Looking forward

I spent most of the weekend preparing for 9am on Monday, which was the moment that tickets went on sale for the Sydney Festival 2009. The programme was pored over, emails were sent and received and artistic decisions were debated. As a grand finale, I spent about $1600 on the credit card in one shot (we're owed a fair bit back by people we bought for). It was all a bit stressful, and January is going to be a bit of a blur, but to be in a position to do this stuff is a privelege.

What I'm doing is:

War of the Roses - 6 Shakespeare plays condensed into 8 hours, featured somebody called Cate Blanchett

Lipsynch - 8 hour play by the genius that is Robert lePage (I'm doing this the day after War of the Roses, which makes 16 hours of theatre in 2 days)

All Tomorrow's Parties - A one-day pop festival on the enticing Cockatoo Island, featuring Nick Cave, Spiritualized and lots of other interesting stuff

Fantastic Planet - 70s French animated movie with a live music soundtrack

Faith Healer - Brian Friel play from the highly regarded Abbey Theatre

Bon Iver - Utterly gorgeous sadpop

In other news, Sarah had a baby, huzzah! Welcome, Tess!

And tonight we're off to the Enmore to catch this sexysexy (and rather sweary) lady: