Audiences may be spoilt for choice at the up-coming festival, with plenty of hard-edged theatre and saucy cabaret.

The Adelaide Fringe Festival has announced its 2017 programme, and with more than 1,100 events – including 290 comedy shows, 248 music events, 143 theatre productions and 132 cabaret shows, to name just a few – audiences look likely to be spoilt for choice over the four weeks of the festival.

“With a record number of shows on offer and exciting venues to explore,” said Adelaide Fringe Director and CEO Heather Croall, “we encourage everyone to get out there and take a risk with their show selection.”

The 2017 Festival will host a dizzying number of events to choose from, but here are some theatre and cabaret highlights to whet your appetite:

Harry Gibson’s theatre adaption of Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh’s iconic first novel Trainspotting will be making its Adelaide premiere in the Station Underground venue. Welsh’s novel – which was adapted into a highly successful film in 1996 – takes a brutal, comic look at the Edinburgh heroin scene in the 1980s.

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