Cirrus@Austlit

'A centrepiece of the festival, 'Bungalow Song', is an extraordinary, new production set within the landscape and compound of the Old Telegraph Station, just outside Alice Springs.

''Bungalow Song' uncovers the hidden history of the Bungalow, and pays homage to the children who grew up there through story, song and spectacular audio visual.

'The show will bring together live performance, light, audio, song, and powerful narratives. Through the use of multiple projection, the walls of the buildings will magically appear to melt away and become a canvas to dramatize the extraordinary photographic archive of images taken there.

'An ensemble of young Indigenous performers cast from Alice Springs will play the Bungalow children.

'Created in association with the Stolen Generation Office, this powerful and moving production is finally a celebration of resilience, love and survival and conceived as a major healing event for the site.

It is a one off and un-missable experience!' (Publisher's blurb)

'A real life disaster movie performed live in the night sky!

'This ambitious and extraordinary piece of aerial theatre tells a powerful tale of ecological crisis. Combining dramatic film and visuals with breath-taking aerial performance, As The World Tipped confronts one of the most pressing issues for the planet with spectacle, humour and emotion.

'At the Secretariat of the Copenhagen Climate Change conference, harassed staff fail to notice as the world around them, literally and metaphorically, slides toward disaster. Suspended above the audience in the night sky, the performers struggle to control their increasingly precarious world as they do battle with the effects of drastic environmental catastrophe.' (Source : http://www.astheworldtipped.com/home#!__home )

'Wrong Skin is a story of forbidden love and clan loyalties, which explores the pressures faced by Australia's remote Indigenous communities, determined to maintain their identity and culture while finding a place for their children in the contemporary world... [The] Chooky Dancers and other performers explore their take on the perennial story of Romeo & Juliet' through a fusion of Yolngu dance, Chooky disco dancing via Bollywood, and home grown digital footage shot on mobile phones and projected with the latest video technology.

'Set around the extraordinary outdoor Saturday night disco on Elcho island - where the Chooky dance style was created - Ngurrumilmarrmiriyu explores what happens when half the population is under 20, and over 22 different clans' are represented in the Elcho Island community. Source: http://www.australianstage.com.au/ (sighted 21/09/10)

'Each year we pledge to remember the Diggers, but is this a clear-eyed remembrance or a sentimental version in convenient soft-focus?

'Drawn from letters, diaries, contemporary reportage, film footage and official documents, "Gallipoli" features the STC Actors Company on stage with the third year acting students of NIDA.

'"Gallipoli" re-examines a story at the very bedrock of Australian identity, with seismic results.'

Source: Sydney Theatre Company website, http://www.sydneytheatre.org.au/
Sighted: 22/07/2008

'Since September 11, 2001, Australia's engagement in the 'war on terror' has raised important questions about the balance between the pursuit of our national security and our human rights. 'Honour Bound' is an intensely passionate and confronting new work that explores these issues through an extraordinary combination of dance, film, theatre and aerial performances. This world premiere brings together some of Australia's most exciting creative talent. It's a culturally and artistically ambitious work that focuses on the experiences of Terry Hicks and his son David - held in Guantanamo Bay for four years without trial. It integrates Terry's personal testimony as a father, and draws on letters, internal Pentagon papers and the accounts of former detainees. Set within an eight-metre square cage, the performance and projections take place on the walls, ceiling and floor. A daring and provocative work, 'Honour Bound' is about some of the most important issues we face as a society today: law and order, hatred and love, humanity and human beings pushed to the very edge of their limits.'

Source: Sydney Opera House website, http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com
Sighted: 24/07/2006