The play Melbourne found too hot to handle and banned - Bill Henson and His Children: A short play about why Kevin Rudd should have studied art.

The Bill Henson saga meets sideshow alley as the art scandal of 2008 comes alive under the Big Top (well almost).  Be warned, you will be offended!

This production of Bill Henson and His Children features all but one of the original cast of the People's Choice Award winning play from Short and Sweet 2009.

BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!  This show has now turned into a double billing! Two shows for the price of one!

"WAITING FOR MAMDOUGH" 

**** (4 stars out of 5) from The Advertiser

"Habib......conveys a level of cathartic vulnerability which makes this piece of theatrical sharing a very rare and intimate experience". - Samela Harris

In the early hours of 2 October 2001, Mamdouh Habib and two young German men were taken off a bus travelling between Quetta and Karachi by Pakistani ssecurity officers. It was shortly after 9/11 and only days befor the United States attacked Afganistan. A few unlucky ones were then 'rendered' to a third-party country to be further interrogated and tortured, where they either disappeared into a web of secret prisons or were sent to Guantanomo Bay. This is what happened to Mamdouh Habib.

Waiting for Mamdouh is a short but moving performance piece about Mamdouh Habib who is caught up in the post-September 11 turmoil and detained in Guantanamo Bay and his wife Maha who is left in Australia with her four children uncertain of his fate. Featuring Mamdouh Habib, through a set of monologues, Mamdouh and Maha tell their own stories, of their anguish and their triumphs in a time when nothing is predictable or certain.

Performances March 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 at 6.30pm in the Main Stage.

BOOKINGS: Through the Fringe office on 1300 FRINGE or www.adelaidefringe.com.au

FREE TIX NIGHTS: Mon March 8, Tues 9th, Wed 10th, Thurs 11th - bookings for Free Tix available only through the Bakehouse

MEDIA BOOKINGS FOR MARCH 8 & 9 - BOOK ON-LINE here by choosing "media" from the drop down ticket menu