The Adelaide Fringe offers everything from light-hearted escapism to theatre that explores the darker edges of human behaviour. Partying with Manson sits firmly in the latter category, offering a one-woman retelling of the story of Susan Atkins, one of the young women who became entangled with Charles Manson during the chaotic late 1960s. The performance takes place in an intimate venue, mercifully cool on a warm Fringe evening, where the audience settles in for a journey into one of the most unsettling chapters of modern American history. “It was the swinging 60s and we were having a ball,” Atkins...