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Sydney Festival 2019

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Counting and Cracking
Theatre

Counting and Cracking

A timely illustration of the ways in which Australia transforms those who come here and is itself transformed.

Where: Sydney Town Hall, Sydney When: 11 Jan - 2 Feb 2019

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Deer Woman
Festival

Deer Woman

Audrey review: From Canadian Indigenous activist arts company ARTICLE 11, a performance pulsing with life and power.

Where: Carriageworks, Eveleigh, Sydney When: 16 - 20 Jan 2019

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The Chat
Festival

The Chat

Audrey review: This experiment in empathy and judgment challenges its audience at every level.

Where: Carriageworks, Eveleigh, Sydney When: 16 - 20 Jan 2019

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The Weekend
Festival

The Weekend

Sydney Festival: A distress call from home sees Lara, a dancer, in a race-against-time search for a new beginning.

Where: Carriageworks, Eveleigh, Sydney When: 18 - 23 Jan 2019

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Brett & Wendy: A Love Story Bound by Art
Festival

Brett & Wendy: A Love...

Sydney Festival: A deep dive into the world of the Whiteleys has theatre maker Kim Carpenter revisiting conflicted feelings about his own direction in art.

Where: Riverside Theatres, Parramatta, Sydney When: 18 - 27 Jan 2019

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Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story
Festival

Old Stock: A Refugee Love...

Audrey review: A rich rejoinder to dogwhistle politics confronts us with the tenacity of human spirit and the miracle of love.

Where: Belvoir, Surry Hills, Sydney When: 12 - 20 Jan 2019

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Pigalle
Cabaret

Pigalle

Audrey review: Spice and heat promised but this tepid disco-burlesque is content to dish up cold hamburger.

Where: Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent, Hyde Park, Sydney When: 8 - 27 Jan 2019

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Beware of Pity
Festival

Beware of Pity

Sydney Festival: Schaubühne Berlin and Complicite's Simon McBurney present a newly prescient portrait of a Europe stumbling toward chaos. 

Where: Roslyn Packer Theatre, Walsh Bay, Sydney When: 23 - 27 Jan 2019

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The Beehive
Festival

The Beehive

Sydney Festival: Artist Zanny Begg addresses one of Sydney’s enduring mysteries: what happened to Juanita Nielsen?

Where: UNSW Galleries, Paddington, Sydney When: 5 Jan - 23 Feb 2019

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Features

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The Moors: Jen Silverman’s Brave New World
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Sydney Mardi Gras FestivalSeymour Centre, Chippendale, Sydney 7 Feb - 1 Mar 2019

The Moors: Jen Silverman’s Brave New World

American writer Jen Silverman's plays suggest true happiness can come only from bold action and reinvention, writes Adriano Cappelletta.

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The Myth of the General Audience
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Conversation 19 - 19 Jan 2019

The Myth of the General Audience

The 2018 Philip Parsons Lecture: The myth of the general audience must go the way of the myth of the average Australian, says Alana Valentine.

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Going through stages in 2018
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Conversation 19 - 19 Jan 2019

Going through stages in 2018

The shows that we at Audrey Journal loved, the productions we admired, the stories we were moved and shaken by.

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The Intimacy Revolution
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Conversation 19 - 19 Jan 2019

The Intimacy Revolution

Suz Mawer: What I learned in Ita O'Brien's intimacy workshop.

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Playwright oversight
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Conversation 19 - 19 Jan 2019

Playwright oversight

Make a creative’s heart sing, writes Ang Collins. It's not that hard to do.

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To thrive or not to thrive? A question for funders
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Conversation 19 - 19 Jan 2019

To thrive or not to thrive? A question for funders

Arts funding in Australia is a car crash argues Big hART's Scott Rankin in a newly published Platform Paper.

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Beyond Ticking Boxes
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Conversation 19 - 19 Jan 2019

Beyond Ticking Boxes

Tongan-Australian writer Winnie Dunn speaks to the Voice, Agency and Integrity Report produced by Diversity Arts Australia.

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“You are critically acclaimed, it’s heady and thrilling”
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Conversation 19 - 19 Jan 2019

“You are critically acclaimed, it’s heady and thrilling”

Why would a "Capital-A Actor" choose sex work? It's more than just the money writes "Adelaide".

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Masters of the House: Who are Australia’s Extreme Theatregoers?
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Theatre 19 - 19 Jan 2019

Masters of the House: Who are Australia’s Extreme Theatregoers?

Les Mis 1000 times? 85 (and a half) viewings of Wicked? Actor George Kemp goes in search of Australia's theatre obsessives.

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Who is “Standing Ovation Man”?
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Theatre 19 - 19 Jan 2019

Who is “Standing Ovation Man”?

A play might be good, bad or indifferent but nothing will keep Grahame Best - the Standing Ovation Man - from rising to his feet.

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Profiles

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Kate Prendergast
"writer"
Writer

Kate Prendergast

A Sydney-based writer on the arts

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Debbie Zhou
"writer and critic"
Writer

Debbie Zhou

Debbie is a theatre and film writer based in Sydney.

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Kiriaki Koubaroulis
"Cultural Omnivore"
Writer

Kiriaki Koubaroulis

Kiriaki Koubaroulis works in the creative industries in diverse roles within local government and non-profit sectors in both the visual and performing arts.

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Fiona McGregor
"author and performance artist"
Artist, Writer

Fiona McGregor

A Sydney author and performance artist.

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