When the sightseers depart the locals like to party! Our sell-out annual winter festival celebrates all the best in homegrown theatre, music, comedy, visual arts and food over three delectable weeks of feasting.

The festival takes over the entire Bondi Pavilion building and will showcase 50+ performances, bargain ticket prices, hot cider and some delicious food vendors throughout July 8 – 26.

“I’d have moved to the Pav this week if I could. ✮✮✮✮✮” (The Brag)

“Bondi Feast is an eclectic fortnight of fun and wonder.” (Concrete Playground)

Full festival line-up online and on sale at bondifeast.com.au

Click HERE to buy tickets.

The Minister’s in trouble.

Seems he’s just been flagged in a Royal Commission investigating the failed construction of the multi-billion dollar East-West Tunnel. Seems that maybe he didn’t follow the required protocols in this Public Private Partnership.

And so now the desperate cover up trickles down from High Public Office, through the boardroom ructions of Private Enterprise and finally to the inner workings of the Criminal Class.

Rock Surfers Artistic Director Leland Kean teams up with writer Aidan Fennessy (Griffin Award Winning Brutopia) for this satirical jigsaw-thriller about the business of business and how we get the kind of criminals we deserve.

Season Dates and Times
Tue – Sat 8pm
Previews 5 Nov – 10 Nov
Season 12 Nov – 29 Nov

Tickets
Full $35
Concession $25
Cheap Tuesday, Preview $20

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Writer Aidan Fennessey
Director Leland Kean

This production is made possible by the support of Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder (CJZ).

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Yesterday, she was a boat person.
Today, she is our brightest and most controversial success story.

Rock Surfers team up with Melbourne stalwarts and Sydney newcomers The Hayloft Project, to bring you an irregular maritime arrival that will not be stopped.

The Boat People is a black comedy about our desire to decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come. From a leaky boat on the high seas, via Bondi beach, to the most powerful office in the lucky country. Throw your preconceived notions overboard and take refuge on the shores of this world premiere comedy from writer/director Benedict Hardie.

Life vests not included.

“…laugh-out-loud funny.” ✮✮✮✮ (Herald Sun on Delectable Shelter)

Season Dates and Times
Tue – Sat 8pm (3pm matinee only on Sat 31 May)
Previews 29 May – 3 June
Season 5 June – 21 June

Tickets
Full $35
Concession $25
Cheap Tuesday, Preview $20

(Please note this show has a full lock out and there is a strictly no late comers policy)

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Writer/Director Benedict Hardie
Co-devised and performed by Susie Youssef, William Erimya, Emily Rose Brennan and Luke Joseph Ryan.
Dramaturg Phil Spencer
Set Design Michael Hankin
Lighting Design Verity Hampson
Costume Design Elizabeth Gadsby
Score & Sound Design Benny Davis
Production Manager Michelle McKenzie
Devising credit Holly Austin

A co-production from The Hayloft Project & Rock Surfers Theatre Company

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A searing modern fable about two foster brothers building a global t-shirt brand.

On their journey through the markets of Nigeria, nightclubs of Europe and sweatshops of China, Matthew and Muhammed discover the consequences of success.

Exploring brotherhood, homophobia and global capitalism, Black T-shirt Collection combines lyrical spoken word and animation, and draws on award winning poet, playwright and performer Inua Ellams’ own experiences of growing up in Nigeria, immigration and of living in the UK today.

“…voice sonorous as a steel drum, Ellams’ poetry is gourmet stuff, smooth enough to melt in the ear, yet packed full of snap, crackle and pop” (Time Out)

Wednesday 21 & Thursday 22 May
8.00pm – 9.15pm
The Bondi Pavilion Theatre
Tickets $20/$25

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Commissioned by Warwick Arts Centre. Developed with the support of the Arvon
Foundation, the National Theatre and the Jerwood residencies at Cove Park which are
supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Funded by Arts Council England. Supported by the British Council.

Rock Surfers Theatre Company joins forces with Australia’s finest literary celebration, the Sydney Writers’ Festival, for a week of shows, interviews, and storytelling at the Bondi Pavilion Theatre.

Featuring award-winning UK spoken word artist Inua Ellams, surf writer Bob McTavish, Melbourne’s own Poet Laureate Telia Nevile and a whole host of Rock Surfers’ favourite story tellers…

Click below for the full event info.

Monday 19 May
Sunburnt: Six True Tales of Holidays from Hell
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Wednesday 21 May
Inua Ellam’s Black T-Shirt Collection
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Thursday 22 May
Inua Ellam’s Black T-Shirt Collection
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Friday 23 May
Live on Air by Telia Nevile
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Saturday 24 May
Bob McTavish: More Stoked!
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AND
Cut & Paste: scratch night
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Stuck in suburbia with too much to say, Poet Laureate Telia Nevile is doing the only thing left open to a word-obsessed socially inept artiste.

She’s broadcasting a radio show from her bedroom and you’re invited over to pump up the volume. Beautifully crafted tongue-in-cheek poetry combined with a deep, abiding love of the outsider.

Turn up, tune in, rock out.

Friday 23 May
8.00pm – 9.00pm
The Bondi Pavilion Theatre
All tickets $10, booking essential

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Playwrights, comics, musicians, poets, novelists and the occasional strong man are
invited to try out a new 10 minute idea in front of you, the audience.

The results thus far have been stand-up, short plays, ghost stories, drag kings, short films,
rap battles, voodoo and a twitter request dance party, which was excellent.

Cut & Paste is curated by Phil Spencer & James Dalton and we are always looking for new artists who want to be involved.

Next Cut & Paste
Date: June 30th
Venue: Giant Dwarf (199 Cleveland Street)
Time: 8.00pm
With…Susie Youssef, Wade Briggs, The Architects, Micharne Cloughly & Sime Knezevic.

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WANT TO GET INVOLVED IN THE NEXT CUT & PASTE?
Send us a pitch with…
1) Your bio
2) What you would like to do at C&P
3) Examples of your work
4) Your preference for either July 26th or September 15th

We are looking for any kind of performance, but have a preference for the theatrical and experimental.

Performances are strictly 10 minutes max in length.

Submissions are received on a rolling basis, but we like to have our artists locked in a month before the event.

Send your pitch to submissions@rocksurfers.org

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Join a handful of Rock Surfers’ favourite storytellers for an evening of torrid vacation
tales. The Bondi Pavilion plays host for an evening of true stories about travel mishaps, awkward summer romances and overseas adventures.

Featuring;
Awarding winning playwright Nakkiah Lui
Writer/performer/Clown Adriano Cappelletta
Playwright and Scotsman John AD Fraser
UK born writer/performer Phil Spencer
Comedian Michael Hing
Erotic fan fiction aficionado Annaliese Constable.

Monday 19 May
8.00pm-9.00pm
The Bondi Pavilion Theatre
FREE event, booking essential

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Join Tracks Magazine editor Luke Kennedy at the iconic Bondi Pavilion as he interviews legendary surfer writer Bob Mctavish about his latest book More Stoked!.

This is a story of what happens when youth gives way to the responsibilities and discoveries of middle age, when things like family, religion and providing clash head to head with a lifestyle built on no commitments. A mixture of mischief and poetry, More Stoked! is a homage to 70s surfing as well as a coming of age story.

Saturday 24 May
7.00pm-8.00pm
The Bondi Pavilion Theatre
FREE event, booking essential

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The Pride takes a long hard look at lions.

Bruce, weighed down by his impressive mane, is struggling with the pressure of renovations and taking care of his pride. Bruce knows time is limited, when James, his stronger, more handsome neighbour, starts peering through the windows admiring his home and his family.

The drama of the jungle never seemed so close to home in this award-winning comedy that explores people’s readiness to forgive, even in the face of gross moral trespasses.

After a wildly successful season at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Side Pony Productions heads to Sydney with this unique David Attenborough meets The Mighty Boosh comedy.

Having enjoyed the highs and highs of successful seasons at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Under the Radar (Brisbane), Perth Theatre Company and The Blue Room Theatre, where The Pride brought home the gold. You may remember The Pride from such award ceremonies as: ArtsHub Peoples Choice Award 2012, Blue Room Theatre Best Production 2010, Blue Room Theatre Peoples Choice 2010 and Nomination for a Total Theatre Award 2012 at Edinburgh Fringe.

“I was shocked, exhilarated, and thoroughly entertained”
Fringe Biscuit

“Surreal, whimsical and joyous. The Pride is all three…The whole is inventive and energetic and possibly the funniest show I’ve seen in ages.”
The West Australian

“The Pride is smart, funny and terrifically performed. It has a strong personality behind it and a primal, sinister spirit haunting its comedic heart.”
Matthew Giles, Everything is amazing and Nobody is happy

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Tickets
Full $35
Concession $25
Cheap Tuesday, Preview $21

Season Dates and Times
Tue – Sat 8pm, Sat Matinee 3pm
Please note that the Saturday 22 Mar matinee has been cancelled.
Previews 18 & 19 Mar
Season 20 Mar – 5 April

Directed by Zoe Pepper
Featuring Adriane Daff, Brendan Ewing and Russell Leonard
Written by the cast and director

Costume Design Esther Sandler
Lighting Design Lucy Birkinshaw
Sound Design Nathan Nisbet
Choreography Russell Leonard
Producer Gemma Pepper

Warnings
Despite the animal onesies, The Pride is not a show for young children. The Pride contains coarse language, and low level violence and is approx a PG 13 rating.
The Pride contains strobe lighting effects, low level violence, and lions (not real lions).

Duration
75 minutes, no intermission.
Once show has commenced there is a lockout until approximately 5 mins into the performance

Media

Exile on mane street, Sydney Morning Herald, Fri 14 March 2014
See the paper here, see the online article here

Originally supported by The Blue Room Theatre.