![]() ![]() ![]() The right is reserved to vary, substitute or withdraw advertised programs, artists, venue or seating arrangements as necessary. Special needs bookings can be made over the phone on (02) 6767 5200 Will there be screens available at the show: NoĪre Photographic or recording devices permitted inside the venue: Phones only - no flash You can be confident this is a great book when you see the author is Alison Lester (other books include, Noni the Pony, Magic Beach and Imagine) and it also won the Children’s Book Council of Australia ‘Picture book of the year’ award. Max age for lap sitting: 2 years and under sit on lap A journey around Australia’ by Alison Lester. ![]() SHOW TIMES: (All times are approximate and open to change)ĭoors Open: 30 minutes prior to performanceĪge limitations applicable: Recommended age 3 - 10 years and their families a celebration of family, love, and the diversity and beauty of Australia.įrom the team behind The Gruffalo and The 13-, 26-, 52-, 78- and 91-Storey Treehouses, this new adaptation from multi-award winning playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer is a celebration of family, love, and the diversity and beauty of Australia. Join 8-year-old Grace and her family on their adventurous and often funny expedition around Australia!įollowing CDP’s successful national tour of Magic Beach, Alison Lester AM’s classic book, Are We There Yet?, comes to life on stage, with songs, fun, (and quokkas!) for children aged 3-10 and their adults. Luke, Billy and I missed school for the whole winter term.” “The year I turned eight, Mum and Dad took us on a trip around Australia. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() They compellingly rescue his work for stage and television from obscurity and think through how it sits alongside his fiction. The 20 essays in this substantive collection act out Flann O’Brien in a new way for readers by focusing on his drama and TV scripts and foregrounding his deep-seated preoccupation with the stage. Both senses very patently apply to the counter-currents of O’Brien’s writings. The Oxford Dictionary defines acting out as performing or translating into action or as misbehaving or behaving antisocially. ![]() A disturbingly surreal painting by David O’Kane, Acting Out - Old Philip Mathers, referencing The Third Policeman, adorns the cover. The theatricality of O’Brien constitutes the central area of inquiry of this volume of essays. But many too discovered him through performances, the much-loved shows of Val O’Donnell and Eamon Morrissey, the avant-garde adaptations by the Blue Raincoat company and the many stagings of the novels by Dublin theatres. The Best of Myles, a volume of excerpts, was once the entry point for readers to this author. Thanks to fresh scholarly interest his posthumous output continues to expand while shedding none of its maverick nature or subversive wit. From being an artistic outlier Flann O’Brien has become, surprisingly, a steady focus of academic research in recent years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With the summer heat and thunderstorms we’ve been having lately, I decided it was definitely time to try our hand at baking some real Thunder Cake for ourselves! It’s fun to make memories with your little ones and read this book as your Thunder Cake is baking in the oven…the perfect activity for a lazy, stormy, summer afternoon. I’ve loved reading this book ever since I was a little girl and now L adores it as well. If you haven’t read the book “Thunder Cake” by Patricia Polacco, get yourself to the library or a local book store and get your hands on a copy pronto…you and your kids will love it! The story centers around the author and her grandmother (her Babushka) and the summer storms she feared as a little girl, at her grandmother’s farm in Michigan. “Grandma looked at the horizon, drew a deep breath and said, ‘This is Thunder Cake baking weather, all right. ![]() ![]() ![]() He visits infrequently and stays only long enough to drop off his latest collection of fossils or orphaned infants. Gum collected each of them as babies, depositing them in the large house run by his great-niece, Sylvia, and her former nanny, and disappearing again. Pauline, Petrova, and Posy Fossil aren’t sisters by birth they are adopted by an eccentric explorer known to them as as Gum-that is, Great-Uncle Matthew. In Ballet Shoes, we meet our first set of plucky children bound for the stage (whether they like it or not). ![]() Her experience in the world of the theater became fodder for the “Shoe” books, her most popular works and the ones for which she is best remembered nowadays. Before that, she worked as an actress for ten years-a somewhat unusual profession for an English vicar’s daughter at that point in time. She had already published a handful of novels for adults by this point, beginning in 1931. So let’s talk, already!īallet Shoes was Noel Streatfeild’s first children’s novel, published in 1937. ![]() Finally! I didn’t want to post this while so many of you were unable to load the site. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The toxic by-product of those fortunes-what didn’t spill into the river-was dumped in Opportunity. What he found instead was a century’s worth of industrial poison clotting the Clark Fork River, a decades-long engineering project to clean it up, and a forgotten town named Opportunity.Īt the turn of the nineteenth century, Montana exploited the richest copper deposits in the world, fueling the electric growth of twentieth-century America and building some of the nation’s most outlandish fortunes. The son of an engineer who reclaimed wastewater, Tyer was looking for a pristine river to call his own. In 2002, Texas journalist Brad Tyer strapped a canoe on his truck and moved to Montana, a state that has long exerted a mythic pull on America’s imagination as an unspoiled landscape. A memoir-meets-exposé that examines our fraught relationship with the West and our attempts to clean up a toxic environmental legacy ![]() ![]() ![]() John Lorinc is a Toronto-based journalist who writes about urban affairs, politics, and business. She holds a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University. Jay Pitter is a writer and professor based in Toronto. With essays contributed by an array of city-builders, it proposes solutions for fully inclusive communities that respond to the complexities of a global city. ![]() Using Toronto as a case study, Subdivided asks how cities would function if decision-makers genuinely accounted for race, ethnicity, and class when confronting issues such as housing, policing, labor markets, and public space. About the Book How do we build cities where we aren't just living within the same urban space, but living together? ![]() ![]() However, comedy never allows us to lose our grasp on the real world’s intransigence rather, as Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose takes pains to caution us, the journey from the lives we tolerate to an ending of the dead weight of historical prevalence has yet to be completed. ![]() It allows us to dream of our release from history’s constraints by providing us with provisional images, embedded in easily identifiable and thus more persuasive forms, of what such a utopian realization might feel and look like. The primary focus in comedy is to represent the surrender of the predominant to the possible, the victory of human benevolence over the rigid stratifications of historical actuality.Ĭomedy dramatizes the utopian within the historical. Whereas tragedy is preoccupied with the annihilation of the potential by the actual, comedy is leveled at the (pitifully) remote horizon of what could be, rather than absorbed in the immediate oppression of what is. Comedy affords us the opportunity to explore how the world might look and feel with the dead weight of predominance and probability lifted from its shoulders. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As an adult who is overwhelmed with distraction, I found the book motivating and easy to read. Chapters address the creation of “flexible focus,” the importance of a healthy body and mind, and the power of human connection, emotion, and structure. Hallowell identifies the underlying reasons why people lose their ability to focus at work, how it affects your focus and productivity, and what are the six most common distractions at work and how to overcome them. The rest of the book is dedicated to learning to train, manage, and maintain your ability to focus. He then explains how to recognize the types of distraction that affect you, and gives a five-point plan to improve your performance. He shows how each of these affects focus and productivity. Hallowell first addresses the six most common distractions at work: electronics, taking on too much work, hopping from idea to idea, worrying, solving others’ problems but not one’s own, and underachieving. Edward Hallowell is an expert on ADHD, but his tips for focus and productivity apply to all of us. ( Harvard Business Review Press $26.00 hardcover $9.10 Kindle)ĭr. Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive, by Edward M. ![]() ![]() ![]() MEG would go on to become the book of the 1996 Frankfurt book fair, where it eventually sold to more than a twenty countries. Four days later his agent had a two-book deal with Bantam Doubleday. On September (Friday) the 13th, 1996, Steve lost his general manager's job at a wholesale meat plant. Steve sold his car to pay for editing fees. Working late nights and on weekends, he eventually finished MEG A Novel of Deep Terror. ![]() ![]() Struggling to support his family of five, he decided to pen a novel he had been thinking about for years. Steve Alten grew up in Philadelphia, earning his Bachelors degree in Physical Education at Penn State University, a Masters Degree in Sports Medicine from the University of Delaware, and a Doctorate of Education at Temple University. ![]() ![]() ![]() It will also cost her a job and the boyfriend she adores. But Rachel’s love of a good time is about to land her in the emergency room. And Manhattan is the perfect place for a young Irish female to overdo everything. Rachel’s Holiday (1998) – The fast lane is much too slow for Rachel Walsh.So much so, in fact, that when James slithers back into her life, he’s in for a bit of a surprise. ![]() And there, sheltered by the love of a quirky family, she gets better. Claire is left with a newborn daughter, a broken heart, and a postpartum body that she can hardly bear to look at. Then, on the day she gives birth to their first baby, James informs her that he’s leaving her. Watermelon(1995) – Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. ![]() ![]() Since then, she has continued to write fiction and non-fiction. Encouraged by her publisher to submit a novel, Keyes started writing Watermelon, which was published soon after. She began writing short stories during that period and while suffering from alcoholism. Many of her novels are known for their more comedic tones, but they cover dark themes including family, divorce, mental illness, domestic violence, drug abuse, and alcoholism.īorn in 1963, Marian Keyes studied law and accountancy, and first had an administrative job. Marian Keyes is an Irish writer known for her work in women’s literature. 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