# Wright&Grainger’s ORPHEUS – 2026 Adelaide Fringe

**Featured** — On Your Markus  
**Published:** 31 January 2026  
**Author:** Markus Hamence  
**Source:** https://onyourmarkus.au/wrightgraingers-orpheus-2026-adelaide-fringe/

Multi award winning Wright&Grainger return to Adelaide with their internationally acclaimed wild retelling of the ORPHEUS myth, like you’ve never seen it before.  DAVE IS SINGLE, STOOD AT THE BAR.EURYDICE IS A TREE NYMPH.AND BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE JUKE BOX A story of side streets, dive bars and how far you’d go for the…

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Multi award winning Wright&Grainger return to Adelaide with their internationally acclaimed wild retelling of the ORPHEUS myth, like you’ve never seen it before. 

![](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/originals/36998/user_crop_ADDITIONAL_ORPH_1.jpg)

DAVE IS SINGLE, STOOD AT THE BAR.  
EURYDICE IS A TREE NYMPH.  
AND BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE JUKE BOX

A story of side streets, dive bars and how far you’d go for the person you love. 

Since its creation in 2016, ORPHEUS has played over 650 shows around the world – in festivals, cafes, gardens, railways arches, bars, tents, churches, yoga studios, boats, record shops, breweries, loft apartments and very occasionally, a theatre. It’s won multiple awards including:

Best Theatre (Fringeworld) 2018   
Best Music (Sydney Fringe) 2019  
Beyond Words (Dunedin Fringe) 2019  
Best Theatre (Adelaide Fringe) 2023

**ORPHEUS**  
Thursday 19 February – Sunday 22 March 2026  
The Mortlock Library at The Courtyard of Curiosities at the State Library  
**[Tickets](https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/wright-grainger-s-orpheus-af2026)**

![](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/originals/36999/user_crop_ADDITIONAL_ORPH_2.jpg)

![](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/originals/36996/620007095_10161423022946065_3987829916103980959_n-1.jpg)

And it’s back, in a big way, so…