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.
Sessions
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1 Venue
The Den at Dom Polski Centre
Dom Polski Centre, 230 Angas St, Adelaide, Kaurna
- Step-free mobility aid access through the main entrance with an accessible bathroom.
- Venue is 18+ but minors may attend with a parent or legal guardian
Suitability & Warnings
Accessibility
- High Audio Content
- Saturday 14 March - 5:00pm