Adelaide Festival of Arts 2004: In the Adelaide City region of South Australia

One of the highlights of the 2004 Festival of Arts is “Night Letters” by the State Theatre Company. It’s a new play based on a work by renowned novelist Robert Dessaix.

The Festival sees the world premiere of Night Letters in which an Australian - recently diagnosed with an incurable disease, leaves home, his lover and his old life to travel through Europe. Searching for answers to answerable questions, he writes a series of letters to his lover in Australia and in the course of this correspondence covers a host of issues - from the personal to the universal.

Night Letters is on at the historic Queen's Theatre until March 27 2004.

Meanwhile, at Her Majesty's Theatre, two artforms - dance and photography, come together in the Australian Dance Threatre Company's latest production.

Entitled “Held”, the work combines the frenzied action of the ADT and it's capture in digital images shot by Lois Greenfield who’s considered the world's best dance photographer.

Greenfield creates the illusion of weightlessness by freezing peak moments of the dance at one 2000th of a second and projecting them instantly onto two large video screens.

“Held” is on at Her Majesty's from tomorrow until March 6, 2004. Book at Bass.