NEW SOUTH WALES Mad Through The Darkness: Australian Artists & The Great War From April 25 Art Gallery NSW, Sydney. Paintings by official war artists, servicemen and Evelyn Chapman (first female Australian artist at the Front), along with Sidney Nolan’s The Galaxy (1957-58), depicting Anzacs at Gallipoli. artgallery.nsw.gov.au EDITED BY DAVID LEVELL

FROM APRIL 12 ✜ The Rocky Horror Show, Sydney Lyric Theatre. Get your goth-in-drag gladrags on for Craig McLachlan and Bert Newton in Diary the rock’n’roll creature-feature musical. The best of what’s on in rockyhorror.com.au APRIL 18-19 Australia, state by state. Septimus Power, The ✜ Enemy In Sight, 1916 Top Gear Festival, Sydney Motorsport Park. TV petrolheads Clarkson, May, Hammond and The Stig have plenty of vroom to move at Eastern Creek. NEW SOUTH WALES THROUGHOUT APRIL people are shut up in an underground THROUGHOUT APRIL UNTIL APRIL 26 topgearfestivalsydney.com.au visitnsw.com ✜ Toys Through Time, Museum of room, but they certainly don’t shut up. ✜ The Photograph & Australia, Art ✜ Aida, Mrs Macquaries Point, Sydney. FROM APRIL 20 Sydney. A pull-along wooden deer owned Hugo Weaving in Samuel Beckett’s dark Gallery NSW, Sydney. A nation’s evolving Verdi’s Egyptian epic makes a splash as this ✜ Sydney Comedy Festival, various THROUGHOUT APRIL by wool pioneer John Macarthur’s children, comedy. sydneytheatre.com.au image before lenses from the 1840s with year’s Handa Opera On Sydney Harbour. venues. Noble, Amos and other jokers wild. ✜ Stuff ed, Stitched & Studied: Taxidermy Victorian-era dolls, 1970s cereal box “crater THROUGHOUT APRIL Hurley, Cazneaux, Jerrems, Ford, Dupain operaonsydneyharbour.com.au sydneycomedyfest.com.au In The 19th Century, Macleay Museum, critters” and the heyday of local toy-making. ✜ Les Misérables, Capitol Theatre, Sydney. and more. artgallery.nsw.gov.au FROM APRIL 10 FROM APRIL 24 University of Sydney. How we saw the wild sydneylivingmuseums.com.au The blockbuster musical’s new look is THROUGHOUT APRIL ✜ Deathtrap, Eternity Playhouse, Sydney. ✜ Storm Boy, Wharf 1 Theatre, Sydney. world before Animal Planet – 98 specimens, THROUGHOUT APRIL drawn from art by Victor Hugo, whose 1862 ✜ Jumpy, Sydney Opera House. Jane Ira Levin’s 1970s Broadway hit thriller Puppetry of the pelicans in this theatrical even a flea picked off an armadillo by Charles ✜ Endgame, Roslyn Packer Theatre novel, set in revolutionary France, begot the Turner turns up with “the mother of all concerns a playwright’s bid to steal another adaptation of the Australian children’s Darwin. sydney.edu.au/museums (Sydney Theatre), Sydney. Four unpleasant whole shebang. lesmis.com.au OF NSW GALLERY ART COURTESY IMAGE: midlife crises”. sydneytheatre.com.au writer’s work. darlinghursttheatre.com book and fi lm. sydneytheatre.com.au

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VICTORIA Dream Machines Throughout April Shepparton Art Museum. From Boston, USA, 130 drawings of 1950s-’70s American car design. Your ticket also gets you into Shepparton Motor Museum to see 25 of the actual vehicles. Robert S Ackerman, sheppartonartmuseum.com.au Chrysler Front End Design Proposal – Red Sedan, 1971

VICTORIA UNTIL APRIL 19 APRIL 10-12 visitvictoria.com ✜ Melbourne International Comedy ✜ Jane Austen Festival Australia, Festival, various venues. Getting down Albert Hall, Canberra. An Austentatious THROUGHOUT APRIL to mirth: Jason Byrne, Ruby Wax and celebration, but Janeites won’t need much ✜ The Golden Age Of China: Qianlong stacks more. comedyfestival.com.au persuasion. janeaustenfestival.com Emperor 1736-1795, NGV International, APRIL 17-19 Melbourne. Something sumptuous from ✜ True North Reservoir Arts Festival, TASMANIA the Beijing Palace Museum. Priceless Darebin (Melbourne). Local talent in all discovertasmania.com.au treasures collected by Imperial China’s the arts. truenorthfestival.com.au foremost arts patron include silk paintings, FROM APRIL 18 THROUGHOUT APRIL objects in gold and jade, embroidered robes ✜ The WWI Centenary Exhibition, ✜ Tasmanian Tiger: Precious Little and calligraphy. ngv.vic.gov.au Melbourne Museum. Great War artefacts Remains, QVMAG, Inveresk. Rarely seen THROUGHOUT APRIL from the Imperial War Museum, London. thylacine remnants from the museum’s ✜ Imagining Ned, Bendigo Art Gallery. World premiere and the only Australian vaults, such as the world’s only multi-skin Rogues gallery of Kellyana: bushranging venue. ww1exhibition.com.au Tassie tiger rug. www.qvmag.tas.gov.au artefacts, art and what’s left of the world’s APRIL 19 APRIL 11 fi rst feature fi lm, The Story Of The Kelly ✜ MS Melbourne Cycle. MS fundraiser; ✜ Taste Of The North West, King George Gang (1906). bendigoartgallery.com.au on your bike. msmelbournecycle.org.au V Park, Sheffi eld. Munch local produce THROUGHOUT APRIL while checking out the last day of Mural ✜ Cusp: Designing Into The Next AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL Fest. tasteofthenorthwest.com.au Decade, Mornington Peninsula Regional TERRITORY APRIL 23-25 Gallery. A dozen Australian designers visitcanberra.com.au ✜ 100 Reasons For War, Theatre Royal, aburst with ideas in architecture, health, Hobart. Tom Holloway’s new play ranges fashion and aquaponics. THROUGHOUT APRIL – and rages – over a century of man’s mprg.mornpen.vic.gov.au ✜ Ben Quilty: After Afghanistan, inhumanity to man. theatreroyal.com.au THROUGHOUT APRIL Australian War Memorial, Canberra. Our ✜ Earth & Sky, Tarrawarra Museum of Art. offi cial Afghanistan war artist interprets the NORTHERN TERRITORY Bark with bite – Aboriginal bark paintings experiences of those deployed. See AWM travelnt.com by John Mawurndjul (earth) and Gulumbu story page 50. awm.gov.au Yunupingu (sky). twma.com.au THROUGHOUT APRIL APRIL 23-26 THROUGHOUT APRIL ✜ James Turrell: A Retrospective, NGA, ✜ Tjungu Festival, Ayers Rock Resort, ✜ Absinthe, Rooftop at Crown, Canberra. An illuminating showcase of an Yulara. Aboriginal art, bush tucker, music, Melbourne. Circus, burlesque and artist long-acclaimed for his light touch. short fi lms, fashion parade and the AFL IMAGE: COURTESY: © 2015 MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON OF FINE ARTS, © 2015 MUSEUM COURTESY: IMAGE: vaudeville. absintheaustralia.com nga.gov.au Tjungu Cup. voyages.com.au

APRIL 2015 QANTAS 159 Caption Equi aut pla comnien ihilicide parchicte lamentium fugiasinimus restora tiatusa nducit que nusdaep ratibus erionsequi od APRIL 18-19 mi, sunt utem eatem everspe dolligendae dis si nonsequi reperionet, sae ✜ Buddha’s Birthday & Multicultural commosaestio et quam faccatur ra volo bero ipitibu sandemo Festival, Langley Park, Perth. From lorporestrum intiasp ientiist, cum cus enis denet voluptatiam fugitateces aut venia doluptiorro tota voluptatqui ipis dolesci fi reworks to meditation, and vegetarian ditatquam, si net aut mos quist ligenecesti nis eos eicia volorerum a food to dragon dances. bliawa.org volori inctatiaecum sum re pe pre, si dolupta inias explaut harupid que UNTIL APRIL 24 natemperibus ea in con reprepelis nonsecerum qui te conseri ut aut ✜ experfe rsperci doloremquid et asperferfere cum rest, conseri omnihic Eat Drink Perth, various venues. A full iliquodi conet es acculparunto quuntiunto con es reicia placcatem smorgasbord of citywide culinary events. faceptas eossite mpernatam ad et imolori tatiae assequam, autat millit perth.wa.gov.au faci sinihil eossimus sunt atisquam, quibeates adi consedi remperi onest, volorias inis et volori ut lautempores doluptus, ommo id est, cum quatquid quundam, sus. SOUTH AUSTRALIA southaustralia.com Le Noir: The Dark Side Of Cirque THROUGHOUT APRIL ✜ Art By Prisoners, Adelaide Festival Centre. Vote for your favourite or leave comments, forwarded to the artists in

ON TOUR various South Australian prisons. adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au APRIL 10-11 Le Noir: The Dark Side Of Cirque ✜ Coonawarra After Dark, Coonawarra wine region. Nocturnal cellar-door events, Throughout April Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra. behind-the-scenes harvest tours and Acrobatics in the round, with a somewhat Gothic ambience and various tastings. coonawarra.org burlesque bent lent to proceedings. cirquelenoir.com APRIL 15-19 ✜ Barossa Vintage Festival, Barossa Valley. Feast, Scarecrow Trail, comedy wine tasting and Full Moon Farm Gate. ON TOUR APRIL 12 & 19 barossavintagefestival.com.au ✜ Anzac Run, Melbourne, Brisbane. Fun FROM APRIL 24 UNTIL APRIL 21 run to raise funds for treating depression ✜ Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll, ✜ French Film Festival, Perth, Byron Bay, and PTSD. anzacrun.com Dunstan Theatre, Adelaide. Ray Lawler’s Hobart. From the new La Belle et La Bête APRIL 24-25 classic canecutters-and-barmaids play in (2014) to Renoir’s 1937 classic, Grand ✜ Camp Gallipoli, nationwide. Enjoy which the good times are coming to an Illusion. affrenchfilmfestival.org music and fi lm on Anzac centenary eve, end. adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au UNTIL APRIL 26 then hit the swag before the dawn service. ✜ Walking With Dinosaurs, Brisbane, campgallipoli.com.au QUEENSLAND Newcastle, Perth, Adelaide. This will take FROM APRIL 25 queenslandholidays.com.au you back. Life-size T. rex, stegosaurus, 17m ✜ Sam Smith, Brisbane, Sydney, brachiosaurus and others evoke a vanished Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth. THROUGHOUT APRIL era. dinosaurlive.com frontiertouring.com ✜ David Lynch: Between Two Worlds, APRIL 4-19 GOMA, Brisbane. Films, paintings, photos ✜ John Farnham & Olivia Newton-John, WESTERN AUSTRALIA and other art by the famous movie director Margaret River, Melbourne, Adelaide, westernaustralia.com (Blue Velvet, et al). qagoma.qld.gov.au Brisbane, Hunter Valley, Sydney. With FROM APRIL 10 a 60-piece orchestra. daintygroup.com APRIL 4-6 ✜ Cirque du Soleil: Totem, Northshore FROM APRIL 11 ✜ Fremantle Street Arts Festival. Hamilton, Brisbane. Spectacular acrobatics ✜ National Trust Heritage Festival, Outdoor theatre, music, comedy and circus. aplenty. cirquedusoleil.com/totem nationwide. This year’s theme is “Confl ict & fremantle.wa.gov.au/festivals APRIL 10-18 Compassion”, seeking out “the human side APRIL 18 ✜ Brisbane Baroque, various venues. of war, rebellion, sacrifi ce and endurance” ✜ Revealed, Perth Cultural Centre. Art All the baroque music you can Handel in and “realising the impact of confl ict on our from 25 WA Aboriginal art centres, plus a festival newly transposed from Hobart. identity”. nationaltrustfestival.org.au music, fi lm, art-making. revealed.net.au brisbanebaroque.com.au A

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