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Sydney Festival 2022

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Green Park
Sydney Festival 2022

Green Park

Audrey review: A site-specific, intensely naturalistic outdoor performance explores the gaps and dislocations existing between generations of Sydney's queer communities.

Where: Green Park, Victoria Street, Darlinghurst When: 19 - 30 Jan 2022

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Small Metal Objects
Sydney Festival 2022

Small Metal Objects

Amongst the flurry of suits and seagulls across Customs House square, Gary and Steve are here to complete a transaction – and it's not going to plan. 

Where: Circular Quay, Sydney When: 20 - 23 Jan 2022

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Italian Baroque with Circa
Music

Italian Baroque with Circa

Strap yourself in for a truly Baroque experience as music and acrobatics meld into an exploration of four great and ancient cities.

Where: City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney When: 19 - 27 Jan 2022

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The Nightline
Sydney Festival 2022

The Nightline

Tune into the voices of Australia’s midnight soul in a mysterious listening club.

Where: National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney When: 12 - 23 Jan 2022

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Jali
Sydney Festival 2022

Jali

Audrey review: Brimming with generosity and unexpected humour, Oliver Twist's autobiographical monologue shines a light into the darkness.

Where: Seymour Centre, Chippendale, Sydney When: 19 - 23 Jan 2022

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A Chorus Line
Musical

A Chorus Line

Musical theatre’s singular sensation comes to Sydney Festival with bold new choreography and a refreshed sense of mission.

Where: Riverside Theatres, Parramatta, Sydney When: 6 - 16 Jan 2022

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Girl from the North Country
Musical

Girl from the North Country

A story of American life in the Great Depression centred on a guest house and a community living on a knife-edge.

Where: Theatre Royal, Sydney When: 5 - 30 Jan 2022

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Lizzie
Musical

Lizzie

A revenge tale for our times set to a blistering score, with a sound owing less to Sondheim than to Bikini Kill, the Runaways, and Hole.

Where: Hayes Theatre Company, Potts Point, Sydney When: 13 Jan - 6 Feb 2022

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Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran
Theatre

Rich Kids: A History of...

From Javaad Alipoor, a darkly comedic, urgent play about entitlement, consumption and digital technology.

Where: Riverside Theatres, Parramatta, Sydney When: 22 - 23 Jan 2022

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Features

Longer reads. Big ideas. More than just the skinny.

Got a few minutes? Spend some of them on Audrey Journal’s long-form writing on theatre, dance, opera and performance in Sydney and beyond.

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Nurture the Community, Nurture the Country
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Conversation 16 - 16 Jan 2022

Nurture the Community, Nurture the Country

Writer and director S. Shakthidharan in conversation with his mother, the revered classical Indian dancer Anandavalli.

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Catherine Văn-Davies: The art of holding on
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Conversation 16 - 16 Jan 2022

Catherine Văn-Davies: The art of holding on

"Hold on tightly, let go lightly": Actor and theatre-maker Catherine Văn-Davies puts 100 per cent into her work, even if it disappears tomorrow.

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Shauntelle Benjamin: A season of self-discovery
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Conversation 16 - 16 Jan 2022

Shauntelle Benjamin: A season of self-discovery

"Constantly in flux and questioned, rarely settled on": Shauntelle Benjamin on ADHD, gender fluidity and engaging with more people of colour in Australia’s arts scene.

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Eugyeene Teh: The Act of Giving
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Conversation 16 - 16 Jan 2022

Eugyeene Teh: The Act of Giving

Designer Eugyeene Teh is an artist fuelled by the deliberate act of giving, writes Suzy Wrong.

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Dispatches from the blanket fort
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Conversation 16 - 16 Jan 2022

Dispatches from the blanket fort

Hired to record an audiobook, Sydney actor Julia Robertson's "saving grace" lockdown gig has become a crash course in patience.

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Shakespeare for Teenagers: Blessings in Disguise
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Conversation 16 - 16 Jan 2022

Shakespeare for Teenagers: Blessings in Disguise

Shakespeare had huge faith in the young actors who gave us the original Juliet, Lady Macbeth, or Rosalind and Viola. So why don't we, asks George Kemp.

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Cultural criticism and cultural memory
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Conversation 16 - 16 Jan 2022

Cultural criticism and cultural memory

In a newly published Platform Paper, Alison Croggon considers the state of critical writing in Australia and asks, should it disappear, to whom would that matter?

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The Producer: the invisible artist
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Conversation 16 - 16 Jan 2022

The Producer: the invisible artist

Imogen Gardam, winner of the 2018 Rose Byrne Scholarship for Emerging Female Leader in the Arts, on why she looks forward to "disappearing back into the shadows".

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The Myth of the General Audience
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Conversation 16 - 16 Jan 2022

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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White Pearl
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ArchivedSTC Wharf 2 Theatre, Walsh Bay, Sydney 15 Jul - 4 Sep 2021

White Pearl

It’s just another day at the Singapore office of Clearday cosmetics. That is, until they discover that their new TV commercial has been leaked online.

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Profiles

People

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Madeleine Withington
"actor"
Artist, Writer

Madeleine Withington

Madeleine Withington is a Sydney-based actor and voice artist.

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Suzy Wrong
"critic and actor"
Writer

Suzy Wrong

Suzy Wrong is a theatre critic in Sydney and an actor, last seen in SBS TV's Hungry Ghosts.

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Raveena Grover
"writer & photographer"
Audrey contributor, Writer

Raveena Grover

Raveena Grover is a writer, curator and creative director.

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S. Shakthidharan
"storyteller"
Artist, Writer

S. Shakthidharan

Shakthi is a western Sydney storyteller with Sri Lankan heritage and Tamil ancestry and the Co-Founder-Artistic Director of Kurinji.

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