The Sydney Morning Herald MAY 8-9, 2010 SPECTRUM 25

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PIRATE AND CLASSICAL FESTIVAL URTHBOY MERMAID COVE Hear a top line-up of musicians The latest dance moves, visuals including David Helfgott, William and tunes from Sydney rapper Tim Walk the plank , dig for treasure, Barton, Mark Walton, Anthony Levinson, aka Urthboy, who was take a lucky-dip dive, create sand Garcia, Nick Parnell, Niki nominated for this year’s art and dress up in in the Vasilakis, Emma-Jane Murphy Australian Music Prize. With Jane Treasure Island-themed area Annalisa Kerrigan and others. Tyrrell and DJ-producer Elgusto. ($5) at this school fete. Also Saturday, 9.30am-9pm, Sunday, Saturday, May 15, 8pm, the Factory explore sideshow-alley games, 10.30am-4.30pm, Memorial Hall, , 105 Victoria Road, food and garden stalls. Saturday, Hyde Street, Bellingen, $70/$60 or Enmore, $20 +bf, 9550 3666, 10am-4pm, Birchgrove Public $110 both days, 6655 9326, factorytheatre.com.au. School, Birchgrove Road, Balmain, bellingenmusicfestival.com.au. 0410 660 607. BUG MUMMIES’ DAY BUDDHA’S BIRTHDAY Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Mark the 2104th birthday of the Tracy Letts’s comic thriller set in See real mummies, including Gautama Buddha with an the US Midwest about a cocktail those of a cat, child and adult, get investigation of freedom and waitress with a tragic past who wrapped up like a mummy, responsibility in Nietzsche and meets a handsome stranger. excavate “treasures” in the Buddhist thought by University of Intense. With Jeanette Cronin and A DAY IN THE LIFE archaeological pit and handle Sydney philosopher Justine McGill Matthew Walker. Saturday, May 15, For Beatles fans, this homage Egyptian artefacts. Sunday, noon- and Bundanoon Buddhist abbot, 2pm, SBW Stables Theatre, show concentrates on the Fab 4pm, Nicholson Museum, southern EAST-WEST FUSION Bhante Sujato. Blackheath 10 Nimrod Street, Kings Cross, Four’s output between 1967 and entrance to the old quadrangle, Hear the extraordinary range of Philosophy Forum, Saturday, 4pm, $30 +bf, 8002 4772, 1970, such as Hey Jude, University of Sydney, free, the traditional instrument of school hall, cnr Leichhardt Street griffintheatre.com.au. Strawberry Fields and Helter 9351 2812, sydney.edu.au/museums. Japan, the koto, featured here in and Great Western Highway, $5, Skelter, sung by nine vocalists two very different ensembles: blackheathphilosophy.com.au. SONGS FOR STORIES including Jack Jones, Steve Balbi BELGENNY FARM world music trio Waratah , with A benefit concert for the and Simon Meli (pictured). Take the chance to look around a Sandy Evans (sax), Tony Lewis ANTIQUES FAIR Indigenous Literacy Project, May 28, Enmore Theatre, convict-built farm, circa 1820, (percussion) and Satsuki Odamura Georgian, Edwardian, French, hosted by Julie McCrossin, with 118-132 Enmore Road, Newtown, with tractor rides, pony rides, (pictured) on koto; plus the nine- English and Colonial furniture, David Malouf, Josh Pyke, Katie $79.90-$129.90+bf, 13 28 49, sheep shearing, bush bands, food piece Sawai Koto Ensemble. jewellery, persian rugs, china and Noonan, Anita Heiss and more. ticketek.com.au. stalls and more. Or book a table at Saturday, 9pm, Venue 505, porcelain, plus Part of the Sydney Writers’ the Granary for a Mother’s Day 280 Cleveland Street, Surry Hills, collectables for sale. Dealers will Festival (www.swf.com.au). buffet lunch. Open only three days $15/$10 at the door, venue505.com. appraise items, give estimates and Saturday, May 15, 7.30pm, Sydney If you have never seen Beckett’s ayear.Sunday, 10am-3pm, organise restorations. Coffee, tea, Town Hall, George Street, City, $65, absurdist masterpiece, this Elizabeth Macarthur Avenue, PALAZZO BAROQUE cakes and lunch available. 9250 1988, sydneytheatre.org.au. record-breaking production from Camden, $2/children free, The exquisite Brandenburg Saturday and Sunday, 10am-5pm, London’s Theatre Royal is the one 4654 6800, belgennyfarm.com.au. plays a program of St Luke’s Hall, Street, to see, with Sir Ian McKellen as Bach, Handel and Telemann, plus Scone, $5, 6545 3093. Estragon, as Vladimir Pachelbel’s Canon and Gigue in and Matthew Kelly as Pozzo. June D Major and Vivaldi’s Violin ALL–BOYD SHOW 15, Theatre, Sydney Concerto in D Major. Saturday, An exhibition of paintings and House, $119-$139, 9250 7777, 7pm, City Recital Hall, Angel Place, sculptures (pictured), part of the sydneyoperahouse.com. $25-$130, 8256 2222, prolific output of the artistic cityrecitalhall.com. dynasty of Arthur, David, Guy, WRONG PROM Lenore and Jamie Boyd. Saturday Learn the moves from a cult film BLITHE SPIRIT and Sunday, 11am-4pm, Galeria in a mass dance class before Noel Coward’s witty dialogue is a Aniela Fine Art Gallery, 261a Mount hitting the floor at these themed delight in this Tony award-winning Scanzi Road, events. Don your Ray-Bans and play about a novelist who invites a Kangaroo Valley, shake your tail feathers for The medium over for a seance and then free, 4465 1494, Blues Brothers (June 23) or zip up proceeds to conjure up his dead galeriaaniela some skin-tight leather for Grease first wife. By NTT Productions, .com.au. (July 28). Ages 18-plus, with David Tucker, Nicole Beaver Wednesdays, 7-11pm, CarriageWorks, and Samantha O’Hare. Saturday, Wilson Street, Eveleigh, $18, 2pm/8pm, Lennox Theatre, bookings essential, 1300 723 038, Riverside , cnr Church and carriageworks.com.au. Market streets, Parramatta, $25-$35, 8839 3399, CREEDENCE CATS riversideparramatta.com.au. CLEARWATER Andrew Lloyd Webber’s mega- BUGS BUNNY AT TORTOISE successful musical about a group While not a tribute tour — it has THE SYMPHONY This five-piece outfit from Chicago of felines (pictured) drawn from original members Stu Cook and plays instrumental soundscapes poems by T.S. Eliot is back in town Doug ‘‘Cosmo’’ Clifford in the line- Looney Tunes cartoons (pictured) often referred to as ‘‘post-rock’’ after 15 years. Opening day is sold up — it’s certainly a greatest hits on the screen with original scores that mix jazz, kraut-rock, techno, out so book ahead to see tour, so expect ’70s classics such played by the Sydney Symphony. rock and classical minimalism, Grizabella sing Memory all over as Bad Moon Rising and Who’ll Saturday, 2pm, Sunday, 1pm and with an expanded percussion again. Closes June 13. From Stop the Rain. October 17, Sydney 5pm, Concert Hall, Sydney Opera session. Saturday, 8pm, Manning Sunday, May 16, Lyric Theatre, Entertainment Centre, Darling House, $35-$99 +bf/$199 family, Bar, Sydney University, $53.60 +bf, Star City, $90-$130, 1300 795 267, Harbour, $114.50-$126.35 +bf, 9250 7777, sydneyoperahouse.com. manningbar.com. ticketmaster.com.au. 13 61 00, ticketmaster.com.au.

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