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SUNDAY, JANUARY 24
RIDES Take a last whirl, or hurl, on Luna Park’s 18 rides, including the Devil’s Drop, Power Surge, Wild Mouse and Rockin’ Tug, before the 85-year-old amusement park closes for renovations.
10.30am-4pm, Luna Park, 1 Olympic Park Drive, Milsons Point, $50, lunaparksydney.com
MONDAY, JANUARY 25
EXHIBITION Peruse four CBD street art installations, including environmental group Dirt Witches’ footpath micro-forest on Barlow Street and
We Are All Astonishingly Wise, Katy B Plummer’s interactive fortune-telling ghost on Abercrombie Lane.
Detailed and finely controlled performance explores high-profile apologies
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Old 505 Theatre, January 21
Straightforward and sincere apologies are rare. It requires effort and care to take responsibility for harm caused without getting caught up in defensiveness or deflection. Enter
The Apologists, a collection of three short works designed to consider the nature of accountability.
Gabrielle Scawthorn in The Apologists.
Australian theatrical gems Hugo Chiarella and Gabrielle Scawthorn commissioned three UK writers – Iskandar Sharazuddin, Cordelia O’Neill and Lucinda Burnett – to write twenty-minute monologues on the performance of high-profile apology. The show had success in the UK under the direction of Jane Moriarty and starring Scawthorn, and it now fits nicely into Newtown’s Old 505 Theatre (the associate director is Rachel Chant), where a small
Love Island Australia star Teddy Briggs has spoken out about mental health and suicide following his stint on the show in 2018.
The e-commerce professional was asked about the topic on Gabrielle Scawthorn s Back From Reality podcast, after three stars linked to the UK version of the reality program tragically took their own lives in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
On Wednesday, Teddy - who was 25 at the time he appeared on Love Island - said the news of Mike Thalassitis death in 2019 completely broke his heart after many of his friends had compared him to the footballer.
Speaking out: Love Island Australia star Teddy Briggs has discussed mental health and suicide in a new podcast interview following his stint on the show in 2018
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