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Performance THE THREE CANADIANS ATTEMPT BEN HUR - THE EPIC

The epic saga of Ben Hur told in true 3 Canadians style complete with Romans, lepers and a chariot race.

DATES: Fri 16 - Sat 31 Jan
TIME: Tues-Sun 8.30pm
PRICE: $19.90/$15.90
BOOKINGS: Fringe Festival Box Office 9365 2197 or Firstcall 9320 9000


FRINGE WRITER'S NIGHT

With visiting New York Photographer GLEN E FRIEDMAN, author of "Fuck You Heroes" and "Fuck You Too".

DATE: Fri 16
TIME: 9 pm
PRICE: $10/$8
VENUE: Festival Club - Bondi Pavilion Theatre


ANAIS - ANAGRAM A one-voice, one-act drama that voyages into the labyrinth of Anais Nin's incest with her father.

DATES: Sun 18 - Tue 20 Jan
TIME: 9 pm
PRICE: $10/$8
VENUE: Festival Club - Bondi Pavilion Theatre


WANDERLUST/WITHOUT A HITCH

Two shows about travelling - for the price of one: Race around the world in 30 minutes with 'Wanderlust', a comic journey. And ....'Without a Hitch', a true love story of love lost and survival on the highways of Oz.

DATES: Tues 20 - Fri 23 Jan
TIME: Wanderlust 7 - 7.30pm
Without a Hitch 7.40 - 8.50 pm
PRICE: $15/$10
VENUE: Festival Club - Bondi Pavilion Hall


THE BIG COMPETITION for little plays

An open competition showcasing the work of young writers, new writers, first plays, roles for women and work from writers of non English speaking backgrounds. Plays of approximately 10 minutes in duration.

DATE: Wed 21 - Fri 23 Jan
TIME: 7pm
PRICE: $12/$10
VENUE: Festival Club - Bondi Pavilion Theatre


EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE

A man of few words and plenty of body language, Canadian performer David Langlois delivers physical comedy at its riotous most eccentric best. 'This manšs words may be sparse but his mania is mighty' - Orlando Sentinel.

DATES: Wed 28 - Sat 31 Jan
TIME: 7pm
PRICE: $10/$8
VENUE: Festival Club - Bondi Pavilion Gallery


BAD BLOOD

The text of Irvine Welsh, the direction of Adam Macaulay, the realisation of Mark Newsam will take to hell. Black stand-up comedy for the 90s.

DATES: Sat 17 - Tue 20 Jan
TIME: 7pm
PRICE: $11/$8
VENUE: Festival Club - Bondi Pavilion Gallery

'F'

A comic cabaret written by Vesna Malnar about three girls trying to make it in music. Featuring live music from Anarchy and the Minority Group.

DATE: Mon 26 Jan
TIME: 9 pm
PRICE: $15/$12
VENUE: Festival Club - Bondi Pavilion Theatre


LUCKYTOWN/THE EASTER MAN

Writer/performer Brett Heath presents two one-man tragi-comedies.

DATES: Wed 21 - Sat 24 Jan
TIME: 7 - 8.30pm
PRICE: $15/$10
VENUE: Festival Club - Bondi Pavilion Gallery


THE EROTICA SHOW

Monologues, strip-t-e-e-z-e, duologues and ribald songs about sex, smut, tongue-fu, necrophilia, bestiality, spanking-the-monkey - brought to you by Sydney's newest and craziest theatre company, The Ballroom Sinatras.

DATES: Wed 21 - Fri 23 Jan
TIME: 9 pm
PRICE: $10/$8
VENUE: Festival Club - Bondi Pavilion Theatre


DANCESPACE INC

A third program of short, new experimental dance works from independant choreographers.

DATES: Sat 24 Jan
TIME: 7 pm
PRICE: $15/$10
VENUE: Festival Club - Bondi Pavilion Hall


KILLER'S HEAD

Three monolgues about men on the verge of death for committing heinous crimes. Includes Sam Shepard's 'Killer's Head'.

DATES: Mon 26 - Wed 28 Jan
TIME: 7 pm
PRICE: $15/$10
VENUE: Festival Club - Bondi Pavilion Theatre


CLYTEMNESTRA

Visually stunning tale of love, sex, revenge and death, complete with original score. Not for the squeamish!

DATES: Tues 27 - Fri 30 Jan
TIME: 8 pm
PRICE: $15/$10
VENUE: Festival Club - Bondi Pavilion Hall


NIDA DIRECTORS DOUBLE BILL: THE CONDUCT OF LIFE/THE MOUNTAIN LANGUAGE

'The Conduct of Life' - Maria Fornes' Obie winning examination of violence and the abuses of power. 'The Mountain Language' - written by Harold Pinter after his meeting with Kurdish dissidents.

DATES: Thurs 29 - Fri 30 Jan
TIME: From 7 pm
PRICE: $12/$10
VENUE: Festival Club - Bondi Pavilion Theatre


LET'S GIVE THEM CURRY

This 80's Austral- Asian comedy is as topical as ever. Aussie boy and Sri Lankan girl fall in love and their parents throw ugly spanners in their lovely works.

DATES: Sat 31 Jan - Sun 1 Feb
TIME: From 7 pm
PRICE: $15/$12
VENUE: Festival Club - Bondi Pavilion Theatre (31 Jan)
Tom Mann Theatre - Surry Hills (1 Feb))


PACIFIC UNION

Alex Buzo's play about the birth of the United Nations and how tenacious Australian Dr. Herbert Vere Evatt changed the face of history.

DATES: Sat 3 Jan - Sat 7 Feb
TIME: Fri - Sat 8 pm, Sun 5.30 pm
PRICE: $20/$15
VENUE: New Theatre, Newtown. Bookings 9519 3403)


WALKING TOWARDS

Music performance program.

DATES: Sat 10 Jan - Sat 17 Jan
TIME: 8 - 9pm
PRICE: $15/$7
VENUE: Glebe Town Hall Upstairs. Bookings 9241 5573)


FAUST

Howard Brenton's slick adaptation of Goethe's classic asks, who are the Fausts for the 1990s?

DATES: Tues 20 - Sat 31 Jan
TIME: Tues - Sat 8pm, Sun 5pm
PRICE: $16/$12 booking fee applies
VENUE: Pilgrim Theatre, City
Advance booking: through Ticketec on 9266 4800
Bookings: Firstcall 8320 8000


AFTER DINNER

Energetic comedy by Andrew Bovell about the Australian singles scene.

DATES: Wed 21 - Sat 24 Jan
TIME: 8pm
PRICE: $15/$12
VENUE: The Lofe, Coogee Legion Club (opposite Coogee Bay Hotel), Coogee. Bookings 9665 8552)


ANTHONY MORGAN

Anthony launches his vision for a new Australia and his new political party or two. "Wonderful comedy...daring, vulnerable and rivetingly honest" - The Age.

DATES: Thurs 9 Jan - Sun 1 Feb
TIME: 8.30pm
PRICE: Fri - Sat $18.50/$14
Thurs/Sun $15/$12, Tue $10
VENUE: Comedy Hotel. Bookings 9552 2999)


SILENT PARTNER

Tragi-comic story of mates, love, trust despair, debt and an ever elusive lure. Written by Daniel Keene. Winner of the 1989 Louis Esson Prize for Best Play.

DATES: Thurs 22 Jan - Sat 31 Jan
TIME: 9pm, Sun 25 Jan & 1 Feb 8pm
PRICE: $14/$10
VENUE: Three Weeds Hotel, Rozelle. Bookings 9387 1667)


LOVE BITES TOO

A seductive ride of provocative monologues exploring the gritty side of our hearts, minds and desires.

DATES: Tue 20 Jan preview, Wed 21 - Sat 24 jan, Wed 28 - Sat 31 Jan, Sun 1 Feb, Wed 4 - Sat 7 Feb
TIME: 8pm (except 1 Feb 5.15pm)
PRICE: Fri - Sat $18.50/$14
Thurs/Sun $12 (except 20 Jan $7)
VENUE: Cafe Basilica, Chippendale. Bookings 9130 6208/ 9130 3515 or for dinner/show bookings 9319 1222)


WATERS OF BRIGHTNESS

Theatre Kantanka presents an adaptation of 19th century writer Lafcadio Hearn's ghostly tales.

DATES: Wed 28 Jan - Sun 15 Feb
TIME: Wed - Sat 8pm, Fri-Sat 11pm
PRICE: $25/$15
VENUE: Chinese Gardens, Darling Harbour. Bookings Ticketek 9266 4800)


TAMING OF THE SHREW

Shakespeare's comedy presented by the Chameleon Dish Theatre.

DATES: Thurs 8 Jan - Sat 24 Jan
TIME: Wed - Sat 8pm, Sun 5pm
PRICE: $16/$12
VENUE: PACT Theatre Space, Erskineville. Bookings 9550 2744)


COMPLICITY

World premiere of a thriller love story about Sir Eugene Goossens - a study of the times and the people involved in one of the biggest scandals to rock the Australian arts community.

DATES: Previes Fri 9 - Sun 11 Jan, Tue 13 Jan - Sun 22 Feb
TIME: Tue - Fri 8.15pm, Sat 8.30pm, Wed 11am, Sat - Sun 5pm
PRICE: $32 except Fri - Sat $34), pensioners $24 (not Sat pm), full-time studensts/children $10, senior citizens Wed am/pm $28, previews $26
VENUE: Marian Street Theatre, Killara. Bookings 9498 3166)


GLUTTONY

From the people who gave you HED at last year's Fringe Festival. A night of sensorial beauty, delicious excesses and madness with true Roman fervour.

DATE: Fri Jan 23
TIME: 10pm
PRICE: $15
VENUE: Buffalo Club, 61 Regent Street, Chippendale


THE PRESENT

Nietzche, Lennon, and art combine in this fable about a young man's rites of passage. Written by Nick Ward.

DATE: Thur 1 Jan - Sun 1 Feb
TIME: Tue - Sat 8pm, Sat 4pm, Sun 5pm
PRICE: $34/$23 (Tue, groups, industry, $21)
VENUE: The Stables, Darlinghurst. Bookings 9361 3817


SUPERFLUOUS MAN

Men are lost. The patriarchy is dead. Left with no identity the modern man has become an emotional potato. Performed by just two actors. Experience the journey of 22 men and a dog.

DATE: 13 - 31 Jan
TIME: Tue - Sat 8.15 pm, Sun 5.15pm
PRICE: $16/$10
VENUE: Belvoir Street Theatre Bookings 9699 3444

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