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Naughty Hands : Signs of Love , Lust and Insults Presented by Sign Language Australia , Naughty Hands : Signs of Love , Lust and Insults is a comedy that ’ s back at the Adelaide Fringe by popular demand .
Barry Priori takes the audience on an R-rated journey into the hearingimpaired world .
Fun at the Fringe
The Adelaide Fringe is the largest arts festival in the southern hemisphere . Link highlights seven shows that include artists with disability and disability themes in the 2018 festival kicking off this month .
The Adelaide Fringe is Australia ’ s biggest ticket selling arts festival .
The 2018 Adelaide Fringe will run from February 16 to March 18 – and anyone who has ever been to the
Fringe will tell you it ’ s the best time to be in Adelaide .
Something great about the Fringe is that it ’ s open access , which means there ’ s no curator handpicking shows . Anyone who wants to be a part of the Adelaide Fringe , can ! It ’ s provides a way for artists across all disciplines to share their work with the world .
Here are seven shows on the 2018 Fringe program that have a disability theme . Make sure you see them if you can !
Deaf Comedy Fam One in six people in Scotland suffer from hearing loss . Two of those people are Ray ’ s parents .
Full of tales about growing up with parents with hearing loss , this comedy will be performed in both sign language and English .
Presented by Ray Bradshaw , Deaf Comedy Fam debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to rave reviews .
Have You Tried Yoga ? The play written by Victorian woman Rachel Edmonds , Have you Tried Yoga ? explores modern-day ‘ able-ism ’ – the kinds of things people say to dismiss , manage and essentially blame people in the community for their disabilities .
This partly autobiographical piece also contains stories from real people living with chronic illness and disability in the Australian community . The work aims to educate people without disability and help people with disability feel understood and acknowledged .
The show received an Adelaide Fringe Artist Fund grant .
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