Shakespeare South | Wild Shakespeare

"Captivating. The entire cast is impeccable"

Theatre Travels

Wild Shakespeare.

Shakespeare South was founded in 2021 on Kaurna Country, South Australia, with the support of SA Casting. We are a company of actors, writers and creative researchers who bring our passion for Shakespeare together with ecological thinking and innovative performance practice. Attuned to nature, our work invites audiences to experience Shakespeare as elemental and alive. Shakespeare South is Australia's first ecological Shakespeare company and was featured as one of thirteen national exemplars of creative practice in Australia's Culture for Climate Report (2023). Please see our Sustainability Statement for how our productions seek to tread lightly on the earth.

“Multi-layered, sensory and highly entertaining”

Glam Adelaide

Reimagined Classics.

Our company of award-winning classically trained actors (Central School of Speech and Drama, Mountview, WAAPA, AADA) have performed internationally with leading theatres. We combine our training in early modern performance with bold contemporary adaptation for the southern hemisphere. Our work unites Original Practices (OP) with imaginative storytelling to reinvent Shakespeare and other classic texts with relevance. Our unique creative research approach combines original biophilic design techniques to enhance atmosphere and reduce environmental impact. Our mission? To create joyful, moving, fresh and engaging work.

“Utterly delightful from start to finish.

Wonderful energy, comic prowess, evocative music

and an interpretation of the text to make it feel

almost contemporary”

Arts Garden, 5MBS

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New Voices.

We also create new work: original adaptations and contemporary writing that speak to the present. We strive to make theatre that engages urgent questions of our shared world, created and shaped through workshops and performance. Shakespeare South works with diverse artists, musicians, and cultural advisory groups to develop place-based work, using Shakespeare’s techniques of storytelling, language, and performance to speak to today.

"Simply superb"

ABC Radio

Up Next.

Please join us for a donors circle event at Carrick Hill House Museum and Garden to support the presentation of Il Vento in Verona, July 2026. Following international selection, this original eco-adaptation of Shakespeare's Tempest will be staged for the World Shakespeare Congress in partnership with the Conservatorio di Verona.