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!
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!
Festival Pics of the Day January 19, 2007
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Here are some of the best new Festival pics.
Click more to see the full size images and captions
Who’s sleepy? NOT WE! January 15, 2007
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There is a never ending load of fun in this year’s festival that we’ve decided to catch some z’s in the wee morning hours so we can party for the rest of the day.
Jazz in the Domain on Saturday was an absolute blast! Oscar Castro-Neves and his band created a Brazilian world of beats and grooves that had the whole crowd in the Domain dancing away! Strangers danced with strangers and everybody became friends while we cheered and grooved to the beat.
BUT alas, that night has passed. so what’s on today? There are two opening nights tonight: the fantastically fabulous Taylor Mac at the Opera House as part of the About An Hour group, and the much anticipated Lost and Found Orchestra by the Stomp company! Plus Kamuyot at Carriageworks, Eh Joe at Parade Theatre.
Get ready for the second week of Sydney Festival, it will rock your socks!
About an Hour – Now Playing January 11, 2007
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Two of the About an Hour programs – Our Brief Eternity and Structure and Sadness – opened earlier this week and are running until Friday 12 January. With short, sociable performance times and a $25 price tag, these shows are not to be missed!
Sneek Peek at La Clique! January 5, 2007
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Check out these pics of some of the fantastic performances at the Famous Spiegeltent for La Clique! Can’t wait to see the full show!
La Clique January 3, 2007
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Indeed an international success, La Clique is a sell-out hit for festivals across the globe! Its Sydney Debut is in January at The Famous Spiegeltent. Has anyone seen this sideshow burlesque act before? Here is the confirmed line-up:
The two pin-striped, pipe-smoking, acrobatic English Gents in bowler hats, the devastatingly sexy German bathtub acrobat David O’Mer, the infamous and hilarious London burlesque striptease artist Ursula Martinez, the sword-swallowing femme fatale Miss Behave, Kiev’s hoola hooping exotic dancer Yulia Pikhtina, and the incredible Norwegian contortionist Captain Frodo.
Small Metal Objects January 3, 2007
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This is an interesting one where passer-bys become the cast.
It sounds kooky and really engaging.
“An ingenious theatrical gem, Small Metal Objects unfolds amid the high volume pedestrian traffic of Sydney’s bustling Customs House Square. On a raised seating bank with individual sets of headphones, the audience is wired in to an intensely personal drama being played out somewhere in the crowd.”
Looking forward to it.
Review from The Age in Melbourne
Also performing at the Perth Arts Festival
About an Hour December 13, 2006
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Kicking off in Sydney Festival 2006, and sold for only $25, the series was completely sold out. Highlights from this year include New York Hip Hop Theatre, Taylor Mac and Mousson.
For a review of Taylor Mac at the Edinburgh Festival click here
A Midsummer Night’s Dream December 13, 2006
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Shakespeare in South Korean? The fairy king and queen reverse gender? And Bottom as a woman-turn-pig? This production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream went off at Edinburgh Festival and at the Barbican earlier this year. Click here for reviews.
The Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie and Little Ragged Blossum December 13, 2006
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This world premier production is currently in rehearsals in Sydney. A web documentary about the making of The Adventures of Snugglepot & Cuddlepie and Little Ragged Blossom is currently being made. Check out the first segment here this Friday!
Beckett December 13, 2006
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2006 is the centenary of the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett’s birth and this January the Gate Theatre Dublin will present a season of stage works starting world class actors Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon and Barry McGovern. Ticket sales have gone through the roof, so what’s the big deal about Beckett?
