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The Spooky Mens Chorale
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The Spooky Mens Chorale

Event Date: 31/05/2019, 07:30 pm

A celebration of masculine beauty and stupidity in concert: Newcastle 31 May
The Spookies are taking a good hard look at themselves in the (very wide) mirror and it’s a little hard to tell whether they like what they see.
After all, it’s been 18 years of being the thinking person’s mancrumpet - musically speaking - and part of the skill-set is inscrutability.
Or is it blithering incomprehensibility? So, yes, the hats are there, the sphinx-like vastness, the facial crevices, the beard topiary…
But is that crumbling decrepitude they are revealing or a magnificent descent into the vast bittersweetness of knowing this life for what it is?

These questions are more than appropriate, because the Spooky Men have just recorded their seventh album, Welcome to the Second Half which will nearly be ready for this performance.
It’s a collection which explores yet more corners of the great spooky room, including baggage carousels at the airport the fine art of building pyramids, and - more poignantly - what it’s like to be closer to the end than to the start.
Whether they will stop before they are done, or whether they are done before they stop, the musical exploration of all this unknowingness will be, as always, a very great pleasure. Sit back and enjoy the ride!
Armed only with their voices, The Spooky Men's Chorale commentates on the absurdity and grandeur of the modern male.
Sometimes mighty, sometimes foolish, sometimes blissfully tender-hearted, the Spooky Men strike a deeply human chord.
Formed in the Blue Mountains of NSW in 2001 by Christchurch-born spookmeister Stephen Taberner,
the Spooky Men soon attracted attention with a judicious combination of Georgian table songs, pindrop beautiful ballads, highly inappropriate covers, and immaculate man anthems like “Don’t Stand Between a Man and his Tool”, and “We Are Not a Men’s Group” - all of which amounted to a manifesto for the new breed of man: happily suspended between thug and wimp.
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Civic Theatre, Wheeler Place,
Newcastle New South Wales,2300
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Civic Theatre, Wheeler Place,
Newcastle New South Wales,2300
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The Spooky Mens Chorale
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The Spooky Mens Chorale

Event Date: 01/06/2019, 07:30 pm

A celebration of masculine beauty and stupidity in concert: Sydney 1 June
The Spookies are taking a good hard look at themselves in the (very wide) mirror and it’s a little hard to tell whether they like what they see.
After all, it’s been 18 years of being the thinking person’s mancrumpet - musically speaking - and part of the skill-set is inscrutability.
Or is it blithering incomprehensibility? So, yes, the hats are there, the sphinx-like vastness, the facial crevices, the beard topiary…
But is that crumbling decrepitude they are revealing or a magnificent descent into the vast bittersweetness of knowing this life for what it is?

These questions are more than appropriate, because the Spooky Men have just recorded their seventh album, Welcome to the Second Half which will nearly be ready for this performance.
It’s a collection which explores yet more corners of the great spooky room, including baggage carousels at the airport the fine art of building pyramids, and - more poignantly - what it’s like to be closer to the end than to the start.
Whether they will stop before they are done, or whether they are done before they stop, the musical exploration of all this unknowingness will be, as always, a very great pleasure. Sit back and enjoy the ride!
Armed only with their voices, The Spooky Men's Chorale commentates on the absurdity and grandeur of the modern male.
Sometimes mighty, sometimes foolish, sometimes blissfully tender-hearted, the Spooky Men strike a deeply human chord.
Formed in the Blue Mountains of NSW in 2001 by Christchurch-born spookmeister Stephen Taberner,
the Spooky Men soon attracted attention with a judicious combination of Georgian table songs, pindrop beautiful ballads, highly inappropriate covers, and immaculate man anthems like “Don’t Stand Between a Man and his Tool”, and “We Are Not a Men’s Group” - all of which amounted to a manifesto for the new breed of man: happily suspended between thug and wimp.
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Seymour Centre, City Road & Cleveland Street,
Redfern New South Wales,2300
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Seymour Centre, City Road & Cleveland Street,
Redfern New South Wales,2300
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Phone Number: 02 93517940

The Marais Project At 20: Times & Seasons
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The Marais Project At 20: Times & Seasons

Event Date: 26/05/2019, 02:30 pm

The Independent Theatre presents Prelude in Tea
Times and Seasons, which takes place at the elegant North Sydney theatre on Sunday afternoon May 26,
celebrates The Marais Project's two decades as one of Australia's most creative early music ensembles.

The event features special guest, Swedish gambist, Leif Henrikson,a long-term friend and colleague of revered lutenist and Marais Project original member, Tommie Andersson.
Leif, who was a student of Jordi Savall, will perform exclusively with The Marais Project during his time in Australia.
In addition to Tommie and Leif, other founding Marais Project members Cathy Upex and soprano Belinda Montgomery will also appear.

“I didn’t think we would last 12 months, let alone two decades”, reflected Jenny Eriksson, founder of The Marais Project. “Turning twenty is something special.”

So, what can listeners expect?
“The first half of the concert sees The Marais Project present some of the best of the French Baroque repertoire that we love so much as a group”, Jenny explained.
“This includes music by Marin Marais for two viola da gambas and a cantata for soprano, two viola da gambas and continuo by Michel Pignolet de Montéclair.”

To add yet more interest to the occasion, The Marais Project will release its 7th CD, The Garden Party on the day with audience members getting an advance opportunity to purchase a copy of what will undoubtedly become a classic.

After the interval, Eriksson's accomplished electric viola da gamba ensemble, Elysian Fields, will take to the stage. With members including jazz doyens, pianist Matt McMahon and saxophonist, Matt Keegan,
Elysian Fields will play excerpts from their critically acclaimed Scandinavian Project including gorgeous arrangements of Swedish folk tunes.

This will be the third occasion that The Marais Project and Elysian Fields have presented music for the acoustic and electric versions of the viola da gamba in the same concert.
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The Independent Theatre, 269 Miller Street,
North Sydney New South Wales,2060
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The Independent Theatre, 269 Miller Street,
North Sydney New South Wales,2060
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Phone Number: (02) 9955 3000

Impro Legends Last Day
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Impro Legends

Event Date: 22/05/2019, 07:30 pm

WE'RE BACK! Some of the funniest impro comedy legends of the last 30 years
WE'RE BACK! Some of the funniest impro comedy legends of the last 30 years mixed in with some of the brightest up-and-coming stars, make for a night of super-charged, ad-lib comedy. After a bunch of great shows last year, with huge laughs, wonderful performers, great impro comedy... and GREAT AUDIENCES they returns on the 4th Wednesday of every month.
Marko was there at Belvoir St Theatre in 1985 when Theatresports first came to Australia. Since then he has performed in, directed and produced scores of Impro Comedy shows around and Australia and the world. From short-form to long-form to genre satires to improv Shakespeare, he's played with the best and now he brings them home to play at the wonderful, inner-west, community club, the Petersham Bowlo - kid's welcome!
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Petersham Bowling Club, 77 Brighton St,
Petersham New South Wales,2049
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Petersham Bowling Club, 77 Brighton St,
Petersham New South Wales,2049
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Impro Legends

Event Date: 22/05/2019, 07:30 pm

WE'RE BACK! Some of the funniest impro comedy legends of the last 30 years
WE'RE BACK! Some of the funniest impro comedy legends of the last 30 years mixed in with some of the brightest up-and-coming stars, make for a night of super-charged, ad-lib comedy. After a bunch of great shows last year, with huge laughs, wonderful performers, great impro comedy... and GREAT AUDIENCES they returns on the 4th Wednesday of every month.
Marko was there at Belvoir St Theatre in 1985 when Theatresports first came to Australia. Since then he has performed in, directed and produced scores of Impro Comedy shows around and Australia and the world. From short-form to long-form to genre satires to improv Shakespeare, he's played with the best and now he brings them home to play at the wonderful, inner-west, community club, the Petersham Bowlo - kid's welcome!
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Petersham Bowling Club, 77 Brighton St,
Petersham New South Wales,2049
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Petersham Bowling Club, 77 Brighton St,
Petersham New South Wales,2049
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NECROPHILIA
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NECROPHILIA

Event Date: 22/05/2019, 08:00 pm

JackRabbit Theatre @ Limelight on Oxford presents world premiere
NECROPHILIA by Lincoln Vickery
A fresh new comedy about taboo, fetish and the limits of empathy.

Tracking the lives of three employees at the local mortuary, Necrophilia explores the complexity of romantic entanglements and what it might mean to discover something about your crush you can’t let rest in peace.
22 May - 1 June 2019
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Limelight on Oxford, 231 Oxford Street,
Darlinghurst New South Wales,2010
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Limelight on Oxford, 231 Oxford Street,
Darlinghurst New South Wales,2010
Eyes To The Floor
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Eyes To The Floor

Event Date: 17/05/2019, 07:30 pm

Win a double pass to Eyes to the Floor - Manly
Following its acclaimed 2017 production of Alana Valentine’s Parramatta Girls, The Rough Hewn Theatre Troupe presents its companion piece, EYES TO THE FLOOR.

The 13-year-old northern Beaches-based theatre company has, since 2015, devoted itself primarily to the work of women theatre practitioners – writers, directors and actors of all ages.
With its almost entirely female, local cast, Eyes to The Floor is a potent realisation of that philosophy: a play that is both shocking and empowering.
Eyes to the Floor is a lament; a grieving for the bruised, abused and broken lives of young girls sent,
in the 1960s and 1970s, to the Institution for Girls, Hay.

Valentine asks her audience to bear witness to the brutality meted out to those girls aged 13-17 under state care who were expelled from the Parramatta or Cootamundra Girls Homes and sent to be disciplined in Hay.

Hay sits on the Hay Plain in western NSW and the Institution for Girls was housed in the Hay Gaol.
Concrete cells surrounded by tall concrete walls with ominous observation towers.
The girls marched everywhere, with militaristic precision – to bed, to the toilet, to their duties, to the isolation cell. And, because looking staff in the eye would lose them rations, get them humiliated or bashed… they always kept their eyes to the floor.

Valentine shines a spotlight on a dark time in NSW’s governance of wards of the state. Hay may have closed in 1974 but its former inmates still suffer post-traumatic stress, anxiety, panic attacks, phobias, depression, sleep disorders, broken marriages and suicide.
Sent to Long Bay, one former Hay inmate described it as "a breeze" compared to Hay.
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Star of the Sea Theatre, corner of Iluka Av and Collingwood Street,
Manly New South Wales,2095
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Star of the Sea Theatre, corner of Iluka Av and Collingwood Street,
Manly New South Wales,2095
Jurassic Unearthed By Silvers Circus
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Jurassic Unearthed By Silvers Circus

Event Date: 16/05/2019, 07:00 pm

Ballarat Showgrounds - Jurassic Unearthed, 2 Family Passes
Jurassic Unearthed by Silvers Circus opens at Ballarat Showgrounds on Friday 10th May until Sunday 26th May, 2019.

Now you can see one of Australia’s Finest Circus's along with everyone's favorite prehistoric creatures all in one spectacular 90 minute international show!

Family’s will be able to enter through a FREE Dinosaur Exhibition on their way to everyone's favourite Circus! Be ready for these special prehistoric creatures to also pop in to visit during the Silvers’ performance!
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Ballarat Showground - Creswick Rd, Wendouree ,
Wendouree Victoria,3355
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Ballarat Showground - Creswick Rd, Wendouree ,
Wendouree Victoria,3355
Classical Fireworks In Orchestras Spectacular May Program
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Event Date: 14/05/2019, 06:30 pm

“In Celebration” season with a musical ‘rocket’ - amid a firmament of stars! SYDNEY
Mannheim Rocket transports listeners back to the explosive birth of the modern symphonic style of Mannheim in the late 18th century.
The cutting-edge orchestral sinfonias of Stamitz and Richter were simultaneously energetic and sensuous,
and were a significant influence on the young Mozart, who was later at the epicentre of the Classical Viennese scene.
His fifth violin concerto – nicknamed the Turkish – inhabits a hazy world of love and intrigue, and the finale of Mozart’s Symphony No.40 contains the most famous ascending musical rocket of all.

To continue the bold vision of the orchestra’s founding artistic director – the late Richard Gill AO – violinist Rachael Beesley has been appointed as one of the new co-artistic directors.
Audiences will have the chance to see her direct the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra at City Recital Hall and Hills Grammar, and hear her featured as soloist in the Mozart concerto.
In conjunction with the main concerts, The Voyage of Musical Discovery invites exceptional guest musicians
to join the orchestra to reveal and explain some of the similarities between historical and contemporary musical works.
On May 14, the orchestra shares the City Recital Hall stage with Jane Rutter and her Third Culture World Music Ensemble.
Together they demonstrate the many surprising cultural and historical links between the early classical symphony and the world music of today.
MANNHEIM ROCKET
Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra
Rachael Beesley – Director & Soloist

Stamitz Sinfonia à Quattro in A Major
Mozart Violin Concerto in A Major
Richter Sinfonia à Quattro in B-flat Major
Mozart Symphony No.40 in G Minor

Saturday 11 May 4.00pm
RJ Phipps Performance Centre, Hills Grammar School, 35 Kenthurst Road, Kenthurst

Sunday 12 May 3.00pm
City Recital Hall, 2–12 Angel Place, Sydney

VOYAGE OF MUSICAL DISCOVERY with Jane Rutter
Wednesday 14 May 6.30pm
City Recital Hall, Sydney
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City Recital Hall 2–12 Angel Place,
Sydney New South Wales,2000
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City Recital Hall 2–12 Angel Place,
Sydney New South Wales,2000
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Website URL: www.arco.org.au

MUMS THE WORD IN OPERA HIGHLIGHTS FEAST
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MUMS THE WORD IN OPERA HIGHLIGHTS FEAST

Event Date: 12/05/2019, 02:30 pm

Mother’s Day with Pacific Opera - Sydney
Pacific Opera celebrates all kinds of Mums - the good, the bad, and the ugly! – in a special Mother’s Day concert on Sunday 12 May in North Sydney.

Part of the popular Prelude in Tea series at the Independent Theatre, the mouth-watering afternoon in prospect also includes the theatre’s famous afternoon tea.
Artistic Director Simon Kenway says there will be comedy and tragedy – and some romance as well –
in the spectacular performance featuring upward of two dozen young stars of tomorrow’s opera stage!

The concert will also be directed by two talented up-and-coming young associate artists - part of Pacific Opera’s acclaimed training development program this year.
Eugene Lynch and Antonia Zappia have been mentored by founding Artistic Director of the company, Christine Douglas and will make their debut alongside fellow associate artist, repetiteur Su Choung.
The concert features some of opera’s best loved solos, duets, trios, choruses and entire scenes
- including works by Mozart, Puccini, Offenbach, Massenet, Ravel, Barber, Strauss and more!
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The Independent Theatre, 269 Miller Street,,
North Sydney New South Wales,2060
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The Independent Theatre, 269 Miller Street,,
North Sydney New South Wales,2060
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Phone Number: (02) 9955 3000

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