9 – 26 Jan
THIS IS OUR CITY LIVING LARGE TUNING IN TAKING FLIGHT IN SUMMER
This show is AbouT PeoPle, Shaun Parker & ComPany, Sydney FeStival 2008. Photo: John SoneS
Arts NsW proudly supporting sydney Festival For over 30 years this is our city iN summer
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THIS IS OUR CITY IN SUMMARY MUSIC
sounds from around the world
Visitors 12 Eclipse 14 Hive + 100 Million Nights 18 Sun Ra Arkestra 20 Big Star’s Third 21
Festival Village Music 40–47 Lao Qiang 51 Classics 61–67 Summer Sounds in The Domain 67
PARADISO AT TOWN HALL NINE hot nights of music with free late night sessions 72–77
Matmos 68 Ambrose Akinmusire 69 So Frenchy So Chic 70 Spirit of Akasha 71 Paradiso at Town Hall 72–77
CLASSICS
From baroque to contemporary 61–67
The festival within a festival at Carriageworks 52–57
Ten days of music, magic and family fun 78–83
INSTALLATIONS Chance 24 Merchants Store 25 Sacrilege 37 The Very Near Future 58 Rubber Duck 80 Project 28: Roman Ondák 81
THEATRE/DANCE
Turn down the lights and be transported
Dido & Aeneas 6 Black Diggers 8 La Voix Humaine 10 Am I 16 Band of Magicians 22 The Shadow King 26
Othello: The Remix 27 Oedipus Schmoedipus 48 Ockham’s Razor 49 Chi Udaka 50 About an Hour 52–57 The Piper 57
FESTIVAL INFO
Family fun, music and cabaret from morning ’til late 28–47
PARRAMATTA
Interactive installations across the city
ABOUT AN HOUR
FESTIVAL VILLAGE
Funpark 58 All That Fall 59 The Serpent’s Table 60 The Turk in Italy 65
FAMILY Festival fun for all ages
Band of Magicians 22 Othello: The Remix 27 La Cucina Dell’Arte 34 Tom Thum 36 Sacrilege 37 Jazzamattazz! 38 Box Wars 38 Kaput 39 Squaring the Wheel 39 The Piper 57 Rubber Duck 80
AUSTRALIA DAY
Celebrate with Festival events for everyone 84 & 85
Venues, bars, restaurants, Where to stay, how to buy tickets, Accessibility and a calendar of events 86–112
hello 2014
The Sydney Festival team proudly presents the 2014 Festival, jam-packed with artistic delights and summer fun. From opera and theatre to public art, concerts and cabaret, Australia’s leading summer festival is ready to entertain, surprise and move you. New this year is the Festival Village, our central hub in Hyde Park with great shows and free entertainment for the whole family. Let’s celebrate our city in summer! Lieven Bertels Festival Director Acknowledgement of Country Sydney Festival would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land that we meet on, and pay respect to the 29 clans of the Eora Nation. We would also like to acknowledge that this land falls within the boundaries of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council. We would like to pay our respects to Elders both past and present, and all Aboriginal peoples whichever Aboriginal nation they may come from.
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Every January, Sydney Festival brings to our city a cultural celebration based on big ideas and bold artistic statements, allowing us to make the most of the brilliant sunny days and the warm summer nights. The NSW Government is proud to continue to support the Festival, including the dedicated program for Western Sydney. Events will be held right across Sydney, from the Opera House and The Domain, to street parties in Parramatta and performances at the Riverside Theatres. Sydney Festival reflects our entire city in its prime. This is our city in summer. Welcome to Sydney Festival. The Hon. Barry O’Farrell Premier of New South Wales Minister for Western Sydney
I’m proud to support the fabulous team behind Sydney Festival 2014, the city’s biggest cultural celebration, attracting up to a million people to Sydney. This year’s program is one of the best yet – from Black Diggers, an ambitious production telling the story of more than 1000 Indigenous Australians who enlisted to fight in World War I, to the Festival Village in Hyde Park, which will give locals and visitors an outdoor spot to enjoy Sydney in summer. Both are a reminder that this city and its history is all of ours to share. I look forward to joining you for the Festival. Clover Moore Lord Mayor of Sydney
The Star would like to invite everyone to celebrate Sydney in summer and we are thrilled to be the Principal Partner of Sydney Festival. I look forward to the opportunity for The Star to be able to enrich and enhance the Festival for all Sydneysiders, as well as interstate and international visitors. From pop-up bars atop our Event Centre rooftop overlooking the city’s skyline, to performances and special events in our live entertainment venues, we look forward to helping Sydney celebrate summer, art and performance throughout January. As Sydney’s newest leisure and entertainment destination, it is a perfect fit for us at The Star to be highly engaged with the city of Sydney during this important cultural celebration. Frederic Luvisutto Managing Director The Star
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DANCE/OPERA
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Sasha Waltz transports one of the most romantic operas to a wondrous underwater realm.
“Sasha Waltz has orchestrated some of the most extraordinary spectacles on the modern dance stage” The Guardian
Sydney Lyric at The Star 16, 17, 20 & 21 January at 8pm 19 January at 5pm 100mins no interval Premium $199 A Reserve $159/$135 B Reserve $99/$85 Restricted viewing $55/$45 Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/dido
Choreography by Sasha Waltz Music by Henry Purcell Renowned for her boundless visual imagination, Berlin choreographer Sasha Waltz has come together with celebrated baroque orchestra Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Vocalconsort Berlin to present her first opera: a majestic reimagining of one of the world’s great romantic tragedies, Dido & Aeneas. Henry Purcell’s 17thcentury masterwork tells the myth of a queen, a soldier and the illicit love that tore them apart. Waltz’s version transports the audience into a wondrous underwater realm, where submerged dancers glide gracefully around a glass aquarium that fills the stage. From these watery depths, Waltz breathes new life into an enduring love story, carrying it to spectacular heights. Photo: Sebastian Bolesch
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THEATRE
The untold story of ww Aboriginal diggers on the eve of the centenary of Gallipoli.
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SYDNEY FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE BALNAVES FOUNDATION presents
Black Diggers
A Queensland Theatre Company & sydney festival PRODUCTION AUSTRALIA World Premiere
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To mark the eve of the centenary of the First World War, Sydney Festival presents a work of significance, scope and monumental ambition, in a world premiere event at Sydney Opera House. Directed by Wesley Enoch and written by Tom Wright, Black Diggers uncovers the contribution of First World War Aboriginal Diggers, following their exceptional stories from their homelands to the
battlefields of Gallipoli, Palestine and Flanders. An all-male, allIndigenous cast will evoke these heroic men, largely unknown to history. Black Diggers is long overdue. Drawing upon new research and extensive consultation, the production reclaims a forgotten chapter of the story we tell ourselves about Australia’s wartime legacy, shying away from none of it. Don’t miss this uplifting landmark theatre event.
Drama Theatre Sydney Opera House Preview: 17 January at 8.15pm Season: 18, 19, 21–26 January Tue–Sat at 8.15pm Sat 25 January also at 2pm Sun 19 & 26 January at 5pm Premium $72 A Reserve $62/$56 Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 Sydney Opera House 02 9250 7777 sydneyfestival.org.au/diggers
For people who are blind or vision impaired Audio described performance: 26 January at 5pm, with a tactile tour at 3pm. Bookings essential. Please refer to p96 for accessible booking information. p. 9 This projecthashas been assisted the Australian This project been assisted by theby Australian Government’s Government’s Major Festivals Initiative, managed the Major Festivals Initiative, managed by the Australia Council,by its arts funding andCouncil, advisory body, in association withadvisory the Confederation Australia its arts funding and body, inof Australian International Arts Festivals, Sydney Festival,International Centenary association with the Confederation of Australian of Canberra and Perth International Art Festival. Arts Festivals, Sydney Festival and Brisbane Festival.
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Directed by Wesley Enoch Written by Tom Wright
THEATRE
LA VOIX HUMAINE |
Toneelgroep Amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS Australian Exclusive
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An uncompromising one-woman show based on Jean Cocteau’s self-destructive monologue.
The village voice
Carriageworks Bay 17 9–13 January at 8pm 70mins no interval $62/$56 General admission Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/humaine
Directed by Ivo van Hove Shattered by their break-up, a woman calls up her ex-lover. Pleading with the voice on the other end of the line, she sinks deeper and deeper into despair. With a touch of Hitchcock’s Rear Window, we watch the scene, and the woman herself, unravel on the other side of a glass wall. A monologue penned by poet and film director Jean Cocteau in 1927, La Voix Humaine (The Human Voice) has inspired numerous retellings on both stage and screen. This new version is by visionary director Ivo van Hove and performed by leading actress Halina Reijn. With a raw, self-destructive performance by Reijn at its tortured heart, the intensely voyeuristic La Voix Humaine is theatre at its most brutal. Performed in Dutch with English surtitles Photo: Jan Versweyveld
“A spare, raw, enormously affecting production”
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VISITORS Sydney Festival and Sydney Opera House present
A film by Godfrey Reggio, Philip Glass and Jon Kane Sydney Symphony Orchestra USA/AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
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“a bold, beautiful, uniquely moving cinematic experience” Steven Soderbergh
Concert Hall Sydney Opera House 23 & 24 January at 8pm 83mins no interval Premium $115 A Reserve $97/$87 B Reserve $79/$71 C Reserve $65/$59 D Reserve $55/$50 Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 Sydney Opera House 02 9250 7777 sydneyfestival.org.au/visitors
Thirty years after their groundbreaking Koyaanisqatsi (Qatsi Trilogy), director Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass have joined forces with filmmaker Jon Kane to create a cinematic time capsule for the 21st century. Like the Qatsi films before it, Visitors weaves an unforgettable spell through mind-altering imagery and hypnotic soundscapes. Reggio’s visual poetry and Glass’s haunting score combine in a wordless ode to modern life. Coming to Sydney after its premiere at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, conducted by Michael Riesman and performed by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, this landmark collaboration promises to be a truly captivating live experience. A live presentation in association with Columbia Artists Management LLC
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“If you cannot see, your sense of sound becomes richer” Amadou “Amadou & Mariam take the basic DNA of Western pop and soul and make it jump to irresistible African rhythms …”
It’s dark. Black as pitch. Your eyes are wide open but you see nothing. Sydney Town Hall is plunged into total darkness for an all-senses experience with Malian superstars Amadou & Mariam.
$72 General admission Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/eclipse
The Grammy Award-nominated duo met at the Bamako Institute for the Young Blind in the 70s and have been creating inspired blues-infused Afro-pop ever since. Eclipse serves as a testament to the pair’s long and much celebrated career, which has seen collaborations with the likes of Manu Chao, Santigold, Damon Albarn and Nick Zinner.
A braille program for this production will be available from the venue prior to each performance or can be posted to you on request. Please refer to p96 for contact details.
For their Sydney Festival performances the husband and wife team tell the story of their life and work together mixing in songs spanning their illustrious back catalogue.
The Age
SYDNEY TOWN HALL 9–11 January at 8.30pm 90mins no interval
Amadou & Mariam are performing as a duo at The Lennox. See p82.
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DANCE/MUSIC
“As long as we have people like Shaun Parker creating shows, there is no need to fear for the future of arts in Australia”
Photo: Michele Aboud; pictured: Josh Mu
The DAILY TELEGRAPH
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Drama Theatre Sydney Opera House 9–11 January at 8.15pm 11 January also at 4pm 12 January at 4pm Premium $72 A Reserve $62/$56 Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 Sydney Opera House 02 9250 7777 sydneyfestival.org.au/ami
Time, the near future. Place, where life begins. Seven individuals seek to re-establish a new civilisation, observing the frailties and mishaps of those that have gone before them. Religion meets science in this new world order as society fluctuates between conflict and harmony. An arresting music and dance collaboration, Am I investigates the quintessential meaning of “I”. Am I my tribe? Am I my genetic blueprint? Am I a random cosmological consequence? Choreographer Shaun Parker and composer Nick Wales have created a striking visual and theatrical world for Am I. World music and cult-like singing collide to create a compelling and gut-wrenching soundscape. Fourteen extraordinary musicians and dancers, including international guest artist Shantala Shivalingappa (Pina Bausch, Maurice Béjart and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui), will take to the Opera House stage in this stunning world premiere. p. 17
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MUSIC
HIVE+ 100 Million Nights TYONDAI BRAXTON
CANYONS & DANIEL BOYD
USA/AUSTRALIA
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duo Canyons collaborate with visual artist Daniel Boyd, whose work reinterprets Aboriginal and Australian-European history. The musicians’ original score is Former Battles frontman and an emotive response to Boyd’s solo artist Tyondai Braxton is artwork. This audio-visual the force behind HIVE, a live experience sees Canyons perform multimedia performance that is live as a four-piece while Boyd’s part installation, part band. Using three-panel video installation forms modular synthesisers, sound design the mesmerising setting. and percussion, Braxton performs new compositions alongside four musicians, all set atop architecturally designed and custom built illuminated platforms.
Concert Hall Sydney Opera House
21 January at 8pm 120mins including interval A Reserve $69/$62 B Reserve $59/$53 C Reserve $49/$44 Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 Sydney Opera House 02 9250 7777 sydneyfestival.org.au/hive
Photo: Emily Korn (left), Zoltan Blazer (right)
Two very special sight and sound works take you on an incandescent sensory journey at the Sydney Opera House.
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MUSIC
Sun Ra Arkestra USA
“from ragtime to swing, to hard bop and free jazz and beyond ...to outer space ” the age Open a door to the cosmos with one of the greatest big bands of all time. Performing under the direction of veteran saxophonist Marshall Allen, this 12-strong legendary jazz orchestra takes you on an intergalactic journey spanning the past, the present and the future. A true innovator, the late Sun Ra first led the Arkestra in the mid-50s, and continued to do
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so until his death in 1993. A prolific pianist, composer and bandleader, Sun Ra brought mythology to his music and is cited by a diverse range of artists as a major influence. With Allen now at the helm, Sun Ra Arkestra brings both deft musicianship and freeform experimentation to the State Theatre in an explosion of blistering energy.
State Theatre 18 January at 8pm 90mins no interval A Reserve $89/$80 B Reserve $79/$71 Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/sun
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MUSIC
BIG STAR’S THIRD USA/Australia
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“Big Star aren’t just rock’s greatest cult band; they were arguably rock’s first cult band” Pitchfork An all-star cast gather to perform one of the most iconic albums ever made, Big Star’s third album, Sister Lovers. Considered a cult classic, the record is adored by critics and artists alike, with The Replacements, Belle & Sebastian and The Flaming Lips all citing Big Star as an influence and R.E.M.’s Peter Buck describing the album as “a Rosetta Stone for a whole generation”. SF14_ big Star’S third.epS
Released in 1978, Sister Lovers was primarily the studio output of founding members Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens. Big Star’s imperfect masterpiece is performed with its original string and wind orchestrations by Stephens, Mike Mills (R.E.M.), Ken Stringfellow (The Posies), Mitch Easter (Let’s Active) and Chris Stamey (the dB’s). Joining them will be guest vocalists Skylar Gudasz, Brett Harris, Kurt Vile and more to be announced.
Enmore Theatre 23 January at 8pm 100mins no interval A Reserve $89/$80 B Reserve $79/$71 Enmore Theatre 02 9550 3666 sydneyfestival.org.au/big Please note: Big Star’s Third is available as part of Multipacks online only. p. 21
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MAGIC One year ago, four of the hottest young magicians of the moment met for the first time and the world’s first magic supergroup was born. Natural showmen, Justin Willman, Nate Staniforth, Justin Flom and Australia’s own James Galea are the faces of modern magic. Working together they have created an act loaded with outstanding illusions, dazzling deceptions and astounding artistry. Each member’s fierce sense of one-upmanship drives the whole Band of Magicians to new, increasingly impossible feats, creating magic that draws on their collective talents, far surpassing what one magician can accomplish alone. Keep your wits about you for this one. It’s awe-inspiring entertainment from the finest magic specialists around. A Soft Tread and James Galea production
Band of Magicians AUSTRALIA/USA
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Riverside Theatre Preview: 9 January Season: 10–19 January Tue–Sat at 7.30pm Sat & Sun at 2pm No performance on Monday 140mins including interval Premium $65 A Reserve $55/$50 Family ticket $180 (2 adults & 2 children) Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 Riverside Theatres 02 8839 3399 sydneyfestival.org.au/magicians
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Installation
Carriageworks in association with Sydney Festival presents
CHANCE | FRANCE | AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE
Photo: Christian Boltanski, Chance. Pavillon français, Biennale de Venise, 2011 Image © Didier Plowy. Coproduction Institut français / Centre national des arts plastiques
CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI
“Boltanski’s work is profoundly affecting” THE GUARDIAN
Christian Boltanski is acknowledged worldwide as one of the most influential artists of his generation. As the ‘poet advocate for the dispossessed’, Boltanski is known for his highly personal body of work exploring memory, loss, birth and death. Chance is Boltanski’s first major installation to be presented in Australia.
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Responding to the architecture and scale of Carriageworks, this immense and complex installation allows you to witness lives unfolding, following the rhythm of births and deaths across the globe. Boltanski invites you to explore the idea that all human life is the result of chance.
CARRIAGEWORKS 10 January–23 March 10am–6pm daily FREE sydneyfestival.org.au/chance
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Installation
Sydney Festival and Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority present
Merchants Store at Darling Harbour
Leandro Erlich
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“A feat of impossible architecture” Photo: Gar Powell–Evans. Courtesy Barbican Art Gallery
Huffington Post
Paris and London have marvelled at the perspective-skewing interactive art installations of Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich. Now, it’s Sydney’s turn. Merchants Store may look like an ordinary 19th-century Sydney building from afar, until you spot the people dangling from the
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windows, climbing up the walls and crawling over the roof. With a precisely positioned mirror and a building facade that’s actually a floor, suddenly anyone has the power to defy gravity. Hit the wall for the unmissable photo opportunity of the Festival.
DARLING HARBOUR 9–23 January 9am–9pm daily FREE sydneyfestival.org.au/store
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THEATRE
THE SHADOW KING MALTHOUSE THEATRE
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Co-Created by Tom E. Lewis & Michael Kantor Directed by Michael Kantor The greatest of all epics about nation, is finally an epic about our nation.
Bringing together the country’s finest creative talents including performers Tom E. Lewis (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith) and Jimi Bani (Mabo) this majestic and physical reworking of Shakespeare’s King Lear employs the timeless tragedy to speak to the history and current circumstances of 4_the Shadow king.epS Indigenous Australia.
The Shadow King cast also includes Jada Alberts, Selwyn Burns, Frances Djulibing, Rarriwuy Hick, Damion Hunter, Kamahi Djordon King, Natasha Wanganeen and Bart Willoughby. Working across cultures and generations, The Shadow King is unmissable theatre of a scale and significance to match the land upon which it is made.
Carriageworks Bay 17 23–26 January Thu–Sat at 8pm Sat also at 2pm Sun at 5pm 90mins no interval $62/$56 General admission Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/king
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“Our temples are built in the ground. Our castles are in the dirt. We ourselves are written in the stars” Tom E. Lewis
THEATRE
OTHELLO: THE REMIX
Chicago Shakespeare Theater & Richard Jordan Productions Ltd
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“Absolutely brilliant ... just as shakespeare helped shape english, rap has dramatically refashioned it” Chicago Sun-Times
Photo: Michael Brosilow
Written, Directed and Performed by GQ & JQ Developed with Rick Boynton Chicago hip-hop sensation Q Brothers take their inspiration from the original genius lyricist: Shakespeare. Together, the brothers create fiery, feisty musical ad-rap-tations of Shakespeare’s plays.
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industry, the adulation of fans and the heart of the beautiful singer Desdemona. But he’s also attracted the spite of hip-hop purist Iago, who has something more sinister planned for Othello than a rap battle. Innovative, intelligent and street smart, Othello: The Remix turns the volume up on Shakespeare’s rhymes and rhythms for a new generation to tune into.
York Theatre Seymour Centre 23–26 January Thu & Sat at 8pm Fri, Sat, Sun at 5pm Sun at 2pm 80mins no interval Suitable for 10+ $42/$38 General admission Family ticket $140 (2 adults & 2 children) Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 Seymour Centre 02 9351 7940 p. 27 sydneyfestival.org.au/othello 27
Welcome to Festival Village. In the beating heart of Hyde Park, the Village is an oasis of eats, beats and other treats. It’s the perfect place to kick back in the afternoon sun or kick on into the balmy summer nights.
FESTIVAL VILLAGE IN HYDE PARK
Expect a mix of free and ticketed events for all ages at all hours. Take your seat in The Spiegeltent, take a bounce on Sacrilege or take it easy with friends. Eat up, drink up, catch up, soak it up. Festival Village Hyde Park North Entry near the Archibald Fountain 8–26 January, closed Mondays Free entry. A great selection of food and beverages is available. Family perfomances from 10am. Licensed bars open from 5pm. All minors must be accompanied by a responsible adult. Buy a Multipack and save up to 15% Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/village SF14_the FeStiVal Village opening Spread.epS
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“An irresistible cocktail of circus skills, live music and sexy humour” Time out (UK)
The Spiegeltent Preview: 8 January at 7.30pm Season: 9–26 January Tue–Sun at 9:30pm Sat also at 5.15pm Closed Mondays 70mins no interval $79 VIP entry (15 minutes before show time) $65/$59 General admission Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/limbo
LIMBO is circus as you’ve never seen it: wild, wicked and out of this world. Hot on the heels of a sellout London season, this otherworldly party, staged somewhere between heaven and hell hits Sydney. LIMBO is dirty and dangerous circus-cabaret, whisking audiences into a sinister netherworld of jawdropping contortion, gut-churning aerial acrobatics, nail-biting stunts and staggering illusions. Set to Sxip Shirey’s thrilling live score of funked-up old-time jazz, oompah, rap and bossa nova, LIMBO is poised to set Sydney on fire.
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AMANDA PALMER USA
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“Rampages through glam rock, 1980s pop and Weimar cabaret” THE GUARDIAN
A pioneer of punk cabaret, as one half of The Dresden Dolls and in her own right, Palmer performs a special solo show exclusively for Sydney Festival.
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Fresh from a world tour supporting her critically acclaimed album, Theatre is Evil, this intimate Spiegeltent concert experience brings you face-toface with one of today’s most talked about music makers.
The Spiegeltent 9–19 January at 7.30pm Closed Mondays 60mins $55/$50 General admission Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/amanda Photo: Shervin Lainez
One of the music industry’s true mavericks, Amanda Palmer explodes onto The Spiegeltent stage this summer for 10 nights of music and mayhem.
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“Kooky, sexy, brilliant” The Scotsman
Grammy Award-winning NYC cabaret superstar Lady Rizo comes to Sydney for the first time after sellout seasons in Edinburgh and London. Combining vintage arrangements and theatrical pop songs from every decade with her own stirring anthems, her songbook travels from South Pacific to Judy Garland via the Pixies.
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Her signature mix of elegance, brazen banter and luscious vocals will tantalise, tease and have you rolling in the aisles.
The Spiegeltent 21–26 January at 7.30pm 60mins $49/$44 General admission Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/rizo
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LA CUCINA DELL’ARTE Circus Ronaldo
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“Disarming and hilarious comedy” The age
A big top tent turns into a glorious pizzeria in La Cucina dell’Arte, but the kitchen is in chaos. Frantically setting tables, flipping pizzas and
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juggling plates, the chef and head waiter put on a dazzling display of disorganisation for the whole family. With a tip of the chef’s hat to slapstick, vaudeville and commedia, La Cucina dell’Arte offers up a hearty serving of buffoonery all the while seducing you with the nostalgic romance of traditional circus.
Circus Ronaldo Tent Preview: 8 January at 8.15pm Season: 9–19 January at 8.15pm Closed Mondays 70mins no interval $40/$36 General admission Family ticket $140 (2 adults & 2 children) Suitable for 10+ Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/lacucina
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The sixth generation of a renowned Belgian circus family, Danny and David Ronaldo have charmed audiences all around the world with their masterful blend of circus and theatre.
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Scotch and Soda Company 2 and The Crusty Suitcase Band
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Photo: Sean Young
A whiskEy-soaked evening of raucous dance and dexterous feats. Combine the performers of Cantina with some of the stars of Smoke & Mirrors, La Clique, Circa and Tom Tom Crew and you’ve got yourself a rowdy mob of misfits. Throw in the gypsy-infused stylings of The Crusty Suitcase Band, with the driving beats of Ben Walsh, and things could start to get spectacularly messy.
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Some of Australia’s finest acrobats and music-makers butt heads to create Scotch and Soda, a whiskeysoaked evening of raucous dance and dexterous feats – where the band holds centre stage. Channelling the vibe of a rowdy whiskey joint, Scotch and Soda will rollick along late into the evening – naturally – in the Circus Ronaldo Tent.
Circus Ronaldo Tent 10–26 January at 10.30pm Closed Mondays 70mins no interval $55/$50 General admission Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/scotch
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Tom Thum Beating the Habit
Australia
“I am still trying to figure out how he got those sounds out of his mouth” The Daily Telegraph (UK)
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The star of Tom Tom Crew, Thum has performed at festivals across the globe and been dubbed a beatboxing virtuoso. This is a sonic journey for the whole family into the mind, and overworked vocal chords, of one of the most talented noisemakers in the world.
Circus Ronaldo Tent 21–26 January at 8pm Tue–Sun at 8pm Sat at 2pm & 8pm 60mins $42/$38 General admission $140 Family ticket (2 adults & 2 children) Suitable for 12+ Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/thum p. 36
Photo: Conan Whitehouse
Beatbox addict Tom Thum makes musical magic using only his mouth and a microphone. Packing an entire sound system into his throat, this prolific multivocalist creates mind-blowing soundscapes of impossible beats, phenomenal notes and a whole big band’s worth of instruments.
festival VILLAGE INSTALLATION
SACRILEGE Jeremy Deller
| UK | Australian PREMIERE
“Leap, stride and somersault… let the bounce-off commence” The Guardian (UK)
Photo: Mayor of London
Sacrilege is a timeless monument treated to an irreverent modern makeover. Having baffled historians for centuries, Stonehenge is reimagined as a life-size inflatable castle – with everyone invited to have a bounce. This new work by Turner Prizewinning artist Jeremy Deller has become a contemporary art feel-good hit.
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A cheeky, family friendly collision of history and art, Sacrilege is a chance for aspiring Druids of all ages to play with the past (just be sure to take your shoes off). Comissioned by Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art and The Mayor of London for the London 2012 Festival. Courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute, Glasgow.
hyde park north Preview: 8 January 5–9pm Season: 9–26 January, 9am–9pm Except Baby Bounce and Accessibility Sessions: 14 & 21 January, 9–10am (for more information please visit sydneyfestival.org.au/access) Closed Mondays FREE sydneyfestival.org.au/sacrilege p. 37
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jazzamatazz! BOXWARS | Australia
Led by insanely talented cabaret star Ali McGregor, this hour of jazzy beats and trashy pop classics will get your children singing, prancing, twisting and dancing. McGregor and her jazz trio are joined by two dancers who teach rock’n’roll, swing and jive moves. Parents, grandparents and friends can join in or sit back, relax and simply watch the little ones tire themselves out on the dance floor! With songs like ‘Who Let the Dogs Out?’ and ‘All the Single Ladies’, McGregor will get everyone shuffling to the be-bop beats and hep-cat treats.
“Filled with giggling, running and dancing” BROADWAY BABY (UK) The Spiegeltent 17–19 January at 11am & 1pm 50mins $20 General admission (kids under 2 free) Suitable for 2–10 year olds Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 SF14_Village kidS program: tbc / boxwarS.epS sydneyfestival.org.au/jazzamatazz
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boxwars Australia Boxwars brings its elaborate cardboard battalion to Festival Village. Get hands-on in workshops designed for kids of all ages. Join in at any time and stay as long as you want to decorate your own reclaimed cardboard hat. All you need to bring is your imagination and creative skills and you will leave with a fashion statement sure to turn heads in the street.
The only good war is a Boxwar! festival village 12–17 January 10am–2pm Closed Monday FREE Suitable for all ages sydneyfestival.org.au/box
Photo: Damian W. Vincenzi (left)
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Squaring the Wheel Jens Altheimer
| Australia
Jens Altheimer is a circus-theatre performer, puppeteer, magician, teacher and owner of a collection of ingenious thingummybobs. In Squaring the Wheel, a quirky character finds topsy-turvy ways to look at a pile of junk. With a little imagination, a frying pan turns into a friend, a broom plays music, an egg takes a walk, and even the most ordinary household items become extraordinary fun. Following the show, Altheimer leads an interactive workshop into the science behind his clever contraptions. With a simple message about thinking outside the box, Squaring the Wheel is the ultimate summer boredom buster.
Photos: David Wyatt (left)
“Simply has to be seen to be believed” ARTSHUB CIRCUS Ronaldo Tent 21 & 22 January at 12.30pm 23–25 January 10am & 12.30pm 60mins $20 General admission Free workshops after 10am shows Suitable for 5+ Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/wheel
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Kaput STRUT & FRET AND TOM FLANAGAN
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The clumsy Mr Fixit takes one step forward and two steps back in Kaput – a beautifully poignant and silent movie-esque debacle. Inspired by slapstick legends Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, this side-splitting hit comes to Sydney Festival after a critically-acclaimed season at Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Catch the charismatic, larger-than-life star of Circus Oz and Tom Tom Crew, Tom Flanagan, as the elegant buffoon, in a hilarious mix of chaos, comedy and acrobatics for the whole family.
“Choreographed mayhem was never this beautiful” THE LIST (UK) CIRCUS Ronaldo Tent 14–19 January at 5.30pm 60mins $20 General admission Suitable for 8+ Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/kaput p. 39
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BEN CAPLAN & THE CASUAL SMOKERS Bombino canada
Niger
Compared to Seasick Steve and Tom Waits, this blues-belting folk balladeer’s live performances have won him a serious fan base.
Electric guitar firebrand Omara ‘Bombino’ Moctar hails from Niger and plays with the spirit of Hendrix. The singer and songwriter, of the nomadic Tuareg Ifoghas tribe, is plugged in to the sound of the Sahara and driven by the politics of his people.
Rugged, raspy and full of onstage banter, Ben Caplan’s melodic fury is matched by his eloquent and powerful lyricism. Prepare for a rollicking, foot-stomping time.
“The natural gravel in his voice fits brilliantly with his authentic style” BRINGTHENOISE (UK)
The Spiegeltent 8 January at 5.15pm 75mins $38 General admission Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/caplan
His recent album Nomad, recorded with The Black Keys’s Dan Auerbach, was deemed “utterly fantastic” by the BBC World Service while Rolling Stone dubbed him “your new guitar hero”. For this electrifying Sydney debut, Bombino and band start a rhythm-led rebellion in The Spiegeltent with their bluesy desert jams.
“energetic and full-tilt” The Guardian
The Spiegeltent 9 & 10 January at 5.15pm 75mins $38 General admission Standing tickets only Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/bombino1
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Chris Ambrose Akinmusire Thile USA
USA
Young trumpeter-composer Ambrose Akinmusire and his quintet come to Australia for the first time. Signed to Blue Note Records, the prodigious Californian creates mind-blowing music that the New York Times has described as “limber, straightahead jazz with mystery and pop instincts”.
Chris Thile is a mandolin virtuoso, composer and vocalist. A member of inventive Brooklyn bluegrass band Punch Brothers, Thile was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (the ‘genius grant’). He also won a Grammy in 2013 for his work on The Goat Rodeo Sessions, collaborating with Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Stuart Duncan.
Photo: Emma Islek (left), Brantley Guiterrez (right)
After winning the 2007 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, Akinmusire continued to turn heads and topped end-of-year lists globally with the release of his 2011 album When the Heart Emerges Glistening. Meet the future of jazz.
“Believe the hype” The Evening Standard (UK)
The Spiegeltent 12 January at 5.30pm 75mins $48 General admission Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/ambrose2 Also playing at City Recital Hall. See p69.
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In this new program, Thile draws from his latest recording, Bach Sonatas & Partitas Vol. 1, while also exploring his own compositions and contemporary music.
“The most remarkable mandolinist in the world” The Independent
The Spiegeltent 14 & 15 January at 5.30pm 75mins $43 General admission Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/thile1 Also playing at The Lennox. See p82.
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Iceland
UK
Icelandic teenagers Samaris create music well beyond their years. Layering astral vocals and 19th-century Icelandic poetry on dreamy electronica and percussive beats, the three-piece produces an otherworldly sound that is at once ancient and modern. Haunting clarinet lines contribute to this unusual mix, ensuring the music created by this award-winning trio from Reykjavik is unlike much else you’ve heard before.
Hailed as a pop national treasure in the UK, one-time frontman of the post-punk band Orange Juice, and acclaimed solo artist, Edwyn Collins is responsible for some of the most distinctive and celebrated indie albums of the last 30 years. Collins’s extensive back catalogue is legendary, with Primal Scream, Belle & Sebastian and Franz Ferdinand among those toting him as highly influential.
“the xx and little dragon eloping to that magical forest out of lord of the rings” the line of best fit (UK)
The Spiegeltent 16 & 17 January at 5.30pm 60mins $38 General admission Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/samaris
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It’s been a hard road for Collins since his stroke in 2005, but his recent releases are a true testament to his prodigious talent and determination to write, record and perform. Join this statesman of indie music as he delivers northern soul-inspired pop with exuberance.
“One of the pillars of British indie rock” The Guardian The Spiegeltent 19 & 21 January at 5.30pm 75mins $48 General admission Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/edwyn1 Also playing at The Lennox. See p83.
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Photo: Fritz Berndsen & Fiona Cribben (left), Laurence Watson (right)
SAMARIS
EDWYN COLLINS
THE STAVES UK
USA
Crystal clear vocals, delicate guitar lines and golden harmonies glide as fast-rising British trio The Staves make their much-anticipated Australian debut with their bandmates on bass and drums.
Forward-looking four-piece Sinkane tap jazz, disco and rock to create space-age summer jams. An extension of the solo work of Ahmed Gallab, a multi-instrumentalist who paid his dues on the road with Yeasayer, Caribou and Of Montreal, Sinkane’s breezy sounds reflect Gallab’s diverse musical experience. Mining 70s funk, Sudanese pop and New York indie, this is global music with real soul.
Sisters Emily, Jessica, and Camilla StaveleyTaylor’s debut album Dead & Born & Grown received spectacular reviews in their native England. Expect them to draw on 70s folk, West Coast pop and Americana delivering a jawdropping sound completely their own.
Photo: Rebecca Miller (left), Phillip Di Fiore (right)
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The Spiegeltent 22 & 23 January at 5.30pm 60mins $43 General admission Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/staves1 Sutherland Entertainment Centre 24 January at 8pm
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“The kind of thing Pam Grier’s titular heroine would have relaxed to after a hard day manipulating Michael Keaton in Jackie Brown” The Guardian
The Spiegeltent 24 & 26 January at 5.30pm 65mins $43 General admission Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/sinkane
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C.R. Avery and The Sojourners
DOM FLEMONS
CANADA
USA
Harmonica-wielding beatbox poet C.R. Avery is joined by gospel greats The Sojourners to transport Sydney to a speakeasy of the future. Avery’s raw spoken word riffs and rock’n’roll energy mesh beautifully with heaven-sent harmonies of the award-winning Canadian trio to create an eclectic mix of blues, hip-hop and punk.
Folklorist Dom Flemons explores the roots of black string-band music by interpreting and reviving old-time blues and traditional songs. A member of Grammy Award-winning band Carolina Chocolate Drops, banjo enthusiast and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, harmonica, fife, bones, bass drum, snare drum and quills in addition to singing). Flemons performs with exuberance as he casts new light on songs of the past.
For this show, C.R. Avery and The Sojourners play separate sets as well as coming together for a collaborative performance.
“Audacious and astonishing HHHHH” London Time Out
Circus Ronaldo Tent 9 & 10 January at 5.45pm 60mins $32 General admission Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/avery
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“A true Virtuoso” Full-Time Blues Radio (USA)
Circus Ronaldo Tent 11 & 12 January at 5.45pm 60mins $32 General admission Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/dom
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USA
For this special midnight performance, Kurt Vile performs in solo mode. With a raft of revered albums to his name including the recent release Walkin on a Pretty Daze, Kurt Vile’s slow-burning sounds have seen him dubbed “sublime” by Pitchfork and “electrifying” by NME. Delivering a combination of fingerpicking folk, classic rock and layered psych with understated beauty and languid charm, Kurt Vile’s status as a slacker-rock hero is indisputable.
Visionary saxophonist Colin Stetson straddles the worlds of avant jazz and experimental noise. He has worked with the likes of Tom Waits, Arcade Fire, Lou Reed, Bon Iver and Laurie Anderson, but it’s the layered, polyphonic sound of his solo compositions that really pushes boundaries (his saxophone becoming multiple instruments in one). A master of circular breathing, his stunningly physical performances highlight immense technical skill and are as breathtaking to listen to as they are to perform.
“Vile’s songs split the difference between Neil Young’s country side and heavier Sabbath-style stoner metal” Rolling Stone Photo: Shawn Brackbill (left)
COLIN STETSON
Circus Ronaldo Tent 23 January at 11.59pm 60mins $32 General admission Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/vile2
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“music that lulls the brain into a sort of reverie” Pitchfork
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Hot Dub Time Machine
Donny BEnÉt & the Donny BEnÉt show band
AUSTRALIA
AUSTRALIA
Best. Party. Ever.
Mashing up music and video, Hot Dub captain DJ Tom Loud takes you on a journey through musical history, starting in 1954 and traversing the last 60 years. Bill Haley and Michael Jackson go head-to-head while Skrillex waits in the wings for the dancefloor to ‘power-up’.
The SPIEGELTENT 11, 18 & 25 January at 11.59pm
Party like it’s 1999. Again.
General admission $20 18+ Standing tickets only Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/time
Donny Benét is the new poster boy of Italo funk disco. Armed with a drum machine, a slick bass and a Moog synthesiser with a pitch bender that won’t stop, he delivers a sound that would make even legendary disco producer Giorgio Moroder feel like a proud godfather. Join Donny Benét & the Donny Benét Show Band in The Spiegletent. Hearts will be broken, dreams will be realised and Sydney will swelter when it feels the heat.
The SPIEGELTENT
10, 17 & 24 January at 11.30pm FREE 18+ Standing only
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Photo: Andrew Walker (left), Luke Stephenson (right)
Pack your hotpants and prep your spirit fingers – the world’s first time travelling dance party returns to Sydney Festival!
Photo: Davi Russo (left), Alexis Marrion (middle), Steve Gullick (right)
Lee Fields & The Expressions
Funki Porcini
Andrew Weatherall
USA
UK
UK
Lee Fields has been in the game for over 40 years. He delivers sweet soul, James Browninspired funk and hip-shaking R’n’B with an authenticity that only comes from being there from the start – having played with legends such as Kool & The Gang and O.V. Wright.
Master of downtempo beats and bedroom-eyed jazz, British musician and DJ James Braddell, aka Funki Porcini, takes you deep into the night with laidback breaks and cinematic soundscapes. The Ninja Tune veteran, who also dabbles in filmmaking, delivers abstract ambience with a dash of humour and a lot of class. This Laborintus II afterparty set taps into the world of Italian 60s B-movies that inspired Luciano Berio.
Andrew Weatherall is a man who knows music. The legendary British DJ, producer and remixer was pivotal in the creation of Primal Scream’s classic album Screamadelica, and has remixed everyone from New Order to Siouxsie Sioux. Always on the cutting edge as a true pioneer of the underground, Weatherall runs the gamut of modern electronic music in his sets, tapping hypnotic house, dark electro and even post punk.
The SPIEGELTENT
The SPIEGELTENT
16 January at 11.30pm
26 January at 11.30pm
Making fresh sound with exceptional players The Expressions, this is Fields at his best.
The SPIEGELTENT
9 January at 11.30pm $30
General admission
18+ Standing tickets only Sydney Festival 1300 856 876
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THEATRE
POST and Belvoir in association with Sydney Festival presents
OEDipus SchmOEdipus POST and BELVOIR
| AUSTRALIA | WORLD PREMIERE
Big laughs, great insight and an outrageous body count.
An inventive response to the mystery of life – not to mention a ruthlessly efficient night at the theatre – Oedipus Schmoedipus promises big laughs, great insight SF14_oedipuS and an SchmeoedipuS.epS outrageous body count.
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Zöe Coombs Marr and Mish Grigor are two-thirds of the leftfield performance trio, post, who have forever played with the line between the wise and ridiculous. Now they’re playing dead.
Belvoir Street Theatre Previews: 9 & 10 January at 8pm Season: 11 January–2 February Tue at 6.30pm Wed & Sat at 4pm & 8pm (except 11 January) Thu & Fri at 8pm Sun at 5pm $68/$48 Seniors Card holder $58 Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 Belvoir 02 9699 3444 sydneyfestival.org.au/oedipus
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Photo: Gary Heery
Imagine every death scene in the most celebrated plays of all time united in one show. Oedipus Schmoedipus is a mad medley of the greatest deaths ever brought to life on stage: by poison, dagger, asp or broken heart.
CIRCUS/THEATRE
OCKHAM’S RAZOR Ockham’s Razor
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“Each gesture, movement and attitude is placed with perfection” L’Echo
Photo: Nik Mackey
Ockham’s Razor, known for daring yet refined aerial acrobatics, brings three vividly theatrical works to Sydney Festival. Using tailor-made aerial equipment, the agile physical performers investigate themes of isolation, reliance and the way our actions impact on those around us.
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Circus meets storytelling in Arc, exploring the ties and tangles of human relationships on a life raft structure suspended in mid-air. A heart-stopping pas de deux takes flight in the gentle aerial ballet Memento Mori and an elevated set of scales plays out in Every Action, where each movement of four strangers affects the others.
York Theatre Seymour Centre 21, 22, 24 & 26 January at 8pm 23 & 25 January at 2pm 80mins including interval $42/$38 $140 Family ticket (2 adults & 2 children) Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 Seymour Centre 02 9351 7940 sydneyfestival.org.au/razor p. 49
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Seymour Centre in association with Sydney Festival presents
Chi UDAKA TaikOz and Lingalayam
| AUSTRALIA | WORLD PREMIERE
AN INSPIRATIONal FUSION of japanese drumming anD indian dance. (Chi – earth) and the flowing sensuality of dance (Udaka – water). At turns delicate and dramatic, it unites the taiko drums of TaikOz, the shakuhachi flute of Riley Lee, cello and classical Indian vocals with Lingalayam’s blend of Bharatha Natyam and Kuchipudi dance forms.
Inspired by the forces of nature, Chi Udaka is a meeting of the deep earthiness of taiko drumming
A dynamic, cross-cultural partnership, Chi Udaka has its world premiere at the Seymour Centre.
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York Theatre Seymour Centre 16–18 January at 7.30pm 60mins $44/$36 Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 Seymour Centre 02 9351 7940 sydneyfestival.org.au/chi
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Photo: Roy McAuley
The powerful drumming of TaikOz merges with the intricate classical Indian dance movements of Lingalayam. The vocabulary of both companies is steeped in history and tradition and they now come together with their respective Japanese and Indian practices to break new ground.
Theatre/Music
Sydney Festival and the university of sydney Confucius Institute present
Lao Qiang China
| AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE
Photo: Zhang Fuqiang
“If you didn’t know better, you might think you were hearing the hard-knock life story of a Mississippi Delta bluesman” NPR (US) From the dusty plains of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province comes the tradition of Lao Qiang or ‘old tunes’. Lauded as the ancient rock‘n’roll of the East, Lao Qiang is energetic folk music accompanied by feisty shadow puppetry. The Zhang Family Band performs this centuries-old form of storytelling with humour and energy, bringing to life tales of battle and adventure that have been an essential part of village life for more than SF14_zang Family band.epS a millennium.
Lao Qiang brings back the grandeur of the Western Han Dynasty and life on the Yellow River. Wooden benches become percussion instruments and horsehair flies off the string players’ bows in this family-friendly musical road trip through a lesser known part of mainland China.
Everest theatre Seymour Centre 22–24 January at 8pm 25 January at 2pm & 8pm 75mins no interval $42/$38 Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 Seymour Centre 02 9351 7940 sydneyfestival.org.au/lao
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The festival within the Festival, About an Hour is back for another long weekend of 60-minute-ish morsels. More than 35 performances will pop up at Carriageworks, giving maximum bang for your Festival buck. It lasts for an actionpacked four days, so don’t miss out.
ABOUT AN HOUR
Carriageworks 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh 16–19 January All tickets are $35 or less Multipacks available for all About an Hour shows, except The Redux Project.
Presented in association with Carriageworks
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PHYSICAL THEATRE
FORKLIFT KAGE
| AUSTRALIA | World Premiere
Photo: Prudence Upton (opposite). Justin Bernhaut (right)
contemporary choreography of body and machine Lyrical, intimate and dangerous, this breathtaking performance combines choreography, contortion and aerial acrobatics on, and around, a working 2.5 tonne forklift. It’s the graveyard shift in an industrial wasteland and three women find themselves willing to risk everything in their interplay with each other and a moving machine.
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Directed by Kate Denborough this world premiere matches the lightness of limbs with hard edges and heavy metal. Boasting KAGE’s trademark vigorous physicality, atmospherics and sense of play, Forklift is a display of the equipment of the human body at its most impressive.
Carriageworks Bay 17 16 January at 7pm 18 & 19 January at 2pm & 7.30pm 50mins Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/forklift
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ABOUT AN HOUR DANCE
Theatre
Sydney Festival and Carriageworks present
GUDIRR GUDIRR Marrugeku
| AUSTRALIA
Taking its name from the bird that calls when the tide is turning, Gudirr Gudirr is a solo dance piece and a warning cry to a people facing the complexity of cultural change. Marrugeku explores the contemporary experience of Aboriginal people in northwest Australia today. Gudirr Gudirr is conceived and performed by Dalisa Pigram, and directed by Koen Augustijnen, former lead artist with Belgium’s les ballets C de la B.
BULLET CATCH The Arches and Rob Drummond Australian Exclusive
| UK
A stunt so dangerous even Houdini refused to attempt it, the bullet catch has claimed the lives of many since its conception in 1613. In this acclaimed piece of theatre, writer, co-director and performer Rob Drummond plays William Wonder who, with the help of his audience, explores the life and death of a famed magician who died 100 years ago undertaking the trick onstage. Featuring storytelling, magic tricks, mind reading and levitation and – if you’re brave enough to stay for it – the most notorious finale in show business.
Carriageworks Bay 20 16 January at 7.30pm 17 January at 8.30pm 18 January at 1.30pm & 6.30pm 19 January at 6.30pm 60mins
Carriageworks Bay 20 17 January at 6pm 18 January at 4pm & 9pm 19 January at 1.30pm & 9pm 20 January at 7.30pm 75mins
Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/gudirr
Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/bullet
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Captioned performance 20 January at 7.30pm. Please refer to p96 for accessible booking information.
Photos: Heidrun Löhr (left), Niall Walker (right)
Pigram’s movements in Gudirr Gudirr unravel, unsettle and consume.
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OPERA
Theatre
HIS MUSIC BURNS
... PAS À PAS – NULLE PART ... (GYÖRGY KURTÁG) INTO THE LITTLE HILL (GEorge BENJAMIN) Sydney Chamber Opera Australian PREMIERE
| AUSTRALIA
Sydney Chamber Opera, a new force in Australian opera, is joined by Sydney Theatre Company resident director Sarah Giles to present a double bill of contemporary masterpieces.
Photo: Samuel Hodge (left), Mette van der Sijs (right)
György Kurtág’s musical meditation on a series of absurdist poems by Samuel Beckett, ... pas à pas – nulle part ..., transforms a single virtuosic performer into a whirlwind of energy. Renowned playwright Martin Crimp warps the Pied Piper legend into a dark political tragedy, as George Benjamin’s dangerously beautiful score for Into the Little Hill lures the audience into a maze of sound and story. Carriageworks Bay 17 17 January at 9.30pm 18 & 19 January at 11.30am 60mins Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/burns
CADAVRE EXQUIS |
KASSYs The Netherlands Australian Exclusive A theatre work like no other – Cadavre Exquis is a testament to the thrill of chance. For this innovative international collaboration, four theatre companies came together to create a Cadavre Exquis to be performed on stage. Each was tasked with making a 15-minute section that begins with the last image of the previous part. With each company only seeing 60 seconds of the piece before theirs, the work unfolds in delightfully unexpected ways. Kassys (The Netherlands) devised the first and final sections. The intervening parts were contributed by Nature Theater of Oklahoma (USA), Tim Crouch (UK) and Nicole Beutler (Germany/The Netherlands). Carriageworks Bay 17 17 January at 6.30pm 18 & 19 January at 4.30pm & 9.30pm 75mins Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/cadavre
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ABOUT AN HOUR Theatre
FILM
Performance Space in association with Sydney Festival presents
Tim Crouch
| UK
Acclaimed in London and New York for his one-man shows for all ages, Tim Crouch shoves Shakespeare’s minor characters into the spotlight to hilarious effect. Crouch re-imagines Twelfth Night through the eyes of Shakespeare’s most pent-up steward. I, Malvolio is a riotous rant from a man ‘notoriously wronged’. A story of lost dignity, prudery, practical jokes and bullying, this act of storytelling alchemy draws us deep into the madness of Shakespeare’s classic comedy. Those brave enough to encounter Malvolio at his most brash are invited to attend the special late night, adults only show on 18 January. Carriageworks Track 8 16 January at 7.30pm 17 January at 6pm & 9pm 18 January at 2pm & 10pm 19 January at 2pm & 8.30pm 60mins Suitable for 11+ (except 18 January at 10pm) Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/malvolio SF14_ i, malVolio / redux.epS
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Aussie Mega Redux
Richard DeDomenici
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Artist Richard DeDomenici’s cinematic forgeries have caused a stir all around the world. As part of his ongoing Redux project, DeDomenici collaborates with locals to recreate sections of popular films, shot for shot, with budget props, costumes and effects – which he edits to be screened for an audience. For Sydney Festival he plans to re-make scenes from The Matrix, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Muriel’s Wedding and Priscilla: Queen of the Desert. The screening will feature past Reduxes, behindthe-scenes footage and a showing of the Sydney counterfeit sequences alongside the originals. A spectacularly lo-fi celebration of cinema, The Redux Project is also – for those lucky enough to get involved – a singular way of participating in movie history. Carriageworks Track 8 18 January at 5pm & 7pm 19 January at 6pm 60mins $15 General admission Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/redux
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Theatre Sydney Festival in association with Carriageworks presents
THE PIPER My Darling Patricia
| Australia | World Premiere
My Darling Patricia’s immersive retelling of The Pied Piper of Hamelin is a unique theatrical journey for children and adults. Inspired by former Poet Laureate Ted Hughes’s stories for children, the Piper is a bear – a dancer with a rebel soul – and the Mayor is a political leader with an identity crisis. Yet, there is an even more unusual twist: one part of the audience is invited onto the stage and into the story. Fitted with wireless headphones, theirs is an intimate and participatory experience viewed by the seated audience.
Brought to life by a combination of multimedia, puppetry and innovative stagecraft, The Piper sees My Darling Patricia (Africa and Posts in the Paddock) focus its inspired storytelling on a younger audience. Get in quick to be part of the onstage action. Limited tickets available to each show.
Photo: Joshua Morris
Carriageworks Bay 20 Preview: 8 January at 2pm Season: 9–19 January at 11am 11 & 16 January also at 2.30pm 19 January also at 4pm No performances 13 & 17 January 60mins Onstage $55 (includes 1 adult and 1 child) Seated general admission: Adult $35/Child $20 Suitable for 5+ Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/piper
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FUNPARK
Installation
THE VERY NEAR FUTURE | AUSTRALIA
KAREN THERESE AND THE COMMUNITY OF BIDWILL AUSTRALIA
Alex Davies
The amusement parks that once graced Mount Druitt are long gone. But, in collaboration with local residents, some of our boldest performance makers are welcoming back the crowds for a different kind of ride.
Sydney-based artist Alex Davies makes the kind of projects that not only mess with your mind but with reality itself. His newest work is an interactive cinema experience and the closest you’ll get to time travelling.
Developed with local communities, Funpark merges fantastical dream worlds with contemporary experiences. Walking through the disused Bidwill Shopping Plaza you might stumble into an interactive arcade cinema, a political rock opera or a spontaneous hula-hooping session. Or have an intimate chat over tea with a local.
Step into The Very Near Future and you’ll find yourself in the backlot with the cast and crew of a film noir in the making. But a rift in time resets events on the set, and history – very recent history – begins to repeat itself. It’s deja vu you’ll want to experience again and again and again.
The serious-minded fun of Funpark is – just a bus or train trip away – on for one Festival weekend only.
“A standout piece” The Guardian (UK)
Bidwill Shopping plaza Carlisle Avenue, Bidwill (opposite Lindley Square) 18 & 19 January from 6pm
Artspace 16 January–16 February 11am–5pm Closed Mondays & 26 January
FREE Capacity is limited, please register online. Shuttle bus operating to and from Mt Druitt Train Station. From 6pm till 10pm. sydneyfestival.org.au/funpark
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THEATRE
Samuel Beckett
ALL THAT FALL Pan Pan Theatre
| Ireland
“In the realm of pure imagination” The New York Times
Photo: Ros Kavanagh
Following a sellout run at Edinburgh International Festival, Pan Pan Theatre returns to Sydney Festival with its unconventional listening party featuring Samuel Beckett’s first radio play. Pan Pan’s All That Fall is unusual communal storytelling. Seated in a transformed space in one of 60 rocking chairs bathed in light, you are surrounded by the voices, and the story, of an aging Irishwoman and her townspeople. You meet Maddy Rooney – unsightly,
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ungainly and unwell – laboriously to-ing and fro-ing between her home and Boghill Station. Performed in Pan Pan’s atmospheric, theatrically tuned listening chamber, this multilayered composition of voices is simultaneously a black comedy, a murder mystery, a cryptic literary riddle and a quasimusical score.
Everest Theatre Seymour Centre 13, 14 & 16–19 January at 12pm, 2pm, 5pm, 7pm & 9pm 70mins no interval Latecomers will not be admitted $49/$44 General admission Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 Seymour Centre 02 9351 7940 sydneyfestival.org.au/fall
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Griffin Theatre Company and performance 4A in partnership with Carriageworks and Sydney Festival PRESENT
THE SERPENT’s TABLE Australia
| WORLD PREMIERE
taste the Delicacies of the serpent’s table and the stories they inspire.
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Featuring some of Australia’s most inventive artists and cooks such as Pauline Nguyen (Secrets of the Red Lantern) and Adam Liaw (MasterChef, Destination Flavour), The Serpent’s Table is a communal celebration of the cultural and culinary richness of Sydney.
Carriageworks Bay 20 24–27 January Fri at 4pm & 7pm Sat–Mon at 1pm, 4pm & 7pm 90mins no interval
Photo: Brett Boardman Photography
Combining storytelling, installation and great food, five remarkable Asian-Australians share dishes of special significance to their lives, and reveal the moving, humorous and provocative stories behind them. You’ll savour their dishes and the experiences that inspired them.
$70 General admission Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/table
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Classical Music
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin GERMANY
| Australian Exclusive
“Every member is prepared to live the music to the full, and the result is a joy from start to finish” Gramophone
Photo: Kristof Fischer
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin is regarded as one of the world’s leading period ensembles. Performing more than 100 concerts a year, the group is constantly in demand across Europe and the Americas. In this special program, the core members of the ensemble, led by concert master Georg Kallweit,
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present a feast of much-loved Baroque masterpieces, including Bach, Telemann and the sumptuous overture to Vivaldi’s Il Giustino. Experience the virtuosity of Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin in this night of sublime Baroque music.
City Recital Hall Angel Place 18 January at 8pm 100mins including interval A Reserve $72/$65 B Reserve $62/$56 C Reserve $52/$47 Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 City Recital Hall 02 8256 2222 sydneyfestival.org.au/akademie
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The Hilliard Ensemble UK
Now in its 40th year, the Ensemble performs its final two Australian concerts at Sydney Festival. Join them for a landmark musical occasion. In the Great Hall, the Ensemble sings A Hilliard Songbook, a program of its best-loved works, encompassing the sacred and the secular – from early medieval polyphony to modern-day minimalism – as well as the world premiere of Three Japanese Songs by Toshio Hosakawa.
Consort Eclectus, the Melbournebased Renaissance music specialists. The program includes new works written specially for the Ensemble by composers Gavin Bryars and Nico Muhly.
A Hilliard Songbook The Great Hall The University of Sydney 15 & 16 January at 7.30pm 100mins including interval
A Reserve $72/$65 B Reserve $62/$56 C Reserve $52/$47 Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 City Recital Hall 02 8256 2222 sydneyfestival.org.au/hilliard2
$72/$65 General admission Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/hilliard1
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The Hilliard Ensemble and Consort Eclectus City Recital Hall Angel Place 17 January at 8pm 90mins including interval
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One of the world’s most distinguished vocal chamber groups, the Hilliard Ensemble is virtually unrivalled for its acapella performances of old and new music.
| Australian Exclusive
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Hurricane Transcriptions / Laborintus II Lee Ranaldo | Mike Patton | Ensemble Offspring XL THE SONG COMPANY | conducted by Roland Peelman USA/Australia
| Australian Exclusive
Photo: Cara Stricker (right)
TWO GENRE-DEFYING ARTISTS COME TOGETHER FOR A PHENOMENAL EVENING OF ELECTRIFYING SOUND. Sonic Youth co-founder and revered Man of many guises and patron of the bizarre, Mike Patton tackles guitarist Lee Ranaldo presents Luciano Berio’s 1965 composition the Australian premiere of his new Laborintus II, a montage of work Hurricane Transcriptions (Last spoken word, instrumentation and Night on Earth), a piece composed electronics. Written to commemorate in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the 700th anniversary of the birth which blew through New York of Italian poet Dante Alighieri, this in 2012. Sydney’s acclaimed uncompromising piece incorporates classical innovators Ensemble avant garde jazz, eerie arrangements Offspring grow to 15-strong to join and chaotic noise. Patton, last at Ranaldo, delivering an atmospheric soundtrack to the storm as it batters Sydney Festival with Mondo Cane, is joined by Ensemble Offspring and the city with howling winds and The Song Companyii.epS to present this torrential rain. SF14_hurricane tranScriptionS / laborintuS remarkable work.
City Recital Hall Angel Place 16 January at 8pm 100mins with interval A Reserve $89 B Reserve $79 C Reserve $69 Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 City Recital Hall 02 8256 2222 sydneyfestival.org.au/hurricane
Hurricane Transcriptions was commissioned by Sydney Festival, Holland Festival and Stargaze.
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Apollo Ensemble The Netherlands
RARE TREASURES FROM THE JEWISH BAROQUE REPERTORY PLAYED LIVE IN THE PERFECT SETTING OF THE GREAT SYNAGOGUE. Under the direction of David Rabinovich, and accompanied by Norwegian soprano Siri Karoline Thornhill and Dutch countertenor Maarten Engeltjes, the Ensemble performs music originally composed for Jewish liturgical services, as well as chamber music by Jewish and Christian composers.
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The Great Synagogue 14 & 15 January at 8pm 90mins no interval Premium $72 Downstairs $59 Upstairs (sight restricted) $49 Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/apollo
Please refer to p96 for accessible booking information.
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One of Sydney’s most beautiful heritage buildings, The Great Synagogue, will play host to The Netherlands’ Apollo Ensemble. A new voice in period music making, Apollo Ensemble is revered for its presentations of Jewish Baroque music. For this performance, the Ensemble brings rare treasures from the Ets-Chaim Library in Amsterdam, home to a collection of Jewish music spanning centuries.
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OPERA AUSTRALIA IN ASSOCIATION with Sydney Festival presents
The Turk in Italy Opera Australia
| Australia
IT’S A WILD LARK OF AN OPERA SHOWING ROSSINI AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS POWERS. Conducted by Andrea Molino Directed by Simon Phillips
Photo: Georges Antoni
Take two long lost lovers – a gypsy and a prince. Add a quarrelling couple – a free spirit and a fool. Add another secret lover – just for good measure. Mix them with a masquerade ball, a dash of the sea shore, some bikinis, mistaken identities, Naples, Turkey, dancing, deceit and delightful confusion, all splashed with charming operatic SF14_the turk in italy.epS music and you’ve got the recipe for a side-splitting romp with Rossini.
The Turk in Italy is Rossini’s sequel to his smash hit The Italian Girl in Algiers. Set to a lively score, it’s a wild lark of an opera showing Rossini, the maestro of mischief, at the height of his powers. Funny, foolish and as delightful as a seaside cocktail, The Turk in Italy is a treat for anyone who fancies a little hilarity with their opera.
Joan Sutherland Theatre Sydney Opera House 22 & 25 January at 7.30pm 2hrs 30mins including interval Premium $266–$315 A Reserve $203–$245 B Reserve $149–$175 C Reserve $99–$120 D Reserve $69–$75 Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 Opera Australia 02 9318 8200 sydneyfestival.org.au/turk p. 65
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Festival in The Domain Bring a picnic and your friends to The Domain and enjoy the sweet sounds of our annual outdoor concert series. And it’s free and fun for all the family.
ACCESS For guidelines and access refer to page 96.
The Domain FREE
BRING sunscreen, water and a hat.
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NO NEED TO BYO! Food and drinks will be available from early afternoon.
LEAVE THE CAR AT HOME For detailed public transport information visit 131500.com or call 131 500. RIDE YOUR BIKE Bike racks will be available at The Domain.
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SUMMER SOUNDS IN THE DOMAIN chaka khan Queen of Funk-Soul Chaka Khan lights up The Domain with her powerful voice and charismatic presence. Revel in a summer night full of hits including her anthem “I’m Every Woman” and the irresistible “I Feel for You.” With an incomparable style blending funk, jazz, rock and soul, this ten time Grammy Award winner has never sounded better. 11 January at 8pm sydneyfestival.org.au/summer
SYMPHONY IN THE DOMAIN
Sydney Symphony Orchestra & Bell shakespeare Conducted by Simone Young It wouldn’t be summer in Sydney without Symphony in The Domain. Bring a hamper, a blanket and your friends and settle in for a free concert under the stars. This year, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performs Gustav Holst’s stunning orchestral suite The Planets, an astrological journey through the solar system that takes audiences from fiery Mars to lonesome Neptune. (Sorry Pluto.) The interstellar entertainment will be interspersed with readings by Bell Shakespeare’s John Bell and capped off with one of the finest fireworks displays in the galaxy.
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Best of all, Symphony in The Domain is free. All you need is to find a patch of grass and enjoy. Space travel doesn’t get easier than that.
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MATMOS USA
An evening of boundary-pushing sonic invention.
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Their latest release The Marriage of True Minds, based on experiments in telepathy, is an art object, a scientific report, a practical joke and a daring pop record. Performing with joy and humour, Matmos bring their live sonic experimentation to Sydney for the first time.
City Recital Hall Angel Place 15 January at 8pm 90mins no interval A Reserve $55/$50 B Reserve $45/$40 C Reserve $35/$30 Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 City Recital Hall 02 8256 2222 sydneyfestival.org.au/matmos
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Avant-garde electronic duo Matmos experiment with noise to push the boundaries of pop music. Mining non-conventional sound sources and exploring bold ideas, Baltimore-based Drew Daniel and MC Schmidt have been producing music together since the mid-90s, delivering nine albums to date.
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AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE QUINTET USA
“The brightest beacon on the trumpet, the sharpest in a few decades” Billboard
Photo: Emra Islek
Young trumpeter-composer Ambrose Akinmusire is one of the most exciting jazz musicians in the world. Signed to Blue Note Records, the prodigious Californian creates mind-blowing music that the New York Times has described as “limber, straight-ahead jazz with mystery and pop instincts”.
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After winning the 2007 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, Akinmusire continued to turn heads and topped end-ofyear lists globally with the release of his 2011 album When the Heart Emerges Glistening. Akinmusire and his talented quintet bring their visionary, modern sounds to Sydney, so you can meet the future of jazz.
City Recital Hall Angel Place 11 January at 7.30pm 75mins no interval A Reserve $59/$53 B Reserve $49/$44 C Reserve $39/$35 Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 City Recital Hall 02 8256 2222 sydneyfestival.org.au/ambrose1 p. 69
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SO FRENCHY SO CHIC IN THE PARK
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“A Perfect day of music in the sunshine” Beat Charismatic duo Lilly Wood & the Prick weaves golden era melodies around the powerful blues vocals of singer Nili Hadida.
Folk-pop chanteuse and daughter of Jane Birkin, Lou Doillon recently won Best Female Artist at the French Grammys and delivers SF14_So Frenchy.epS heartfelt songs from her debut album Places.
Hailing from Lyon, 10-piece ska, reggae and rock band Babylon Circus are fellow Festival alumni, mixing punk and swing to have you up on your feet dancing the day away.
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The effervescent Féfé fuses hiphop, blues, acoustic rock and soul, and returns to Sydney Festival after exciting audiences in 2012.
St John’s College The University of Sydney 10 missenden road camperdown 18 January, noon–9pm $86 General admission Free for children under 12 Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/frenchy
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Summer gets stylish as So Frenchy So Chic takes over the park in St John’s College for a day of fine music, food and wine. This family friendly boutique party celebrates the red, white and blue with authentic French fare and sophisticated sounds.
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SPIRIT OF AKASHA Australia/USA
| World premiere
A live music and film experience celebrating the spirit of surf culture.
Photo: Andrew Kidman
The magic of the ocean is channelled through music and film in a celebration of classic surf movie Morning of the Earth. Albert Falzon’s 1972 work forever changed the way we think about surfing, offering the possibility to escape everyday life to fulfil a dream. This passion still prevails today, and is captured in a new surf film, Spirit of Akasha, featuring surfers Stephanie Gilmore, Beau Young, Mick Fanning, Kelly Slater and Tom SF14_Spirit oF akaSha.epS sydney opera house
Curren and with compositions from musicians including Grouplove, Ben Howard, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and The Windy Hills forming the original score.
Concert Hall Sydney Opera House 25 January at 7pm 2hrs 30mins including interval
Coming to life in the Sydney Opera House with some of the musicians who contributed to its original soundtrack, this live film and music experience pays homage to the enduring spirit of surf culture.
A Reserve $79/$71 B Reserve $69/$62 C Reserve $59/$53 D Reserve $49/$44 Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 Sydney Opera House 02 9250 7777 sydneyfestival.org.au/spirit
Artists will be announced closer to the show.
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Sydney Town Hall lets its hair down again as it transforms into everyone’s favourite Festival music destination. Taking the name and spirit of the legendary Amsterdam rock venue, Paradiso at Town Hall returns to the heart of the city for eight hot nights of music. SYDNEY TOWN HALL 483 George Street, Sydney (entry via Druitt Street) 16–25 January Closed Monday & Tuesday PARADISO AT TOWN HALL Doors open for all ticketed shows at 8pm. Check the Sydney Festival website for performance times. Standing tickets only Buy a Multipack and save up to 15%. FREE entry after 11.30pm (10.30pm on Sundays) 18+ venue Bar snacks available
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PARADISO TERRACE BAR Doors open 5.30pm FREE entry Light hot meals available Open ‘til late Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/paradiso SF14_paradiSo at th opening page.epS
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JOHN GRANT + JOHN MURRY
ROLAND TINGS, wordlife & SOFTWAR
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It takes a masterful songwriter to tell heartwrenching tales with a sense of humour, and John Grant does just that. His strong baritone bleeds frank, confessional lyrics with generous honesty and musical eloquence. Formerly of Colorado’s The Czars, Grant has emerged from a difficult past to deliver two astounding solo albums, including his acclaimed Pale Green Ghosts.
Iconic Australian label Modular takes over Paradiso, assembling an eclectic line-up of international and home-grown talent.
Joining Grant on the bill is Southern troubadour John Murry, who journeys from heartbreak to salvation via arresting Americana. Photos: Jamie Williams (opposite), Hördur Sveinsson (left)
MODULAR: JUAN ATKINS, MOVEMENT,
“Genuinely remarkable … warm, funny and wise” The Guardian
16 January Doors open at 8pm $46 General admission sydneyfestival.org.au/john
Legendary Detroit techno pioneer Juan Atkins headlines the night, with local rising stars Movement on hand to deliver seductive nocturnal beats live alongside acid house lab-rat Roland Tings, house and techno futurist duo wordlife and emerging DJ/production team Softwar.
“Modular Records is an epicentre of cool” Resident Advisor
17 January Doors open at 8pm $36 General admission sydneyfestival.org.au/modular
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This 12-piece band from Argentina have turned tango on its head in their hometown of Buenos Aires and around the world. Although comprised of a typical formation of four bandoneons, three violins, a viola, a violoncello, a double bass, a piano and a singer, La Orquesta Tipica Fernandez Fierro draw on their youth and flamboyance to bring new intensity and fire to traditional acoustic tango.
Multi-instrumentalist and long-time Nick Cave collaborator Mick Harvey pays tribute to Serge Gainsbourg with a special presentation of the enigmatic French provocateur’s work.
Presented in association with Frank Madrid Arts Consulting.
“The most rockin’ Tango orchestra in Buenos Aires” the argentina independent
18 January Doors open at 8pm $56 General admission sydneyfestival.org.au/fierro1 Also playing at The Lennox. See p83.
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Lending his resonant Australian tongue to the Gallic classics, former Bad Seed Harvey revisits his mid-90s solo albums Intoxicated Man and Pink Elephants (his interpretations of Gainsbourg’s songs). Last seen at Sydney Festival in 2012 with regular musical conspirator, PJ Harvey, Mick Harvey now takes centre stage at Paradiso, joined by a six-piece band, a string section and guest singers.
“Harvey sings sweetly and huskily of oblivion, pining for the hereafter, like it’s the girl that got away” PITCHFORK 19 January Doors open at 8pm $36 General admission sydneyfestival.org.au/harvey
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Photo: Gerardo Lazzari (left), Alexander Hallag (right)
Orquesta Tipica Fernandez Fierro
Kurt Vile & The Violators
with DJ Romes
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Georgia Anne Muldrow and Dudley Perkins are not your ordinary husband and wife duo. Having worked with an array of artists including Mos Def, Erykah Badu and Madlib, the dynamic pair mix funk, soul, hip-hop and psychedelic rock to create delicious sounds.
Introspective slacker hero Kurt Vile writes warm and expansive songs, dipping from mellow rambles and rising to sky-scraping anthems – eager to rock out and equally unafraid to sing low and sweet. Piecing together a motley combination of fingerpicking folk, classic rock and layered psych, the Philadelphia native delivers slow-burning sounds that have seen him called “sublime” by Pitchfork and “electrifying” by NME. With a raft of revered albums to his name including recent release Walkin on a Pretty Daze, Vile brings understated beauty and languid charm to Paradiso, backed by his band The Violators.
“Gorgeous, seductive songs” Photo: Shawn Brackbill (left)
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22 January Doors open at 8pm
With boundless optimism and infectious energy, Georgia Anne Muldrow and Dudley Perkins are joined by Californian hip-hop legend DJ Romes.
“She’s like Flack, Nina Simone, Ella, she’s something else.” Mos Def on Georgia Anne Muldrow
23 January Doors open at 8pm $36 General admission sydneyfestival.org.au/gd
$56 General admission sydneyfestival.org.au/vile1
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FUTURE CLASSIC:
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Future Classic are calling in two international house heavyweights to keep the Paradiso dance floor heaving. On the New York tip we have DJ/producer/ label head extraordinaire Jacques Renault, who’ll be bringing the raw house and disco treats from the Big Apple, while up and coming UK house maestro Medlar goes a little deeper with a banging summer set. Rounding out the bill are two of the Sydney label’s local rising stars Touch Sensitive and Wave Racer not to mention the Future Classic DJs themselves. This line-up is sure to keep you dancing into the wee hours of the morning.
The blazing death jazz sounds of Japan’s Soil & Pimp Sessions explode onto the Paradiso stage this summer with the band’s feverish piano and percussion supplying the backbeat for the funkiest ensemble horn-play you’ll hear this side of Tokyo.
“Medlar effortlessly maintains his quirky, idiosyncratic style, conjuring the energy of Chicago house.” DJ Magazine
This six-piece has become a favourite on the festival circuit having made its international breakthrough on Gilles Peterson’s BBC Radio 1 show WorldWide. Now Soil & Pimp Sessions makes its Australian debut. Renowned for dynamic onstage energy, Soil & Pimp has developed a reputation for frenetic live performances where audience interaction is high on the agenda.
“Unbridled excitement at every turn.” BBC
24 January Doors open at 8pm
25 January Doors open at 8pm
$46 General admission sydneyfestival.org.au/future
$46 General admission sydneyfestival.org.au/soil
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Photo: Makato Okuguchi (right), Prudence Upton (opposite)
JACQUES RENAULT, MEDLAR, TOUCH SENSITIVE & WAVE RACER
PARADISO LATES We know you’ll want to make your summer nights last. That’s why the Festival is offering all the after-hours entertainment you could ever need with Paradiso Lates. Hit the dance floor with our late night line-up of bands and DJs or kick on outside with your fellow Festival night owls in the Paradiso Terrace Bar. With some of the Festival’s best performers donning alternative hats to show their other sides and local talent stepping up to deliver the goods, you never know who you might see on stage or in the crowd after dark at Sydney Town Hall.
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Line-up includes: 16 January at 11.30pm The Soft Pink Truth 19 January at 10.30pm Andy Votel 22 January at 11.30pm Tyondai Braxton + more to be announced. Visit sydneyfestival.org.au/paradisolates for up-to-date information. 16–18, 22–25 January at 11.30pm 19 January at 10.30pm FREE sydneyfestival.org.au/paradisolates
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Our Parramatta season kicks off in fine style on Friday 10 January with the Parra Opening Party – a joyful, openair street celebration happening all around Riverside Theatres. Then we bring you 10 days of spell-binding music, eye-popping magic and epic art installations that will keep you and the family entertained this January.
SYDneY FESTIVAL PARRAMATTA
PARRAMATTA 10–19 January Buy a Multipack and save up to 15%. sydneyfestival.org.au/parramatta
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POP 2014 Photo: Jamie Williams (opposite), Prudence Upton
Imagine a perfect summer night filled with music, street theatre and amazing food. This is POP 2014. Bring the whole family and catch some of the Festival’s hottest acts for free. Make way for a uniquely Australian street parade from Boxwars as 30 locals show off and then smash up their elaborate Mad Max-inspired cardboard creations. As remnants of the cardboard battle are rushed off for recycling, swing past Riverside Theatres for
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a glimpse of Parra’s newest music club, The Lennox. Californian jazz trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire will christen the Festival club, while back on the streets you can catch the soul sounds of Bella Kalolo, and the blues-infused folk of Ben Caplan and The Casual Smokers. As the sun sets, Prince Alfred Park becomes the beating heart of POP with soul/funk sensation Lee Fields & The Expressions taking centre stage and keeping the party going ’til late.
PARRA OPENING PARTY Parramatta City Streets and Parks Friday 10 January, 6–11pm FREE Family friendly and suitable for all ages. No BYO alcohol, no glass. Food and beverages on sale throughout the event at Eat Street on Church. Leave the car at home. For detailed public transport information visit 131500.com.au or call 131 500. All areas are wheelchair accessible. p. 73
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Sydney Festival in association with Information and Cultural Exchange presents
The Calling A Sonic Tour of the Sacred and Suburb
Information and Cultural Exchange AUSTRALIA World Premiere
Florentijn Hofman
Hop aboard an inter-faith minibus tour (with a sonic and visual dreamscape) that explores religious architecture, sacred music and worship in Western Sydney. Starting at sunrise with the Adhan (Islamic Call to Prayer), you will be sonically and physically immersed in the built and aural architecture of selected mosques, churches and temples in Auburn, Granville and Parramatta.
The Duck is back.
Information and Cultural Exchange 11 & 12 January at 5.30am 18 & 19 January at 5.30am 5 hours Tours are $49 and include a traditional Lebanese breakfast. Sydney Festival 1300 856 876 sydneyfestival.org.au/calling For more information: info@ice.org.au 02 9897 5744 Tours are wheelchair accessible on request. Please advise accessibility requirements when booking. Refer to p96 for accessible booking information.
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As soon as the five-storey high, yellow Rubber Duck floated into Cockle Bay last year, it became something of a celebrity. The work of internationally-acclaimed artist Florentijn Hofman astonished onlookers and gave them a new perspective on Darling Harbour. Back to play in our corner of the bathtub, we’ve invited the Duck to make a splash at duck-feeding HQ in Parramatta. Parramatta River in Parramatta Park Between Pavilion Flat & Government Farm 10–19 January FREE sydneyfestival.org.au/duck
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Kaldor Public Art Projects in association with Sydney Festival Presents
Project 28: Roman Ondák Photo: Roman Ondák, Measuring the Universe, 2007, Installation at the Museum of Modern Art, Courtesy of the artist and The Museum of Modern Art
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Hard on the heels of the extraordinary 13 Rooms project, Kaldor Public Art Projects presents a trio of performative works by Roman Ondák, one of the most important artists of our time. The historic Parramatta Town Hall hosts Swap (2011), the riveting interactive chain of barter and exchange that delighted 13 Rooms audiences and Measuring the Universe (2007), previously presented to great acclaim at MOMA, New York, and TATE St Ives, Britain. A brand new work, Terrace will be created especially for Parramatta. The internationally celebrated Slovakian artist merges art with experiences of everyday life, challenging our perceptions with his poetic ideas and often humorous interventions. Ondák’s work relies on public participation in the discreet dislocation of objects, ideas and actions from their usual settings. Make your mark at Project 28!
Parramatta Town Hall
10 January, 10am–10pm 11–24 January, 10am–6pm FREE sydneyfestival.org/project28
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This project is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body
PARRAMATTA the lennox music
BOMBINO
AMADOU & MARIAM
CHRIS THILE
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MALI
USA
Hailing from Niger, electric guitar firebrand Omara ‘Bombino’ Moctar plays with the spirit of Hendrix. Of the nomadic Tuareg Ifoghas tribe, he is plugged in to the sound of the Sahara and driven by the politics of his people. Dubbed “your new guitar hero” by Rolling Stone, Bombino brings a bluesy desert jam to The Lennox.
This Grammy Award-nominated pair met at the Bamako Institute for the Young Blind in the 70s and have been creating inspired bluesinfused Afro-pop ever since. Their long and much celebrated career has seen them circle the globe, sharing their euphoric sound, and collaborating with Manu Chao, Santigold and Damon Albarn. In this special Festival performance Amadou & Mariam perform as a duo.
Chris Thile, of Punch Brothers, is a mandolin virtuoso, composer and vocalist.
12 January at 5pm sydneyfestival.org.au/amadou
THE Lennox – riverside Theatres 70mins 876 $25 General admission Riverside Theatres 02 8839 3399 Sydney Festival 1300 856 SF14_riVerSide muSic program: bombino / amadou & mariam / chriS thile.epS
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16 January at 7pm sydneyfestival.org.au/thile2
Photo: Benoit Peverelli (middle), Brantley Guiterrez (right)
11 January at 7pm sydneyfestival.org.au/bombino2
In The Lennox, Thile draws from his latest recording, Bach Sonatas & Paritas Vol. 1, while also exploring his own compositions and contemporary music.
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JOHN MURRY
EDWYN COLLINS
ORQUESTA TIPICA FERNANDEZ FIERRO
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A true craftsman of lyrical storytelling, Southern troubadour John Murry writes beautiful and bittersweet songs that pick over the embers of his life. As he journeys from heartbreak to salvation, via arresting Americana, his stories captivate with every word.
One-time frontman of the postpunk band Orange Juice, and acclaimed solo artist, Edwyn Collins is responsible for some of the most distinctive and celebrated indie albums of the last 30 years. Hailed as a pop national treasure in the UK, his back catalogue is legendary. For an evening of exuberant northern soul-inspired pop, join this statesman of indie music in The Lennox.
Responsible for blasting traditional acoustic tango into the 21st century, La Orquesta Tipica Fernandez Fierro’s high-energy performances have turned tango on its head in Buenos Aires and around the world. This 12-piece band from Argentina is the liveliest force in tango.
Photo: Dara Munnis (left), Gerardo Lazzari (right)
17 January at 7pm sydneyfestival.org.au/murry
19 January at 5pm sydneyfestival.org.au/fierro2
18 January at 7pm sydneyfestival.org.au/edwyn2
THE Lennox – riverside Theatres 70mins 876 $25 General admission Riverside Theatres 02 8839 3399 Sydney Festival 1300 856
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THIS IS OUR CITY ON AUSTRALIA DAY! Whether you’re sizzling snags, visiting family or partying with friends, there are many ways to celebrate Australia Day in Sydney. In 2014, it also happens to be the final day of the Festival and we’re joining our friends at The Australia Day Council of NSW in celebrating with a huge line-up of events across the city. WHAT’S ON
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GREAT AUSSIE SWIM
Farm Cove, Sydney Harbour
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SACRILEGE
Hyde Park North, Festival Village
9am–9pm
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THE SUMMER PLAYGROUND
Hyde Park North
9am–4pm
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CHANCE
Carriageworks
10am–6pm
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CARNIVALE
Macquarie & College Sts
10am–5pm
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FERRYTHON
Sydney Harbour
11am
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SYDNEY HARBOUR & CONCERTS
Sydney Harbour
11am–4pm
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A DAY IN DARLING HARBOUR
Darling Harbour
11.30am–9pm
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A DAY IN the rocks
The Rocks
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Carriageworks, Bay 20
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Belvoir St Theatre
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Cockle Bay, Darling Harbour
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The Domain
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The Spiegeltent, Festival Village
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Circus Ronaldo Tent, Festival Village
10.30pm
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The Spiegeltent, Festival Village
11.30pm
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Check out sydneyfestival.org.au/ozday for more information on Sydney Festival’s Australia Day events.
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Ferrython Australia
Photo: Jamie Williams
SYDNEY HARBOUR GETS REVVED UP FOR AUSTRALIA DAY. If you think Sydney Harbour is spectacular on a quiet day, wait until you see the Ferrython. The annual Australia Day celebration sees our beloved ferries go head-to-head, racing from Circular Quay to Shark Island and back to the finishing post under Sydney Harbour Bridge. Pack a picnic, gather on the foreshore and cheer on our ferries as they get fast and furious.
Sydney Harbour 26 January at 11am FREE sydneyfestival.org.au/ferrython
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SKY TERRACE Join us at Sky Terrace this January for an exciting free program of live music, DJs and quirky performances on the roof terrace at The Star. Add some delicious alfresco food into the mix and you’ve got all the key ingredients for a great summer night out. Come on down and enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of Sky Terrace,
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where great music and entertainment provide the perfect soundscape to spectacular panoramic views of Sydney. And if you’re coming to see Dido & Aeneas at Sydney Lyric, why not drop in before or after and really make a night of it?
The Star Event Centre
9–26 January 6pm til late daily sydneyfestival.org.au/skyterrace
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FAST FESTIVAL FEASTS Serious Festival-ing requires serious sustenance, so we’ve partnered with a whole host of top restaurants located near our venues to offer you some tasty Festival plates. Choose from $30, $55 and à la carte options to keep your belly full of Festival goodness this January. Check out the maps on pages 88–91 to find out which Festival restaurant is best for you. Alternatively visit sydneyfestival.org.au/fff or download the Festival app to help plan your Fast Festival Feasts.
Pick up Time Out’s bumper Dec/ Jan issue for a free guide to FAST FESTIVAL FEASTS.
Sydney City
Festival Venues and Fast Festival FeastS Restaurants
Getting the most out of Sydney this time of year is hungry work, so we’ve partnered with top restaurants located near our venues to satisfy your Festival appetite.
FESTIVAL VENUES Fast Festival FeastS Restaurants 15. 360 Bar and Dining 22. Cafe Sydney 1. Artspace Sydney Tower Dining 5th Floor, 31 Alfred St 43–51 Cowper Reception Level 4 Circular Quay Wharf Rd Sydney Westfield 02 9251 8683 Woolloomooloo Centre, Between Pitt À 2. Belvoir St Theatre & Castlereagh Sts 23. Chefs Gallery 25 Belvoir St 02 8223 3883 Shop 12 Ground Surry Hills $55 Floor, Regent Pl 3. City Recital Hall 16. Café Mix at ShangriShopping Centre Angel Place La Hotel Sydney 501 George St 2–12 Angel Place Level 1, 02 9267 8877 4. Darling Harbour $30 176 Cumberland St Cockle Bay The Rocks 24. Chophouse Darling Harbour 02 9250 6206 25 Bligh St $30 5. The Domain 1300 246 748 Art Gallery Rd 17. Ananas Bar & $55 Royal Botanic Gardens Brasserie 25. El-Phoenician 6. Festival Village 18 Argyle St 7 Towns Place Hyde Park North The Rocks Walsh Bay Cnr College and 02 9259 5668 02 9633 1611 $55 Park Sts $30 7. The Great Synagogue 18. ARIA Restaurant 26. Food Society 166 Castlereagh St 1 Macquarie St Lower Ground Floor Circular Quay 8. Circus Ronaldo Tent 91 Riley St 02 9240 2255 Festival Village Darlinghurst $55 Cnr College and 02 8090 3462 Park Sts $30 19. Balla Level G, Harbourside 27. Glass Brasserie 9. The Spiegeltent The Star Festival Village Level 2, Hilton Sydney 80 Pyrmont St Cnr College and 488 George St 02 9657 9129 Park Sts 02 9265 6068 $55 $30 10. Sky Terrace The Star Pirrama Rd 20. BLACK by ezard 28. La Rosa The Strand Level G, Harbourside Shop 133, Level 2 11. State Theatre The Star, The Strand Arcade 49 Market St 80 Pyrmont St 193 Pitt St 12. Sydney Lyric at 02 9657 9109 02 9223 1674 The Star Pirrama Rd 13. Sydney Opera House Bennelong Point East Circular Quay 14. Sydney Town Hall SF14_String.epS 483 George St
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21. Bullion Bar at The Mint 10 Macquarie St 02 8239 2219 $30
30. The Dining Room Park 39. The Morrison Bar & Oyster Room Hyatt Sydney 225 George St 7 Hickson Rd 02 9247 6744 The Rocks $30 02 9256 1234 $55 40. Ventuno Pizzeria e Ristorante 31. Puntino Trattoria 7/21 Hickson Rd 41 Crown St Walsh Bay Woolloomooloo 02 9247 4444 02 9331 8566 $30
32. Red Lantern on Riley 60 Riley St Darlinghurst 02 9698 4355 $55
33. Sailors Thai 106 George St The Rocks 02 9251 2466 $55
34. Saké Restaurant & Bar 12 Argyle St The Rocks 02 9259 5656 $55
35. Sokyo Level G, The Darling The Star 80 Pyrmont St 02 9657 9161 $55
36. Steel Bar and Grill 60 Carrington St 02 9299 9997 $55
$30 37. The Cut Bar & Grill 16 Argyle St 29. Opera Kitchen The Rocks Lower Concourse Level 02 9259 5695 Sydney Opera House $55 Bennelong Point 0450 099 888 38. Garden Buffet $30 Level 1, Astral Residences The Star, 80 Pyrmont St 02 9657 8188 $30
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Where to stay Even if you are the most dedicated Festival-goer in Sydney you’ll need to sleep every now and then. Our hotel partners are looking forward to keeping you content during your stay in January.
5 Star Hotels at the star
Astral Tower and Residences 80 Pyrmont St, Pyrmont 02 9777 9000 star.com.au
The Darling 80 Pyrmont St, Pyrmont 02 9777 9000 thedarling.com.au
Festival Packages Like to have someone else to do all the leg work? We’re working with our hotel partners to create some great Festival packages this year. Visit sydneyfestival. org.au/packages and choose from a selection of options suitable for all budgets.
4.5 Star Hotels
Harbour Rocks Hotel 34 Harrington St, The Rocks 02 8220 9999 harbourrocks.com.au
Novotel Sydney Parramatta 350 Church St, Parramatta 02 9630 4999 accorhotels.com.au SF14_hotelS.epS
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Sebel Surry Hills Sydney 28 Albion St, Surry Hills 02 9289 0000 sebelsurryhills.com.au
Novotel Sydney Central 169–179 Thomas St 02 9281 6888 accorhotels.com.au
The Sebel Pier One Sydney 11 Hickson Rd, Walsh Bay 02 8298 9999 sebelpierone.com.au
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APARTMENTS
Mercure Sydney 818–820 George St 02 9217 6666 mercuresydney.com.au
Mercure Sydney Potts Point 226 Victoria St, Potts Point 02 9397 1777 mercuresydneypottspoint.com
Quay West Suites Sydney 98 Gloucester St 02 9240 6000 accorhotels.com.au
Metro Hotel on Pitt 300 Pitt St 02 9283 8088 metrohotelonpitt.com
Novotel Sydney on Darling Harbour 100 Murray St, Pyrmont 02 9934 0000 novoteldarlingharbour.com.au
Metro Apartments Darling Harbour 132–136 Sussex St 02 9290 9200 metrohotels.com.au
Aspire Hotel Sydney 383–389 Bulwara Rd, Ultimo 02 9211 1499 metrohotels.com.au
Ibis Sydney Darling Harbour 70 Murray St, Pyrmont 02 9563 0888 ibishotels.com.au
Ibis Sydney King Street Wharf 22 Shelley St, King St Wharf 02 8243 0700 ibishotels.com.au
Ibis sydney World Square 382–384 Pitt St 02 8267 3111 ibisworldsquare.com.au
Metro Hotel Sydney Central 431–439 Pitt St 02 9281 6999 metrohotels.com.au
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TICKETS HOW TO BOOK
Festival Multipack
Multipacks available from 24 October at 9am. General tickets available from 28 October at 9am.
The more you see, the more you save with a Festival Multipack. Make the most of the Festival this summer by creating your own mini-program.
All tickets can be purchased through sydneyfestival.org.au or by calling 1300 856 876. The Sydney Festival phone lines are managed by Ticketmaster. Tickets can be purchased in person from the relevant venue or Ticketmaster outlets. Sydney Festival sydneyfestival.org.au 1300 856 876
Seymour Centre seymourcentre.com 02 9351 7940
Ticketmaster ticketmaster.com.au 1300 723 038
Sydney Opera House sydneyoperahouse.com 02 9250 7777
Belvoir belvoir.com.au 02 9699 3444
Concessions Concession tickets are available for the following: • Full-time students • Pensioners • Seniors Card holders • Children 16 years and under • Unemployed
City Recital Hall Angel Place cityrecitalhall.com 02 8256 2222 Enmore Theatre enmoretheatre.com.au 02 9550 3666 Opera Australia opera-australia.org.au 02 9318 8200 Riverside Theatres riversideparramatta.com.au 02 8839 3399
Proof of concession must be produced to obtain the concession price. Concessions are only available where indicated and may be subject to availability. Transaction fees may apply.
• Buy tickets to 3 or 4 events and save 10% • Buy tickets to 5 or more events and save 15% Look out for the Multipack symbol throughout the brochure. Festival Multipacks can be purchased via the Festival website (sydneyfestival.org.au/ multipack) or by calling 1300 856 876. Tickets are only available for events during Sydney Festival dates (9–26 January and preview performances on 8 January) and the discount only applies to full price A Reserve tickets (not available in Premium Reserve). To qualify for a Multipack discount, tickets must be purchased in one transaction/booking. Multipack Presale 24–27 October Multipack buyers can get in early with this special presale period. Book by phone or 24/7 online. Multipack tickets are strictly limited and subject to availability. Transaction fees may apply. You can include all shows in your Multipack, with the exception of Dido & Aeneas, So Frenchy So Chic, The Serpent’s Table, The Redux Project, The Calling and The Staves (Sutherland Entertainment Centre). Please note: Big Star’s Third is available as part of Multipacks only online.
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Tix for Next to Nix (All tickets $25) Sydney Festival is committed to making the Festival accessible to all. During Festival dates (9–26 January), $25 tickets are available for all performances that take place from 3pm that day until 2.30pm the following day. Tickets are limited and it’s first in best dressed. Tickets are not available for limited capacity shows – The Serpents’ Table and The Calling.
Here are the rules • EFTPOS, credit cards or cash • Tickets must be purchased in person • There is a limit of two tickets per person per day • Events under $25 are not included in this offer • The number of tickets available at this price may vary for each performance • Tickets cannot be replaced if they are lost, stolen or damaged
When is it open? 9–26 January. Daily from noon to 2.30pm.
Program details are correct at time of printing but are subject to change where necessary and without notice. Sydney Festival has the right to add, withdraw, reschedule or substitute artists and/or vary advertised programs, prices, venues, seating arrangements and audience capacity. In the event of a change in cast, Sydney Festival will only refund the cost of the ticket when the cancelled performer was billed by Sydney Festival as the main attraction/ star performer.
Sydney Festival presents artists and productions on the basis of merit and excellence. Any political affiliations or views expressed by artists or companies participating in, or sponsoring, Sydney Festival are not necessarily representative of those of Sydney Festival or its staff.
Parramatta Tix for Next to Nix for events in Parramatta will only be available from the venue box office one hour prior to the performance starting.
The Tix for Next to Nix booth is located at the Festival Village, Hyde Park.
THE FINE PRINT Ticket prices are in Australian dollars and include booking fees and GST where applicable. Transaction fees may apply at the point of sale. When purchasing tickets through the Sydney Festival website, customers booking until Sunday 15 December 2013 may choose to receive tickets by regular post or to collect from the venue box office one hour prior to their performance. Any bookings made through the Sydney Festival website after 15 December can only be collected from the venue box office one hour prior to each performance. Tickets purchased to Sydney Festival events through third party ticketing agencies, venues and other operators (ie. tourism, corporate) are bound by the conditions of sale set out by those organisations. Please contact the organisation through which the tickets were purchased for more information. All sales are final. Tickets cannot be refunded or exchanged after purchase except as outlined in the Live Performance Australia (LPA) Ticketing Code of Practice.
Sydney Festival reserves the right to charge a fee for the replacement of tickets. General admission events do not have allocated seating and tickets cannot be replaced if lost, stolen or damaged. Latecomers may not be admitted until a suitable time in the performance, and for certain events may not be admitted at all. The use of cameras and other recording devices constitutes a breach of copyright and is strictly prohibited. Mobile phones, pagers, etc. must be turned off before entry into the auditorium.
Tickets may not, without the prior written consent of Sydney Festival or the seller, be resold or offered for resale at a premium (including via online auction sites), or used for advertising, promoting or other commercial purposes, by either the original purchaser or a subsequent bearer. If a ticket is sold or used in breach of this condition, the ticket may be cancelled without a refund and the bearer of the ticket may be refused admission. The Sydney Festival Limited (ACN 070 285 344) is bound by the National Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act 1988. Sydney Festival holds personal information for the purposes of sending information about Sydney Festival events and other arts events. You can download a copy of our Privacy Policy from sydneyfestival.org.au/About/ Privacy-Policy/. 95
ACCESS & sustainability We make every effort to ensure Sydney Festival events are accessible to every member of our audience. For more information, or to book any of our access services, please call 02 8248 6500 or email access@sydneyfestival.org.au or visit sydneyfestival.org.au/access. Sydney Festival is happy to receive phone calls via the National Relay Service. To enable us to determine your requirements and assist you fully we are unable to offer the accessible ticket booking service online. Accessible performances Please see event pages for dates and times of audio described and captioned performances. Bookings for these performances must be made by Friday 20 December 2013 through the Sydney Festival box office. Seats cannot be guaranteed after this date although we will always try our best to accommodate your request. For up-to-date information on accessible program items visit sydneyfestival.org.au/access.
Festival in The Domain Companion Card Companion Card holders qualify for a second ticket at no cost for their companion. Please contact Sydney Festival directly to assist with your booking.
Accessible brochure formats Did you know you can get Festival information in alternative formats? Our program is also available:
Wheelchair Access This venue/location is wheelchair accessible or has been made accessible for the Festival. Designated wheelchair spaces (where available) will be sold at the lowest price in the house for that performance. Audio Description Tactile Tour Assistive Listening Systems Open Captioning
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on audio CD contact Vision Australia on 02 9334 3260 as an mp3 file visit sydneyfestival.org.au/access as a PDF visit sydneyfestival.org.au/access in large print Word format visit sydneyfestival.org.au/access in braille email access@sydneyfestival.org.au A synopsis in large print Word format for any production in the 2014 Festival can be emailed or mailed to you on request, just email access@sydneyfestival.org.au or call us on 02 8248 6500.
Limited spaces will be available for RTA Mobility Parking Scheme Permit Holders and must be booked before the event on 02 8006 5700. An accessible viewing area for patrons with disability is located on the eastern side of The Domain between Tower 6 and 7. Patrons are reminded of the following guidelines: – No pegging into the ground or reserving of unattended areas – No high chairs or beach umbrellas – No plastic sheeting or ice on the grass as this kills the lawns – Concerts in The Domain are Waste Wise Events so please recycle using the waste system provided and help save our environment. We would like to hear from you We value your opinion. We want to know what we’re doing right, and what we could do better. Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us on 02 8248 6500 or email access@sydneyfestival.org.au if you have any queries or suggestions regarding access at Sydney Festival.
Sydney Festival Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) Launched in June 2013, our RAP outlines our commitment to closing the gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians and their fellow Australians by creating and fostering an organisational environment that cherishes respect, creates opportunity and builds cultural awareness. Find out more at sydneyfestival.org.au/RAP.
SUSTAINABILITY Our vision is to be the most sustainable major performing arts festival in Australia. For some years Sydney Festival has been actively working towards sustainable event production and we are proud to announce that as of August 2013 Sydney Festival is officially certified to comply with the requirements of ISO 20121:2012 Event Sustainability Management Systems. ISO 20121 is a standard that events and organisers implement to ensure a systematic approach to identifying and managing event sustainability issues. Sydney Festival is now the first festival in Australia to be certified to the new international standard. Through demonstrating best practice, we plan to influence uptake of sustainable practices by others and to share our learning with the industry. We give back to the community that supports us, with direct and indirect economic and social benefits from our business and programming activities. These positive contributions to sustainable development, along with our commitment to reducing resource consumption, waste creation and greenhouse gases, will combine to help us meet our vision for a truly sustainable Sydney Festival.
Sydney Festival encourages you to join us in our efforts to make Sydney Festival the most sustainable festival in Australia. You can help us by coming to our events by cycling, public transport or car pooling. You can also visit our Sustainability Actions page on our website for more information on other ways to help us to close the sustainability gap. We believe Sydney is the most beautiful city in the world and it’s the responsibility of every single one of us to keep that way. For more information on our sustainability vision and updates on our Sustainability Actions, please visit sydneyfestival.org.au/sustainability.
Environment ISO 14001 Certification applies to Offset Alpine Printing
The Sydney Festival Guide is printed on PEFC certified paper. The paper is certified under the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification scheme (PEFC) which assures consumers that the utilised forestry products can be traced from a certified, responsibly managed forest through all stages of processing and production by a chain of custody process.
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tHAnKS to oUR SUPPoRteRS
Foundations Sydney Festival wishes to acknowledge the following Foundations who have supported us over the last 12 months:
The Martin-Weber Family The Nelson Meers Foundation
donors Sydney Festival wishes to thank the following individuals for their generous donations over the last 12 months: directors Circle President: Michael Crouch AO Anonymous (1) Antoinette Albert Peter Freedman Peter Hunt AM Roslyn Packer AO Rebel Penfold-Russell OAM Peter Young AM and Susan Young Festival Heroes Robert Albert AO and Libby Albert The Hon. Ashley Dawson-Damer Jonathan Blakeman and Dr Heather Worth David Mathlin and Camilla Drover Matthew and Alex Melhuish Marie Slaight
Get involved!
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associate Producers Gillian Appleton Andrew and Cathy Cameron Susan Carleton Jonathan and Judith Casson Ros and Alex Hunyor Dr Kathryn Lovric and Dr Roger Allen Julianne Maxwell Victoria Taylor Kim Williams AM Dr Carolyn Lowry OAM and Peter Lowry OAM Festival Lovers Lieven Bertels Angela Bowne Virginia Gordon John Kaldor AM and Naomi Milgrom Kaldor AO Adam Max Mary Read Christopher Tooher Trawalla Foundation Sam and Judy Weiss Fiona Winning
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