Fringefeed Reacts

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    Demagogue displays a Brechtian edge in its exploration of our contemporary discursive sphere and cultural temperament - Ben Adams, InReview

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    witty and fast-paced - and impeccable piece of theatre - Natasha Wood, Glam Adelaide