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

A motion-blurred photograph of a dancer in a soft teal dress moving gracefully against a dark background. The long exposure creates layered, ghostlike trails of the dancer’s arms and body, suggesting fluid motion and emotional intensity. The image has a dreamlike, painterly quality with streaks of light and shifting shadows.
A performer in a cream-colored dress twirls under stage lights, her skirt flaring as she moves. Behind her stands an easel with a canvas painted in bright vertical stripes of red, orange, yellow, and green. The stage floor is covered with a white sheet, and the background is dark, drawing focus to the dancer and the vibrant artwork.
A performer stands smiling on stage in a cream dress and rainbow headband, one hand resting on her cheek. Behind her is a brightly painted canvas with orange, yellow, and green stripes. The text beside her reads: “Best in Theatre Nominee – Sydney Fringe Festival” in bold pink lettering. The stage is lit with soft blue and purple light against a dark curtain backdrop.
Adelaide Fringe 2026

SPECTRUM

Part spoken word and part movement theatre, SPECTRUM is an award-nominated solo show based on Jess’ lived experience of neurodivergence. 

Electric, intimate and fiercely tender, Spectrum explores what it is like to grow up with AuADHD through a vivid interplay of colour, metaphor and motion. You, the audience, are invited inside the experience as a rainbow is painted live across the stage, each colour unlocking a chapter of childhood, adolescence and adulthood shaped by masking, mirroring, longing and confusion. As strange and towering kingdoms rise, you learn not to decode or conquer them, but to carry the beauty of what you have been holding all along. Raw, lyrical and quietly defiant, SPECTRUM holds fast to a single truth: that difference is not a deficit but a powerful offer all of its own.

SPECTRUM featured as part of the Limitless program at Sydney Fringe Festival in 2025, where it was nominated for Best in Theatre and Jess was nominated for Best Emerging Artist.

Presented by: Jess Turner & Sunburnt Productions Co.

Jess Turner is a two-time award nominated writer, actor, and emerging theatre-maker on Gadigal land. Jess’s award nominated solo work “SPECTRUM” was first developed through “Ground Zero” a development residency with “Brand X” and was later programmed in the Sydney Fringe Festival’s “Limitless Hub,” taking home nominations for “Best in Theatre” and “Best Emerging Artist." In her professional life, Jess is a lawyer, but before she was a lawyer she was a songwriter, before she was a songwriter she was a poet, and before she was a poet she was a storyteller whose earliest memories are of telling stories to ladybugs in school yard playgrounds. Jess has dabbled in stand up comedy, studied improv comedy at ITS, and is currently learning to dance bachata.
Theatre and Physical Theatre • Spoken Word
New South Wales • SA Premiere
 
Previous Award Winner
 
d/Deaf and/or Lived Experience of Disability Shows

Suitability & warnings

Content rating: M
Target audience: High School (15-17)
Loud Noises
Depicts Violence: Occasional, Mild

Accessibility

 
High audio content

Presenter

Presented by: Jess Turner & Sunburnt Productions Co.

Jess Turner is a two-time award nominated writer, actor, and emerging theatre-maker on Gadigal land. Jess’s award nominated solo work “SPECTRUM” was first developed through “Ground Zero” a development residency with “Brand X” and was later programmed in the Sydney Fringe Festival’s “Limitless Hub,” taking home nominations for “Best in Theatre” and “Best Emerging Artist." In her professional life, Jess is a lawyer, but before she was a lawyer she was a songwriter, before she was a songwriter she was a poet, and before she was a poet she was a storyteller whose earliest memories are of telling stories to ladybugs in school yard playgrounds. Jess has dabbled in stand up comedy, studied improv comedy at ITS, and is currently learning to dance bachata.