Mundaguddah
A feature of this year's Australian Dance Week program, Mundaguddah is a dance commission for First Nation dancer and choreographer Tammi Gissell. It responds to The Rainbow Serpent (1982) by Australian modernist composer Brian Howard, which will be performed by Ensemble Offspring.
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In Mundaguddah (the spirit of the Rainbow Serpent), Gissell explores the past's presence on country.
Sunday, 12pm and 2pm. National Gallery of Australia. Tickets are $65 from Trybooking.
Carole King's Tapestry
Esther Hannaford joins an all-star band to celebrate 50 years of Carole King's landmark album Tapestry this weekend.
Released on February 10, 1971, Tapestry immediately hit number one on the Billboard chart and remained there for 15 consecutive weeks.
Home to timeless classics such as I Feel the Earth Move, So Far Away, You've Got a Friend, It's Too Late, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow, and (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman, the album resided on the Billboard charts for a staggering five years.
Saturday, 7.30pm and Sunday, 7.30pm. Canberra Theatre Centre. Tickets from $76.70 from canberratheatrecentre.com.au.
What If Scientists Ruled The World?
A group of science communicators and actors are taking to the stage for an interactive theatre performance this weekend.
Experience an intriguing alternate world through What If Scientists Ruled The World? It looks into a world where science might save humanity, or it might destroy it, depending on how it is used. The performance will follow a Forum Theatre format, where the audience's words shape what will happen on stage.
Saturday, 7pm. Shine Dome. Tickets are $10 from Eventbrite.
The Door
Lightbulb brings you a live show with a difference - one in which you control the outcome.
In The Door, you can see how a decision plays out, as each step through the door shapes the differing worlds. You will watch the two parallel worlds unfold, based on a single decision that the audience has chosen.
Saturday, 6.30pm and 8.45pm. Canberra Theatre Centre. Tickets from $23 from canberratheatrecentre.com.au.
Brilliant Landscapes With A Difference
Chris Slotmaker de Bruine - the founder of Floriade - has an exhibition of landscapes at Kyeema Gallery.
Brilliant Landscapes With A Difference is a colourful exhibition that covers a number of painting styles and mediums. The subjects are worldwide from the puffins in the Shetlands to the blue morph butterfly in Ecuador. Continues until May 24.
Peregrine
Sydney-based artist Ingrid Bowen will open a solo exhibition at Suki and Hugh Gallery in Bungendore on Saturday.
Entitled Peregrine, the show reflects on an era of upheaval and disruption, and the new works in watercolour and ink are focused on themes of comfort and restoration.
The artist uses the Australian bush as the antidote to life's stresses and immerses the viewer in her journey. Continues until June 13.
A German Life
A German Life is a theatrical tour-de-force from three titans of the theatre - Australian stage performer Robyn Nevin in a play by Christopher Hampton, directed by stage luminary Neil Armfield.
Nevin plays Brunhilde Pomsel, an unassuming woman with good shorthand skills who, almost by chance, came to work in Joseph Goebbels's Propaganda Ministry.
Pomsel struggled to make ends meet as a secretary in Berlin during the 1930s, her many employers including a Jewish insurance broker, the German Broadcasting Corporation and eventually, Goebbels.
Tuesday to Friday, 7.30pm. Continues until May 16. Canberra Theatre Centre. Tickets from $69 from canberratheatrecentre.com.au.
Foxholes of the Mind
Foxholes of the Mind takes audiences on a rollercoaster ride as they look into the lives of Vietnam veteran Frank and his wife Trish, 30 years after the war.
Frank and his mates are finally cracking under the strain of post-traumatic stress disorder while Trish's life is at rock bottom as she treads on eggshells and the facade of her marriage is stripped bare.
Through their simple, suburban story they reveal how war and its long-term fall-out have shaped and distorted not only Frank and Trish's life, but those nearest and dearest to them.
Wednesday to Friday, 7.30pm. Canberra Theatre Centre. Tickets from $47 from canberratheatrecentre.com.au.
Expressions of interest
Canberra Theatre Centre is reinvigorating its commitment to supporting the creation and presentation of new performance work with its development program, New Works.
Canberra Theatre Centre is offering a one-week residency for the creative development of a new performance. Expressions of interest for this opportunity close on May 17.
For artists with developed ideas that are ready to rehearse and perform, Canberra Theatre Centre is offering a four-week residency. Expressions of interest for the four-week residency close on May 31.
Canberra Theatre Centre is holding an information session on Monday at 5.30pm for interested artists. For more information go to canberratheatrecentre.com.au.
