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.
Fri 31 Jan at 8pm Sat 1 Feb at 8pm Set on a miniature 1:8 scale model golf course, this live videographic performance and piece of speculative fiction documents the real-time landing of an alien ship in a rural town, exploring how protocols break down in the face of the unknown. Tickets available for $25. Read more
Fri 7 Feb at 8pm Sat 8 Feb at 8pm Words pull apart and come back together creating a dynamic vocal score that celebrates the many different forms women’s voices take. Dealing in the intersection of myth and truth, Echo draws on women’s circles, storytelling and theatrical choruses in a cross-generational stage-work exploring the traditions of female story sharing. Tickets available for $25. Read more
Fri 14 Feb at 8pm Sat 15 Feb at 8pm This episodic drag dance theatre tragedy set in a public living room will recreate the unrealistic reality of a lifelong love affair with all things Whitney Houston. Tickets available for $25. Read more
Sat 22 Feb at 8pm See plus size performers dance, strut, shimmy and strip in Australia’s first fat only burlesque show. Everything you thought you knew about fat bodies and who belongs on a stage is about to be shattered. Tickets available for $25. Read more
Fri 28 Feb at 8pm A darkly funny and honest exploration into the power of the dance floor and the possibility to create magic when the world shuts you out. Inspired by Sydney’s historical queer lineage and those that came before us. Can you fall in love under the light of a bathroom stall? Tickets available for $25. Read more
Sat 7 Mar at 8pm You know the story of Samson and Delilah. The femme-fatale who tricks Samson the Nazirite into telling her the power of his astonishing strength (it’s his hair) only to cut it all off. Delilah by the Hour is a biblically charged homage to womanhood. A fierce rebuke to the pity-porn narrative. Tickets available for $25. Read more
Fri 13 Mar at 8pm Sat 14 Mar at 8pm The dancer who wished he was an acrobat, but also wished he could shred the mic like Layne Staley, but of course with the dramatic presence of Charlie Chaplin. But... really just an amalgamation of insecurities and self-sabotage shunned through a performative lens. Tickets available for $25. Read more
Fri 20 Mar at 8pm Sat 21 Mar at 8pm For her 30th birthday, much loved Sydney dance artist Elle Evangelista performs her ultimate dance work 30THIRTY. Through 30 x 1-minute solos and 1 x 30-minute solo, 30THIRTY celebrates the best, and worst, birthday wishes sent her way. Come to question choreography. Stay for a slice of birthday cake. Tickets available for $25. Read more
Fri 27 Mar at 8pm Sat 28 Mar at 8pm The performative video installation draws from the postmodern concept of hyperreality, exploring shifting states of personal perception. Using semiotics, street dance and digital media, the performers in ‘Plastic Bag’ navigate the boundaries of their highly mediated worlds; pushing against their own desires, warped realities and their hyperreal existence. Tickets available for $25. Read more
Fri 3 Apr at 8pm Sat 4 Apr at 8pm When Life gives you Lemons … you make Lemonade. Fantastic! But who has the recipe? Perhaps try a bit of theatre, mixed with burlesque, throw in some PTSD, a hint of pop culture, a lawsuit or two? Welcome to PINK LEMONADE. Tickets available for $25. Read more
Fri 17 Apr at 8pm Sat 18 Apr 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. Read more
Fri 1 May at 8pm Sat 2 May at 8pm The title of one of Bee Mile’s unpublished journals; her articulate, humorous and subversive voice resonates strongly today in Sydney's stifling bureaucracy. Bee was transgressive and a bohemian rebel who constantly challenged the power structures of the time. An inspiration screaming "NO!" to a similar oppressive world. Tickets available for $25. Read more
Fri 8 May at 8pm Sat 9 May at 8pm 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. Read more