# Shadows Of Herself – 2026 Adelaide Fringe

**Featured** — On Your Markus  
**Published:** 5 February 2026  
**Author:** Markus Hamence  
**Source:** https://onyourmarkus.au/shadows-of-herself-2026-adelaide-fringe/

SHADOWS OF HERSELF- A new one woman play by ANNA THOMAS After seven sell out seasons at the Adelaide Fringe for her critically acclaimed one woman show How To Drink Wine Like A Wànker, and receiving an award for best theatre in 2026, multi-award winning playwright, performer and producer, Anna Thomas prepares to debut her…

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**SHADOWS OF HERSELF- A new one woman play by ANNA THOMAS**

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After seven sell out seasons at the Adelaide Fringe for her critically acclaimed one woman show **How To Drink Wine Like A Wànker, **and receiving an award for best theatre in 2026, multi-award winning playwright, performer and producer, Anna Thomas prepares to debut her latest production, **Shadows of Herself**, at Holden Street Theatres 2026 Adelaide Fringe. 

**Directed by multi-award winning theatre maker Hannah Maxwell**

 *“Her shadows fall to the floor. *  
*Scattered. *  
*Disconnected. *  
*Two Dimensional and empty. *  
*She picks them up, lovingly. *  
*Individually and collectively all at once. *  
*Because she must rise at that moment. *  
*She must make peace with all the women she has been, *  
*the woman she is now, and all the women she is yet to become…” *

*Mornings are chaos. The vision of a poised businesswoman mocks her in the rear mirror. A new mother strolls past, baby nestled in a pram more valuable than her car. A seasoned mother leaps from the lofty heights of an SUV. She isn’t a stay-at-home mum; she’s a domestic engineer. A young woman parks abruptly, no ring, suit and flip flops, heels in bag, an apologetic smile permanently plastered on her face as they race past. *

*A battle of identity under the weight of her own expectations. *

*She is surrounded by Shadows of Herself. *

**Shadows of Herself **was first launched in the 2025 Adelaide Fringe as a work in progress and was a finalist for the 2025 Holden Street Theatres’ Adelaide Fringe Award. 

Thomas has remounted **‘Shadows Of Herself’ **under the masterful direction of multi-award winning theatre maker, Hannah Maxwell, from London, UK. 

*“****Shadows of Herself ****was borne from an energy rising inside of me, a feeling of being old, tired, grateful and enraged all at once. I was reading Emery Hall’s poem ‘I have been a thousand different women’ and I realised that underneath the exhaustion there was an anger and a passion brewing inside of me, deep in my soul. A realisation that half the population have untold stories, many of which are not extraordinary, but by the sheet success of their existence, the women who hold these stories are extraordinary” * Anna Thomas 

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**Praise for previous work: **

★★★★★ ‘It’s impossibly intimate, like we’re drinking her story, her life’ (GreatScott.media). 

★★★★★ ‘Received one of the most thoroughly earned rounds of applause I’ve ever witnessed’ (TulpaMagazine.com). 

★★★★1/2 ‘A theatrical spectrum’ (Advertiser, Adelaide). 

★★★★★ ‘an intimacy incomparable to other theatre experiences’ (*On the Record) *

★★★★★ ‘In sharing her personal journey, Thomas takes us on a journey of our own, and the result is simply magical’ (The Student, Edinburgh) 

★★★★★ ‘HTDWLAW was, without a doubt, one of my favorite theatre experiences this year and it has nothing to do with the fact that there were 6 glasses of wine involved’ (Theatre Travels) 

★★★★★ ‘There’s also a touch of Sideways about it – but dare I say, better.’ (Tulpa Magazine) 

**Shadows of Herself **  
WHEN: February 18th – March 22nd 2026   
PRICES: prices vary from $38 – $32   
WHERE: The Barbara Hardy Garden Holden St Theatres   
**[TICKETS](https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/shadows-of-herself-af2026)**

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