Sydney Festival’s Tablatronics is an exciting collaboration between sound artist and media arts producer Tokyo Love-In and a range of extraordinary musicians. In this multi-cultural feast for the senses, Tablatronics uses music, visual artists, dancers and actors to present a world of sounds which reflects the rich South Asian heritage of the ensemble. With modern…

Award winning German rock-cabaret group Die Roten Punkte (The Red Dots) present their anarchic blend of rock ’n’ roll cabaret in Sydney Festival’s Kunst Rock. In this fantastic performance dysfunctional brother and sister duo Otto and Astrid Rot combine satire and music in a dramatically irreverent and ridiculously entertaining show. For more information, visit the…

Set in a seedy watering hold, Sydney Festival’s Cantina blurs reality and fantasy, the past, present and future. The performance explores the rapture and torment of desire through illusion, contortion, tightrope and acrobatics. The production which has been produced by Strut & Fret Production House has enjoyed sold out seasons in Australia and abroad.  Co-directed…

The Secret River sees playwright Andrew Bovell , director Neil Armfield and an illustrious cast, working together to bring Kate Grenville’s award-winning novel to life. The play explores the emotional clash between Indigenous Australians and European settlers on the Hawkesbury River in the early 19th Century. The Secret River plays at Sydney Theatre, Walsh Bay…

In a thrilling evening of music and movement, Irish dance company Fabulous Beast performs Rian- mixing Celtic sounds  with elements of West African music in this dynamic celebration of Ireland’s roots and traditions. Director and choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan has collaborated with composer Liam O Maonlai of Hothouse Flowers fame, drawing inspiration from O Maonlai’s solo…

Vivienne Westwood has been delighting and shocking the fashion world since 1971 and now Sydney Festival brings a collision of her high heels and billowing gowns with Handel’s Opera in a spectacular production of Semele Walk. In this bold take on Handel’s Semele, the heroine  is the prototype of 20th century punk. Her descent into…

Created by celebrated Kuwaiti writer/director Sulayam Al-Bassam, In the Eruptive Mode is inspired by the Arab Spring and explores the changing faces of today’s Middle East. A series of eight short scenes explore the themes of state violence and individual freedom in the modern Arab world. Accompanied by iconic underground musician Yasmine Hamdan’s live score,…

Surprising, whimsical and a whole lot of fun for no apparent reason! Sydney Festival kicked off over the weekend with a giant Rubber Duck cruising into Cockle Bay’s Darling Harbour. The Arrival, a two-hour show featuring tug-boats, bathtubs, acrobats and dancers built to the highly anticipated entrance of the yellow duck which was created by…

A world of love, lust and death is created in Murder, a new work by visual theatre magicians Erth.  The piece largely uses puppetry to convey its dark themes, and was inspired by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ Murder Ballads. The performance has an edgy and poetic soundtrack and projections that plunges the audience…

Widely recognised as one of the world’s most outstanding figurative painters, Francis Bacon’s works are gutsy, controversial and unforgettable. Opening as part of Sydney Festival at the Art Gallery of NSW, Decades is the first major exhibition of his work to be seen in Australia. With over 50 paintings, the exhibition covers five decades of…