“I know you’re scared. You damn well should be… this place is dreadful.”
Anna Larina was known and renowned as the wife of one of the architects of the Russian Revolution, Nikolai Bukharin. With his downfall and execution, she was persecuted for twenty years, separated from her family, and spent her prime years in a succession of gulags.
Witnessing both the rise of the Revolution, and purges it conducted, she lived both sides of the hypocrisy of Stalin’s rule. She was loved as the partner of the golden child of the Revolution, and then condemned as the partner of a traitor. Through her, we see the very human cost of ideology, and the unimaginable triumph of the human spirit in the face of the hellish machine determined to subdue it.
The extraordinary story of Anna Larina. Punished for being a wife.
Lose yourself in the mesmerising Sounds of the World gala concert, as the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall plays host in July to the greatest variety of children’s choirs ever heard under one roof.
The one-time-only concert is part of the Gondwana World Choral Festival, which is set to be the greatest gathering of international choirs in Australia this century. More than one thousand young singers from some of the world’s finest choirs will converge on Sydney from 15-21 July to sing together in celebration of the 30-year anniversary of Gondwana Choirs.
Extraordinary young singers from Canada, China (including Inner Mongolia), Estonia, France, Japan, Latvia, the USA, and around Australia will perform the most exciting choral music ever heard in Australia.
The transcendent event features Sydney Children’s Choir performing alongside an extraordinary lineup of international guest choirs, including Boston Children’s Chorus, USA; Estonian Television Girls’ Choir, Estonia; La Cigale de Lyon, France; Guangdong Experimental Middle School Choir, China; Inner Mongolia Youth Choir, China; Miami Children’s Choir, USA, Nagoya Children’s Choir, Japan; Riga Cathedral Girls’ Choir TIARA, Latvia; and Toronto Children’s Chorus, Canada. Host choirs include Sydney Children’s Choir; Gondwana Indigenous Children’s Choir, and their big sisters, Marliya (Cairns); and Gondwana Latitude 34. Other performing Australian choirs include Young Adelaide Voices (SA), plus choirs from Sydney schools Abbotsleigh, SCEGGS Darlinghurst, and PLC Pymble.
Each choir will perform their signature repertoire, including music from their homeland, before combining to sing Christopher Gordon’s Peace on Earth.
The festival program also features a series of recitals, workshops, masterclasses and panel discussions at the festival hub at Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
For more information and tickets, go to gondwana-wcf.org.au/whats_on/closing-gala-sounds-of-the-world/
★★★★★ "FULL OF DELIGHTFULLY DISTURBING SURPRISES." - Independent Journal
★★★★ "AUDACIOUS, INNOVATIVE, COMPLETELY SURPRISING AND JAW-DROPPING." - San Francisco Theatre
"STARTLING, SURPRISING, BOLDLY CREATIVE & VERY, VERY DARKLY COMIC." - Broadway World
Sofie and Gregor are drifting apart.
Their cat, Wink, is missing, and the only thing they share is their psychiatrist.
Then Wink turns up on the psychiatrist’s couch...
One relationship falls apart - while another blossoms - as violent desires, domestic terrorism, and relentless feline vengeance drip from this ominous comedy about the thin line between civilisation and savagery.
Anthony Skuse directs Eloise Snape (MopHead's The Humans, FX Networks' Mr. Inbetween), Matthew Cheetham (Outhouse Theatre Co's The Flick, ABC TV + iview's Les Norton), Graeme McRae (Birdland, Foxtel's Secret City) and Sam O’Sullivan (The Norman Conquests, SBS Australia's On The Ropes) in the Australian Premiere of Jen Silverman's (The Moors, Netflix's Tales of the City) brand new play.
We Are the Himalayas
SydneyTheatre | July 4 - 21, 2019
“I know you’re scared. You damn well should be… this place is dreadful.”
Anna Larina was known and renowned as the wife of one of the architects of the Russian Revolution, Nikolai Bukharin. With his downfall and execution, she was persecuted for twenty years, separated from her family, and spent her prime years in a succession of gulags.
Witnessing both the rise of the Revolution, and purges it conducted, she lived both sides of the hypocrisy of Stalin’s rule. She was loved as the partner of the golden child of the Revolution, and then condemned as the partner of a traitor. Through her, we see the very human cost of ideology, and the unimaginable triumph of the human spirit in the face of the hellish machine determined to subdue it.
The extraordinary story of Anna Larina. Punished for being a wife.
Sounds of the World
SydneyMusic | July 21, 2019
Lose yourself in the mesmerising Sounds of the World gala concert, as the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall plays host in July to the greatest variety of children’s choirs ever heard under one roof.
The one-time-only concert is part of the Gondwana World Choral Festival, which is set to be the greatest gathering of international choirs in Australia this century. More than one thousand young singers from some of the world’s finest choirs will converge on Sydney from 15-21 July to sing together in celebration of the 30-year anniversary of Gondwana Choirs.
Extraordinary young singers from Canada, China (including Inner Mongolia), Estonia, France, Japan, Latvia, the USA, and around Australia will perform the most exciting choral music ever heard in Australia.
The transcendent event features Sydney Children’s Choir performing alongside an extraordinary lineup of international guest choirs, including Boston Children’s Chorus, USA; Estonian Television Girls’ Choir, Estonia; La Cigale de Lyon, France; Guangdong Experimental Middle School Choir, China; Inner Mongolia Youth Choir, China; Miami Children’s Choir, USA, Nagoya Children’s Choir, Japan; Riga Cathedral Girls’ Choir TIARA, Latvia; and Toronto Children’s Chorus, Canada. Host choirs include Sydney Children’s Choir; Gondwana Indigenous Children’s Choir, and their big sisters, Marliya (Cairns); and Gondwana Latitude 34. Other performing Australian choirs include Young Adelaide Voices (SA), plus choirs from Sydney schools Abbotsleigh, SCEGGS Darlinghurst, and PLC Pymble.
Each choir will perform their signature repertoire, including music from their homeland, before combining to sing Christopher Gordon’s Peace on Earth.
The festival program also features a series of recitals, workshops, masterclasses and panel discussions at the festival hub at Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
For more information and tickets, go to gondwana-wcf.org.au/whats_on/closing-gala-sounds-of-the-world/
WINK
SydneyTheatre | August 2 - 24, 2019
★★★★★ "FULL OF DELIGHTFULLY DISTURBING SURPRISES." - Independent Journal
★★★★ "AUDACIOUS, INNOVATIVE, COMPLETELY SURPRISING AND JAW-DROPPING." - San Francisco Theatre
"STARTLING, SURPRISING, BOLDLY CREATIVE & VERY, VERY DARKLY COMIC." - Broadway World
Sofie and Gregor are drifting apart.
Their cat, Wink, is missing, and the only thing they share is their psychiatrist.
Then Wink turns up on the psychiatrist’s couch...
One relationship falls apart - while another blossoms - as violent desires, domestic terrorism, and relentless feline vengeance drip from this ominous comedy about the thin line between civilisation and savagery.
Anthony Skuse directs Eloise Snape (MopHead's The Humans, FX Networks' Mr. Inbetween), Matthew Cheetham (Outhouse Theatre Co's The Flick, ABC TV + iview's Les Norton), Graeme McRae (Birdland, Foxtel's Secret City) and Sam O’Sullivan (The Norman Conquests, SBS Australia's On The Ropes) in the Australian Premiere of Jen Silverman's (The Moors, Netflix's Tales of the City) brand new play.
Persuasion by Jane Austen
SydneyTheatre | June 29 - August 17, 2019
Zirk! Russia's Big Top Circus Spectacular
SydneyTheatre | July 3 - 21, 2019
Glittery Clittery: A Consensual Party
Kings CrossTheatre | July 9 - 20, 2019
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
SydneyTheatre | July 12 - 21, 2019
Stepping Out
LambtonTheatre | July 12 - 27, 2019
Catch Me If You Can
SydneyTheatre | July 19 - August 19, 2019
Catch Me If You Can
SydneyTheatre | July 19 - August 18, 2019
Mimi's Symphony
SydneyMusic | July 20, 2019
Catch Me If You Can
SydneyTheatre | July 20 - August 19, 2019
Diplomacy
BelroseTheatre | July 23 - 27, 2019
City of Gold by Meyne Wyatt
Kings CrossTheatre | July 26 - August 31, 2019
White Box Theatre and Seymour Centre present TABLE
SydneyTheatre | July 26 - August 17, 2019
Burn The Floor: Gala
SydneyTheatre | July 28, 2019
Belvoir Presents Life of Galileo
SydneyTheatre | August 3 - September 15, 2019
Nicole Car in Recital
Sydney Music | August 3, 2019
A Little Lunch Music: Jayson Gillham
SydneyMusic | August 6, 2019
Open House: Australian Poetry Slam CBD Heat
SydneyBooks | August 7 - 8, 2019
The Idea of North: Harmonic Histronic
SydneyMusic | August 8 - 9, 2019
Chicago
SydneyTheatre | August 20 - September 1, 2019
YAMATO THE DRUMMERS OF JAPAN
TareeTheatre | August 21, 2019
YAMATO THE DRUMMERS OF JAPAN
WollongongTheatre | August 22 - July 23, 2019
YAMATO THE DRUMMERS OF JAPAN
DubboTheatre | August 26, 2019
Titus Andronicus
SydneyTheatre | August 27 - September 27, 2019
Natalia Osipova’s Pure Dance
SydneyTheatre | August 27 - 31, 2019
Ruthless! The Musical
MarrickvilleTheatre | August 28 - September 2, 2019
Ruthless! The Musical - Profits in aid of Dementia Australia
MarrickvilleTheatre | August 28 - September 1, 2019
The Wharf Revue
BelroseTheatre | September 5 - 15, 2019
Ears to the Ground: Cameron Jones Trio
SydneyMusic | September 5, 2019
THE GOD OF ISAAC
SydneyTheatre | September 5 - 22, 2019
Bill Bryson - Observations On Life and The Human Body
SydneyBooks | September 6, 2019
Splinter
Kings CrossTheatre | September 6 - October 12, 2019
MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival 2019
BelroseTheatre | October 6, 2019
Siblingship
SydneyTheatre | October 10 - 12, 2019
Lady Beatle
BelroseTheatre | October 15 - 17, 2019
Natives Go Wild
SydneyTheatre | October 19 - 27, 2019
Much Ado About Nothing
SydneyTheatre | October 22 - November 24, 2019