In Hole in the Wall, a young woman in a nightgown speaks into her mug of tea about what she wants from a home. Big windows, sun (but not too much), a garden/nearby park/large balcony and ‘no manky rental carpets’. What more do you need to make a home?

Performers Clare Britton and Matt Prest hunt for an answer to that question, playing a couple looking for a place where they can find a truer sense of ‘home’. It’s the cliches that cause the trouble – they look desperately for a home, somewhere they can call their own, put down roots, a place to settle down, without any idea of what it looks like. Meanwhile, claustrophobia begins to set in in their suffocatingly suburban house, wonderfully evoked by Danny Eggers‘ amazing and innovative set design. Read more for the full review…

Posted by Lucy Fokkema in Culture, Reviews

Tags: Alasdair Nicol, Carriageworks, Clare Britton, Culture, Danny Egger, Halcyon Macleod, Hallie Shellam, hole in the wall, James Brown, Jenn Blake, lucy fokkema, Matt Prest, Mirabelle Wouters, Peter Allott, review, theatre

We were basically 85% sure that no-one was going to come to our party. We figured that everyone had said yes just to be polite but were actually going to go do more important things, like knit a tiny jumper for the tiny cat they knitted for their real cat. So when we got numbers the next day of the ridiculously large amount of people who came, we were pretty surprised. And hugely delighted…

Posted by amelia and steph in Reviews, Your Face

Tags: Danimals, Ears Vs Eyes, Greedy Hen, Informal Dialogue, James Brown, Lucia Fischer, Luke Tipene, Matt Huynh, Megastick Fanfare, Mel Bligh, Rebecca Murphy, Sonya Gee, SPOD, Stephenie Kanhukamwe, Tony Curran, Watch This Space, We Buy Your Kids

We’re having a party this Wednesday night to launch this here blog. It’s another Ears Vs Eyes shindig – the first was a fundraiser art auction last year, where we nabbed $3000+ for Heaps Decent by selling art from people like EAMO, Beastman, We Buy Your Kids, Greedy Hen, and Simon Degroot. This one is a digital techy audiovisual extravaganza, because blogs are for nerds. That’s right, we’re calling you names already.

Anyway, the party is being held at our BFF’s house. Our BFF is The Wall, every Wednesday at the World Bar. For all you arty farty party types, the Wall let you exhibit your work for free in a delightful room upstairs, while a party happens around you and below you. They don’t take commission, they help you promote it, and goddamn do they know how to party.

But this Wednesday it’s all about us, because It’s Our Birthday – and you’re invited too. More info, and an uncharacteristically oversized image, after the jump.

Posted by steph in Art, Events

Tags: Danimals, Ears Vs Eyes, Greedy Hen, Informal Dialogue, James Brown, Lucia Fischer, Luke Tipene, Matt Huynh, Megastick Fanfare, Mel Bligh, Rebecca Murphy, Sonya Gee, SPOD, Stephenie Kanhukamwe, Tony Curran, Watch This Space, We Buy Your Kids, You Are All Nerds