misery loves cabaret : torch songs light up bondi

 

In a tongue in cheek, campy performance Shannen Sarstedt creates a persona who tries to be the archetypal tragic torch singer like Edith Piaf and Judy Garland.

When we first meet the performer she is enigmatically cutting up onions,

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the late night buffet: tantalising late night fun

 

Ladies and gentlemen, you’re invited to enjoy some deliciously tantalising late-night fun, because the THE LATE NIGHT BUFFET is coming to Bondi and it promises a debauched degustation of burlesque, comedy and circus.

This saucy show serves up some …

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dirty people: back for bondi feast

DIRTY PEOPLE from JackRabbit Theatre returns to Sydney for Bondi Feast. With critically acclaimed seasons in both Sydney (2016) and Perth (2017), Dirty People is a snapshot of a self-obsessed generation beneath a gritty surface.

Five people sit in

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american essentials film festival: highlights

Australian cinema audiences see essentially American product, predominantly block busters, certainly studio films, with a growing smattering of independent features.
Many of those pictures fall far below and behind what I would call essential viewing unless you are a teen …

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student critic competition for sydney film festival 2018

SCREEN DAY OUT is Sydney Film Festival’s secondary education program.  For 2018 the program is presenting Australian premiere features and documentaries in three cinemas across Sydney – Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace Cremorne, Randwick’s Ritz Cinema and Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre …

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short + sweet theatre winners

The best 13 of 130 short plays (from over 1000 entries!) in the 10 week festival were performed with the honours mostly shared among a wide range of talented veterans and new young stars!

Congratulations to all the participants and

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short + sweet finals week

The Eulogy by Kel Vance and directed by Brendan Paul,  centres on a teenage boy, Sam (Archit Mahajan, as he arrives at his own funeral. However, he soon learns how different his life could have been when the

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teaser films announced for sydney film festival

The 65th Sydney Film Festival today announced a sneak peek of this year’s essential viewing: 26 new films to be featured in this year’s 6-17 June event, as well as a new Festival location: HOYTS Entertainment Quarter.

The

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