Its school holidays and that means its time for FUN KIDS STUFF! Pete the Sheep If you like children’s theatre and are looking for a fun day out with the little ones, I highly, highly recommend Pete the Sheep. With a fantastic cast, show tunes style music and more sheep puns that you can poke your shears at, its probably …
September Theatre Reviews
September is upon us & that means Sydney Fringe Festival season has begun. There’s a load of fantastic theatre in town, both in the Fringe program and independently. The Bookbinder – Trick of the Light Theatre – Better Read Than Dead This captivating fairy tale style story just charmed the pants of me. First of all you walk into the …
March Theatre Guide
Oh yes, there’s some lovely theatre on at the moment. I’ve been lucky enough to see a bunch of it. Here are my top picks. Twelfth Night – Sport For Jove I always recommend Sport For Jove, because they are really that good. Breathing fresh air into Shakespeare that will make you laugh, gasp and cringe. Gorgeous design, fast paced …
Regrowth Festival this weekend
The wonderful Regrowth Festival is this weekend. Set just 3.5 hours from Sydney in a luscious grove near Braidwood, the location features gorgeous valley views and winding bush tracks. Its also a highly successful sustainable festival, with every effort going towards minimising effects on the environment and tree planting & bush regeneration a key feature. The vibes are always happy …
This Week: Permasabi, Lego and Rhymes
There’s a lot of interesting and innovative art stuff in sassy Sydney this week. These are my top picks: Permasabi Tuesday 24 February – Opens 5:30pm – 8pm Exhibition runs 26 February – 14 March COFA, main courtyard Oxford Street, Paddington NSW Perran Costi is a remarkable artist and this is his biggest undertaking to date. He is the founder of …
Museum of Our Futures Past
Don’t miss this exciting exhibition from our lovely friends at Erth – the Museum of our Futures Past. This time they are collaborating with the Central Coast based arts organisation, Art Central. The work fuses museum style antiquities and fine artworks created by 21 artists from the Central Coast. And all around the amazing theme of dugongs! How cool is …
July Theatre Reviews: From politics to police drama
I’ve been a busy little bee seeing theatre up and down the coast for the last few weeks. Though its statistically unlikely, everything I have seen has been fantastic! What a talented & innovative theatre community we have here. Bingo Unit I can’t even explain. So instead I just harassed numerous bystanders until they finally agreed to attend. Part backlot …
The River Eats
Hell yeah! I am so excited for this show. The River Eats is the stand out show for me in the Performance Space program this season. Its a surreal, extreme, visual, visceral journey of the psyche. And a little erotic. Justin Shoulder creates amazing theatre with fantastical costumes and characters like nothing I have ever seen before. His creations are …
Sydney Writers’ Festival Spoken Word Stuff
Its official. I’m the newbie at Word Travels, the amazing performing literary organisation behind such exciting events as the Australian Poetry Slam. We have a bucket-load of cool stuff coming up for the Sydney Writers’ Festival, and the best thing is, most of it is FREE. So what are you waiting for? Get on your bike and head over to …
Vivid Ideas Launch
Last week I was lucky enough to be flick-passed an invite to the Vivid Ideas program launch, which was surely the most fashionable event in Surry Hills that night. I put on my glasses in an attempt to look more intelligent, and tried to eat as many canapes as possible (which were exquisite). I nodded politely whilst viewing 3D models …