From Thursday 30 September – Sunday 3 October, Crack will unleash a blistering program of performances, gigs, panels, forums, workshops and interventions by an array of Australia’s most creative creatives. Click on each day for the schedule of events.
Sunday 3 October
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The 2010 Crackhouse is located at Cielo’s, 102 King Street, Newcastle (the Old Masonic Lodge and the 2009 Festival Club). The Lodge of Lounge, the Lodge of Research, the Lodge of Instruction and the Grand Lodge are all contained within the Crackhouse. Click here to see a map.
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CRACK 2010 SPECIAL EVENTS
YEAR 12 FORMAL
6.00-11.00pm Sunday, The Entire Crackhouse
On Sunday night, the Crackhouse will bear witness to an event of tremendous significance: YOUR YEAR 12 FORMAL. Amidst the turbulent maelstrom of music, dancing and carnage, the audience is welcome to become performer, performer to become audience, woman to become man, dog to become bicycle! This time, let your hormones take over and turn a night out into a nightmare! This is the last night of the rest of your life. The punch has been spiked WITH URINE. BYO vomit or make some when you arrive. Don’t come stag, lest you find yourself alone when Green Day’s Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) is being drunkenly howled by your weeping History Teacher.
Featuring: Hadley, Spill Collective, Svelt, Dead DJ Joke, every hormone-ridden artist in this city
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SHH – BLIND, AS YOU SEE IT
7.00-8.00pm Thursday, 4.00-5.00pm Friday, The Playhouse, Hunter Street
Shh’s Blind, As You see It is a hybrid performance and exploration into the process of losing one’s sight. A visual, humourous yet delicate feast, the performance explores the memories of a 25 year old woman as she loses her vision. Inspired by Philippe Genty, Romeo Castellucci and Polish Plastic Theatre practitioners, this journey into darkness blends magic, original music, dance clowning, puppetry and visual (black art) theatre. Click here to view footage from Blind, As You See It.
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SISTERS GRIMM – THE RIMMING CLUB
7.00-8.00pm Saturday, The Grand Lodge: Crackhouse
Four estranged friends re-unite on a Greek island, hoping to reclaim the summer of that forever changed their lives. But has too much changed? Can you really ever escape the past? What does poo taste like? (THIS IS WHAT IT TASTES LIKE!!!!) Sisters Grimm proudly present the human centipede of Strien Theatre royalty: all your faves ass to mouth NOM NOM NOM NOM!!!!1!!!
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THE MASTERS OF SPACE AND TIME – IF IT LIVES
6.30-7.00pm Friday, 4.30-5.00pm Saturday, Lodge of Instruction: Crackhouse
What does Jack Bonhom have in that box? Melbourne, 1866: a meeting of the Victorian Acclimatisation Society. This august and learned group of academics, land-owners and other men of Empire is dedicated to the civilisation of the Australian bush through the introduction of foreign species. Their motto: ‘If it lives, we want it.’ Before a packed audience of wealthy Society members and eminent guests, Bonhom prepares to unveil what may be the perfect introduced species… This razor-sharp farce demonstrates the law of unintended consequences, handily summed up in the colloquialism – “when you’re up to your arse in alligators it’s difficult to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp”.
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THE LAST TUESDAY SOCIETY
9.00-11.00pm Friday, The Grand Lodge: Crackhouse
The Last Tuesday Society regularly presents the creme de la creme of Melbourne’s underground performance scene and now we’re going national. Come watch as we conquer TINA with our patented brand of lo-fi, am-dram, theatrical mash up, rock n’ roll vaudeville. Your eyes won’t believe themselves. “The jackass of arty pub performance events…the well-dressed step-child of experimental theatre” – threethousand.com.au