INTERVIEW: Markus Hamence is in The Jungle Room with Hannah Maxwell for the 2026 Adelaide Fringe for her two shows BABYFLEAREINDEERBAG and I, AmDram.
Hannah Maxwell: I, AmDram
For musical theatre fans and haters alike, don’t miss the return of this award-winning love letter to hometown, family, and the cult of English amateur dramatics.
Join Hannah Maxwell for a joy-filled hour of amdram anecdotes, musical parodies and very basic choreography, telling the painfully-true story of her final year with her family’s community theatre company; from her woeful audition for My Fair Lady, to coming out as gay (less traumatic).
I, AMDRAM has been performed 150+ times, charming audiences across the globe.
Winner of a Weekly Best of Theatre Award (Adelaide Fringe 2025)
“Quietly enthralling” ★★★★★ The Advertiser, 2020|
“Sublime one-person theatre” ★★★★★ The Adelaide Show, 2020
“Surprising and uplifting” ★★★★ Scotsman, 2019
“Deeply moving” ★★★★ The List, 2019
Thursday 19 February – Sunday 22 March 2026
The Barbara Hardy Garden at Holden Street Theatres
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Hannah Maxwell: BABYFLEAREINDEERBAG
A focus group. A pitch meeting. A show like no other. The sell-out sleeper hit of Edinburgh Fringe lands in Adelaide, clipboard and clicker at the ready.
Maxwell needs her next autobiographical theatre show to be a rampant success. She needs YOU for some intensive audience research: which of her personal traumas is most likely to get adapted by Netflix?
In an era hungry for the next smash-hit overshare, BABYFLEAREINDEERBAG kicks over the bucket of ideas Maxwell can’t yet bring herself to make a show about, interrogating the risk and cynicism in telling one’s own story onstage.
★★★★★ “A triumph!” To Do List
★★★★★ “Bluntly, this production is incredible” Binge Fringe
★★★★ “Funny & delightfully meta” The Guardian
★★★★ “A delicious refusal to beg for a seat at the table” The Scotsman
Saturday 28 February – Sunday 15 March 2026
The Hetzel Room at The Courtyard of Curiosities at the State Library
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