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Season 2019
Contents
Welcome 4
Subscribe to Season 2019 6
The Gospel According To Paul 8
Elixir: Featuring Katie Noonan with Michael Leunig 10
I Want To Know What Love Is 12
Howie the Rookie 14
Welcome to Season 2019, Sydney Symphony Orchestra & Slava Grigoryan 16
Civic Theatre Newcastle's Goori Dooki 18
collection of the best in Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow 20
live performance, designed
Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts 22
to spark the imagination
Roald Dahl's The Twits 24
and take you on a
Possum Magic 26
journey everywhere.
Circa's Peepshow 28
Much Ado About Nothing 30
Sydney Comedy Festival Showcase 32
Civic Theatre Newcastle
acknowledges that the Dali: Hallucinogenic Toreador 34
Season 2019 programs
take place on the traditional Planning Your Visit 38
country of the Awabakal people.
We recognise and respect their
The Power of Words 40
cultural heritage, beliefs, continuing How to Subscribe 45
relationship with the land and their
Elders, past, present and future. Booking Form 46
Imagination
will take you
everywhere
Season 2019 offers works to entertain, challenge and inspire you, with a compelling
mixture of dance, drama, comedy, physical theatre, puppetry, cabaret and
storytelling on offer. The Newcastle community embraces and thrives upon the
arts in all forms and Civic Theatre takes great pride and pleasure in providing
audiences with access to high quality travelling and local productions.
In 2019, we will host major Australian companies including Bell Shakespeare,
Sydney Symphony Orchestra and CIRCA and we will support new and exciting
original works from two of our strong local performing arts companies.
Ngarrama are back to perform Goori Dooki in full in 2019 and we welcome
back Stray Dogs Theatre Co with their new work, Dali: Halucinogenic Toreador.
Elixir featuring Kate Noonan will perform pieces from Gratitude and Grief,
their collaboration setting incredible music to the poetry of national
treasure Michael Leunig, while The Gospel According to Paul features
one of Australia's favourite performers, Jonathan Biggins, as Paul Keating.
Our commitment to high quality programming for younger audiences
continues with Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts adapted
for the stage by shake & stir theatre co, Monkey Baa Theatre Company's
Possum Magic, based on the classic book by Mem Fox and Spare Parts
Puppet Theatre with another Roald Dahl classic story, The Twits.
In 2019, we will mark 90 years since the opening of the Civic Theatre,
which has been recognised by the Sydney Morning Herald as one of
Australia's seven most beautiful theatres. We are indeed fortunate to have
such a historic treasure, and I invite you to join us to experience the best
in live performance as we celebrate this Newcastle icon.
Nuatali Nelmes
LORD MAYOR OF NEWCASTLE
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Season 2019
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Flexibility
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the best seats in the house. Plans change; we can assist you to swap performance times and
shows, pending availability of tickets, at no charge.
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SOFT TREAD ENTERPRISES
Biggins almost
Thu 7 Mar 8pm A new comedy about a critical time in out–Keaters
Australian history and the man that shaped it. Keating... If only
we had someone
One of Australia’s favourite performers, Jonathan Biggins, this clever running
is Paul Keating – visionary, reformer and rabble-rouser – the country.
in a highly anticipated new comedy.
Lloyd Bradford Syke,
Crikey
Full of intelligence and wit, The Gospel According to
Written &
Performed by Paul is a funny, insightful and occasionally poignant
JONATHAN BIGGINS portrait of Paul Keating, the man that – as he tells
it – single-handedly shaped contemporary Australia.
Director
AARNE NEEME
Jonathan Biggins’ performance as Paul Keating is
Designer well known from the long-running Sydney Theatre
MARK THOMPSON Company success story, The Wharf Revue. Beyond
the canny impersonation, Jonathan, like so many
Lighting Designer Australians, has long been fascinated by Keating
VERITY HAMPSON
and what Keating means to Australia. Showcasing
Sound/Av Designer his eviscerating wit, rich rhetoric and ego the size
DAVID BERGMAN of Everest, The Gospel According to Paul distils
Keating’s essence into 75 minutes, focussing on
Duration
75mins (no interval)
key biographical milestones, landmark political
Coarse language. Suitable for ages 15+ achievements and personal obsessions.
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KIN MUSIC, SUM MANAGEMENT AND THE HARBOUR AGENCY
Noonan’s
performance is
unsurprisingly rich
and sublime – by
Fri 15 Mar 8pm Sublime music and the iconic now it should be
poetry of Leunig. clear she is among
Australia’s most
Multi-Platinum selling and ARIA award-winning skilled vocalists
singer/songwriter Katie Noonan returns to from any era.
the Civic Theatre with her jazz trio Elixir and a
The Guardian
string quartet to perform with Australia’s ‘poet
laureate’ Michael Leunig for a magical event.
The concert will feature the new ‘Gratitude
and Grief’ collaboration showcasing a unique
combination of spoken-word poetry, angelic
vocals, sublime improvisation and live drawing
by Leunig himself.
Vocals Katie Noonan’s technical mastery and pure voice
KATIE NOONAN makes her one of Australia’s most versatile and
beloved vocalists. She first received widespread
Saxophone praise as the angel-voiced songstress of
ZAC HURREN
indie-pop band George and has since taken
Guitar audiences on sublime excursions through
CAMERON DAYELL jazz, pop and classical music.
Poet & Illustrator Folk jazz trio Elixir have been performing
MICHAEL LEUNIG
together for 19 years to great acclaim. Their
Duration exploration of unusual collaborative environments such
2hrs (inc interval) as text, sound and art, make this concert truly one of a kind.
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A CRITICAL STAGES & THE GOOD ROOM PRODUCTION
A crowdsourced letter
of love and loss; 60
technicolour minutes
that will have you
cringing, crying
and singing along.
Fri 22 Mar 8pm Joyous. Sexy. Heartbreaking. Take a dizzying
The Australian
ride through love’s collision course.
I Want To Know What Love Is throws a spotlight on
long-buried memories, bedroom fantasies, crushes
and conquests. Acclaimed Queensland performance
collective The Good Room asked members of the public
Created by to anonymously submit their stories of love – fragments
DANIEL EVANS and memories, confessions and admissions – and they’ve
AMY INGRAM
transformed those secret submissions into magnificent
CAROLINE DUNPHY
KIERAN SWANN declarations centre stage.
LAUREN CLELLAND
Submission #87: “It’s been years, but I still think of you
Director and wonder ‘What could have been?’”
DANIEL EVANS
Submission #346: “I choose to say it did not fail.
Performers It just finished.”
AMY INGRAM
CAROLINE DUNPHY Your anonymous submissions may also be included in this
MARGI BROWN–ASH
work. Visit the Civic Theatre website for more details on
TOM COSSETTINI
how to submit your stories of love, passion and heartbreak.
Duration
60mins (no interval) This is for anyone who's ever loved. Anyone who's ever
Suitable for ages 16+, coarse language,
sexual references, loud music, haze, blackout. hurt. This is for you.
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RED LINE PRODUCTIONS
Wed 10 Apr 8pm A wild urban odyssey. Howie the Rookie is
Thu 11 Apr 8pm intelligently spare and
Howie the Rookie, an award-winning Irish play by beautifully performed, it
Fri 12 Apr 8pm Mark O’Rowe (Terminus) is an electrifying and epic
is revealed as a rare feast
tale; a wild, urban odyssey through a nightmare
Sat 13 Apr 8pm landscape, hilarious and grotesque by turns.
of theatrical imagination.
A short, sharp and
The Howie Lee (Andrew Henry) gets dragged into a shocking night that’s
bizarre feud of honour involving a scabies-infested mattress, often brilliant.
against The Rookie Lee, which spirals out of control and
Jo Litson
ends in his own personal tragedy. The Rookie has problems
of his own: massively in debt to a terrifying gangland figure
for killing his prized Siamese fighting fish, he steels himself
Written by for a hideous revenge, until he is championed from an
MARK O’ROWE unlikely quarter by his one-time enemy.
Director Howie The Rookie is a white-knuckle ride
TOBY SCHMITZ
through a nightmare Dublin,
Performer where enemies and allies are
ANDREW HENRY interchangeable, where
the most brutal events
Duration
75mins (no interval) take on a mythical
Adult themes & coarse language, 16+ significance.
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Slava Grigoryan & Beethoven's Eroica
Thu 23 May 7.30pm The Sounds of Spain with guitar
virtuoso Slava Grigoryan and
Beethoven's Third Symphony.
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra comes to Newcastle
with internationally renowned guitarist and four-time
ARIA winning artist Slava Grigoryan.
Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez is the
perfect vehicle for Grigoryan: colourful,
elegant and virtuosic, conjuring the
stately atmosphere of the Palace of
Aranjuez – the Spanish Versailles.
Program
BIZET CARMEN: SUITE NO.1 Bizet’s Suite from Carmen provides
a perfect introduction into the soundworld of
RODRIGO CONCIERTO
DE ARANJUEZ Spain with its combination of French elegance and
Spanish colour. The Suite No.1 brings together the
BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY
most famous moments from Bizet’s famous opera,
NO.3 EROICA
from the rattling castanets of the Aragonaise, to the
Conductor triumphant music of the Toréadors.
UMBERTO CLERICI
Beethoven’s Third Symphony was a musical revolution
Guitar matched only by his famous Ninth. Of a scale previously
SLAVA GRIGORYAN
unmatched by the great symphonists Haydn and Mozart,
Duration its grandeur is befitting of its Heroic title and remains one
100mins (inc interval) of Beethoven’s greatest compositions.
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NGARRAMA PRODUCTIONS
Ngay ngarra
ngarra thurritay.
Me Listen,
Listen Understand
Wed 29 May A little bird told me.
10am & 12pm
Pops sometimes forgets – a pot on the stove, getting his
Thu 30 May grandson to school, his medicine – and his language and
10am & 12pm the songs from his youth.
Fri 31 May With the help of a childhood companion in the form of
7pm the Goori Dooki bird (Gurri Thurrigi) both Pops and his
grandson rediscover lost memories, songs and language
Sat 1 Jun – in the process remembering who they are and their
2pm & 7pm responsibilities to their culture.
Authors Goori Dooki is an exciting performance for young and
RAY KELLY old that reimagines Aboriginal language and culture in a
BRIAN JOYCE contemporary storytelling performance about memory
Cast and identity. This performance incorporates a range of
RAY KELLY Aboriginal songs in language from across the eastern
JESSE HODGETTS seaboard of NSW, dance and animations.
Director Each performance is followed by a short language
BRIAN JOYCE
workshop suitable for all ages.
Duration
65mins (no interval) Gurri Thurr–aye was featured as a Work in Development
Suitable for all ages in Season 2018.
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MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL
Some of the country’s
best comics… had
audiences in tears.
The Queensland Times
Fri 7 Jun 8pm Grab a mate, grab a date… grab a ticket
Sat 8 Jun 8pm to the Roadshow!
Sun 9 Jun 8pm Looking for a laugh? The Melbourne International Comedy
Festival Roadshow is coming to town. Forget I–Spy,
spotto and stale servo snacks, this road trip is
jam-packed with a crew of fantastically funny
comedians, specially selected to bring the fun of
the Festival to towns and cities around the nation.
For 20 years the Melbourne International
Comedy Festival has been touring far and wide,
bringing giggles, guffaws and good times
to Australia and further afield. They’ve got over
80 destinations on the laugh-laden schedule,
and a line-up of artists to tickle
anyone’s funny bone.
Duration
2hrs 15min (inc interval)
The Roadshow really has
Recommended for mature audiences 15+ something for everyone!
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SHAKE & STIR THEATRE CO shake & stir is one of
Brisbane’s most inventive
theatre companies, and its
work, Revolting Rhymes
and Dirty Beasts, is a clever
reimagining of Roald Dahl’s
twisted fairytales.
Sydney Morning Herald
Tue 25 Jun Frighteningly funny and seriously silly.
6.30pm
Think you know the story of The Three Little Pigs,
Wed 26 Jun Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Goldilocks
10am & 12.30pm and Jack and the Beanstalk? Think again.
Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts bursts off
Adapted by the page in a spectacular live show, taking the world’s
SHAKE & STIR THEATRE CO
best-loved fairy tales and rearranging them with some
Director surprising and hilarious twists. Frighteningly funny and
ROSS BALBUZIENTE seriously silly, Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes & Dirty
Beasts is the perfect family entertainment – for children
Designer 5 to 105. It delights and disgusts in equal measures.
JOSH MCINTOSH
Duration Don’t miss this multi-Helpmann Award nominated
55mins (no interval) production penned by the world’s number
Haze, smoke and strobe effects, loud music.
Suitable for ages 5–105. one storyteller.
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SPARE PARTS PUPPET THEATRE
…an impressive force
in storytelling through
puppetry.
The Australia Times
Wed 31 Jul World class puppetry paired with the
12.30pm & 6.30pm world’s greatest storyteller for children.
Thu 1 Aug
Roald Dahl’s The Twits is a comedy of rebellion and
10.30am & 12.30pm justice in which Muggle-Wump the monkey races to
Fri 2 Aug outwit Mr and Mrs Twit, two of the most terrible and
disgusting people ever to have lived. Playfulness and
10.30am & 12.30pm tricks are more successful than following the rules in
this classic Roald Dahl story, making it fantastically well
suited to the imaginative world of puppet theatre.
The performers bring characters to life in the blink of
an eye, using hand held puppets in a simple stage
Director setting, highlighting the playfulness of live performance.
MICHAEL BARLOW The Cubist art movement of the 20th century has
Performers inspired Leon Hendroffs’ puppet designs which bring
JESSICA HARLOND–KENNY together the monstrous features of the Twits with an
GEORDIE CRAWLEY ingenious soundscape.
Duration Appealing to children and families with its promise of fun
50mins (no interval)
+ 10min Q&A and ‘silliness’, this story also champions the kindhearted,
Suitable for ages 5–105 with an underlying warm sentiment.
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MONKEY BAA THEATRE COMPANY
Tue 27 Aug A brand-new stage adaptation of a
1pm magical Australian classic.
Wed 28 Aug
For more than 30 years, Mem Fox’s Possum Magic has
10.30am & 12.30pm captivated and enchanted young people all over Australia.
Grandma Poss loves making magic. She makes wombats
blue and kookaburras pink. She makes dingoes smile and
emus shrink. But one day, when danger arrives in the form
of a snake, Grandma uses her most magical spell to make
Hush invisible. Hush has many wonderful adventures.
But being invisible isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and Hush
longs to see herself again.
One problem. Grandma Poss can’t find the spell to
make Hush visible again. And then she remembers...
this particular magic requires something more, something Once upon a time, but not
Adapted by special, something to do with food… people food. very long ago, deep in the
EVA DI CESARE
SANDRA ELDRIDGE Australian bush, there lived
Possum Magic takes us on a whimsical journey to cities around
two possums. Their names
Director Australia to find the food that makes Hush visible again.
SANDRA ELDRIDGE were Hush and Grandma
Monkey Baa brings to life the characters, journey and Poss. Grandma Poss
Duration
50mins (no interval)
love that has made Possum Magic the most-loved and made bush magic…
Suitable for ages 3–8. Contains pyrotechnics. best-selling Australian picture book of all time.
TEXT COPYRIGHT © MEM FOX 1983
ILLUSTRATIONS COPYRIGHT © JULIE VIVAS 1983
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CIRCA
****… One of the
most entertaining,
unbelievable things
you will ever see.
The Reviews Hub, UK
Fri 13 Sep 8pm See the world from the other side
of the mirror.
Circa’s Peepshow turns cabaret on its head, literally.
Join Circa as they embark on a seductive dance through
the hall of mirrors that is your imagination. Circa’s Peepshow
leaps from the thrillingly acrobatic to the comically playful.
Expect teetering towers of balanced bodies, extreme
bending and devilishly precarious aerials.
Created by
YARON LIFSCHITZ Circa’s Peepshow combines some of the finest acrobatic
LIBBY MCDONNELL
talent on the planet under the direction of circus visionary
& THE CIRCA ENSEMBLE
Yaron Lifschitz to create a playfully exhilarating ride into the
Director beautifully bizarre recesses of your mind.
YARON LIFSCHITZ
If you loved Circa’s previous classics, Humans and
Duration
100mins (inc interval)
Beyond, prepare for a jaw-dropping night at the theatre
Suitable for ages 12+ with Circa’s Peepshow.
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BELL SHAKESPEARE
MUCH
ADO ABOUT
NOTHING
Thu 3 Oct 8pm Speak low if you speak love. Act 2, Scene 1.
Bell Shakespeare –
Claudio and Hero are deeply in love. Beatrice and Benedick arguably the best
would rather swap sassy insults than sweet nothings.
Shakespearean
Much Ado About Nothing is a saucy and razor-sharp battle theatre company.
of wits between the bickering Beatrice and Benedick, who Herald Sun
wield words as weapons, their banter betraying their love
and loathing of each other.
However Claudio is quickly seduced by envy and this idyllic
world threatens to come tumbling down as he humiliates
Hero. Beatrice and Benedick must join forces to defend
true love – even if they can’t recognise it in themselves.
Directed by Bell Shakespeare’s Associate Director,
Written by James Evans (Julius Caesar) and starring Zindzi Okenyo
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Antony and Cleopatra, MTC’s An Ideal Husband) as
Beatrice, this Much Ado About Nothing will be a
Director powerful exploration of the struggle for identity and
JAMES EVANS
self-knowledge in a male-dominated world.
PHOTO BY PIERRE TOUSSAINT
Cast includes
ZINDZI OKENYO Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare’s
contemporary comedies where romance is thwarted
Duration
2hrs 30min (inc interval)
by dastardly plots, misinformation, false accusations,
Recommended for 13+ broken promises, and bumbling cops. Or is it?
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SYDNEY COMEDY FESTIVAL
Sat 5 Oct 8pm The Festival’s funniest in one hilarious night.
The Sydney Comedy Festival Showcase tour will be tearing
up the freeways of Australia for the seventh year in a
row to bring the crème de la crème of the 2019 Festival
to Newcastle!
Expertly curated and lovingly presented, the
Showcase will feature some of the Festival’s
hottest acts live on stage for an incredible
two hours of hard-hitting laughter. Boasting
a line-up of veteran favourites, international
stars, and some of the freshest emerging
talents, this jam-packed night of pure
entertainment will leave you sore from
belly laughs!
So call your pals and grab your tickets to
the funniest night of entertainment you
Duration
2hrs (inc interval)
will see all year – don’t miss out on a
Recommended for mature audiences 15+ huge night of laughs!
The comedians had the crowd in
constant stitches... the talent on show
definitely left the crowd wanting more...
AU Review
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STRAY DOGS THEATRE
Fri 15 Nov 8pm A wild, joyous journey into Dali’s strange
Sat 16 Nov 8pm and fascinating world.
Wed 20 Nov 8pm
Dali: Hallucinogenic Toreador, a new play by Carl Caulfield,
Fri 22 Nov 8pm (Where Late the Songbird, The Anatomy of Buzz,
Sat 23 Nov 2pm & 8pm Shakespeare’s Fools) uses the scandalous and surreal life
of Salvador Dali to ask questions about art
and fame.
Outrageous, flamboyant and often on the edge of
sanity, Dali considered himself a genius, but was this
just a mask to hide his fear? The obsessions and neuroses
that drove his art and life – grasshoppers, melting clocks,
crutches, telephones and doubles, also expose his
shameful secrets and raise disturbing questions about
his legacy.
As surreal and provocative as a Dali masterpiece, this new
Written by play promises a wild, joyous and moving journey into
CARL CAULFIELD Dali’s strange and fascinating world. Caulfield, whose
award–winning performances include Falstaff in Henry IV
Director Part One and Peter Sellers in Being Sellers, will play Dali, The suffering
DANIEL STODDART
with a small supporting cast taking on numerous roles, in creation, my ecstasy as I
Duration including his beautiful muse Gala and the doomed Spanish lost myself in the mystery of
95mins (no interval) poet Garcia Lorca. light, of colour, of life.
Salvador Dali
34Touring Partners
The Gospel According to Paul Elixir: Katie Noonan with Circa’s Peepshow
Michael Leunig
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MUSIC Circa acknowledges the assistance of the Australian Government through the Australia Council,
its arts funding and advisory body and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
I Want to Know What Love Is Much Ado About Nothing
MUSIC
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
Howie the Rookie Goori Dooki Melbourne International Sydney Comedy Dali: Hallucinogenic Toreador
Comedy Festival Roadshow Festival Showcase
This production is proudly supported by the Catfish Foundation
Sydney Symphony Orchestra & Slava Grigoryan
Principal Partner Government Partners Regional Tour Partner
Season 2019
Sponsors
Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts
shake&s
theatrecot
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Originally co-produced with La Boite Theatre Company. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council
for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. Tour supported by arTour an initiative of the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
Season 2019 is brought to Newcastle with the generous
Roald Dahl's The Twits assistance of our season sponsors.
www.roalddahl.com
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Possum Magic
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
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of Words The Civic Theatre Newcastle in
conjunction with Newcastle Writers
Festival and Newcastle Library is
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Saturday 6 April 7pm
proud to present these exciting
events that celebrate the power of Civic Playhouse
words. We hope you can join us! Once considered a masculine working-class heartland,
Newcastle is now acclaimed as one of the top hipster cities
NEWCASTLE LIBRARY PRESENTS of the world. In the sequence of sonnets that compose her
homage to the city, local poet Keri Glastonbury celebrates
Big Book Club its oddities and contradictions, remixing the material effects
of post–industrial gentrification with the vernacular of social
Thursday 14 February 6pm media. Glastonbury’s poems embrace the city’s DIY chutzpah
Newcastle City Hall and the swipes, likes and filtered screens of internet culture.
Get reading this Summer and join the Big Book Club where For this special performance as part of the 2019 Newcastle
members of the public will meet to discuss The Ruin, our One Writers Festival, Glastonbury will be joined by respected
City One Book title. The Big Book Club will be held on Library musician/songwriter and long-time
Lover’s Day and includes a conversation with the author Dervla friend Jacqueline Amidy.
McTiernan. This event will be hosted by Dr Rachel Franks,
Coordinator Education & Scholarship at the State Library
of New South Wales, a Conjoint Fellow at the University of Queerstories
Newcastle who is also currently researching true crime at the
University of Sydney. Copies of the book may be borrowed Saturday 6 April 8.30pm
from any City of Newcastle Library. Also available as an eBook. Civic Playhouse
Enter the raucous, radical, wildly funny world of
Queerstories and enjoy unexpected tales from a diverse
Twilight Talk: Novocastrian True Crime line-up of LGBTQI+ 2019 Newcastle Writers Festival
guests. Hosted by Maeve Marsden.
Thursday 24 January 6pm
Civic Digest
Our Local History Coordinator and expert on Newcastle’s criminal past, Sue Ryan will
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For these events and the
This is a FREE event – but please book to reserve your seat!
full Newcastle Writers
Festival program, please see
BOOKINGS newcastlewritersfestival.org.au
For these Summer of Crime events and the full program, Twitter @newwritersfest
please see newcastle.nsw.gov.au/library Instagram @newcastlewritersfestival
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Much Ado About Nothing
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