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
Fri 23 Oct at 8pm and 9.30pm Sat 24 Oct at 8pm and 9.30pm Angela loves Jack. Jack cons Angela. After being swindled out of her life’s savings, Angela blackmails Jack into being with her. Together they hatch a scheme to get rich by killing lonely widows and stealing off with their fortunes. This is a night at the opera you won’t forget! Tickets available for $25(or on-demand for $10) Read more
Fri 6 Nov at 8pm and 9.30pm Sat 7 Nov at 8pm and 9.30pm In the shallowest hour of the night a faint outline appears. They outnumber us. They watch us fret and obsess. But tonight, they strike up the band. Ghost Salon is a lush evening of hilarious and haunting cabaret. A luminous view into those who’ve been left in the dark. Part seance, part confessional, part spectral hooley. All welcome, dead or alive. Tickets available for $25(or on-demand for $10) Read more
Fri 13 Nov at 8pm and 9.30pm Sat 14 Nov at 8pm and 9.30pm A real-time collaboration with the Netherlands, Layer tells the story of three women, each alone and isolated with multiple cultural identities. They encounter multiple layers of themselves in real, virtual, fragmented and augmented realities. Layer explores notions of self-identity, as well as the pleasures and fears we stumble upon within our socially distanced COVID selves. Tickets available for $25 Read more
Fri 20 Nov at 8pm Sat 21 Nov at 8pm A solo work incorporating AV and call-and-response games with a riotous monologue about the culminating impact of casual racism. Blanco – a struggling Asian actor – reviews the short ‘life cycle’ of his career with documentarian flair, unpacking the emotional labour and exhaustion of being a POC artist in Australia. Tickets available for $25 (or on-demand for $10) Read more
Fri 27 Nov at 8pm Sat 28 Nov at 8pm and 9.30pm Frumpus is back with their new show LANDED: Wrapped in First Class pyjamas and inflated ankles, Frumpus navigate white knuckle turbulence to touch down in luxury goods. Damaged, swollen from neck to foot, and desperate to clear customs, they negotiate a land of extravagance, opulence and anarchic self-satisfaction. Tickets available for $25 (or on-demand for $10) Read more
Fri 4 Dec at 8pm Sat 5 Dec at 8pm The title of one of Bee Miles' unpublished journals; her articulate, humorous and subversive voice spoke out against social injustice. Bee was transgressive and a bohemian rebel who constantly challenged the accepted orthodoxy. Bee is an inspiration screaming "No!" against an oppressive world still resonating strongly today. Tickets available for $25 Read more
Fri 11 Dec at 8pm and 9.30pm Sat 12 Dec at 8pm and 9.30pm Experience this feedback loop of Whitney Houston fandom and YouTube hysteria where Lucas mimics, morphs and manipulates a 4-minute Whitney Houston video into an hour-long, low-budget SPECTACULAR. Come to the Whitney Houston Addicts Anonymous meeting and be complicit in the bad behaviour. Everything disintegrates. All that remains is, Whitney. Tickets available for $25 Read more