Royal Croquet Club

The event: One of Adelaide Fringe's hottest destinations, the Royal Croquet Club attracts over 250,000 people every year. Between 2015 and 2018, Bamboozled co-curated and co-produced the RCC's Fringe program alongside Sasha Zahra - building it into one of the most awarded and critically acclaimed venue programs in the country.

What we did:

We came in and built the entire program and production operation from scratch, assembling the full team and delivering every element of the RCC Fringe program across four consecutive years.

  • Curated and co-produced four annual Fringe programs, growing from 9,000 tickets sold in 2014 (the year before our involvement) to 75,000 in our first year alone

  • Programmed over 40 international hit shows in year one, scaling to 30+ shows across 6 venues by 2018

  • Managed and coordinated more than 200 artists across a 32-day festival in our final year

  • Assembled and led the full production team - producers, publicists, technical and production managers, venue managers and front of house crew

  • Worked with design and print agencies to produce festival brochures and targeted marketing campaigns

  • Presented world-class works from across the globe including Post-post-modern-diva, Meow Meow, Soap, Barbu, and home grown super stars Briefs, and the internationally acclaimed Gravity and Other Myths

Event impact:

The numbers speak for themselves - a ticket sales increase from 9,000 to 75,000 in a single year is extraordinary by any measure. By 2017, the RCC program had achieved the highest number of awards of any Fringe venue that year, and the Guardian UK voted it Adelaide Fringe's best venue program, declaring it had the best "pick-any-show program on offer." Over four years, Bamboozled helped transform the Royal Croquet Club into a genuine flagship of Australian Fringe culture - a 250,000-strong annual event that became as much a part of Adelaide's Mad March as the Fringe itself.

Testimony

With circus, theatre, hypnosis, and dance, to name just a few of the artforms on show, and an emphasis on exciting new, and genre-defying work, the RCC has the best 'pick-any-show' program on offer

Jane Howard, The Guardian UK

Testimony

As one of the founding programmers of the Royal Croquet Club (RCC), Louise Clarke and Bamboozled Productions have been instrumental in the development and rapid growth of the event. Growing the event from 76,000 attendees in its inaugural year to over 230,000 attendees in 2017, along with over 70,000 tickets being sold to the award winning program. Hailed as one of the most interesting and unique programs of recent times, Louise and her team can take credit for many of the accolades RCC received and her impeccable support for the arts.

Stuart Duckworth, Director Royal Croquet Club

Get In Touch

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74 Upper Sturt Road, Upper Sturt, SA 5156 Australia

P: +61 (0) 404 834 589

We acknowledge the Kaurna People as the Traditional Owners of the land on which we work. We recognise that this land always was and always will be Aboriginal land and we pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging.