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Arts in the City: Curtain up on lots of theatre

CAN we have too much theatre in one week?

Free-Rain Theatre Company has Neil Gooding’s musical, “Back to the 80s”, directed by Louiza Blomfield and Leisa Keen at the ANU Arts Centre, September 7-23, bookings to 6275 2700.

Then Tempo Theatre has Derek Benfield’s English farce “Panic Stations” at Belconnen Theatre, September 7-15. Once again (as in “The Mousetrap”), Tempo’s cast is holed up in a house in the country. Bookings to 6275 2700.

Then there’s “Widowbird” by Canberra writer Emma Gibson, selected for a reading at the Women Playwrights International Conference in Stockholm and inspired by “Antigone”, “Joan of Arc” and “A Thousand and One Nights”. At the Street Theatre, September 8-16, bookings to 6247 1223 or www.thestreet.org.au

• MIRRAMU Dance Company members are about to show us the results of a creative fortnight spent in the Yirrkala community in north-east Arnhem Land. An informal presentation, “Morning Star” will be seen at Mirramu Creative Arts Centre, Lake Road, Bungendore, on September 2 at 2.30pm. Warming drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be served around the campfire after the showing. Details at www.mirramu.com

• TAKE note, CAPO’s 29th gala is on September 8, not in November and it’s at M16 Artspace in Griffith, not in the National Archives. Patron Michael Bryce will announce the winners of the CAPO Fellowship, the Rosalie Gascoigne Memorial Award and the Reading Room CAPO London Exhibition Award. Tickets to 6249 7860. The accompanying exhibition of more than 100 artworks is open to the public August 31-September 8.

• FLAMENCO guitarist Damian Wright heads up the singing, dancing, playing group Bandaluzia, which will be at Tuggeranong Arts Centre, September 8-9, bookings to 6293 1443.

• IN the fourth tour of Selby & Friends for 2012, director/pianist Kathryn Selby is joined by British violinist Elizabeth Layton, Australian violist Glen Donnelly and much-loved former Canberran cellist Julian Smiles in works by Mahler, Stanhope, Mozart and Dvo?ák. At the Fairfax Theatre, NGA, 7.30pm, September 3. Accompanied children 14 and under free. Bookings to 1300 511099.

• CANBERRA musos have until September 6 to enter Telstra’s talent development program “Road to Discovery”. Up to six local musicians will be selected to perform at the Canberra heats at Stage 88 from noon on October 1. Enter via www.telstra.com/trtd

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