# Win a double pass to Ash Flanders' Commentary at Adelaide Festival Centre

**Win** — On Your Markus  
**Prize:** Commentary  
**Entries close:** 31 August 2026  
**Tickets:** https://statetheatrecompany.com.au/shows/commentary/  
**Published:** 26 August 2026  
**Author:** Markus Hamence  
**Source:** https://onyourmarkus.au/win/commentary/

On Your Markus is giving away a double pass to Ash Flanders' Helpmann Award-nominated play Commentary at Adelaide Festival Centre's Dunstan Playhouse on Thursday 3 September 2026 at 7.30pm. Enter via the form below for a chance to win; the draw takes place Monday 31 August 2026 at 6.00pm live on Facebook.

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Who wants to score a Double Pass to **Commentary **at **Adelaide Festival Centre**, Adelaide, SA? I have a 1 x Double Pass to give away and want you along as my guests for the night. All you need to do is fill in the form below and we will randomly draw the names to come along to the performance. Winners will be notified by email and by video on our **[Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/OnYourMarkus)** page.

**Date:** Thursday 03 September 2026  
**Show time:** 7.30pm  
**Venue: **Adelaide Festival Centre (Dunstan Playhouse) - King William Rd, Adelaide SA 5000  
**Competition draw date: **Monday 31 August 2026, 6.00pm (Live on **[Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/OnYourMarkus)**)

![Performer sits beside a large projected portrait during a State Theatre Company production.](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/admin/2026/08/35a6bbbb-eac5-4f4e-8d5f-1451563a9953.jpg)

**[Don’t want to risk missing out? Purchase tickets right here.](https://statetheatrecompany.com.au/shows/commentary/)**

Helpmann Award-nominated writer Ash Flanders’ Commentary is a sharp, provocative play that interrogates the ethics of artmaking, accountability, and memory in an era of public reckoning. The story centres on Nick, played by Gyton Grantley (*Underbelly, House Husbands*), a once-promising filmmaker turned university lecturer, whose controversial debut feature Low is being resurrected for a retrospective screening at the local International Film Festival. The film, co-created with his former best friend Hamish (now disgraced and presumed dead), is dogged by allegations of abuse and exploitation linked to its production and content.

As Nick prepares a director’s commentary and public appearance, the past begins to resurface through a chorus of women — his student and lover Gen, his wife Mish, former muse Saskia, and a teenage girl named Frankie. Frankie’s re-emergence catalyses a chain of revelations, betrayals, and reckonings that culminate in Nick’s fall from professional and personal grace. The play’s narrative cleverly mirrors the fragmented form of a DVD commentary track — non-linear, reflexive, full of contradiction, omission, and performance.

![Four performers posed against a dark blue backdrop with stage lighting and production text for State Theatre Company's Commentary.](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/admin/2026/08/a0199c35-b683-44a1-be8e-e7f1967b7b2d.png)