Wrapping Up the Week January 22, 2007
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We are just as sad as you are that this is the last week but there are still plenty of shows to see to make your Sydney Festival Experience complete.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“These crazy South Koreans are here to ensure there’s a lot of life left in Sydney Festival as it enters its final days.” Daily Telegraph Read more
“Outrageously tightly-choreographed and well-oiled while, at the same time, fresh and spontaneous.” Stagenoise.com Read more
Kaidan: A Ghost Story
Check out this video preview of Kaidan from Stagenoise.com
and this review by Stagenoise.com
After the shows don’t forget to head over to Beck’s Festival Bar or The Famous Spiegeltent to keep your evening bumping all night long!
Symphony in the Domain January 22, 2007
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Our friend Marcus took some great footage of the finale of the Symphony in the Domain and the cannon being launched by our Festival buzz winner. Check it out…
The festival, a week of fun. January 22, 2007
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Just to give you an idea of how much fun the festival can be let me give you an example of my last week of the most amazing past week of festival mad-fun. It’s been absolutely mind blowing!
I started off with last Monday and the amazing Taylor Mac at the Opera House. Taylor made me laugh and made me cry… (in fact I had to fight off the urge to jump on stage and give him a big hug) but there wasn’t a moment of mind wandering or even a thought of boredom.
Tuesday I had a double bill of Small Metal Objects and First Love. Small Metal Objects was the most interesting piece of theatre, with an invisible stage and ‘actors’ who didn’t realise they were part of a performance. This means that every show can be different: I spoke to a friend of mine who saw the show earlier, and was treated to an improptu performance by a precocious three yr old girl walking by.
First Love I was led to believe would be another great production- all lies. It was FANTASTIC! Ralph was mesmerising as the lonely vagrant looking for love and you couldn’t take your eyes off him for the whole fifty-five minute show.
Wednesday night I saw the very raw, very unique, very feet- stamping, hand- clapping brilliant Lost and Found Orchestra. These guys would have to be so fit to keep on going with all that energy… and a few standing ovations with encores to boot.
Thursday night I caught up with what was happening at The Famous Spiegeltent and the show La Clique. The combination of sword swallowers, cabaret singers, magicians, acrobats… and so much more left me speechless. I felt like I had been propelled back to the twenties and was visiting a travelling show…
And finally Symphony in the Domain on Saturday night… wine and cheese and music with my friends.. what more can you want on a Summer night?
SO,lesson learned? Check out the festival’s LAST WEEK of non-stop entertainment!
Keep on listenin’…. January 22, 2007
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Will Power will be on FBi 94.5 THIS WEDNESDAY at 11am. Don’t miss him and his show Flow as part of the About An Hour Series which will open tomorrow night and go through till Saturday 27th. Enjoy!
The Femmes January 22, 2007
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A teenage fanclub dream come true last night when the femmes hit the stage at the Becks bar. Was an slightly older crowd than the previous becks events however everyone was happy and mellow and once the music started the entire crowd was dancing and swaying and bopping along…. Second song into the set, and one of their most notorious, Blister in the Sun wound everybody up into a freezy, which set the bar high for the rest of the show. Rolling out all the classics such as Please don’t go, Children of the revolution, Good feeling, and American Music to name a few, gave everyone what they wanted. The climax of course was a long rendition of Add it Up which was complemented by a full horn section….. The boys tried to retire backstage without an encore however the roaring crowd demanded Kiss Off and the Femmes delivered…Bloody Marvelous! “I take one, one, one cause you left me and two, two, two for my family…..“
