It’s a mixed bags of arts delights in HELEN MUSA’s Arts in the City column this week…

Stunt Double is an action-packed dance-theatre work by physical theatre collaborators, The Farm. Set against the backdrop of genre classics such as Wake in Fright and BMX Bandits, the show, co-commissioned by Canberra Theatre Centre, transforms a section of the audience into extras and stagehands. The Playhouse, March 14-16. 

Helios, winner of Summerhall’s Lustrum Award at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe, transplants a story about the son of the Greek sungod into a modern-day myth set in rural and urban England. Written and narrated by Alexander Wright with music by Phil Grainger, it shows a teenager on a road trip in a stolen car, or maybe it’s a chariot. Mill Theatre, Fyshwick, March 23.

Canberra’s Greek-jazz fusion band Kavos launches its second album, Athina, inspired by Athenian locations. At Smith’s Alternative, March 14. 

The four musicians of the Hoodoo Gurus will join the Canberra Symphony Orchestra for Symphony in the Park on March 10 as a highlight of the Enlighten Festival.

The 2024 Canberra Comedy Festival plans to keep Canberrans laughing from March 13 to March 24. Highlights include the return of Jimeoin, a new show from Wil Anderson and the return of Sh!t-faced Shakespeare performing The Scottish Play. 

Eulogiser Bunny is a new Q The Locals show by Kamilaroi comedian and 2022 Deadly Funny finalist, Cameron Ribbons. It’s a ridiculous 60-minute show in which he purports to have audience members in attendance for his own funeral and eulogy, led by clergyman Pastor Fastor. There’ll be dancing and smoke and videos but likely no tears at this send-off. Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre, March 16.

Materiality… But Not As We Know It, features 10 Australian artists with close connections to Canberra. All their work sits in between sculpture and design in a fusion of art making with functional objects. Canberra Museum and Gallery, until October 20.

Canberra Bach Ensemble’s 300th-anniversary performance of Bach’s St John Passion BWV 245 will be at St Christopher’s Cathedral, Manuka, March 16-17.