The Flying Nun is a showcase of the outcomes from Performing Arts residencies with Brand X at the East Sydney Community and Arts Centre.
By its very nature, we celebrate the fringe, alternative and contemporary counter-culture, contributing multi-disciplinary creative risk-taking to the East Sydney Creative Precinct. Come and be the first audience to witness new work fresh out of the rehearsal room and by doing so, support Independent Artists with income and feedback to propel the work on to stages across Sydney.
ARTIST PASS holders get a 20% discount for all The Flying Nun tickets. If you don't have one, get an Artist Pass here
Mon 12 April at 6pm & 8pm Tue 13 April at 6pm & 8pm SEVEN DOORS. SEVEN SHOWS. SEVEN MINUTES. An immersive micro-festival where every room tells a story. Audiences are invited to witness these intimate spectacles created by some of Sydney’s most exciting site-specific contemporary performers. Upstairs Hotel Rooms @ The Darlo Bar, Darlinghurst Rd. Limited capacity. Tickets available for $25 Read more
Friday 23 April @ 8pm Saturday 24 April @ 8pm Something’s wrong. Everything’s right. The time is now, and they did it yesterday. For They and Them, to be read is to be misread, to be seen is to be unseen. In their fierce failure, bodies become less private, minds more muddled, stories less linear. They are forging the non-binary. Tickets available for $25 Read more
Friday 30 April @ 8pm Saturday 1 May @ 8pm A dark and surreal biography of Kurt Cobain, incorporating time travel, and the supernatural, to weave an epic love poem for the fallen icon. Take a journey through this heartbreaking homage to one of our most beloved musicians. Tickets available for $25 Read more
Friday 7 May @ 7pm & 9pm Saturday 8 May @ 7pm & 9pm A woman lives alone, restless for expression. Staving off loneliness in a world clinging to the remnants of Noah's ark, that we must all travel to our deaths two-by-two, she begins to anthropomorphise objects in her house, until she finds the one. Is it a dissociative breakdown, or is it love?Tickets available for $25 Read more
Friday 21 May @ 7pm & 9pm Saturday 22 May @ 7pm & 9pm The AstroTurf is rolled out. Megan is clutching at her suitcase. She is greeted by a group performing intercourse simulations wearing Adam and Eve-inspired bodysuits. An inadvertent horny gay hotbed is revealed. She takes her first step towards intervention. A work-in-development presentation.Tickets available for $25 Read more
Friday 28 May @ 9pm Saturday 29 May @ 7pm & 9pm Five characters, five reasons to live, an odyssey towards death. A collage of memory, these characters jostle for existence in a theatrical phantasmagoria filled with dark humour, pathos, and unsettling personal narrative. Tickets available for $25 Read more
Friday 4 June @ 8pm Saturday 5 June @ 8pm Everything you never knew you always wanted to know about the Clitoris. Part comedy/infotainment/cabaret show about the passions, struggles, and pleasures of our most misunderstood body part. A show for anyone with (or who cares about anyone with) a Clitoris.Tickets available for $25 Read more
Friday 11 June @ 7pm & 9pm Saturday 12 June @ 7pm & 9pm A vampire’s human familiar, whose burning desire to be turned becomes all-consuming. The familiar mournfully traverses debris of iconography — a cowboy, a veil, a ghost double — in a futile search for transformation.Tickets available for $25 Read more
Friday 18 June @ 8pm Saturday 19 June @ 8pm A grotesque creature navigating the world through the lens of a stereotypical “hot-body”. A creature trying to live up to the expectations of the world around her, riddled with insecurity and self-hate. Sabotaged by her limitations.Tickets available for $25 Read more
Friday 25 June @ 7pm & 9pm Saturday 26 June @ 7pm & 9pm Flying Nun favourites are back with their irreverent and hilarious brand of experimentation in a shiny new show filled with props and effects to smash the uncanny and the mundane. Promising some sick visuals for guaranteed LOL results. Not to be missed.Tickets available for $25 Read more
Friday 2 July @ 7pm & 9pm Saturday 3 July @ 7pm & 9pm Taking their name from 90s NBA star 'God Shammgod', famous for his footwork and dribbling skills, Shammgods involves three performers attempting to become gods on stage, only to butt up against the reality of their limitations and find unexpected means of transcending them.Tickets available for $25 Read more
Friday 9 July @ 7pm & 9pm Saturday 10 July @ 7pm & 9pm Join Aunty Jude on a journey from heartbreak to doing ‘whatever the hell she wants’ as she smashes down other people's expectations in an outrageous midlife debutante ball. A mix of clown, cabaret and the grotesque. Tickets available for $25 Read more
Friday 16 July @ 8pm Saturday 17 July @ 8pm A double bill of new worxx. 1: Wigs are being fluffed and Vaseline is slathered on to the lens to bring you the trials and tribulations of the most famous soap opera family you haven’t met yet. 2: Can Australia’s gayest bushranger zombie from 1880 help a coven of lesbians find their place within Sydney’s gay elite? Tickets available for $25 Read more