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EventMidnight in Paris
Thu, 20 Oct - Wed, 30 Nov 2011
Various cinemas in Sydney
A beautifully envisaged valentine to all the literary luminaries who lived in Paris during the Roaring Twenties.
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EventThe Book of Everything
Sun, 25 Sep - Sat, 1 Oct 2011
Children know, but adults tend to forget, that words, books and whimsy can provide strength and solace in the pursuit of happiness.
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EventBoxing Day – Tin Shed Theatre Company
Mon, 19 Sep - Sat, 1 Oct 2011
Old Fitzroy Theatre, Woolloomooloo
Freya has a Christmas to remember - just not in the picture-perfect way she planned.
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EventBaron Wolman: The Rolling Stone Years
Sun, 18 Sep - Sat, 15 Oct 2011
Blender Gallery, Paddington
Baron Wolman’s images of legends from Miles Davis to Muddy Waters capture an energy that Rolling Stone magazine made accessible to music lovers everywhere.
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EventPage One: Inside the New York Times
Thu, 15 Sep - Wed, 26 Oct 2011
Dendy Newtown, Newtown
A documentary that ducks under the media desk and investigates how lay-offs, bankruptcies and digital media have dethroned America's imperial Gray Lady.
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EventThe Threepenny Opera
Wed, 7 Sep - Sat, 24 Sep 2011
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Walsh Bay
Mack the Knife's 19th-century underworld has been updated to Cabramatta, Chippendale and the Cross.
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EventSweet Bird Andsoforth
Thu, 25 Aug - Sat, 10 Sep 2011
ATYP Studios, The Wharf, Walsh Bay
A group of friends play with the imaginary pleasures of their undecided futures...
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EventJonathan Franzen
Tue, 13 Sep, 2011
Sydney Opera House, Sydney
The controversial Jonathan Franzen will be in conversation with Geordie Williamson, chief literary critic for The Australian, as part of Sydney Writers’ Festival.
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EventBlood Wedding
Mon, 8 Aug - Sun, 11 Sep 2011
Sydney Theatre Company, Walsh Bay
An Andalusian bride is forced to choose between duty and desire, her head and her heart.
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EventThe Haunting of Daniel Gartrell
Mon, 8 Aug - Sat, 3 Sep 2011
Old Fitzroy Theatre, Woolloomooloo
The impressive mirroring of the two main characters is done subtly in this play - only one of them gets naked.
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EventKill Devil Hills
Thu, 18 Aug, 2011
Annandale Hotel, Annandale
This is music that will surge magnificently through your brains and your blood from the soles of your feet.
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EventBizarre Bazaar
Thu, 4 Aug, 2011
Forget Westfield. This occasional twilight fashion market sets up in Sydney laneways and warehouses.
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EventNeighbourhood Watch
Tue, 2 Aug - Sun, 28 Aug 2011
Belvoir Theatre Upstairs, Surry Hills
Robyn Nevin plays your funny, flinty-eyed Hungarian neighbour - a role written just for her by young playwriting star Lally Katz.
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EventSydney Tweed Ride
Sun, 31 Jul, 2011
Sydney Town Hall, Sydney
Allow your mind to boggle with the sartorial splendour of traditional British cycling attire at the Tweed Ride.
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EventBelong
Sun, 24 Jul - Sat, 20 Aug 2011
Sydney Opera House, Sydney
Belong, the newest double-bill from Bangarra, is thematically challenging, technically accomplished, and tendon-achingly transportive. It fuses traditional and contemporary dance styles to investigate the concept of identity as it applies to contemporary Indigenous Australians. The premise of Belong is that to make sense of the enduring present, people must connect with the problematic past. Belong explores the energy and creative fluidity of Indigenous mythologies through movement, music and lighting; it asks innately compelling questions about social identity and cultural authenticity. The cut-out costumes, the set design and the dramatic lighting all enhance the capacity of the dancers to give physical expression to the ghosts of the past. Our ever-present search for identity is explored both within and across generations. The dancers of Belong literally embody that exhilarating sense of connection and emotional frustration which we collectively feel when identifying with a culture, community or country.
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EventThe Coming World
Sat, 18 Jun - Sun, 3 Jul 2011
Darlinghurst Theatre, Potts Point
Written by Pulitizer award-winning playwright Christopher Shinn, The Coming World is a Woody Allen sort of love story, where the path from beginning to end is potholed and eroded.
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EventThe Seagull
Sat, 11 Jun - Sun, 17 Jul 2011
Belvoir Theatre Upstairs, Surry Hills
With his adaptation of Chekhov's famous play, The Seagull, director Benedict Andrews lives up to his reputation as one of Sydney's most confronting and challenging directors by raising the curtain on the resentful, miserable, and resolutely alienated Masha smoking a bucket bong. In one fell swoop, Chekhov's nineteenth century Russian country estate is transformed into a dinky fibro shack on the Australian coast where people have very little to do other than get wrapped up in the intricate narratives of their own lives. The play was described by Chekhov as a comedy; and it is - in a generally bitter and twisted kind of way. Occasional moments of comic relief are provided by Sorin, who wanted to be a writer and never got around to it, but for much of the play Andrews' cages his performers in a featureless glass box - a placeless place, with no discernible way in or out. In the face of the irrevocable nature of time, Chekhov's characters cling to momentary symbols in a vain effort to define themselves and each other. The Seagull is a meditation on how art produces life and life produces art, and the casualties of the process.
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EventSongs of Rapture and Torture
Fri, 3 Jun - Sun, 12 Jun 2011
Serial Space, Chippendale
A suite of four performances, four-years in the making, presented over four sessions.