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[SuperEgz]

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Dazzeland is coming back as an Adelaide Festival venue

The Adelaide Festival of Arts launched its 2016 program this morning, and between all the huge musical performances and Adelaide Oval pyrotechnics there’s been a hell of a lot to take in. But there’s one exciting addition to the lineup that is sure to blow the minds of 90s kids all over South Australia:



Dazzeland is coming back. Yes, you heard right.

The Myer Centre’s long-decommisioned top floor fun park-turned-women’s-gym will return to its original calling – family fun – when Adelaide theatre company Slingsby takes over the Centre’s atrium space for the world premiere of new show The Young King.

Part of the Adelaide Festival’s schools program, the show is a retelling of Oscar Wilde‘s 1891 fairy tale of a “naïve young goat herder” who happens to be the heir to a kingdom, an inheritance that leads him outside his forest home to face all sorts of hijinks and challenges. Aimed at families and grown-ups alike, the show will make use of the “intimate and immersive” 100 capacity space, taking advantage of the unique combination of nostalgia and wonder the setting will provoke for audiences of all ages.

“Dazzeland is an ideal space in many ways,’’ Slingsby Artistic Director Andy Parker says. “It will stir the magical memories of many who visited it in the past and Oscar Wilde’s story and our production, incorporating original music by Quincy Grant, sets designed by Wendy Todd and lighting by Geoff Cobham, will create new memories for our audiences.

“We are not giving too much away, but people really can expect something different.”

Given much of the fun infrastructure like the iconic Jazz Junction rollercoaster, dodgem cars and Lego Expo were carted off long ago once the space was officially shut down in January 1998, it won’t be a carbon copy of the original space, but should still prove to be a pretty magical experience.

Whether or not we can expect the imminent return of Virgin Megastores, the Lost Forest, boxy pantsuits, Guinness World Record attempts for the world’s largest pavlova or the State Bank remains to be seen.

Will my Dazzleland "One Free Ride" coin still be valid?

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[Brucetiki]

Where abouts is this 'atrium space' up there? I can't seem to remember it.

On a side note, taking a look up from level 3 today, and the levels 4 and 5 appear to be getting completely gutted at the moment.

[monotonehell]

Where abouts is this 'atrium space' up there? I can't seem to remember it.

On a side note, taking a look up from level 3 today, and the levels 4 and 5 appear to be getting completely gutted at the moment.

Stand on any of the lower levels and look up. The atrium is the open space with the skylight above.

The Dazzeland floors have been almost completely gutted for some years now. There's very little left up there.

[Brucetiki]

Where abouts is this 'atrium space' up there? I can't seem to remember it.

On a side note, taking a look up from level 3 today, and the levels 4 and 5 appear to be getting completely gutted at the moment.

Stand on any of the lower levels and look up. The atrium is the open space with the skylight above.

The Dazzeland floors have been almost completely gutted for some years now. There's very little left up there.

So the play will be held on the ground floor then and not level 4/5 as implied in the article, or am I getting confused.

[Llessur2002]

I think it's a slightly poorly-worded article. By 'atrium space' I presume they mean the space around the atrium (i.e. the 'balcony area') on the upper floor.