2013 Adelaide Festival

In yesterday's mail, I received the program for the 2013 Adelaide Festival. Traditionally, I have only been able to get to Adelaide Writers' Week which forms only a part of the festival, but this year as I happily leafed through my guide, I discovered a number of shows I would love to attend. In no particular order, these are:

• The free opening night concert with Neil Finn and Paul Kelly - Oh. My. God!!!
• Nosferatu
• Kamp
• Murder - inspired by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Murder Ballads, you say? Say no more!
• Goran Bregovic and the Weddings and Funerals Orchestra - love this kind of music. Reminds me of home.
• Into the Bloodstream - Archie Roach, you legend.
• Van Dyke Parks - with special guests including Daniel Johns! Oh. My. God!!!
• Unsound Adelaide - 3 shows to choose from. Decisions, decisions, or a season pass to all 3.
• Australian String Quartet - this will be beautiful.
• Turner from the Tate - to mix a bit of art with my theatre and music.
• Adelaide Writers' Week - would not miss this for the world.

So, apart from Adelaide Writers' Week and the free opening night concert, I will obviously have to make some decisions about what I want to see the most as I simply can't afford to go to everything. It will be hard to choose. Even while writing this short blog post and flicking through the program again, I found a couple of other shows I wouldn't mind seeing but have refrained from adding them yet.

If you'd like to see what else is on offer, you can download the program and perhaps find something for you. Or, you could help me decide...